Bruce Wilson
@brucewilson.bsky.social
Studying, writing on, & warning about the Christian Supremacist right since 2004. Before that, in late 90s I warned of global warming. Now, I'm hunkering down to weather the storm, & raising giant isopods in my basement, for fun and profit.
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Bruce Wilson
@brucewilson.bsky.social
· Dec 9
GQP has introduced S.4912 that will allow billionaires to fleece the US. Please call your senators and congress-people and tell them to oppose the BITCOIN Act!!! They want to create a repository that WE will *buy* Crypto Bitcoins that these billionaires and cartels can't sell!
Bitcoin are somewhat analogous to tulips at the height of the Dutch Tulip Mania - they're speculative assets given value by the madness of crowds. S.4912 would require the USG to trade dollars for bitcoin that billionaire techbros own (b/c they, or their pals, created bitcoin, out of thin air)...
When the billionaires have most of the money, they'll face a political challenge from the impoverished masses; hence the giant prisons.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 6:41 PM
When the billionaires have most of the money, they'll face a political challenge from the impoverished masses; hence the giant prisons.
Next, they'll work on the Irish and Italians.
February 15, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Next, they'll work on the Irish and Italians.
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the chosen capybara
February 5, 2026 at 6:19 PM
the chosen capybara
Words of wisdom.
If you walk into a man’s apartment and you don’t see ANY books, pick up your pussy and LEAVE!!! Go back outside!!!
February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Words of wisdom.
IN 2030, I'll be leaving my tin roofed cardboard box shack in the wee hours of the AM to peddle my rusty bicycle ten miles to my sharecropping patch, to work the potato field.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
IN 2030, I'll be leaving my tin roofed cardboard box shack in the wee hours of the AM to peddle my rusty bicycle ten miles to my sharecropping patch, to work the potato field.
Oh, to be a fat Grizzly lazily floating downstream past schools of delicious sashimi.
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 15, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Oh, to be a fat Grizzly lazily floating downstream past schools of delicious sashimi.
China bans craptocurrency, and now this. The American Century has ended.
Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
February 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
China bans craptocurrency, and now this. The American Century has ended.
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OpenAI (like all the other tech companies) trying to work in the health space without being subject to any of the regulations of the health space.
OpenAI has a new “health” app… 🤨
From the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, with @emilymbender.bsky.social. From episode 71: A Bad Case of Hype-itis.
From the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, with @emilymbender.bsky.social. From episode 71: A Bad Case of Hype-itis.
February 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
OpenAI (like all the other tech companies) trying to work in the health space without being subject to any of the regulations of the health space.
I think it's fair to say that most people with a family income of $100,000 or less are EXTREMELY aware of inflationary increases in the price of groceries, gasoline, electricity, natural gas, heating oil, health insurance...
Told you he’d just go back to telling poor people they’re stupid for not knowing how good they have it.
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
I think it's fair to say that most people with a family income of $100,000 or less are EXTREMELY aware of inflationary increases in the price of groceries, gasoline, electricity, natural gas, heating oil, health insurance...
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This is what an authoritarian police state does
SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...
NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
February 15, 2026 at 5:15 AM
This is what an authoritarian police state does
This New Republic article credulously parrots Graham Platner's claim that his tattoo was "a tattoo he had unknowingly gotten of a Nazi symbol". He would show it off at parties as "my totenkopf" (an SS symbol.) There's got to be a big wad of cash secretly driving the NR push to rehabilitate Platner.
So apparently there's a whole guy at the New Republic absolutely dedicated to minimizing the significance of actual Nazi tattoos. Gross. @alexshephard.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Graham Platner Isn’t Just Surviving. He’s Leading.
Having weathered last fall’s scandals, the oyster farmer is in a strong position against Governor Janet Mills as Maine’s Democratic Senate primary begins in earnest.
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:48 PM
This New Republic article credulously parrots Graham Platner's claim that his tattoo was "a tattoo he had unknowingly gotten of a Nazi symbol". He would show it off at parties as "my totenkopf" (an SS symbol.) There's got to be a big wad of cash secretly driving the NR push to rehabilitate Platner.
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straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
This is correct. However, it is also correct to note that - for most of its two thousand year existence - Christianity has supported empires, monarchs, and state power.
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 1:19 PM
This is correct. However, it is also correct to note that - for most of its two thousand year existence - Christianity has supported empires, monarchs, and state power.
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
Isn't Wisconsin a state in Ecuador?
Apparently, the FBI agents investigating the Epstein case had to look up where Wisconsin is.
February 15, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Isn't Wisconsin a state in Ecuador?
Oh look, it's another variant of the "You forced me to become a Nazi!" line (Thomas Chatterton Williams, of course.)
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Oh look, it's another variant of the "You forced me to become a Nazi!" line (Thomas Chatterton Williams, of course.)
Is Trump *really* going to announce a crank theory, pushed by former crack addict and pillow salesman Mike Lindell, that since the writing of the Constitution, almost 2 & 1/2 centuries ago, all of America's constitutional scholars have failed to notice a line of text in the document?
February 14, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Is Trump *really* going to announce a crank theory, pushed by former crack addict and pillow salesman Mike Lindell, that since the writing of the Constitution, almost 2 & 1/2 centuries ago, all of America's constitutional scholars have failed to notice a line of text in the document?
He's literally posting the same propaganda that leading Neo-Nazis were pushing back in 2015.
Not Apartheid Clyde, the world’s richest man, posting his obsession with replacement theory every damn day in January.
February 14, 2026 at 8:56 PM
He's literally posting the same propaganda that leading Neo-Nazis were pushing back in 2015.
This guy says he's never politically protested before. He says he's doing now it b/c he saw, in his own neighborhood, 4th and 5th grade children running in terror from Trump's ICE agents.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
This guy says he's never politically protested before. He says he's doing now it b/c he saw, in his own neighborhood, 4th and 5th grade children running in terror from Trump's ICE agents.
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I have multiple videos of ICE agents doing this to legal observers. They did it to me too.
SLOTKIN: So the fact we have ICE agents saying out loud to people they're trying to arrest that 'we're gonna put you in a database,' they are making that up?
LYONS: We do not do that
LYONS: We do not do that
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I have multiple videos of ICE agents doing this to legal observers. They did it to me too.
China now leads in the war on Crapped-o-Currency.
China declares a full-scale crackdown on cryptocurrencies:
• No legal recognition of crypto as “money”
• Any crypto-related business = financial crime
• Complete ban on foreign crypto services operating inside China
• No legal recognition of crypto as “money”
• Any crypto-related business = financial crime
• Complete ban on foreign crypto services operating inside China
February 14, 2026 at 12:57 PM
China now leads in the war on Crapped-o-Currency.
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The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them
February 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them
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The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which had an error rate of at least 14% in one of the counties that used it, per the Texas Tribune & ProPublica. 14%! #NoOnSAVE 1/
February 14, 2026 at 6:09 AM
The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which had an error rate of at least 14% in one of the counties that used it, per the Texas Tribune & ProPublica. 14%! #NoOnSAVE 1/
I AM KING NONE MAY CHALLENGE MY HAMMIENUGISMS
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
I AM KING NONE MAY CHALLENGE MY HAMMIENUGISMS
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Probably the most embarrassing cultural trait inculcated in Tech is the feigned lack of understanding of potential harms of technology because understanding them would require being morally responsible for them and would thus deflate the hype make-believe buy-in among the developers of said tech.
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Probably the most embarrassing cultural trait inculcated in Tech is the feigned lack of understanding of potential harms of technology because understanding them would require being morally responsible for them and would thus deflate the hype make-believe buy-in among the developers of said tech.