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Draftsman. 1972 graduate. Mastbaum Vocational Technical High School. Philadelphia, Pa. Major: Machine Design & Drafting.

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jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another Will Bunch piece with well-deserved condemnation of Our Failed Press Corpse™ for its refusal to acknowledge The Mad King's descent into madness, and the potentially cataclysmic dangers thereof. Highly recommended. (Not the point, but I especially liked "blonde Rasputin"...)
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Read Books, Not AI Slop @ireadnewspapers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Evil is good. Should be on the sequel to 1984.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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doomandgloom 💙📚🚀🌈🌴🌞🏝🎶🌹🐈‍⬛🌹💐🦋 🌻🇺🇦🇵🇸🇳🇫🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @doomandgloom1951.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
Another succinct reminder from @gilduran.com’s NERD REICH: “The most prominent effective altruist, or EA, is Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX crypto exchange founder serving thirty years in prison for fraud.”
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Joseph TW @josephtw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Around the height of the Vietnam war.
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DrRamblings @drramblings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very very few. Legislators have a looooong history of sending OTHER PEOPLE’s kids overseas to die, but not their own.
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Joseph TW @josephtw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How many of the morons with the military weapons ever actually served in the military? 🤔
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As we prepare to enter the Shabbat preceding Yom Kippur, we do so welcoming the opportunity to reflect on how we’ve collectively missed the mark this year, and how we can do better in the year ahead.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/09/2026
Today is the day! Cyberselfish—the book that nailed Silicon Valley's dangerous narcissism 26 years ago—is back in print!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2026
Fetterman does not cope well with questions about a potential party flip. And every time he reacts like this, it makes the possibility look a little more real.
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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New essay from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social: "I am part of a movement against AI. A movement for accurate history, environmental protection, and human dignity."
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/09/2026
I’ll be on MSNOW in 30 minutes to discuss The Nerd Reich and Silicon Valley’s War on Democracy. Tune in!
Image of Lawrence O’Donnell holding up the nerd reich book
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/09/2026
Michael J. Fox honored at Emmys for Parkinson's advocacy reut.rs/4cLM2x7
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Michael J. Fox honored at Emmys for Parkinson's advocacy
Michael J. Fox, the Canadian-American actor who turned his Parkinson's disease diagnosis into one of ​entertainment's most influential advocacy campaigns, received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmy Awards on Monday.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The guy who helped kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour was charged with soliciting prostitution, got those charges dropped with the help of Epstein’s lawyer, is a longtime friend of Trump, has taken NFL players on propaganda trips to Israel, and received a special $1 million award from Netanyahu.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, the two beautiful people who made "NAZA", are real Jews 🕎 Righteous Among the Nations History will not only remember their bravery But their empathy, their resilience, and their actions 🍉
Rachel SzorYuval Abraham
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
Yikes! That ballroom isn’t going to complement the White House. It’s going to overpower it. Look at the scale of this thing. The people’s house is being swallowed by one man’s monument to himself.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11/09/2026
JD Vance is a THIEL-billy, not a hillbilly. He’s a wholly-owned subsidiary of Peter Thiel. He’s had many names and religions. He hated Trump, now he loves Trump. He’s a “carbon lifeform wearing khaki pants,” a servant of Silicon Valley—and a heartbeat away from the presidency.
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 11/09/2026
The one and only @edgeofsports.bsky.social breaking down the outsized life of people’s historian Howard Zinn in conversation with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social tonight
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/09/2026
The gutting of local journalism continues. I started as an intern at the Lexington Herald-Leader, which laid off a majority of its reporters today. The McClatchy company was bought by a hedge fund that promised to be a good steward of journalism. And here we are... www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...
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McClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffs
McClatchy laid off 13 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader, a majority of its reporters, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THE NEWEST EVIDENCE THAT TRUMP IS NOT LOYAL TO THE UNITED STATES: Am I the only one who saw it? In him sending Kushner and Witkoff to be Putin's messenger boys? The Countdown Podcast returns WITH FULL VIDEO on YouTube, and in classic flavor here now: tinyurl.com/3fxyv6pm
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Kinda reminds me of how Putin’s friends, American Republicans, frequently claim Hitler was a “socialist” while the same Republicans are literally enacting Hitler’s policies
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 08/09/2026
"Peter Thiel is betting against America." My conversation with @jimacosta.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Oh...
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🔴 LIVE: 'Peter Thiel Is Betting Against America' | Gil Duran NYT Best Selling Author
YouTube video by Jim Acosta
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/09/2026
Got 'em: The @thebulwark.com added an editor's note to the review, acknowledging that the author's direct affiliation with the Foundation for American Innovation ("the foundation shaping the tech right," according to Inc.) created a conflict that should have been forthrightly disclosed.
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Editor’s note (September 3, 2026, 1:10 p.m. EDT): In a response to this review posted to social media, Gil Durán, author of The Nerd Reich, has highlighted that the reviewer, Jacob Bruggeman, is affiliated with the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI). Durán mentions FAI in his book, once, in a sentence that reads as follows: “This merging of tech and far-right networks—hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation, which Inc. later described as ‘the foundation shaping the tech right’—seemed like a live test of [Balaji] Srinivasan’s theory.” Bruggeman’s affiliation with FAI is an unpaid, nonresident fellowship (in other words, it is not his day job), and while it was mentioned in his byline beneath this review, we should have made a point of additionally disclosing it in a footnote like this.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Both of my kids have benefited immensely from CHOP — my daughter had surgery for thyroid cancer there, for instance — so I would like to take this moment to tell Senator John Fetterman to go fuck himself
