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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 · 23h

Anna's stick figures are back THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Who needs cameras in the courtroom when you’ve got this

Doodle of parties at the comet arraignment. Messy stick figure drawings

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

good to know. Brexit psyop was an unprecedented attack on the UK citizenry so finding a "fast track" exception seems just to me (and yes one has to apply!)

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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 9h

The median length of a successful EU accession application is just under 8.5 years; the fastest so far is just under 3 (although you do have to bother to apply first).

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

UK will rejoin EU sometime in the next decade. bookmark it.

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Catalyst Catalyst @catalystcatalyst.bsky.social · 10d

Reform UK = Brexit Party = UKIP

#FACTS

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 5m

"employed" is a quite interesting turn of phrase

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 7m

Noem, objectively spending money like drunken sailor on shore leave, is paying countless videographers to capture Brownshirts' felonies

for this reason we should think twice before sharing propaganda Gestapo uses to strike fear in America.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 19h

This is yet another manifestation of their Sadism. They film their cruelty. They get off on it.

And Sadism *never* exists in isolation. It's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 15m

um excuse me I need to cool off

a woman in a white lace top is holding a clear bottle of water

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

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

and I'm sure fascist-friendly media will report on all of that with equal thoroughness and investigative alacrity right?

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20h

Remember that "Pam: I have reviewed ..." TruthSocial post from Trump, the one that looked a lot like a private message?

Yes, it was supposed to be a private message.

Trump "was surprised to learn it was public."

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 18m

UPDATE 9: dude who stored classified documents next to a crapper—who later hired a team of idiots mired in multiple Signal scandals—is the same mobster using unsecured DMs to facilitate revenge schemes

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 32m

Dr. Jack is 100% right. when Donny's goons deflected in Regime 1 with "not appropriate for me to answer" (Sessions, Coats, others) the *immediate* response should've been "okay, here's a jail cell until you cooperate"

Margaret Taylor for @lawfaremedia.org

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 48m

"opposing Israel is possible without being antisemitic"

a man in a suit and tie is looking at a painting on a wall

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 50m

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 51m

is it a "can't" or a "won't"? legit asking as high-speed rail been intentionally held back for decades by repubs and their fossil-fuel whoremasters

Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 53m

#Occupiers

The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 23h

I have as much sympathy for the plight of ICE agents in LA, Chicago, and Portland as I have for Russian troops in Ukraine.

Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 54m

bingo. dude's act was untethered to any training plan and—based on what we can see anyway—the pup's actions did not rise to a level of even gentle reprimand, let alone zapping/buzzing

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 58m

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 23h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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

lol teased hair is a given with Donny's legal ladies

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 23h

(Somehow I broke this thread.) Moral of the story; if an owner tells you not to pet your dog on the head, don’t think you know better than the owner. Always ask!

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

ditto Zaggs. I also love Anna's interpretation and, as-drawn, her hair (at risk of Marlo Thomas slapping me) is serving "That Girl" realness lol

pageant walking Lindsey Halligan, as drawn by Anna Bower

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

of course, normal people (for direct comparison, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris) will not deputize dozens of "government" rubes to terrorize American citizens as a means of distracting over Epstein Files.

largest coverup in American history. all for a sociopath.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Mar 5

Trump has NO empathy. Not low empathy, not diminished empathy – ZERO empathy.  

When he uses people who have suffered as human props, he’s trying to evoke your empathy – to fool you into thinking he’s empathetic. He’s nothing of the sort. It’s a ruse. It’s a form of a bait-and-switch. Trump has ZERO empathy – a psychopath/sociopath (ASPD) by definition (and more completely, a Dark Tetrad).

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

I'm reminded of @emptywheel.bsky.social's post noting Donny lost his ability to redirect cable news (I later added it would make his desperation rise)

designating an ideology as "terrorist group" works on maga folks whose suspension of disbelief left this realm long ago
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excerpt from David Gilbert's superb reporting for Wired with passages highlighted and a key passage boxed in red, reading: "The day after the Posobiec tweet, I received a very direct death threat saying that someone was going to kill me in front of my students."

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

"Bray received little attention from the right until Trump issued his [nonsense] antifa executive order [which are not laws] on September 22" @davidgilbert.bsky.social

yea, inciting your murder cult to threaten an author's life is a confession to being a violent fascist
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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 5h

meme that states "The world doesn't want to be saved. it wants to be loved. (That's how you save it)" -- unknown

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