Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

I think Brownie wants me to pet him. ❤️😂

OMG he’s a postcard!

Full house today! These are two of Lacey’s friends from when they were puppies.

What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/

Did someone mention Nigeria? “A Peter Thiel–Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware ***Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.” 4/18/23… 1/ www.wired.com/story/itana-...

One more pelican before I put my phone down down for the night. Taken this morning. 🪶

Must read the whole thread. It all makes sense now

What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/

Did someone mention Nigeria? “A Peter Thiel–Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware ***Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.” 4/18/23… 1/ www.wired.com/story/itana-...

Follow the money: In 2018, Tyler Cowen’s Emergent Ventures—launched that year with $1M from the THIEL FOUNDATION—bestowed a grant upon the Center for Innovative Governance Research DBA the “Charter Cities Institute” founded by Mark Lutter who is now a top proponent of Trump “FREEDOM CITIES”. 1/

In 2024, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale said, “I’m friends w/ Leonard Leo. There’s about 5 major people…running pro-liberty empires…in the US… He’s the one who ran the Federalist Society. He’s put in a bunch of great judges. We have a case before [SCOTUS].” He mentions the Chevron doctrine... 1/

During an Aug 2024 episode of Infinita City’s podcast, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale said, “I think the media is extremely important to redo…I’m helping a lot there. Bari Weiss is doing a much better job than anyone else I know…” (He & Weiss also co-founded a university.) 1/

“The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook for countering progressive policies.” 11/10/25 …1/

“Nationalist political movements…have a long history of antisemitism & other bigotry.” The “Nazis are just the best-known of many examples. Antisemitism was also a significant element of almost every other modern nationalist movement to have emerged in a nation w/ a significant Jewish minority.” 1/

The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building. n.pr/49tB0uS

Always come back to this observation from @adamserwer.bsky.social

I had no idea so many animals consider Christmas trees a tasty snack!

Danes lost the most per capita in America's war in Afghanistan. Canada lost the second most per capita (if we discount the tiny Baltics). Allies bled for the US after 9/11, and this is the thanks they get.

I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.

Trump's Cabinet is hiding from Congress. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.

“Nationalist political movements…have a long history of antisemitism & other bigotry.” The “Nazis are just the best-known of many examples. Antisemitism was also a significant element of almost every other modern nationalist movement to have emerged in a nation w/ a significant Jewish minority.” 1/

There is a lot of money and coordination behind those pushing America and Europe in the same far right direction. Based on recent conversations with friends, I don’t think enough people know this.

“The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook for countering progressive policies.” 11/10/25 …1/

‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture

In 2021, Matthew Tyrmand (former Project Veritas) mocked my concerns re: Jack Posobiec’s past use of known antisemitic symbols: 1488 & the echo symbol. Four years later, he’s amplifying concerns about Poso’s recent interaction w/ Myron Gaines who wrote on X in October: “Yeah. We like Hitler.” 1/

We pulled it off! Merry Xmas!

Merry Christmas! When our kids were little, they would get up early to open presents. Now that they are teenagers, they are still asleep at 10 AM!

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JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

Ouch — the Trump-hosted Kennedy Center honors just did its “smallest audience ever”, roughly half of the previous record low

Trump State Dept., including Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers, “meets far-right AfD official ahead of MAGA gala” … 12/16/25 … 1/ www.ms.now/opinion/stat...

What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/

In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018—said, “we’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela…assuming this transfer of power does go thru … And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity…” 1/

Imagine recognising you have a problem and electing to deal with that problem instead of dicking around tendentiously parsing subordinate clauses written by men in breeches.

A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

BTW, the Tech Bros think of institutions as “parallel” even if all they do is buy what someone else built & ruin it. X is a prime example. My guess is that they also consider CBS News to be “parallel media” (Tech Bros previously funded Bari Weiss’s The Free Press). Next up is TikTok.

A Ron Paul joint from 2001 www.congress.gov/bill/107th-c...

29/ PS. They also think of Substack as “parallel media.” It’s on Balaji’s chart, alongside X. Guess who invested in it?

It always comes back to the libertarian obsession with fiefdoms that they rule in totality. Whether it is the Network State or Prospera in Honduras (Thiel’s city) They want to rule like feudal lords, but with iPhones.

In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018—said, “we’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela…assuming this transfer of power does go thru … And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity…” 1/

Look who’s circling Venezuela... During his interview of Maria Corina Machado, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale tells her: “We have a lot of friends here who’ve had to flee VZ & who are huge fans of yours, & we’re very excited to come back & invest & BUILD w/ u when u get to be a free country.” 1/

European leaders have moved swiftly to back Greenland today after U.S. President Donald Trump had named a special envoy to the Arctic island, sparking a new diplomatic frenzy on the continent.

“[W]e’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela … assuming this transfer of power does go through … And if you can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity there.” - Mark Lutter of the Charter Cities Institute, 3/31/19 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received money in 2018 from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures—said his nonprofit would produce a white paper about building a charter city in Venezuela in the event of a change in power. 80000hours.org/podcast/epis... (If they produced it, I can’t find it.)