How We Built an App to Move Pension Funds Out of Palantir

Public pension funds from California to New York hold a combined billions of dollars in Palantir stock, while teachers and other public employees protest their retirement savings funding the tech powering ICE operations. - Sludge

ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data. “Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address,” 404 Media reports today. “ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based.”  - EFF

How we built a mobile app with MakeItFast.org for people to call pension fund managers to stop investing in Palantir

1. Upload the data on the fund mangers and their phone numbers in a spreadsheet
2. Add the name of your app and logo
3. Press Publish share the URL or QR Code for the app.
4. Users do not have to download an app nor provide any personal information to use the app.
5. You can change or add new information to the app at any time.

How to make a mobile app in minutes

Public pension funds collectively hold billions of dollars in Palantir stock

They are bankrolling the data-mining company that powers the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s mass-deportation machine. Those investments have drawn protest from public employees in states like California, Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon, whose retirement savings are tied to the company’s growing role supporting ICE’s immigration enforcement.

New research from the Purge Palantir campaign, shared with Sludge, shows that around 30 state-level pension funds hold Palantir shares, many of them worth hundreds of millions of dollars apiece—topped by the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), which holds nearly $734 million in shares. Purge Palantir, which includes the Quaker-founded American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the social justice group Mijente, calls on politicians to reject campaign money from the company’s PAC and executives and to halt its surveillance practices. - Sludge

Palantir underpins immigration enforcement operations

Palantir Technologies, offers surveillance capabilities. Founded with CIA seed funding in 2003, Palantir has developed powerful data-mining platforms that aggregate and analyze vast quantities of information from disparate sources, offering users what amounts to near-omniscient insight. Since 2025, the company’s role in the U.S. domestic surveillance has expanded dramatically and with it, public concern.

Palantir’s software now underpins immigration enforcement operations, predictive policing initiatives, and inter-agency intelligence-sharing systems. While the tools promise enhanced security and operational efficiency, they also raise urgent ethical and legal questions. Much like Tolkien’s Palantir, these systems grant unprecedented visibility, but critics warn of dangerous consequences: state overreach, algorithmic bias and the erosion of civil liberties in the name of security. - Setav

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