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)...
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ICE/CBP have gone unfunded for 3 days; how about 3 years? The best way to claw back the $170 billion immigration enforcement surge in the Big Beautiful Bill is to just claw it back. The 2nd-best way is to slowly drain it by never funding the underlying appropriation. @ryanlcooper.com makes the case:
The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded - The American Prospect
Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.
prospect.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
ICE/CBP have gone unfunded for 3 days; how about 3 years? The best way to claw back the $170 billion immigration enforcement surge in the Big Beautiful Bill is to just claw it back. The 2nd-best way is to slowly drain it by never funding the underlying appropriation. @ryanlcooper.com makes the case:
Under Massachusetts Governor Healey, the Bay State has led the nation with at least 2 triumphant "firsts": the first and only state to make an official contract with ICE, and the first state to incorporate the use of AI into state government.
#Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who is up for reelection this year, will forcefully criticize ICE and the Trump administration—what she won't do is stop working with them.
My latest for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Hell World.
#mapoli
My latest for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Hell World.
#mapoli
MA governor on ICE: “I support them”
Maura Healey declines to end state’s partnership with ICE
www.welcometohellworld.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Under Massachusetts Governor Healey, the Bay State has led the nation with at least 2 triumphant "firsts": the first and only state to make an official contract with ICE, and the first state to incorporate the use of AI into state government.
Authors must continuously examine the logical coherence of their ideas as they write. Failing this produces gibberish. Using AI in the writing process is a type of self-lobotomy.
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
February 16, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Authors must continuously examine the logical coherence of their ideas as they write. Failing this produces gibberish. Using AI in the writing process is a type of self-lobotomy.
These are not the priorities of the American people. They are the priorities of the Trump Administration, which is waging an undeclared war on the majority of Americans.
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
February 16, 2026 at 4:54 PM
These are not the priorities of the American people. They are the priorities of the Trump Administration, which is waging an undeclared war on the majority of Americans.
As political scientist Thomas Zimmer explains, Ezra Klein's "we have to learn to listen to, & learn to live, with each other" shtick is BS, because the American right rejects coexistence; it is bent on subjugating & crushing its opponents.
The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
February 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
As political scientist Thomas Zimmer explains, Ezra Klein's "we have to learn to listen to, & learn to live, with each other" shtick is BS, because the American right rejects coexistence; it is bent on subjugating & crushing its opponents.
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Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.
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The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.
A disastrously dumb decision.
BIG NEWS: We’re partnering with Open AI to launch a phased rollout of a ChatGPT-powered AI assistant for state workers – the first state in the nation to do it.
AI is here. Let’s use it as a tool to make government work faster and better for the people of Massachusetts.
AI is here. Let’s use it as a tool to make government work faster and better for the people of Massachusetts.
February 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM
A disastrously dumb decision.
Guess what this 2nd benefit show is for.
I'm at their second benefit show right now. (They just opened their 3rd set with "American Idiot.) These white suburban parents are wearing t-shirts with slogans like "RADICALIZED BY BASIC HUMAN DECENCY" and "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND BUILT BY STOLEN HANDS." (4/?)
February 16, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Guess what this 2nd benefit show is for.
Government-paid, lawless thugs assault peaceful citizens...upon whose authority?
They assaulted and injured a person, damaged a car, and then left. That’s not legal‼️
February 16, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Government-paid, lawless thugs assault peaceful citizens...upon whose authority?
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Meet Texas Republican, Bo French.
One of his favorite phrases is “third world savages”—which he has applied to Afghan asylum seekers, Muslims, and even Native Americans, who he also wants deported.
He might win statewide office in Texas.
One of his favorite phrases is “third world savages”—which he has applied to Afghan asylum seekers, Muslims, and even Native Americans, who he also wants deported.
He might win statewide office in Texas.
He Wants to Deport 100 Million “Third World Savages.” He May Win Statewide Office in Texas.
He calls his opponents “gay” and “retarded,” and he wants to deport 100 million “third world savages.” Naturally, he’s running for railroad commissioner.
www.texasmonthly.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Meet Texas Republican, Bo French.
One of his favorite phrases is “third world savages”—which he has applied to Afghan asylum seekers, Muslims, and even Native Americans, who he also wants deported.
He might win statewide office in Texas.
One of his favorite phrases is “third world savages”—which he has applied to Afghan asylum seekers, Muslims, and even Native Americans, who he also wants deported.
He might win statewide office in Texas.
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"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
Even before the addition of AI, the obsession with data was warping outcomes, simply b/c the absurd amount of time teachers had to spend generating fat tomes of "data" reduced the amount of time they had to actually *teach*.
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
February 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Even before the addition of AI, the obsession with data was warping outcomes, simply b/c the absurd amount of time teachers had to spend generating fat tomes of "data" reduced the amount of time they had to actually *teach*.
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