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Bruce Pollock

@brucepollock09.bsky.social

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Meteorologist and Risk Communicator TX->OK->NY. He/Him/His. All opinions are my own. 🏳️‍🌈

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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · Feb 28

Growing up, my family told me for years that my passion for meteorology was something to take pride in and something that would have immense job security. 1/13

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

With roughly a third reporting, Helena Moreno and Michelle Woodfork are above the 50% threshold they’ll need to win without heading to a runoff. (Both are Dems, as is most everyone else in race.) More later!

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

It’s actually Election Day tomorrow… in Louisiana!

I’m watching: the New Orleans sheriff race, and the New Orleans mayor’s race.

Both in my cheat sheet of elections to watch this fall!

boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 1d

I LOVE this movie. Idc how bad anything is this is my guilty pleasure. Such a formative movie along side perfect storm.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 2d

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2d

This 100%

Republicans and their media sycophants want to pin all the unpopular and harmful cuts in their budget on the Democrats

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 2d

The Republicans don’t want to pass their budget on their own. It’s full of ugly and unpopular stuff. They want Dem cover. We cannot give it to them.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 2d

The founders in fact did NOT create the filibuster, but they DID give the Senate and House each the power to set their own rules, which includes changing rules to allow passage of appropriations bills with simple majorities

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

President Trump said that he’s placing an additional 100% tax on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1 or sooner, potentially escalating tariff rates close to levels that in April fanned fears of a steep recession and financial market chaos.

Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1 or sooner

President Donald Trump says “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: Newsom has signed SB 79 into law!!

This is a great day for anyone who cares about ending California's housing and homelessness crisis, getting the state to net zero emissions, and recovering American democracy.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 4d

In a few days, you may be notified that your health insurance premiums will double, because of Republican cuts to health care. Democrats are fighting to change that before it's too late.

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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 5d

Do so today!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5d

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 5d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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Democrats @democrats.org · 6d

In California, voting for fair congressional maps has begun.

Make your plan to vote: IWillVote.com.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 6d

Updating this chart because the prior version is out of date. With Mike Johnson refusing to convene the House, the soonest Democrat Adelita Grijalva can get sworn in—and provide the 218th signature to force a vote on the Epstein files—is now three weeks after winning the #AZ07 special election.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 11d

House Republicans are refusing to seat Dem Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election more than a week ago. She's the last signature needed to force a vote on the Epstein files.

The soonest the GOP will act is Oct. 7. In three prior specials this year, the winners were all sworn in a day later.

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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 6d

Jason Missed Enderlin

Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 6d

a red monster with horns is standing in front of a door with the number 343 on it .

ALT: a red monster with horns is standing in front of a door with the number 343 on it .

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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 6d

*narrator* It did not in fact get better actually, it got worse.

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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 6d

I just texted a friend this exact phrase

Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 6d

The EF-5 drought appears to be over wow

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PNS from KFGF

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants.

KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
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I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly mis- judges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the sta- bility our Government has promised them. Because, re- spectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.

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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 10d

Troy NY in Rensselaer county also has several city council races which could flip the town from red-> blue and enable progressive changes to the town.

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