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/
2/ Link: web.archive.org/web/2025111123…
3/ Receipt re: the announcement of the Thiel Foundation’s $1 million grant to Emergent Ventures in July 2018. content.sitemasonry.gmu.edu/news/2018-07/m…
4/ Receipt re the November 2018 announcement of Emergent Ventures’ grant to Mark Lutter and his Center for Innovative Government Research (dba the Charter Cities Institute). marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
5/ Receipt showing that the Charter Cities Institute is the dba of Mark Lutter’s Center for Innovative Government Research. chartercitiesinstitute.org/wp-content/upl…
6/ Here’s the Charter Cities Institute’s 2024 Annual Report, which begins with a note from Executive Director Mark Lutter: “In addition to our success in Africa, we’ve begun to explore global possibilities, including India, Central Asia, South America, and the United States.”
chartercitiesinstitute.org/wp-content/upl…
7/ Here is the Charter Cities Institute’s (CCI) 2019 Annual Report. It says that Founders Fund (which was co-founded by Peter Thiel) hosted CCI’s San Francisco Summit. It also says that the 1517 Fund (which was co-founded by Michael Gibson, a key figure in the Thiel Fellowship) hosted Lutter on its podcast.” chartercitiesinstitute.org/wp-content/upl…
8/ The 2019 Annual Report of Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute also includes a section titled “Make Honduras Great.” Again, CCI received a grant from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in late 2018.
9/ Yes, Mark Lutter (of the Charter Cities Institute) is a top proponent of Trump “Freedom Cities.” You can find this “Freedom Cities” white paper on CCI’s website. chartercitiesinstitute.org/wp-content/upl…
10/ Related thread about Greenland.
11/ Related thread about Prospera in Honduras.
12/ Related article from 2023 about the Charter Cities Institute and Nigeria. wired.com/story/itana-bi…
13/ PS. I’ve been unable so far to find CCI’s Venezuela white paper. If and when I do, I will post it.
14/ Joe Lonsdale - who co-founded Palantir with Peter Thiel— has also been circling Venezuela. bsky.app/profile/jennyc…
16/ “In Defense of Inequality” bsky.app/profile/jennyc…
17/ Putting aside Joe Lonsdale’s advocacy of public hangings, why does he think he might be “in charge later”??? And in charge of what exactly?
18/ Last year, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.”
20/ Joe Lonsdale—Peter Thiel’s Palantir co-founder—writes that, “It’s NOT sane for the state itself to provide education...” Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson has similarly expressed a desire to abolish public education.
21/ Mark Lutter QTd this thread & told me to “at” him next time.
22/ So I did and eagerly await his response. @MarkLutter
23/ While we wait, here’s some additional info. In addition to the Charter Cities Institute, Mark Lutter belongs to the Frontier Foundation alongside Josh Abbottoy who wrote in 2023 that “America is going to need a Protestant Franco,” a reference to Spain’s deceased murderous Catholic dictator.” frontierfoundation.org
@MarkLutter 24/
@MarkLutter 25/
26/ The 2019 Annual Report for Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (CCI) says that the 1517 Fund (co-founded by the Thiel Fellowship’s Michael Gibson) hosted Mark Lutter on its podcast” & that Founders Fund (co-founded by Peter Thiel) hosted CCI’s Summit. chartercitiesinstitute.org/wp-content/upl…
@MarkLutter 27/ “Abolish public schools!”
- Michael Gibson (1517 Fund, Thiel Fellowship)
@MarkLutter 28/ “First Greenland and then the Moon, 51 and 52”
- Michael Gibson
@MarkLutter 29/ “We need more nations, not fewer” - Michael Gibson
@MarkLutter 30/ “Network State” leader Balaji Srinivassan (advisor of Pronomos Capital) & Patri Friedman (founder of Pronomos Capital) attended the 2019 Summit for Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute. The Summit was hosted by Founders Fund (co-founded by Peter Thiel).
@MarkLutter 31/ “De-Blueification is the goal. Blues out, right?” - Balaji Srinivasan, author of “The Network State: How to Start a New Country.” (Article by Gil Duran) missionlocal.org/2024/05/balaji…
@MarkLutter 32/ The Charter Cities Institute website says that Joe Lonsdale (another close associate of Peter Thiel) is “one of our supporters”. chartercitiesinstitute.org/updates/charte…
@MarkLutter 33/ This Joe Lonsdale, the one who recently advocated public hangings.
34/ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale—a supporter of Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (per CCI’s website)—co-founded the University of Austin Texas (UATX) in 2021. Last year, UATX’s “Convocation Address” was titled, “In Defense of Inequality.”
“To the class of 2029: you have chosen to rebel. Not against hierarchy, but against its abandonment.” I found this post because Lonsdale RTd it.
@MarkLutter 35/ Joe Lonsdale’s RT. I screen grabbed this last year.
36/ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale—a supporter of Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (per CCI’s website)—RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.” (I screen-grabbed this last year.)
@MarkLutter 37/ Oh look. Mark Lutter and Michael Gibson (1517 Fund & the Thiel Fellowship) also discussed building charter cities in Venezuela in 2019 on the 1517 podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/026…
@MarkLutter 38/ Michael Gibson (1517 Fund, Thiel Fellowship) posted this yesterday: “Someone should pitch Rubio on a charter city in Venezuela and Cuba.”
@MarkLutter 39/ During Peter Thiel’s 2024 “Hereticon” event, Michael Gibson co-led a talk titled “Manifest Destiny:Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony.” abovo.co/piratewires@pi…
@MarkLutter 40/ Earlier today, Mark Lutter QTd this thread as follows.
@MarkLutter 41/ This prompted me to reply as follows.
@MarkLutter 42/ He, in turn, responded as follows.
@MarkLutter 43/ Prompting me to reply as follows.
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