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John Thompson

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A cranky old Yank. Instagram: www.instagram.com/jthomenet

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And here we are, with Trump and Putin colluding to tamper with another American election again.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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EmilyInPortland @emilyinportland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here's a list of what I've accomplished today: 1) fuck-all
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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
LLMs were made to produce output that *looks like* language. That's it. That's the tweet, as we used to say in the pre-Xitter days. You think syntacticians worry about whether the output makes any sense? Oh you sweet summer children.
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evil maid @lenazun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
thanks to the overwhelming abundance of real time information I can be sick with anxiety about any presidential election in the world!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Correct 🎯
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
J.D. Vance has been a breathless supporter of Neo-Nazis at home and abroad, promoting their fascist ideas and ideology to a jaw-dropping degree. But he has the fucking nerve to say someone tied to *socialists* doesn't belong in America. *You* are the un-American ideologue, you goose-stepping dork.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/09/2026
When Joe Biden took office, America’s allies were willing to treat the first Trump term as an aberration. That ship has sailed. The world is no longer waiting for us to come to our senses, and the trust we squandered may take a generation to rebuild if anyone still believes we are capable of it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Referring to the Chinese president, the host asked “If you were president, would you throw him a big dinner?” “I would not be throwing him a dinner,” Trump declared. “I’d get him a McDonald’s hamburger.” 😂 www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jak...
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Jake Tapper Digs Up Clip of Trump Mocking Obama-Xi State Dinner: ‘Get Down To Work’
CNN’s Jake Tapper aired an old clip of President Donald Trump blasting then-President Barack Obama for hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner in 2015.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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John Thompson @jthomenet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“If the current leadership of the Kennedy Center is unwilling ... to exercise its fiduciary duty to protect the historic building and the grounds of the ... Kennedy Center ..., the court should consider appointing a receiver or replacing that leadership." dcpreservation.org/2026/09/17/p...
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PLAINTIFFS CALL FOR INDEPENDENT PROTECTION OF THE KENNEDY CENTER
Statement of eight Plaintiff organizations: The American Institute of Architects (AIA), American Society of Landscape Architects, Committee of 100 on the Federal City…
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We just launched our new investigative research organization. Please give us a follow! @civildefenseinst.bsky.social We are digging deep to expose the organizations that threaten our democracy and our rights. They are powerful and have plenty of resources. But we aren’t backing down!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I know this won’t happen, but the entire WH press corps should walk out. Trump craves attention and is obsessed with his coverage. Not covering his Oval Office Lie Sessions would hurt him more than just about anything.
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John Thompson @jthomenet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tomorrow is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Do your part, me hearties. www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-c...
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Arrrrr! Talk like a pirate — or prepare to be boarded
Every now and then, some visionary individuals come along with a concept that is so original and so revolutionary that your immediate reaction is: ‘‘Those individuals should be on medication.’‘
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/09/2026
Next Trump will demand to have a plaque added to JFK’s plot at Arlington or he’ll extinguish the eternal flame.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s the Billionaires v The People.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every day, Trump and Republicans are actively making life less affordable for Americans with tariffs, wars, and incompetence. But 16 of the US’s wealthiest billionaires are going to flood the zone with culture war drivel ads and lies to dupe people into voting against themselves.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Be the type of human that *doesn't* make this face after being told genocide is amoral.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow, if there's any truth to this, we should probably open up all the government's files on child trafficking and pedophile rings and their powerful protectors
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/09/2026
Pritzker: "He is suffering from dementia. I think we can all see that."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The cost of Trump’s war that he will never talk about.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Absolute insanity. And if you try to do something about it they call you a communist.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Milo can fuck straight with his whining, because he openly rooted for ICE to be as cruel as possible, right up to the moment it was HIM they came after. does he even realize that he got treated better than most of ICE's victims? thank you for your attention today's post. link is here: bit.ly/4gJsv1b
Milo was totally down with ICE’s sadistic tactics, right up until the moment that the handcuffs closed around his wrists — and that’s his real complaint: they treated him like an ‘MS13 gang member.’ — like a brown person. the horror!

Milo should be thanking his lucky stars how relatively good he got it. he was detained, and twenty-four hours later, he was back in the land of his birth.

Milo wasn’t disappeared for weeks or months into some hellish detention center with too few beds and inadequate bathroom facilities. he didn’t have his medical needs ignored. he didn’t get deported to Uganda. he didn’t end up in some Salvadoran slave-labor gulag. he didn’t fucking die in custody, and then have his death covered up by ICE.

so shut the fuck up, Milo. get a little perspective, and stop whining on TV.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
…against pursuing the investigations, impeachment, and prosecutions. That would be a fatal error for American democracy. He must be exposed and what he has done painstakingly detailed or we will essentially ratify and institutionalize his transformation of our government into a mafia state.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The essential feature of our national park system is “its essential democracy … the preservation of the scenery, of the forests, of the wilderness …for the people as a whole instead of leaving the enjoyment thereof to be confined to the very rich who can control private reserves.” - T Roosevelt
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Today marks six months since the mass killing of Iranian schoolchildren by the U.S. military—slaughter resulting from Trump launching an illegal and unnecessary war on a whim. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/u...
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After U.S. Strike on Iranian School, Months Pass Without Answers
U.S. officials have not publicly acknowledged responsibility for the deaths or released a report on their findings from an investigation into the Feb. 28 strike.
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Daniel @escargotpro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One insane thing is how many trump soundbites there are like "i dont care about prices" & "you'll have to pay more for gas & like it" & every pundit was like "he just cut Dems an ad for them" & like there are 0 ads being aired by Dems with any of these quotes lol
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Or as the Quaker precept has it, "Let your life speak." Dolly Parton's life sang.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 25/08/2026
Running foreign trade policy like a petty middle-school grudge is beyond embarrassing. Serious leaders build enduring relationships; weak ones play fantasy map-maker when an ally pushes back.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Where do you even go with this?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When the Indiana Senate refused to do mid-decade gerrymandering, Trump posted about it nonstop & got directly involved in taking out the senators who voted against it. But when thousands of people in IN have been without power for 2 weeks, Trump posted nothing and doesn’t care.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Maybe if illegal war were properly stigmatized—specifically in the U.S.—we’d have less of it.
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EmilyInPortland @emilyinportland.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Coworkers start offering options for things to do when I tell them I'm doing nothing this weekend. Don't they get that nothing is the actual event? That's the agenda item. "Nothing" is written on the to-do list.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
[heaven] darwin: *looking down* angel: what’s going on? darwin: watch this
Three people setting up a trampoline on the small rooftop terrace of a tall building.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Goose streets? Our streets!
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It is as strong a principle as exists in constitutional law that the government may not single out people or groups for worse treatment based on their viewpoints. It’s virtually never ok. U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Having a POTUS who doesn't know what he doesn't know surrounded by people who will not tell him what he doesn't want to hear is a great way to speed run a nation's decline.
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EmilyInPortland @emilyinportland.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I like to think that what I'm doing is dumbing this place UP.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
How did Iran attack our water supply? The EPA “under the Biden administration proposed…to better safeguard the nation’s water supply from hackers…The EPA rescinded the order, however, after Republican-led states and industry groups sued to block its enforcement.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
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Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect
Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 06/08/2026
Not a day goes by without remembering that Jared Kushner is way overdue in filing his legally required financial disclosure. If you're going to negotiate foreign policy, you can't head a firm that's bankrolled by foreign governments. It's really not that hard to understand.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The left: we want the Epstein files The right: we want the Epstein files The center: we want the Epstein files Trump: best I can do for you is Fauci’s diary, some lies about the reflecting pool, and a failed war in Iran
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