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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 12h

Curtis Yarvin says he’s considering leaving the U.S. because the Trump administration is failing to kill democracy to his liking and he fears political retribution from Democrats if they regain power.

Citing fear of Democratic ‘vengeance,’ Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S.

The far-right blogger doesn’t think the Trump administration has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 1d

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
linktr.ee/gildedrage

Gilded Rage | Linktree

A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 1d

Today we're also releasing the first installment of "Understood: The Making of Musk," a 4-part podcast series on CBC. Really happy to work again with CBC after doing an SBF miniseries with them.
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Introducing Understood: The Making of Elon Musk | The Making of Musk: Understood | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen

What explains Elon Musk? Could his most outlandish ambitions and most toxic qualities trace back to his youth in Apartheid South Africa? Understood: The Making of Musk explores his seemingly insatiabl...

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 1d

Right now there is a push to merge the tech reactionaries with the Christian nationalists but it is hard to see that not collapsing over competing interests sooner rather than later. No doubt and Yarvin is a terrible fool as well.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 1d

We have a creepy stalker in the San Francisco Bay Area who uses these to produce homeless exploitation clips for social media. We are only at the beginning stages of how these glasses will be used to harm people.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

Is this #glassholes 2.0?

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Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he'll end up in Argentina like Eichmann did when he ran.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 1d

I’m hoping he’ll go to Singapore like Balaji.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2d

Oh dear. The hopium crash when reality finally hits some of these guys is gonna be really intense.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2d

Did not know this. It is the NLRB all over again. Everyday is Grover Norquist bathtub drowning Groundhog Day now isn’t it? (rhetorical question) 🫠

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2d

The way so many of these guys are suddenly feigning shock and getting the vapors is really pretty questionable imho.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2d

It is pretty unavoidable to notice it at this point.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

It is bizarre & grotesque that we live in a society that regularly treats drug use as worse than war crimes or public acts of sedition.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "In recent weeks the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water. You see that. And you know, there are no boats in the water anymore. We can't find any ... what we're doing is actually an act of kindness."

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2d

It is the era of the disinformation influencer.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

The feds, meanwhile, have not only their own (presumably paid) videographers creating content for them, but also an army of right wing activists (many with admin ties) churning out selectively shot and edited video to present the pro-government side of the situation. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d

Update: Just opened up Twitter and this was the first thing in my "for you" feed. Two of those "local journalists" covering the protests at the ICE facility who somehow were able to get a picture of themselves on the roof of that facility. Surely ICE had nothing to do with this, yes?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

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opb.org
Federal officers were flanked by videographers, toting professional equipment and wearing high-visibility vests.
They filmed from behind the lines of officers, capturing the show of force. At least two drones swept over the scenes.

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 3d

It’s no easy task keeping millions of idiots in an alternate, false reality. But they try anyways 🤷‍♂️

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Gyro @gyro.bsky.social · 2d

For context (for those who don't know who Curtis Yarvin is): it is probably a good sign when the insane nazi neo-feudalist theorists are crashing out.

i.e.

somebody close to Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance is now real fuckin scared his side is gonna lose and lose hard

William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 2d

In the hopeful column goes Curtis Yarvin ranting about how he's making plans to flee the country because Miller hasn't moved hard enough to abolish the entire judiciary and so will fail.

With the caveat that this is Yarvin, who is notoriously wrong about everything.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe Curtis can move to Singapore with Balaji. LFG!!!

Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2d

The cavalcade of contrived canards will continue until morale improves. 🙄

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t heard Thiel had sons? Did I miss something there?

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 2d

Wild that in this warped subculture Thiel is a moderate in that he has gestured towards a preference to keep his consciousness embedded in a human body while others think homosapiens were just an evolutionary stage whose purpose was to build the “AGI” who will be our logical evolutionary successor.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 3d

After losing his attempt in court to federalize Oregon National Guard troops, now Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard troops into Oregon.