Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Kel

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

380 3.1K 18K

Reposted by Kel

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Chicago

sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 16h

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

10 410 2.2K

Reposted by Kel

Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 8h

Portland brilliance

Jeremy Conescu @conescu.bsky.social · 10h

10 57

Reposted by Kel

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

6 150 820

Reposted by Kel

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 3d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

150 3.6K 14K

Reposted by Kel

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 2d

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

17 210 1.2K

Reposted by Kel

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

The Freedom Frogs of Portland are multiplying. It’s beautiful.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

21 120 600

Reposted by Kel

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

420 9.8K 26K

Reposted by Kel

Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 3d

Cool, finally a place kids can enjoy.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner is not expected to block children from accessing 4chan as part of the under-16s social media ban, despite it being labelled one of the “darker” places on the internet. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was asked by independent senator Fatima Payman in Senate estimates on Wednesday night whether 4chan, the message board often referred to as the engine room of the internet, would be considered one of the sites required to prevent under-16s when the social media ban comes into effect from 10 December. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

4 15 47

Reposted by Kel

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is like the Oprah of threatening to jail people

4 5 71

Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 3d

Haha! That’s great. Potato is much funnier than a mandarin though 😀

1

Reposted by Kel

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

300 2.1K 8.9K

Reposted by Kel

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

530 2.4K 14K

Reposted by Kel

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to speedrun martial law before the economy collapses

26 280 2K

Reposted by Kel

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

44 240 1.4K

Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 4d

If I was Halloween marketing mandarins I’d put labels on them to say “☠️☠️☠️we are the worst fruit, give this to someone as a trick, we stink and taste like shit ☠️☠️☠️”

1

Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 4d

If I was a kid and I went trick or treating and someone tried to hand me a mandarin I would lose my fucking shit

Photo of bags of mandarins at the supermarket with labels saying “trick or treat the healthy way”

1 1 2

Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 4d

1 2

Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 5d

Chat, I received a reply that said “Haha hahahaha, brilliant” how do I respond?

1

Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 5d

1 1 1

Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 5d

Defenders of these things always say “you have no expectation of privacy in public and filming is legal” ok but we are not consenting to have that footage uploaded to the fucking internet. There needs to be restrictions and consequences on that end

1 2

Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to whoever at Rayban who made the decision to partner with Meta on these things for turning the image of all Raybans from a timeless cool classic brand of sunglasses into snitch spectacles for perverts