Rob Pollard

@robpollard45.bsky.social

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Midwesterner. Skeptical, particularly of "economic anxiety." Trying to stay open-minded but generally, they are who we thought they were. Michigan fan. Dems need to reckon w fact Trump won 48% of Latino voters. Very disrespectful to Beck.

Caitlin Sweeney bombed Community General in the last episode, and a number of characters are trapped in the rubble. Mark worked hard to save Amanda's life. After 4 months pass, the hospital starts to reopen, and Steve announces that Caitlin has started robbing banks to raise money for R.O.A.R.: Revolutionary Order for Armed Rebellion. Steve and Jesse discuss plans to buy Barbecue Bob's, which is going out of business.
Headline: U.S. Attacks Iranian Missile and Drone Sites in Retaliation for Strike on Ship. Subhead: American military commanders said the attacks...
Google Maps of the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum, with various restaurants surrounding it in the hellscape that is Ohio, including Waffle House, McDonald's, Bob Evans, and a Wendy's -- which for some reason also says "Chaos Served Up"
Trump sitting next to Italian PM Meloni. He looks like a load, and that he weighs at least 275lbs.
Breaking Bad meme with Walter yelling, 'RASHEED! SHEED! DON'T LEAVE THE INBOUNDER!'
Current home page of NY Post. PATH TO PEACH: Trump calls of Iran Strikes, tells The Post the US-Tehran deal is 'all wrapped up'
Chris Farley, making air quotes, for the word "Shooting"
64-18 team from 82-0. Earl Monroe, Grant Hill, Bernard King, Blake Griffin, and Patrick Ewing
69-13 roster. AI, MJ, LeBron, Rasheed and Robert Parish. This seems like 72 wins easy, right?
'We're suffering for it' Lynn Collins, of Southfield, said she usually gets half a tank for $20. On May 1, she paid her $20 and watched the pump provide only about a quarter of a tank, instead. She sees the war in Iran as driving prices but admits she's not entirely sure what's driving Trump’s actions. “We’re not in his shoes, so we don’t really know what is taking place or why he’s fighting so hard for whatever it is that he’s fighting for, but we are suffering for it,” she said. (Trump has said the short term impact is worth keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and that prices will "plummet" when the fighting ends.) Asked if, going into the November elections this year, she thinks either Republican or Democratic candidates could bring prices back down, she said, “I would hope so. Democrats, Republicans, whichever. Somebody, please.” For her, prices decreasing by $1 per gallon would be meaningful relief.
Picture of Ernie Hudson from when he was 78. He is wearing a tight black tshirt over muscled arms & chest. He looks like he is about 40-50 years old.
Picture of the musician Sting holding a bass guitar. He looks in an incredible shape for someone in his 50s, let alone someone in his 70s.
Snippet of menu from Woodward Slice, at the Detroit Zoo. Margherita pizza is $39.99; a slice of gluten free personal pepperoni is $12.99
Daily Users on Bluesky 1,408,416 Average over the last 7 days Slowly declining chart. Down -6.3% over last 3 months. https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth
The Natural's Bump Bailey, played by Michael Madsen.
"I’ve heard people in my community say they want to punish Democrats," said James Zogby, founder of the Arab American Institute. "They are not going to punish Democrats. They are going to punish immigrants. They’re going to punish innocent people whose civil rights will be compromised. With Donald Trump, we'll be in the wilderness for four years, and it's not worth the risk."
The "would" meme of a bunch of guys in suits piling on one guy trying to use the mic, except it says "lectern" instead
Picture of long-time safety Merton Hanks, of the 49ers, who famously had a long neck
Pirates of Carribean meme: You Want to be on site no one under 30 uses? You're on one!
Picture of Rep Ann L Wagner. Middle-aged white woman, wearing a blue blazer, with both palms in the air, looking confused.
Captain America looking at the camera: So you voted to ruin other people's lives...and now you're mad because it's happening to you.
2012 Cadillac CTS Wagon -- white with black wheels
Will the site’s archive remain on the web? No, unfortunately. Most of the archive — everything but the past few days’ worth of content — has already been taken down. The rest of the site, including this post, will be taken offline soon, probably around next Wednesday.
When the governor says no way that Scott Woodward will select the new head coach -- guy is smiling When the governor then says he’d rather Donald Trump do it over the AD --- guy then frowns
NY Times headline from Oct 19: Israel Strikes Gaza and Temporarily Halts Aid, Saying Hamas Broke Truce Israel launched a wave of attacks on Gaza after accusing Palestinian militants of attacking its forces across cease-fire lines. Both sides say they are still committed to the truce.
Netanyahu Orders New Strikes on Gaza: Weeks into a tenuous cease-fire with Hamas, the Israeli PM said on Tuesday that he had ordered "forceful strikes" in Gaza
Bill Walton and Larry Bird standing on opposite signs of a marker for the HOME OF EUGENE V DEBS in Terre Haute, IN
Google Gemini response to the prompt: why reactionary anti-LLM sentiments have become a sort-of left-coded cultural war issue. Summary of the "Left-Coded" Alignment The anti-LLM sentiment becomes "left-coded" when it emphasizes: Economic Critique: Corporate power, monopoly, labor rights, and the financial exploitation of content creators. Social Critique: The subtle reinforcement of systemic biases, the corporatization of progressive values, and the impact on information access and democratic discourse. Cultural Critique: The devaluation of human work, creativity, and craft in favor of corporate-controlled, alienated "slop."
