Porter

homesteader. pilot. para/ff. grow your own food. it’s not that hard.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This Forbes investigation is a must-read.

Donald Trump pulled in roughly $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, plus more than $200 million from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500 million. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the course was a natural habitat worth protecting, and kept right on running the club. Forbes estimates the write-off could land around $825 million.

He has done this at least five times since 2005. New York's attorney general alleged two of those appraisals were inflated. In Doral, he claimed a deduction of up to $323 million, more than double what he paid for the entire resort.

A month after the Jupiter deal, he sued the IRS. The settlement his own Justice Department signed bars claims against him over matters that "could be pending," language that appears broad enough to cover this year's taxes. A federal judge found the case was brought to manipulate the judicial process. And the man now running the IRS, who took the job as this deal was being assembled, has a home backing onto those same Jupiter fairways.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody should be able to use the presidency to write his own tax bill.
https://t.co/0MzmPI2AE3

[reason @reason]

HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@Molson_Hart I am anon now. Before when I had my name and location there were problems. Social media is a hellhole for businesses. Especially if you fight entrenched power structures in government and corporations.

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@DeletelawZ Dude had a warrant. Report the facts. Not some bullshit narrative.

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@KalasBelinda @kooganthevoogan @BuffaloRon @RepThomasMassie Or eggs.

[Porter @offgridPorter]

Iran will respond by taking gcc oil and gas infrastructure. It will kill hundreds of millions within two years. No energy = no food. Israel is a threat to mankind.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz says Israel is ready to strike Iran with "full force" and that targeting Iranian energy infrastructure is critical to "setting Iran back 40 years, to the age of darkness and to the Stone Age."

Note: He's not even pretending anymore that Israel's aim is to liberate the country and get rid of the theocracy; rather, he is revealing Israel's goal all along that I documented in my 2007 book Treacherous Alliance:

To set back Iran as a state several decades in order to establish a far more favorable regional balance for Israel.

Which is why it is so embarrassing to see Monarchist Iranians waving the Israeli flag and revealing their criminal level of naivete by continuing to believe in a mythology of "Israeli liberation" that Israelis themselves have openly abandoned.

Of course, I am not saying that Reza Pahlavi and his cohorts themselves were this naive. They knew all along the Israeli plan and did not care because revenge is clearly more important to him than Iran's welfare, freedom, and prosperity.

That is why the US should never invest in exiled politicians whose priority is revenge, because it drags the US into unnecessary conflicts it is far better off staying out of.

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@Empty_America Bucket bunnies. I’m dead.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Part 2, and my last post about my Shawn Ryan Show episode.

Last I heard, it had been edited. Then Shawn went on Diary of a CEO and described a woman whose interview he’d never release. That woman wasn’t me, unless he was lying.

But I never expected it to air, and here’s why:

I spent weeks prepping with Shawn’s team. I was booked to follow the money on TPUSA and the surveillance state, and naming names is what I do. I’m meticulous, and I never say anything I can’t prove. Then, right before we started filming, I was told I couldn’t name names. When I brought up who funds Flock Safety, the license plate cameras now in thousands of American towns, I was told not to say Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. You can’t follow the money without showing where the money flows. That’s when I realized this episode would never air, before we had even started.

So when I got home, I did what I do. I followed the money. And, turns out Shawn Ryan is invested in companies backed by the exact people I was told not to name, plus Israel.

(1) Anduril Industries: Ryan has been an investor since October 2025. Anduril started with surveillance towers and now builds drones and autonomous weapons. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led its June 2025 round, and Andreessen Horowitz co-led its $5 billion round in May 2026. Those are the two names I was told to leave out. In February 2026, Anduril’s founder, Palmer Luckey, made an undisclosed trip to Israel and met with Netanyahu and senior defense officials. By June, Anduril was setting up an Israel operation to sell to Israel’s Ministry of Defense. Shawn had Palmer on his show in February 2025 and invested eight months later.

(2) Shield AI: Ryan has been an investor since November 2025. It builds AI-piloted drones and fighter jets. Andreessen Horowitz led its first major round and has kept investing ever since. Shawn had its co-founder on the show the same season he invested.

(3) Sesh: Ryan has been an investor since August 2025. Its $40 million round was led by 8VC, the venture firm of Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded Palantir with Peter Thiel. Lonsdale was a guest on Shawn’s show on May 7, 2026, less than three months before I taped. Palantir signed a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense in 2024.

And Flock Safety, the company I came to talk about, is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, which led two of its rounds, and by Founders Fund, Peter Thiel’s fund.

So I was booked to expose who funds the surveillance state. I was told not to name Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. And the host has money in companies backed by Andreessen Horowitz, by Thiel’s fund, and by Thiel’s Palantir co-founder, including one that is building its business in Israel.

Then there’s the rest of it. Sarah Adams, his former network host, was messaging his team to keep me off (see Part 1 if you missed it). An IDF settlement contractor tagged the two of them together. Pro-Israel groups passed around her clip from his show as proof that Israel didn’t drive the war. And after his Diary of a CEO interview, accounts from the same network that spent the summer smearing me told everyone his “CIA woman” was me, citing “sources.” It wasn’t me. I never discussed a polygraph with Shawn Ryan, and it was never why I went on. So either he was talking about someone else, or somebody turned his story into a weapon against me.

Honestly, I don’t want the episode to air, and I told them so right after we taped, because it was a watered-down version of my work. How it all happened was a tough lesson learned for me in this industry. Now you know what was going on behind the scenes. If this episode doesn’t air, I can assure you it’s not because I’m a fraud. It’s because I won’t water down who funds the surveillance state, and I won’t sell out to protect anyone’s investments.

So there you have it.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Late stage MAGA is so disgusting and unrecognizable to me, and I find this shocking as one who attended more Trump rallies than I can count.
A woman with a “Release The Epstein Files” shirt stands at a Trump rally shouting at Trump to release the Epstein files and gets physically beaten by the MAGA men around her, who probably call themselves Christians.
Then our obese President makes fun of her calling her “fat” and “him” claiming she’s a paid protestor.
She got thrown out and the men who attacked her got to stay.
MAGA rallies used to be filled with people who agreed with releasing the Epstein files, defended women, and would step in if a woman was attacked.
Now the dying remnant of MAGA is made up of people who emulate their cult leader.
Attacking women, making fun of their looks, and turning on the victims of the elites.
It’s a cult, an ugly grotesque cult that does not display Christian values because the cult leader himself is not a Christian even though the vast majority who attend his rallies would identify as Christian.
Know them by their fruit.
The fruit is rotten.
Because the cult leader himself is a wolf in sheep’s clothing who has led the flock astray.

[Affordability Crisis @trackingcosts]

I like how Bank of America makes $5 billion from laundering money for Russia and then only has to pay a $1.2 billion fraud and no one goes to prison. Ok.

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Carney is allowing his cronies in the UK to buy and take over Newfoundlands Oil Fields. The Canadian federal government has the full legislative authority to block or stop the sale of Suncor Energy Inc to offshore foreign interests but then that's the only reason Carney is PM to sell off Canada's energy reserves to the EU, China and the UK.

https://t.co/wedLGtdyT8

[Porter @offgridPorter]

This is Biden bat shit crazy. 25th amendment territory.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

REPORTER: "You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides say they have not agreed to that..."

TRUMP: "They agreed. You know why? Because I said, 'You agree' — that's why. They agreed because I said they agreed, and that thing has to get settled."

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@Benshooter The first crime is chilling cheese enchiladas. wtf ghetto bs is that?

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@Benshooter I believe the gentleman in Nevada has never been a permabear on real estate. Only got skeptical after 2009.

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@Benshooter Sweden limits bottom surgery to 23yo. Hrt and pb until 18. Seems pretty reasonable.

[Porter @offgridPorter]

How stupid is Ken Paxton? He thought the guy he beat in the primary would go all in for him. It’s so fun to watch.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Person who is close to Ken Paxton says John Cornyn doesn't care if Paxton loses to Talarico.

“John Cornyn clearly doesn’t care. That is how bitter he is and how badly he wants Ken to lose. He wants Ken to lose as badly as Jasmine Crockett wants James Talarico to lose.”

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@kathleenmadigan Are you tall enough to play pickleball? 😊

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@nmbrick63 @gnuman1979 Ever heard of yielding to an emergency vehicle? wtf

[Porter @offgridPorter]

@NigelBest5 We’ve lost Nigel. He’s been corrupted. 😔