Mark Thompson
@sonofathomp.bsky.social
A Cartoonerer. The New Yorker..er. My posts are unreliably narrated. Native Upper Midwesterner now in Colorado.
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Mark Thompson
@sonofathomp.bsky.social
· Nov 20
My Bluesky posts are artisanal, handcrafted and scented with lavender.
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Have to admit I have been really enjoying taking some time completely off-line as best I can over the last few days. It feels very good to not be inundated with the worst news possible and every moment cannot recommend touching grass enough y’all.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Have to admit I have been really enjoying taking some time completely off-line as best I can over the last few days. It feels very good to not be inundated with the worst news possible and every moment cannot recommend touching grass enough y’all.
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Inflation shall henceforth be referred to as price enthusiasm
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Inflation shall henceforth be referred to as price enthusiasm
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@tkbarnes.bsky.social reports: “Raytheon was allowed to claim about half a million dollars in tax refunds for jobs it did not create due to a loophole in its economic development contract with Buncombe County.”
Exclusive: We Followed the Money to Raytheon in North Carolina
We got hundreds of pages of public records about a controversial deal to offer tens of millions of state and local subsidies to a new Raytheon/Pratt & Whitney plant in Asheville.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
@tkbarnes.bsky.social reports: “Raytheon was allowed to claim about half a million dollars in tax refunds for jobs it did not create due to a loophole in its economic development contract with Buncombe County.”
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Step 1) Draft pro-Kremlin “peace plan.”
Step 2) Get American useful idiots to sell it as U.S. proposal.
Step 3) Announce that your own plan is “largely acceptable," demanding more while appearing to be the agreeable side
Step 2) Get American useful idiots to sell it as U.S. proposal.
Step 3) Announce that your own plan is “largely acceptable," demanding more while appearing to be the agreeable side
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Step 1) Draft pro-Kremlin “peace plan.”
Step 2) Get American useful idiots to sell it as U.S. proposal.
Step 3) Announce that your own plan is “largely acceptable," demanding more while appearing to be the agreeable side
Step 2) Get American useful idiots to sell it as U.S. proposal.
Step 3) Announce that your own plan is “largely acceptable," demanding more while appearing to be the agreeable side
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That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
The coffee butler is late with my first cup? With the yearly performance review just around the corner? I mean…
(Yes, I’m my own coffee butler.)
(Yes, I’m my own coffee butler.)
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The coffee butler is late with my first cup? With the yearly performance review just around the corner? I mean…
(Yes, I’m my own coffee butler.)
(Yes, I’m my own coffee butler.)
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An account called “MAGA NATION,” which posts exclusively pro-Trump content to its 400,000 followers, is apparently based out of Eastern Europe, according to its X profile.
These Big Political X Accounts Apparently Aren’t U.S.-Based—Exposed By New X Update
An account called “MAGA NATION,” which posts exclusively pro-Trump content to its 400,000 followers, is apparently based out of Eastern Europe, according to its X profile.
www.forbes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
An account called “MAGA NATION,” which posts exclusively pro-Trump content to its 400,000 followers, is apparently based out of Eastern Europe, according to its X profile.
Trying to promote an airport dress code is, frankly, some weak-ass Epstein Files distraction.
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Trying to promote an airport dress code is, frankly, some weak-ass Epstein Files distraction.
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Trump has now cancelled the:
- Jobs Report
- Inflation Report
- GDP Report
I’m sure everything is fine.
- Jobs Report
- Inflation Report
- GDP Report
I’m sure everything is fine.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Trump has now cancelled the:
- Jobs Report
- Inflation Report
- GDP Report
I’m sure everything is fine.
- Jobs Report
- Inflation Report
- GDP Report
I’m sure everything is fine.
Trying to gin up controversy regarding Mamdani and the New York Jewish community while ignoring Trump pardoned a guy who was financing Hamas.
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Trying to gin up controversy regarding Mamdani and the New York Jewish community while ignoring Trump pardoned a guy who was financing Hamas.
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It has succeeded in killing vast numbers of people. That pleases Trump. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
It has succeeded in killing vast numbers of people. That pleases Trump. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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This vile administration, led by the nastiest president ever is suddenly worried about … what you wear to the airport. Got it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This vile administration, led by the nastiest president ever is suddenly worried about … what you wear to the airport. Got it.
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It’s kind of like the Epstein files. These guys spent years hyping how terrible Obamacare is and now that it turns out that they really need to extend Obamacare, they can’t.
The White House delayed its proposal for averting a spike in Affordable Care Act premiums amid harsh blowback from an array of Republican allies and lawmakers, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. https://cnn.it/4inBrdd
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
It’s kind of like the Epstein files. These guys spent years hyping how terrible Obamacare is and now that it turns out that they really need to extend Obamacare, they can’t.
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
Turns out Americans “doing their own research” were highly susceptible to foreign bot farms bent on destroying American democracy.
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Turns out Americans “doing their own research” were highly susceptible to foreign bot farms bent on destroying American democracy.
Nothing to see here.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nothing to see here.
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Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
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Seems like it should be a bigger story that the felon in the WH was aiding and abetting Brazil's Bolonasaro flee to US, likely Mara Lardo.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Seems like it should be a bigger story that the felon in the WH was aiding and abetting Brazil's Bolonasaro flee to US, likely Mara Lardo.
Very clever. Cancel all Federal economic reports so nobody finds out we’re in a recession. Distract the unemployed with more taxpayer financed Mar-a-Lago parties and golf rounds.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Very clever. Cancel all Federal economic reports so nobody finds out we’re in a recession. Distract the unemployed with more taxpayer financed Mar-a-Lago parties and golf rounds.
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With Insurance premiums set to skyrocket Trump is now trying to extend the Obamacare subsidies, putting Republicans who have railed against it in a box.
Reminder: with the shutdown Dems shined a light on this so everyone knows who to blame if they don’t. punchbowl.news/article/whit...
Reminder: with the shutdown Dems shined a light on this so everyone knows who to blame if they don’t. punchbowl.news/article/whit...
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
With Insurance premiums set to skyrocket Trump is now trying to extend the Obamacare subsidies, putting Republicans who have railed against it in a box.
Reminder: with the shutdown Dems shined a light on this so everyone knows who to blame if they don’t. punchbowl.news/article/whit...
Reminder: with the shutdown Dems shined a light on this so everyone knows who to blame if they don’t. punchbowl.news/article/whit...
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Do Americans really want a president who always obeys the Russian dictator?
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Do Americans really want a president who always obeys the Russian dictator?
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They used to have to do their quid pro quos with Putin in secret.
“.. The Russian input came from Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin envoy with close ties to Putin .. They brought him to Miami .. for what would be three days of intensive discussions and extended conversation at Witkoff’s home ..”
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November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
They used to have to do their quid pro quos with Putin in secret.
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I hope every US citizen illegally kidnapped by ICE sues the shit out of it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I hope every US citizen illegally kidnapped by ICE sues the shit out of it.
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SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”