John Frankel 🚶‍♂️

Longtime tech investor. Early stage venture capitalist. builder. Love working with energetic entrepreneurs working to change the world.

[Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @JewsFightBack]

🚨 MEET CATHERINE BETH WASHBURN.
37.
Irondequoit, New York.

The DOJ says she tried to send money to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

80 crypto transfers.
$30,116 USDC.

Her words:

“I wish every day were October 7th.”

“I hate Jews very much.”

This is what “pro-Palestine activism” looks like when the mask falls off.

She is now facing up to 20 years in federal prison.

She deserves it.

[Anglo Restoration 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AngloRestore]

Mosque set on fire in Blackburn

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Private property rights were surrendered the moment we accepted the first exceptions.

The government taxes what you own and it seizes it through eminent domain whenever officials decide your land serves a “higher purpose.”

And the instant we treated those takings as legitimate, property stopped being a right the state exists to protect and became a privilege the state grants and can revoke at will.

The truth is governments have always confiscated more wealth through taxation, regulation, and legal plunder than private thieves could ever manage.

But that’s not even the core problem.

The deeper issue is what happens when rights cease to be sacred boundaries and become subject to majority vote.

If 51% can vote to rob the 49%, nothing in principle stops them from voting to do worse.
They can authorize killing, torture, enslavement, or any other violation and call it legitimate because “democracy.”

And no, that’s not a slippery slope. It’s the logical endpoint and the consistent application of treating rights as collective permissions rather than individual moral claims that no majority may override.

America was founded on the opposite moral premise that natural rights were understood as existing prior to government and independent of popular approval.
They were the fixed limit on power, not up for negotiation.

Every exception we normalized since then has eaten away at that foundation. And the result is exactly what the founders warned against, and that’s a system in which rights are whatever the majority, the bureaucracy, or the latest coalition decides they should be.

But rights do not come from society and they do not bend to majority will.
They supersede it.

The laws, institutions, and precedents that turned them into revocable privileges must be repealed and dismantled.

Anything less leaves us as subjects to a tyranny more total and arbitrary than anything history has yet produced.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Meanwhile in France…

[Ora Levitt 🇮🇱 חיילת צה"ל 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי @IDFsoldiergirl]

🤣🇮🇱🤣🇮🇱🤣🇮🇱
👉The Ben & Jerry's global company’s management is furious! But there is nothing it can do: Israel’s Ben & Jerry’s has released a special Zionist ice cream called “Milk and Honey,” a vanilla-and-honey cream ice cream with fudge pieces shaped like Stars of David. The ice cream is being produced in cooperation with dairy farms from the Gaza border area and the Yad Mordechai apiaries, with part of the proceeds going toward the region’s rehabilitation.
👉A short time ago, Ben & Jerry’s global board decided to stop selling its products in Judea and Samaria. The Israeli franchisee and importer, Avi Zinger, refused to comply with the directive. In response, the global company announced that it would not renew its franchise agreement. The company also decided to release a Palestine-flavored ice cream as a show of solidarity with the terrorists.
👉The international parent company, Unilever, did not support Ben & Jerry’s global decision to boycott Israel. It reached an agreement to sell the brand’s rights in Israel fully and permanently to Zinger. Ben & Jerry’s global management filed a lawsuit against its parent company, Unilever, in an attempt to block the deal, but a federal judge rejected the request for an injunction and approved the sale.
👉As a result, the brand in Israel became fully independent and separate from the global company. Now, the Israeli brand is releasing an unmistakably Zionist flavor, right in the face of the antisemitic management abroad. 🤣(From the Sinai Project)

[New York Post @nypost]

Trans gunman caught in alleged casino terror plot with huge cache of weapons - as cops release chilling footage https://t.co/vnrNeTzZza

[David Asman @DavidAsmanfox]

Many of the new socialist candidates appear to be privileged kids who can afford to spend years soaking up woke, anti-American nonsense in woke colleges, instead of working hard and making something of themselves in the real world.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Most underreported story in all of tech

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Douglas Murray: "Not one hostage I spoke with found any Gazan Palestinian who showed even the slightest human kindness. It was all celebration."

Not one Gazan saved the hostages.

[🇯🇵 Colonel Otaku Gatekeeper 🇯🇵 @politicalawake]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS! 🚨

The Entsū-ji Temple in Imari, Saga Prefecture has been burned down!

The temple was one of the Kyushu Four Great Temples & was built 650 years ago.

It makes it the 11th ancient Buddhist temple that's been burned down this year.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 120 years ago.

None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...

What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.

The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.

Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...

By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.

And the film itself nearly went with it.

The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.

This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...

[John Frankel 🚶‍♂️ @john_frankel]

Great watch…

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is the entirety of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's televised nervous breakdown this morning on CNBC

[Nick Matau @nick_matau]

BBC had to release, on average, TWO CORRECTIONS PER WEEK for TWO STRAIGHT YEARS due to lying about Israel so much... and these people still somehow think BBC is pro Israek 😂

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

My son's kindergarten teacher called because he's been telling everyone that we're "in witness protection." We are not in witness protection. We just moved from two states away and he overheard us say we wanted a "fresh start." This child has been maintaining an elaborate story about our "previous lives." Named our old identities. Made up crimes we witnessed. Other kids are OBSESSED. Parents are concerned. The principal needed to verify our background. My son had given himself a backstory where he was "originally named Snake." He's 5. When we asked him why he did this, he said his real life was "too boring" and he wanted to "make kindergarten more interesting." The teacher said this was "the most elaborate lying she's seen from someone without object permanence.”

[NewsForce @Newsforce]

🇸🇪 STARTING TODAY, JULY 1, SWEDEN HAS OFFICIALLY BANNED COUSIN MARRIAGE AND OTHER MARRIAGES BETWEEN CLOSE RELATIVES.

The new law, passed unanimously by Sweden's parliament, introduces an unconditional ban on marriages between first cousins and prohibits several other marriages between close relatives.

Under the legislation, cousin marriages performed abroad will generally no longer be recognized in Sweden. The law also bans marriages between half-siblings, adopted siblings, and certain other close family members.

The Swedish government said the measure is intended to help combat honor-related violence, coercion, and oppression by strengthening protections against forced and exploitative marriages.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

My official statement on the budget, as read in chambers this evening, before I was muted:

"I’ve been a member of this city council going on five years now. And I’ve voted yes on the budget every year so far. All of them had problems. All of them contained things I didn’t like or agree with. But I’m not here to demand perfection, I’m here to work with what we have — within reason.

Unfortunately, this year is very different. And I must vote no.

Even in the context of our dysfunctional city government, this year’s budget represents a complete departure from reality, spending more money than we’ve ever spent — precisely when we can least afford it.

We have never seen a larger single-year increase in spending in the history of this city. Requiring not only new taxes from Albany, but pension deferrals and an eight billion dollar bailout from the Governor. And even still, the revenue projections are optimistic at best.

This isn’t a ‘balanced budget’ — it’s budget by bailout. A ticking time bomb.

And it’s the beginning of a fiscal death spiral that our current leadership will not be able to pull us out of, because they lack both the experience and the seriousness to do so.

What will we do next year? And the year after?

The only responsible way for our city to spend more is to grow the economy. New businesses, new private economic development, major investment. That’s how you grow an economy, and get more money into the city budget.

But we’re doing the opposite. Deliberately chasing away everything our city needs to sustain our spending with childish political attacks on very people we need most.

Our tax base is isn’t growing. It’s leaving.

The middle class, the financial sector, and businesses of all sizes are choosing to go elsewhere. And they’re being replaced with low-income foreigners and transplants who require significant subsidies just to survive here.

We’re trading investment banks and small businesses for delivery app drivers on welfare, and nonprofit workers whose paychecks ultimately come from government spending. That isn’t growth.

And when ordinary New Yorkers complain, they’re told to shut up and leave if they don’t like it. And that’s exactly what many are doing.

This is obviously unsustainable. But nobody in this chamber really seems to care.

And what are we getting for our money? We already spend more in real dollars AND per capita on everything from schools to housing to healthcare than anyone else in the country.

We can’t even build a public bathroom for less than three million dollars.

Why would anyone believe that shoveling even MORE money into this broken system will improve anything?

It won’t. I guarantee that we’ll all be sitting here again a year from now, with the exact same problems, listening to the exact same lectures about how the city needs even MORE money, AGAIN.

At what point do we, as a City Council, start to demand results before we allow more spending? When do we demand accountability?

The answer seems to be never. Because this spending isn’t really meant to fix anything. It’s meant to keep the machine going, keep the money flowing into the special interests and nonprofits and the political allies of the Mayor, with no real consideration for anything else.

I realize a lot of people don’t want to hear this, but we are a municipal government, not a sociology experiment or a political slush fund or the United Nations.

We are here keep the lights on, keep the water running, pave the roads, and put criminals in jail. That’s it. And we would be very well advised to get back to basics. Because we’re failing on nearly every count, other than our peerless ability to hand out free money.

Shame on this Council for pretending this budget is anything other than a disaster. I know that my single vote ultimately doesn’t matter here, but nonetheless I won’t put my name on it. I respectfully vote no."

[@levelsio @levelsio]

As someone who lives in Portugal which already stops every single package you get from outside EU with no exceptions for a decade or more:

I can tell you how this will go

From now on if you receive a package from outside EU, it'll first go missing for weeks and nobody will know where it is, then you'll receive an email from your country's customs agency

They'll make you login to some extremely unusable and outdated web portal which breaks half the time and where you have to classify your shipment in one of 10,000 confusing category codes

Depending on the category code you'll pay a different tax rate, sometimes it's 5% sometimes it's 60%

Then you have to pay the customs duty in some archaic way that will also be broken half the time

And then you'll finally receive your package from outside EU after months

Experiencing this for a few times you'll realize you will never ever try to order or receive anything from outside EU ever because the ordeal is too painful and expensive

I get asked a lot here by people from US to test out new products (like the guy who made the Minimal Phone) and it's just literally impossible for me to receive it even for testing. I tried to classify it as samples for testing but you need to go through a bureaucratic process of insane lengths to get that through so I just gave up

Realistically all this does is make Europeans live even more in the stone ages, as now they can't use modern AI, nor get modern products from outside EU because it'll be too much hassle to order

[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

Douglas Murray: What Really Makes ‘Citizen Vigilante’ So Dangerous. @TheFP https://t.co/pxo8T1ai4m