Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 24d

If you're new to it, I guarantee there are plenty of old hands you should listen to and follow.

Don't go charging in without understanding the risks and the stakes.

1 2 14

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 18h

Just So You Know, No Other President Has Behaved This Way…

15 83 240

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 5h

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

(cont'd)

41 450 2.4K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Solidarity is the only way

480 3K 12K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Alternative View, Pacific Northwest @alt-pnw.bsky.social · 7h

“In Utah, state law prohibits the use of city-owned equipment for “political activity,” said Nancy Volmer, the airport’s director of communication and marketing.”

Glad to see Salt Lake City added to the list refusing this bit of corruption.

The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 8h

Airports across the country are grappling with whether to play a video featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, who is shown blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown of the federal government and travel delays.

Some airports refuse to play a Homeland Security video blaming Democrats for government shutdown. Here’s what the SLC airport decided.

Airports across the country are grappling with whether to play a video featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, who is shown blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown of the federal government and travel delays.

www.sltrib.com

16 42

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 10h

News headline reads: Airports say they won't air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA
checkpoints
Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.
October 13 at 12:17 PM 2025
*
There's a wall monitor with a video of Kristi Noem in the still image. I've photoshopped her face to distort it.

3 5 28

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 2h

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

1 5 22

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

410 6.2K 22K

Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears @maestraoogway.bsky.social · 2h

Hope you feel better soon

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

3 1.5K 7.3K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

720 5.1K 21K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 5h

That’s their whole goal. Escalate until they have an excuse to escalate some more, and then escalate again. The cruelty is the point, of course, but a convenient benefit is it provides outrage cover while the copper is being stripped out of the walls

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

www.npr.org

2 6 21

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

170 2.2K 4.4K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

The Atlantic is the latest news organization that refuses to sign the Pentagon's new press pass policy.

Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg says the new restrictions violate the First Amendment and the rights of Americans to know how the taxpayer-funded military is being deployed.

18 200 670

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 8h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

480 3.9K 12K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

240 3.4K 14K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans run campaigns bemoaning government inefficiency and then once in office, make it their mission to prove it.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10h

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

bit.ly

1 7 36

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9h

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

8 270 740

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 12h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

56 1.3K 2.3K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

When the right loses both Joe Rogan and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the issues in the same week, you know it’s going to get rough for Republicans.

Joe Rogan on ICE: “The way it looks is just horrific.”

QAnon queen MTG on the economy: “I’m just living in reality from here on out.”

140 540 1.6K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 10h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

1 910 2.1K

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 10h

So she can mop up your blood

The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 11h

5 7 18

Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears @maestraoogway.bsky.social · 9h

😂

1

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11h

I think this from @donmoyn.bsky.social is essential reading for the moment. I’d emphasize that the staggering process he describes doesn’t end with the assault on immigrants. It’s about creating an armed force loyal to nobody but Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

18 140 300

Reposted by Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears

Dumb Beezie @dumbbeezie.bsky.social · 11h

Im MAD AS HELL AND I DONT HAVE TIME TO GO ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND

1 13 75