Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 4d

Please sign the petition calling for Tom Alter's reinstatement. Explanation at the link where you can sign.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter On September 10th, 2025, Dr. Tom Alter, a respected and tenured professor of history at Texas State University, was fired for remarks he made at a social...

docs.google.com

14 15

Reposted by Nate Holdren

journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · Sep 5

Also reposting our piece by @nhold.bsky.social on related matters here.

spectrejournal.com/hands-off/

Hands Off! – Spectre Journal

Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.

spectrejournal.com

4 8

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

19 110 210

Reposted by Nate Holdren

The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 3h

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

10 130 380

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 12d

You know what no one has ever done before?

Tried to 'reclaim' patriotism for the left.

1 5 25

Reposted by Nate Holdren

John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 10d

Labour: Reform migrant policy is "racist" and "immoral."

Also Labour: No more "golden ticket" for these "asylum shoppers."

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 10d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

5 6

Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 3h

Respected faculty become administrators.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 5h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

1 8

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

I will wreak that hate upon him.

2 25 140

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

260 1.1K 1.7K

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 4d

Today's Marxist Sociology Blog post is a banger from @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Linda Beck based on their Critical Sociology article. It examines how workers think about class & class politics. Against ideas that they are irrelevant or "lost to the right" 1/
marxistsociology.org/2025/10/work...

Workers’ Political Consciousness in Demobilized Class Societies: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation | Section on Marxist Sociology

A sole focus on right-wing ideology captures only a narrow part of working-class consciousness. Most workers—including many right-wing voters—are politically demobilized and distant from all politics,...

marxistsociology.org

1 19 31

Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

I heard a panel show joke I liked recently, something like 'Here's Tony Blair, photographed without his colleagues Famine, Pestilence, and Death.'

4 36

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

2 25 67

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

160 3.3K 6.4K

Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I'm more like 'if you don't like the weather in Iowa, well, no one else does either. That sucks, but hey, life is suffering.'

Fit gAHHHymer @gaymer.fit · 7d

"If you don't like the weather in [INSERT STATE HERE], wait 5 minutes, it'll change" - People from every state

5

Reposted by Nate Holdren

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

12 640 2.9K

Reposted by Nate Holdren

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

1.2K 6.3K 9.8K

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d

You have to really *try* to convince a 20-year-old that it’s not worth asking what justice or freedom or social good is. They don’t come by that incuriosity naturally.

3 20 140

Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 2d

Too many restricted funds involved, sorry, nothing personal!

1

Reposted by Nate Holdren

dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 3d

if we know each other i probably owe you an email and i'm sorry

1 1 7

Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 3d

whoa, gonna remove you from my 'working with the state of Iran' twitter lists ASAP, my bad, terribly sorry!

1 1

Reposted by Nate Holdren

october krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 3d

a little bit of sunshine for your day

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

6 26

Reposted by Nate Holdren

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 3d

Today, Matthew Dimick explains why one of the most famous arguments against addressing inequality through predistribution fails on its own terms.

After Neoliberalism: Predistribution and the Law and Economics of Income Inequality

Law and Economics scholars argue that if income redistribution is to happen at all, it should occur exclusively through the tax system, rather than through supposedly less efficient methods…

lpeproject.org

1 9 15

Reposted by Nate Holdren

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

190 4.9K 11K

Reposted by Nate Holdren

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

I might end up talking about this graph all day.

I think one thing Dems need to realize is that "Americans" are not buying into the "cities on fire" lies of this admin.

It's JUST Republicans. So if you're a governor of a solidly blue state, or a blue-city mayor, the national story is NOT YOURS.

Gallup poll showing a wild divergence in "is crime rising" over the past two years, w GOP at 90, independents at 68, Dems at 29.

16 220 660