Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

73 620 1.4K

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 3h

The Pope the world has needed since Wotyla died.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

2 17 71

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 11h

lincoln school, cameron avenue, kellogg, idaho, 2004

1 3 58

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

160 2.6K 6.5K

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 11h

Also there was never a Biden FBI. A Trump appointee was FBI Director in the Biden era. No Democrat has *ever* directed the FBI.

Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11h

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

4 7 47

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Taylor McKinnon @publiccarbon.bsky.social · 11h

In beautiful, powerful prose, a resolution from the San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation celebrates a deep cultural history with jaguar while calling for its protection and reintroduction to historical US range — reaching northward to the Grand Canyon.

👇🏻

Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 2d

The San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona has passed one of the most moving and powerful resolutions memorializing the role of the jaguar as a protector of the O’odham with deep cultural and spiritual ties. The resolution also calls on U.S. Fish and Wildlife to…”

1 4

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11h

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

94 660

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 18h

11 59

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 12h

This is not Switzerland, not Canada - this is Ukraine, where every season paints the mountains anew.

Autumn ignites the Ukrainian Carpathians. Golden ridges, fiery-red forests, and misty valleys reveal a beauty unlike anywhere else.

Photo: @utah_names

4 58 280

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12h

Thread. Read the preceding background to understand this better.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14h

Yeahhhh I just found a local news org with video (starts here: bsky.app/profile/unra...) and just, wow.

Notice how Fr Dowling has his hands covered with a veil of silk while he's holding the monstrance? It's so holy that you do not touch it with bare hands.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

3 11 52

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 14h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 19h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

28 660 2.3K

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 12h

So one Riverton dad was rightly scandalized to learn that Utah public school students — and their families — were carrying $2.8 million in debt because they couldn’t keep up with the cost of their school lunches.

Tribune Editorial: Ending student lunch debt in Utah? It’s worth your support.

So one Riverton dad was rightly scandalized to learn that Utah public school students — and their families — were carrying $2.8 million in debt because they couldn’t keep up with the cost of their school lunches.

www.sltrib.com

9 34

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 14h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

590 6.6K 13K

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15h

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings

abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews....

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org

6 4

🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦 @karimala.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Boo! 🥰🥰🥰

Boo GIF

ALT: Boo GIF

media.tenor.com

2

🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦 @karimala.bsky.social · 13h

They don’t have a foundation or tradition.

1

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦 @karimala.bsky.social · 1d

Henry Faulkner, who is in my family tree via my former brother-in-law, had some interesting surnames in his close family tree. Meet Hannah “Annie” Butt & George Sydney Sex. @actualnames.bsky.social

2 3 14

🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦 @karimala.bsky.social · 14h

Ooh…Muenster is authentic with Mexican food? This makes me happy! It’s my fave!

Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 14h

Unlikely cheese? Don't mind if we do.

In El Paso, an Unlikely Cheese Reigns Supreme

Originating in medieval Alsace, this semisoft, orange-rind cheese is commonly used in Mexican dishes in the modern border region.

www.texasmonthly.com

1

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

61 970 2.2K

🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦 @karimala.bsky.social · 14h

There’s advocacy groups in red states, too. I threatened to sue on behalf of my daughter in Montana through an advocacy group back in the ‘90s. Scared the school into compliance, so I didn’t end up going to court thankfully.

3

🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦 @karimala.bsky.social · 14h

I wasn’t called for jury duty until I was in my mid-40s. Wish they’d called me when I was younger, because by then I was a full-time caregiver for my adult blind/disabled daughter & can’t leave her to serve. Always wanted to serve on a jury, too.

4

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 1d

For the 2nd week in a row, the federal shutdown has blocked disease surveillance reporting. So Team Force of Infection again visited all 50 state websites to track COVID, flu & RSV. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o...

Outbreak Outlook: Week 2 of DIY Surveillance

State by state disease surveillance of COVID-19, influenza and RSV amid federal public health cuts

caitlinrivers.substack.com

2 27 72

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome.

180 1K 3.2K

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 21h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working on Ebola and dozens of other infectious disease experts
(Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

www.nytimes.com

7 130 180

Reposted by 🇺🇦🌻Karin🌻🇺🇦

ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 1d

United we ribbit, divided we croak. 🐸🐸🐸✊

5 30 120