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
Gift Article: A judge calls out
This is too important to paywall!
Judges cannot speak openly about how The Regime is abusing the courts in its continued march toward autocracy.
We must hear and heed the words of this brave man.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
This is too important to paywall!
Judges cannot speak openly about how The Regime is abusing the courts in its continued march toward autocracy.
We must hear and heed the words of this brave man.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Gift Article: A judge calls out
This is too important to paywall!
Judges cannot speak openly about how The Regime is abusing the courts in its continued march toward autocracy.
We must hear and heed the words of this brave man.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
This is too important to paywall!
Judges cannot speak openly about how The Regime is abusing the courts in its continued march toward autocracy.
We must hear and heed the words of this brave man.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
The Regime's abuses of the power to pardon in full glory. A "friend of son-in-law Jared Kusher" continues his crime sprees of violence & theft.
The sexual assault, alone, should get more than 27 months.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
The sexual assault, alone, should get more than 27 months.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
Felon Freed by Trump Is Sentenced Again, This Time to 27 Months
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The Regime's abuses of the power to pardon in full glory. A "friend of son-in-law Jared Kusher" continues his crime sprees of violence & theft.
The sexual assault, alone, should get more than 27 months.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
The sexual assault, alone, should get more than 27 months.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
"The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers." Not Shakespeare, Todd Blanche.
The Regime openly announces its plan for furthering autocracy w an attack on judges & bar associations.
Lawyers must be able to present cases in honest courts or we have no rights.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/d...
The Regime openly announces its plan for furthering autocracy w an attack on judges & bar associations.
Lawyers must be able to present cases in honest courts or we have no rights.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/d...
Deputy AG declares "war" on judges, vows to strip bar associations' power
The statements are the latest escalation in the DOJ's comments about judges.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers." Not Shakespeare, Todd Blanche.
The Regime openly announces its plan for furthering autocracy w an attack on judges & bar associations.
Lawyers must be able to present cases in honest courts or we have no rights.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/d...
The Regime openly announces its plan for furthering autocracy w an attack on judges & bar associations.
Lawyers must be able to present cases in honest courts or we have no rights.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/d...
Reposted by Maria Thompson
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction
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open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...
Weird Science Fiction Submission Call
Submit before 01/01/2026
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November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction
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Want to make bets about how fast the GOP pulls the football in December?
No help for people who must sign up for plans now. How much subsidy and when? Will open enrollment be extended?
Just when GOP might start to feel pain from constituents who can't buy insurance or fly, the DEMs pull the ball!
No help for people who must sign up for plans now. How much subsidy and when? Will open enrollment be extended?
Just when GOP might start to feel pain from constituents who can't buy insurance or fly, the DEMs pull the ball!
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Want to make bets about how fast the GOP pulls the football in December?
No help for people who must sign up for plans now. How much subsidy and when? Will open enrollment be extended?
Just when GOP might start to feel pain from constituents who can't buy insurance or fly, the DEMs pull the ball!
No help for people who must sign up for plans now. How much subsidy and when? Will open enrollment be extended?
Just when GOP might start to feel pain from constituents who can't buy insurance or fly, the DEMs pull the ball!
Due to Ms. Jacobs, et al, the cute, extremely pricey brownstones in Greenwich Village & vacant factories cum lofts would've long ago made way ben new housing in Manhattan. Only children of immigrants in hereditary rent-controlled/stabilized apartments remain from "the old days." Fantasyland for rich
You will never think of Jane Jacobs the same way again after reading this book:
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bsky.app/profile/torr...
The section of Yoni’s book “Stuck” that is about Jane Jacobs is an essential read:
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Due to Ms. Jacobs, et al, the cute, extremely pricey brownstones in Greenwich Village & vacant factories cum lofts would've long ago made way ben new housing in Manhattan. Only children of immigrants in hereditary rent-controlled/stabilized apartments remain from "the old days." Fantasyland for rich
I wish I'd had @monaeltahawy.bsky.social, "Bloody Hell" about #menopause 20 yrs ago when i started this body renovation project. Hot flashes? Not my problem. DENTAL ISSUES!! Nobody mentioned this! Tooth after tooth going bad! Cavity & root canal heaven! Can we talk?
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adanews.ada.org/huddles/main...
Maintaining good oral health through menopause
Experts offered advice for maintaining positive oral health in women experiencing menopause.
adanews.ada.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I wish I'd had @monaeltahawy.bsky.social, "Bloody Hell" about #menopause 20 yrs ago when i started this body renovation project. Hot flashes? Not my problem. DENTAL ISSUES!! Nobody mentioned this! Tooth after tooth going bad! Cavity & root canal heaven! Can we talk?
adanews.ada.org/huddles/main...
adanews.ada.org/huddles/main...
Deepest thanks to Judge Mark Wolf for the courage and dedication to speak up about the lawlessness we are witnessing from The Regime.
If you're only reading this on BlueSky or @theatlantic.com, send e-mail to your local paper, radio & TV news and ask why? Their silence is making them complicite.
If you're only reading this on BlueSky or @theatlantic.com, send e-mail to your local paper, radio & TV news and ask why? Their silence is making them complicite.
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Deepest thanks to Judge Mark Wolf for the courage and dedication to speak up about the lawlessness we are witnessing from The Regime.
If you're only reading this on BlueSky or @theatlantic.com, send e-mail to your local paper, radio & TV news and ask why? Their silence is making them complicite.
If you're only reading this on BlueSky or @theatlantic.com, send e-mail to your local paper, radio & TV news and ask why? Their silence is making them complicite.
It is humiliating & infuriating to see this critique of attacks on American elections by The Regime in a foreign newspaper w scant domestic coverage of the fight @democracydocket.com is waging to save the 2026 elections - 50 weeks away.
Be part of the process!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Be part of the process!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’
White House is manipulating voting system, from redistricting to rule changes, to affect midterms
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It is humiliating & infuriating to see this critique of attacks on American elections by The Regime in a foreign newspaper w scant domestic coverage of the fight @democracydocket.com is waging to save the 2026 elections - 50 weeks away.
Be part of the process!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Be part of the process!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Thank you to President Scheinbaum for speaking out.
She's setting a great example for women around the world.
We must continue to speak up loudly so that our granddaughters and their children will walk freely.
She's setting a great example for women around the world.
We must continue to speak up loudly so that our granddaughters and their children will walk freely.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Thank you to President Scheinbaum for speaking out.
She's setting a great example for women around the world.
We must continue to speak up loudly so that our granddaughters and their children will walk freely.
She's setting a great example for women around the world.
We must continue to speak up loudly so that our granddaughters and their children will walk freely.
Reposted by Maria Thompson
Spreading the word in case this is new info.
These Chicago restaurants are offering free meals to SNAP recipients
Here's where you can find free food in Chicago right now.
www.timeout.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Spreading the word in case this is new info.
But Rep. Nancy Mace can list all of the acts against GOPers, but misses arson against the PA governor, assassinations in Minnesota, or attempted murder of Pelosi's husband are not on her radar, sending MAGA the message Dems are fair game.
There should be no sides about this.
STOP POLITICAL VIOLENCE
There should be no sides about this.
STOP POLITICAL VIOLENCE
A Florida man was arrested in connection with a series of online threats against several of President Trump’s political adversaries, according to a criminal complaint, which said that his targets included James Comey, Letitia James and Hunter Biden.
Florida Man Threatened James Comey and Letitia James, Complaint Says
Gregory Formicone, of Bradenton, Fla., used online comments to call for several of President Trump’s most prominent adversaries to be targeted, the authorities said.
nyti.ms
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
But Rep. Nancy Mace can list all of the acts against GOPers, but misses arson against the PA governor, assassinations in Minnesota, or attempted murder of Pelosi's husband are not on her radar, sending MAGA the message Dems are fair game.
There should be no sides about this.
STOP POLITICAL VIOLENCE
There should be no sides about this.
STOP POLITICAL VIOLENCE
The terror does not stay in LA. Everyone who sees the news, sees social media or talks to a friend feel fear, especially if we live in a city The Regime has targeted.
But anyone who goes into the world to shop, dine or worship is at risk that ICE violence will explode - bystanders be damned.
But anyone who goes into the world to shop, dine or worship is at risk that ICE violence will explode - bystanders be damned.
Don’t think ppl understand the terror the Feds are unleashing on the streets of LA right now. Roving patrols targeting vulnerable individuals. It’s horrible.
There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.
There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.
The past week+ has been really intense in Los Angeles. We need all of the help, support, & attention we can get. Feds are literally roving the streets snatch & grabbing vulnerable individuals. It's horrific. We need to do more.
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The terror does not stay in LA. Everyone who sees the news, sees social media or talks to a friend feel fear, especially if we live in a city The Regime has targeted.
But anyone who goes into the world to shop, dine or worship is at risk that ICE violence will explode - bystanders be damned.
But anyone who goes into the world to shop, dine or worship is at risk that ICE violence will explode - bystanders be damned.
Fortunately, this child is back with her family. ICE is not equipped to take care of a child. After their arrest, appropriate action, if immediate family contact was not possible, local children's services should be called to the scene. We disappear children.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father
‘Devastated’ family demands answers after two-year-old driven by armed agents from LA Home Depot parking lot
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Fortunately, this child is back with her family. ICE is not equipped to take care of a child. After their arrest, appropriate action, if immediate family contact was not possible, local children's services should be called to the scene. We disappear children.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov The victory of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells us that a real progressive platform can win. If you get the House & Senate, WHAT will you DO? Be specific: Tax reform, housing, tuition, gun control, healthcare, environment, energy, food...
What's THE PLAN?
What's THE PLAN?
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
@aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov The victory of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells us that a real progressive platform can win. If you get the House & Senate, WHAT will you DO? Be specific: Tax reform, housing, tuition, gun control, healthcare, environment, energy, food...
What's THE PLAN?
What's THE PLAN?
To be clear on food donations. There is no law on distribution dates for food distributed by food pantries.
"Sell by" leaves a window for home storage before use.
Distributors must use their judgement.
Donors - don't send what you wouldn't eat.
Good info for all:
mdfoodbank.org/wp-content/u...
"Sell by" leaves a window for home storage before use.
Distributors must use their judgement.
Donors - don't send what you wouldn't eat.
Good info for all:
mdfoodbank.org/wp-content/u...
mdfoodbank.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
To be clear on food donations. There is no law on distribution dates for food distributed by food pantries.
"Sell by" leaves a window for home storage before use.
Distributors must use their judgement.
Donors - don't send what you wouldn't eat.
Good info for all:
mdfoodbank.org/wp-content/u...
"Sell by" leaves a window for home storage before use.
Distributors must use their judgement.
Donors - don't send what you wouldn't eat.
Good info for all:
mdfoodbank.org/wp-content/u...
The GOP of Eisenhower has not existed in a very long time. I don't know where the seeds lay, but the landscape since Gingrich was speaker has been bleak, and infected both parties.
The rampage for power, for its own sake, must stop!
Real care about ordinary people has been trampled.
The rampage for power, for its own sake, must stop!
Real care about ordinary people has been trampled.
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The GOP of Eisenhower has not existed in a very long time. I don't know where the seeds lay, but the landscape since Gingrich was speaker has been bleak, and infected both parties.
The rampage for power, for its own sake, must stop!
Real care about ordinary people has been trampled.
The rampage for power, for its own sake, must stop!
Real care about ordinary people has been trampled.
How does a man go from daily phone calls w his family to an ICE-paid AIR AMBULANCE! in a condition of
"encephalopathy, the muscle ailment rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own," in 2 months?
ICE needs to explain exactly what happened to this family
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"encephalopathy, the muscle ailment rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own," in 2 months?
ICE needs to explain exactly what happened to this family
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state
Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatment
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
How does a man go from daily phone calls w his family to an ICE-paid AIR AMBULANCE! in a condition of
"encephalopathy, the muscle ailment rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own," in 2 months?
ICE needs to explain exactly what happened to this family
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"encephalopathy, the muscle ailment rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own," in 2 months?
ICE needs to explain exactly what happened to this family
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@democracydocket.com does the hard work everyday to help us have fair and free elections. They don't happen by accident.
Best wishes to all the elections workers across the nation. (I bring my fellow judges donuts and coffee.)
365 days minus 2 hours and counting.
Become an election judge.
Best wishes to all the elections workers across the nation. (I bring my fellow judges donuts and coffee.)
365 days minus 2 hours and counting.
Become an election judge.
