Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Maureen Johnson

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com

18K followers 710 following 1.8K posts

she/her Author. Not the one from Rent. https://linktr.ee/maureenjohnson

linktr.ee

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 26d

OUT TODAY! You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder! RIGHT NOW! You can buy it! They'll let you have it!

maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/creepin...

The Creeping Hand Murder - Maureen Johnson

This is not a novel. This is a casefile. Have you ever thought you could solve a murder if you were given all the evidence? Well, this is your chance. YOU are the detective.

maureenjohnsonbooks.com

7 17 100

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

25 500 1.5K

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

UNRWA @unrwa.org · 6h

"We've not had any progress to move supplies into Gaza ... and this is absolutely critical in controlling the spread of famine," our Juliette Touma tells @reuters.com

UNRWA is still waiting for the green light from the Israeli authorities to bring aid into #Gaza.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

51 64

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 21h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

420 6K 20K

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 19h

ICE Whistles packed and ready to go.

If you want to make your own kits, the Pisen Arts & Community House has PDFs you can download and links to whistles (though often sold out, so get creative) linktr.ee/pilsenartsco...

3 49 140

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 23h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

45 800 1.4K

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

what a beautiful dream

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

Grayson (he/him) @graysongoal.bsky.social · 1d

Happy world mental health day

A photo of a skeleton (who is on fire) holding a sword. Text on the image says:
state of the world? bad
mental health? also bad
but still, we charge forward

2 67 270

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

*hisses*

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

THIS. THIS. This is what we've been waiting for. A candidate who is talking abut the specifics of Queer history in NYC and advocating a plan to immediately protect trans persons. THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

1 9 83

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

ahhahghghahAGHAGFHGHSGHJFGSHJFGHSJKL

2 2

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

2 170 390

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 2d

Worth the subscription. @katmabu.bsky.social is bringing the fight that the incumbents don't have in them. We need more like her.

"She's betting that voters, above all else, want a brawler."

Yes.

www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

www.wired.com

7 68 390

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

In Trump US, pills pay you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

5 3 64

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

130 1.3K 7.3K

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

56 2.2K 9.1K

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

GO SEE THIS.

The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · 2d

THE LIBRARIANS opens today in LA (at Laemmle Royal) and is now playing in NY (at Film Forum) and in select theaters nationwide!

Support the freedom to read and get tickets now!

TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

The Librarians Film | Official Site

Librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting on the frontlines of democracy

TheLibrariansFilm.com

10 32

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

Sarah...I am gripping the desk on this one.

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

It's a busy time with lots going wrong, but I can always find the time to tell JKR and Neil Gaiman to go fuck themselves.

6 19 180

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

Very much not your fault. You loved it. You wanted the art. You do not and cannot control what she has become.

Bru @itsjustbru.bsky.social · 3d

there’s nothing i’m more embarrassed of than my HP tattoo i got 15 years ago and i am so so pissed at her for that

1 4 94

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

Not your fault.

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

I have English family and when I try to explain America they always look--understandably--wildly confused. Like I am exaggerating for effect. I would look the same way. Living here is a constant exercise in bending your concept of reality. Or attempting to resist that bend.

Juliette Rihl @julietterihl.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild.

A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy!

(Paywall free link below)

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...

Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon

In a move experts called a serious safety violation, he pointed the unloaded weapon at churchgoers, while asking for a 'violent action of faith.'

www.pennlive.com

3 5 52

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

9 97 240

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Killing Klan members is "too controversial for the moment"

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 3d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

8 23 110

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 6d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

170 1K 5.7K

Reposted by Maureen Johnson

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

53 840 3.6K