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Vernice Thompson

@sweettechgrad

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Native of Maine and New Hampshire. Author of two novels so far. Teacher, salesperson, researcher, landscaper. Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Democrat.

Williamsburg, Virginia
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Vernice Thompson
7 months
@PrezLives2022 Ms. Britt is a surviving Stepford wife.
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@DogginTrump I agree! Tim Walz was clear and honest and answered the questions. He stood up for himself and did not resort to attacking Trump much. JD Vance showed a lot of ignorance and stupidity, lied about his opponents repeatedly, and came across as a sleazy snake oil salesman.
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3 years
@washingtonpost And in other news, Norwegian Cruise Lines is suing Florida for preventing the company from trying to keep Covid off its ships. What is DeSantis response?
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3 years
@avaricewear @ABCPolitics I do not have kids, but I have been a teacher. It is NOT okay ever for a teacher to even touch a child's hair. The teacher should be fired right away. The parents should win the lawsuit.
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3 years
@NBCNews Some people just have to learn things the hard way. When their beliefs contradict reality, they can choose to ignore it or scoff at it. But reality always wins.
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3 years
@nytimes Wow! What took them so many decades to finally authorize what everyone should know?
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3 years
@HerzogEducation This is completely false. Private schools do not provide a better education. If anything they only provide indoctrination into nonsense. Support for school choice is also not skyrocketing. This is just another scam to make money for someone.
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2 years
@thehill Sounds like the mayor might be projecting a bit with his name calling. 🤔
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3 years
@SSG_Davis_Ret @AP Any Twitter account with over 1 million followers should be taken seriously. If the government is concerned, though, they should be reporting the account to Twitter.
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1 year
@kylegriffin1 @MSNBC I think that's an accurate idea! They're now trying to demonize fatherhood after decades of trying to promote it. Republican hypocrisy knows absolutely no bounds whatsoever.
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3 years
@thehill Now hopefully he will be encouraging everyone to get vaccinated and wear a mask when necessary? Oh, wait, he works for Fox. 😑
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3 years
Anti-vaxxers exposed: Hidden camera investigation (Marketplace) via @YouTube
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1 year
@realTuckFrumper He needs to be fired without severance pay, just to know what it feels like to have no income.
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5 years
Mega Disasters: Glacier Meltdown - Full Episode (S2, E6) | History via @YouTube
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2 years
@CNNPolitics Well, now they made it publically known that those who donate to politicians' campaigns are helping those politicians pay off personal loans. We have been warned!
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3 years
@CBSThisMorning @CBSNews @Debora_Patta I have never understood why some people want to cheat on their assignments to get an educational degree. They are only cheating themselves by depriving themselves of necessary knowledge.
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1 year
Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary
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2 months
@BaddCompani I tend to agree with Anarchy Princess. If only all MAGAts consumed raw milk, raw meat, and avoided vaccinations, that would answer all our problems due to the thinning of the herd.
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3 years
@ABC Adults steal things all the time. And the police choose to target an eight year old boy? I'm sorry, but the only lesson they're teaching him is to hate police.
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Vernice Thompson
3 years
@thehill @laurenboebert Does she realize she is describing the former Trump administration perfectly?
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4 years
I would like to hear from all those who have purchased and read my novel on Amazon and Kindle Direct entitled Race to the Finish. Do you think this book would make a good movie? What actor should play the main character?
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3 years
@MoonlabLLC @AOC And doing credit checks. In many jobs, especially cashiers, an applicant must have a high credit score. But if the jobs paid high enough wages, no worker would be stealing from the company. And workers could pay their bills and improve credit scores.
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3 years
@NBCNews Police motto seems to be: attack first, ask questions later. Their job though is to de-escalate the situation before determining if an arrest should be made. In other words, just the opposite of what they do these days.
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2 years
@hrw They have also had help from the Palestinians themselves. It's neither Israel nor Egypt that sends rockets into Israel from Gaza. Palestine really needs better leadership to unite the country and be strong enough to bring peace and prosperity to the region.
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3 years
@Stefan_Hoogers @CNN If it wasn't for modern medical treatment and ventilators and vaccines, the death toll from this pandemic would be much higher and more in line with that from 1918.
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1 year
@realTuckFrumper This is what it's coming to.
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3 years
@chirpingKatee @ABC Many of us realized that. He was the first president I voted for, because I did not like Reagan and worried about what he would do to the country. Jimmy Carter has always showed me that I made the right choice. I am happy for him now.
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3 years
@thehill They waste so much time protesting what should be a no brainer decision to just wear a mask when with others. Their time in office could be spent so much more productively, methinks.
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1 year
@GinaBritton14 @skimbrell51 @bwdn2008 @joyreaper @EdKrassen @RareImagery Having known many Hispanic immigrants, I feel perfectly safe around them. It's white male Republicans that scare me because they are the most likely to shoot people and rape women.
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23 days
@thejackhopkins Indoctrinating children into religion is considered by some to be child abuse.
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1 year
@Globetrekker641 @D0nnasue1 @ChrisDJackson That is why Republicans favor open borders and unrestricted immigration. It is for free trade and cheap labor! So to stop this, vote Democratic and stand up for the unions!
