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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 8h

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Tuberville thinks no folks in his district are using SNAP? How about the young men in his state using SNAP? How can a US Senator with 15% of the people in his state do this? His office is not getting calls?

'Let that sink in': Joe stunned by Sen. Tuberville's comments on SNAP and 'young men'

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 8h

This is not a series of video games. What is going on with The Regime.

The US looks like fools. We send a carrier group against a navy smaller than half its size.

We curse and swear at country with no ability yo fight back, then kiss up to dictators in Russia and China.

Looking really tough.

Nash Is Here For It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 9h

We’re going into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” to steal their oil and rare earth minerals, not to save Christians. The broligarchy is insatiable…

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 8h

Anyone. Any time. Anywhere.
Blank vehicle. Armed, masked men.
Local rapists? Government, but w/o warrants? How does one know?
You don't think sexual predators are getting worse ideas?

If I were a young girl in Chicago, I'd not come out my door for anything.

These scenes are terrorizing us all.

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 8h

These guys are bullies. They selected themselves for these jobs for opportunities to abuse people.
It's not about orderly detention of aliens w/o authorization. It's about adrenalin and testosterone. B/ we can!
That is not professional conduct. No warrant. No admission.

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ICE agents clash with cemetery workers trying to help a man in Des Plaines River…

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 10h

What I want from paywalls are true micro-payments. I don't want 300 subscriptions. I want to read one story - $0.50 - there you go.

The problem is credit card companies w a habit of charging inflated prices (3% of purchase) vs. actual cost of execution.
$0.45 off McDonald's vs $9 off steak dinner.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 10h

Herd mentality. They saw more stores buying the anti-theft devices, they went for them. I saw this from an alarm company w the pitch, "All of your neighbors are getting one. They'll have signs out, so the burglars will come for you."

On Wall St, they taught us people by on fear: losses or left out.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 10h

We have a press corp that sees itself more as stenographers than investigators. (They seldom use the power of Lexus-Nexus to check facts or history).

Most are bad at math and are easily lead with sketchy statistics. Because of this, they never took a real economics course, because *numbers!**

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Democrats did not start beating the drum loudly about the ACA subsidies last summer, defying logic. Not in press conferences rrceiving no air time, but wall-to-wall commercials while the GOP was forcing the BBB, making the important connection of tax cuts for rich-BBB-ACA!

Dems need marketing!

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

The Democratic Party has not helped. It replaced economic opportunity with a mantra of racial inclusion. As more Black people ascended in the party, speaking of their communities, poor whites felt further displaced & young ones did not know Roosevelt.

"There arose a Pharoah who knew not Joseph...:

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Johnson's Great Society made sure that poor whites, who by sheer numbers received the most benefits, were visible in selling the programs. Whites from poor places understood the needs, they didn't understand cities & ghettos. GOP wrote off cost of poor whites w claims Blacks got everything.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

In the '60s we saw pictures of white children with dirty faces and no indoor plumbing. Great Society ended & the press made all white people "middle class," except many still had no money. They felt left out of narratives as Reagan, et al pushed "welfare queen" stories, the THEM causing their woes.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

In prior shutdowns, there was a national consensus that people should not starve, especially working people, and definitely children

Feeding children was a place we all came together.

What have we become when we can't agree on this?

Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 14h

The unthinkable has happened. Through generations of service under administrations from both parties, America's food assistance program has never been allowed to fail U.S. families—until today, and this Trump shutdown.

No one should have to go hungry in America.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

May his memory be a blessing.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 23h

I'm rooting for Bobby. Anyone who do 12 years with CKD can do anything!

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you. Living with kidney disease for 12 years is amazing. The act of eating becomes very complicated. My brother started dialysis the week they told us Mike would need it. I said, "I can only do one family member per week with kidney failure." My brother is gone & now one of my nieces is coping

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 23h

So who will we believe the contemporaneus legal document, a birth certificate, or the ICE AI model created last week and trained on a whites only images?

And citizens can't decline to participate? Get a warrant!

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 23h

"ICE officials have told us...apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a 'definitive'... of a person's status & ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship, including a birth certificate, if the app says the person is an alien," Rep. Bennie Thompson

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 23h

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE thetriibe.com/2025/09/how-...

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE • The TRiiBE

The newsroom collaboration encourages Chicago residents to send in videos of federal agent misconduct

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 23h

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE thetriibe.com/2025/09/how-...

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE • The TRiiBE

The newsroom collaboration encourages Chicago residents to send in videos of federal agent misconduct

thetriibe.com

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 23h

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE thetriibe.com/2025/09/how-...

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE • The TRiiBE

The newsroom collaboration encourages Chicago residents to send in videos of federal agent misconduct

thetriibe.com

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 23h

Cellphone cameras are our knitting needles. When the day of reckoning comes, this will be our evidence for when "the body cameras malfunctioned."

Upload what you record from safe distances.

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE thetriibe.com/2025/09/how-...

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 23h

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE thetriibe.com/2025/09/how-...

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE • The TRiiBE

The newsroom collaboration encourages Chicago residents to send in videos of federal agent misconduct

thetriibe.com

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

The fact I find their coffee bitter makes boycotting the company very easy. @sbworkersunited.org deserve a fair contract
#UnionStrong

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Starbucks' outrageous CEO-to-worker pay gap might make you spit out your morning coffee. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween would have been my husband's 65th birthday. Kidney failure took him from me eight years ago. Glad to chip in a little to help Bobby in his memory. I hope everything goes well for you. Your success will help others.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

And this tells you how toothless the DOJ is after cutting the Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissions.

Last year, attorney would gave looked at an all female firing list and raised a red flag. But then she's also been chopped and The Regime is flat out telling corporate America racism is OK.

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