John Schelling Pollock
@juanarto.bsky.social
poet/photographer, writer/editor, writing coach, joyful dad, sojourner/contemplative, street shrink/emotional support person, supreme monotasker, lover of kindness & beauty, ally to all
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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California! Vote YES on Prop 50!
October 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
California! Vote YES on Prop 50!
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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BREAKING: New research shows cervical cancer is on its way to being completely ELIMINATED. ✅ Not because of school prayer, not because o seed oil bans, not because people stopped taking Tylenol. It was a vaccine.
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
BREAKING: New research shows cervical cancer is on its way to being completely ELIMINATED. ✅ Not because of school prayer, not because o seed oil bans, not because people stopped taking Tylenol. It was a vaccine.
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Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
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"The Trump administration hides its atrocities behind its atrocities, its obscenities behind its obscenities, its corruptions behind its corruptions. The ones this week distract us from the ones last week." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF
October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"The Trump administration hides its atrocities behind its atrocities, its obscenities behind its obscenities, its corruptions behind its corruptions. The ones this week distract us from the ones last week." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF
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I can't and I don't.
Also... Is he dead yet?
Also... Is he dead yet?
Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"
October 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I can't and I don't.
Also... Is he dead yet?
Also... Is he dead yet?
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The last ten years have been a really unpleasant crash course in how fragile our federal government is when the people in power do not act in good faith and are not held accountable.
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The last ten years have been a really unpleasant crash course in how fragile our federal government is when the people in power do not act in good faith and are not held accountable.
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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Wrote a thread, of disagreement, in response to this, which seems to equate 'people' with 'select elites.'
October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wrote a thread, of disagreement, in response to this, which seems to equate 'people' with 'select elites.'
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“his state-sanctioned campaign of extrajudicial murders under the guise of a war on drugs.“
That sounds familiar.
That sounds familiar.
I don't think this has registered enough. Duterte is behind bars and will likely be held accountable for his state-sanctioned campaign of extrajudicial murders under the guise of a war on drugs.
How he got there has to do with rivalries among the Philippines' political dynasties. But he got there.
How he got there has to do with rivalries among the Philippines' political dynasties. But he got there.
International Criminal Court judges reject jurisdiction challenge in Duterte case
Judges at the International Criminal Court have rejected a challenge to jurisdiction in the case involving former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
apnews.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“his state-sanctioned campaign of extrajudicial murders under the guise of a war on drugs.“
That sounds familiar.
That sounds familiar.
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Jeffries: "He's found time to demolish the East Wing in the most horrific way possible bc he wants to erect a ballroom so he can be celebrated like a king. He's found time for all of these different things, but somehow can't be bothered to find a dime to extend the ACA tax credits."
October 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Jeffries: "He's found time to demolish the East Wing in the most horrific way possible bc he wants to erect a ballroom so he can be celebrated like a king. He's found time for all of these different things, but somehow can't be bothered to find a dime to extend the ACA tax credits."
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University of Minnesota scientists found that people with certain HLA genes linked to chronic fatigue syndrome bind weakly to viral and bacterial antigens, suggesting poor immune clearance may underlie ME/CFS, long COVID, and post-Lyme illness.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
HLA and pathogens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and other post-infection conditions - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - HLA and pathogens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and other post-infection conditions
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
University of Minnesota scientists found that people with certain HLA genes linked to chronic fatigue syndrome bind weakly to viral and bacterial antigens, suggesting poor immune clearance may underlie ME/CFS, long COVID, and post-Lyme illness.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Color me shocked. They’re ALL such goddamn hypocrites.
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Color me shocked. They’re ALL such goddamn hypocrites.
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"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." - Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA event, April 2023.
It's a price he is willing to pay. His words - stop blaming democrats.
It's a price he is willing to pay. His words - stop blaming democrats.
September 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." - Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA event, April 2023.
It's a price he is willing to pay. His words - stop blaming democrats.
It's a price he is willing to pay. His words - stop blaming democrats.
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Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
September 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
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Powerful work assembling the facts and voices and making the case--that Trump indeed has a great deal to hide.
The actual conspiracy theory is that multiple women independently lied, with apparently nothing to gain, and much to lose, about Trump’s entanglement with Epstein. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...
The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein
It’s not what you think it is.
katemanne.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Powerful work assembling the facts and voices and making the case--that Trump indeed has a great deal to hide.
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Awkward Trump-Powell moment at the Fed
July 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Awkward Trump-Powell moment at the Fed
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This sounds batsh*t crazy but it's, quite literally, a straightforward & purely factual description of what's going on here
Trump wants to impose a tax on you so that his buddy can avoid consequences for a coup attempt.
Trump hits Brazil with 50% tariff, in part due to trial of ally Jair Bolsonaro
"The way Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro ... is an international disgrace," Trump wrote.
www.nbcnews.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This sounds batsh*t crazy but it's, quite literally, a straightforward & purely factual description of what's going on here
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Wow, nine hours of standoff. Deep bow to those standing up against ice.
Still LIVE - This has been going on since 11:30 am when ICE raided a farm in Camarillo, CA www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGda...
ICE Raid Standoff in Camarillo, California - Live Breaking News Coverage
YouTube video by Mercado Media
www.youtube.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Wow, nine hours of standoff. Deep bow to those standing up against ice.