Andy Thibault
@cooljustice.bsky.social
writer, teacher, editor, investigator
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'Every Bit as Heinous' as the Death of George Floyd, Dept. of Correction Ombuds Warns Students
NEW HAVEN — Department of Correction Ombuds DeVaughn Ward called a video showing the death of J’Allen Jones at the hands of staff at Garner Correctional Institution as “every bit […]
ctexaminer.com
“You, in real time, are watching somebody having their lives taken from them … slowly. It is excruciating to watch” ... For years, the Office of the Attorney General has opposed releasing the video to the public ctexaminer.com/2025/11/20/e... @susancampbell.bsky.social
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This book is now over 20 years old, not as informative these days (places and people change), but I would still highly recommend it. If Nelson Algren was more funny than depressing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This book is now over 20 years old, not as informative these days (places and people change), but I would still highly recommend it. If Nelson Algren was more funny than depressing.
Delta barn where Emmett Till was slain is bought as a ‘sacred site’ mississippitoday.org/2025/11/24/b...
Barn where Emmett Till was slain is bought as a ‘sacred site’ - Mississippi Today
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has purchased the barn where 14-year-old Till was tortured and killed, thanks to a $1.5 million gift from TV producer Shonda Rimes.
mississippitoday.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Delta barn where Emmett Till was slain is bought as a ‘sacred site’ mississippitoday.org/2025/11/24/b...
A retired journalist says he was refused service and told he was confused with another Black man dankennedy.net/2025/11/24/a...
A retired journalist says he was refused service and told he was confused with another Black man
A former GBH News colleague of mine has gotten caught up in a mess involving a Cambridge coffee shop in which he was told he’d been mixed up with another Black man who’d reportedly caus…
dankennedy.net
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A retired journalist says he was refused service and told he was confused with another Black man dankennedy.net/2025/11/24/a...
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Since 2000, political donations from the richest 100 Americans have increased nearly 140x.
They collectively spent over $1B in 2024, amounting to 1 in every 13 dollars spent during the election.
Is it any wonder why so many regular people feel like they no longer have a voice?
They collectively spent over $1B in 2024, amounting to 1 in every 13 dollars spent during the election.
Is it any wonder why so many regular people feel like they no longer have a voice?
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November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Since 2000, political donations from the richest 100 Americans have increased nearly 140x.
They collectively spent over $1B in 2024, amounting to 1 in every 13 dollars spent during the election.
Is it any wonder why so many regular people feel like they no longer have a voice?
They collectively spent over $1B in 2024, amounting to 1 in every 13 dollars spent during the election.
Is it any wonder why so many regular people feel like they no longer have a voice?
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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
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Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111. https://to.pbs.org/43OHYaQ
Viola Ford Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at age 111
Fletcher spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child.
www.pbs.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111. https://to.pbs.org/43OHYaQ
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So, get this: Louisiana has made it nearly impossible to get parole. Except for undocumented immigrants. Now the state is rushing to release some of those prisoners to deport them. 🤔
By @richardawebster.bsky.social and Bobbi-Jeanne Misick @veritenews.org
By @richardawebster.bsky.social and Bobbi-Jeanne Misick @veritenews.org
Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.
Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented imm...
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
So, get this: Louisiana has made it nearly impossible to get parole. Except for undocumented immigrants. Now the state is rushing to release some of those prisoners to deport them. 🤔
By @richardawebster.bsky.social and Bobbi-Jeanne Misick @veritenews.org
By @richardawebster.bsky.social and Bobbi-Jeanne Misick @veritenews.org
So Long, Jimmy Cliff
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Jimmy Cliff, 'The Harder They Come' Reggae Giant, Dead at 81
Jimmy Cliff, the reggae legend who helped spread the genre’s reach from Jamaica to the world with ‘The Harder They Come,’ has died at the age of 81.
www.rollingstone.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So Long, Jimmy Cliff
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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One woman chewed through her umbilical cord after giving birth in jail — another delivered into a cell toilet
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
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'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
One woman chewed through her umbilical cord after giving birth in jail — another delivered into a cell toilet
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents -- like IvankaNews and MAGANationX -- have been identified as originating in places such as Eastern Europe, Russia, India, and Nigeria.
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents -- like IvankaNews and MAGANationX -- have been identified as originating in places such as Eastern Europe, Russia, India, and Nigeria.
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
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The main income at the S&S, a club for Patriarca Family Bigs, was gambling. Our Family was into all the rackets. Andy Shacks’ wife was the owner of record. His biggest asset – he was Baby Shacks’ brother. -Chapter 7, The S&S Bar louisthecoinbook.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The main income at the S&S, a club for Patriarca Family Bigs, was gambling. Our Family was into all the rackets. Andy Shacks’ wife was the owner of record. His biggest asset – he was Baby Shacks’ brother. -Chapter 7, The S&S Bar louisthecoinbook.com
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The Last Don of Providence: A 12+ TV app exclusive www.wpri.com/target-12/in...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Last Don of Providence: A 12+ TV app exclusive www.wpri.com/target-12/in...
@wpri12.bsky.social @cooljustice.bsky.social
@wpri12.bsky.social @cooljustice.bsky.social
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You should definitely get Lindsey Halligan to indict them.
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
You should definitely get Lindsey Halligan to indict them.
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This young man has it exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This young man has it exactly right.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
-G. Orwell, 1984
-G. Orwell, 1984
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
-G. Orwell, 1984
-G. Orwell, 1984
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“I told everybody: ‘I’m retired, I sit home all day. If we get any reports of ICE in the neighborhood, somebody text me, and I’ll run over on my scooter and go yell at them.’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“I told everybody: ‘I’m retired, I sit home all day. If we get any reports of ICE in the neighborhood, somebody text me, and I’ll run over on my scooter and go yell at them.’”
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Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out ille...
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
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Warren: "With Jeffrey Epstein, I really mean follow the money. Here's the deal - JPMorgan Chase - yes, Jamie Dimon, I'm looking at you -- is Epstein's bank, a close personal relationship that spans years. Shouldn't this be in the JPMorgan's ads?...I'd like to have Dimon come in & under oath testify"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Warren: "With Jeffrey Epstein, I really mean follow the money. Here's the deal - JPMorgan Chase - yes, Jamie Dimon, I'm looking at you -- is Epstein's bank, a close personal relationship that spans years. Shouldn't this be in the JPMorgan's ads?...I'd like to have Dimon come in & under oath testify"
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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"He knew the bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans. For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all."
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"He knew the bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans. For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all."
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“You, in real time, are watching somebody having their lives taken from them … slowly. It is excruciating to watch” ... For years, the Office of the Attorney General has opposed releasing the video to the public ctexaminer.com/2025/11/20/e... @susancampbell.bsky.social
'Every Bit as Heinous' as the Death of George Floyd, Dept. of Correction Ombuds Warns Students
NEW HAVEN — Department of Correction Ombuds DeVaughn Ward called a video showing the death of J’Allen Jones at the hands of staff at Garner Correctional Institution as “every bit […]
ctexaminer.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“You, in real time, are watching somebody having their lives taken from them … slowly. It is excruciating to watch” ... For years, the Office of the Attorney General has opposed releasing the video to the public ctexaminer.com/2025/11/20/e... @susancampbell.bsky.social
Do you really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Do you really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Do you really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?
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Never forget Jamal Khashoggi and the two animals responisble and complicit for his murder and dismemberment..
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Never forget Jamal Khashoggi and the two animals responisble and complicit for his murder and dismemberment..