Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know how you did this, Merriam-Webster, but I tip my hat.

Reposted by McDyer

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

690 5.4K 14K

Reposted by McDyer

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

3.5K 16K 44K

McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 6d

My daughter, a massage therapist who does not follow sports closely, stopped in for dinner last week, and her first question was, "why is everyone mad at Mike Bobo?"
What a weird day at the table it must have been.

3

Reposted by McDyer

CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 6d

Ahem

10 310 740

McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 7d

Insistence on performative gratitude is such clumsy dominance flex. Imagine how often Vance tugs his forelock for Peter Thiel.

4

Reposted by McDyer

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7d

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia has sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — after Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein the 'greatest blackmailer ever' — urging him to testify before the panel about his knowledge of Epstein and his crimes.

130 1.6K 5.8K

Reposted by McDyer

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 8d

October 2, 2025

At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

49 500 1.3K

Reposted by McDyer

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

660 8.3K 25K

McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 9d

He's not taking these stairs slowly.

Reposted by McDyer

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

250 2.7K 8.1K

Reposted by McDyer

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d

If you're blaming the Democrats for the shutdown of a government that is run entirely by Republicans, why stop there?

Go wild, man. Blame the shutdown on leprechauns, or the Seattle Mariners, or maybe the cast of "She's the Sheriff."

You've decided facts don't matter, so have some fun with it!

190 1K 4.7K

McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 10d

Hmm. No.

Reposted by McDyer

Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11d

I think it’s very interesting how emphatically these conversations are about inevitability—it’s time, it’s happening, like it or not, and in particular, a sense of: “You have to.”

When it comes to treating an AI product as a person, I assure you that I do not have to. And you do not have to.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis

Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?

www.theguardian.com

11 59 280

Reposted by McDyer

RealAnneMarie1❌🧊 @realannemarie1.bsky.social · 11d

The Hegseth speech shall be known as the No Fattiesberg Address.

Historians of Bluesky make it happen.

11 23

McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 11d

I honestly thought it was going to be something of terrifying consequence. I did not expect this Jack Reacher onlyfans daydream.

1 1

Reposted by McDyer

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

The reason we're rounding up grandmothers and shoving them onto concrete floors for months at a time with no habeas corpus is in part because soft human trafficking is an incredibly lucrative business for some people in this administration.

How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.

www.msnbc.com

56 940 3.2K

Reposted by McDyer

CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 12d

So true

4 20 63

McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 12d

I'm waiting for "I got yer shadow docket right HERE!"

Reposted by McDyer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

490 5.8K 20K

Reposted by McDyer

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 15d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

1.1K 7.5K 21K

Reposted by McDyer

Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 16d

New York Times style guide recommended substitutions for “the President violated the Constitution”.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution”

“The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

4 3

Reposted by McDyer

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16d

Without further ado, here is the trailer for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.

Against all odds, it will air in select theatres on October 2nd, along with the theatrical debut of Sex House.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

And, yes, this is real.

The Onion @theonion.com · 16d

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is in select theaters October 2.

73 720 3.6K

McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 16d

This is canon in my family.
But nothing will ever beat "Heroic Turtle Dials Most of 9-1-1"

1

Reposted by McDyer

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · Sep 5

Unless it is a follow up to this, I’m not buying it.

2 3 53