Trump says he’ll free this Bitcoin drug lord. But Ross Ulbricht belongs in prison

Donald Trump says drug dealers deserve the death penalty. But he has pledged to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the illegal online drugs and guns marketplace called Silk Road. Ulbricht received a life sentence for his crimes. His case has become a popular cause among crypto bros and libertarians,

Right-wing SF tech rears its head at Heritage Foundation's Reboot

The point: Somehow, last week's Reboot 2024 conference turned out even worse than I expected. Kevin Roberts – the president of the Heritage Foundation and the architect of Project 2025 – emerged as Reboot's "secret special guest." And he had some big plans to unveil. The

Elon Musk, Twitter and Russia: A Love Story in Headlines

Is Elon trying to tell us something?

network state

Reboot: Project 2025, Peter Thiel and right-wing San Francisco

A vision of our future politics?

Próspera, the Network State and the New York Times

Thiel, Andreessen, Balaji and California Forever all mentioned in long New York Times piece on Network State project in in Honduras

'Gollum' for gov? Failed Fox host with foot fetish covets California

Will his Tolkien-derived nickname tempt Thiel?

New York Times erases Garry Tan's 'die slow' tweet explosion

A glowing profile of Tan's success with executive coaching left out a key detail

san francisco

MAGA Ben Horowitz melts down at SF Standard profile

SF tech figure goes from progressive to pro-Trump. Not weird at all...

Trump's weird new 'cities' and the Network State cult

Why do Trump, Thiel and Andreessen want to build new cities?

Fraud king Donald Trump goes all-in on crypto politics

The fleecing of Trump's MAGA movement enters crypto phase

tech authoritarianism

Tech fascism: 'What you're dealing with here is a cult'

'Others in San Francisco call it The Nerd Reich'

‘Unhumans’: J.D. Vance and the language of genocide

Trump's VP pick endorses the tactic of dehumanization