John Fund

‘Fake workers’ from North Korea use AI to exploit European companies. Drug sales, arms sales, counterfeit goods aren't enough. The new frontier of state theft. ft.com/content/4e26ad… via @ft

500 Arrests In Iran. There must be a lot more spies - Israeli and otherwise - than people thought. Or this regime is paranoid and looking for a scapegoat. Or both. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Replacing Churchill with wildlife on British banknotes is a mistake. In civics, the nation becomes less serious all the time. spectator.com/article/replac…

"You don’t pass along America in the bloodstream. You have to actually teach it. And we truly haven’t been doing it since the ’60s." @tunkuv interviews @BenSasse wsj.com/opinion/a-publ…

Not confirmed, but likely to be true and worth noting. Summary by Jordan Schachtel on his Substack: "Iran has a new Supreme Leader on paper: Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the slain Ayatollah. It has issued statements in his name (a new account has popped on X). It has broadcast his image against waving Iranian flags. What it cannot produce is the man himself. According to news sources who have circumvented Iran’s near-total internet blackout to smuggle information to exiled dissidents in London, Mojtaba Khamenei is currently in the intensive care unit of Sina University Hospital in Tehran’s historic quarter, where an entire section of the building has been sealed off and placed under heavy security. The report is grim: he is understood to have lost at least one leg and is believed to have sustained severe internal injuries, possibly to his stomach or liver. Multiple outlets, drawing on these clandestine sources, report that Iran is currently being run by regional commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who are believed to be under orders to fight on indefinitely, even without a clear structure of leadership authority. The phrase circulating in dissident circles captures the situation perfectly: Iran is governed by a “Ghost Ayatollah.”

“Amazon is not going to leave Seattle over the head tax” [Amazon begins moving to Bellevue] “Rich people are not going to leave over the Capital Gains Tax” [Jeff Bezos moves] “Big companies are not going to leave WA over bad policies” [Starbucks announces new HQ in Tennessee] “People are not going to leave over the income tax” Following the passage of the income tax, Howard Schultz announced he is leaving WA and moving to Florida.

Howard Schultz spent decades virtue-signaling for every new demand of “progressivism” and now he’s leaving the rest of us to deal with the consequences. A truly dishonorable end to his tenure as a Washingtonian.

CBS News is actually reporting that California is the worst in the nation for health care fraud The fraud is so widespread in Los Angeles “You can't throw a rock without hitting a hospice” 🚨 OVER 500 hospice companies in just a 3 mile radius They say the fraud being found is already OVER HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS, just in this one industry “A CBS News investigation found an industry ripe for fraud, especially in California companies accused of overbilling real patients denied care and it's costing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.” “We brought our findings to Sheila Clark, a hospice patient advocate, showing her the more than 700 agencies with three or more signs of potential fraud. Clark took us through an area of Los Angeles that's home to nearly 500 hospice company offices in just a three mile stretch” They investigate hospice after hospice and they’re empty, it’s fraud

If the shoe doesn't fit... themirror.com/news/politics/…

While the United States generally has lower income taxes than rich European countries, residents of some of America’s wealthiest areas are already paying European income tax rates.

Idaho’s incoming movers lean +70 R vs. the national average. California is one of Idaho’s biggest sources of migrants. But the Californian moving to Idaho isn’t the median Californian. Generally, republicans move to R states and Democrats to D states.

The tiny island of Kharg that could let Trump beat Iran without sending a single soldier. It's said the Donald never forgets a planned conquest.... telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

The younger Bolsinaro is a less polarizing candidate than his father, the former president.

yet another business escapee from high tax and regulatory environment

John Fund at the National Review warns Democratic Senators in California about ACA7. Just how much do they think Asian American voters will take? This is the third time in six years the legislature has tried to overturn Prop 209. nationalreview.com/2026/03/califo…

@TheStalwart Trump did this back in 2017 for Puerto Rico weather disaster. It eased the problems in short term.

*TRUMP WEIGHS EASING JONES ACT REQUIREMENTS OVER OIL PRICE: RTRS

🚨 Watch this video 👇! The 2-MILE (not 200 mile), slow speed @flyLAXairport train, which has taken MANY years, is costing us $4.9 BILLION, way more than Beijing to Shanghai HIGH SPEED TRAIN that’s infinitely longer. There’s serious theft & corruption here. Zero doubt.

The perfect plot for the revival of the Toy Story franchise: "For over 30 years, the toys of Toy Story have found themselves nearly abandoned, lost, or destroyed. The trailer for Pixar's Toy Story 5 has arrived to remind us the toys face the potential end of their world. Their destroyer is a tablet computer that Bonnie, who got the toys from Andy in Toy Story 3, becomes obsessed with. "Extinction, not again!" Rex (Wallace Shawn) cries out upon seeing the tablet, named Lilypad (Greta Lee)." polygon.com/toy-story-5-tr…

Noem spent $220 million in taxpayer money to promote herself. Now Newsom is spending $19 million (share of Calif's nationwide population) doing the same thing.

Difficult people in your life might make you age faster, study suggests wapo.st/3OVL3kK