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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"...)

Evil is good. Should be on the sequel to 1984.

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.

Joe Walsh Is Right......

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.”

Around the height of the Vietnam war.

How many of the morons with the military weapons ever actually served in the military? 🤔

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.

Today is the day! Cyberselfish—the book that nailed Silicon Valley's dangerous narcissism 26 years ago—is back in print!

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.

New essay from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social: "I am part of a movement against AI. A movement for accurate history, environmental protection, and human dignity."

I’ll be on MSNOW in 30 minutes to discuss The Nerd Reich and Silicon Valley’s War on Democracy. Tune in!

Michael J. Fox honored at Emmys for Parkinson's advocacy reut.rs/4cLM2x7

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.

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 🍉

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.

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.

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

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...

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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

"Peter Thiel is betting against America." My conversation with @jimacosta.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Oh...

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.

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

More coming soon!

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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

Always check the source, lesson #47,612.

A signal in the noise ... @gilduran.com's latest came in the mail today.

The phenomenal singer-songwriter Jesse Welles just wrote a song called "The Nerd Reich" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1...

Just seen at the Springsteen Museum

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...

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. "

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. »

Damn straight, Gil, let's rip these Tech Billionaires off their pinche thrones! Ándale, güey!

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.”

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

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…

Neil Young's song So good youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...

"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."

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.