MAGA shocked to learn that President Elon Musk is an immigrant

The Point: Elon Musk is dumb about politics. Pathologically unable to shut up for even five minutes, he is already creating fractures in the MAGA/Nerd Reich alliance. Now, a MAGA "civil war" over the role of immigrant tech workers threatens to overshadow Trump's 2024 election

Some Nerd Reich holiday reads

Mystery drones, cognitive illusions and moral hierarchies

Elon Musk's Destruction of Government Experiment (DOGE)

On Sunday, I woke before dawn with the Hawk Tuah spitcoin scam on my mind and full paragraphs of text running through my head. Now I'm in the middle of drafting my final magazine piece of 2024. It will be a capstone to the Network State series I

How a 'misery porn' star used Instagram to pimp San Francisco

Anti-crime social media crusader now accused of crime

How the 'Broligarchs' plan to use Trump

One of the things that I think anybody can observe is that, even among the ultra-rich, they never seem to have enough. Never enough wealth, never enough toys, never enough. So what do you want if you've bought everything already? You want limitless wealth, limitless power. Even the

Thoughts on President Elon Musk's pending tech takeover of US government

Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 election begins a new era for tech's political extremists. The right-wing elements of Silicon Valley have merged with the MAGA movement, at least temporarily, and the bet has paid off big. Republicans captured every branch of government. Trump will make

Niño Fidencio: A ghost in the family

The strange life - and afterlife - of a Mexican folk saint

Podcast: The 'Tech Coup' with Marietje Schaake

This piece has been cross-posted at the FrameLab newsletter, which I co-founded with Dr. George Lakoff. Apologies to the handful of you who subscribe there as well. If Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, tech moguls like Elon Musk will capture an unprecedented amount of power. Trump has even suggested

Correct link: How Tech Billionaires Became the G.O.P.’s New Donor Class

Quick correction: Here's the actual Gift Link to"How Tech Billionaires Became the G.O.P.’s New Donor Class: Elon Musk and a group of Silicon Valley allies have built a shadow campaign to put Donald Trump back in office." Apologies for the error!

NYT on the tech billionaire plot against democracy

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk and J.D. Vance have a plan to unite with Trump's MAGA party and end democracy as we know it... Yes, that is the theme of this newsletter – and also the central

Praxis: Tech dystopia as the 'Next America'

This isn't weird at all

Crypto's strategy of lies and terror

The crypto cartel's sudden rise as a force in politics is part of a shock and awe campaign to scare politicians into supporting crypto. “It’s a simple message,” said one person familiar with the Fairshake PAC, a pro-crypto group that has raised over $200 million for the