Maria Thompson
@writercpa.bsky.social
Gov't employee (for another 24 months or 24 minutes, depends on what they say next), writer, gardener, CPA with a passion for books - why I serve as Treasurer for Baltimore Science Fiction and curate its Little Free Library charter 155682
This not about immigration. It is about the rule of law. It is about everyone's civil liberties.
Why The Regime expects people to follow laws while it blatantly defies them and all efforts of courts to enforce them is rattling the foundations of our democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why The Regime expects people to follow laws while it blatantly defies them and all efforts of courts to enforce them is rattling the foundations of our democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order
Student ‘heartbroken’ after being sent to Honduras while trying to travel from Boston to Texas, attorney says
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This not about immigration. It is about the rule of law. It is about everyone's civil liberties.
Why The Regime expects people to follow laws while it blatantly defies them and all efforts of courts to enforce them is rattling the foundations of our democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why The Regime expects people to follow laws while it blatantly defies them and all efforts of courts to enforce them is rattling the foundations of our democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nature's own advanced wastewater treatment plants.
This is why fighting to protect their habitats around the Chesapeake Bay is so important to the health of the estuary.
This is why fighting to protect their habitats around the Chesapeake Bay is so important to the health of the estuary.
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Nature's own advanced wastewater treatment plants.
This is why fighting to protect their habitats around the Chesapeake Bay is so important to the health of the estuary.
This is why fighting to protect their habitats around the Chesapeake Bay is so important to the health of the estuary.
May her memory be a blessing.
Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has died. She faithfully and honorably served our country. l can't begin to imagine what her family, friends, and colleagues are experiencing right now. Keep them in your thoughts.
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
May her memory be a blessing.
The Regime can't represent all Americans b/c it doesn’t know who we are. Most immigrants are not on welfare or criminals. Their taxes go into a Social Security system that won't pay them. They take essential, low wage jobs, anything to work, that Americans refuse. He should know, he's hired many.
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The Regime can't represent all Americans b/c it doesn’t know who we are. Most immigrants are not on welfare or criminals. Their taxes go into a Social Security system that won't pay them. They take essential, low wage jobs, anything to work, that Americans refuse. He should know, he's hired many.
University of Maryland Gamer Symphony Orchestra, via Neel their choir director:
UMGSO’s 20th anniversary season is next semester and we want to go BIG! We’re aiming high for the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda and we need YOUR help to make it happen!
www.gofundme.com/f/the-gso-at...
UMGSO’s 20th anniversary season is next semester and we want to go BIG! We’re aiming high for the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda and we need YOUR help to make it happen!
www.gofundme.com/f/the-gso-at...
Donate to Help The GSO at UMD Play at the Strathmore Music Center, organized by Gamer Symphony Orchestra University of Maryland
The student-run Gamer Symphony Orchestra is the first collegi… Gamer Symphony Orchestra University of Maryland needs your support for Help The GSO at UMD Play at the Strathmore Music Center
www.gofundme.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
University of Maryland Gamer Symphony Orchestra, via Neel their choir director:
UMGSO’s 20th anniversary season is next semester and we want to go BIG! We’re aiming high for the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda and we need YOUR help to make it happen!
www.gofundme.com/f/the-gso-at...
UMGSO’s 20th anniversary season is next semester and we want to go BIG! We’re aiming high for the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda and we need YOUR help to make it happen!
www.gofundme.com/f/the-gso-at...
The Regime is to malevolent and stupid to realize that slapping people who put on their uniforms for 15 - 18 YEARS! is a slap in the face of everyone who has served this nation.
This is too serious a breach of contract and decency to let stand.
apnews.com/article/tran...
This is too serious a breach of contract and decency to let stand.
apnews.com/article/tran...
Transgender members of the Air Force sue over losing retirement pay
A group of 17 transgender members of the Air Force are suing the U.S. government over what they say is the military’s unlawful revocation of their early retirement pensions and benefits.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The Regime is to malevolent and stupid to realize that slapping people who put on their uniforms for 15 - 18 YEARS! is a slap in the face of everyone who has served this nation.
This is too serious a breach of contract and decency to let stand.
apnews.com/article/tran...
This is too serious a breach of contract and decency to let stand.
apnews.com/article/tran...
My day is coming!
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My day is coming!
I'm a deep blue, donkey voting #Democrat over 65 years & I am beyond frustrated with my party!
Focus on ideas people need. My list:
ACA credits
Middle income housing
Online privacy
Childcare
Social Security & Medicare
No midterm redistricting
Solar energy
Capital gains tax
@vanhollen.senate.gov
Focus on ideas people need. My list:
ACA credits
Middle income housing
Online privacy
Childcare
Social Security & Medicare
No midterm redistricting
Solar energy
Capital gains tax
@vanhollen.senate.gov
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm a deep blue, donkey voting #Democrat over 65 years & I am beyond frustrated with my party!
