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Bernie had his surgical staples removed today. Vet says he’s in tip-top shape. His limp is gone, his attitude is perky, and it turns out he’s quite the climber.

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Excellent news!

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I think a lot about how instead of accepting responsibility for pillaging the global economy for excessive wealth and forcing the world’s poor into needing to leave their homes for work or safety, those in power now just throw them in cages to rot and die

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These people have one idea they’ve been repeating for almost 20 years

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Read an excerpt from @quinnslobodian.com’s “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.” @princetonupress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/muta...

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Book title of the year?

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I'm writing a book! "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" will expose how an extreme tech fascist ideology emerged from San Francisco to threaten the world. Grateful to @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social and @avidreaderpress.bsky.social for believing in this book ¡Orale!

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Oh hey — that’s me!

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I wrote about how Musk wants to implement the public sector version of enshittification for Social Security. Someone noted, "Same with the Postal Service." Yep! And really, same with everything. My point was HE EVEN WANTS TO DO THIS WITH SOCIAL SECURITY.

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SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by @josephcox.bsky.social show the company did a recent sprint to build a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation. www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

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Gavin Newsom calls Kilmer Abrego Garcia a “distraction” @washingtonpost.com What an absolute disgrace he has become. Beyond repulsive and shameful.

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I could not be more excited to share that @avidreaderpress.bsky.social will be publishing the brilliant @gilduran.com's urgent, vital analysis of the authoritarian movement in tech, a dangerous force we're now seeing explode into national politics

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The world according to @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Due process, disappearing people to foreign concentration camps, ignoring court orders: a distraction Charlie Kirk, Michael Savage, Steve Bannon: fascinating podcast guests with whom I agree on a lot of issues

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“[T]he last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.” — Hannah Arendt, ”The Origins of Totalitarianism”

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A film that takes place where you’re from

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This was a REALLY GOOD episode!

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An excellent podcast worth listening to about the rise of Techno-Fascism, and what we all can do to fight it. To quote @gilduran.com “It’s not a theory if it’s happening.”

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The Trump administration platforms and celebrates a grifter and conspiracy theorist as it takes down the vestiges of the State Department’s counter foreign influence department. 1/ www.state.gov/secretary-of...

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California's AG is trying to put a prosecutor into prison. It's not San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins. missionlocal.org/2025/04/broo...

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SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

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Why do transhumanist fascists scapegoat trans people? Why does the Musk/MAGA administration seem hellbent on hurting and/or killing as many people as possible? A lively and important conversation with @imarajones.bsky.social on the @translash.org podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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This is good on lower-profile but more systematic and embryonic "Stage 2" of Doge with @makenakelly.bsky.social and @danahull.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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The men who are trying to take Greenland from Denmark also claim they can't get one wrongly-imprisoned man back from El Salvador. Fascist Clown Logic.

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The Network State ideology hinges on something called "jurisdictional arbitrage." That's when you evade the rules of one place or territory by outsourcing your needs or dirty deeds to another territory. El Salvador has become a Network State for Concentration Camps. Expect more moves like this.

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BREAKING: A jaw-dropping new analysis from Goldman Sachs reveals that Donald Trump's disastrous policies could cost the United States a staggering $90 billion in lost tourism and export revenue.

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“Abundance for Whom?” is the right question to be asking. (Hint: it’s not you)

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Kate Willett (@katewillett.bsky.social) considers the groups funding and promoting the "Abundance" faction in the Democratic Party: “Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.” newintermag.com/abundance-bi...

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This is useful because it shows who’s behind the Abundance movement instead of treating it as a deus ex machina. It’ll probably get a similar reaction here to how YIMBYs flip out if you point out that their movement is mostly bankrolled by an effective altruist Facebook billionaire

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This is a great article on the "abundance" media campaign, which does something rare in reporting on media: it lays out the ownership interests behind the campaign and clearly centers those interests as the main reason for the campaign.

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Must-Read: @katewillett.bsky.social exposes the reactionary Silicon Valley roots of the so-called "Abundance" agenda. Having bought the Republican Party, the billionaires seek to co-opt the Democratic Party with these color-by-numbers anti-progressive talking points newintermag.com/abundance-bi...

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It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s henchmen stole all the data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.

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Jaron Lanier reviewed my book, MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, for @nature.com! "Compelling...disturbing, but accurate...Is humanity’s fate really in the hands of self-anointed visionaries who believe they are the most important and smartest people ever?" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This is a very good point. About a very feeble excuse.

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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

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What's the connection between Donald Trump and Tom of Finland? Are tech fascists just "indoor cats" who think they're kings of the jungle? Does wealth create insanity? Find out on the Nerd Reich podcast with @ebharrington.bsky.social and @davekarpf.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHl...

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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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My productivity hack for writing about tech fascism is to listen to the Metroid soundtrack on repeat. This game was truly mind-blowing in 1987. We stayed up all night to beat it ... until our Nintendo went haywire Does anyone remember the amazing reveal at the end? www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-U3...

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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

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