Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov check this article from @masnick.com that explains the unscientific BS this clown is spouting. www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/j...

Big Tech is harming ALL OF US. But the OS-level age verification bill that @govpritzker.illinois.gov is pitching HB5511 would NOT remedy that. Instead it would facilitate mass surveillance while further entrenching big tech monopolies while relieving Meta and co of liability.

imagine being a RETVRN guy but for 'cursive in schools' instead of cool ass translucent electronics

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

even if governments don’t (they will), private companies will find a way to ingest all this, and weaponize it. if the data exists at all, someone will find a way to use it against you

This broke this week, and yet @govpritzker.illinois.gov is working to institute Zuck’s preferred remedy for the problem, one that would take liability away from his company, instead of actually working to hold them to account. www.reddit.com/r/privacy/s/...

the illinois house judiciary committee yesterday voted 13-7, with all dems in favor, to advance a bill to require operating systems on electronic devices to confirm a user’s age—a serious threat to digital privacy that follows similar efforts across the u.s. it next heads to the house floor.

There is one here, update it to fit the bill in question: action.freespeechcoalition.com/how-to-fight...

More information: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...

If you live in IL, consider filing a witness slip against this bill. It's masquerading as a kid safety measure, and like many things sold to "protect children" it doesn't do what's on the label. What it really amounts to is mandatory surveillance infrastructure baked into your operating system.

The idea that these folks – including two of them with direct ties to Jeffrey Epstein (Gates and Clinton) – are trying to introduce legislation to ‘Protect Kids’ via digital surveillance would be laughable if it weren’t so fucking evil.

The partner on this who’s conference Hillary and JB are talking at is ‘Common Sense Media’ a Not-For-Profit organization backed by: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative The Gates Foundation and The Bezos Foundation www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/c...

Also, look here is @govpritzker.illinois.gov in an Instagram post with @hillaryclinton.bsky.social today describing how he is going to implement a bill that sounds like what this one pretends to be. www.instagram.com/p/DWUMMN8jkn...

You can contact @govpritzker.illinois.gov using the linked information below and demand that he not institute this half-baked and dangerous surveillance bill masquerading as ‘kids safety’ gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...

Today staff from the Governor’s office submit witness slips in favor of implement OS-level age verification to access apps and the internet, and they pushed the HB5511 through to a debate tomorrow. Submit more witness slips and call your state reps. www.ilga.gov/Legislation/...

Let 👏 @bebopott.bsky.social 👏 drive 👏

A week after the election, I talked with @anamariecox.bsky.social about our race, AIPAC, and how we’re trying to not just keep *our* mutual aid operation going, but make it a nationwide strategy: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Unless someone really interesting runs I’m probably gonna sit this one out. I think that’s probably gonna be true for most of the coalition that elected Brandon as well. They abandoned us, they can’t expect us to save them.

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Thursday, join me at Graceland Cemetery for free baseball-themed 45 min tours in honor of baseball opening day, compliments of the cemetery! (Tix for full tour tomorrow are on adamchicago.com )

🚨 Remember the horrible law I posted about last week, to require age verification to use smart phones, or Linux? The Illinois legislature rescheduled hearings, & added more. We all now need to fill out 4 forms as "Opposed", all over. Please do so ASAP, by Thursday. Instructions below. Pass this on.

My favorite piece from the Onion is not an article, it’s a ONN clip from 17 years ago. youtu.be/fPBS5nprJ1M?...

My favorite piece from the Onion is not an article, it’s a ONN clip from 17 years ago. youtu.be/fPBS5nprJ1M?...

I generally don’t think that the Ellison family cares about network TV ratings. Their business model is not selling television commercial advertisements.

If Meta’s platforms are harmful to children’s health they’re also harmful to adults. The solution to protect children is not to amplify their ability to harm adults by tracking all of us, it’s to force them to not make harmful platforms.

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

Anyone who believes that Johnson's unpopularity is because of the activists and organizers who got him elected, and not his complete and total abandonment of those activists and organizers (as well as anything resembling a political ideology) the second he got inaugurated, I've a bridge to sell you.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I think the biggest thing that neither the Johnson camp nor the Vallas camp understands is that at least half the reason that Johnson won was because Paul Vallas and his ilk are such contemptible losers.

Fill out the slips ALSO write a hand-written email to your state rep/senator against the bills

Hey folks, we need to keep the heat on this. There seems to be pressure coming from close allies to @govpritzker.illinois.gov to pass these Meta-backed Age-Verification bills through the ILGA.

Mask off moment here from likely candidate for Chicago Mayor

This is really dumb and actually quite nefarious.

The entire White House strategy right now is insanely bad, hurting them worse by the day. Which is why Schumer and Jeffries will wait until after ‘No Kings 3’ and then fold so they can crush through bullshit like KOSA.

🌸 We'll go where flowers grow Their attempts to silence and separate us—to make us vulnerable to repression and attack, to hold us back and keep us down—will never be more powerful than our love and joyous anarchy. 🏴

It’s amazing to me how a certain subset of people in Illinois are constantly outraged about the property tax situation and direct that anger at every official but the ones actually responsible for the situation.

Hi hello there's a lot happening, but want to draw attention to an urgent need in the community— 78 yr old Raymond & his 95 yr old mother are facing eviction *immediately* if they don't pay back rent to the tune of $3200. Fundraiser is sitting at 27%. More info here: instagram.com/p/DWO2QUoldVX/

one maddening thing about all of this is the conservative idea that "election day" has always meant a single day until recently, which is nonsense. 19th century elections often took place over the course of an entire month, with results trickling out over time.

THREAD Please, Illinois folks, open this thread, go to the linked ILGA pages, and submit witness slips opposed to these bills that are being pushed by Meta and other big tech brands as a means of taking total control of the internet and open-source software projects.

rapid onset bisexuality is when you watch the mummy at age 7

Attention to all Chicago & Illinois folks, who submitted Witness Slips against proposed bills for imposing age-based surveillance upon us. The bastards in the Illinois legislature are forcing us to jump through these hoops *again*, this time for 2 separate bills. See quoted post, & spread the word.

The fact that the administration thinks that things like this are going to do anything other than further radicalize Americans against ICE, Republicans, and the admin itself is truly an abusers mindset.

🚨🚨 Illinois lawmakers have rescheduled hearings on these ill-conceived OS-level age verification laws for THIS Thursday and Friday! Info on how to file new witness slips and more below!

Chicago, we deserve mayors who actually have a vision for the future of the city. Anne Hidalgo has transformed Paris, and Emmanuel Grégoire has outlined a clear vision to build on that transformation. We have to break our city free from the shackles of division and shortsightedness.

- Pace yourself - don’t go too crazy - no fedposting - stay on top of regulating your nervous system - act local - find people who’ve been doing the work and ask how you can help - tend to the myriad biological needs we need as confused little apes - give grace to dysregulated people on your side

the average business traveler has never encountered an ICE agent in the flesh. if anyone in the administration had half the sense god gave a goat, they’d be desperate to keep it that way.

we should require CDOT to allocate funds based on traffic type. Chicago has a 27% transit walk roll average. 27% of CDOTs budget could build BRT, bike lanes galore… imagine if we went further and lakefront wards would see upwards of 40% dedicated to transit/walk/roll transformative

We don’t need massive digital surveillance of everyone’s activity online to protect children, we need to provide services to communities and families and to prosecute known abusers regardless of their wealth and standing in the world.

This tweet is nine years old & evergreen.

you kinda have to have brain worms in the first place to accept any notion that people who aren’t bothered enough to do anything about an open pedophile ring involving the president and keep trying to legalize child marriage in various states suddenly care about protecting children

I think I need to fork this deck, and the end result would be me owning THREE DIFFERENT Galadriel Commander decks. (She’s not even my favorite LoTR character.)