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Vernice Thompson
2 years
@thehill She wanted her day in court, and she got it. Now she regrets wanting it? ???
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1 year
@A86Spez @krassenstein It's not a lie. Vaccines do work. They have helped a lot of people avoid getting sick from Covid. They haven't lied about the variants either. It sounds like your father had a bad case of Covid without the strong immune system he needed to recover from it. My sympathies.
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Vernice Thompson
4 years
Why are there so many scammers and con artists posing as Keanu Reeves on Twitter and LinkedIn? Is Keanu Reeves aware that so much of this is going on? What can he do, if anything, to stop them?
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Vernice Thompson
4 years
Reminds me of the controversy over "Song of the South." To me, it was much ado about nothing.
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Criticism of Netflix's "Cuties" isn't about the movie, says @samthielman . It's a cynical ploy in the culture war:
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3 years
@DanPriceSeattle The company I work for announced recently $60 billion in profits last year. Yet they are raising prices (we do the work, so we know) while not raising wages to competitive level and so are not able to hire enough people for their stores.
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2 years
@JrumBeat @ABC Guns end in lost lives too. And a lot of them. So a great comparison. It's about rights.
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3 years
@nytimes Let's hope the U.S. lets him lead his country and stays out of their politics. It's time to end interference in other nations' internal affairs.
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1 year
@RobertsNYIsles @nicksortor Of course it's due to global warming. When have there been wildfires in Hawaii before? Nothing else can explain it.
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3 years
@LuciaMichelle17 @CNN Yes, it may come as a surprise that children as young as 4 or 5 years of age know which gender they identify with more. Observant parents can figure it out by then too.
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2 months
@RexHuppke That's all the Trump campaign could afford apparently. They had to pay in advance for a venue.
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3 years
@JackBurtonsTruc @thehill She didn't say that the cause of the war is about white supremacy, when it's clearly not. She was talking about Trump's motivation for supporting Putin. Joy provides one explanation, but there are others.
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1 year
@lickmeimacid @NodelmanJay @NeilBoltonRSPL @mmpadellan This boomer has always wanted what Gen Z wants. For over 40 years, this boomer has seen what the GQP is all about and is glad that more people are seeing it too now.
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2 years
@MeetThePress On the other hand, the American people are fed up with the mass shootings and abortion restrictions, so Biden and Democratic party leaders should not worry too much, especially if they are out there promoting their message and policies.
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2 years
@HaywoodTalcove A lot of that is going to private "contractors" to feed their profits.
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19 days
@piper4missouri You should ask Republican men why men exist when all they are is sperm donors and why women can live just fine without them.
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3 years
@BeFrank16 @AOC That class of people you are referring to is rich white Republicans. Of course, they don't need any safety net, and they don't care about the rest of us.
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3 years
@B_EliFit @JoyAnnReid I'm equally perplexed by the share of women who voted for Trump.
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3 years
@Reuters He's going to be disappointed a lot in the future.
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1 year
@626JT @depayser That's for bone strength. It's not an antiviral drug. I take it for bone health and got vaccinated against Covid. That's the sensible thing to do.
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3 years
@nytimes Hopefully, these payments will allow mothers to stay home with their babies and take care of them themselves. Good for both mothers and babies!
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3 years
@kurtrobertson @TIME @mariaressa No, it's not. The truth does not care about your opinion of it.
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2 years
@BBCNews So how did they get to Central America from China? And how do they expect to go through that jungle and the country of Mexico to get to the U.S. border? Why not go through Canada instead? 🤔
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2 years
@UHhospitals It should be permanent STANDARD time, in keeping with the actual sun time. That would keep everyone's internal clocks in sync. Just adjust schedules to take advantage of longer daylight hours in summer.
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2 months
@KellyScaletta Just like they did with the Olympic boxing star. MAGAts complain that Democrats don't know what a woman is. Turns out that they are projecting big time, because obviously they cannot recognize an actual woman when they see one!
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3 years
@thehill Good for her!
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1 year
@LaLa716NY @A86Spez @krassenstein Perhaps it wasn't the Resmidivir that was responsible for their deaths but rather Covid itself, for which Resmidivir was a treatment. Please don't confuse cause and effect.
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1 year
@hluinet How is it a bogus legal tactic? It is likely the same one used against Leona Helmsly, maybe also Bernie Madoff. Both were frauds too.
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1 year
@HorzaGobuchuI @Jimbo2323 @GeorgeTakei He was born and raised in apartheid South Africa to a privileged white family. He did not have a hard life growing up. He may think it was hard, but that's because he was not exposed to the outside world much until adulthood.
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10 months
@Newsweek Are you sure? Other reports say just the opposite!
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3 years
@Veeshandle @CNNPolitics Only with Georgia and Alabama. It seems that the Florida governor does not know this. And in any case, why now? Why didn't he sue the Trump administration if he was so concerned about this policy? It was in place then.
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18 days
@CBSNews Vance's closing statement was all lies, like most of what he said in the rest of the debate.
