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Empathetic, geeky US patriot 🇺🇸 democracy and dog lover 💛🐾. 🚫DM 🚫crypto 🚫porn 🚫$requests 🚫datacenters 🚫dark money 🚫fascism 🚫censorship

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 7h
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 8h
Now is the time to obtain and read both your voters' guide with its sample ballot to research ALL of the candidates -- not just the ones w/ big $ to send campaign flyers -- and @gilduran.com's book!
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 21h
🇺🇸 Enjoy the Livestream! @brucespringsteen.net's up next! 🇺🇸
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"POWER TO THE PEOPLE" Live Stream
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WTH happened to Alex Karp? This is his college yearbook photo.
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why voting is more like chess than love...
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
The crypto industry can drop $30 million+ on a single Senate race. Citation Needed runs on reader support alone. If you think someone should be tracking this stuff, consider a paid subscription: www.citationneeded.news/signup
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
Newsletter: Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the its flagship Clarity Act legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown.
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Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses
Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/10/2026
Jared Kushner is key to understanding the Trump regime’s global scale of corruption. No talent, no morals—just bottomless greed, access to power. @cjcmichel.bsky.social exposes him in a new book, “United States of Oligarchy.” Here’s our talk (get him on your show!) youtu.be/8LDhLXOwjcI?...
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Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, & Dark Money: Exposing the Global Oligarchy | Casey Michel
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Encouraing news for democracy, discouraging news for tech bro billionaires from tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian @molly.wiki, whom I follow thanks to @gilduran.com. Onward, upward!
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Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses
Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"We can have billionaires or democracy but we can't have both," @gilduran.com
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 02/10/2026
Barnes & Noble has named "The Nerd Reich" a Best Business Book of 2026. Funny, I never thought of it as a business book. But it makes sense. It exposes a cult of apocalyptic billionaires who believe it is their destiny to destroy democracy. Buy it today! www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/the-bes...
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The Best Business Books of 2026
Enlightening memoirs, hard-hitting journalism and economic histories make up this years best business books. These are essential reads for the seasoned entrepreneur or the curious citizen who wants to...
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avanti308.bsky.social @avanti308.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hi ~ I caught your timely & fascinating interview this week with Brian Edwards-Tiekert on KPFA's Upfront. So glad they booked you to spread the messages a little farther. Here's the link for others who may be interested: kpfa.org/episode/upfr...
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Fund Drive Special: "The Nerd Reich" Fascist Takeover with Gil Duran | KPFA
00:08 — Gil Durán is a journalist, currently publishing the newsletter, The Nerd Reich. He has previously served as chief communications strategist and spokesman for former Attorney General Kamala Har...
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet another reason why @deanbaker13.bsky.social is my favorite economist -- truth/facts communicated clearly. @nytimes.com deserves his rebuke. The stakes are high. What's left of democracy in the US is at stake. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @gilduran.com @davekarpf.substack.com.web.brid.gy
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New York Times Pushes Trumpian Lies on the Economy
Positive spin is not the same as outright lies
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026
AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This scandal should enter the national debate over data centers. Meta evaded $4B in taxes last year by using the "research" tax credit for its data center buildout. Tax accountants say it's highly questionable, the Congressional sponsor says buying supplies was never what was intended.
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This explains a lot. A whole lot needs to change. Where do we start? @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social @deanbaker13.bsky.social @gilduran.com
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026
Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 25/09/2026
Paulina Borsook described the tech industry in a way it didn’t (and still doesn’t) want to see itself—an extremely hierarchical environment, led almost exclusively by white men who were ideologically right wing, despite their left leaning marketing (which has long since disappeared).
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@deanbaker13.bsky.social is on a roll this week! @gilduran.com if there's a need for an economist to include in one of your podcasts -- and, I think there is -- Dean Baker is the one to invite!
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The Market Will Crash if Trump Steals the Election: Zimbabwefication is Bad for Business
When there is no law, profits are not safe
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For any @gilduran.com and Paulina Boorsook fans who want to read the @wired.com story --
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Karl Rove warns that the Texas GOP is being taken over by Nazis. “In the last 48 hours, Ted Cruz has reached out to me and says, ‘We’re losing,’ Ken Paxton has sent me several emails saying, ‘I’m losing, I need your help. Even the Republicans are admitting that they’re behind.”