Focus on ideas people need. My list:
ACA credits
Middle income housing
Online privacy
Childcare
Social Security & Medicare
No midterm redistricting
Solar energy
Capital gains tax
@vanhollen.senate.gov
Focus on ideas people need. My list:
ACA credits
Middle income housing
Online privacy
Childcare
Social Security & Medicare
No midterm redistricting
Solar energy
Capital gains tax
@vanhollen.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & @schumer.senate.gov
If you can't think up 5 things to feature for as real proposals for 26 elections, have your staff walk out your front door and ask some ordinary people to help you. Right now! We only have 316 DAYS!
Stop wasting time!
If you can't think up 5 things to feature for as real proposals for 26 elections, have your staff walk out your front door and ask some ordinary people to help you. Right now! We only have 316 DAYS!
Stop wasting time!
A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it has renewed their faith in government.
Democracy Is in Trouble. This Region Is Turning to Its People.
A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it’s renewed their faith in government.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & @schumer.senate.gov
If you can't think up 5 things to feature for as real proposals for 26 elections, have your staff walk out your front door and ask some ordinary people to help you. Right now! We only have 316 DAYS!
Stop wasting time!
If you can't think up 5 things to feature for as real proposals for 26 elections, have your staff walk out your front door and ask some ordinary people to help you. Right now! We only have 316 DAYS!
Stop wasting time!
Raises questions does not begin to cover this. Pushing forward an obvious Russian wish list in which Russia concedes nothing & gets land it couldn't take?
The Regime doesn't even know when it's obviously being played. Same as Gaza. No one there with any sense of fairness, history or law. Shameful!
The Regime doesn't even know when it's obviously being played. Same as Gaza. No one there with any sense of fairness, history or law. Shameful!
REUTERS: “The situation has sparked worries inside the administration and on Capitol Hill that Witkoff & Kushner skirted the interagency process and the discussions with Dmitriev resulted in a plan that favors Russian interests.” www.reuters.com/world/europe...
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Raises questions does not begin to cover this. Pushing forward an obvious Russian wish list in which Russia concedes nothing & gets land it couldn't take?
The Regime doesn't even know when it's obviously being played. Same as Gaza. No one there with any sense of fairness, history or law. Shameful!
The Regime doesn't even know when it's obviously being played. Same as Gaza. No one there with any sense of fairness, history or law. Shameful!
Think about this. Our once closest ally, the UK, does not trust us. Who else is quietly not sharing? Where does that put our national security?
Murdering a few people at sea is not making real change in the flow of drugs into the US.
It just makes the US look like a skeevy bully-The Regime.
Murdering a few people at sea is not making real change in the flow of drugs into the US.
It just makes the US look like a skeevy bully-The Regime.
Mark Kelly: "They're tying themselves in knots trying to explain why what they're doing with regard to these drug boats is legal. It's questionable at best. One of our biggest allies, the UK, recently stopped sharing intelligence with us in the Caribbean because they question whether this is legal."
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Think about this. Our once closest ally, the UK, does not trust us. Who else is quietly not sharing? Where does that put our national security?
Murdering a few people at sea is not making real change in the flow of drugs into the US.
It just makes the US look like a skeevy bully-The Regime.
Murdering a few people at sea is not making real change in the flow of drugs into the US.
It just makes the US look like a skeevy bully-The Regime.
The ACA credits are a tangible need of 22 million people. W/o them they cannot afford basic healthcare - The small business owners politicians claim to love! Families working them.
Dems should broadcast lots of commercials during Christmas to Red states where GOP constituents need to speak up!
Dems should broadcast lots of commercials during Christmas to Red states where GOP constituents need to speak up!
Mike Johnson is big mad that we forced through a petition and forced a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The ACA credits are a tangible need of 22 million people. W/o them they cannot afford basic healthcare - The small business owners politicians claim to love! Families working them.
Dems should broadcast lots of commercials during Christmas to Red states where GOP constituents need to speak up!
Dems should broadcast lots of commercials during Christmas to Red states where GOP constituents need to speak up!
My senator, @vanhollen.senate.gov, one of the strongest voices in the Senate still blows in the wind, albeit with roots. @DNC need real proposals to win in 26. Not just a desire to get power. For what? Offer ideas not buzz - affordability, environment, healthcare
www.wnycstudios.org/story/senato...
www.wnycstudios.org/story/senato...
Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis in Washington | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC Studios
Both major parties are experiencing a crisis of leadership in Washington. President Trump’s flip-flopping on the Epstein files acknowledges that, on this issue, at least, he has lost ...
www.wnycstudios.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My senator, @vanhollen.senate.gov, one of the strongest voices in the Senate still blows in the wind, albeit with roots. @DNC need real proposals to win in 26. Not just a desire to get power. For what? Offer ideas not buzz - affordability, environment, healthcare
www.wnycstudios.org/story/senato...
www.wnycstudios.org/story/senato...
Back to Jan 6 and hanging "traitors" at the US Capitol. I guess even The Regime has days where it just falls back on its oldies, rather than more creative was to destroy America.
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Back to Jan 6 and hanging "traitors" at the US Capitol. I guess even The Regime has days where it just falls back on its oldies, rather than more creative was to destroy America.
