Valerie Thompson

Temporarily distracted by politics (& cat videos) through 2020. Eclectic pop-culture tastes. Enjoy antiques, audio in a variety of forms, and modern technology.

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

Happy 57th Anniversary! 👍🏻

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Things that did not age well:

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The documents are so damning in refuting Trump's own case that I wonder if anyone in the White House actually read them (or understood what they were looking at)

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

This is what happens when you have a president who doesn't read.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Things conservatives told me when I was in my 20’s:

*Character counts
*Crony capitalism is bad
*Russia is our enemy
*Tariffs are taxes
*The Constitution is sacrosanct
*Government power should be limited, restrained, and checked by congress.

Guess they were just joking.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Never forget that as early as the 1950s the oil industry knew this was *exactly* the crisis their pollution would create, but instead of warning the public, they funded massive, ongoing disinformation campaigns and lobbied against clean energy.

Climate change isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Putin

Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans.

Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent.

The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation:

Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan.

To name a few.

An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021.

Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up.

The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Trump just confirmed ‘Russiagate’ was real, lol

[More Luigis Needed @LisaA311]

Biggest theft of our lives. That was our money and they handed the refund to corporations instead of back to you

[ape attack survivor @pissvortex]

It’s so fucking absurd that after a couple of months of letting Elon try his vulgar libertarian budget theories it’s just doomed us for the foreseeable future. There’s parasites and disease everywhere. People are shitting themselves to death. They’re going to call this the Poop Presidency

[Bobby Fakename, Esq. @BobFakeNameEsq]

Appointing Lindsey Graham’s sister — who by any metric is woefully unqualified— is genuinely fucking insane. Being a senator is not a lordship. He wasn’t the goddamn Lord of Riverrun. Why can’t Republicans be serious about anything?

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

The cure for cancer isn’t in the AI data center, it was in the forest cut down to build the AI center

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Call me woke, but I really want my tax dollars to help prevent and track explosive diarrhea parasites in our food.

[More Luigis Needed @LisaA311]

Conservatives: If you stand in front of a car it should be allowed to run you over

Also conservatives: If an unidentified agent of the state stands in front of your car, he should be allowed to shoot you to death

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Being undocumented is not grounds for murder.

Being a minority is not grounds for murder.

Fleeing a scene is not grounds for murder.

Committing a crime is not grounds for murder.

There’s a judicial system & due process for everyone.

When ICE kill people, it’s an executio.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party has control of the White House, House, and the Senate.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

Please remember when they say things like, "No active warrants," or, "Not the target of their investigation," the government is actually saying, "innocent person."

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

The Reflecting Pool isn’t American flag blue.
There is no 300 yard gash.
They were not eating cats and dogs.
Schools are not secretly changing kids’ genders.
He has not ended eight wars.
2020 was not a rigged election.
Medications are not 1,500% cheaper.
Tariffs are taxes.
Inflation is going up.
He wasn’t shot.

[Will @WillemDaFro]

yeah man i would feel really comfortable stopping my car when an unmarked ford explorer cuts in front of me and several armed and masked individuals hop out of it and immediately get aggressive on me

Are you all fucking lobotomized???