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Elon Musk and Vinod Khosla spar about Trump after Biden drops out

Khosla and Musk clashed about what a Trump presidency would mean for the fight against climate change and America’s leadership in NATO.

Fortune

Meet the billionaire behind JD Vance

Peter Thiel has been supporting Trump's newly selected running mate since before he entered politics

Salon

Pete Buttigieg mocks JD Vance as he explains why he thinks tech bros are backing Trump

‘We’ve made it way too complicated. It’s super simple. These are very rich men who have decided to back the Republican party that tends to do good things for very rich men’

The Independent UK

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JD Vance’s confusing evolution from liberal touchstone to Maga superstar

Trump’s vice-presidential pick seen as relatable for ties to rural white poor, but some say his book ‘sanitized’ his past

The Guardian - US

Buttigieg talks JD Vance on "Real Time"

When asked to weigh in on Peter Thiel's reasons for supporting Vance, Buttigieg broke it down plainly: Money

Salon

Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, a longtime backer of the new vice-president pick, are among those pledging support

The Guardian - UK

Is there anything that JD Vance actually believes?

The only thing we can say for sure that JD Vance believes is that he, personally, should have as much power as possible

The Guardian - US

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How JD Vance’s path to being Trump’s VP pick wound through Silicon Valley

Yale Law School graduate found allies in tech billionaires including Peter Thiel who rallied privately for him

The Guardian - US

2020's Youngest Self-made Billionaire Austin Russell Shares How You Can Become One Too By 25

College dropout turned CEO Austin Russell has shared his secrets to billionaire success at 25, leveraging focus, passion and online learning.

International Business Times UK

Rachel Maddow: Liking The Lord of the Rings Is 'Far-Right'

Yes, J.D. Vance likes J.R.R. Tolkien. So do most people.

Reason

Kara Swisher says Silicon Valley’s growing concentration of power in Washington, D.C., is ‘really problematic’

“This sort of explicit grab for power has worked really nicely,” she said.

Fortune

JD Vance’s Silicon Valley connections run deep. So do Trump’s

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are key figures in a rising network of pro-Trump techies who are channelling tens of millions of dollars towards Republican campaigns. And Thiel is the one who reportedly introduced Vance to Trump in the first place. Io Dodds reports on the GOP’s increasingly cosy relationship…

The Independent UK

‘Bizarre beliefs’ and ‘creepy friends’: Choosing JD Vance could be a costly mistake for Trump

While MAGA-loving Republicans celebrated Trump’s pick for running mate this week, so did Democrats. Andrew Feinberg reports on why the opposition believes Vance is such an easy target for their upcoming campaigns

The Independent UK

Once a tech investor, Vance is now Big Tech critic - Roll Call

First-term senator and Donald Trump running mate JD Vance is a former tech investor and venture capitalist turned critic of Big Tech.

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International Business Times

Musk Leads Silicon Valley Rally Behind Trump

Elon Musk's decision to throw his vast fortune behind Donald Trump's presidential candidacy confirms the rise of a growing right-wing bloc in the traditionally liberal Silicon Valley.

The Guardian - US

JD Vance once worried Trump was ‘America’s Hitler’. Now his own authoritarian leanings come into view

Vice-presidential pick has said he would have blocked certification of 2020 results in key states won by Biden

The Guardian - US

Trump’s arrival and ‘our God saves’: key takeaways from Republican convention day one

The ex-president names JD Vance as his running mate and becomes the official party nominee on an eventful first day

Fortune

Trump choice J.D. Vance could be win for Peter Thiel, venture capital

Vance is the first former venture capitalist on a major party ticket since Mitt Romney. His footprint is mostly tied by association to his biggest backer, Peter Thiel.

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The Independent UK

JD Vance, from ‘hillbilly’ to VP candidate: How an Ohio kid from a broken home rose to be a Republican star

The 39-year old Ohioan is best known for his searing 2016 memoir about how America’s rust belt became desperate enough to back Donald Trump

The Independent UK

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman tries to explain away comment saying he wished he could ‘martyr Trump’

Explanation comes amid more controversy after the business mogul’s adviser floated the idea that the assassination attempt could have been ‘staged’

Fortune

LinkedIn cofounder clarifies his statement wishing Trump was an 'actual martyr'

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s attempted assassination, LinkedIn’s co-founder Reid Hoffman has been forced to clarify himself over comments he made wishing that the former president was an “actual martyr.”

Fortune

German billionaire behind Enhanced Games is dinosaur egg-collecting film producer

Christian Angermayer is a psychedelics mogul who thinks the world is ready for an Olympic-style games featuring juiced-up athletes.

International Business Times

'Extremely Dangerous': Health Experts Slam Doping-friendly Enhanced Games

Athletes at the Paris Olympics later this month will be tested for performance-enhancing drugs, but at a competition plotting to rival the Games, doping will be the point.

The Guardian - UK

‘Imagine if a 60-year-old broke Usain Bolt’s record’: the story behind the Enhanced Games, the Olympics where everyone dopes

It’s got billionaires, world champions and director Ridley Scott’s company on board. But would an athletics competition where taking drugs is encouraged put the honesty back in sport – or cause rifts, risks and addictions?

The Independent UK

‘I want to see 60-year-olds breaking world records’: Welcome to the Olympics with NO drug testing

Seb Coe says ‘it’s a joke, unfair, and unsafe’. The head of US anti-doping calls it ‘a dangerous clown show’. Lawrence Ostlere talks to Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who wants to launch the Enhanced Games, a controversial Olympic-style mega-event in which doping is not just allowed but actively…

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