Nate Thompson

Classic Liberal, Music Snob, Physicist, Parliamentarian, Jack-of-all-trades, Saints fan. Residence timeline - New Orleans, Worcester, Jersey Coast, Austin, Nola

[Nate Thompson @NolaNate]

Cartographers, cracked open their mapping tools, said it was good, and then cracked open a beer. Cheers!

[☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ @LuckyMcGee]

This would have been a better halftime show:

[Nate Thompson @NolaNate]

@MrGreenGenez The amount of real estate people from New Orleans dedicate to parade related items has to be at least a few percentage points.

[Nate Thompson @NolaNate]

From Nola, naturally, I searched Mardi Gras in this tax funding search database found this as part of a 1.7M HHS grant: "OVER THE 5-YEAR PERIOD THERE WILL BE A TOTAL OF 150,000 CONDOMS DISTRIBUTED TARGETING MSM AT LARGE SCALE EVENTS SUCH AS MARDI GRAS." https://t.co/NdEgK9foBh

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Wow I have had all kinds of inner debates pro and con about Bernie over the years

Seeing him in action just once has settled them

Hatchet man camouflaged as idealist

Rarely has seeing someone up close revealed so much to me so quickly

Preposterous character

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

“It’s disappointing to see that … same pride [elsewhere]… did not take place in the equipment that we sold” to New Orleans, Whitford said.

📰 New Orleans attack would’ve had ‘completely different outcome’ if steel barriers were used, inventor says https://t.co/cfRiWwNjjl

[Nate Thompson @NolaNate]

@TheCriticalDri1 God Bless America!

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

"We're doing 10 years of deferred maintenance in 6 months — it's crazy," said one project leader, who asked not to be named in order to avoid offending city officials.

📰 Inside the 'last mad dash' to finish New Orleans' big makeover ahead of Super Bowl https://t.co/4inOPpOnk9

[Luke Rudkowski @Lukewearechange]

cant unsee this

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Government officials are all over TV reassuring people that they are competent and are using our resources wisely...

Standing next to them are sign language interpreters, who were made redundant by technology 20 years ago.

[Nate Thompson @NolaNate]

@GlamourStar Streets that don't turn to garbage in 5 years: a technology that #nola has not adopted yet.

[3PickupMusicMan @3PickupMusicMan]

Rising bluegrass star Molly Tuttle and legend Tommy Emmanuel play ‘White Freightliner’ during a Guitarist Magazine interview. The two make it look effortless.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

For most of our country’s history

the federal government was funded by tariffs, there was no income tax, the budget was (mostly) balanced, and federal spending was less than 10% of GDP.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

The greatest wonders of Ancient Rome - a thread🧵

1. Nearly two millennia since its construction, the Pantheon’s dome remains the largest unreinforced concrete dome on Earth.

[JW 🇺🇸 @joshuawoodward_]

@HotSpotHotSpot No one would take advice from the Atlanta Falcons on how to beat the Patriots.

[Nicole Shanahan @NicoleShanahan]

My team never sleeps 😂

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

The Democrats, who claim to be all about health care have stood by watching other countries ban these poisons that make our kids sick. Enough is enough. President Trump and I are going to stop the mass poisoning of American children.

[Nate Thompson @NolaNate]

CNN headline: "Trump makes 8yr old with brain disorder cry after threatening letter." All jokes aside. I did not tear up.

[kevin smith @kevin_smith45]

Meet Liam.

A New York boy with a rare brain disorder and growth hormone deficiency.

Who got a very special 8th birthday letter from a very special person.

This is the side of Trump the media WILL NEVER show you.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Did you know that most transatlantic slaves weren’t shipped to America?

Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630 points out that while 12 million slaves from Africa were shipped to the New World, the US “got a little under 400,000.”

So why the focus on American slavery?

He explains: