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  1. #Cuba Joins ‘Lego Resistance Front’ With Iran-Style Video Decrying Trump Warmongering
    Content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa hailed Cubans as “a people who refuse to submit to the true regime of horror, which the United States represents, as it goes around starting wars throughout the world.”
    commondreams.org/news/cuba-leg

    from #CommonDreams
    Brett Wilkins
    May 12, 2026

    As the team at #Tehran-based #ExplosiveMedia keeps churning out viral artificial intelligence-generated #Lego-style animated #videos condemning the US-Israeli war on #Iran, a #Cuban version of the clips reacting to President Donald #Trump’s threats to attack the island appeared Monday on #SocialMedia.

    First posted by #Havana art historian and digital content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa, the video was shared by users including #US investigative journalist Ryan Grim and Explosive Media, which added, “Welcome to the #LRF Cuba,” or #LegoResistanceFront.

    #NoWarWithIran
    #OilForCuba!
    #NoEmbargo
    #news #politics #USpol

  2. #Cuba Joins ‘Lego Resistance Front’ With Iran-Style Video Decrying Trump Warmongering
    Content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa hailed Cubans as “a people who refuse to submit to the true regime of horror, which the United States represents, as it goes around starting wars throughout the world.”
    commondreams.org/news/cuba-leg

    from #CommonDreams
    Brett Wilkins
    May 12, 2026

    As the team at #Tehran-based #ExplosiveMedia keeps churning out viral artificial intelligence-generated #Lego-style animated #videos condemning the US-Israeli war on #Iran, a #Cuban version of the clips reacting to President Donald #Trump’s threats to attack the island appeared Monday on #SocialMedia.

    First posted by #Havana art historian and digital content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa, the video was shared by users including #US investigative journalist Ryan Grim and Explosive Media, which added, “Welcome to the #LRF Cuba,” or #LegoResistanceFront.

    #NoWarWithIran
    #OilForCuba!
    #NoEmbargo
    #news #politics #USpol

  3. #Cuba Joins ‘Lego Resistance Front’ With Iran-Style Video Decrying Trump Warmongering
    Content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa hailed Cubans as “a people who refuse to submit to the true regime of horror, which the United States represents, as it goes around starting wars throughout the world.”
    commondreams.org/news/cuba-leg

    from #CommonDreams
    Brett Wilkins
    May 12, 2026

    As the team at #Tehran-based #ExplosiveMedia keeps churning out viral artificial intelligence-generated #Lego-style animated #videos condemning the US-Israeli war on #Iran, a #Cuban version of the clips reacting to President Donald #Trump’s threats to attack the island appeared Monday on #SocialMedia.

    First posted by #Havana art historian and digital content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa, the video was shared by users including #US investigative journalist Ryan Grim and Explosive Media, which added, “Welcome to the #LRF Cuba,” or #LegoResistanceFront.

    #NoWarWithIran
    #OilForCuba!
    #NoEmbargo
    #news #politics #USpol

  4. #Cuba Joins ‘Lego Resistance Front’ With Iran-Style Video Decrying Trump Warmongering
    Content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa hailed Cubans as “a people who refuse to submit to the true regime of horror, which the United States represents, as it goes around starting wars throughout the world.”
    commondreams.org/news/cuba-leg

    from #CommonDreams
    Brett Wilkins
    May 12, 2026

    As the team at #Tehran-based #ExplosiveMedia keeps churning out viral artificial intelligence-generated #Lego-style animated #videos condemning the US-Israeli war on #Iran, a #Cuban version of the clips reacting to President Donald #Trump’s threats to attack the island appeared Monday on #SocialMedia.

    First posted by #Havana art historian and digital content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa, the video was shared by users including #US investigative journalist Ryan Grim and Explosive Media, which added, “Welcome to the #LRF Cuba,” or #LegoResistanceFront.

    #NoWarWithIran
    #OilForCuba!
    #NoEmbargo
    #news #politics #USpol

  5. #Cuba Joins ‘Lego Resistance Front’ With Iran-Style Video Decrying Trump Warmongering
    Content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa hailed Cubans as “a people who refuse to submit to the true regime of horror, which the United States represents, as it goes around starting wars throughout the world.”
    commondreams.org/news/cuba-leg

    from #CommonDreams
    Brett Wilkins
    May 12, 2026

    As the team at #Tehran-based #ExplosiveMedia keeps churning out viral artificial intelligence-generated #Lego-style animated #videos condemning the US-Israeli war on #Iran, a #Cuban version of the clips reacting to President Donald #Trump’s threats to attack the island appeared Monday on #SocialMedia.

    First posted by #Havana art historian and digital content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa, the video was shared by users including #US investigative journalist Ryan Grim and Explosive Media, which added, “Welcome to the #LRF Cuba,” or #LegoResistanceFront.

    #NoWarWithIran
    #OilForCuba!
    #NoEmbargo
    #news #politics #USpol

  6. Cuba: Millions March on May Day, Denounce Threats of US Invasion
    world-outlook.com/2026/05/04/c

    from #WorldOutlook
    May 4, 2026

    #HAVANA, #CUBA May 1 — Beginning at 3:30am., #Cuban working people from all over this city began mobilizing to answer the growing threats of an invasion by the #US government, converging on 4 different rally sites in the country’s capital.

    Because of fuel shortages, tens of thousands walked in small groups for many miles to reach these sites...

    This time, international guests — 827, from 38 countries, representing 152 solidarity groups, trade unions, and political parties here to celebrate #MayDay with the Cuban people — were not merely observers but active participants.

    In Havana, 500,000 participated in the 4 rallies, according to the Cuban press, the reports of which are corroborated by magnificent aerial photos.

    An estimated 5.2 million people turned out in May Day rallies in cities and towns across the country...

    #OilForCuba!
    #news #politics

  7. Video - The Human Cost of US Sanctions
    peertube.world/w/7Li2JGyMsh5FF
    Duration - 8:28

    [a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

    BotB's Liz Oliva and Drop Site’s Ryan Grim recently visited the William Soler Pediatric #Hospital in #Havana where they spoke with the chief anesthesiologist, Alioth Fernández, and the parents of some of his patients.

    Cuba's public and free #healthcare system was long considered one of the best in the world. Its doctors are top-notch, dedicated and caring. This is a story about what happens when the most powerful country in the world uses economic warfare to deprive a smaller country from obtaining the #medicine it needs to save lives.

    The #Cuban government cannot access the international financial system, cannot import freely, cannot buy what its children need — not because of indifference, but because #US sanctions have destroyed the country’s economy and drained the #PublicHealth budget.

    #EndTheEmbargo
    #politics #USpol

  8. ‘Cuba Is the Moral and Political Compass of the World’ (II) (of 3)
    Interview with Cuban Leader Ernesto Limia Díaz
    Nov 8, 2025

    from #WorldOutlook

    But if, in the framework of the war to damage the #Cuban #electric system, you buy the company that supplies spare parts to the largest source of electrical energy generation in #Cuba — the Antonio Guiteras thermo-electric plant in Matanzas — you are moving to another level.

    That was done by the #Biden administration, which left all of #Trump’s measures in place and, in addition, provided what it believed to be the checkmate: as part of an operation between the government, the CIA, and finance capital, #GeneralElectric bought the French firm that built the Guiteras and was therefore committed to guaranteeing the supply of spare parts and maintenance. A Dantesque maneuver, devised by cynical people of the worst moral character.

    world-outlook.com/2025/11/08/c

    #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #US #VivaCuba #socialism #CubanRevolution
    #news #politics

  9. ‘Cuba Is the Moral and Political Compass of the World’ (II) (of 3)
    Interview with Cuban Leader Ernesto Limia Díaz
    Nov 8, 2025

    from #WorldOutlook

    But if, in the framework of the war to damage the #Cuban #electric system, you buy the company that supplies spare parts to the largest source of electrical energy generation in #Cuba — the Antonio Guiteras thermo-electric plant in Matanzas — you are moving to another level.

    That was done by the #Biden administration, which left all of #Trump’s measures in place and, in addition, provided what it believed to be the checkmate: as part of an operation between the government, the CIA, and finance capital, #GeneralElectric bought the French firm that built the Guiteras and was therefore committed to guaranteeing the supply of spare parts and maintenance. A Dantesque maneuver, devised by cynical people of the worst moral character.

    world-outlook.com/2025/11/08/c

    #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #US #VivaCuba #socialism #CubanRevolution
    #news #politics

  10. ‘Cuba Is the Moral and Political Compass of the World’ (II) (of 3)
    Interview with Cuban Leader Ernesto Limia Díaz
    Nov 8, 2025

    from #WorldOutlook

    But if, in the framework of the war to damage the #Cuban #electric system, you buy the company that supplies spare parts to the largest source of electrical energy generation in #Cuba — the Antonio Guiteras thermo-electric plant in Matanzas — you are moving to another level.

    That was done by the #Biden administration, which left all of #Trump’s measures in place and, in addition, provided what it believed to be the checkmate: as part of an operation between the government, the CIA, and finance capital, #GeneralElectric bought the French firm that built the Guiteras and was therefore committed to guaranteeing the supply of spare parts and maintenance. A Dantesque maneuver, devised by cynical people of the worst moral character.

    world-outlook.com/2025/11/08/c

    #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #US #VivaCuba #socialism #CubanRevolution
    #news #politics

  11. ‘Cuba Is the Moral and Political Compass of the World’ (II) (of 3)
    Interview with Cuban Leader Ernesto Limia Díaz
    Nov 8, 2025

    from #WorldOutlook

    But if, in the framework of the war to damage the #Cuban #electric system, you buy the company that supplies spare parts to the largest source of electrical energy generation in #Cuba — the Antonio Guiteras thermo-electric plant in Matanzas — you are moving to another level.

    That was done by the #Biden administration, which left all of #Trump’s measures in place and, in addition, provided what it believed to be the checkmate: as part of an operation between the government, the CIA, and finance capital, #GeneralElectric bought the French firm that built the Guiteras and was therefore committed to guaranteeing the supply of spare parts and maintenance. A Dantesque maneuver, devised by cynical people of the worst moral character.

    world-outlook.com/2025/11/08/c

    #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #US #VivaCuba #socialism #CubanRevolution
    #news #politics

  12. ‘Cuba Is the Moral and Political Compass of the World’ (II) (of 3)
    Interview with Cuban Leader Ernesto Limia Díaz
    Nov 8, 2025

    from #WorldOutlook

    But if, in the framework of the war to damage the #Cuban #electric system, you buy the company that supplies spare parts to the largest source of electrical energy generation in #Cuba — the Antonio Guiteras thermo-electric plant in Matanzas — you are moving to another level.

    That was done by the #Biden administration, which left all of #Trump’s measures in place and, in addition, provided what it believed to be the checkmate: as part of an operation between the government, the CIA, and finance capital, #GeneralElectric bought the French firm that built the Guiteras and was therefore committed to guaranteeing the supply of spare parts and maintenance. A Dantesque maneuver, devised by cynical people of the worst moral character.

    world-outlook.com/2025/11/08/c

    #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #US #VivaCuba #socialism #CubanRevolution
    #news #politics

  13. Bringing Cuban agroecology to the next level

    from #Rooted in agroecology and food sovereignty
    July 15, 2024 | Leidy Casimiro et al. | Issue 1 Policies for Agroecology

    Over the past three decades, the #Cuban people have made great strides in scaling out and up the practice, science and movement of #agroecology. This is often celebrated as an example. However, the adoption and durability of agroecology have been uneven across space and time. Recent policy reforms are laying the groundwork for the greater spread of agroecology across the entire food system on the path to #FoodSovereignty.

    rooted-magazine.org/2024/07/15

    #Cuba #agriculture #farming #environment #ecology
    #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity
    #LatinAmerica #Caribbean #news
    @cuba

  14. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  15. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  16. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  17. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  18. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  19. 'Chatham House Rule'

    Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
    naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
    trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.

    Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
    but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”

    Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
    #Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
    and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.

    #Andreessen lurks.

    But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
    sparring with conservatives.

    (“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)

    The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
    and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.

    Both of those are now fading
    (though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).

    Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
    and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
    “a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.

    “It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”

    And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.

    You can see it on X,
    where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
    and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.

    “Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
    said #Rufo.
    “There’s a big split on the tech right.”

    The polarity of social media has also reversed,
    and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
    “now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.

    By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
    “This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
    he wrote, shorthanding
    “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

    Then he addressed Torenberg:
    “You should create a new one with just smart people.”

    Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
    The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
    the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

  20. 'Chatham House Rule'

    Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
    naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
    trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.

    Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
    but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”

    Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
    #Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
    and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.

    #Andreessen lurks.

    But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
    sparring with conservatives.

    (“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)

    The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
    and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.

    Both of those are now fading
    (though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).

    Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
    and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
    “a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.

    “It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”

    And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.

    You can see it on X,
    where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
    and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.

    “Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
    said #Rufo.
    “There’s a big split on the tech right.”

    The polarity of social media has also reversed,
    and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
    “now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.

    By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
    “This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
    he wrote, shorthanding
    “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

    Then he addressed Torenberg:
    “You should create a new one with just smart people.”

    Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
    The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
    the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

  21. 'Chatham House Rule'

    Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
    naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
    trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.

    Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
    but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”

    Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
    #Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
    and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.

    #Andreessen lurks.

    But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
    sparring with conservatives.

    (“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)

    The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
    and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.

    Both of those are now fading
    (though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).

    Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
    and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
    “a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.

    “It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”

    And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.

    You can see it on X,
    where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
    and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.

    “Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
    said #Rufo.
    “There’s a big split on the tech right.”

    The polarity of social media has also reversed,
    and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
    “now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.

    By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
    “This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
    he wrote, shorthanding
    “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

    Then he addressed Torenberg:
    “You should create a new one with just smart people.”

    Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
    The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
    the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

  22. 'Chatham House Rule'

    Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
    naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
    trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.

    Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
    but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”

    Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
    #Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
    and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.

    #Andreessen lurks.

    But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
    sparring with conservatives.

    (“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)

    The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
    and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.

    Both of those are now fading
    (though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).

    Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
    and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
    “a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.

    “It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”

    And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.

    You can see it on X,
    where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
    and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.

    “Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
    said #Rufo.
    “There’s a big split on the tech right.”

    The polarity of social media has also reversed,
    and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
    “now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.

    By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
    “This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
    he wrote, shorthanding
    “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

    Then he addressed Torenberg:
    “You should create a new one with just smart people.”

    Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
    The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
    the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

  23. 'Chatham House Rule'

    Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
    naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
    trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.

    Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
    but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”

    Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
    #Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
    and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.

    #Andreessen lurks.

    But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
    sparring with conservatives.

    (“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)

    The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
    and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.

    Both of those are now fading
    (though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).

    Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
    and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
    “a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.

    “It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”

    And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.

    You can see it on X,
    where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
    and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.

    “Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
    said #Rufo.
    “There’s a big split on the tech right.”

    The polarity of social media has also reversed,
    and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
    “now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.

    By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
    “This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
    he wrote, shorthanding
    “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

    Then he addressed Torenberg:
    “You should create a new one with just smart people.”

    Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
    The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
    the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.

    semafor.com/article/04/27/2025