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Bruce Wilson

@brucewilson.bsky.social

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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

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)...

Oddie @oddie-lee.bsky.social · Dec 8

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!

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 10h

A capitalist dystopia.

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 16h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 15h

Dunno... summary executions & death camps, I suppose.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 16h

Fascism.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 17h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 17h

I disagree. I think this reflects a cancerous culture of elite impunity that over the last half century has become dominant in the GOP, and is deeply influential among Democrats.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 21h

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 17h

Nazis -> A ban on genocide would kill the lampshade industry.

Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 17h

"Yes, my grandmother lost a 10-month-old brother because, well... that's what they say here.

In the countryside at that time, it was known that babies weren't allowed near pigs."

Ævelina @evecleta.bsky.social · 1d

Sí, mi abuela perdió un hermanito de 10 meses porque bueno... eso que dicen acá.

En el campo en esa época se sabía que nada de bebés cerca de los chanchos.

Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 17h

Yikes.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17h

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 17h

It seems to me that this story has immense political significance, but it never seems to get any social media traction. Strange.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 19h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 17h

Capitalism w/out regulation & guardrails = predatory corporate mafia anarchy.

stevewarren209.bsky.social @stevewarren209.bsky.social · 18h

1/ Markets w/ no 3rd-party regulations or referees between workers/consumers <> corporations/financiers quickly coagulate into casino games & corrupt oligopolies seeking to corner the market on goods & services with inelastic demand (food, healthcare), becoming an obstacle to dynamism & prosperity.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 17h

Your "Free market" Libertarianism is idiotic.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 17h

let gaza live

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aliciablackgirl.bsky.social @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 23h

Sounds like the rich take away from taxpayers and then blame immigrants.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

It's clear by now that the Democrats won't press this case as aggressively as it needs to be pressed, and the media won't do that unless they have Democrats' quotes to use as a springboard either.

They won't do this work, so it's even more important that we circulate these stories ourselves.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 18h

Again -> almost 1/2 of Republicans say they'd still support Trump if he were tied to the most infamous pedophile trafficking crime ring in U.S. history.

Publicizing this shows 47% of Republicans are OK with raping children & forces the other 53% to acknowledge their party is now a pedo crime cult.

Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 1d

A July 2025 survey revealed that almost 1/2 of registered Republicans would still support/vote for Donald Trump if he "was officially implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities" (see: leger360.com/trump-epstei... )

Screenshot of results of July 2025 survey showing that 47% of registered Republicans would still vote for Donald Trump if he were "officially implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities" (see: https://leger360.com/trump-epstein-and-the-american-party/ )

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RandyResists2025💙🔵 @resist2025.bsky.social · 1d

It is all intentional. They intend on starting a civil war.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 1d

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg raised her fist as she and about 160 other Global Sumud Flotilla participants arrived in Greece to roaring cheers. Crowds welcomed them after their release from illegal Israeli detention.

Greta later addressed supporters — her remarks are below.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 1d

I'd guess it tracks pretty closely to affinity with Christian nationalism and/or Christian supremacy.