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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 8h

hypothetically let's say 30% of Noem's terror squad are not badged "federal" "agents" at all. if that turns out even close to accurate, we as a society should be asking ourselves why THEY are getting headlines/stories and not victims or protestors

🎩 @whitchmi.bsky.social
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

curious to hear @drjackbrown.bsky.social's take, but here's mine:

we need to separate *experienced* trauma from *inflicted* trauma. as journalists we should be guided by the former (centering victims) but the violent, inhumane act of inflicting trauma has dominated all coverage in the last 9 months

Google result for the difference between experienced and inflicted trauma, which in some cases are linked

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

not running those stories is a choice and the oligarchs made it. the articles would, as the kids say, bury the needle on clicks but not upsetting Charlatan-in-Chief is the guiding "principle" here

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

head-ass truth right here.

for example: Murkowski is in #ScaredMAGA bucket and not "a moderate"

Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 11h

"There are no moderates in the GOP. There are only scared MAGA and proud MAGA."

Marc Elias

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

facts, Kane.

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edolis 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @edolis.bsky.social · 11h

NPR - a vestige of the way US press used to be. Always a pleasure listening to their programs.

Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 14h

"signing [Pete's mobbed-up Loyalty Pledge] would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable"— @npr.org's Tom Bowman, who held Pentagon credentials for nearly 3 decades

praise-dear-leader stenography is the point here.

excerpt from NPR's Tom Bowman's announcement that he is turning in his Pentagon press badge

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

Bette Midler's version from "Beaches" is wonderful

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

pared down my news diet to dog cuddles and Britbox but I need to make room for my Politics Daddy @lastweektonight.com

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CoachN @coachn.bsky.social · 16h

As a 5-decade Trekker, I am so sad that Paramount has control of the franchise.

Warts-and-all, Gene Roddenberry created a vision of the future of humanity that is totally antithetical to what this corporation has become.

John Oliver really hit it with his latest on Bari Weiss.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

youtu.be

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Patty Durand @pattydurand.bsky.social · 17h

We all know that power bills have spiked the past few years (30+% since 2023, with more rate hikes coming) but we can do something about it on Nov 4th by voting OUT the 2 incumbents on the ballot for Georgia Public Service Commission!

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

"heartfelt beliefs and concerns of a traumatized nation, as spoken by ordinary citizens? that would be a good story, but I’m not seeing it in Big Journalism" @sulliview.bsky.social

excerpt from Margaret Sullivan's latest, which you can find here: https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-media-is-largely-ignoring-the

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 18h

The House GOP has already voted (& failed) to replace Obamacare/ACA 100 times. ONE HUNDRED TIMES. Never once has it put forward a credible replacement.

100 to 0. That's the record. Here are the ugly details: howmanytimeshasthehousevotedtorepealobamacare.com

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

translating Vanky: "my husband is a closet-case and I've been over-compensating as pretend businessperson for years now"

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss would never run this.
But it's the most accurate journalism i've seen since John Oliver yesterday.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

is the point that "ICE can't find violent criminals" or that data/evidence suggests immigrants aren't, in fact, violent by nature? I would revise the headline but you're right that's a hell of a story

(the "band of criminals" committing violence are the masked goons purportedly working as "feds")

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

really and truly. @nreveillee.bsky.social should feel free to rant under my posts any time she pleases 🔥🔥🔥

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 9h

"the 1%" do in fact "own government" as well as media conglomerates & retail monopolies & more. but we have the power of our spending and choices. we are not their slaves despite billionaires' egotistical assumptions

you'll want to read @nreveillee.bsky.social's subthread 🔥 bsky.app/profile/nrev...

🇺🇦Noelle🇺🇦Dem Good @ Everything. DeICE America @nreveillee.bsky.social · 1d

bills for Repub state legislators to introduce in their state legislature & for Repub Representatives & Senators to introduce in Congress. The 1% own the government. They created activist groups with directed propaganda to urge them to attack school boards & city councils about things the wealthy

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🇺🇦Noelle🇺🇦Dem Good @ Everything. DeICE America @nreveillee.bsky.social · 1d

I will not watch the films of actors or actresses, producers, directors, film editors, special effects creators (AI or not) if they have donated to, endorsed, publicly praised Trump, MAGAMike Johnson, MAGA Repubs in the House or Senate who support the government shutdown, support Repubs taking 70 of

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 10h

🎯🎯🎯

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 1d

#Sysco is the monopolistic-dirtbag company nobody's talking about. in some cases restaurants would have no ingredients if they don't "play ball" #BuyLocal

Scare-bag Boooooments 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 1d

At some point under Obama, America just started shrugging off the hell of monopoly capitalism.

The Hidden Reason Why Restaurants Are Getting Worse

How one company’s market dominance has wrecked the food industry.
substack.perfectunion.us/p/the-hidden...

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 11h

great opportunity to start reporting about all the private incel-Nazi-terrorist groups still active on Faceplace

Zuck knows it. doesn’t care. most media orgs know it and say/do absolutely nothing

🎩 @dmansini.bsky.social

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 11h

“don’t call us Nazi Youth how dare you”

“Hitler was bae tho”

🎩 @hongpong.bsky.social

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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beachbabynj.bsky.social @beachbabynj.bsky.social · 14h

Excuse me, but the Pentagon belongs to the PEOPLE, not him!

Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 16h

*of course* (GR)OAN signed the deal bc—like Whiskey Pete and Donny and the rest—(GR)OAN is a Kremlin-propaganda cutout and that’s the underlying purpose of (GR)OAN’s op

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 19h

PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION on Secretary of Defense (on #Journalism) Hegseth revoking credentials because they won’t agree to a new draconian policy where he controls everything they do: “violates the first amendment.. a concern to all.”

Note: OAN only outlet that signed it.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 13h

his fat yapper ALWAYS wrote checks the shouty charlatan couldn’t cash. time to pay up, doofus.

kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 14h

A little good news!

SCOTUS declined to review an appeal from Alex Jones. This left in place a lower court judge’s order that he pay $1.4 billion in damages to the families who lost children in a 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT.

Free 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families

www.nytimes.com

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 14h

functionally, that #LoyaltyPledge also provides cover (positive "articles" designed to mask corruption, incompetence and self-dealing) for the right's ultimate scheme to keep stealing American, and global, elections

big 🎩 @norby36.bsky.social

archive.ph/9qcjX

archived version of Rolling Stone's opinion piece that argues, I think correctly, that global right's plan is to allow billionaires (which already functionally control American democracy) to buy future elections

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 14h

"signing [Pete's mobbed-up Loyalty Pledge] would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable"— @npr.org's Tom Bowman, who held Pentagon credentials for nearly 3 decades

praise-dear-leader stenography is the point here.

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