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James Thompson

@jasthompson2.bsky.social
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Cat aficionado, husband, father, grandfather, uncle. OH 26, MA 33, IL 19. McGovern Dem. Breast cancers. Pace/defib wearer. New pastimes: Google Photos & Ancestry. Boris above. Loonie swimming.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We can't eat road salt." What more needs to be said? Thank you @troyjackson207.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
KitKats
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
With the money from the ads, she & the kids will be moving to Long Island
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump Ten Years, Have Been Some Of The Darkest Years.......
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For a guy wearing leg braces?
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gave us the antidemocratic "hastert rule" may he keep the demons of Hell amused.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I believe she moved to a district further. I'm a DuPageite.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Math problem: A firm buys a ranch next to Yosemite for $4 million. Its CEO donates to Trump. Trump's Interior Department weighs giving it a road through the park. What did the donation buy? Send Congress your answer: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sometimes Washington is debating one economy while Americans are living in another.⁣ ⁣ We keep hearing about manufacturing and AI, but almost all recent job growth has been in healthcare youtu.be/XttGlE71UJs
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A monster.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Respect, love, and gratitude to Mr Smith & his family.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This was Special Counsel Jack Smith yesterday at the ‘Power to the People’ concert and wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt with people wanting to shake his hand. American hero. 💙👊
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Meanwhile in Indiana… @robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
From the end of the Great Depression until the late 1970s, wages went up with productivity. The working and middle classes had real purchasing power. Then the “Reagan Revolution” happened. It wasn’t a revolution. It was America’s devolution.
"THE RAND CORPORATION DID THE MATH AND FOUND THAT THE RESULT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR UNIONS AND FREEZING OF OUR MINIMUM WAGE, COMBINED WITH MASSIVE TAX CUTS FOR BILLIONAIRES FROM REAGAN, BUSH, AND TRUMP, HAVE TRANSFERRED A MIND-BOGGLING $79 TRILLION FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS INTO THE MONEY BINS OF THE MORBIDLY RICH SINCE THE REAGAN ERA."

THOM HARTMANNBernie Sanders @BernieSanders

Total Wealth of Bottom 50% of U.S. households
1989: $317.8 billion
2026: $313 billion

Total Wealth of Top 0.00001% (20 households)
1989: $88.6 billion
2026: $4 trillion

This is insane!NEVER FORGET THAT RONALD REAGAN TRIPLED THE NATIONAL DEBT FROM $738 BILLION TO $2.1 TRILLION, DROPPED THE INCOME TAX RATE ON THE TOP 1% FROM 70% TO 28%, SOLD 500 MISSILES TO IRAN, LET 90,000 AMERICANS DIE OF AIDS, AND SET INTO MOTION THE END OF MENTAL INSTITUTIONS, CREATING A MASSIVE HOMELESSNESS CRISIS THAT CONTINUES TO THIS DAY.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
While this is a comment I might make, I could be persuaded that most NYT readers already have a take on Corey
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Was undecided, but now that I know what the PGA wants, I know I'm against. School children vs the PGA. Wow! My phone changes the time for me anyway.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
substack.com/@letitiajame...
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AG Tish James (@letitiajames)
The Trump administration is pushing for catastrophic rollbacks of federal limits on greenhouse gas pollution. I’m suing to stop this administration from giving the nation’s biggest polluters a free p...
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Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is absolutely a stunning piece of investigative work. The height of corruption and the people of Ukraine are dying because of the morally indecent Trump family. We're seeing a complete U.S. realignment with Russia for their friends' and family's profit. Grateful for what you've uncovered.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
The pending oil deal involves Russian Lukoil international assets (now sanctioned by the US) that would be acquired at a big discount by a Trump campaign donor, a UAE-based investor in Trump/Witkoff family crypto company, and Kushner/Ivanka's Qatari-based real estate partners.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sharp eyes!
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Horrible. It was also a time for Jim Crow. I thought America changed in the 60s, but only some changed. Trump and many supporters remain.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reportedly, a plumber knew. Humbling.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Islamic terrorism on the West Bank? Driving those settlers out, eh? A parade. Picking olives from remaining trees, too.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If Mamdani objects to anything the group asks for? Really? No discussion? Same conditions for all injured minority groups?
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We can expect Israel to correct its count of 100% of dead journalists as combatants when?
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do you find the disrespect more or less offensive than the deaths of the children in Gaza?
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How many of his appointees did you fight against confirming?
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He should also be given major influence on Pentagon future strategy & planning.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. The department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Their last days in the majority. Now or never.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All great intellectual tomes for grasping the war. Guadalcanal Diary to understand the war as experienced by American foot soldiers.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So who is general labor? Tesla, SpaceX, workers at southern auto plants? Macdonalds and Starbux?USPS? Suggest you get on board No Kings.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FoolotH, what are YOU doing to achieve a Dem majority? If you REALLY care.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Dems take enough seats for a 2/3s, veto-proof majority, right away.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has always had a certain level of disgust with the disabled, and he thinks the public should be spared from having to confront their existence or let them live normal lives alongside the rest of us.
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
substack.com/@laurenaunde...
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Lauren Underwood (@laurenaunderwood)
Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends ...
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blueanimallover.bsky.social @blueanimallover.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Never forget.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"
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James Thompson @jasthompson2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Committed, more like
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