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.

Image: the White House Rose Garden under Trump, now with golden cursive lettering "The Rose Garden" and "The Presidential Walk of Freedom" & multiple faux-gold decorative plastic ornaments.
8/1/2017 Twitter post (tweet) from Ambassador Mike Huckabee, "Will be on @FoxNews with @ShannonBream at 9:30am ET. I'll explain why eating the lead paint off my childhood toys made me what I am today."
"Republican Chairman David Johnson waterboarded his own 16-year-old daughter as punishment for not cleaning her room. She told police she couldn't breathe for up to 30 seconds and feared for her life."
Twitter/X post by Laura Ingraham: "Will any Democrat urge people not to vandalize the Reflecting Pool?"
Image, top: 6/21/2026 "Truth Social" post by Donald Trump: "Work will begin immediately on fixing the seriously vandalized Reflecting Pool. I just inspected it, and could only say to myself, and those gathered around me, WOW, who would do such a thing? SICK DERANGED PEOPLE! We will fix it? President DJT" Image, bottom: May 1, 2026, news story, captioned, "Crew paints reflecting pool blue as Trump renovation continues"
Cover of David Bowie's 1971 album "Hunky Dory"
12/31/2025 post by Stephen Miller, "What if I told you our national debt is the tab for the mass looting of the American economy and the mass theft of the American dream?"
Associated Press story headline: "Trump heads to G7 summit with wind at his back after announcing agreement aimed at ending Iran war"
Title to June 14, 2026 NPR story: "Trump's UFC fights bring historic spectacle to the White House". Image shows WH occluded by giant American flag-themed temporary structure built to shelter spectators to the White House lawn UFC cage match.
"Best AI for Legal Brief Writing: Tools That Prevent Fake Citations"
"AI-Fabricated Citations In its published opinion, the California Court of Appeal detailed the extraordinary extent to which plaintiff's counsel relied on fabricated legal authority generated by artificial intelligence. Nearly every quoted passage in the appellant's opening brief, and many in the reply brief, were fictitious. Although most of the cited cases were real, the purported quotations did not appear anywhere within them. Several cited cases did not address the referenced legal issues, and a few authorities did not exist at all."
CNBC story: 'Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it." '
Image of president Donald Trump's magnificently fleshy rump, as he ascends the Air force One helicopter stairs.
[Opus 4.8] "Two--Sunday and... wait, let me actually check. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. The ones with a "d": Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday all have one. Monday too. So that's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Sunday--four days. (My first instinct was wrong, hence the correction.)
Story headline: "Jeff Bezos On Wealth Tax Proposals" Text: 'Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."
Graphic accompanying Washington Post story titled "These 5 charts show how ChatGPT is flooding our lives" shows a computer slot [gambling] machine vomiting up a wave of green goo.
Excerpt from linked Raw Story article: 'Johnson repeatedly abused the two middle-school aged children just months after his pardon, and he tried to keep the victims quiet by promising to share the millions of dollars in restitution money he expected the Trump administration would give him. "He said not to tell anybody," one of the victims testified. "We were scared," the other victim testified. "Like, we didn't realize that this stuff was not okay because we were 12 years old." '
News story headline, "Google Shifts to AI Search, Heralding Major Change in How People Use the Internet", with picture of Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Image of January 6th, 2021 insurrectionist wearing buffalo horns and a raccoon-skin cap, with red white and blue face paint and extensive body tattoos, inside the invaded Capitol Building, howling.
Image from David Lynch's movie "Dune', showing 1980s rock star and actor "Sting" naked except for a strange sculptural codpiece.
Quote from linked article: "David Gerard recently said: 'The story of the AI bubble, is setting real dollars on fire to put imaginary valuation dollars on the books.' To set those 'real dollars' on fire requires something physical to show for investors' capital; thus, a plague of data centers. Capitalism is not rational and as Ali Khadri informs us, is based on the accumulation of waste."
Screenshot of Bsky post promoting June 13, 2023 story by Erin Reed, "US Internal Refugee Crisis: 130K Trans People Have Already Fled. [subtitle] A growing refugee crisis is occurring in the United States, and it is getting very little coverage. I highlight the growing migration crisis, the people fleeing, and the laws they are feeling from."
[AI summary] "For decades, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has frequently invoked "the Baileys"-Joe and Eileen-as an imaginary, prototypical middle-class Long Island couple used to gauge voter sentiment and guide his policy decisions. Schumer has described them as suburban swing voters whose concerns about the economy and security shape his political, and often criticized, approach."
News story headline: "HEBER CITY, Utah -- An artificial intelligence that writes police reports had some explaining to do earlier this month after it claimed a Heber City officer had shape-shifted into a frog."
Screenshot of two very similar Amazon Kindle eBooks, both titled "Mushroom Foraging for Beginners". Is either book written by a human? It's hard to tell.
