Gil Durán
@gilduran.com
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, network state, crypto cartels.
Writing a book: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.”
The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Writing a book: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.”
The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
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New Network State just dropped: Zanzibar.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
January 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
New Network State just dropped: Zanzibar.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
New Network State just dropped: Zanzibar.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
January 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
New Network State just dropped: Zanzibar.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
2026: Peter Thiel and Gavin Newsom teaming up against a billionaire tax proposed by a health care workers union...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
2026: Peter Thiel and Gavin Newsom teaming up against a billionaire tax proposed by a health care workers union...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
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Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
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Anti-ICE demonstrators at 5th Avenue and 54th street, stretching back several blocks.
January 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Anti-ICE demonstrators at 5th Avenue and 54th street, stretching back several blocks.
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Corporations invaded the net, took it over and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare. But they are ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they are leaving it behind for something abstract and better.
Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.
Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Corporations invaded the net, took it over and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare. But they are ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they are leaving it behind for something abstract and better.
Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.
Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.
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Ogala Sioux tribe members arrested and held by ICE in Minnesota. "They're not white enough." rapidcitypost.com/four-oglala-...
Four Oglala Sioux Tribal Members Detained by ICE - The Rapid City Post
Pine Ridge, SD - Oglala Sioux Tribe(OST) President Frank Star Comes Out announced on social media that four tribal members were recently detained by ICE
rapidcitypost.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Ogala Sioux tribe members arrested and held by ICE in Minnesota. "They're not white enough." rapidcitypost.com/four-oglala-...
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Truly Greenland & VZ explained
Follow @gilduran.com and @thenerdreich.com.web.brid.gy
youtube.com/watch?v=XlNG...
Follow @gilduran.com and @thenerdreich.com.web.brid.gy
youtube.com/watch?v=XlNG...
Peter Thiel’s Dark Plan to Replace Democracy
YouTube video by Wajahat Ali
youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Truly Greenland & VZ explained
Follow @gilduran.com and @thenerdreich.com.web.brid.gy
youtube.com/watch?v=XlNG...
Follow @gilduran.com and @thenerdreich.com.web.brid.gy
youtube.com/watch?v=XlNG...
I often think about this moment in April 2025 when Steve Bannon tried to tell Ross Douthat about the Network State ... and Douthat cut him off and never followed up.
January 9, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I often think about this moment in April 2025 when Steve Bannon tried to tell Ross Douthat about the Network State ... and Douthat cut him off and never followed up.
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JUST IN: Reps. Massie and Khanna say "DOJ cannot be trusted" to release all of the Epstein files, urge a federal judge to appoint an independent overseer to make it happen. khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
January 8, 2026 at 9:03 PM
JUST IN: Reps. Massie and Khanna say "DOJ cannot be trusted" to release all of the Epstein files, urge a federal judge to appoint an independent overseer to make it happen. khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Holy shit. Eight minutes of a man so far past giving a fuck that he’ll just deliver truth bomb after truth bomb — former MN Governor Jesse Ventura:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FKc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FKc...
Former #Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura comments on the Minneapolis killing
YouTube video by Onest.
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Holy shit. Eight minutes of a man so far past giving a fuck that he’ll just deliver truth bomb after truth bomb — former MN Governor Jesse Ventura:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FKc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FKc...
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Ron Lauder introduced the idea to Trump in 2017, probably at Putin's suggestion. The tech bros picked it up in parallel.
america2.news/the-russian-...
america2.news/the-russian-...
The Russian Roots of Trump's Venezuela and Greenland Operations
We find that Trump's current moves against Venezuela and Greenland have roots in a long-running Russian influence campaign intended to provoke these outcomes.
america2.news
January 9, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Ron Lauder introduced the idea to Trump in 2017, probably at Putin's suggestion. The tech bros picked it up in parallel.
america2.news/the-russian-...
america2.news/the-russian-...
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Billy Joel could do a whole new We Didn’t Start the Fire just about the last week
January 9, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Billy Joel could do a whole new We Didn’t Start the Fire just about the last week
Turned in a manuscript yesterday. My first book! Now the real work begins.
If you follow my work, you should also be following @quinnslobodian.com. His highly-readable book "Crack Up Capitalism" will blow your mind.
Coming soon to the Nerd Reich podcast!
bookshop.org/a/109206/978...
If you follow my work, you should also be following @quinnslobodian.com. His highly-readable book "Crack Up Capitalism" will blow your mind.
Coming soon to the Nerd Reich podcast!
bookshop.org/a/109206/978...
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
bookshop.org
January 9, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Turned in a manuscript yesterday. My first book! Now the real work begins.
If you follow my work, you should also be following @quinnslobodian.com. His highly-readable book "Crack Up Capitalism" will blow your mind.
Coming soon to the Nerd Reich podcast!
bookshop.org/a/109206/978...
If you follow my work, you should also be following @quinnslobodian.com. His highly-readable book "Crack Up Capitalism" will blow your mind.
Coming soon to the Nerd Reich podcast!
bookshop.org/a/109206/978...
Has anyone written in depth about the dangers of prediction markets as a tool for manipulating public perception and generating artificial consensus?
January 9, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Has anyone written in depth about the dangers of prediction markets as a tool for manipulating public perception and generating artificial consensus?
Why Greenland?
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Why Greenland?
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
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Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
An estimated 14 million people could die because of USAID cuts in the next five years, but now Trump has money to try get the indigenous people
of Greenland to sell their souls to him and his fellow oligarchs.
of Greenland to sell their souls to him and his fellow oligarchs.
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
An estimated 14 million people could die because of USAID cuts in the next five years, but now Trump has money to try get the indigenous people
of Greenland to sell their souls to him and his fellow oligarchs.
of Greenland to sell their souls to him and his fellow oligarchs.
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We have money to bribe Greenlanders, to invade Venezuela, but no money to feed the poor or give everyone health insurance. Got it.
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:50 PM
We have money to bribe Greenlanders, to invade Venezuela, but no money to feed the poor or give everyone health insurance. Got it.
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“If you wish to learn more right now, researcher and writer Jenny Cohn has been posting very informative threads and links over on BlueSky.” Thank you for the shout out, @gilduran.com!
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Network State Comes for Venezuela
Trump kidnaps Maduro, sparking talk of a new tech 'freedom city' Network State in Venezuela.
www.thenerdreich.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:04 PM
“If you wish to learn more right now, researcher and writer Jenny Cohn has been posting very informative threads and links over on BlueSky.” Thank you for the shout out, @gilduran.com!
www.thenerdreich.com/My
www.thenerdreich.com/My
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In other hell site news billionaire VC and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale seemingly endorsed the murder of "commies" the other day.
January 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
In other hell site news billionaire VC and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale seemingly endorsed the murder of "commies" the other day.
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Really worth watching this interview with a bystander who witnessed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "I'm pretty right-leaning. But seeing this, this is not how we're supposed to be doing things in America.”
January 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Really worth watching this interview with a bystander who witnessed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "I'm pretty right-leaning. But seeing this, this is not how we're supposed to be doing things in America.”
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Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
March 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
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Freedom City = Charter City = Network State =
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Freedom City = Charter City = Network State =