Political arguments about surveillance are most potent when they name specific actors rather than systems. AOC's Bluesky post did exactly that: "Companies like Palantir are mining the data of the American people, and sending it all to the government. They are using AI tools to automate this." [19] That move — company name, specific mechanism, named beneficiary — is what converts a policy conversation into a political confrontation. The community that received it had been circulating the same argument in structural terms for days: ICE in airports [16], Meta leading…