But he (South Korea President) said the raid would not undermine the bilateral alliance, praising Trump for offering to let the workers stay. Lee said he did not believe it was directed by Trump but was the result of overzealous law enforcement. "I do not believe this was intentional, and the U.S. has apologised for this incident, and we have agreed to seek reasonable measures in this regard and we are working on them," he said. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/south-koreas-president-lee-says-us-investment-demands-would-spark-financial-2025-09-21/
Jackie Chiles (lawyer from Seinfeld) saying: Callous, Crude, and Controversial. It's Outrageous.
Young white woman flipping off the camera, older black man in Carolina jersey looking bemused
Steve Crowder, average white looking guy with a beard, with a smile on his face saying, "Ooops....me? Should I have done that?"
There is also one overwhelming compelling reason to support Mr. Trump and it affected my thinking in 2024 more than anything else. Ironically, I talked about it and wrote about it the least in large part because it is not a substantive reason to support Mr. Trump. But it is my personal reason to support him over Kamala Harris. Next year will be the two-hundred-fiftieth birthday of the United States of America. Were Ms. Harris the President next year and progressives in charge, we would be forced to hear sob stories of the founding white slave owners while being forced to celebrate the transgender amputee midget people of color whose sacrifices made victory possible. Instead of praise for Jefferson, Washington Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Franklin we’d all have to sit through insufferable lectures about the non-Jewish people of color and lesbians who built this country and how white people ruined it all. Every one of you knows this is true. -- from Erick Erickson
AP Headline in Detroit News: Trump fires Fed governor from Michigan, opening new front in fight for control over central bank. Subhed says, "Trump fired her b/c of allegations of mortgage fraud"
Result of a Google search for Russell Erxleben, a kicker for the New Orleans Saints in the late 70s early 80s. It’s a certain coach, from a certain team, from a certain city in the Midwest.
Current front page of WSJ. It has in big letters on left, "Trump Orders Firing of Stats Chief After Week Jobs Data" in big letters on the left, but the main thing dominating the page is a picture-perfect slide show of "The Conservative Women Who Are 'Having it All' with pictures of well-dressed white women with their kids and husbands.
Instagram post of Spike Lee, holding a Michigan football jersey, with Jim Harbaugh. 2022.
Google Overview box for "Toxic Empathy" --- book has a 24% liked this book rating.
Jim Downey meme: Jeff Epstein? With the Island?
Comedian Jim Downey saying, "Ghislaine's in Prison?"
Philly Inquirer front page of website has zero (without scrolling way down) on recently passed budget bill in the Senate. All stories are local: Striking transit workers; flood watch; UPenn trans athlete; Philly cleaning graffiti; data centers in PA
Promo for "No Kings" protest in Toledo OH. It says "Kick out the clown Toledo" Saturday, June 14, 4-6pm EDT
Seat availability for Ted Nugent's 50th Anniversary of Stranglehold Tour. At Freedom Hill, a ~7500 seat venue outside of Detroit. There are tons of blue dots -- he's maybe sold 1500-2000 seats.
Michigan football has played Alabama football 7 times, winning 4. It has won two times in a row: Jan 1, 2024 and Dec 31, 2024.
Manufactuing employment since 1940. A consistent downward slope, from 30% to about 8% today. A crude arrow drawn on in MS Paint shows that NAFTA being introduced changed diddly squat
Ford dealer Jim Seavitt has an uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach these days that's reminiscent of how he felt about 17 years ago. "We’re down 50% in leads. Everything’s off 40% to 50%. People just aren’t looking at cars right now," Seavitt, who owns Village Ford in Dearborn, told the Detroit Free Press. "It reminds me of 2008 when the mortgage crisis hit. It’s looking like it’s the starting of a crisis. This whole uneasy feeling right now."
But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well. — Hillary Clinton in Sept 2016
Picture of Donald Trump. Headline: Trump posts video offering splashy vision of Gaza after his takeover plan
Owen Wilson as Eli Cash meme: We all know the 14th amendment is unambiguous, and was written two years *after* the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to make sure the language was clear... what this article presupposes is...maybe it didn't?
Headline for Detroit Free Press story: Trump's Jan. 6 pardons will free some Michiganders convicted of attacking law enforcement Todd Spangler Detroit Free Press
Politics headlines for Jan 8 at Detroit News. These are all wire stories, so it's what its editors selected to be featured. The second of three stories is, "Biden casts doubt on his fitness to serve another four years days before term ends" Biden Who will not be President in two weeks. No stories, as usual, on Trump's age.
Edward Van Halen, smiling and tapping on his red & white & black striped guitar
Lynne Thigpen, a black woman seated at desk in front of microphone, from the movie Lean on Me.
Killer of nine people in a Charleston church, being brought to court by two police men. Neither is wearing bullet proof armor or tactical equipment. They have on polo shirts, with pistols in their holsters on their right sides.
Defeated with dignity