Graph shows how, almost instantly, the yearly written output of AI has exceeded the yearly written output of the entire human species.
"Calvinball is a fictional, chaotic sport from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip created by Bill Watterson, defined by its lack of permanent rules. The only constant rule is that it can never be played the same way twice. Players make up rules, scoring, and objectives on the fly, typically involving masks and various sports equipment."
Comic strip single panel: Mark Zuckerberg-looking character says, "We've created a machine that uses enormous resources in order to provide unreliable answers to ANY question!" Elon Musk-looking character chimes in, "Not to MENTION its ability to generate completely fake photos and videos!" Zuck character continues, "...which will obviously only be used for HARMLESS FUN!"
Graph shows that AI language output now exceeds the linguistic output of the entire human species.
Image of Donald Trump, at 5/2/2026 rally, with triple chins.
Donald Trump 4/30/2026 post on his "Truth Social" forum: "Anybody running for President or Vice President should be forced to take a Cognitive Examination prior to entering the Race! By doing so, we wouldn't be surprised at people like Barack "Hussein" 0bama, or Sleepy Joe Biden, getting "ELECTED." Our country would be in a much better place! I took the exam three times during my ("THREE!") Terms as President, and ACED IT ALL THREE TIMES - An achievement that, even on a single Exam, according to the Doctors, has rarely been done before! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
"AI Overview" [from Google's AI answer parrot] "As of April 2026, Polymarket is a leading crypto-based prediction market that has gained massive popularity and a $9 billion valuation, alongside intense scrutiny for allowing "insider trading" and "death market" wagers on war, politics, and violence. The platform enables users to bet using cryptocurrency on the outcome of real-world events, including, controversially, the timing of military operations or the death of political figures."
News story title: "Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good For Business"
Story title: "President Trump Begins Comparing Himself to Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon in Private Conversations"
Wikipedia entry on history of the chemical company Bayer notes postwar Allied seizure of "[IG] Farben's assets because of its role in the Nazi war effort and involvement in the Holocaust, including using slave labour from concentration camps and humans for dangerous medical testing, and production of Zyklon B, a chemical used in gas chambers. In 1951, IG Farben was split into its constituent companies, and Bayer was reincorporated as Farbenfabriken Bayer AG. After the war, Bayer re-hired several former Nazis to high-level positions, including convicted Nazi war criminals found guilty at the IG Farben Trial, such as Fritz ter Meer..."
1871 cartoon by Thomas Nast, published in Harper's magazine, depicts Catholic clerics as attacking alligators.
Bsky post reposted 3K times promotes meme with false claim that "A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children." Lieu said are *allegations* in the Epstein files that Trump has done those things.
Comment attached to Etsy ad for $25 raccoon penis bones: "Perfect as a gift for a person who has everything and one time randomly mentioned raccoon and their body part looking like a toothpick. Great quality, arrived well packaged, definitely recommend."
RFK Jr. diary entry, 2001: "I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis off a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be." In the entry, RFK Jr. says he took the raccoon penis home 'to study'.
Image of Jared Kushner looking *very* surprised that he is still getting away with it.
Graph showing that AI slop output now exceeds the written output of the entire human species.
Image: fiberglass statue commemorating Confederate terrorist Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Donald Trump post on "Truth Social", 4/7/2026, 8:06 AM EST: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!"
Fox News short commentary, April 4th, 2026: "In New York City, you can't tell if people are jogging or getting chased: Jimmy Failla"
"Truth Social" post by Donald Trump, April 5, 2026. "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
' "The Strait of Hormuz is not an oil chokepoint," former Qatari minister Mohammed Al-Hashemi wrote in a column for Al Jazeera this week. "It is the aortic valve of globalised production - and, like any valve, when it fails, the entire circulatory system collapses." '
Image: photograph of folk singer Woody Guthrie, maybe in his 40s.
Wikipedia-provided quote, alleged to be from Wernher von Braun's 1953 novel about a colony on Mars, "The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled "Elon." Two houses of parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet."
Bluesky comment: "We should have quarantined them decades ago - prohibited them from voting, holding public office & procreating. Now it's too late."
Promotional image from the movie "Team America: World Police", that satirized American interventionism and used puppets to play the characters.
"California's Mount Shasta has long drawn spiritual seekers to its pine-covered peaks. According to some legends, the mountains sits upon a hidden city inhabited by Lemurians, a pseudoscientific and mythical race of early humans often cited in occult lore. Other myths about the mountain claim that its waters have healing powers, and all manner of phenomenon--from UFOs to Bigfoot--have allegedly been spotted here."
Image: front and back of the "Mercury Dime" designed by A.A. Weinman and minted from 1916 to 1945.
Image: 20th Century statue of Civil War Confederate leader Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Image (with explanatory text) shows, "Denmark installs floating wildflower islands in harbors - creating safe urban sanctuaries for bird and bees."