Patrick Polley
@patrickpoll.bsky.social
Physics teacher, military historian, Ph.D. in experimental physics, University of Florida 1985
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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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NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Trump totally not worried even a little
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Trump totally not worried even a little
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"We've seen the early stages of what economists call stagflation. The '-flation' part is inflation, and you've all felt that at the grocery store. The 'stag-' part is stagnation, which is we've got rising unemployment and slower economic growth than we otherwise would have."
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"We've seen the early stages of what economists call stagflation. The '-flation' part is inflation, and you've all felt that at the grocery store. The 'stag-' part is stagnation, which is we've got rising unemployment and slower economic growth than we otherwise would have."
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An Israeli strike on the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the coastal city of Sidon killed more than a dozen people, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Read more: https://cnn.it/4ib89P1
Read more: https://cnn.it/4ib89P1
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
An Israeli strike on the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the coastal city of Sidon killed more than a dozen people, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Read more: https://cnn.it/4ib89P1
Read more: https://cnn.it/4ib89P1
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Bill to release the Epstein files passes the House 427 to 1
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Bill to release the Epstein files passes the House 427 to 1
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Update on Russia's overnight drone and missile attack
Ternopil : 16 dead and 64 injured
Rescue operations are ongoing
Ternopil : 16 dead and 64 injured
Rescue operations are ongoing
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Update on Russia's overnight drone and missile attack
Ternopil : 16 dead and 64 injured
Rescue operations are ongoing
Ternopil : 16 dead and 64 injured
Rescue operations are ongoing
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I know some people think we're living under actual fascism, but a fascist party doesn't usually lose votes like this one (or even HAVE such votes) and certainly not one that goes 427-1 against the Dear Leader's wishes.
Go ahead and yell at me more, but these are positive things.
Go ahead and yell at me more, but these are positive things.
The House has defeated a GOP plan to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett D-VI and kick her off the House Intelligence Committee. 6 Republicans refused to go along with the plan - and those were the key votes.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I know some people think we're living under actual fascism, but a fascist party doesn't usually lose votes like this one (or even HAVE such votes) and certainly not one that goes 427-1 against the Dear Leader's wishes.
Go ahead and yell at me more, but these are positive things.
Go ahead and yell at me more, but these are positive things.
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The war in Sudan has become a humanitarian catastrophe, with an estimated death toll in the hundreds of thousands. More than ten million have been internally and externally displaced. An expert in the region discusses the conflict and its repercussions. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Kr6BM9
How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe
After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The war in Sudan has become a humanitarian catastrophe, with an estimated death toll in the hundreds of thousands. More than ten million have been internally and externally displaced. An expert in the region discusses the conflict and its repercussions. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Kr6BM9
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Two months ago, Pete Ricketts voted AGAINST releasing the Epstein files.
When a Nebraska news station asked Ricketts about the Epstein situation, he said it was a low priority. 👇
When a Nebraska news station asked Ricketts about the Epstein situation, he said it was a low priority. 👇
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Two months ago, Pete Ricketts voted AGAINST releasing the Epstein files.
When a Nebraska news station asked Ricketts about the Epstein situation, he said it was a low priority. 👇
When a Nebraska news station asked Ricketts about the Epstein situation, he said it was a low priority. 👇
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Nebraska deserves a Senator who will fight for victims, not protect rich and powerful people who hurt them. Exposing child predators should never be a low priority, and a real leader wouldn't need a pressure campaign to do the right thing.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Nebraska deserves a Senator who will fight for victims, not protect rich and powerful people who hurt them. Exposing child predators should never be a low priority, and a real leader wouldn't need a pressure campaign to do the right thing.
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The Indiana State Senate rejected President Donald Trump’s call for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms. The move preserves Indiana’s current map and represents yet another rebuke of Trump’s national gerrymander push.
Indiana GOPers Defy Trump, Vote Against Gerrymander Session
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The Indiana State Senate rejected President Donald Trump’s call for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms. The move preserves Indiana’s current map and represents yet another rebuke of Trump’s national gerrymander push.