The team trying to end poverty by founding well-governed 'charter' cities
"China looked & said, 'Wait, Hong Kong's rich. Taiwan's rich. We're all Chinese. Why are they doing well and we're starving?'"
In 2019, Mark Lutterβwhose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018βsaid, βweβre putting out a white paper looking at Venezuelaβ¦assuming this transfer of power does go thru β¦ And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,β there is βopportunityβ¦β 1/
23.12.2025 18:56
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Lady no one believes that this guy was a saint. Give it rest.
18.09.2025 03:34
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This is what is coming
18.09.2025 03:32
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You have to pay attention to this.
18.09.2025 03:31
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βMiller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. Heβs a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment."
-Terry Moran on Stephen Miller (pictured).
08.06.2025 23:23
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In 2007, Peter Thiel told me media was dead. Now heβs trying to kill it.
Revisiting an old interview.
ββThe shift from old media to new media is a trend so big some people donβt even see it,β [Peter Thiel] said [in 2007], noting that new media like Facebook [whose first major investor was Thiel] was going to kill off all others.β By Kara Swisher, 5/26/16 β¦ 1/ www.vox.com/2016/5/26/11...
02.09.2025 16:16
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I'm a great taste tester π
03.09.2025 06:36
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That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
02.09.2025 21:53
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Um, hi there, do you need another dinner guest? Please? π
03.09.2025 06:34
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The Marines did not sign up to police LA
A veteran and military law expert on "being used against your neighbor" as a soldier.
βRather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, youβre turned inward to potentially hinder [them].β
In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss βbeing used against your neighborβ as a soldier.
02.09.2025 18:19
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
02.09.2025 20:57
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Insanely dumb
03.09.2025 06:30
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So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial?
Then posted it on social media?
And weβre all supposed to just trust their account?
03.09.2025 02:01
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Bahahahahaha
28.08.2025 05:43
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3/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...
27.08.2025 14:23
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Denmark summons US envoy over Greenland influence reports β DW β 08/27/2025
Denmark has summoned the US head of mission in Copenhagen over alleged covert US influence efforts in Greenland. US President Donald Trump had said he wanted the island β and even hinted at using forc...
At least 3 men w/ ties to Trump 2.0 have reportedly βbeen involved in secret influence operations in Greenland,β & Denmark is pissed. βOne of the 3 men reportedly worked on lists of Greenlanders who are respectively positive & negative toward the idea of ββGreenland being under US control.β 1/
27.08.2025 14:22
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Where have I seen this trajectory before...
Oh yeah. Post-Soviet collapse in Russia. This, plus all the other stupid stuff happening, is how you shave 5 years off mean life expectancy in a country.
27.08.2025 17:23
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Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
27.08.2025 23:14
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Peter Thielβs Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich
Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the presidentβs opponents
βThe danger inherent in Palantirβs AI-powered super-database on all Americans is connected to the vast wealth and power of those associated with the corporation, and their apparent disdain for democratic institutions.β By Robert Reich, 6/30/25 β¦ 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
26.08.2025 16:18
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Wtf
06.06.2025 21:40
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Of course, they just needed time to create a case against him because they could NEVER be wrong about anything ever π
06.06.2025 21:39
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One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement.
Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.
π¨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
06.06.2025 17:07
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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.
02.06.2025 01:50
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Tom Morello is awesome always π«Ά
29.05.2025 19:02
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HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
RFK Jrβs Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.
28.05.2025 23:11
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How Trump twisted the law to protect white men from discrimination
"Protected class" began as an aid to the disadvantaged. Now, it is a tool for the oppressor.
Trump has converted the casual right-wing rhetoric of βreverse racismβ into a legal standard without much thought.
29.05.2025 18:12
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