Bruce Pollock
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Meteorologist and Risk Communicator TX->OK->NY. He/Him/His. All opinions are my own. 🏳️🌈
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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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Marisa Kabas
1 day ago
SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership. All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
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FEMA employee terminated for signing whistleblower letter
It appears to be a major violation of federal whistleblower protections and constitutional rights.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-employee-terminated-whistleblower-katrina-declaration
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The Associated Press
5 days ago
Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change.
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Alaska Native villages have few options and little US help as climate change devours their land
Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change.
https://bit.ly/43KLnay
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THANK GOD
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6 days ago
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Ed Burmila
6 days ago
The domino meme and the smallest domino is "Craigslist destroys classified ad revenue for local newspapers" and the big domino is, well, everything happening now
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God forbid im comfy when I fly.
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7 days ago
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Stand Up America
8 days ago
The Trump administration is enabling unprecedented corruption. The American people deserve better than this.
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Jeff Asher
8 days ago
"Do you love New York but wish it had fewer people, no big buildings and much worse humidity? Well do I have a state for you!"
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GG
10 days ago
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)
10 days ago
😶😶😶
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Genie Lauren
10 days ago
A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene The party can burn in hell
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The memes folks are coming up with are insane
11 days ago
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The Associated Press
12 days ago
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No. 4 Alabama loses at home to No. 11 Oklahoma. Up next: No. 5 Georgia hosts No. 10 Texas. Follow AP for live coverage.
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Taniel
12 days ago
Checking in on this: the school board member who opposed the ban on trans athletes, and who was then challenged by the parent of the HS girl who'd complained, won reelection, 60 to 40%.
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Michael McDonald
12 days ago
Gee...she didn't seem so concerned when her political opponents were being targeted with threats
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Taniel
12 days ago
Inside Politics does a detailed analysis of the new Texas map and concludes that, no, nothing about it looks like a dummymander. Dems there could do better than the GOP expected, but even then the map would have shielded GOP from more losses. Important to be realistic:
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Could Democrats Break the Texas Gerrymander?
Would a return to form among Latino voters help Democrats break the Texas GOP gerrymander?
https://www.insideelections.com/news/article/could-democrats-break-the-texas-gerrymander
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Annie
12 days ago
Thinking of the ICE videos of workers at car washes, laborers at Home Depot, ag workers running in fields, having the means to buy an average priced home in Pasadena at 1.2 million plus.
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Damn we really bout to watch her run for President arent we.
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12 days ago
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers
14 days ago
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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Jay Willis
13 days ago
Wild to me how many headlines I saw this week celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting Kim Davis's bid to end marriage equality, when the Texas Supreme Court just decided that state court judges are free to refuse to perform weddings for same-sex couples from here on out
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The Conservative War On Marriage Equality Never Needed Kim Davis
The Supreme Court rejected Davis’s bid to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. But in Texas and elsewhere, anti-gay activists are chipping away at the right that case protects.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/kim-davis-supreme-court-marriage-equality-texas/
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gamera obscura
14 days ago
The right thinks the left will fight to protect Bill Clinton. The actual left thinks the middle will fight to protect Bill Clinton. But I want to believe — tonight as winter creeps closer, and even the tiniest glimmer of hope is impossibly precious — that nobody would protect Bill Clinton.
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Ketan Joshi
15 days ago
YOUR DAILY REMINDER: it is extreme weather, intensified by fossil fuels, that pose the greatest threat to grid security and causes the most blackouts. The blatantly false idea that renewables cause blackouts is *itself* likely to cause more blackouts, by encouraging more fossil fuel use
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Silky
13 days ago
this would wipe out entire universities’ eligibility for funding
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NY Times Pitchbot
14 days ago
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Louis
14 days ago
I do view transphobes as intellectually inferior and you should too
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They are trying so hard to not spook the market
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Kyle Griffin
15 days ago
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
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Prisonculture
15 days ago
Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
15 days ago
Donald Trump just called Lauren Boebert to ask her to remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files. She does not plan to do so.
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NBC News
15 days ago
Colombian President Gustavo Petro orders his nation’s security forces to stop sharing intelligence with the U.S. until the Trump administration stops its strikes on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean.
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Colombia to suspend intelligence cooperation with U.S. over strikes on drug vessels
The leftist leader has long been a critic of U.S. drug policy, and has accused the Trump administration of going after peasants growing coca instead of targeting major drug traffickers and money launderers.
https://nbcnews.to/4p0SKCU
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Darin Self
17 days ago
AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL YOU FORGOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL
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Robert Reich
17 days ago
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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Taniel
17 days ago
My post of Decision Desk's decision to call the Seattle mayor race for Harrell last week didn't hinge on who would ultimately win: The point was that a "call" isn't a race to get a prediction right. But Wilson now being ahead should at least bring more attention to the importance of not rushing.
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Rachel Maddow
17 days ago
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Aaron Rupar
17 days ago
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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Dr. Samantha Montano
17 days ago
Once again noting that it is not possible to effectively teach disaster management without teaching about race and gender.
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Elizabeth Warren
17 days ago
Donald Trump just said he'll ask the Supreme Court to freeze SNAP payments AGAIN. His message to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP? Eat dirt.
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Zaggs
17 days ago
"Well see what he did with SNAP" He lost every fucking case! And you know what? If SCOTUS wanted to allow him to stop it, let them. Let that be the message going in to the midterms, that Trump went to the Supreme Court to stop paying for food for poor people.
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W.E.D.em Boyz
17 days ago
It’s insane that there aren’t mass calls from both caucuses for Schumer and Jeffries to step down
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Don Moynihan
17 days ago
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
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nsfw neru | Comms: Waitlist
17 days ago
Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now. If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
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thebadprototype
17 days ago
every time she loses an appeal her forehead gets a little bigger
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Sarah Kate Ellis
17 days ago
I am glad to see SCOTUS denying Kim Davis's attempt to overturn marriage equality. These baseless attempts to invalidate marriage for same-sex couples are designed to intimidate our community and put families like mine in danger. We all deserve to be happy, and if we choose, to get married.
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Alyssa Long
17 days ago
I hate how much this feels like good news when it should have been a foregone conclusion, but relieved nonetheless
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J. Mijin Cha
17 days ago
Team Poe 🥰
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Greg Sargent
17 days ago
Great job,
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. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
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Just Jack
17 days ago
Schumer’s resume: - gets outfoxed by McConnell during two Trump impeachments - consistently fails to whip the vote when it matters - folds like a cheap lawn chair under pressure - thumbs his nose at new progressive candidates It’s like we brought reading glasses to a gun fight.
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I wonder what its like to not have your personal life decided by a supreme court decision.
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17 days ago
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The New York Times
17 days ago
Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago.
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The Washington Post
17 days ago
Breaking news: The Supreme Court has declined to consider a challenge to its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.
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Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court’s conservative majority to revisit one of the court’s most significant decisions in recent years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/10/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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