Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

JJ ⁷ @riotgrrlscout.bsky.social · 9h

Amidst the hubbub today

The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a deal on rare earth minerals Monday with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and said Washington’s key ally would get its coveted nuclear-powered attack submarines.

U.S., Australia Sign Rare Earths Deal as Trump Promises Submarines

By Danny Kemp with David Williams in Sydney U.S. President Donald Trump signed a deal on rare earth minerals Monday with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and said Washington's key ally woul...

chinaglobalsouth.com

1

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 17h

For anyone wanting to report on how the federal shutdown is impacting federal criminal cases - Ryan Villa is the CJA representative for the Northern District of New Mexico who cautioned this would happen back in June in a story done by @sourcenm.com 👇

6 9

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

...at some point around the middle they came for John Bolton, and I did not speak out, because it kinda seemed like that dude belongs in prison.

110 350 4.2K

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social · 1d

A statement. Please read.

It has come to my attention that some very troubling allegations have been made against me. It is my intention for this statement to bring some clarity to the situation.

My whereabouts from 9:30AM to 9:37AM CET on October 19th, 2025 are perfectly accounted for. I was with my friend Lune at the Musée de la Révolution française in Vizille, Southern France. It is a 3-hour train ride away from Paris, which is in Northern France. It is not physically possible for me to have crossed the country and back within the span of minutes. I would provide time-stamped photographic evidence of this, but I was so overcome with emotion that I neglected to take any. Sometimes what matters most in life is living in the moment.

Some have pointed out that my bookcase in my previous Reel looks different from my usual bookcase. There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this that I am declining to reveal for privacy reasons. I am not in hiding. I am not in possession of priceless jewels I am now struggling to think of how to sell without alerting French authorities. My actions online are not an attempt to distract from any crimes.

My personal animosity for Mr. Napoleon Bonaparte aside, I would never think to partake in any act of blatant, brilliantly planned and expertly executed theft of his family jewels. I would not know what to do with them. I would be hoping someone in the comments would tell me what to do with them. But I am not asking that because I do not have them.

- XJZ 💔

27 150 960

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

The Air Force under Eisenhower dropped two nuclear bombs (fortunately without their plutonium cores) from airplanes: one on Albuquerque in '57 and another on South Carolina in '58

Both detonated

but at least those were accidents

abc7.com/post/shrapne...

Shrapnel hit CHP vehicle during Marine Corps demonstration at Camp Pendleton, department says

According to CHP, the explosive ordinance that was fired over the freeway detonated overhead prematurely, striking and damaging a patrol vehicle.

abc7.com

1 3

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Punch a higher floor

🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 1d

“If the elevator tries to break you down, go crazy!” 🐈‍⬛

4 9 85

Reposted by JJ ⁷

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2d

oh yeah, and they are in fact trying to prevent that. if you mess around with having LLMs write emoji for you, it will trip the safety filters really fast because it's a known issue that they can be used to smuggle agendas

3 3 34

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

150 5.6K 20K

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 2d

If I have to look at this nightmare fuel protest sign, so do you.

3 9 44

Reposted by JJ ⁷

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 2d

peak genx was the pavement cover of the schoolhouse rock song — (i’m sorry, it was all downhill from there, guys)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYM...

1 4

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Funkit Toys @funkittoys.bsky.social · 3d

if hanging around naked with your friends is casual nudity, i propose that posing nude for an art class is formal nudity

4 18 87

Reposted by JJ ⁷

NPR @npr.org · 4d

An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum. n.pr/3WGaS8X

A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal

An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum.

n.pr

43 300 630

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 4d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 4d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

120 5.3K 15K

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Cadenza @cdnza.bsky.social · 4d

playing poker at the no kings protest with a 48-card deck

2 9

Reposted by JJ ⁷

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5d

specialization of markets! the other one is violent doves that get released during epic john woo movie action scenes

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 5d

What a business

1 1 26

Reposted by JJ ⁷

KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · 6d

Sunport will not play video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque International Sunport is among several airports refusing to play a video from U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem addressing the go…

www.krqe.com

4 13

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 6d

Will Menaker used this as the basis for the best explanation I've seen of Elite Columnist Trans Bathroom Panic in the UK - these people all went to boarding schools where kids doing horrendous things to one another in bathrooms (while everyone kept quiet about it) was part of the curriculum.

La Conquête du Panini @botsnack.bsky.social · 6d

Would read/listen to hours long analysis of this dynamic with historical context.

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 6d

Mutual blackmail material has always been the backbone of elite solidarity. Aristocrats don't send their kids to boarding schools because the teachers are better; they send them to learn the group dynamic of being above the law. Whether you participate or only witness it, keep your mouth shut.

2 37 280

JJ ⁷ @riotgrrlscout.bsky.social · 7d

*gasps* the c a t h e d r a l was here

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d

Discovered near the ICE facility in Portland this morning.

2

Reposted by JJ ⁷

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 7d

since we're letting podcasters run the FBI now, I'd like to make it known to any future presidents that if you appoint me i will pronounce the "human" in "human trafficking" like Quark from DS9.

there will be no other substantial changes

thank you for your attention to this matter

69 230 2.8K

Reposted by JJ ⁷

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7d

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is