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This week, Palantir announced the upcoming release of a new chore coat branded with the company\u2019s logo. The company has been releasing gear since 2024, and this new coat is a great way to tell everyone what you stand for. Specifically, it communicates to everyone in your immediate vicinity that you support ICE and aren\u2019t a big fan of civil liberties.<\/p>\n

Palantir\u2019s head of strategic engagement Eliano A. Younes tweeted the chore coat this week, which he says will be released on April 30.<\/p>\n

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the lightweight Palantir chore coat<\/p>\n

[04.30.2026 \u2022 0930 AM EST] pic.twitter.com\/9K5fmu3bSs<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Eliano A Younes (@eliano) April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

X users responded to Younes with the kind of comments that anyone might expect about Palantir, a company aligned with President Donald Trump and the most dystopian elements of our modern surveillance society.<\/p>\n

\u201ccould it be operated remotely\u00a0? detonated? listening\u00a0? what\u2019s the features list,\u201d one user joked, while another asked if it had \u201cbuilt in surveillance trackers?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But Younes seemed genuinely offended by the most obvious jokes any reasonable person might be expected to make of Palantir, a defense contractor that prides itself in helping surveil and kill people around the world. He responded with \u201chere for the shitposting but I need to see better from you. this is unoriginal and not funny,\u201d and \u201cnot even remotely funny. try harder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Even Palantir employees seem to be waking up to what the company stands for, according to a recent report from Wired. When the U.S. launched a missile attack against an elementary school in Iran on Feb. 28 that killed about 175 people, mostly children, the employees reportedly started to question whether Palantir\u2019s Maven technology had been used. Employees are also worried about the company\u2019s lucrative contracts with ICE, an organization that has been terrorizing American streets in particularly heinous ways.<\/p>\n

But Palantir seems intent on pushing out gear that allows like-minded people to wrap themselves in a horrifying, anti-American brand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want millions of people wearing Palantir merch around the world,\u201d recently Younes told GQ. Younes says he wants Palantir to be a lifestyle brand, telling GQ, \u201cThere are people out there wearing Palantir merchandise to signal their alignment with our mission, and that\u2019s exactly what a lifestyle brand is.\u201d<\/p>\n

That lifestyle, of course, isn\u2019t something that decent people would be proud of. Palantir recently promoted a Reader\u2019s Digest-style version of the book The Technological Republic<\/span><\/span><\/em>, co-authored by CEO Alex Karp, in a tweet. The book advocates for reinstatement of the draft, says the \u201cpostwar neutering<\/span><\/span>\u201d of Germany and Japan following the atrocities of World War II was an overcorrection, and criticizes the concept of pluralism.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the chore coat. The company also sell sweatshirts, t-shirts, and hats, among other items. One t-shirt Palantir sold in 2025 featured an image of Karp along with the word \u201cDominate.\u201d That item is no longer available for purchase.<\/p>\n

Younes also suggested to GQ that its CEO was important for Palantir as a fashion brand: \u201cA lot of the store\u2019s designs are downstream of Dr. Karp and our chief technology officer Shyam Sankar\u2019s personal style.\u201d Younes wouldn\u2019t say how many units the company is selling, but did claim, \u201cstore sales have increased 64% year-over-year and everything we\u2019ve made has sold out, sometimes in minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

GQ asked about Palantir\u2019s ICE contracts and the other \u201ccontroversial\u201d things it\u2019s engaged in with the U.S. military, but Younes insisted the company is \u201cnot political,\u201d whatever that\u2019s supposed to\u00a0 mean.<\/p>\n

As the Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, Palantir is leaning hard into selling the \u201ctech-boss-as-hero ethos,\u201d that\u2019s frankly pretty common in Silicon Valley these days. But even some fans of the company think the merchandising effort is embarrassing.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnpopular opinion: all these merch posts are so \u2018fan boy\u2019 and extra cringe,\u201d one user wrote in the Palantir subreddit about Karp\u2019s Dominate shirt. \u201cLike the stock or don\u2019t, believe in the company or don\u2019t,\u2026. But the incessant merch posts are weak sauce.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others are fully bought in, with one user writing, \u201cDefinitely a collectors item for me, could be worth something one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Younes told GQ that Palantir is working on a tennis collection and something for the America 250 celebrations this summer. So if you\u2019re a fan of techno-fascism, keep your eyes peeled. Whatever merch they\u2019ve got planned for the rest of the year could be sold out in no time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n