Vernon Thomson

Vernon Thomson

@vthomson.bsky.social

Aspiring raconteur and bon vivant

1,621 Followers 387 Following 219 Posts Joined Nov 2023
10 hours ago
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THE shot

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12 hours ago

Y’all she had a HIP REPLACEMENT IN DECEMBER.

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11 hours ago

I met Ryan Coogler at TED in 2016(?) (and I said "you got something right in Black Panther" and he was all "excuse me?" and I said "I map and ancient sites from space+ there are dozens of unmapped ancient civilizations beneath African rainforests. So core premise of BP was 100% right.... cont

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10 hours ago
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For those of you who remember my comments about this: I wanted my father to be remembered in the “In Memoriam” for the Oscars—and he was!! My brother did it!!
😭😭😭😭😭😭

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12 hours ago

let see what he had to say about Iraq shall we?

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12 hours ago
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Imagine a bird crashing thru the windscreen of your airplane, taking out your left eye. Then somehow turning your head to deflect the blood in the roaring wind & safely land.
My friend Syd Burrows. After the accident he changed his callsign to Cyclops.
He passed away today at 95. Ad Astra, Syd.

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11 hours ago
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Q: Do you have a comment on the six service members who passed?


TRUMP: *ignoring question* Go ahead. Who else?


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16 hours ago

Correct.

The kindest thing I can think about this Karoline Leavitt is that she doesn't *know* how idiotic and historically ignorant her claims, here and every day, are.

That's less harsh than thinking that she, like Rubio, *is* aware that this is idiocy, and says it anyway.

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16 hours ago

Where are his U.S. Special Forces brothers? You gonna let him go out this way? Seriously?

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18 hours ago

Looking forward to upcoming social media posts from the Trump White House and Day Care, including "Pete Hegseth plays with G.I. Joes" and "Stephen Miller lights ants on fire with a magnifying glass"

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17 hours ago

Read 👇

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1 day ago

Someone hasn't studied the topic of Trump and Dignity Wraithing.

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1 day ago
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How many ways can you say “We used ChatGPT” without actually saying “We used ChatGPT”?

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1 day ago

I want to say that if this dragnet snags enough white people, we might finally get meaningful action. But I am pretty sure the elites have already called off even the pretense of caring about poor white people AND they’re actively making middle class white people poor. Sooooo…

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1 day ago

Sitting down to write the very last episode of Tides of History and I wasn't expecting to get hit with such a flood of emotions. Nine years is a long, long time to work on a single creative project. I'm sad it's ending but so incredibly grateful for everyone who's listened.

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1 day ago

I lied: if you can see this and can help, I need it. I need it.

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1 day ago

Feels like every single Democratic official should be loudly pointing out that the president is a dementia-ravaged thug who needs to be impeached and removed from office, even if just to cover their own asses for when he inevitably tries to nuke the Oscar ceremony or whatever.

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1 day ago

I have to pay 38% to the fed, 8% to my state, and %s to *every single fucking state I play in*? After agents and social security tax and lawyers my $900K signing bonus only netted me $368K?! Fuck you! Which guy running for president said he's gonna lower my taxes? I want that guy.

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They get drafted at 19 and go play in Altoona or Sunrise or Winslow. They drill. They hit. They field. They lift. The difference between washing out and making $500 million is measured in thousandths of a percent. They make it to the majors. They get paid. They look at their tax forms. WTF? ...

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1 day ago

These guys are ID'd at like age 7 as being great. They do nothing but drill, over and over, for 12 years. They do not read books, or pay attention to the world. Why would they?That *hurts* them. They are told that to succeed they have to keep their brains empty...

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1 day ago

What Kirk ignorantly labeled “wokism” or “Marxism” was just a bundle of standard issue American democratic ideals that have been espoused by people from Tom Paine to Frederick Douglass to Eugene Debs to Fannie Lou Hamer to Jesse Jackson to Zohran Mamdani.

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1 day ago

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

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1 day ago

I see the new head of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire is supporting DOGE, a proven failed, wasteful, expensive government program that cost taxpayers billions without saving a dime... because it makes people he dislikes upset.

Very on brand.

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1 day ago

Existence of Mamdani in the media criticism discourse is so useful because it demonstrates what the media could be doing to Trump if they ACTUALLY thought that he was an aberrant threat to our Republic. Not that you need to do this for Trump but: You can just write negative stories based on nothing!

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1 day ago

Focusing on a guy who was imprisoned for his campus speech! The cynicism of Powell's entire project is breathtaking

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1 day ago
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Powell has been running these bad-faith attacks since Mamdani won the primary. It's embarrassing to run yet another piece that can't justify its own existence

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2 days ago

The rise of app-based sports gambling was the result of a Supreme Court opinion written by Sam Alito applying a doctrine invented by Antonin Scalia. Also sports gambling is not legal in Minnesota

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2 days ago

Inside the Department of War are two wolves:

"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."

"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

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1 day ago

The crime is not just the killing of people who surrender. The crime is telling the enemy that if they surrender, they will be killed. Because when the enemy hears that they cannot surrender peaceably, the war changes from a strategic conflict to a blood-soaked deathmatch.

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