Polly Bruno
@pollybruno.bsky.social
Author, novel Western Motel (pub. Scribner’s Atheneum, as Polly Gross), stories, a pair of thrillers. Event biz vet, film fan. Chicago South Sider on the Gulf. Yes, that Gulf.
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Polly Bruno
@pollybruno.bsky.social
· Apr 28
From my new novel…
Mandee, the dim-witted dispatcher: “I’m smizing right now. Cool, huh?” Liquor czar “Lippy” Lipowitz: “On the nose, you’ll get hints of dried fruit, dark chocolate, and toasted oak.” C-Note, the hip hop producer: “Where I sit, that is the head of the table.”
Mandee, the dim-witted dispatcher: “I’m smizing right now. Cool, huh?” Liquor czar “Lippy” Lipowitz: “On the nose, you’ll get hints of dried fruit, dark chocolate, and toasted oak.” C-Note, the hip hop producer: “Where I sit, that is the head of the table.”
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Conservatives used to worry about an internal, militarized police and surveillance state.
December 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Conservatives used to worry about an internal, militarized police and surveillance state.
I love the plaintive simplicity of this song.
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A Lucky Guy
YouTube video by Rickie Lee Jones - Topic
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December 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I love the plaintive simplicity of this song.
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Joke’s on us! Still, funny is… funny. Forever 💯
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Joke’s on us! Still, funny is… funny. Forever 💯
The Eagles, man. They just about broke my heart. 🦅
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The Eagles, man. They just about broke my heart. 🦅
Or maybe not suddenly.
If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Or maybe not suddenly.
Wordle 1,631 2/6
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May bode well. On the other hand…
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May bode well. On the other hand…
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Wordle 1,631 2/6
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May bode well. On the other hand…
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
May bode well. On the other hand…
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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If/when Democrats regain control of Congress, the path is clear. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until you stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25 of you, with 9 chosen by lottery for any one case.
Again, because the 9 Wizards In Robes, of both parties, believe they & SCOTUS are entitled by God to be an all-powerful Super-legislature, adding seats (& slashing the clerks/building budget, & making them ride the circuit, etc.) has now become the only serious “moderate” & “pro-democracy” position.
Justice Sotomayor suggests—implausibly—that justices somehow have a vested property interest in their office. Yet another reason why relying on judges to be reformers is an absolute disaster.
September 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If/when Democrats regain control of Congress, the path is clear. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until you stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25 of you, with 9 chosen by lottery for any one case.
How did MJ feel, flying toward the hoop? I’ll never know, but I know how it felt to watch him.
If you’ve got a gift, even a little bit of a gift, indulge it. Enjoy it. Do your thing.
If you’ve got a gift, even a little bit of a gift, indulge it. Enjoy it. Do your thing.
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
How did MJ feel, flying toward the hoop? I’ll never know, but I know how it felt to watch him.
If you’ve got a gift, even a little bit of a gift, indulge it. Enjoy it. Do your thing.
If you’ve got a gift, even a little bit of a gift, indulge it. Enjoy it. Do your thing.
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I am once again asking United States Senators to take a trial ad class to learn cross examination and witness control techniques plz
One thing to note about Bove’s response re: whistleblower report is that he didn’t explicitly deny making the “fuck you” comment.
Would be interesting to see his response if a senator directly asks him if he denies saying that
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Would be interesting to see his response if a senator directly asks him if he denies saying that
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November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
That settles it. Next year I’m serving Pigs in a Blanket at some point before dinner. A Midwestern amuse bouche!
🤌🏻 I know that’s right
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
That settles it. Next year I’m serving Pigs in a Blanket at some point before dinner. A Midwestern amuse bouche!
This is me. Make my own turkey broth with the giblets, use it for the sausage stuffing and—with that neck meat!—for the gravy. Turkey skin so crisp it snaps, crackles, and pops. It’s a fine meal.
As for me and my house, we will serve turkey with perfectly crispy skin, sausage and bread stuffing cooked inside the bird (despite my brother working for cooperative extension), and a veritable ocean of homemade gravy.
The whole POINT of Thanksgiving is stuffing and gravy. You can’t stuff a ham.
The whole POINT of Thanksgiving is stuffing and gravy. You can’t stuff a ham.
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is me. Make my own turkey broth with the giblets, use it for the sausage stuffing and—with that neck meat!—for the gravy. Turkey skin so crisp it snaps, crackles, and pops. It’s a fine meal.
A movie that takes place where you’re from. (In this case, my city and my neighborhood.)
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from. (In this case, my city and my neighborhood.)
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Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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Countries with DEI and abortion are human rights violators, says country where armed and masked government forces are invading neighborhoods.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Countries with DEI and abortion are human rights violators, says country where armed and masked government forces are invading neighborhoods.
How come you can evoke and you can revoke, but you can’t voke? It doesn’t seem fair.
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
How come you can evoke and you can revoke, but you can’t voke? It doesn’t seem fair.
Flawed character, redemption arc—all of this works well for stories about men with cool careers (lawyer, fixer, getaway driver, etc.). Women have to work harder for grace, just as they do for gold.
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Flawed character, redemption arc—all of this works well for stories about men with cool careers (lawyer, fixer, getaway driver, etc.). Women have to work harder for grace, just as they do for gold.
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this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter
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It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.
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Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
I love to write. That said, I’d really enjoy it more if I didn’t have to spend so much time thinking about commas.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I love to write. That said, I’d really enjoy it more if I didn’t have to spend so much time thinking about commas.
A rule of thumb for writing clarity:
“Handout” is a noun. “Hand out” is a verb phrase.
“Read the handout.”
“I’ll hand out the gifts.”
Same with rollout and roll out, breakdown and break down, and—please—“standby” and “stand by.”
“They put me on standby.”
“I’m Wolf Blitzer … stand by!”
“Handout” is a noun. “Hand out” is a verb phrase.
“Read the handout.”
“I’ll hand out the gifts.”
Same with rollout and roll out, breakdown and break down, and—please—“standby” and “stand by.”
“They put me on standby.”
“I’m Wolf Blitzer … stand by!”
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A rule of thumb for writing clarity:
“Handout” is a noun. “Hand out” is a verb phrase.
“Read the handout.”
“I’ll hand out the gifts.”
Same with rollout and roll out, breakdown and break down, and—please—“standby” and “stand by.”
“They put me on standby.”
“I’m Wolf Blitzer … stand by!”
“Handout” is a noun. “Hand out” is a verb phrase.
“Read the handout.”
“I’ll hand out the gifts.”
Same with rollout and roll out, breakdown and break down, and—please—“standby” and “stand by.”
“They put me on standby.”
“I’m Wolf Blitzer … stand by!”