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Lia Thibault

@liathib.bsky.social
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Lifelong learner, leftist, podcast addict, bibliophile, big fan of conspiracy theories and my cats. U.S. History MA BA History, Philosophy-Social Justice History, politics, sociology, classical civilizations, philosophy, foreign affairs, geopolitics <3

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I read so many of these to my mom and we laughed so hard we were in tears. More historians should become roast artists
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Phenomenal work Dr Kruse, I salute you
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I hope the college students who protested the US-funded massacre of Palestinian civilians, while being vilified by their universities and politicians and even the president, understand that they are actually having an impact, just much slower than they hoped
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
MN natl guard and DNR/DOT are helping with cross-border fires as we also battle our own.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Hey remember this from a couple weeks ago
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So gender affirming care is High-T masculinity now? *taking notes*
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all hallows’ avery @pucksarcana.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
fromsoft text ‘EMBARRASSED’ over a picture of pulisic smiling holding the wells fargo active cash credit card
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Turner wouldn’t have been much better but at least he would’ve MOVED
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
DAMN chill they’re already dead
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Can’t believe they have Freese in goal instead of Turner. He’s just been STANDING THERE. COME ON DUDE
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Amy Lawrence @amylawrence.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
THREE extremely unethical situations at the World Cup require more football stakeholders to challenge wrongs. 1. Banishment of the Somali referee 2. Balogun red card political interference 3. Treatment of Iran team Players/managers/officials/administrators. Pressure on FIFA should be unrelenting.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I feel for Balogun bc if there’s one thing footy fans know how to do it’s hold a grudge. he’s a great player who got caught up between two very corrupt institution.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway
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The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated
Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The speed with which you whipped this one out is insane
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Two guys improvising in 2003 had no idea they were recording a song that would last decades. The most legendary tracks are never planned.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2025
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
All I know is, @socialistdogmom.bsky.social is gonna be dropping some HEAT in the next few weeks :)
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
OOOO I can’t wait to read this
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"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*
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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.
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 21/08/2025
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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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/08/2025
Vanishing records, inaccessible files: the public’s right to know is at risk. 📖 Join our #booktalk, PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION, with librarians James Jacobs & Jim Jacobs. Shari Laster guides the discussion. 📅 Aug 28 🕙 10 AM PT /1 PM ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1513557303...
Promotional image. Features photos of James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, and Shari Laster, the cover of the book Preserving Government Information: Past Present, and Future, and the logos of the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance. Text on image reads: Book Talk. Preserving Government Information, with James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, and Shari Laster. August 28th, 10 am Pacific Time, 1 pm Eastern Time. Online. Join us for a timely conversation with librarians James Jacobs and Jim Jacobs about safeguarding public
information in the digital age. Librarian Shari Laster will guide our discussion.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19/08/2025
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?
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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...
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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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.
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 07/08/2025
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!
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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.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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...
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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...
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-won...
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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.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Texas data centers are projected to use 49 billion gallons of water this year, as the state faces a prolonged drought.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"Well well well, suddenly we understand gender dysmorphia, don't we boys?" part 1
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 30/07/2025
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.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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.
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Lia Thibault @liathib.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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”…
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This is so important and long overdue.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 26/07/2025
"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.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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.
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Vidiots @vidiots.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Physical media forever 📼
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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.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Damn, they killed Ozzy to distract from the Epstein cover-up?
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 22/07/2025
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law 90 years ago this month. For the first time, workers in the United States had the right to organize unions and bargain collectively.
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Riot guns and revolution: How a bloody 1934 workers strike in Minneapolis catalyzed the nation
A landmark 1934 Minneapolis strike made the city a union town and influenced national labor law. It was an outcome that seemed all but impossible in the first part of the decade.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 21/07/2025
The Minnesota Twins are the first Major League Baseball team to sponsor a youth girls baseball team. Players from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are headed to Nevada to compete with girls teams across the country and world for the Baseball for All National Championships which starts Monday.
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‘Girls belong in baseball’: Minnesota Twins-sponsored 14U team heads to nationals
The Minnesota Twins are the first MLB team to sponsor a youth girls baseball team. Players from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are headed to Nevada for the national tournament.
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 20/07/2025
I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us. fatehformayor.com/donate
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Logan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
::: Whispers ::: Ken Burns’ work is consensus history, and consensus history still depends on the mythology of American exceptionalism
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