Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

190 2.9K 7.3K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Mark Bechtel @markymark757.bsky.social · 10h

@jaybird54.bsky.social
@stephen5150.bsky.social
@jensdad4biden.bsky.social
@blueanimallover.bsky.social
@markymark757.bsky.social
@teegeebo10.bsky.social
@jessica-rn.bsky.social
@stopfascism25.bsky.social
@deeddra.bsky.social
@brigro.bsky.social
@dalewalls1.bsky.social
@6j1.bsky.social

52 290 750

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14h

Question - if wealth taxes don’t work and raise only paltry amounts, how come whenever we start seriously discussing them rich people start pouring resources into trying to start race and class wars as a distraction?

69 740 2.9K

Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 8h

Greed.
Leonard Leo & Chuck Koch going to the mat to keep Coke & Pepsi in the bellies of SNAP users.
Greed is why we need checks & balances.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha

A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

This is sick. Several of the MS13 gang members Trump traded to Bukele so he could have access to CECOT prison for deportees were actually COOPERATORS with law enforcement. He betrayed them. wapo.st/4nbNiM4

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

wapo.st

210 1.9K 3.8K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 16h

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" - Theodore Roosevelt

21 470 1.6K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Cat Herder @herdingkitties.bsky.social · 20h

He has a hole inside him. I don't know why it's there, but I know he tries to fill it with money and with praise. And a man that dependent on money and praise is never his own master. Not over his emotions, and not over his actions. He's too easily manipulated.

1 4 23

Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 15h

The system is broken- democracy is being choked to death by racism, fear, and the inequality bought & paid for by wicked ppl who worship greed.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 1d

The thing about No Kings the GOP doesn't seem to get isn't that we hate you as much as it is that we recognize you for what you are.

You're a threat. You're a threat to our lives, our livelihoods, our families, our friends.

We WILL drive you out of power. You haven't given us any other choice.

110 1.1K 4.3K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages.

They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.

They get pardoned when they commit crimes.

They ignore the laws.

There is zero congressional oversight.

590 5.1K 16K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters.

Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Inventing Antifa

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

6 250 570

Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 1d

Yes- we need to actually make changes. Citizens United exposed how the rich are sycking the marrow from our bones- the Electoral College was a giveaway to the former slave plantations and still drags us down & finally, it's a joke that citizens of DC & PR & Guam & USVI have no representation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: Osita Nwanevu on the imperative for a new American founding

"To get to deeper systemic changes, we have to adopt a rhetoric and messaging about democracy that's more galvanizing than what was offered in this last election, when it was just about institutional defense."

“We need to conceive of democracy as something more revolutionary”

Osita Nwanevu on the imperative for a new American founding.

www.publicnotice.co

1

Reposted by Bryan McRell

DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 2d

Let's make this happen...

190 970 2.7K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court has set the December calendar. The big campaign finance case, NRSC v. FEC, will be heard on Tuesday, Dec. 9.

I will be arguing for the Democratic Party Intervenors in defense of the law and against the GOP petition.

180 2.1K 9.6K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Cornyn & Paxton don’t stand for freedom, family, and faith… they stand for control, cruelty, and corruption.”

79 1.5K 4.4K

Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 1d

No, gotta disagree, it is in fact easy to tell. They are awful idiots.

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.

1.3K 5.1K 22K

Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 1d

This.

Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 1d

Are we still like a deer in the headlights? I think too many are.

CYNC Verity @chattjazz.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Murphy, courts weaponized, media consolidated, troops deployed to opposition cities, truth suppressed. This is controlled chaos — it’s a plan. Democracy won’t survive on autopilot, "We aren’t nearing authoritarianism — we’re living it."
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social #Autocracy #Democracy

Reposted by Bryan McRell

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

390 4.3K 9.3K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Trump’s DHS appointees have:
• Dismantled civil rights guardrails,
• Protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks,
• Threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests & tactics.

By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

www.propublica.org

27 380 760

Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 2d

With the GOP, the wicked past is always present- blocking equality from taking root.
Excellent recap of the pathology that's always haunted our stated claims of freedom & equality.

www.alternet.org/trump-future...

Americans just caught a glimpse of their future — and it is terrifying

On Tuesday, here in Chicago, America caught a glimpse of its possible future, and it was terrifying. Federal agents, dressed like soldiers and armed with the weapons of war, rammed a civilian vehicle ...

www.alternet.org

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 3d

Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."

41 740 2.3K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

50501az.bsky.social @50501az.bsky.social · 3d

Anonymous.
This fake government is being run by people who have dirt on each other.
I call on every hacker in the world to find out the secret dirt making their decisions.
If you are a real hacker.
You will find out.
Start with SCOTUS.
Anonymous.
Execute.

14 77 330

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

“Trump is gonna give Ukraine tomahawks!”

Nope. Just another TACOOOOO

300 420 1.9K

Reposted by Bryan McRell

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

300 5K 16K