Gil Durán

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California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.

Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” [simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd...](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402 )

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Last Notes

2026-07-11 23:35:05 UTC

I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived.
And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.”
Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! [www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402 )
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2026-07-09 18:47:53 UTC

Where are all the newspaper editorial pages crusading for democracy? Or has the advent of fascism proven their worthlessness definitively?

2026-06-29 15:59:01 UTC

Newsom Newsom he's our man
If he can't do it, anybody can
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2026-06-25 19:32:23 UTC

The tech billionaire Network State project called California Forever couldn't win voter approval in Solano County.
70% opposed it—Dems and Reps alike.
Now, as I predicted, the billionaires will use state power to get their way.
Expect Gavin Newsom to veto the will of the people here.
Why?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:niws4datih6dforyd7y22km4/post/3mp53piwqci2t

2026-06-24 14:36:26 UTC

My book refers to Musk’s USAID cuts as a Silicon Valley genocide.
The richest man in the world took a chainsaw to the poorest people in the world. Laughing.
So much money, so much death.
Remember their names when billionaires preach “abundance.” 👇
In their AI dreams, we are all the future poor.
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2026-06-22 18:32:23 UTC

New family member just dropped. Say hello to Frida
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2026-06-20 02:31:25 UTC

I'm bitter because this would have fit perfectly into the last chapter of my book.
a16z, Stanford Review, $30M fund for a crypto Democratic senator's son—a living, breathing anecdote to hammer home my conclusion.
Alas, corruption runs on its own time, and not a publisher's schedule.
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#note1ws0…w5u4

2026-06-19 16:47:41 UTC

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million.
He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz.
His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY.
Bipartisan capture in full bloom.
fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...
[Son of pro-crypto New York Sen...](https://fortune.com/2026/06/18/theodore-gillibrand-senator-kirstin-gillibrand-apec-american-perpetuals-exchange-corporation-lux-capital/ )

2026-06-18 15:52:50 UTC

Reading JD Vance’s new book so you don't have to.
The Peter Thiel erasure is comical! Vance awkwardly writes his patron out of the script.
One moment, he's in law school. Then he's magically in Silicon Valley for a few sentences. Poof! Then he's a senator.
Who paid for it, JD? Who made ya, son?
[Man and Goose Encounter](https://static.klipy.com/ii/4e7bea9f7a3371424e6c16ebc93252fe/b0/3b/9UbcZselMZMrC.gif?hh=238&ww=400&mp4=y9Fg4mWG29qyEAPE&webm=vAVzoHZwETdU0yGT5wkh )

2026-06-17 23:30:58 UTC

Nothing to see here, folks. Just a run-of-the-mill networking society for high-ranking elites.
All very above-board and transparent.
(Hence the secrecy.)
Don’t worry, Thiel is no longer invoved—just like he gave up politics in 2023.
(Guess my invitation got lost in the mail.)
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2026-06-12 16:39:37 UTC

Fresh from cozying up to crypto creeps, Gavin Newsom is now sucking up to Y Combinator president Garry Tan.
Tan is a Thiel disciple who designed the Palantir logo. He is an enthusiastic Network State cult member. In 2024, he tweeted "die slow" at four progressive San Francisco officials.
And now
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2026-06-10 18:36:16 UTC

Trump’s election lies are central to his identity...a Chekhov's shotgun that must fire at some point.
His conspiracy theories about Los Angeles are another step toward his big dream of stealing an election, as he failed to do on Jan 6. W/ [@gregsargent.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:2amnkge5a6hplfwyesmxqkfl )
[newrepublic.com/article/2115...](https://newrepublic.com/article/211528/transcript-raging-trump-erupts-air-unnervingly-dark-reason )
[Transcript: Raging Trump Erupt...](https://newrepublic.com/article/211528/transcript-raging-trump-erupts-air-unnervingly-dark-reason )

2026-06-08 01:37:40 UTC

Don't get too excited about Hunter Biden's new social media persona. Looks like another nepo baby crypto grift is afoot...
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2026-06-06 16:24:07 UTC

"As a senator, Sherrod Brown once said the crypto industry 'betrayed the public interest.' Now he wants to 'keep an open mind.'"
ICYMI:
[www.politico.com/news/2026/05...](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/sherrod-brown-ohio-comeback-crypto-00909209 )
[After crypto helped oust him, ...](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/sherrod-brown-ohio-comeback-crypto-00909209 )

2026-06-06 16:13:55 UTC

Trump became a crypto billionaire the day he took office.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin's market cap has plummeted from over $4 trillion to $1.2 trillion.
Winning!

2026-06-03 02:24:57 UTC

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy.
Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc.
Some call it the "Network State."

2026-05-29 02:44:44 UTC

Did anyone happen to capture screenshots of the Objection AI website (the Thiel-funded app to go after journalists)?
The original website has been removed (already!) and it's not preserved in WayBack Machine.

2026-05-03 22:00:49 UTC

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied)
What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.)
Pre-order here! [www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402 )
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2026-04-20 15:10:11 UTC

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
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2026-04-03 19:05:35 UTC

This is the Network State cult in action.
It calls for tech moguls use their wealth to buy their own versions of media, political power, cities, countries, educational institutions, etc.
The stated goal is to create an entirely "parallel" system.
[www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/billionares-buying-media-deals-openai-tbpn-larry-ellison-1236554833/ )
[The Most Powerful People in th...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/billionares-buying-media-deals-openai-tbpn-larry-ellison-1236554833/ )

2026-03-17 18:18:10 UTC

Silicon Valley is creating a new religion, one rooted in a greed so ravenous it views humanity's destruction as a profitable destiny.
Peter Thiel's antichrist sermons try to put a Christian mask on this death cult, which sneers at the teachings of Christ.
[www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valley-apocalypse-capitalism/ )
[Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capi...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valley-apocalypse-capitalism/ )

2026-02-17 22:56:11 UTC

Read this sentence slowly:
“Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...”
gift link:
[www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/california-wealth-tax-opposition-bernie-sanders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.qU51.qYnluD6zcpxG&smid=url-share )
[As Bernie Sanders Comes to Cal...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/california-wealth-tax-opposition-bernie-sanders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.qU51.qYnluD6zcpxG&smid=url-share )

2026-02-17 04:58:05 UTC

Why is crypto crashing?
“Everyone expects crypto to either keep tumbling or rebound sharply. But predicting what comes next is impossible because its fundamental worth relies too heavily on storytelling, and its advocates haven’t found a new story to sell.”
[www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/crypto-crash-bitcoin-value/685994/?gift=Kjaw0NITl7f2TdiJgnhQhbN9K87wVoq3mKVMhCyKBYQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[Crypto Is a Victim of Its Own ...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/crypto-crash-bitcoin-value/685994/?gift=Kjaw0NITl7f2TdiJgnhQhbN9K87wVoq3mKVMhCyKBYQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2026-02-13 18:16:25 UTC

You know that thing where presidential candidates have to explain how they’re strong on budgets, the economy, etc?
Yeah, that’s a big problem for Gavin Newsom, who inherited multibillion dollar surpluses but leaves behind massive *structural* deficits.
Think about it
[calmatters.org/commentary/2...](https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/02/newsom-spending-california-chronic-deficit/ )
[Opinion | Here's how Newsom's ...](https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/02/newsom-spending-california-chronic-deficit/ )

2026-01-12 20:17:27 UTC

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...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/peter-thiel-california-wealth-tax.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1A.vPZ-.yvbfw-eQRZWO&smid=url-share )
[Thiel Gives $3 Million to Grou...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/peter-thiel-california-wealth-tax.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1A.vPZ-.yvbfw-eQRZWO&smid=url-share )

2025-12-16 18:08:14 UTC

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says:
Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality” and is "score settling."
Vance only supported Trump for "political" reasons.
Elon Musk is “an avowed ketamine user.”
Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
gift link:
[www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/trump-susie-wiles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E8.PNnB.SGvfUq6zLitN&smid=url-share )
[Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/trump-susie-wiles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E8.PNnB.SGvfUq6zLitN&smid=url-share )

2025-12-15 18:12:42 UTC

Another day, another Network State cult project:
Financial Times: A wealthy bitcoin investor wants to set up his own court system within a libertarian community on a Caribbean island as part of the tech-backed “network state” movement.
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2025-12-06 21:15:19 UTC

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
[www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public-hangings/ )
[Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public ...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public-hangings/ )

2025-11-30 01:10:10 UTC

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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#note1ush…xv05

2025-11-17 18:04:18 UTC

It is fine to complain about paywalls, but do not expect sympathy from freelance writers.

2025-10-28 17:45:47 UTC

San Francisco-based Zignal Labs is aiding ICE’s crackdown on free speech.
Its AI surveillance program monitors 8 billion social media posts a day. Clients include the Israeli military and the Pentagon.
Surveillance as a service, authoritarianism as a business model.
[truthout.org/articles/ice...](https://truthout.org/articles/ice-just-spent-millions-on-a-social-media-surveillance-ai-program/ )
[ICE Just Spent Millions on a S...](https://truthout.org/articles/ice-just-spent-millions-on-a-social-media-surveillance-ai-program/ )

2025-10-21 16:06:06 UTC

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...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA&lc=UgwAAbMX6X0PdlqKqF54AaABAg )
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#note1ufn…vdd8

2025-10-06 04:01:41 UTC

Terrified Curtis Yarvin—the “philosopher behind JD Vance”—plans to flee the USA.
The Dork Enlightenment guru says the Trump administration is failing to go full authoritarian.
“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”
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2025-09-26 22:26:46 UTC

New Network State just dropped…
Balaji announces the creation of …UZ-TECH-ISTAN
A very niiice new country for tech bros. Who needs San Francisco when you’ve got Astana?
Vladimir Putin will never invade and liquidate your whole thing or anything like that. Pinky swear.
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2025-09-24 18:36:15 UTC

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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2025-09-22 21:03:18 UTC

Beware fascism's most effective cheerleaders: Those who screech constantly that the battle is lost and action is hopeless.
Their cowardly panic is a virus that aims to infect others with the same demoralizing terror.
Shun them, shame them, block them—mercilessly.

2025-09-16 00:34:10 UTC

A familiar face makes an apearance at Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Lecture in San Francisco.
A line of protestors has greeted the line of tech bros waiting to hear Thiel
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2025-09-11 18:26:14 UTC

Last night, the right was blaming Charlie Kirk’s murder on the left. This morning, they were blaming Israel. Now they’re trying to blame “trans antifa.” Their hatreds are so plentiful and convoluted they can’t even agree a scapegoat.
The blame comes before the evidence—by design

2025-09-02 18:52:54 UTC

All the Trump death hoax stuff reminded me of my favorite Julia Vinograd poem, "Ginsberg."
A cautionary tale on the hazards of hyperstition.
Vinograd (1943-2018) was a Berkeley street poet who won a Pushcart Prize. Not long ago that you could see her holding forth at Caffe Med (RIP) on Telegraph.
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2025-08-30 16:20:22 UTC

A big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans understand the science of political communication. Republicans dictate the topics/terms of debate while Dems (and the left) usually burn energy in constant response.
Thiel and Co call this mimetics, Lakoff calls it framing.

2025-08-14 17:52:49 UTC

Democrats Urged to Bow Down to Tech Fascism.
As Trump and Silicon Valley robber barons dismantle US democracy, some Democratic consultants have a strange solution: surrender.
More at The Nerd Reich:
[www.thenerdreich.com/democrats-ur...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/democrats-urged-to-bow-down-to-tech-fascism/ )
[Democrats Urged to Bow Down to...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/democrats-urged-to-bow-down-to-tech-fascism/ )

2025-08-06 17:29:33 UTC

Gotta say, the new Ghost 6.0 update is exciting (Substack alternative for newsletters).
A realtime web traffic dashboard, integration with the Fediverse, etc.
If you are thinking of leaving Substack, there's never been a better time. It's less expensive!
[ghost.org/changelog/6/](https://ghost.org/changelog/6/ )
[Ghost 6.0](https://ghost.org/changelog/6/ )

2025-07-29 00:57:29 UTC

"Fundamentally un-American."
A group of VC-backed Christian nationalists seeks a theocratic haven in Tennessee. Political control, religious purity tests, talk of civil collapse — and they’re buying up land.
This isn’t a drill. This is the Network State.
[www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...](https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/meet-the-out-of-state-investors-funding-a-christian-nationalist-community-in-tennessee )
[Meet the out-of-state investor...](https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/meet-the-out-of-state-investors-funding-a-christian-nationalist-community-in-tennessee )

