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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 5h

The White House announced layoffs of federal workers on Friday, making good on a threat it had made in response to the US government shutdown, which now appears set to stretch into a third straight week.

White House announces federal worker layoffs as shutdown nears third week

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 7h

Even without the national guard, law enforcement agencies of the federal government have been using military hardware and tactics on civilian targets.

US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 8h

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza have begun to return to the ruins of their homes after the Israel-Hamas agreement puts a stop to fighting for first time in six months.

Palestinians displaced to southern Gaza begin journey home as ceasefire comes into effect

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 10h

Also please read @adriandaub.bsky.social's searing and hilarious commentary on Thiel.

He's reminded of Apocalypse Now where a character meets a platoon "and asks who’s in charge here. 'Ain’t you?' Ain’t you running the world, Peter? If it isn’t you, who is?"

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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 10h

As the mostly-young and mostly-male crowd lined up for Thiel's last lecture this week, a trio of “satanists” offered attendees a goblet of red liquid saying, “Will you bring our dark lord Peter Thiel this baby’s blood?”

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 10h

Thiel’s talks mingle biblical passages, recent history and philosophy. They often deviate into conspiracy theories. He references video games and TV shows and waxes on about JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. He calls Bill Gates is “a very, very awful person”.

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 10h

We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts.

But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With @jmbooyah.bsky.social & Nick Robins-Early)

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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 15h

“Why is academia bending over and folding on our basic principles in such a blatant way? It’s a violation of the first amendment in such a blatant way that nobody should have obeyed it. But instead, there is this climate of fear.”

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US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 12h

"Peter Thiel famously isn’t into academia. And yet, in four recent off-the-record lectures on the antichrist in San Francisco, the billionaire venture capitalist has made a good case for credentialing."

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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 12h

We got leaked audio from Peter Thiel’s off the record antichrist lectures: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 12h

Stanford professor Adrian Daub critiques Peter Thiel's lectures on the antichrist:

"The picture of Thiel that emerges is someone desperate to disidentify from their own power."

"More often than not, Thiel ends up with something that reads like Dan Brown."

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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15h

The Guardian’s fierce independence means nobody tells us what we can or can’t say - so we’re free to report the whole picture. More than just news: we join the dots between what’s happening in America with the rest of the world.

Discover more at www.theguardian.com/thewholepicture

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d

Critics say the move to axe Bill Clinton’s "roadless rule" that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to the environment.

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d

A federal grand jury indicted Letitia James for bank fraud on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The move is Trump’s latest effort to weaponize the Department of Justice to punish political rivals.

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 1d

Reporting this story from Maricopa county hurt my heart because every single heat death is preventable

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full truth

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Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full truth

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d

"To paraphrase TS Eliot: and was it worth it after all?" writes Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson.

"A question to ponder for the comedians who have taken the coin of a government once described unequivocally as 'the worst of the worst' by a human rights advocacy organization."

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d

"The plan attempts to thread the needle between creating the conditions for a ceasefire and negotiating a lasting end to the war but hard questions remain," writes the Guardian's global affairs correspondent Andrew Roth.