Brian Thompson

exJourno NBC NY: Emmy, Murrow & Peabody winner; Host/MC/Moderator/Spkr. [email protected] CO2 was 323ppm when career began “First they came…” -Niemöller

[Brian Thompson @BrianForNJ]

@JoJoFromJerz @patriottakes I’m a Packers fan but living here have tried to consider the Giants my 2nd team. Not now! Dart is just an arrow tipped with a poisoned brain.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “Boycott every fucking thing on CBS News. From the morning all the way through to the evening. These are the same people that fired Stephen Colbert because Trump got his feelings hurt by a comedian. These people are the biggest bunch of pussies that masquerade with these grandstanding letters like they’re such badasses. These people don’t care about the truth, they don’t care about journalism, they don’t care about the Constitution, they don’t care about a free press. It’s just absolutely devastating what these oligarchs have done to our country”

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

You've got the physics backwards. Impacts aren't the mean slowly drowning someone, they're threshold-driven. A few inches of higher baseline means the same ordinary high tide now tops the seawall. That's why US "sunny-day" flood DAYS have multiplied while the mean rose inches: 34 locations broke their flood-day records in 2023, Charleston is up 400%+ since 2000, Boston's projected for 12-19 days this year. "Who's impacted?" Start with the ~30 households of Isle de Jean Charles, LA…the first federally funded US climate refugees, $48M to relocate them, 98% of their island gone since 1955.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Wait, I thought Trump says Kaitlin Collins never smiles.

We shouldn't share this picture, it will upset him.

Oops.

[Brian Thompson @BrianForNJ]

Ug-lee TV: All that #FossilFuel plastic that the industry claims can be recycled? In reality it ends up in places like this—and last I checked most rivers (not all) end up in our oceans.

[Brian Thompson @BrianForNJ]

Tell me this is AI! Even Trump can’t be this stupid, can he?

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

This is what happens when everyone around you is too afraid to say, “Sir, that’s fucking stupid”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jill Biden just exposed the most painfully awkward limo ride of Melania Trump’s life.
In her new memoir “A View from the East Wing,” Jill writes about Inauguration Day 2025, when tradition required her to ride from the White House to the Capitol with Melania after the pre‑inauguration tea. It should have been a symbolic handoff between first ladies. Instead, she says, Melania sat “stone‑faced,” barely speaking, clearly furious over the FBI search of Mar‑a‑Lago for Trump’s hoard of classified documents.
Jill actually tries to show empathy: she notes that as first lady she had her own home searched by agents as part of the investigation, and that she knows “how distressing it was to have agents rummage through your underwear drawer.”
Melania, Jill writes, wasn’t having it. She blamed Joe personally, acting as if the normal chain of law‑enforcement and courts didn’t exist and the president himself had ordered a raid on her bedroom.
The tension was so thick that the inaugural committee didn’t dare put the two women alone together. Jill says they recruited Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, as a human buffer and plopped him in the middle seat.
Bessler did what Midwestern dads do in impossible situations: he tried small talk. He asked about Barron’s studies at NYU. Melania, staring out the window, gave him a single word: “NYU.” Every attempt to shift the conversation back to something neutral — the weather, the ceremony — died in the air. In Jill’s telling, the presidents’ limo up ahead was probably tense too, but at least Joe and Trump were talking. In the first ladies’ car, it was just cold silence and one‑word answers all the way up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jill uses the story to make a broader point: this wasn’t a one‑off. She writes that Melania declined her invitation to the traditional 2021 inauguration tea when Joe first took office, breaking a norm that has survived even the ugliest transitions.
Four years later, when the roles reversed and the Trumps came back to the White House, Melania still didn’t extend the same courtesy back. In every interaction Jill describes, Melania shows zero grace — even compared to other first ladies who have quietly swallowed humiliations and still showed up for the sake of the country.
And here’s the part that matters beyond the gossip. Trump has spent years telling his followers that the Mar‑a‑Lago search was a personal vendetta by “the Bidens,” not the result of him hiding boxes of classified nuclear and military documents in a ballroom, a bathroom, and a basement.
Melania apparently believes that narrative so deeply that she can’t even make small talk in a limo without seething. Jill, who knows firsthand what it’s like to have agents go through your things, points out the obvious subtext: it’s not the invasion of privacy Melania is truly angry about. It’s that her husband was finally treated like any other citizen who hoards national‑defense secrets and refuses to give them back.
We don’t often get honest, human‑level snapshots of what power feels like up close. This one matters because it captures the collision between entitlement and accountability.
Jill Biden is sitting there thinking about how to show a little solidarity over something painful that neither woman directly controlled. Melania Trump is sitting there convinced that nothing in her orbit — not an FBI warrant, not a criminal investigation, not even the peaceful transfer of power — should happen without her family’s permission, and furious at anyone who suggests otherwise. VIA~~~Josh Helfgott
In a few years, historians will write whole chapters about classified documents, indictments, and constitutional crises.
For now, it’s worth remembering this image: two first ladies in the back of a limousine, one trying to keep a fragile tradition alive, the other staring out the window, still unable to see that the law applies to her husband, too.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WHERE IS THE MEDIA??

Trump just said the number 25,000 is bigger than a MILLION. The decline of his brain is now catastrophic.

“Where Martin Luther King made his great speech…he had a million people and I had 25,000 people. I had more people.” Wow.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Jan. 6 insurrectionist Nathan Pelham opened fire on police when getting arrested for his actions at the Capitol.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[Shlomo Schorr @OneJerseySchorr]

As backlash to the construction of large-scale data centers continues to grow, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority tells @glorioso4ny it is suspending further efforts to award the remaining $250 million in state tax credits available under Next New Jersey Program – AI in an effort to "ensure data centers operate responsibly and within strong, transparent guardrails."

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

You think sea level rise is melting ice. New study in Science Advances: the biggest driver is heat - warming water expands (43% of the rise). And it's accelerating. The cause: fossil fuels. #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise #Oceans #ClimateScience #FossilFuels

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[ProPublica @propublica]

The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
https://t.co/F92hGp0SSO

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Tennessee’s Republican House Speaker went to prison after stealing taxpayer dollars.

Trump just gave him a pardon.

[Rep. Frank Pallone @FrankPallone]

Extremists in the Republican Party have gone completely off the rails.

While I'm glad the backlash against Rep. Ogles has been swift, the culture of bigotry that made his tweet possible must be rooted out at its source. Hatred has no place in America.

Happy Pride. I fixed your tweet for you.

[Judith Enck @enckj]

A lot of ‘recycled’ plastic is being burned overseas – and causing widespread pollution linked to health problems https://t.co/bvTTzsorjS

[Beyond Plastics @PlasticsBeyond]

"Extended Producer Responsibility is a proven approach – implemented already in California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington – that leads to less unnecessary packaging, higher resource recovery, lower greenhouse gas emissions and cost savings for municipalities.

We have successfully implemented similar laws for paint, batteries and other electronics. This year, we have an opportunity to enact this for packaging.

[W]e call on our lawmakers in Albany to take action before this session ends and pass a bill that will slash pollution by significantly reducing the 24 million pounds of material New York City’s sanitation workers collect daily."
-Gregory Anderson, commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation, for City & State

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Republicans don't understand SNAP, they've been conditioned to hate poor people.
To understand SNAP:

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

The rainy season is starting in Guatemala, bringing trash tsunamis down the Rio Las Vacas:

[Brian Thompson @BrianForNJ]

@TheOceanCleanup Gonna need a bigger truck!