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I'm a journalist and in my spare time media bothers me deploy empathy & compassion liberally contributor to TrumpFile.org. I write books, tell dad jokes & have a blog. proud #StephHead & #GayDad support my work: https://bio.site/willpollock

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 21h

incomplete list of media outlets that typed up "snubbed" covering Donny's "losing" an award for which he was not in contention #NobelPrize

- @nbcnews.com
- @aljazeera.com
- @timesofindianews.bsky.social

NBC, Al Jazeera & Times of India all ran "snubbed"

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 34m

“to love America is to love all Americans”

yep, it’s really that simple. well done @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social 💯🏆🔥

Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 1h

Diversity is our strength, no matter what racist, bigoted Republicans say.

Real Americans embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.

Real Americans reject Trump and his white nationalist cronies.

Trump is bad, project 2025 is bad and the people who love America, the real patriots reject both.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 47m

there will be no grand jury here, because Pritzker committed no crime, but Jethro Dull poisoned the well anyway based on "feelings"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said Pritzker should be in jail. Do you think he has committed a crime?

VANCE: I think Pritzker has certainly failed to keep the people of Illinois safe

S: It's a yes or no question

V: I certainly think he has violated his fundamental oath. That seems pretty criminal to me

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 15h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1h

This is how you’re supposed to treat fascists and their lies.

Media pay attention.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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

if a genie gave me some wishes I'd request Bea Arthur come back for a week to rip ALL EVANGELICAL NUTBAGS a new one for being cunty to folks just wanting to exist freely www.nextavenue.org/bea-arthur/

headline that states "Bea Arthur's residence for homeless LGBT Youth set to open"

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

blink and you might've missed Golden Girls laying paving stones for #LoveIsLove and #MarriageEquality in 1989 Valentine's Day episode #GGClips #40thAnniversary #Timeless

@restingbeaface.bsky.social @gingerkap23.bsky.social @gaylord.pink

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

well, given what we know about "conspiracy" (term used loosely here, work with me) to nominate Queens Mobster for a prize he will NEVER win that may not be as unrelated as we think #JustSaying

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

really good point here from Lee @whodat35.bsky.social. keep in mind Donny deputized Mike Roman specifically to rateff Fani Willis' RICO probe in Fulton County and *destroy her* in the process

the lifelong racist don't take kindly to black women holding him accountable. keep going. #AllGasNoBrakes

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

State Attorneys General filed more than 130 multistate lawsuits against Trump-era abuses and won over 80% of them. That’s what legal resistance looks like. 💪 and this is really why Trump is after Letitia James
#FightBack #JusticeMatters #DefendDemocracy

ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

Attorney General James Wins Court Victory Blocking Funding Cuts for Critical Public Safety Programs

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 11 other attorneys general won a court order halting the administration’s attempt to cut

ag.ny.gov

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 2h

if you're anchoring @facethenation.bsky.social and Jethro Dull lies his ass off it's your responsibility to interrupt and challenge

otherwise you're simply acting as fascist PR.

🎩 @whodat35.bsky.social #IfItsSundayRepubsAreLying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

JD Vance: "We want to make sure that they skyrocketing healthcare costs of the Biden administration start to level off and hopefully come down."

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 2h

why hasn't media camped out at Billy Barr's house demanding to know why the non-investigation of Epstein's death was so *spectacularly* shoddy

www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

In cell where Jeffrey Epstein died, a scene of disarray that never underwent thorough inspection, experts said

Photos of Jeffrey Epstein's cell show a scene of disarray that never underwent a proper inspection, according to experts.

www.cbsnews.com

Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 3h

Sunday morning is legacy media’s dedicated time for platforming lying repubs

🎩 @waterblusky.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

JORDAN: Comey is where weaponization all started. 9 years ago he took the dossier--

BASH: But that's not what he's being prosecuted for

JORDAN: I'm just saying, you want to talk about weaponization, that's where it started

BASH: So this is retribution then

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 4h

UPDATE: in beforetimes, DHS folks did not use TSA checkpoints for personal marketing—nor did anyone to my knowledge violate Hatch Act in the process

wildly illegal. Botoxed yutz must be removed or resign. www.reddit.com/r/law/s/qde3...

Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 17h

Trump admin cuts mental health jobs during shutdown

In the second week of the ongoing government shutdown, the Trump administration has laid off roughly 125 employees from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the main mental health agency in the US. “I think the general feeling today is shock — and not understanding why?” the source revealing this info told NPR. […]

dlvr.it

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 19h

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 19h

no surprise here:

→ @dailymail.co.uk & Fixed Noise

oh and bonus, Mrs. Nosferatu has a podcast! I will continue not listening even more strongly now #Snubbed

Daily Mail and Fixed Noise both went with snubbed

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 19h

but I digress. moving on:

→ @timesofisrael.com
→ @thecentersquare.bsky.social via Fox affiliate in Augusta GA
→ @thenewdaily.bsky.social

Times of Israel goes with "snubbed" language

another syndication scheme where some "nonpartisan" news outlet runs a "snubbed" piece on a regional Fox affiliate

The New Daily out of Australia goes with "snubbed"

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 19h

if New York Times was already sold to a regional pennysaver 10 years ago and it was still attempting journalism how could we tell the difference

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 19h

this @apnews.com stink bomb upcycled by @fortune.com deserves its own callout. AP bulletins are syndicated across 15,000 media outlets and yet I can't find this dreck anywhere on AP's website. wonder why.

no byline, zero value. junk-food clickbait. #Snubbed

unmitigated stink bomb from AP that falsely claims donny was "snubbed" by Nobel even though the "peace" "president*" was never in the running

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 20h

One screenshot to show how completely cooked and failed the current media ecosystem is

Despite all sorts of unbelievable and absurd handwringing here’s the real reason to stop being suckers and cowards:
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Nominations for the
2025 Nobel Peace
Prize

There are 338 candidates nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, of which 244 are individuals and 94 are organisations. This is a significant increase from last year when there were 286 nominees. The highest number of nominees was in 2016, with 376 candidates.

The nomination deadline for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 was on 31 January.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 20h

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a man in a suit and tie with the words how bout now below him

Alt: a man in a suit and tie with the words how bout now below him

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 20h

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 22h

Today in 2016, Don Jr. met with a French group that was a known front for Russian intelligence. They paid him $50,000 for the meeting. Unrelated, the hosts previously nominated Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Donald Trump Jr. is paid $50,000 to meet with Russian assets in Paris (October 11, 2016)

Donald Trump Jr. is paid at least $50,000 to attend a private event paid for by a French think tank known to be a front for Russian intelligence. The 30-person event at the Ritz Hotel in Paris is hosted by the Center for Political and Foreign Affairs (CFPA), which France's…

trumpfile.org

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 20h

mull this one over: we citizens are paying salaries of notorious liars who repeatedly claim, without evidence, that citizens are "committing" "violence" against officers

🧢 @newsjennifer.bsky.social

tweet-lie from a duo of notorious lying liars and agitators

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 20h

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