2025-07-25 19:07:17 UTC

Why would Peter Thiel orchestrate a coup against Trump when his protégés already run half the administration?
My latest breaks down why the JD Vance conspiracy theory falls apart—and what it reveals about how we process political chaos.
[www.thenerdreich.com/trump-vance-...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/trump-vance-conspiracy-theory-doesnt-add-up/ )
[Trump-Vance Conspiracy Theory ...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/trump-vance-conspiracy-theory-doesnt-add-up/ )

2025-06-21 17:04:03 UTC

The crypto bill will bring economic chaos⬇️
gift link:
[www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/genius-act-stablecoin-crypto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.qzoj.cQh4h2n8dRm0&smid=url-share )
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2025-06-13 03:39:18 UTC

Two weeks ago, Gavin Newsom was praising Kellyanne Conway and hosting a podcast in which he almost exclusively interviewed MAGA men.
Life comes at you fast.

2025-06-07 20:47:52 UTC

In Putin's Russia, Elon Musk would be done — plane crash, window fall, polonium tea.
Tech billionaires who assault democratic institutions forget an important fact: These institutions protect them from the very authoritarians they seek to empower.

2025-06-02 18:57:38 UTC

Democrats: How do we reach young men?!
Republicans:
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2025-05-17 15:46:38 UTC

Why does Trump keep threatening to steal Gaza and build a new city there?
This is his version of the Network State — a gold-plated tech fascist casino built atop genocide and mass displacement.
Here's deeper story on Trump's embrace of tech colonialism:
[www.thenerdreich.com/trump-gaza-a...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/trump-gaza-and-the-network-state-tech-colonialism-rises/ )
[Trump, Gaza, and the Network S...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/trump-gaza-and-the-network-state-tech-colonialism-rises/ )

2025-04-27 17:17:14 UTC

Curtis Yarvin wants to replace democracy with dictatorship, starting with a purge of federal employees.
Here's JD Vance naming Yarvin and quoting his ideas in 2021:
"We should seize the administrative state for our own purposes. We should fire all of the people."
[www.youtube.com/live/PMq1ZEc...](https://www.youtube.com/live/PMq1ZEcyztY?t=1407s )
[J.D. Vance - JML #070](https://www.youtube.com/live/PMq1ZEcyztY?t=1407s )

2025-04-13 16:00:10 UTC

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:
“This once-fringe network of corporate secessionists finds itself knocking on open doors at the dead center of global power.”
[www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk )
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2025-03-19 18:56:06 UTC

The #TeslaTakedown mass mobilizing call is tonight.
I'll join at approximately 8:49 p.m. EST to discuss Tech Fascism and Silicon Valley's War on America.
Please sign up below!
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2025-03-08 17:33:50 UTC

Some of us have been yammering on about the tech fascist plan to build new corporate-controlled dystopia zones in the USA.
The Network State cult is now lobbying Congress to make this happen. They call them "freedom cities."
What should WE call them?
[www.thenerdreich.com/network-stat...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/network-state-reveal/ )
[Network State Pushes Corporate...](https://www.thenerdreich.com/network-state-reveal/ )

2025-02-16 19:06:22 UTC

The decline of the United States is a key goal of tech fascism, which aims to end democracy and remake the world as a billionaire-run enterprise.
It only looks like "chaos" if you don't grasp the strategy.

2024-12-27 17:27:21 UTC

Elon Musk is an enemy of free speech.
Always has been. Always will be.
[www.mediaite.com/tech/elon-mu...](https://www.mediaite.com/tech/elon-musks-critics-stripped-of-verification-badge-after-publicly-challenging-billionaire-the-beginning-stages-of-censorship/ )
[Elon Musk’s Critics Stripped o...](https://www.mediaite.com/tech/elon-musks-critics-stripped-of-verification-badge-after-publicly-challenging-billionaire-the-beginning-stages-of-censorship/ )

2024-12-06 04:58:41 UTC

We need a massive public communications campaign to warn the public about crypto.
It should highlight first-person accounts of people from all walks of life who lost their money due to the crypto scam.
To strike crypto is to stab the heart of the tech fascist movement swallowing our nation.