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3 years
@CNN I am glad to hear this young woman in Texas giving such an impassioned speech about her rights. It is her future and that of many other young women that is affected by these laws that violate their rights.
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3 years
@KatyOnMSNBC @MSNBC @shaqbrewster First the teachers walked out, now even students are doing the same. Seems like Chicago really needs to pay more attention to its schools and how they're dealing with the pandemic.
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1 year
@AP So now they are proving that they can only win by cheating.
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2 years
@WalkerAmerica @JoeBiden Wow! Talk about income inequality! The wealthiest earned billions while the poorest earned a few thousand, barely enough to pay any taxes.
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2 years
@mattyosayso @NBCNews Gun buyback programs do encourage people to give up their guns. Proven effective.
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3 years
@washingtonpost I hope he gets his full civil rights restored immediately so he can live a fairly normal life from now on. Best of wishes to him!
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2 years
@thehill Oklahoma yesterday, Texas a few days ago, and Tennessee today. So why all the violence in red states? The argument that it only happens in blue states, and Chicago, has just been proved false.
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1 year
@GeorgeTakei Both governments in Libya have said they would welcome aid, especially in the form of digging equipment and detecting devices. They don't need food or clothing, they said.
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@Michell33650674 Richard Dawkins liked to say that religious indoctrination in children was child abuse.
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1 year
@GetOnTap @krassenstein It is a right because all of us citizens are affected by political decisions and must have a say in those decisions. We all have maximum stakes in this game. Where did you get this idea? It's anti-democratic! If you don't like it, move to a country with a dictatorship.
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3 years
@matire_walter @nytimes Boeing is not an airline but rather a manufacturer of airplanes.
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1 year
@GeorgeTakei The restaurant should charge enough in its normal pricing to pay its employees a living wage and not charge extra fees. Then they won't have customers walking out because of those extra fees.
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3 years
The internet is not only under threat from these authoritarian governments, but it is also under threat from all the scammers, impostors, hackers, and other cyber criminals.
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3 years
@ABC Flooding in China now, Germany and Belgium a couple days ago. Wildfires in U.S. west. Is anyone still denying global warming?
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4 years
So it's not just in the U.S. These right wing leaders in other nations are also failing at their jobs and engaging in corruption and other crimes. Maybe it's time for the world to change and see through the same tired old right wing arguments.
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3 months
@realTuckFrumper It does not matter much to Trump staffers. They only need to prop him up long enough to complete Project 2025, then they can replace him with Vance as dictator. That matters more to them.
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1 year
@nuancedcentrist @mmpadellan @Dennisrodfan8 And there are those in that chain saying that the laptop was messed with before it got to the FBI. Nice try though.
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3 years
@EmFromPDX @Fabien_S97 @AOC Plus many of them want to see high credit scores because they are so worried about theft by employees.
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3 years
@CNN This is truly sad. Unfortunately not rare. Not surprised that his parents have sued. I hope they get all they can, but sadly no amount of money will ever replace their son. Such a tragic loss. 😔
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2 years
@thehill @TheHillOpinion They only fear debate because they can't keep their lies straight.
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@CNN His jokes are funny to smart people. So sorry that you don't get them.
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@SenWarren Actually, I think the biggest barrier is low wages that are not keeping up with inflation. Try raising the minimum wage first so more parents can afford to take care of their own children on a single income.
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@karolcummins The assassination attempt against Reagan was almost successful. And Hinckley was conservative. Just trying to impress a famous woman, not mad at Reagan.
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3 years
@tneilson @Blue99Hyrule @cnnbrk Which is why so many people are quitting low paying jobs!
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2 years
@Newsweek This sports fan agrees with the New York Yankees about gun violence.
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@gggirl924 Walz won. He was human, admitted to mistakes, described his policies. Vance was smarmy and mean-spirited, lied repeatedly about someone not available to defend herself, refused to answer policy questions. Vance dissed the moderators, which was patronizing. Walz won.
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3 years
@nytimes Ah, Texas! The state with the only case of monkeypox known in the country, and now the same state that doesn't know you cannot mix bleach with other chemicals. Sulfuric acid, really? Clearly, something is wrong with the education system there.
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1 year
@CNN He should. Trump has never helped union members.
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2 years
@thehill @RepBoebert Has she never heard of the Berlin wall and all the defectors who found ways to get over it to escape? And was torn down 23 years ago?
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3 years
@DwightJetson @thehill I agree with your second comment. But if the roads and bridges are owned by the government, then fixing them is socialism.
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@nytimes Well, since it appears that cold weather is the most likely cause of the split, it probably foretells nothing.
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3 years
@Sudaredux @CNNPolitics Virginia is Blue now, slightly. All 3 top offices are currently held by Democrats, one of whom is running for re-election. McAuliffe is a former governor. Legislature is majority Democratic now too.
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3 years
@csdPagan @VistaMT @washingtonpost The world's biggest and most successful scam ever!
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1 year
@GeorgeTakei Yes, the GQP keeps implementing policies that kill or drive away its voters. Yet they just double down on those policies when they realize they're losing voters. Then they blame the Democrats for the failure of those policies to have the desired effect.
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