Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 5h

Do you know what a non sequitur is?

Also I’m emailing them with screenshots to show them how you are using the honor of being on their channel for two minutes as a tool for self promotion and to disparage others in online arguments

Have a good one

3 3 100

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely wild to see liberals celebrating this genocide supporter.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado voices support for Israel

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, said that if elected, she will move her country’s embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Anadolu reports. &#82…

www.middleeastmonitor.com

8 13 41

FlewTooCloseToTheSun @flewtooclose.bsky.social · 6h

You are actually just a fucking moron.

The US committed genocide, and destroyed the north and south.

What the fuck are you doing here with this non-sequitor bullshit?

What the north is, has no bearing on whether or not the US, on its mission to squash latent communism, destroyed a whole people.

1

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

There is a genuine mental block amongst the elites in capitalist societies. Everything is collapsing and the hegemon is autocannibalising, but if that were true then they'd have to do something about it, and so they are doubling down on "everything is fine and normal."

Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 9h

Seems like the worst time to start sharing your citizens' biometric data with the US government

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

1 14 57

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 21h

Less than 5k needed only.

48 41

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

Ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social is SO CLOSE to her goal, less than 350 dollars left, could you please help? Im passing forward $20 that I got from yall for mutual aid, can you match me?

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa from gaza, raise funds to help her family survive.

chuffed.org

1 76 61

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 21h

‼️ My internet connection is very weak I’m still in the displacement camps. Can anyone tell if there are any eSIM that work in the Al-Mawasi area near the beach? It’s really urgent. ‼️ 😔

1 28 32

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 8h

To make the transition to fascism easier, you lock up anti fascists. Know your history and resist. #SocialistSunday

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

www.theguardian.com

3 10

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 2d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

14 340 1.2K

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 17h

when I think of Blinken, I think of his 2024 exit interview with the New York Times where the interviewer kept pressing him for some defense of the last four years and he went, “I don’t really do introspection and people don’t really care about foreign policy anyways.”

3 8 52

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20h

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

14 85 330

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h

Blinken and Biden were not just able to stop the #GazaGenocide.

They were the chief genocide enablers.

Attempts to rewrite history by this war criminal will not serve him well.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20h

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

1 14 45

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

raaawaaan.bsky.social @raaawaaan.bsky.social · 10h

I am Rawan,a medical laboratory student.I was one of the top students and I am still trying to continue despite the war.Every day I study to the sound of bombing,but my dream of becoming a doctor who serves my country is still alive.Support me to complete my path,because knowledge is my only weapon🙏

1 13 12

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 8h

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

29 390 2.2K

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Anarchist Memes @anarchistmemes.org · 8h

6 230 1K

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Eel-AIEEEE @elindur.at.app.wafrn.net · 23h

"I don't care that marginalized people are getting screwed as long as my party wins". Fucking blue MAGA strikes again. It's not purity politics, it's wanting basic fucking human rights for the most vulnerable. If you really care about party over policy, you're a fucking failure as a human being.

1 4 38

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 23h

sloans lysbeth
@sloanelysbeth... • 22d

'purity politics' is the most annoying phrase liberals have in their arsenal.

why shouldn't a candidate be a decent human being?

why is that considered asking for too much?
why is wanting a candidate who isn't a bigot or a rapist considered an unreasonable demand?

9 61

FlewTooCloseToTheSun @flewtooclose.bsky.social · 8h

Woof, talk about an intensely distorted view of reality.

I'm just going to point at the annexation and genocide of the Koreans by the Americans, and leave it at that.

You are beyond help.

john @snoopster.bsky.social · 8h

Capitalism is very badly flawed. The main advantage of it is that it offers more than just brutality and mass murder.

1 2

FlewTooCloseToTheSun @flewtooclose.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you so much 😁

1 1

FlewTooCloseToTheSun @flewtooclose.bsky.social · 8h

Any suggestions on something that's a bit older I could read?

1 1

FlewTooCloseToTheSun @flewtooclose.bsky.social · 8h

I hadn't really read much of Žižek's writing, and my god. Every single thing I've read that's been published in the last month is some of the dumbest, most pseudo-intellectual, lib shit I've seen in a while.

Like, even worse than Ezra Klein.

How does he do it..

1 1

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

dictatorship of the proletariat now @imperialismsucks.bsky.social · 21h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjwL...

Obomber

4 3

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 21h

i feel this sentiment deeply so i need my mutuals to understand that of the 24 men tried at nuremberg half were acquitted, and at subsequent trials not on the national stage nearly every nazi tried was found not guilty and many went straight back to work in the government, they died old and rich.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

4 25 63

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

Icewind Dale Gribble @phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social · 1d

you’re using it differently than i do. you seem to use it to describe a standard of behavior you hold somebody else to before granting them material support. but those are good, so you must be talking about something else

1 8

Reposted by FlewTooCloseToTheSun

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

16 320 430