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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 10h

Don't know what I'm fightin' for. Ain't never owned a slave. Steve Earle

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 10h

These are some scared puppies. Hard to imagine conversation around the family dinner table.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You don't necessarily need a big "shakeup" to affect the tone and coverage. Stelter's own comments are exhibit 1, whether he realizes it or not.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seems the MAGA movement gave up their preoccupation with pedophiles and switched to trans folks and their friends after it dawned on them that those pedo guys were a big portion of their leadership.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remembering from my youth some AM stations worth staying up late at night for: WLS, WWL, WLAC, WLW, WAPE, KMOX, WTOP, and others. Mostly 50,000 watts clear channel.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Per capita would be more informative.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seems like a pretty technical economics question to ask the general public. I had macro some years back and haven't a clue. The responses more likely just reflect today's fashionable cynicism on almost any question.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Haven't watched Morning Joe since the big sellout.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the end it's always about Willie Horton and trans athletes.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You do understand that any money that ICE pays for damages ultimately comes from you and me, not from them.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On a more serious note, real meat can be produced without the need to raise and destroy millions of large mammals. The roadblocks are scaling up from demo stage and getting over the ick factor.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This man has a BA in Poly Sci from Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A classic example of click bait. Not clicking.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gas in the U.S. is still well below the price in Europe before the troubles began earlier this year. We need to disincentivize the purchase of those big behemoth cars and promote transition to EVs. It's easy to forget that high gas prices are a result of demand as well as supply.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When one tax (e.g., grocery tax) is eliminated or reduced another tax (e.g., property tax) is raised to achieve the same revenue. It's a political shell game.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What's with Brian Stelter on CNN this morning hyping the new 60 Minutes? It was strange and embarrassing.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Since it is worldwide, it is not likely to be stopped or even reigned in without a major international treaty. But it doesn't look like anyone is even working on it. Congress is at least a decade behind in regulating the development and use of AI.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not to change the subject, but you all know that beef and other animal meat can now be "cultivated" in factories without the need to slaughter millions of large corn fed mammals. It's just getting over the ick factor and scaling up production.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yes. Having to take your eyes off the road to seek out tiny icons on a screen in the middle of the dash is nuts.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

To: "The Benefits Department." Anyone using heavily discounted USPS bulk rate and presorted first class rates should be required to provide clear and accurate return address info on the envelope. No one using the USPS should be allowed to misrepresent themselves as a government agency.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bet the real AF1 will fuel up and follow him to Ireland so he'll have a ride home.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well said. We elect governments to set the rules for fair play in the market place.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's odd that the safety experts load cars with bells and warnings (like the annoying seatbelt chime), but ignore the risk of taking your eyes off the highway to locate some tiny icon buried in layers of touch screens.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How is this not war? Seems like there would be a treaty among nations to restrict this kind of madness before it escalates into a catastrophe.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Utility costs are impossible to regulate effectively. They hold all the cards in rate hearings and in many/most states the commissions are stacked against the public. Distributed generation is the only way to go.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I had rooftop solar 15 yrs ago in SC when there were federal tax credits. Now in NC and incentives have since disappeared.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

They're buying it back because it is legal to do so and makes money for the execs and shareholders. It's up to the federal government to set the guardrails. Huge defense corporations that depend on the govt for their very existence are problematic on many levels.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today, we all fritter away our time as free beta testers for poorly designed, unfriendly software. It wasn't supposed to turn out this way.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The ACA is a federally subsidized money cow for insurance companies. That's the only reason their lobbyists allowed it to become law.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Widespread rooftop solar eases stress on the grid and also shades those dark grey heat absorbing asphalt shingles that we knuckleheads are still putting on new residential construction.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There are thousands of good and highly qualified people who would love to serve in congress on $175k salary and generous perks.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

These legal dudes are so confident that the New Order will prevail that they're not worried about any threat of disbarment.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's like there is a basket of policy positions labelled moderate, another progressive and another conservative. As though one's position on an education issue determines their position on national defense, and their position on border security is linked to their position on abortion.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The die was cast when importers to retailers failed to keep an accounting trail leading up to the customers who ultimately paid at the cash register. A tariff fee should have been itemized on receipts, just like the state sales tax.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Was just getting ready to say the same thing.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What are they teaching at Brooklyn Law School and how did this cum laude graduate pass the bar exam?

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hawley lectured Fauci shamelessly on his quest for "awards," implying that the doctor was misusing his staff to seek tokens of personal recognition. In fact, "awards" are the result of successful grant applications, which are the lifeblood of research. Hawley, of course, knew this.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is the correct answer. Everything else is chatter.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Intergenerational Equity means setting priorities in a way that considers impacts beyond our individual life spans. We're not too good at that.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

They say egg McMuffin addiction can be treated without medication.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And it's ok to ready non-fiction. The Story of Birds, for example, is a page turner.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Root cause: Insurance companies have no legitimate role in health care. Gambling on people's health as a profit center for execs and shareholders doesn't work. The model doesn't fit.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Remember when there were bar associations that protected the public against attorneys misusing tax funded judicial processes solely to intimidate innocent people?

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Not at all impressed by a 7-foot athlete who can dunk a basketball through a 10-foot rim and then hang on the rim for emphasis. Yawn. Women's hoops is far more interesting, tactical and disciplined.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yes. I was wondering how 50,000 people could swim the Straight of Gibraltar until I looked it up on Google Earth.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Yes, thank you. I keep making the same comment when this misinformation pops up. The camps were started right away. Communists were a significant violent force at that time and a lot of the public was happy to see them apprehended. (Not that the Brown Shirts were any better.)

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In the olden days under a functioning government, a bipartisan congress would have consulted experts, held hearing and crafted guidelines to regulate the forthcoming industry. Absent any rules, all we have is the honor system.

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Just Bill @vilhelm5.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We can't help ourselves. Builders still putting black asphalt shingles on roofs in the sunny South and running the duct work through the steam hot attic.

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