Patrick Polley
@patrickpoll.bsky.social
Physics teacher, military historian, Ph.D. in experimental physics, University of Florida 1985
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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Last night my wife and I went to a talk by Sanna Marin, who became Prime Minister of Finland at 34. She was very impressive, particularly for her indomitable opposition to Putin and her clear call for opposition to Russian aggression.
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Last night my wife and I went to a talk by Sanna Marin, who became Prime Minister of Finland at 34. She was very impressive, particularly for her indomitable opposition to Putin and her clear call for opposition to Russian aggression.
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And there it is.
(I listened to the audio and watched the video myself, and yes, that is *exactly* what the biographer said in this University of Cambridge address.)
(I listened to the audio and watched the video myself, and yes, that is *exactly* what the biographer said in this University of Cambridge address.)
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
And there it is.
(I listened to the audio and watched the video myself, and yes, that is *exactly* what the biographer said in this University of Cambridge address.)
(I listened to the audio and watched the video myself, and yes, that is *exactly* what the biographer said in this University of Cambridge address.)
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Are we winning yet?
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Are we winning yet?
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"Here’s what we don’t say out loud: There’s no money in journalism anymore. No fame, no glamour, no prestige. But there’s lots and lots of money in media—in being a brand, an influencer, a personality. We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers."
Corporate media is part of the establishment. It's beyond corrupt. Very good reporters and journalists are stuck within its dying edifice, but it's time to cleanse it with fire.
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
"Here’s what we don’t say out loud: There’s no money in journalism anymore. No fame, no glamour, no prestige. But there’s lots and lots of money in media—in being a brand, an influencer, a personality. We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers."
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Something’s wrong with this world.
Three people unsubscribed from my letters because I dared to send my personal war diaries only to supporters – not for free.
What an awful person I am.
Indeed.
Three people unsubscribed from my letters because I dared to send my personal war diaries only to supporters – not for free.
What an awful person I am.
Indeed.
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Something’s wrong with this world.
Three people unsubscribed from my letters because I dared to send my personal war diaries only to supporters – not for free.
What an awful person I am.
Indeed.
Three people unsubscribed from my letters because I dared to send my personal war diaries only to supporters – not for free.
What an awful person I am.
Indeed.
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This is one of the most disturbing stories I’ve read in a very long time: Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
By @jlussenhop.bsky.social @propublica.org and Andy Mannix @startribune.com
By @jlussenhop.bsky.social @propublica.org and Andy Mannix @startribune.com
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is one of the most disturbing stories I’ve read in a very long time: Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
By @jlussenhop.bsky.social @propublica.org and Andy Mannix @startribune.com
By @jlussenhop.bsky.social @propublica.org and Andy Mannix @startribune.com
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The President has put tariffs on the whole economy in an effort to revive manufacturing.
It's not working.
It's not working.
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The President has put tariffs on the whole economy in an effort to revive manufacturing.
It's not working.
It's not working.
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“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”
Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”
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For years Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been pushing the notion that germ theory is overrated. Now other HHS officials are picking up that argument. Katherine J. Wu reports:
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
For years Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been pushing the notion that germ theory is overrated. Now other HHS officials are picking up that argument. Katherine J. Wu reports:
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Um. Did he forget what happened? The dementia is really, really bad.
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Um. Did he forget what happened? The dementia is really, really bad.
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When you shoot your own puppy and become the head of HLS… 🫢
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
When you shoot your own puppy and become the head of HLS… 🫢
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Stephen Miller said the Chicago building was “filled with TdA terrorists.”
DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social
DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Stephen Miller said the Chicago building was “filled with TdA terrorists.”
DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social
DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social
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Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Democratic lawmakers urge troops to disobey illegal orders | CNN Politics
Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging servicemembers and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by ...
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Seems like nosferatu wants the troops to follow unlawful orders.
'Rebellion!' Stephen Miller flips out after Dems tell troops to 'refuse illegal orders'
www.rawstory.com
'Rebellion!' Stephen Miller flips out after Dems tell troops to 'refuse illegal orders'
twp.ai
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Seems like nosferatu wants the troops to follow unlawful orders.
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Pro tip:
With Chief Judge Boasberg moving full steam ahead on finding which US officials were responsible for ordering defiance of his order...
And whistleblower most likely to testify...
Here's where this is heading in significant part:
www.justsecurity.org/116777/bove-...
With Chief Judge Boasberg moving full steam ahead on finding which US officials were responsible for ordering defiance of his order...
And whistleblower most likely to testify...
Here's where this is heading in significant part:
www.justsecurity.org/116777/bove-...
Whistleblower Documents Implicate Emil Bove in Criminal Contempt Order by Chief Judge Boasberg
Email released by whistleblower would presumably implicate Bove in the “contumacious conduct” identified by Chief Judge Boasberg.
www.justsecurity.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Pro tip:
With Chief Judge Boasberg moving full steam ahead on finding which US officials were responsible for ordering defiance of his order...
And whistleblower most likely to testify...
Here's where this is heading in significant part:
www.justsecurity.org/116777/bove-...
With Chief Judge Boasberg moving full steam ahead on finding which US officials were responsible for ordering defiance of his order...
And whistleblower most likely to testify...
Here's where this is heading in significant part:
www.justsecurity.org/116777/bove-...
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Yes. This is the way we must be.
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yes. This is the way we must be.
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An increasing number of college students are arriving on campus with math skills that don't meet middle-school standards. Rose Horowitch reports on what’s behind the national decline in mathematical ability:
‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
An increasing number of college students are arriving on campus with math skills that don't meet middle-school standards. Rose Horowitch reports on what’s behind the national decline in mathematical ability:
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Yale Budget Lab has estimated the cost of the Trump tariff checks "is about twice as large as the total revenue that will be raised by the administration's tariff hikes."
Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...
Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Yale Budget Lab has estimated the cost of the Trump tariff checks "is about twice as large as the total revenue that will be raised by the administration's tariff hikes."
Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...
Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...
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NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s influence over state government.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
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If the looming economic screwing of their own voters, and a consequent rough midterm election, isn't enough to spur the Republicans to figure out a coherent healthcare policy, nothing might be.
The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/not-so-imp...
The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/not-so-imp...
The Not-So-Impressive “New” Health Care Ideas Republicans Want to Rush Out
What GOP leaders are missing in their mad scramble to remake health care policy.
www.thebulwark.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
If the looming economic screwing of their own voters, and a consequent rough midterm election, isn't enough to spur the Republicans to figure out a coherent healthcare policy, nothing might be.
The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/not-so-imp...
The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/not-so-imp...
Regarding the recent defeats suffered by the orange fartbag I am minded of a quote from Churchill "Now this not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the en of the beginning."
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Regarding the recent defeats suffered by the orange fartbag I am minded of a quote from Churchill "Now this not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the en of the beginning."
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The DOJ has charged more than 100 people with breaking a law that prohibits “assaulting, resisting, or impeding” federal officials. But many of these crimes may have been nothing more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies, Quinta Jurecic reports:
The Trump Administration’s Favorite Tool for Criminalizing Dissent
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies?
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The DOJ has charged more than 100 people with breaking a law that prohibits “assaulting, resisting, or impeding” federal officials. But many of these crimes may have been nothing more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies, Quinta Jurecic reports:
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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
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