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
I doubt Scott Besent has ever.grown a little basil in a pot in his kitchen, let alone put in the work required for a small vegetable garden. That kind of dirt digging ruins your manicure.
youtu.be/a48W2ezL3NU?...
youtu.be/a48W2ezL3NU?...
Scott Bessent The Fake Farmer
YouTube video by No Surrender Fund
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I doubt Scott Besent has ever.grown a little basil in a pot in his kitchen, let alone put in the work required for a small vegetable garden. That kind of dirt digging ruins your manicure.
youtu.be/a48W2ezL3NU?...
youtu.be/a48W2ezL3NU?...
If The Regime can hand itself $230 million, I guess Graham thinks there's still some sloppy in the trough for him.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
If The Regime can hand itself $230 million, I guess Graham thinks there's still some sloppy in the trough for him.
Reposted by Maria Thompson
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
We couldn't decide this woman's immigration case for 24 yrs, then she is ripped from a community where she built a family & ran a successful business. Meanwhile, The Regime hands out pardons like candy to people w millions in fraud charges!
We need a rational system of laws!
We need a rational system of laws!
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We couldn't decide this woman's immigration case for 24 yrs, then she is ripped from a community where she built a family & ran a successful business. Meanwhile, The Regime hands out pardons like candy to people w millions in fraud charges!
We need a rational system of laws!
We need a rational system of laws!
Corporate buddies fly private.
They don’t care about ordinary folks. Just their corporate buddies.
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Corporate buddies fly private.
1) SCOTUS may not let us keep the money.
2) A better use is paying down the National Debt.
3) Eva Perrone was much better looking. The Regime's act is too tired to ever make it on Broadway, alone at the National Palace, as much much as he wants to transform our humble Whitehouse.
2) A better use is paying down the National Debt.
3) Eva Perrone was much better looking. The Regime's act is too tired to ever make it on Broadway, alone at the National Palace, as much much as he wants to transform our humble Whitehouse.
Robbing Peter to pay Peter.
Trump promises $2000 tariff checks by mid-2026.
www.axios.com/2025/11/17/2...
Trump promises $2000 tariff checks by mid-2026.
www.axios.com/2025/11/17/2...
Trump promises $2,000 tariff checks by mid-2026
The checks would probably require legislation, Sec. Bessent has said.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
1) SCOTUS may not let us keep the money.
2) A better use is paying down the National Debt.
3) Eva Perrone was much better looking. The Regime's act is too tired to ever make it on Broadway, alone at the National Palace, as much much as he wants to transform our humble Whitehouse.
2) A better use is paying down the National Debt.
3) Eva Perrone was much better looking. The Regime's act is too tired to ever make it on Broadway, alone at the National Palace, as much much as he wants to transform our humble Whitehouse.
Reposted by Maria Thompson
A new arrival from Subterranean Press - with a beautiful cover by @alisonsampson.bsky.social - this collects the vast majority of my short fiction to date, along with commentary on particularly noteworthy entries.
We’re delighted to announce The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social), a massive—37 stories, more than 600 pages—collection by the author of many acclaimed novels. Featuring a foreword by @scalzi.com. Full details and preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...
Announcing THE BEST OF ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY—Over 600 Pages!
We’re delighted to announce The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky, a massive—37 stories, more than 600 pages—collection by the author of many acclaimed novels, including Alien Clay, Shroud,...
subterraneanpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A new arrival from Subterranean Press - with a beautiful cover by @alisonsampson.bsky.social - this collects the vast majority of my short fiction to date, along with commentary on particularly noteworthy entries.
Reposted by Maria Thompson
This utter dipshit. Prices are high in part because ports were closed to feeder cattle from Mexico because of screwworm, which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what he’s saying. Also because slaughterhouses have lost many workers, tariffs on imported beef, feed prices going up, etc etc it’s a rich tapestry.
Last month he was a soybean farmer, this month he’s an expert on intercontinental cattle drives.
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This utter dipshit. Prices are high in part because ports were closed to feeder cattle from Mexico because of screwworm, which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what he’s saying. Also because slaughterhouses have lost many workers, tariffs on imported beef, feed prices going up, etc etc it’s a rich tapestry.
Reposted by Maria Thompson
We have to become the people of Serbia so we don’t become the people of North Korea.
March 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We have to become the people of Serbia so we don’t become the people of North Korea.
An intelligent use of any "excess" funds would be paying down the National Debt, a former project of the GOP. Remember when they were fiscal conservatives?
Now, passing out government funds, if they are affirmed by SCOTUS, to buy votes and favor are the key project.
meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...
Now, passing out government funds, if they are affirmed by SCOTUS, to buy votes and favor are the key project.
meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...
meidasnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
An intelligent use of any "excess" funds would be paying down the National Debt, a former project of the GOP. Remember when they were fiscal conservatives?
Now, passing out government funds, if they are affirmed by SCOTUS, to buy votes and favor are the key project.
meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...
Now, passing out government funds, if they are affirmed by SCOTUS, to buy votes and favor are the key project.
meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM