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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We have a massively random and beautiful gift of life. This is a beautiful reminder today that everything is temporary.

A shot from the Artemis II of the far side of the moon, right at the line that divides the moon into permanent light and permanent dark. It is the first time humans have ever seen this perspective. The moon, in the foreground, a crescent of light sitting on top of a pocked, crater covered, sphere surrounded by endless, deepest dark. In the background towards the top of the circle of the moon, upper left, is the tiny globe of earth, earthsetting.

Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Trump pardoned Lt. Clint Lorance, Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, & Chief Edward Gallagher all of whom committed or were accused of horrifying crimes. Lorance was serving a 19-year sentence for ordering his platoon to shoot indiscriminately at civilians in order to “make them afraid of us.” Plus, history.

Screenshot of simple Google search of illegally orders carried out by the US Military, a non-exhaustive list:
• The My Lai Massacre (1968): During the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers of Charlie Company followed orders from 2nd Lt. William Calley to kill unarmed civilians, resulting in approximately 300 to 500 deaths. Calley was convicted of premeditated murder, and his defense of "just following orders" was rejected by the court.
• The Sand Creek & Wounded Knee Massacres (1864 & 1890): During the Indian Wars, troops carried out orders that led to the slaughter of hundreds of non-combatant men, women, and children.
• No Gun Ri Massacre (1950): During the Korean War, U.S. troops killed over 150 civilians following orders to treat refugees as potential combatants.
• Abu Ghraib Torture (2003-2004): During the Iraq War, personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison engaged in the abuse and humiliation of detainees, often claiming they were following instructions from superiors to "soften up" prisoners for interrogation.
• The Haditha Killings (2005): U.S. Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in retaliation for an IED attack, an action that violated international laws against targeting non-combatants.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Last time Americans had to fight for the right to vote:

A black and white photo from the 1960s of the feet of a Black woman on the March from Selma to Montgomery to fight for Black people to vote. There is a tarp on the ground with straw, and a woman is lying down with a white blanket over her. We only see her feet with cutout padding on top of the the blisters on the balls of her feet and her heels. Next to them is the pair of boots, worn leather, that are causing the blisters. Stiff, and sturdy, and worn.

$A photograph of the attack on Marchers on the Selma to Montgomery March for Black voting rights. John Lewis lies to the right on the ground as he is attacked by a trooper with a billy club that resulted in a concussion and skull fracture. He is the first in a line of Black people on the ground, outnumbered by police who are beating them all mercilessly. On the left side of the photo, a Black man in a Black suit is falling to the ground.$

Black and white photograph at the same March, in a different area. Amelia Boynton lies unconscious on her back on a grassy knoll after being beaten by a trooper at the Edmund Pettus bridge. Her arm is flung out to the right. She wears a white jacket. To her left are two women, one with a plaid jacket and a white scarf covering her hair. The woman in plaid is seated so close to Amelia that Amelia’s head is touching her knee. She looks down at Amelia’s face. She is biting the knuckle of her right thumb and her fingers are bunched up. She looks traumatized. A woman in a long white coat only shows her back. To the right is a white male state trooper with a baton still in his right hand from beating her unconscious. He looms over her and the woman in plaid but he stands right at Amelia’s feet. He has a gas mask in his left hand. He looks down at her with a sneer and face full of contempt.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Too bad about DOGE linking all the databases, eh

Screenshot from https://www.gilmermirror.com/2026/03/12/uncle-sam-will-now-find-you-automatic-draft-registration-becomes-law/: “Tucked inside the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which President Trump signed on December 18, 2025, is a provision that quietly marks the most significant transformation of the Selective Service System in over four decades. Beginning on December 18, 2026, the requirement for male U.S. residents ages 18 through 25 to register themselves with the Selective Service System will be replaced with a requirement for the Selective Service System to register them automatically, based on other existing federal government databases.”

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

When I text you this it means imma about to change cars on the subway

Sanae Takaichi, the prime minister of Japan, in her signature blue suit and pearls. Her left hand rests on her lap her right hand is bent at the elbow and her fingers point upward towards her face. She looks off camera to the left with a look of shock pierced through with anger. The photo was taken at a meeting in the Oval Office between Takaichi and Donald Trump on March 19, 2026. Asked by a reporter why the U.S. didn't tell Japan or other allies about its decision to strike Iran before it did so, Trump said: "We went in very hard and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? OK, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

61 years ago today, Bloody Sunday, one of the most notorious modern examples of depravity masquerading as government.

A photograph of The late Georgia Congressman John Lewis, in a light-colored trench coat, surrounded by five other Black men on the right side of the photos. They face a row of advancing white police. In the background is a crowd of white people, standing behind a row of parked cars, watching. Lewis was one of the leaders of what was supposed to be a march from Selma to Montgomery, motivated by the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a Black man shot by a state trooper after a civil rights demonstration in nearby Marion, Ala. George Wallace ordered the police to quash the march. The peaceful marchers, including youth, refused to turn back, kneeling and praying instead. The troopers and sheriff's deputies, some on horseback, eventually attacked, beating marchers with batons and launching tear gas canisters. Lewis' head was cracked open. Local activist Amelia Boynton Robinson was bludgeoned. Dozens were injured. And later, two white civil rights activists who came to Alabama to support the marchers were killed, the Rev. James Reeb, and Viola Liuzzo.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The people on both sides of these walls making care for each other. Tracking each other. And the reporting! The true papers of note. lataco.com/captive-loti...

Screenshot from LA Taco website.

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
2:52 PM PST on February 5, 2026

Under this text is a photograph of a lotion bottle with a long piece of paper stretched across it horizontally. The paper is filled in every possible space with tiny handwritten text.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

“Strong people don’t need strong leaders.”

PHOTOGRAPH OF ELLA BAKER
December 13, 1903 - December 13, 1986
Raised in Littleton, North Carolina

A Black woman in her 70s looks to the left of the camera, with large almond eyes, smiling through speaking. Her thick black hair is pulled back loosely from her face, some gray hair peeking through at the temple. Her face is smooth chocolatey brown with grooves in her smile lines around her mouth and eyes, and one scar down the center of her forehead. She wears gold clip on earrings and a sleeveless, v-necked patterned dress with pleats at the straps. She is beautiful.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Stephen needs to remember that anti blackness only gives temporary and rescindable access to whiteness and that antisemitism remains a “no access” switch.

Screenshot of @mcbridetd.bsky.social linking to New York Times article titled “Bovino is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/us/bovino-jewish-prosecutor-minnesota.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Bro serving straight up 19th century realness too

Head and shoulders picture of judge Samuel Biery, Chief Judge of the United State District Court of the Western District of Texas.

He is an older white man, smiling in front of a wall of concrete masonry units. He is bald in the front and down the middle, with longish white hair combed back on the sides, white bushy eyebrows, and a well groomed, but slightly scraggly white beard. He wears a black robe with a button down white shirt and striped maroon and grey tie. He is smiling, crinkling up his blue eyes, which are surrounded in smile lines.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

We are aware and we have held the stories of courage from John Brown, to William Lloyd Garrison, to Mary Bowser, to Violet Luzzo, and on and on and on. We also know the reason why the hate exists, which is that white refusal—in participation and in privilege—ends this. This is a time for courage.

Equal Justice Initiative
A History of Racial Injustice
On this day - Mar 11, 1965
White Minister Beaten
Following Selma March, Dies From Injuries
Encyclopedia of Alabama
In early March 1965, a peaceful crowd of 600 people began a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to show their support for Black voting rights. Police armed with batons, pepper spray, and guns attacked the marchers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge in a violent assault that came to be known as "Bloody Sunday."

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Remember Philando Castile? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Under Minnesota law, you must obtain a permit to carry a handgun in public. The law does not require that you conceal the weapon. If you have a Permit to Carry you don't need to obtain a Permit to Purchase to obtain a firearm. To obtain a Permit to Carry fill out a L Permit to Carry.
Application and submit it to the sheriff's office in the county where you live.
Once received, the office has 30 days to process the application. A Permit to Carry is valid for five years and is renewable.
If you live outside of Minnesota, you can submit a Permit to Carry application to any Minnesota sheriff's office.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Also, as with Philando Castile, did ICE determine he didn’t have a permit to carry?

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If your mom had tried to get an abortion in 1972 in Louisiana, that would have been a crime and she could have been thrown in jail for up to ten years and forced to do hard labor. A reality you are actively bringing back.

In 1972, abortion was illegal in Louisiana, as the state maintained strict criminal bans on the procedure prior to the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in January 1973. The law permitted abortion only to save the life of the pregnant woman.

Key aspects of Louisiana's 1972 abortion landscape included:

• Prohibition: State law (R.S. 14:87) made it a crime to administer medicine, drugs, or use instruments with the intent to procure an abortion.
• Penalties: Criminal abortion was punishable by imprisonment at hard labor for one to ten years, with fines ranging from $10, 000 to $100, 000.
• Strict Exceptions: Abortion was only lawful if necessary to preserve the life of the mother.
• Active Opposition: Louisiana Right to Life notes they were active in protecting these laws in the early 1970s.

These restrictive laws remained in effect until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in Roe.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Hideous. But this will only end when white people refuse to participate in it (actively or silently); why? b/c this behavior is the American rule not the exception. Rockwell named this “The Problem We All Live With” b/c this treatment—including kids of color—has never *not* been the case.

Two white women, one mid-yell, and the other laughing with the white man, carry a small coffin with a small doll in it, topped with a wreath as they protest Ruby Bridges’ integration of William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, on November 14, 1960, during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. The coffin leads a throng of white people of all ages.

6-year old Ruby Bridges walks with her mother on a wide sidewalk towards to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, on November 14, 1960, during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. She wears a red plaid dress with a black bodice, white Peter Pan color, and Mary Janes and Carey’s a big leather book bag. Her mother, in a red shirt spaced sweater with pearls and a knee length gray skirt with a pleat and holds a lunch box in her left hand and clutches Ruby’s elbow with her right. Ruby clutches her mom’s entire forearm. Police Marshalls in suits and hats surround them and stand between them and the crowds of yelling white people on both sides and behind them holding signs saying “pickaninny”, “whites only,” and “no colored here”. A white woman in a black dress faces them, with her back to to the camera with her fist raised.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

She’s just doing what her people have always done.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This isn’t a snipe. She is telling the truth about who is creating legitimacy for horrors so that in 1/10/100 years no one can claim to be confused about who is doing what to whom and why. She is appropriately crediting Kavanaugh for providing the legal cover for ICE agents doing things like this: