Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Debra M 🌱

@liberalforareason.bsky.social

1.4K followers 2.9K following 3.1K posts

Depressed about the rise of global fascism and yet still believe in the power of the people. Like : being vegan, political theory, dogs, kind people and social democracy - not centrism. Basé à Montréal français et anglais. Unless I know you - no DM’s.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · Feb 3

Favourite Canadian Companies. Please add yours! 🇨🇦

Clothing
Jennifer Glasgow
www.jenniferglasgowdesign.com
Birds of NA
www.birdsofnorthamerica.com
Pony
www.ponymtl.com

Food
Mille et Une Noix
www.milleetunenoix.ca
Elimento
ww.elimento.com
Allo Simonne
www.allosimonne.com
Purdys
www.purdys.com

Mille Et Une Noix

Mille et Une Noix crée avec soin et passion des beurres crémeux et des mélanges exquis qui mettent en valeur la splendeur des meilleures noix du monde.

www.milleetunenoix.ca

3 19

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

68 2.3K 10K

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

35 390 3.1K

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

MJosée @marijos.bsky.social · 14h

😂

1 1 11

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

79 540 4K

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 8h

so it seems Saleh was killed (possibly executed) by an Israeli-armed/backed militia. We've known that Israel has been doing this. The goal: fomenting a civil war between Palestinian factions. Inevitably Israel will "intervene" to quell the clashes. Another tool in its genocidal arsenal.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

42 120

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

31
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

370 4.1K 6.8K

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Said respectfully, this man got a standing ovation saying this in one of the whitest rooms in America

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 14h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

7 66 310

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

On Twitter, Sky News' account put quotation marks around the word 'dies'. It did not do so here though. Wonder why.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 14h

Palestinian girl, 12, dies after suffering from malnutrition for months

Huda Abu al Naja, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who suffered from malnutrition for months, has died in Nasser Hospital in Gaza, according to The Times of Israel.

news.sky.com

6 78 290

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 15h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

270 2.4K 14K

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 14h

Do Zionists still think protesting outside a synagogue is antisemitic?

Screenshot from Tali Goldscheft:

PROTEST today at 1 pm!!! 📢📢📢

At the same time as hostages are hopefully being finally released, Zohran Mamdani is speaking at CBE (Congregation Beth Elohim) in Park Slope.

Beyond outrageous.

A major protest by the Brooklyn Jewish community, including CBE congregants and former congregants, will be taking place.

IN BROOKLYN? Join us, rain or shine!!!

7 60 260

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company

16 77 390

Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 16h

Agreed

Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 18h

Where is the lie?

1 2

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

It's also gross for anyone to laud her as a hero of family reunification when family separation is her husband's top policy.

Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 1d

“EIGHT children and she’s AMAZING? Out of the 20–35 THOUSAND Russia’s kidnapped, that’s 0.02%. Maybe Putin sent her flowers for the optics. But sure — let’s cue Fox’s halo lighting. Saint Melania saves the world! 🙄”

3 14 87

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 1d

The owner of Time magazine said this week "that he avidly supported President Trump and thought National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

1 3 4

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

israel held 1,700 people alleged of no wrongdoing hostage, killed at least 65,000 people, and turned the entirety of gaza into rubble and these fuckers still want to assert that palestinians, not they, are barbarians

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

3 37 100

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

69 310 2.1K

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to a legend people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

5 23 100

Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 1d

Liberal zionists + obnoxious is redundant.

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 1d

The IDF is genuinely addicted to bombing, airstrikes, and destruction. This is from earlier today.

2 21 25

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 2d

this is the classic power move of a manager who works about an hour a day but wants to create the impression they are working from sunrise to sunset

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

7 31 230

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 2d

"four roughly two-hour lectures"???

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

4 2 30

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

According to a London-based Israeli researcher named Ayala Panievsky, "Only 3% of war-related items in Israeli media throughout the war addressed the civilian situation in Gaza."

Covering the Gaza war, 'Israeli media is like a doctor hiding the patient's condition'

London-based Israeli Researcher Ayala Panievsky Has Been Studying War Coverage in Israel. Her Findings Explain Why the Country Now Seems Out of Touch With the Rest of the World

www.haaretz.com

2 42 120

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 4d

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

www.euroveg.eu

58 85 290

Reposted by Debra M 🌱

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

98 430 1.6K