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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹
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Rama right now
Screenshot of the infamous shower scene from Silkwood. Meryl Streep with perfect 70s shag hair in a white suit is in the left foreground, her face shocked and concerned as she faces the camera, a curtain a little open begins her. In the background is a huge shower room with large institutional white tiles and three separate shower heads. In the center is a woman who is red and raw and crying who is being scrubbed down by someone in a hazmat suit.
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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It’s never about the drugs.

Criminalization is how fascism manufactures consent.

—Andrea Richey
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Even under Kavanaugh stop requirements, breaking a window does not qualify.
Screenshot of the text of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which says: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Screenshot of cover of Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership The Conservative Promise Screenshot of page 298 of Project 2025 Move the Work of the Food and Nutrition Service. The USDA implements many means-tested federal support programs, including the largest food assistance program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps), and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Food Program. The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) oversees these programs and other food and nutrition programs, including the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, which handles the USDA's work on the "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" (Dietary Guidelines). Food nutrition programs include: SNAP; WIC; the National School Lunch Program (NSLP); the School Breakfast Program (SBP); the Child and Adult Care Food Program; the Nutrition Program for the Elderly; Nutrition Service Incentives; the Summer Food Service Program; the Commodity Supplemental Food Program; the Temporary Emergency Food Program; the Farmer's Market Nutrition Program; and the Special Milk Program. The next Administration should: • Move the USDA food and nutrition programs to the Department of Health and Human Services. There are more than 89 current means-tested welfare programs, and total means-tested spending has been estimated to surpass $1.2 trillion between federal and state resources.54 Because means-tested federal programs are siloed and administered in separate agencies, the effectiveness and size of the welfare state remains - 298 Screenshot of page 299 of Project 2025: There are means-tested food-support programs in the USDA (specially FNS), whereas most means-tested programs are at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). All means-tested anti-poverty programs should be overseen by one department-specifically HHS, which handles most welfare programs. Reform SNAP. Ostensibly, SNAP sends money through electronic-bene-fit-transfer (EBT) cards to help "low-income" individuals buy food. It is the largest of the federal nutrition programs. Food stamps are designed to be supplemented by other forms of income-whether through paid employment or nonprofit support. SNAP serves 41.1 million individuals-an increase of 4.3 million people during the Biden years. In 2020, the food stamp program cost $79.1 billion. That number continued to rise—by 2022, outlays hit $119.5 billion. 56 The next Administration should: • Re-implement work requirements. The statutory language covering food stamps allows states to waive work requirements that otherwise apply to work-capable individuals- that is, adult beneficiaries between the ages 18 and 50 who are not disabled and do not have any children or other dependents in the home.57 Even in a strong economy, work expectations are fairly limited: Individuals who are work-capable and without dependents are required to work or prepare for work for 20 hours per week. The work requirements are then implemented unless the state requests a waiver from the USDA's Food and Nutrition Services.5º Waivers from statutory work requirements can be approved in two instances: an unemployment rate of more than 10 percent or a lack of sufficient jobs.6 The Trump Administration bolstered USDA work expectations in the food stamp program. In February 2019, FNS issued a modest regulatory change that applied only to able-bodied individuals without dependents-beneficiaries aged 18 to 49, not elderly or disabled, who did not have children or other dependents in the home (ABAWD) Department of Agriculture Although the 2018 farm bill instructed FNS to update the Thrifty Food Plan by 2023 and every five years thereafter, every previous Thrifty Food Plan has been always cost-neutral (just an inflation update) —exactly what CBO estimated as cost of the 2018 farm bill.?* The Biden Administration may have skirted regulations and congressional authority to increase the overall cost of the program. In fact, Senate and House Republicans requested that the Government Accountability Office investigate the legal authorities and process that the USDA undertook to arrive at such an unprecedented increase.'5 • Eliminate the heat-and-eat loophole. States can artificially boost a household's food stamp benefit by using the heat-and-eat loophole. The amount of food stamps a household receives is based on its "countable" income (income minus certain deductions). Households that receive benefits from the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are eligible for a larger utility deduction. In order to make households eligible for the higher deduction, and thus for greater food stamp benefits, states have distributed LIHEAP checks for amounts as small as $1 to food stamp recipients. The 2014 farm bill tightened this loophole by requiring that a household must receive more than $20 annually in LIHEAP payments to be eligible for the larger utility deduction and subsequently higher food stamp benefits. Nonetheless, states continue to inflate their standard utility allowances. Under the Trump Administration, the USDA proposed a rule, which was not finalized, that would have standardized the utility allowance."
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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It was changed twice. The last one I saw:
Snapshot of NYT article: INTERESTING TIMES Have Feminine Vices Taken Over the Workplace? NOVEMBER 7, 2025
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Just FYI they changed it again and I don’t even know what the fucking quotes are supposed to be doing
Screenshot from the NYT: INTERESTING TIMES Have ‘Feminine Vices’ Taken Over the Workplace? NOVEMBER 7, 2025
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The nerd that is me bows to the nerds in you.
A screenshot of an excerpt of a thread about a mysterious object showing through Trump’s suit. Baconfat @mwelsh1977.bsky.social • 41m Oh I thought you referring to the fact this his posture shows that he's hiding the fact that he's a Minotaur. Next skeet: Hellish Children @hellishchildren.... • 33m picture of Realistic drawing of Trump in profile, talking to press, with his characteristic forward lean. But attached to the back of Trump in this drawing is the midsection and hind parts of a bull, which is taking a large shit, and that shit has already formed a pool of shit. Next skeet: Baconfat @mwelsh1977.bsky.social • 28m that is a centaur tho Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey... • 23m Centaur of Attention.
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Screenshot of Reuter’s article that says Trump says Justice Department owes him money, vows to donate any payout to charity. Article later says Trump is seeking $230m.
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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I mean a response could be an AI video of Tish James handing him a diaper.
Screenshot of Mother Jones magazine article: “Trump and Johnson Are Melting Down Over The Success of “No Kings.” By JULIANNE MCSHANE . sub heading is Trump posted an AI video of himself dropping raw sewage on the protestors from a plane. Yes, you read that right.
October 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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She and her lamp are still by the golden door.

