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The Authoritarian Stack 2

The Authoritarian Stack: It starts with Palantir: The following are clips from an interactive website showing the ongoing, functional control of the US Government by Silicon Valley and Venture Capital. … Continue reading →

2025/12/18 · Leave a comment

10 Years of Engage

Engage! is now ten years old. I started this blog back in 2015, after making my Bodhisattva vows. The blog was a way for me to express and work through … Continue reading →

2025/12/07 · Leave a comment

Neighbors Fighting Back v. ICE

Meredith Shiner writes about her personal experience as a resident in Chicago, how parents and neighbors came together to protect their neighbors from ICE. Neighbors developed simple and effective strategies … Continue reading →

2025/11/20 · Leave a comment

Tech Lords are Worried

The following is a video playback of Gil Duran’s conversation with Wajahat Ali on The Left Hook. The strength of the democratic uprising on Tuesday Nov. 4 shows that we … Continue reading →

2025/11/09 · Leave a comment

The Authoritarian Stack

Gil Duran connected his newsletter readers to a visual network of Silicon Valley companies, billionaires, ideologues, politicos, and technologies that are, right now, in the process of replacing “antiquated” democracy … Continue reading →

2025/11/08 · 2 Comments

Gen Z Revolutions Across the Globe

It’s not just South Asia—Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal—that are seeing Gen Z youth protest political corruption and economic inequality; it’s happening around the world. Gen Z youth are leading … Continue reading →

2025/10/03 · 1 Comment

Bearing Witness at ICE Jail in Burlington

Bearing Witness at the ICE Field Office in Burlington By Dawn Olcott On a quiet side street right behind the Burlington Mall, immigrants are placed together in cells inside a … Continue reading →

2025/09/03 · Leave a comment

Surplus Humanity & Futural Communism

Surplus Humanity & Futural Communism By holopoiesis on August 6, 2025The slogan “We are the 99%” emerged during the Occupy movement, thanks in large part by David Graeber, to point to the extreme disparity … Continue reading →

2025/08/11 · 2 Comments

Gil Duran: The Dark Enlightenment

https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/707010/gil-duran-the-nerd-reich-tech-billionaires-authoritarianism-dictator?ref=thenerdreich.com Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship Jon ForttJul 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and … Continue reading →

2025/07/22 · Leave a comment

Medicaid: This was the Plan

So …force the deportation of Hispanic migrant farm workers, and replace them with “American” Medicaid recipients. Most of these potential workers would come from nearby rural areas. A significant number … Continue reading →

2025/07/22 · Leave a comment

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