John Thompson

John Thompson

@jthomenet.bsky.social

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

554 Followers 1,077 Following 90 Posts Joined Nov 2023
21 hours ago

The Trump regime has attempted to undermine free speech rights, including by executing protesters, more than any administration in modern American history.

MAGA spent 4 years pretending the Biden administration led a “censorship industrial complex” that doesn’t exist.

The real threat is now.

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21 hours ago
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How it's going in Tehran....

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

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3 days ago
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Trump during the campaign: “I will end that war in 24 hours. It won’t even take that long. There will be no more bombing of Ukraine and Russia and everyone will be happy. It wouldn’t even be that tough. I know just what to say to each of them. It will be over in one phone call.”

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3 days ago

There is a reason every other president refused Bibi’s invitation to start a regional war. Trump was the only one dumb enough to take the bait.

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6 days ago
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Well, this aged exactly how I was afraid it would

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1 week ago

I believe it is @spindlypete.bsky.social 's tall husband who names the tall person's obligation to reach for things "The Giant's Creed"

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1 week ago

No Democrat should vote for a single penny of a military appropriation for the Iran War until they first get to vote on a Declaration of War.

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1 week ago

Moonstruck. Hoping you're better fast.

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2 weeks ago

Three U.S. officials with access to current intelligence on Iran’s missile programs say President Trump exaggerated how imminent the threat to the United States is.

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2 weeks ago
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New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.

New hack breaks ALL Wi-Fi encryption

arstechnica.com/security/202...

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The UAE secretly paid Trump $187 million. Money in his pocket personally. And then Trump overrode decades of national security objections to selling Nvidia chips to UAE because we feared UAE would send the chips to China.

Corruption has consequences.

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2 weeks ago
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NPR, MS NOW: Trump-related files missing from DOJ's Epstein file release NPR and MS NOW report that files related to President Trump are missing from the Department of Justice's release of the Epstein documents. MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin, MS NOW Senior White ...

FLAG: Trump-related files are missing from DOJ's Epstein release.

There's at least one witness for whom three 2019 FBI interviews are missing.

That woman is the same person who, in a 2025 FBI presentation, is identified to have accused Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15.

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2 weeks ago
Keith Kellogg «@generalkellogg •1h
A UN vote on a lasting peace in Ukraine and we abstained. Go figure. The Russian Federation was against the proclamation. Is not four years of war enough? Is not missing children, shelling of cities and the killing of innocents enough? It is not a business deal-it is war.
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2 weeks ago

we do not need to hear both sides of a truth and a lie

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2 weeks ago
Moms for Liberty ceremony

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community.

He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

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2 weeks ago

In the United States, the term "lawfare" is routinely deployed to delegitimize attempts to hold the powerful accountable for lawbreaking.

Time to get over this.

A rule of law society requires applying the law to the powerful as well.

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2 weeks ago
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It’s insane how they vacillate between lies depending on what they want to do, and crazier that people just believe them.

Want to look strong? WE COMPLETELY OBLITERATED IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM! 💪💥

Want to bomb Iran? Iran is a week away from bomb-grade material!! 😱

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3 weeks ago

Frankly, I am somewhat surprised that former Prince Andrew did not move to the United States months ago and join Trump’s cabinet to avoid prosecution.

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3 weeks ago
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Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

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3 weeks ago

Congratulations to Prince Andrew for being the most prominent person in the world to face consequences for what Trump said was just a “democrat hoax”

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3 weeks ago
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Trump moves closer to a major war with Iran There's little public debate about what could be the most consequential U.S. military action in a decade.

Trump moves closer to a major war with Iran. It could come sooner, and be much bigger, than most recognize.-Axios

www.axios.com/2026/02/18/i...

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3 weeks ago

Time to hang yet another country out to dry in order to prop up a friendly dictator…

President Trump says he will "make a determination soon" about future US arms sales to Taiwan after speaking to Chinese President Xi.

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1 month ago
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Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

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1 month ago
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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1 month ago

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

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1 month ago

One doesn't just remove one's air pods. One must pull out a chunk of one's hair when one removes one's air pods.

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1 month ago

Developer Trump's largest and most consequential building project ever is the erection of an unprecedented network of concentration camps across America. If any buildings bear his name, it should be these. Trump Concentration Camps. An indelible stain on our society.

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1 month ago
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Hey, Propaganda Barbie:

We aren’t moving on from people trafficking 10-year-old children and this administration covering it up.

Ever.

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1 month ago
NYC Water & @NYCWater • 6h
NYC saw a significant reduction in water usage throughout the five boroughs during the Super Bowl's #BadBunny halftime show yesterday, but in the 15 minutes right after the show ended, there was a spike in usage equivalent to 761,719 toilets flushing across town.#SBLX
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1 month ago

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

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