Lia Thibault

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

All I know is, @socialistdogmom.bsky.social is gonna be dropping some HEAT in the next few weeks :)

OOOO I can’t wait to read this

Supreme Court lifts limits on LA immigration raids US top court says that immigration agents can stop people based solely on their race, language or job.

"The 6-3 decision of the conservative-majority court allows agents to stops suspects based solely on their race, language or job, while a legal challenge to the recent immigration sweeps in LA works its way through the courts."

*based solely on their race, language or job*

28 party insiders met privately and voted to overturn our endorsement.

Let me be clear, we’re still in this fight. And we’re going to win.

Donate and sign up for a shift today. www.fatehformayor.com/donate

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Eyes on the heartland A vast network of new license plate cameras has exploded across Illinois in recent years—paid for by state grants to fight retail crime. With the federal government clamoring for more information on p...

NEW: In what appears to be one of the largest expansions of surveillance in IL history, we found hundreds of new Flock license plate readers—all paid for by AG Kwame Raoul's office in the last 3 years.

Issues with Flock Safety's data sharing practices are mounting. Will our sanctuary status hold?

The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us:
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Sam Altman is Elizabeth Holmes.

OpenAI is Theranos.

Their big lie is “AGI”.

We are witnessing what happens when Silicon Valley and investors run out of ideas yet desperately want to cling to wealth and power.

OpenAI will fail, Sam Altman will fall, and the AI industry will collapse behind them.

A musical tribute to Melissa and Mark Hortman At 8 a.m. on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 6, the Hortmans’ children, Colin and Sophie, joined The Current’s Morning Show to share songs and stories that embody their parents’ spirit and memory.

If you have a moment today, check out Colin and Sophie Hortman’s tribute to their parents on @thecurrent. It’s moving, powerful, and full of great music!

There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

Why Won’t U.S. Politicians Say “Genocide”? The international human rights community has been clear in its language. Yet even Bernie Sanders refuses to speak of a Gaza genocide.

Given how unanimous the human rights community is in its verdict of genocide in Gaza, I was rather shocked and dismayed to see the de facto leader of the American left, @sanders.senate.gov, refusing to endorse this characterization.

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Young people only really engage with the big races because they think those are the ones that matter most. They aren’t!! Vote in your locals. Vote for school boards, for mayors, for sheriffs, hell, even vote for your county coroner if given the chance! Democracy only works when you participate.

I was just talking about this yesterday. We are willing to throw democracy away because we don’t think critically enough about the past. It is incredibly frustrating to hear “well, it couldn’t be any worse than it is now.” My dude, democracy is on her last legs. It could be BETTER if we FIGHT FOR IT

i think some of you are a bit confused on lula saying the US is attempting a coup here. the tariffs are the coup attempt. trump is directly punishing us for prosecuting bolsonaro. undermining our financial institutions and economy is the coup.

Texas data centers are projected to use 49 billion gallons of water this year, as the state faces a prolonged drought.

"Well well well, suddenly we understand gender dysmorphia, don't we boys?"

part 1

Police are warning people ahead of Lollapalooza after a fake ride-share driver sexually assaulted 2 women on the Near North Side. blockclubchi.co/4l4BL07

The laws of war don’t just apply when it’s convenient.
 
Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization. But Netanyahu doesn’t get a pass. He is responsible for the pervasive starvation and famine, which is morally repugnant.
 
Feed Gaza.

A childfree lifestyle is totally fine and something that people can aspire to! But they cannot expect the whole of society to ascribe to that belief. Children have a right to public life just as much as adults do. While they shouldn’t be in adult only spaces, they are allowed to be in public ones.

Failing to respect the autonomy and existence of children in society is a slippery slope to fascism. They become useful pawns that cannot think for themselves and reproduce the harms that have been caused to them. Children deserve better.

It forces women back into the home to be caretakers, either as mothers or as hired help, and reinforces the patriarchy. Men are excused from the duty of parenthood and therefore their responsibilities as parents and spouses. Education becomes “teaching that kid a lesson,” but the lesson is cruelty.

I was thinking about this the other day! For me, the way children are treated in US society is an early sign of fascism. Refusing to allow agency, treating them as property, the idea that “children should be seen, not heard” morphing into “children should not exist in public spaces”…

This is so important and long overdue.

"We need to stop bombing children, we need to allow the humanitarian supplies into Gaza, the commercial supplies into Gaza, and we need to be allowed to do our jobs as humanitarian community to reach children who are desperately in need," said Rachael Cummings with Save the Children.

NGL, South Park telling kids for nearly 30 years that apathy is cool and caring is embarrassing is part of how we got here.

Not gonna fawn over a stopped clock inevitably being slightly right about something.

Yes, coalitions, but not giving harmful shit passes just because someone made you laugh.

Vidiots Launches Initiative to Preserve Rare VHS, with 1,500 Tapes Identified So Far Vidiots and BAVC are partnering to digitize rare VHS from Vidiots' legacy collection — starting with the first 100 of 1,500 titles.

Physical media forever 📼

Damn, they killed Ozzy to distract from the Epstein cover-up?