Mark Thompson - Author

#fiction - light, dark, funny, sad - a mixed bag just like life. 'DUST' (English, German & Chinese): ETERNAL CITY

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Remember, all of these countries once had their own cultures and traditions before Islam.

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

@benonwine Yes

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

@MusicPills10 Charlie Watts. Every time… 🎸🧡❤️🎼🎹🎷🎺🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🧡❤️

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

LMAO.

Look how pathetic this is!

Trump is realizing that artists are backing out of their performances at his 250 years of freedom concert, so he’s claiming they are getting “the yips,” and says he will replace them with himself.

No Donny, they aren’t getting “the yips,” they just can’t perform for the worst president in American history.

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

Reform - definitely not my cup of tea, but this lady is absolutely right - we have judiciary to implement the law of this country. Laws passed by democratically elected governments. ⁦@UKLabour⁩ ⁦@CforWomenUK⁩ ⁦@LibDemDiversity⁩ @thetimes ⁦@guardianweekly⁩

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

@maca_spas Yes. It has no place in Britain.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: Samsung Electronics plans to invest $1.5 billion in Vietnam to build a semiconductor testing plant, its proposal document showed, an expansion that will help ease a global shortage of memory chips driven by surging AI demand https://t.co/5U6ZEmjBH1

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 https://t.co/6AGmFrB7x4

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

GREAT nomination & well deserved too!
The 'draft dodger' currently in the Oval
Office probably won't be pleased with
Zelensky's @NobelPrize nomination? 🤷‍♀️
So, please do NOT share, got it? 😉

Wave a 🇺🇦 flag if you stand with Ukraine
and Zelensky! 🙏 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

You can’t convince me this is normal. It’s not and it will never be!

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

@EdKrassen God Bless America? Dream on…. Shame-filled nation under Trump the Dictator. @NYTimes @washingtonpost

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

@AndyBurnhamGM @DailyMail Unspecific, as usual. Tax the shit out of the people who actually WORK in this country. I don’t care if you tax landowners who allow illegal dumping. How many know that land is being dumped on? Surely the way to do this is to create a far more effective Environment Agency?

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

@BohuslavskaKate @Kasparov63 And Trump, mired in the corruption of Russian finance, has thrown Zelenskyy under the tanks… Trump is a vile, corrupt, despicable despot… America 🇺🇸 shame on you…

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

@DanBig9953 No

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Two Sisters. Twelve and Seventeen. Buried Together in Kyiv Today.

Liubava was 12. Vira was 17. This morning they were laid to rest side by side in Kyiv, killed along with 22 others when a Russian missile struck the residential building where they lived.

Their father, Yevhen Yakovlev, was killed in combat in 2023 defending Ukraine. He never came home. Now their mother has lost her husband, her daughters, and her home.
One family. Completely gone.

When we talk about missile strikes on residential buildings, we are talking about this. Not infrastructure. Not statistics. Families. Children who had names, ages, futures. A mother who now has none of them.

Russia does not accidentally hit apartment buildings. It targets them.

Remember Liubava and Vira.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

ISIS terrorists murdered Yazidi children in front of their mothers.

They would rape and starve the mothers for days, then kill the children, cook their bodies, and serve the flesh with rice so the mothers would unknowingly eat their own babies.

Most of the women committed suicide after finding out.

Everyone in the Muslim world knew what was happening, but not a single Muslim or Palestinian activist protested for the Yazidis!

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

@wiseconnector 70s

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🇺🇸NEWS: FBI Director Kash Patel used a government Gulfstream V to fly his country singer girlfriend to a George Strait concert.
He watched the show from a luxury suite reported at $35,000 to $50,000.

Then he flew her home on the same FBI jet.
Same week: a “VIP snorkel” at the underwater tomb of 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.

The pattern from the same NYT investigation is now public.

Four SWAT agents and two SUVs guarding his girlfriend in Nashville. The detail estimated at $1 million a year. SWAT escorts to a hair appointment.

An FBI official suggested a threat assessment to determine if any of it was justified. Patel berated him.

A New York Times reporter wrote about the SWAT detail. The FBI opened an investigation into the reporter. The DOJ shut it down and called it retaliation.

What is the FBI for when the FBI Director uses it as a personal concierge service and turns it on the people who notice?

[Mark Thompson - Author @MarkTwrites]

@connor_naismith What typical cronyism…. Tripe!