TODAY is #ElectionDay! Here are the key races YOU should be watching:
🗳️PA Supreme Court
🗳️ME Ballot Measure
🗳️CA Prop 50
🗳️VA Gov/AG/House
🗳️NJ Gov
🧵Here’s everything you need to know about why these elections could be especially consequential to our democracy👇
🗳️PA Supreme Court
🗳️ME Ballot Measure
🗳️CA Prop 50
🗳️VA Gov/AG/House
🗳️NJ Gov
🧵Here’s everything you need to know about why these elections could be especially consequential to our democracy👇
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
@democracydocket.com does the hard work everyday to help us have fair and free elections. They don't happen by accident.
Best wishes to all the elections workers across the nation. (I bring my fellow judges donuts and coffee.)
365 days minus 2 hours and counting.
Become an election judge.
Best wishes to all the elections workers across the nation. (I bring my fellow judges donuts and coffee.)
365 days minus 2 hours and counting.
Become an election judge.
@lizcheney.bsky.social
May his memory be a blessing. May you and all his mourners be comforted.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
May his memory be a blessing. May you and all his mourners be comforted.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents, dies at 84
Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.
www.thebanner.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
@lizcheney.bsky.social
May his memory be a blessing. May you and all his mourners be comforted.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
May his memory be a blessing. May you and all his mourners be comforted.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Halloween with real boogie men.
We can do better for our children.
We can do better for our children.
On Halloween, we saw two Americas existing under Trump's rule. In Florida, Trump's gaudy Gatsby-esque party. Here in Chicago, neighbors literally on guard to protect kids out trick or treating from out of control feds. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
The Gilded Age vs State Sponsored Terror
Trump partied like its 1928, but Chicago remained on high alert after roving caravans of federal agents used chemical agents, pummeled people and threatened to shoot bystanders.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Halloween with real boogie men.
We can do better for our children.
We can do better for our children.
I'm inclined to let conservatives eat their undisciplined young, now called Groypers (a fancier way to say Gripers?) aggrieved whiny manchildren believing all the toys are theirs. Mediocre men promised prosperity w/o effort bestowed by reason of birth.
Mad bc the truth is out on the plot to fix it?
Mad bc the truth is out on the plot to fix it?
wow. no way. you just noticed, rod? roddreher.substack.com/p/americas-c...
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I'm inclined to let conservatives eat their undisciplined young, now called Groypers (a fancier way to say Gripers?) aggrieved whiny manchildren believing all the toys are theirs. Mediocre men promised prosperity w/o effort bestowed by reason of birth.
Mad bc the truth is out on the plot to fix it?
Mad bc the truth is out on the plot to fix it?
I'd rather he had a good old pin up girl photo. That might have artistic value.
That flag is just pornography.
That flag is just pornography.
what’s most damning, IMO, about the “swastika flag in the background of a Zoom call” thing is that it’s clearly been up for a while, like, he didn’t put that up this AM, and nobody has said anything to him about it (nor did he think to take it down) because it’s just expected behavior among the GOP
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'd rather he had a good old pin up girl photo. That might have artistic value.
That flag is just pornography.
That flag is just pornography.
The Regime's crypto-grift run by its leader's sons is the most naked grab for money from any politician since the days of Boss Tweed.
The New Republic piece is spot on.
The New Republic piece is spot on.
Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened newrepublic.com/post/202618/...
Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened
Donald Trump apparently feels he can now dictate CBS News’s content.
newrepublic.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The Regime's crypto-grift run by its leader's sons is the most naked grab for money from any politician since the days of Boss Tweed.
The New Republic piece is spot on.
The New Republic piece is spot on.
"SHUSH! You're not supposed to say that part aloud in public!"
I love seeing racists & Nazis on the down low.
They really think the rest of us don't know what they mean in their Doublespeak? Or by the company they keep?
nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...
I love seeing racists & Nazis on the down low.
They really think the rest of us don't know what they mean in their Doublespeak? Or by the company they keep?
nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...
Exclusive | Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense after controversial Nick Fuentes interview: ‘Footsie with literal Nazis’
“I’m disgusted by this,” said one Heritage staffer.
nypost.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"SHUSH! You're not supposed to say that part aloud in public!"
I love seeing racists & Nazis on the down low.
They really think the rest of us don't know what they mean in their Doublespeak? Or by the company they keep?
nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...
I love seeing racists & Nazis on the down low.
They really think the rest of us don't know what they mean in their Doublespeak? Or by the company they keep?
nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...