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@jmfpv.bsky.social
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I'm just a pro-democracy idealist who is worried about the current state of politics around the world, specially the rise of fascism, techno-feudalism and oligarchy. Love to discuss ideas. Sarcasm is underrated.

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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The EU wants to hand over our fingerprints and facial images to Trump. Hardly anyone knows. Sign and share to help stop it! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...
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EU: Don’t send our data to the US!
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just received: The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com and Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook. Living in Portugal and watching Silicon Valley ideology reshape Europe — these are essential. The problem is well beyond the US. and Big Tech's political project knows no borders.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And a malignant narcissist is a narcissist who ends up trying to destroy everything he hasn’t contributed to and isn’t entitled to. ht: @narceducator.bsky.social
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026
Everyday. Everyday one of these planes turns around, and we rarely ever figure out why. ICE doesn’t think it owes taxpayers or even the people onboard an explanation.
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump sees Germany’s far right gaining ground and celebrates. Apparently, when a country faces complex problems—housing, wages, demographics, energy, industry—the solution is much simpler: blame immigrants. Politics: finding one puzzle piece and declaring, “There’s the whole fucking problem.”
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Coca-Cola, Kellogg's and Ferrero are keeping our kids addicted to sugar - and suing any government that tries to stop them. Journalists exposed it - now it's our turn. Sign for an EU-wide sugar tax: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09...
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Big Food is making us sick - we need an EU sugar tax!
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Every time you open a news site, Google gets paid, but journalism dies. Big Tech’s monopoly is starving newsrooms. The EU can break it up. Tell them: Save journalism, stand up to Big Tech now! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-05...
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Break up Big Tech
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Humans create books, art, news and culture. AI companies ingest it all, build billion-dollar machines, then call taking it without paying “fair use.” Apparently, “I’m not paying you” becomes innovation when you add AI and a PowerPoint deck. Humans provide the intelligence. Machines send the invoice.
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Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A few different pieces I read this week converge on one idea: democracy needs to show people that collective action can improve their lives. Sewer socialists: organize + deliver. Fukuyama: rebuild state capacity. California’s billionaire tax: confront concentrated wealth. Hope needs results.
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
AI has discovered books. Buy the book. Cut off the spine. Scan the pages. Throw away the corpse. Anthropic did it at industrial scale. 404 Media then tracked ~1,000 rare books to an Amazon facility where workers reportedly spend their days scanning books. Progress.
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“If the situation was hopeless, their propoganda would be unessasary.” — John O'Connell
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 400+ economists, incl. Nobel laureates, worked 18 months on a roadmap to end poverty without GDP growth. The model is broken; it’s time for well-being and ecological justice.
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We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My thoughts on how we are witnessing the eatablishment of an institutionalized system of corruption in the United States. I write more about this administration and how it compares to other autocracies at my Substack, Lucid.Substack.com
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/08/2026
Nerd Reich climbing the charts… They’re gonna have to kick me off Amazon next! 🥳
Chart showing that the nerd Reich book is number 73 on Amazon number one in political economy number one in economic conditions, and number one in civics and citizenship
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Every time you open a news site, Google gets paid, but journalism dies. Big Tech’s monopoly is starving newsrooms. The EU can break it up. Tell them: Save journalism, stand up to Big Tech now! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-05...
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Break up Big Tech
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/08/2026
Xavier Becerra has gone silent since winning the primary for California governor. But here he is with Peter Thiel protégé Garry Tan—Palantir’s employee #10. “Garry’s List” is an AI-generated right-wing news site. Garry is a top Network State figure & tweeted “die slow” at SF city leaders in 2024.
Photograph of Becerra with Carrie Tan at A Gary’s list event
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026
The right has its own version of "woke": "red-pilled." For some reason, it's bad to be woke, but GREAT to be red-pilled. The reason is fascism. You're always wrong, but they're always right—even if you are both doing the same thing. It's about *who has power* to decide what is morally correct.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have just signed this petition. It's an issue I care about. Will you sign it too? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08...
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Stop rogue AI tech
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The appointment of Todd Blanche, as AG, is the latest sign that America is experiencing a form of personalist rule. This is a form of autocracy which organizes around the self-preservation of a leader whose private interests prevail over national ones in shaping domestic & foreign policy.
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/t... Extreme inequality creates a legitimacy crisis; surveillance lets elites postpone the consequences, but coercion makes the underlying crisis worse. You can’t surveil your way out of a legitimacy problem.
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Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Podcasts have become a major political information system, but one that rewards attention more than accuracy. When speculation is more profitable and shareable than careful verification, fringe ideas can become mainstream surprisingly quickly. www.compactmag.com/article/how-...
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How Podcasts Ruined America
“I was just speculating for a podcast. I had no personal information. I was just speculating for a podcast.” This was the testimony of Howard Lutnick, the sitting Secretary of Commerce, to the House O...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11/08/2026
YouTube is going to delete my podcast, but my book is #111 on Amazon—one week before publication. Bring it on. Let's go all the way there.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/08/2026
“Ultimately, the real threat of Trumpism and tech-supremacism in Latin America lies not in their capacity for technological modernisation but in their function as technologies of oppression.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism
Trumpism, corporate deregulation and biometric surveillance are converging into a new model of control in the region.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity." Carl Sagan
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/07/2026
Must-Read: Israel’s $50 Million Experiment to Change U.S. Public Opinion gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/isr...
