2025 - The Nerd Reich

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Tech Billionaires Want to Build a Network State in Greenland

A movement based on “tech Zionism” seeks to create “The Next America”

2025

Big News for The Nerd Reich

Drum roll, please

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Carole Cadwalladr Warns of 'Digital Coup' in TED Talk

'It's a coup. I know you probably don't want to hear that, and especially here, but we can’t fight it if we can’t see it. And we can’t see it if we don’t name it'

Cover of Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left by Eoin Higgins.

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Inside the Media Crisis Fueled by Tech Billionaire Power

How tech elites like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are quietly—and not so quietly—reshaping the media landscape, buying platforms, and influencing narratives in terrifying ways.

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Jonestown to Network States: Tech Bros Revive Religious Cult Utopias

Silicon Valley extremism and religious extremism meld in Trump 2.0 era

2025

Why Musk, Trump & tech elites seek collapse of global order

"Their aspirations sound utterly batshit, but they are nonetheless at play now because they have access to political power through Donald Trump."

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Politico's $50M Peter Thiel Problem

Is Axel Springer CEO's son the 'German JD Vance'?

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'Existential threat': My NYT interview

In the New York Times, columnist Thomas B. Edsall examines the tech oligarch takeover of the United States. Writes Edsall: The Trump administration has enabled a small network of high-tech oligarchs to determine a vast proportion of federal spending and regulatory policy. Much of the attention, understandably, has fallen on