Bonnie Thomas
@bonchesva.bsky.social
Tidewater, Virginia, born and raised 💙
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The latest thing Trump has done to DC: Scare the visitors away. Damaging all the businesses, large and small, that depend on them.
Along the National Mall today, 1pm, on a stunningly beautiful Saturday afternoon in late August.
(Article and more photos to come later today.)
Along the National Mall today, 1pm, on a stunningly beautiful Saturday afternoon in late August.
(Article and more photos to come later today.)
August 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The latest thing Trump has done to DC: Scare the visitors away. Damaging all the businesses, large and small, that depend on them.
Along the National Mall today, 1pm, on a stunningly beautiful Saturday afternoon in late August.
(Article and more photos to come later today.)
Along the National Mall today, 1pm, on a stunningly beautiful Saturday afternoon in late August.
(Article and more photos to come later today.)
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If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:
1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
August 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:
1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
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Trump is attacking the Smithsonian museum, saying there’s too much focus on "how bad slavery was."
Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.
This is part of a larger plan. Watch: youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?...
Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.
This is part of a larger plan. Watch: youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?...
Why Does Trump Hate Sesame Street?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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August 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Trump is attacking the Smithsonian museum, saying there’s too much focus on "how bad slavery was."
Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.
This is part of a larger plan. Watch: youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?...
Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.
This is part of a larger plan. Watch: youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?...
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"The government of El Salvador has confirmed what everyone already knew: the United States controls the fate of the Venezuelans sent to CECOT without due process," Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the ACLU told ABC News in response to the U.N. report.
abcnews.go.com/US/migrants-...
abcnews.go.com/US/migrants-...
Migrants who were sent to CECOT are the responsibility of US, El Salvador tells UN
Over 200 migrants who were sent to a Salvadoran prison under accusations they were gang members are the responsibility of the U.S., El Salvador officials told the U.N.
abcnews.go.com
July 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"The government of El Salvador has confirmed what everyone already knew: the United States controls the fate of the Venezuelans sent to CECOT without due process," Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the ACLU told ABC News in response to the U.N. report.
abcnews.go.com/US/migrants-...
abcnews.go.com/US/migrants-...
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I study the history of Nazi resistance. Here’s what the US left can learn from it | Luke Berryman
I study the history of Nazi resistance. Here’s what the US left can learn from it | Luke Berryman
Effective opposition calls for a laser focus on change, no matter how small. We should consider these activists’ examples
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I study the history of Nazi resistance. Here’s what the US left can learn from it | Luke Berryman
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Does spectacular wealth excuse depravity? Some thoughts on Elon Musk and moral character.
June 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Does spectacular wealth excuse depravity? Some thoughts on Elon Musk and moral character.
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MAGA: applauded Trump when he promised that he would harm the people you hate. Until you realize that poor, middle-class MAGA Whites are people he hates.
March 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
MAGA: applauded Trump when he promised that he would harm the people you hate. Until you realize that poor, middle-class MAGA Whites are people he hates.
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He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
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Remembering when in December Trump announced:
"The media is tamed down a little bit. They like us much better now, I think. If they don’t, then we’ll just have to take them on again, and we don’t want to do that."
It is amazing how right he was and how cowardly so many of them have become.
"The media is tamed down a little bit. They like us much better now, I think. If they don’t, then we’ll just have to take them on again, and we don’t want to do that."
It is amazing how right he was and how cowardly so many of them have become.
March 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Remembering when in December Trump announced:
"The media is tamed down a little bit. They like us much better now, I think. If they don’t, then we’ll just have to take them on again, and we don’t want to do that."
It is amazing how right he was and how cowardly so many of them have become.
"The media is tamed down a little bit. They like us much better now, I think. If they don’t, then we’ll just have to take them on again, and we don’t want to do that."
It is amazing how right he was and how cowardly so many of them have become.
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Someone tell DOGE! Brutal photo by huff post i love it
March 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Someone tell DOGE! Brutal photo by huff post i love it
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The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
March 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
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A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.
