🇦🇺 SYRIAN IMMIGRANT EL AHMED CHARGED A GUNMAN - TOLD HIS COUSIN HE'D DIE DOING IT - GOFUNDME HITS $1M
Ahmed el Ahmed, 43-year-old fruit shop owner, saw the shooting start at Bondi Beach. Told his cousin:
"I'm going to die. Tell my family I saved people's lives."
Then he did it anyway.
Crept through the parking lot, used cars for cover, sprinted at the shooter. Wrestled the rifle away after a prolonged fight. Disarmed 50-year-old Sajid Akram while his 24-year-old son watched from a footbridge - armed, close range, could've shot Ahmed any second.
Got hit twice in the shoulder. Survived. 16 others didn't, including a 10-year-old girl.
A Muslim Syrian immigrant saved Jewish Australians at a Hanukkah celebration from Islamic State pledges... a story to die for.
GoFundMe hit nearly $1 million in donations including $100k from Bill Ackman.
The second gunman had position, weapon, clear line of sight. Ahmed charged anyway because someone had to.
No training, no vest, no backup - a split-second calculation that other people's lives mattered more than his.
Politicians lit candles and proposed gun laws...
Ahmed's mother can't stop crying. His two daughters, ages 5 and 6, almost lost their father to a choice he made in real time while bullets flew.
That's who acts when it counts. Not the people with security details and press conferences.
The guy running a freakin fruit stand.
Source: Daily Mail
🇺🇸 THOMAS JEFFERSON WARNED US, CAREER POLITICIANS WERE NEVER THE PLAN
David Friedberg from The All in Pod pulled out two Thomas Jefferson quotes that hit harder than ever, framing the fight between public service and career power as America’s oldest moral test.
He argued the Founders never meant for politics to be a lifelong hustle... it was supposed to be a duty, not a paycheck:
"There are two quotes from Thomas Jefferson.
I’ll just read because I think it’s actually very important.
He said in a letter in 1788, ‘I apprehend that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the elected offices will end in abuse.’
And then he also later said in 1809, ‘Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, which is what he was into by rendering them my supreme delight.
The enormity of the times in which I have lived have forced me to take a part in resisting them and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.’"
Friedberg said Jefferson’s warning was prophetic, the Founders wanted free people chasing science, trade, and progress, not politicians hoarding wealth and power.
He called today’s career officials the opposite of Jefferson’s vision, contrasting them with business leaders like David Sacks, Sec. Bessent, and Administrator Loeffler, who “already made their money” but chose to serve out of patriotism.
His message: the real test isn’t wealth, it’s motive.
Are they serving the nation or milking it?
Source: @theallinpod
I’m not much for conspiracy, but am I the only one who finds it odd that $btc has massive drawdowns and then institutional investors ape in when the liquidations waterfall?
I no longer seek thrills from a theme park. I get it from my Bloomberg terminal.
Commitment isn’t cyclical and subject to market manipulation. Shorts are really exposed on a lot of BTC adjacent names. Buckle up friends. This is gettin’ good.
Know what you own.
@PeteButtigieg The prior 2 months were overstated by a multiple of 10 and revised down to reality Friday. This would have lead to a Powell rate cut Wednesday giving the people of our country reprieve. This is incompetence.
.@DeFiTechGlobal subsidiary @ValourFunds closed the day with over $1 billion in AUM for the first time since January — up from $771 million on May 30. $DEFT
Boomers will see this chart and say you just need to start making coffee at home…
1985:
Median Household Income - $23,620
Median Home Price - $83,200 (3.5x)
2022:
Median Household Income - $74,580
Median Home Price - $468,000 (6.3x)
I had a shareholder reach out to me to discuss $clsk. He said, “correct me if I’m wrong about this, but I made a spreadsheet that shows @CleanSpark_Inc has:
-Almost 1GW of actually built, FULLY completed, actually OPERATING electrical infrastructure.
-Over 50EH/s of Mining capacity, currently operating at the highest uptime in the entire industry.
-Roughly 300,000 ASICS that are the most, or second most efficient fleet in the world.
-Well over 12,500 BTC on the balance sheet, all mined, none bought.
-32 data centers around the country with over 300 employees.
-And you guys DONT HAVE AN ATM, You DONT HAVE AN OFFERING, and you BOUGHT BACK millions of shares in December?
I feel like this is an investment my kids will tell my grandkids that I made…”
I just listened. Sipping my coffee. Smiling.