A feature for the present-day Mr. Bumble, Dickens villain who made poverty a crime:
How a Palantir co-founder’s once-fringe crusade spread across Trump’s America https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/22/how-palantir-co-founders-once-fringe-crusade-spread-across-trumps-america/
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@jeffjarvis With interior decorations like that HE should be living on the street.
The Times, too, features Palantir's Mr. Bumble, justifying criminalization of poverty & mental illness. "It is easy to see a story of money and politics. But it is also a story of public fatigue."
How a Billionaire Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/us/politics/homelessness-lonsdale-billionaire-trump.html