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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FYI this bill does nothing. It contains no new mandatory rules restricting data centers. It's just fakery to try to fool voters into forgetting that Republicans spent the entire term trying to stop states from regulating AI (as requested by the AI companies). www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill
Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Vote EARLY & BLUE! Up & down the ballot! 🌊 #nokings
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lkathleen2.bsky.social @lkathleen2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@gilduran.com @george-lakoff.com @davekarpf.bsky.social
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Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For a live, sold-out recording of the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast, "The Nerd Reich" author @gilduran.com and D&S Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social talk about technology, ideology, and power. Listen now! www.techpolicy.press/gil-durn-map...
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Gil Durán Maps the Rise of the 'Nerd Reich'
Justin Hendrix and Alice Marwick in conversation with Gil Durán, author of the new book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yet another reason why @deanbaker13.bsky.social is my favorite economist. Here's truth. Vote to bring yourself a sense of agency. @gilduran.com, @lolgop.bsky.social, @indivisible.org
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If AI Is Crashing, the Story Should be Jail In, Not Bail Out
We shouldn’t get fooled again
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whoa! Not surprised but disappointed. Staying tuned...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/09/2026
Some of us in San Francisco first heard of the Network State and related tech cults from Emily Mills. She documented how these ideas had infused our local politics. It sounded odd at first, but her work sparked mine. On Tuesday, we're onstage together in SF. Tix here: semaphore.thd.org/954-2/
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THE TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS PRESENTS: GIL DURAN with Emily Mills
Join Telegraph Hill Dwellers for an evening with journalist and author Gil Duran, in conversation with Emily Mills, discussing his new book, The
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thanks to @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, @faiz.bsky.social and @nickhanauer.bsky.social for this video. As @gilduran.com says, we can have billionaires or democracy but we can't have both. As FDR explained to his fellow oligarchs who'd said WTF!?! re: the New Deal: We saved capitalism (& democracy).
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We Uncovered The Radical Solution To Our Rigged Tax Code
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So....there's a lot of tea spilled about a lot of media outlets' willingness to be tools of corporate propaganda in my book. In hindsight, I probably should NOT have been surprised that many of those same outlets declined to run op-eds pegged to the book. But I kinda was! What thin-skinned babies!
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Journalism gets the goods: Tim Tebow "pauses" his partnership with this wealth seminar company after @kieraevebutler.bsky.social's investigation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tim Tebow “pausing” Christian seminar promotion after our investigation
“I think the allegations are extremely serious."
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”
Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.
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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Data Center Don: Trump’s AI Debacle is a Big Opportunity AI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs. New from me in @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com’s FrameLab There needs to be one party that puts people over data. And it better be Democrats.
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Data Centers Isuse Hurts Trump—If Democrats Pounce
AI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs.
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Sue in Rockville 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋 @sueinrockville.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SUPPRESSION, REPRESSION, CENSORSHIP You OK in 2026 America? Elon Musk Unmasked in Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power” Corporate Media stifling Free Speech 1- www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... 2-Here's the trailer-Do Share www.threads.com/share/Ezkq-O...
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can't wait to see this film -- even moreso now that I know this.
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DCPolicyGeek 🇺🇸💛🚫👑 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you @lolgop.bsky.social @jasonsattler.bsky.social @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com for this excellent content -- perfect to share with everyone Democrat at every level of govt who doesn't yet know, understand and/or accept that data centers, AI and crypto are inextricably connected.
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Data Centers Isuse Hurts Trump—If Democrats Pounce
AI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
My book exposes Peter Thiel because he's a radical extremist with scary beliefs who has attained stunning political power. He created JD Vance...and is now roaming the Earth, preaching about the "Antichrist." Here is Thiel saying evil is "good"...while receiving an award from Politico's owner.
cover of Nerd REich book by gil duran
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Ermengarde Gersberms 🏳️‍🌈♠️ @hydrogenandtime.com · 26/09/2026
@gilduran.com's new book is the most rapidly vindicated take in the history of takes
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