Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 2m

Kinda like Biden's age.

Or Biden's mental status.

Or Biden's physical fitness.

Or Biden's Israel-Palestine policy.

Or Biden's Afghanistan policy.

Or Biden's infrastructure spending.

Or Biden's appointing special counsels.

Or....

Orr....

Ooooororororororor.........

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

Remember how under Biden the press said this was the biggest issue ever but how now under Trump it’s barely mentioned? Yeah.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 8m

They want the protection of a free society they actively undermine? Their audacity offends me. Their entitlement baffles me. Their ascendancy disgusts me. All good in the universe sees these wretched deplorables & looks away in horror, wishing nothing more than that they would go away forever.

(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 8m

They bring that foreign Hitler-loving fascism to my beautiful America? How *dare* they pollute our democracy with that toxic intolerant garbage.

Members of my family fought & died & killed to keep America free from fascism. Shame on them! How *dare* they!

1

(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 8m

We have to flip the framing. We need people to understand that it isn't our platform that's radical, it's the baseline all-American apple pie & baseball loving freedom & liberty that Americans love & cherish. It is *Republicans* who undermine &subvert American ideals. How DARE they!

1

(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 8m

This is a matter of posture & confidence. Dem pols confronted with any message they're not 100% certain is poll-tested inoffensive & broad-based tend instinctively to recoil in defense. Republicans, smelling blood, attack. The answer is righteous anger! "How *dare* you?? What's *wrong* with you?"

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

1

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

4 230 850

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 53m

Paul Krugman points out that Trump has ensured the United States will be second to China as a world power paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-... The country will just have to learn to live with it, MAGA!

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

paulkrugman.substack.com

13 22

(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 29m

Abolish DHS.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

1

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 52m

GOP Speaker Johnson refusing to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva despite winning her election 2 weeks ago with 70% of the vote is a practice run for what GOP plans to do after 2026 election. They will not seat Democrats who won to keep control of the House. Dems need to fight hard on this now!

13 53 160

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 1h

“The segregationist goal is the total reversal of all reforms, with reestablishment of naked oppression and, if need be, a native form of fascism.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

2 32 79

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

54 410 1.1K

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org · 55m

I'm on board for Team Shame.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

1 11 46

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 56m

One of the biggest issues in democratic politics is how the consultants everyone hires sees voters as just a cash machine and they pummel them with messages asking for money instead of activating them for politics. It rightfully makes people extremely cynical.

18 44 200

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 51m

“We’d have won Vietnam if we’d just killed more people” has become the National Grand Strategy of the United States.

7 1 22

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1h

Neo-Confederacy group chat worth a read...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In another conversation in February, Giunta talks approvingly about the Orange County Teenage Republican organization in New York — which appears to be part of the network of national Teen Age Republicans — and how he was pleased with its young members’ ideological bent.

“They support slavery and all that shit. Mega based,” he said

1 11 18

(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 45m

Seriously. I know criminals aren't exactly stereotyped as the smartest people but they'd have to be literally insane or suicidal to put bounties on American feds. It does not happen.

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Blue Honey @devans00.bsky.social · 2h

As if cartels became a multimillion (billion?) dollar, multi-generational underground industry by being dumbasses. 🤨

1 1 1

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 53m

Nazis in the comments on IG are celebrating this too.

They know what it is.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

2 18 71

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 11h

Can’t pardon an ICC charge!

1 1

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

Rate Dogs & • Follow
...
2h •
This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
14/10
CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

41 640 2K

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

16 820 3.2K

Reposted by (C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care

Jordan @slclunk.com · 12h

Nope.

She’s a Blue-Collar, Bible-Quoting, Israel-Supporting, Pro-Choice, Millennial Latina. Is She the Future of Democratic Progressivism?
With an eclectic voting record, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez from Washington state has riled the left flank of her party. She thinks that’s a good thing.

5 11 91

(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 12h

The one thing any cartel member knows better than their own name is never to bring the heat of American narcos down on the operation. They'll kill their own people for joking too loudly about this shit. You do not fuck with the money.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 13h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

1 1