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Trump administration plans for militarized border in New Mexico – report

AOL 20 Mar 2025
In 2022, Blake Masters, an Arizona Senate candidate enthusiastically backed by Peter Thiel, the same tech billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance’s campaign that year, ran a campaign ad promising to do just that ... That’s a big step.” ... .
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Notable Silicon Valley players back for-profit community college

East Bay Times 20 Mar 2025
By Paayal Zaveri ... CampusGroup Inc., a for-profit community college offering two-year degrees and certifications, has raised $46 million from a laundry list of Silicon Valley players — including Sam Altman, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Figma Inc ... .
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The Palantir problem

New Statesman 19 Mar 2025
Its other founder, Peter Thiel, the billionaire conservative libertarian and co-founder of PayPal, has been a big supporter of Republican politicians, including JD Vance ... Peter Thiel himself has been an outspoken critic of the British health system.
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A Battle for the Soul of the West

The Atlantic 19 Mar 2025
The billionaire Peter Thiel has been compared to Dugin by the latter’s biographer ... Thiel evinced an affinity for the German jurist Carl Schmitt—one of the Nazi luminaries, along with Heidegger, of the anti-liberal counterrevolution.
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Tim Walz Apparently Thinks He Is a Woman

Hot Air 19 Mar 2025
Well, not quite ... Weird enough that after Harris put him out front for much of the campaign, she decided to put him in Witness Protection toward the end ... Nah ... Nobody thinks Peter Thiel is anything less than a man because he is attracted to other males ... .
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The New Age Militarists

Scheerpost 19 Mar 2025
Karp’s views are in sync with his fellow Silicon Valley militarists, from Palantir founder Peter Thiel to Palmer Luckey of the up-and-coming military tech firm Anduril to America’s virtual co-president, SpaceX’s Elon Musk.
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J.D. Vance Wants to Heal the MAGA Populist–Tech Bro Divide? Good Luck.

New York Magazine 19 Mar 2025
... Hillbilly Elegy memoir, but then became a protégé and beneficiary of Silicon Valley reactionary pioneer Peter Thiel, who blazed the path to MAGA prominence now trod by Elon Musk and so many others.
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JD Vance tries to mend the MAGA-Tech divide

The Verge 18 Mar 2025
In remarks at Andreesen-Horowitz’s American Dynamism policy conference in Washington, DC, Vance, a former venture capitalist, and Peter Thiel, protege turned MAGA internet darling, ...
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Pound hits four-month high as dollar tumbles under Donald Trump

The Daily Telegraph 18 Mar 2025
Jane Foley, an analyst at Rabobank, said ... Nvidia, the microchip maker, has fallen 14pc over the past month, while Palantir Technologies, the software company started by the tech billionaire Peter Thiel, sank 30pc over the same period of time ... X Icon ... .
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Meet the Palantir Mafia, who have collectively raised more than $6 billion for their own startups

Business Insider 17 Mar 2025
More than a decade ago, PayPal set the standard for producing a formidable group of alumni who now run their own companies, including Elon Musk, David Sacks, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, and Peter Thiel — who later co-founder Palantir.
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‘Too preposterous to believe’: Analyst claims bizarre ‘ideology' is driving Musk's cuts

Raw Story 17 Mar 2025
ALSO READ. The new guy in charge of USAID doesn't believe in foreign aid ... “It sounds too preposterous to believe, but Musk's close friend Peter Thiel has been spending lavishly on organizations designed to make it a reality,” she wrote ... ALSO READ.
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Mach 25 speed: Former SpaceX engineer’s firm to test US Air Force’s hypersonic tech

Interesting Engineering 17 Mar 2025
Varda Space Industries has deployed its third orbital capsule which carries a hypersonic tech for the United States ... RECOMMENDED ARTICLES ... Varda was founded by ex-SpaceX avionics engineer Will Bruey and Delian Asparouhov of Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.
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JANE TIPPETT: Freudian ties, tracksuits, T-shirts and Shamrock socks: If you REALLY want to know ...

The Daily Mail 17 Mar 2025
Hemlines, necklines and custom couture are usually the fields that fashion followers focus on ... A decade ago, Vance – then a venture capitalist – dressed to impress his tech-giant backer, Peter Thiel, the man funding his own success ... Way down ... (Pictured.
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