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Israel’s $50 Million Experiment to Change U.S. Public Opinion
The Israeli government deploys AI and payments to conservative media to try to beat back the tide of unfavorable U.S. views about its handling of wars in Gaza and Iran.
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Did you know that thousands of energy-hungry AI data centres are coming to Europe? Our electricity bills could go up fast unless Big Tech is forced to run them on 100% new, renewable energy. Join me in signing👇 action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-05...
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Run EU data centres on 100% renewables!
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
⚽🔴 A US player gets a red card. Trump calls up. The card vanishes. FIFA's Infantino is cosying up to Trump instead of protecting fair play. Add your name to demand an investigation into FIFA’s leader 👇 action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-07...
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Investigate FIFA’s leader Gianni Infantino
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17/07/2026
Here we go, the full Carl Schmitt Nazi strategy: Steve Bannon calls for a "national security emergency executive order" to rig the election. They have been planning this since day one. Bannon even wrote the foreword to "Unhumans." www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
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Steve Bannon says Trump's Thursday night speech must be a "predicate" for a "national security emergency executive order" on elections
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17/07/2026
Someone on another site said “this can’t be real.” That’s how I feel about everything I write about these guys. One day I hope I can afford an editor…if only to move me more quickly past the “am I hallucinating this shit?” phase of my work process.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/07/2026
This post really upset a certain demographic on LinkedIn. Can you guess which one?
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Buy. Break. Replace. Repeat. Across Europe, products are made to fail - and we’re the ones paying for it. EU leaders are deciding now whether to fix this. Sign to demand products that last! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-05...
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Longer life, lower costs!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 04/07/2026
Ten years ago today, JD Vance published an essay calling Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and “an opioid of the masses.” Now, he’s the #1 pusher of Trump’s poison. This July 4, let’s remember the words of a man who sold his soul to sell out our nation. 🎁 link www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Opioid of the Masses (From 2016)
To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 02/07/2026
As his fascist project destroys the USA from the inside, Peter Thiel went to the Aspen Institute to warn about...democratic socialism! Oh no! Childcare and healthcare are the REAL problem, not the towering frenzy of criminal corruption Silicon Valley unleashed in Washington.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/07/2026
This video now has 628k views. Watch it if you haven't already. Share it with your networks!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/07/2026
Peter Thiel, radioactive. Dialog, an off-the-record conference Thiel co-founded but does not attend, has been cancelled. The Powerscourt Estate hotel, which sought to distance itself from the event, says it is “relieved and pleased.” www.thejournal.ie/wicklow-hote...
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Wicklow hotel cancels Peter Thiel-linked 'Dialog' conference
In a statement, Powercourt Estate said that it was “relieved and pleased” that the event was no longer taking place.
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Volkswagen wants to move from making cars to helping fuel Israel's war machine. The deal isn’t signed yet - let’s stop it before the ink is dry. SIGN NOW and tell Volkswagen: stay out of war. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...
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Stop Volkswagen’s dangerous new deal
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/06/2026
"It's not clear why we need these new cities." I talked to @moreperfectunion.bsky.social about Silicon Valley's push to replace government with billionaire-run city-states. The Network State cult: From Próspera to Gaza to California Forever. 224K views in a day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLf...
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Peter Thiel's Plan To Replace Democracy (And Profit Off What Comes Next)
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The EU wants to hand over our fingerprints and facial images to Trump. Hardly anyone knows. Sign and share to help stop it! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...
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EU: Don’t send our data to the US!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/06/2026
Killionaire
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/06/2026
Nothing to see here, folks. Just a run-of-the-mill networking society for high-ranking elites. All very above-board and transparent. (Hence the secrecy.) Don’t worry, Thiel is no longer invoved—just like he gave up politics in 2023. (Guess my invitation got lost in the mail.)
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JMFP @jmfpv.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Humanity finally produced its first trillionaire. Think about that. We looked at housing crises, collapsing public services, preventable disease, and rising inequality and said: "You know what this situation needs? A guy with even more money than God." Mission accomplished.
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The world’s first trillionaire is a killer
Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026
The Gillibrand kid-getting-rich-instantly story reminds me of how Thiel pumped $50 million into a fund run by the son of Matthias Döpfner—co-owner of Politico. The kid's nickname? "The German JD Vance" This is a thing! www.thenerdreich.com/politico-pet...
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Politico's $50M Peter Thiel Problem
Is Axel Springer CEO's son the 'German JD Vance'?
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Thanks Martin Wolf for including “We need to tax billionaires” in the FT’s best books of 2026 ✊ www.ft.com/content/96e2...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/06/2026
Reading JD Vance’s new book so you don't have to. The Peter Thiel erasure is comical! Vance awkwardly writes his patron out of the script. One moment, he's in law school. Then he's magically in Silicon Valley for a few sentences. Poof! Then he's a senator. Who paid for it, JD? Who made ya, son?
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Man and Goose Encounter
Alt: Man and Goose Encounter: Goose chases man until he falls down.
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