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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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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h
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
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
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 · 10h
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 · 1d
Do so today!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
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 · 1d
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
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 7d
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 · 2d
Jason Missed Enderlin
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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
*narrator* It did not in fact get better actually, it got worse.
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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 2d
I just texted a friend this exact phrase
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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 6d
The MTA Memorabilia & Collectibles Pop-Up Shop is back! This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to purchase pieces of NYC transit history 🚇

DETAILS:
October 16 and 17 from 9am - 2pm
23 Avenue X, Brooklyn, NY 11223 (outdoors)
Take the D train to Bay 50 St

Learn more: www.mta.info/article/new-...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 6d
FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who drew sharp criticism from both sides of the aisle over his comments related to Jimmy Kimmel’s show, will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee, a spokesperson for the committee tells NBC News.
FCC chair to testify before Senate panel after bipartisan blowback over Jimmy Kimmel suspension
Sen. Ted Cruz, chairman of the committee holding the hearing, was one of the most outspoken GOP critics of FCC Chair Brendan Carr's actions leading up to Kimmel's benching.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6d
The government shutdown has temporarily furloughed around 750,000 federal workers, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The Trump administration has also begun canceling or withholding funding for projects in Democrat-led states.
Government shutdown continues with no end in sight amid partisan divide
Rank-and-file senators began discussing potential solutions Wednesday, though a compromise remains out of reach.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 7d
Jane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.
Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative
The Committee for the First Amendment was originally formed by Henry Fonda in 1947.
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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 7d
Just a reminder that NWS is considered essential during a government shutdown. Meteorologists will still go to work, forecasts will still be made, watches and warnings will be issued, data will flow. We won’t be paid until the shutdown ends, but we’ll still protect life and property as always.
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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 8d
Republicans have officially shut down the government.

Democrats are here to fight for a deal that reopens the government and lowers the cost of health care for working families across the country.

For info on how you may be impacted, visit RepFrost.us/shutdown
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 8d
Trump and his Republican lackeys just shut down the government.

This is their fault.
The first page of a graphic with a statement from DNC Chair Ken Martin on the Republican government shutdown reading, "In the clearest sign yet that Republicans are inept, incompetent, and lack any respect for the American people, they just shut down the federal government. Health insurance costs are about to double for families because of Republicans, but instead of preventing yet another Trump price hike, they are leaving the American people high and dry. This shutdown is on Republicans, and voters agree by a whopping 13-point margin. Republicans have obliterated health care through cuts and inaction. Hospitals and nursing homes are on the brink of shutting down, and costs are skyrocketing. As Democrats, we have been clear in our position from the start — we want to reverse the cuts, lower costs, and save health care for the American people." The second page of a graphic with a statement from DNC Chair Ken Martin on the Republican government shutdown reading, “Weak leaders like Donald Trump and his Republican buddies in Congress pass the buck and let people suffer. Strong leaders find a way forward to stop families from getting screwed. While Republicans hide out on vacation, Democrats have been at their desks in Washington, prepared to do their jobs. In this case, our job is to negotiate on behalf of all Americans, whether they are middle-class families being priced out of health care or workers being targeted by Trump. Our country deserves better than Republican dysfunction and chaos. Voters deserve elected leaders who actually look out for them. Democrats stand ready to deliver for the millions of people who are sick and tired of Trump wrecking the economy, wrecking health care, and wrecking Americans’ futures.”
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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9d
Nessie swimming toward the Bahamas
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 12d
The superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools was arrested by ICE, which alleged he was in the country illegally and without a work authorization.
ICE arrests superintendent of Iowa's largest public school district
The agency said Ian Andre Roberts, a Guyana national and superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was in the country illegally and had a final order of removal.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 13d
This figure from NBC News puts the "reversal" in perspective and makes clear the larger pattern. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Figure showing terrorist attacks and plots, by year. Documents that right-wing violence has been higher for every year between 1995 and 2024 but plummeted in the first half of 2025.
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