March 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.
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We need to talk about Trump’s threat to defund universities unless they arrest and expel protesters.
We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.
We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.
March 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We need to talk about Trump’s threat to defund universities unless they arrest and expel protesters.
We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.
We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.
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As someone who had the incredible privilege of serving in President Obama’s Cabinet, I literally cannot begin to imagine what this must feel like…
No one with talent, integrity and a clear moral compass will live like this.
No one with talent, integrity and a clear moral compass will live like this.
Trump on his cabinet members: "We're gonna be watching them. And Elon and the group are gonna be watching them. And if they can cut, it's better. And if they don't cut, then Elon will do the cutting."
March 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As someone who had the incredible privilege of serving in President Obama’s Cabinet, I literally cannot begin to imagine what this must feel like…
No one with talent, integrity and a clear moral compass will live like this.
No one with talent, integrity and a clear moral compass will live like this.
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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that
February 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that
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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Email from a Federal Worker at EPA to Lee Zeldin
I have obtained a copy of - and permission to publish - an email sent from Jason Poe to the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Jason has asked me to share this email, along with his name, with the public.
www.muellershewrote.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂
February 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂
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I am sending around "Oligarchs’ Island" again, written in November 2024. The White House has become an island of international oligarchs.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
Oligarchs' Island
A Sitcom Pitch in a Tragic Moment
snyder.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am sending around "Oligarchs’ Island" again, written in November 2024. The White House has become an island of international oligarchs.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
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They arrested you, Chris Kluwe for political retributive purposes. As a 5-time presiding officer, I can say, they did not have to arrest you, after removing you.
As a point of reference, in the past, HBPD has neglected to arrest numerous people who have disrupted our OVSD school board meetings.
As a point of reference, in the past, HBPD has neglected to arrest numerous people who have disrupted our OVSD school board meetings.
February 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
They arrested you, Chris Kluwe for political retributive purposes. As a 5-time presiding officer, I can say, they did not have to arrest you, after removing you.
As a point of reference, in the past, HBPD has neglected to arrest numerous people who have disrupted our OVSD school board meetings.
As a point of reference, in the past, HBPD has neglected to arrest numerous people who have disrupted our OVSD school board meetings.
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Dark Pence is back.
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Dark Pence is back.
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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Perfectly captured.
February 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Perfectly captured.
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I’m worried that the exodus from Meta and Twitter is what they want. To isolate us from each other.
Isolation is a big part of autocracy. It makes people easier to lie to and abuse.
I don’t have a global answer, but I am working on building a social media space for our podcast listeners.
Isolation is a big part of autocracy. It makes people easier to lie to and abuse.
I don’t have a global answer, but I am working on building a social media space for our podcast listeners.
January 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I’m worried that the exodus from Meta and Twitter is what they want. To isolate us from each other.
Isolation is a big part of autocracy. It makes people easier to lie to and abuse.
I don’t have a global answer, but I am working on building a social media space for our podcast listeners.
Isolation is a big part of autocracy. It makes people easier to lie to and abuse.
I don’t have a global answer, but I am working on building a social media space for our podcast listeners.
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Because they’re Black, they must be looting? This isn’t an honest mistake.
Spread truth, not lies: These folks weren’t looters. This footage is from KTLA, where the homeowner explained that her brothers & friends were helping her move belongings out of her burned house.
(Her interview in the 🧵)
Spread truth, not lies: These folks weren’t looters. This footage is from KTLA, where the homeowner explained that her brothers & friends were helping her move belongings out of her burned house.
(Her interview in the 🧵)
January 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Because they’re Black, they must be looting? This isn’t an honest mistake.
Spread truth, not lies: These folks weren’t looters. This footage is from KTLA, where the homeowner explained that her brothers & friends were helping her move belongings out of her burned house.
(Her interview in the 🧵)
Spread truth, not lies: These folks weren’t looters. This footage is from KTLA, where the homeowner explained that her brothers & friends were helping her move belongings out of her burned house.
(Her interview in the 🧵)