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 04/09/2026
More coming soon!
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a good and important book.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wrote an essay about Eugene Deb’s and labor power for a new Haymarket book called “This Is How We Win.” An excerpt of the essay is in @currentaffairs.bsky.social: www.currentaffairs.org/news/eugene-...
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Eugene Debs Knew the Power Labor Holds
More than 100 years ago, the socialist leader taught us that working people make the world run—so we can remake the world, too.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 21/10/2025
I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago. She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish." It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...
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The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Myra Åhbeck Öhrman 🧢 @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se · 03/09/2026
Jag läste "The Nerd Reich" av @gilduran.com, om Silicon Valleys väg från libertariansk exitfantasi till företagsmonarki, AI-gudar, Antikrist och mycket rika mäns längtan efter att slippa andra människors samtycke. Allt som är fast förflyktigas. Även demokratin, tydligen. arbetet.se/2026/09/03/t...
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Därför avskyr dårarna i Silicon Valley att du har rösträtt
The Nerd Reich avslöjar vad som egentligen är problemet.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 03/09/2026
As I read journalist @gilduran.com’s provocative new book over a long weekend, an unnerving realization took hold—in my hands was the most urgent warning for American democracy I have ever encountered. www.confrontthehate.com/p/the-most-u...
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'The Nerd Reich': An Urgent Warning for American Democracy
Decades of investigating government corruption couldn't prepare me for Gil Durán’s chilling account of Silicon Valley’s authoritarian ambitions.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A fascinating, frightening view into (mostly) home-grown fascists and how their undoing of democracy is proceeding apace. The Nerd Reich by Gil Duran @gilduran.com
Image of book by Gil Duran.
The Nerd Reich - Silicon Valley fascism and the war on democracy.
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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Always check the source, lesson #47,612.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
well look at this!
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Marissa Madrigal @mommycrat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A signal in the noise ... @gilduran.com's latest came in the mail today.
A red hardback copy of Gil Durán's book, The Nerd Reich - Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy on a glass covered wood table.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/08/2026
The phenomenal singer-songwriter Jesse Welles just wrote a song called "The Nerd Reich" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1...
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The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just seen at the Springsteen Museum
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/08/2026
Fairweather Fascists? "Some U.S. companies with close ties to President Trump are taking steps to gain favor with Democrats, worried they will become targets if Republicans lose control of the House." Remember: They'll try to buy both sides to evade accountability. 🎁 www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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Exclusive | Corporate America Cut Big Checks to Trump. Now CEOs Fear Subpoenas Are Coming.
Tech firms are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/08/2026
In English: "To most people, [Curtis Yarvin] sounded like a socially maladjusted middle-aged racist who had done far too many psychedelic drugs and created a fantasy version of fascism while living off his mother and his wife. "
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/08/2026
Someone translated one of my sentences into French: « Pour la plupart des gens, il avait l'air d'un quadragénaire raciste et profondément perturbé, qui avait pris beaucoup trop de drogues psychédéliques et avait créé une version fantasmée du fascisme, tout en vivant grâce à sa mère et à sa femme. »
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Fascism thrives on fear, on making people afraid to speak out or to imagine a better future. And right now, the billionaires are monopolizing our visions of the future. And if they can imagine a world without us, we can imagine a world without them."
- Gil Durán
MOVEMENT MEMOS
A Truthout Podcast
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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Damn straight, Gil, let's rip these Tech Billionaires off their pinche thrones! Ándale, güey!
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Keri @keriqbaum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is the best song ever… “Prince's impromptu, fiery guitar solo at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performance of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" became an instant classic. No one onstage knew what he was going to do.”
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/08/2026
randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have
Screenshot of tweet by Eminem. Text of Eminem's post reads: 

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it.  Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

Attached is an image of a classy and generous letter Dolly Parton sent to Eminem after missing a chance to meet him at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/08/2026
We did it! “The Nerd Reich” is a New York Times Instant Bestseller! My book debuts at #3 on the non-fiction list. Thanks to all who pre-ordered /bought the book—or requested it at the public library or promoted it on social. Without you, I’m just an unemployed guy with a laptop. But with you…
Image: Nerd Reich book cover, a New York Times Instant Bestseller
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joannkennedy.bsky.social @joannkennedy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Neil Young's song So good youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...
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Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)
YouTube video by Don Giller
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 25/08/2026
"The RSS is not a cultural organization," said Sarita Pandey of Save America From Hindutva. "It is a Hindu supremacist paramilitary movement whose ideology and networks have been associated with horrific violence against Muslims, Christians and other minorities in India."
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MSG to Host Hindu Nationalist Paramilitary Leader This Weekend
Opponents say the event is a meeting of the world's "largest fascist organization."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: The Trump administration is, for the first time, threatening to DEMOLISH the Kennedy Center if the arts institution isn’t allowed to follow its plans for the site, including adding Donald Trump’s name to the front of the building.
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Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations
The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”
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