#nokings
#thepowerofthewe
#interconnected
Arial photo of the Statute of Liberty, bathed in the golden light of sunset, from a plane landing in New York City.
October 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Great signs sent to me by various pals
Pikachu and Gritty in Philly. Gritty holds a sign that says “only one Orange King.” Woman in a black sweater and beige pants holds a sign that says “you know it’s bad if New Yorkers are walking this slow” Woman in light blue jean jacket holds sign that says “Alexa change the president” Man in inflatable Trump suit — blue jacket with over long askew red tie — wears a gold diaper. He has oversized cartoonish British royal crown with huge red velvet dome within a gold crown and a black and white ermine fur rim.
October 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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This has always been the sadist way of the U.S. Teach young white people to enjoy, embrace, and participate in racist violence in service to forcing belief in the myth of white superiority?
Photograph of article with a photo written by the NAACP about the lynching of Rubin Stacy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on July 19, 1935. The photo shows Mr. Stacey, handcuffed and hanging from the neck from a tree, surrounded by mostly white children who look up at his body. A few white men and women are present with the children. The text beneath the picture reads: Do not look at the Negro. His earthly problems are ended. Instead, look at the seven WHITE children who gaze at this gruesome spectacle. Is it horror or gloating on the face of the neatly dressed seven-year-old girl on the right? Is the tiny four-year-old on the left old enough, one wonders, to comprehend the barbarism her elders have perpetrated? Rubin Stacy, the Negro, who was lynched at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on July 19, 1935, for "threatening and frightening a white woman," suffered PHYSICAL torture for a few short hours. But what psychological havoc is being wrought in the minds of the white children? Into what kinds of citizens Rubin Stacy, lynched victim, hanging from a tree, (1930 - 1951) (Digital Collections, The New York Public Library)
October 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Have they changed, tho? Have they even left? And didn’t they teach their children well?
A small focus in on the picture of a group or white women and children protesting integration under the presence of a white cop. I have zoomed in on the right corner of the picture and added labels saying “someone’s gran” for a woman in a black sweater and beige pants, “someone’s dad” for a 12 year old-ish white boy in a white long sleeve shirt and jeans holding a sign saying “all I want for Christmas is a clean white school” and “someone’s unc” for a 9 year old-ish white boy in a green plaid shirt holding himself up on a fence looking on.
October 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Police grabbing women by the hair in front of their young children and an array of witnesses speaks very loudly about a whole lot of American things, old and new.
A mess of ICE agents and masked police surround and press in on a woman and child. One of the government employed law enforcement personnel, who is unmasked and wears a gray-black baseball cap and green shirt is grabbing a woman by the hair (previously shoved into a wall and thrown to the ground by the green shirted man).
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I could see certain states making it criminal for pregnant people to take Tylenol. Soon after, charging and arresting folks for taking Tylenol, calling it felony child abuse. And in these cases, you don’t even have to prove a baby was harmed. All you need is a pregnant woman and a Tylenol bottle.
Screenshot from NYT liveblog of autism announcement By Maggie Astor, the Health and politics reporter: President Trump is now repeating striking comments from earlier in this event, when he suggested that pregnant women had a responsibility to endure pain instead of using Tylenol, one of the few safe options they have. He suggested that they should use Tylenol only if they were in such dire straits that they "can't tough it out" or have an extremely high fever. "Fight like hell not to take it," he said.
September 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Screenshot from the @blackliturgies IG. It reads: Inhale -My voice is my own Exhale -It won’t be chained.
September 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Is this…Candace Owens?
Blurry picture from a screenshot of the darkest person in the room in the new McNaighen picture. Likeness is fully unclear.
September 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Screenshot of Charlie Kirk show in a TikTok video. In a post, author says “Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to steal a white person’s slot.” Me, moisturized, relaxed, blessed and alive.
September 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Because maybe it is something that just can’t be believed, like Ella Fitzgerald’s voice.
A picture of the beautiful, unfathomably huge expanse of the Milky Way galaxy. An arrow points to the western outer edge of this vast beautiful thing to some imperceptible spot in this giant cloudy bar of suns and planets that is so thick it looks solid and says “you are here, paying taxes and living in fear”. I put an arrow pointing to the same-ish spot but on the south east tip and wrote “imagine what the life form is doing here”
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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He tries to outrun his darkness and fill the void of his emptiness and every minute he breathes that emptiness becomes bigger and more bottomless, and it just waits.

The dread must be intolerable.
A photograph of Trump at the U.S. Open on September 7, 2025 in a blue suit, white shirt and red tie. His spray tan is, as usually, clownishly orange, and his cotton candy hair wilted. His whole face hangs, his eyes are empty and sad and his mouth turns down at the corners like a petulant kid.
September 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr
Picture of a bottle of Dr. Bonner’s Peppermint pure-Castile soap.
September 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Picture of the chicago flag…light blue bars around white strip with four red stars
September 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Allowables, by Nikki Giovanni “I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened”
September 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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In bright pink modern, narrow all caps font are the words NOT TODAY SATAN on a black background.
September 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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A picture of Palpatine from Star Wars, his ashy white, bulbous, and dry looking skin form hills and valleys in drooping, deeply etched, wrinkles on his face. The eyes are pink and yellow, and are the only color on this repulsive face. The face is slightly obscured by the heavy, cloth that covers his head and shoulders.
September 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM