Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 2h

I saw some reporters saying EIS layoffs and I'm not even sure they have enough DC staff to be layoffs per se

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 2h

Fingers crossed I guess. If they're firing all the DC staff I can't imagine just shutting down the thing is off the table.

1 1

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 2h

(Oxford commas are important)

1 2

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 2h

this says DC staff *and* MMWR editors, i hope you're right though

2 1

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 2h

I just have to stress that without MMWR many very important federal/state/local health officials would have been flying blind during covid for example

3 37

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think you could find a more important medical publication than MMWR. Like, NEJM or JAMA or Lancet, but they're not really the same segment or role at all

1 7 54

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 2h

uh shutting down MMWR is, in no uncertain terms, crisis level damage for dissemination of accurate info throughout the medical profession

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

5 59 200

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 2h

This just in: The Hague (which has no connection to the Nobels I think but you'd be forgiven for thinking so?) has just been flooded with Deals Gas

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 15h

I have just been informed that the Nobel Prize Committee has been eliminated in a targeted peace strike

1 10

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 12h

Let's all confess something. I'll start: I thought Mare of Easttown was about horses

4 14

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 15h

I have just been informed that the Nobel Prize Committee has been eliminated in a targeted peace strike

8 38

Reposted by tm

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

290 1.9K 4.5K

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 1d

Large group of customers saw the FBI at this pizza joint and noped the fuck out. A few other people seemed to steer clear as well. Has to be terrible for business.

1 7 25

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 1d

yes these are going in my tropical fish tank why do you ask

6

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 1d

It's freshwater isopod o'clock bitches

1 10

Reposted by tm

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over this

320 2.6K 11K

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like my aquarium has got some...

Sweet baby crays

2 8

Reposted by tm

Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 5d

I'm all for diversity in video games but I have to admit that the Gamergate folks are right about this one, it does seem kind of shoehorned in

6 58 370

Reposted by tm

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

per reddit this is the 'ten car' incident -- weird!

44 230 770

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 6d

Menswear stores are dangerous

1 5

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 6d

making up a reichstag in my head to get really mad about

17 55 440

Reposted by tm

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Elon Musk: The minds of youth are easily corrupted, which is why the corrupt ply their propaganda to the youth
10:57 AM • 10/4/25 • 51K Views

Elon Musk: We're going to make Baby Grok @XAI, an app dedicated to kid-friendly content
7:46 PM • 7/19/25 • 30M Views

19 210 850

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 6d

there's nothing to suggest Buffalo Bill particularly cared for it

1 6

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 6d

ed i think you should consider doing a rogue trader heretical run

3

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 6d

Have you ever looked at your hand, man? Like REALLY looked at your hand?

CNN @cnn.com · 7d

They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts: Was he telling the truth before? Did he just not understand that thing that he said earlier? Is he just trolling all of us? | Analysis

Analysis: Trump is finally ready to talk about Project 2025 | CNN Politics

They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts:

www.cnn.com

1 29

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 6d

pretty much fully converted to "very suspicious of anyone that thinks twitter is the best platform for their speech"

25