Bill Kaguru Wanjohi
@billkw.bsky.social
Luddite computer programmer. Morbidly fascinated by rise of reactionary liberalism.
I just donated to this great list. Let's get some fighters the resources they need in this early stage of their races.
Brad Lander has Zohran, Bernie, and a mild amount of fame behind him, and will have plenty of money—so if you gave to him today (as I did), I'll ask you to match whatever you gave (as I will shortly), split evenly among these ten similarly cool but less prominent House candidates who need cash more
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December 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I just donated to this great list. Let's get some fighters the resources they need in this early stage of their races.
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good LORD. like some turducken of neoliberal nightmares
A for-profit education firm called Stride is opening a school inside a for-profit immigration prison run by CoreCivic. Stride has been accused of defrauding investors and providing substandard education to children.
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley.
prospect.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
good LORD. like some turducken of neoliberal nightmares
This is reassuring; I was almost starting to think I couldn't trust the advice of the encourage-kids-to-commit-suicide machine.
the-decoder.com/openai-insis...
the-decoder.com/openai-insis...
OpenAI insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising
Paid ChatGPT users recently reported seeing a prompt labeled "Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target," which appeared to ask them to link their ChatGPT account to OpenAI's retail partner Target. ...
the-decoder.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is reassuring; I was almost starting to think I couldn't trust the advice of the encourage-kids-to-commit-suicide machine.
the-decoder.com/openai-insis...
the-decoder.com/openai-insis...
Rupert Murdoch prescient in many ways but one was naming his company News Corp because we're just gonna have one company left in every industry in a decade or so at this rate.
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Rupert Murdoch prescient in many ways but one was naming his company News Corp because we're just gonna have one company left in every industry in a decade or so at this rate.
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
As grating as this hypocrisy is, it would be a small relief if they manage to enforce *any* laws of war on *any* western-aligned security force. This was a big part of the appeal of the genocide to many: the end of all restraints on the powerful.
bsky.app/profile/viet...
bsky.app/profile/viet...
Where were all these Democrats and Republicans when Israel was firing on the wounded and killing survivors? Which it is still doing in Gaza?
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
As grating as this hypocrisy is, it would be a small relief if they manage to enforce *any* laws of war on *any* western-aligned security force. This was a big part of the appeal of the genocide to many: the end of all restraints on the powerful.
bsky.app/profile/viet...
bsky.app/profile/viet...
Somebody's got to write a book about Cuéllar someday. Corrupt, nasty little man, but has both parties eating out of his hand. TX GOP redistricts to keep him safe, Pelosi and Clyburn stump for him in a primary *after* his FBI raid, now Trump pardons him, to Jeffries' delight. He's Teflon.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Somebody's got to write a book about Cuéllar someday. Corrupt, nasty little man, but has both parties eating out of his hand. TX GOP redistricts to keep him safe, Pelosi and Clyburn stump for him in a primary *after* his FBI raid, now Trump pardons him, to Jeffries' delight. He's Teflon.
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on planet abundance we will do [pauses, checks] rigorous means testing for access to disability provisions and thereby [double checks] ensure that tests, the essence of education, are firmly imposed on all human capital
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
on planet abundance we will do [pauses, checks] rigorous means testing for access to disability provisions and thereby [double checks] ensure that tests, the essence of education, are firmly imposed on all human capital
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
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This other story from today (big on twitter) isn't entirely unrelated. The two dominant, intertwined strains of modern American anti-intellectualism are from rightwing religious populism and Silicon Valley
bsky.app/profile/davi...
bsky.app/profile/davi...
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This other story from today (big on twitter) isn't entirely unrelated. The two dominant, intertwined strains of modern American anti-intellectualism are from rightwing religious populism and Silicon Valley
bsky.app/profile/davi...
bsky.app/profile/davi...
Biggest sign of Trump declining with age is his inability to pick a decisive path on these files. He should have either let them all hang out or demanded that someone destroy them like the CIA did with the torture evidence. Never seen him behave as if he is ashamed and afraid.
My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Biggest sign of Trump declining with age is his inability to pick a decisive path on these files. He should have either let them all hang out or demanded that someone destroy them like the CIA did with the torture evidence. Never seen him behave as if he is ashamed and afraid.
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We’ve built two justice systems in the US—one that bends over backward to shield the wealthy and powerful, and another that comes down hard and fast on the poor and marginalized. Trump and Epstein show that it’s easier to squeeze a rich man through the eye of a needle than to see one sent to prison.
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
We’ve built two justice systems in the US—one that bends over backward to shield the wealthy and powerful, and another that comes down hard and fast on the poor and marginalized. Trump and Epstein show that it’s easier to squeeze a rich man through the eye of a needle than to see one sent to prison.
Rotating Villain Theory now a majority opinion of online liberals (complimentary)
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Rotating Villain Theory now a majority opinion of online liberals (complimentary)
I do hope Trump tells Thune to cancel the (useless) vote too, just to further humiliate these cowards
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I do hope Trump tells Thune to cancel the (useless) vote too, just to further humiliate these cowards
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Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read.
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
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Stop patting senators on the head unless they are calling for schumer's removal. Everything else is just in the script
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Stop patting senators on the head unless they are calling for schumer's removal. Everything else is just in the script
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if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
Just heard @jeetheer.bsky.social mention on his podcast that one reason the Six Day War had such a huge impact on Americans was that it happened after the US had sunk deep in the mud in Vietnam, and so gave many a needed opportunity to identify pridefully with a western army. Never occurred to me.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Just heard @jeetheer.bsky.social mention on his podcast that one reason the Six Day War had such a huge impact on Americans was that it happened after the US had sunk deep in the mud in Vietnam, and so gave many a needed opportunity to identify pridefully with a western army. Never occurred to me.
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one thing, i think, that gets in our way of correctly analyzing contemporary tech politics is that fact that we are incapable of seeing social movements among the elites, among the rich, among the powerful. we end up displacing all the action onto the technology itself.
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
one thing, i think, that gets in our way of correctly analyzing contemporary tech politics is that fact that we are incapable of seeing social movements among the elites, among the rich, among the powerful. we end up displacing all the action onto the technology itself.
I know this is cope, but maybe Jake Sullivan, by overreaching in persuing conflict with most of the world and helping reelect Trump, will deliver a new world order where American war criminals like himself will be tried in absentia for their crimes.
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I know this is cope, but maybe Jake Sullivan, by overreaching in persuing conflict with most of the world and helping reelect Trump, will deliver a new world order where American war criminals like himself will be tried in absentia for their crimes.
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
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Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.
November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.
November 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
When you're a tech billionaire you can just say things and they're reported as fact.
October 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
When you're a tech billionaire you can just say things and they're reported as fact.
Remember in 2021 when they let the Senate parliament decide not to raise the minimum wage from $7.25? I don't have a point, I just did and still can't believe how totally temporary all social welfare benefits were from the last Dem trifecta.
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Remember in 2021 when they let the Senate parliament decide not to raise the minimum wage from $7.25? I don't have a point, I just did and still can't believe how totally temporary all social welfare benefits were from the last Dem trifecta.