Chris Wilson @chriswilson.bsky.social · 51mWould love a focus group with the 23% of independents ("independents"?) who are voting to express their support for the Trump administration. 000
Chris Wilson @chriswilson.bsky.social · 1hHad the great pleasure of seeing Sturgill Simpson perform last night and would highly recommend the experience if you enjoy rock and roll music and/or skeletons. 000
Reposted by Chris Wilson Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports 348952171087
Reposted by Chris Wilson Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom 332626339
Chris Wilson @chriswilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Rod is one of our greatest Americans and this is so good on how many of his lessons are (unfortunately, seemingly) eternal. 000
Reposted by Chris Wilson Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ok, so I wrote the NYT's TV canon-building exercise and why it's interesting that the list ranks the 1st through millionth best gritty lyrical sonofabitch cop shows but not even one Blue Sky procedural. Justice for BURN NOTICE. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/gracie-abr...pjmaciak.substack.comGracie Abrams on the LOST IslandSix Theses on the NYT’s Best TV Shows of the 21st Century 0325
Reposted by Chris Wilson SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber." 171994329
Reposted by Chris Wilson Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026God knows I try. 228139
Reposted by Chris Wilson Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854473347
Reposted by Chris Wilson Revolutionary Jason @jason.revolutionarygames.co · 01/10/2026The Wall Street Journal, the official paper of the owner class, is reporting that clear majorities of Americans support a pause on AI development, a wealth tax on billionaires, Medicare for All, a $20 minimum wage, and to end military aid to Israel. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | Americans Want Populist Policies That Defy Traditional Political LabelsA new Wall Street Journal survey finds broad support for caps on prescription drug prices and strong border security. 313530
Reposted by Chris Wilson Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today, Marist's midnight poll drop is from Ohio: Sherrod Brown leads Sen. Husted 51% to 43%. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44%. A key stat: 50% *strongly disapprove* of Trump, in Ohio. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter... 441475330
Reposted by Chris Wilson Jonathan Ore @jonore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Never fun to start your day writing an obit. But here's a look at the career of Pac, an unbelievable talent taken too soon. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...cbc.caBenjamin Satterley, English pro wrestler known as Pac, dead at 40 | CBC NewsAll Elite Wrestling announced the death of Satterly, better known by his in-ring mononym PAC, on their social media channels Sunday night. No cause of death was released. 110513
Reposted by Chris Wilson jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way” 704258291
Chris Wilson @chriswilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm not going to be baited too badly by a NYTimes list but Deadwood TWENTY SPOTS behind Succession and behind White Lotus at all is a sign of a fallen culture. 000
Chris Wilson @chriswilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A great Today in Tabs from @rusty.todayintabs.com uh today www.todayintabs.com/p/meta-s-new... 092
Chris Wilson @chriswilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The idea the entire culture shifted because of a 1.5% popular vote margin was always very strange (and powered by a lot of wishful thinking from people who were tired of pretending they cared about what non-white dudes were saying) 071
Reposted by Chris Wilson Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/09/2026I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones! 642310435
Reposted by Chris Wilson Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This artifact was excavated at Harappa and radiocarbon dating places it c. 1900 BC 113410
Reposted by Chris Wilson Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Migration is humanity's oldest, most reliable, and most effective tool when dealing with climate change, full stop. Can't find food here? Don't like the weather? Babies dying of diseases? Move somewhere else. There are always intermediate steps and causal factors, but it's almost that simple. 328333
Reposted by Chris Wilson Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sure, giving in to corporate blackmail is *usually* a bad idea. But maybe this time it will work!!!!!!!!!! 🤮 1148662
Reposted by Chris Wilson e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem? 2936881015
Reposted by Chris Wilson lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is 130133092146
Reposted by Chris Wilson Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually. 3067161650
Reposted by Chris Wilson Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards 465341949
Chris Wilson @chriswilson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Right but there could be again in the future and you can't gamble 100
Chris Wilson @chriswilson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You have to keep the dinner going because if you don't then you might not get to meet celebs 😔 100
Reposted by Chris Wilson Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Great system, no notes www.propublica.org/article/scho... 271419331
Reposted by Chris Wilson jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now! 3304661699
Reposted by Chris Wilson Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026reacher season 4 is about the triumph of independent journalism 2559041
Reposted by Chris Wilson Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Quiznos is partnering with Blackwater to crush insurgencies in their supply chain. 221580345
Reposted by Chris Wilson David Nir @davidnir.com · 16/09/2026Everything's falling into place 1293472651
Reposted by Chris Wilson Ripley🪽 @skullingway.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I hope widows bay dominating the Emmys inspires a lot more shows about lovable weirdos and way less “rich people are soooo fucked up haha” shows 419532
Reposted by Chris Wilson Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I’ve had relationships fracture this last year because they started fixating on how I use AI, to the point of calling me a liar for saying I don’t use it. These are people who survived my strong positions on politics, blondes, racism. But they didn’t survive my AI abstinence. Wild. 336713
Reposted by Chris Wilson Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Do you remember at the height of Covid shutdowns* when people in NY and LA media were confronted with evidence that their friends were richer than they had known? for some people AI resistance is evidence that everyone hasn’t been as scared and miserable as they are. And they are pissed about it. 434625
Reposted by Chris Wilson James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Pareene called it www.jezebel.com/charlottesvi...jezebel.comCharlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican PartySince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 8324104
Reposted by Chris Wilson Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026grateful to open the instagram comments on GWB’s 9/11 paintings and see that the top comment is from a housewives podcaster, and that it reads “am I on an entire sheet of acid” 114423
Reposted by Chris Wilson Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.forever-wars.comToday We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations IgnoreRighteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner 161140429
Reposted by Chris Wilson Micah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026a year later, looking back, I think Charlie Kirk marks the high water mark of the right's cultural dominance for a little bit there they actually managed to force civil society as a whole to crack down on people saying mean shit about one of their own, and it turned out to be a massive overreach 453616507
Reposted by Chris Wilson Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026After a Flock camera mistook a livestock trailer for a white sedan, cops detained (at gunpoint) an innocent county extension agent picking up piglets for a 4H show www.farmprogress.com/technology/e...farmprogress.comExtension agent caught in middle of license plate camera mix-upFlock cameras and other automated license plate readers in rural areas are meant to keep us safe, but errors can put innocent people at risk. 712667
Reposted by Chris Wilson ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/09/2026and then a major factor behind the Great Elite Capitulation to Trump that started in like 2023. they thought his victory meant the wokesters would finally be shut up forever 514024
Reposted by Chris Wilson Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Like look I’m sorry but this is clearly some kind of mania. What in the holy shit is he talking about? This sounds like a conversation he’s had with his chatbot 1302559441
Reposted by Chris Wilson Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement. 534296791
