Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22h

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

14 360 650

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 7h

Putin consoles his useful idiot for not winning an award.

560 920 3.8K

Reposted by Arthur Snell

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 5h

The EU will urge its G7 allies to use Russian frozen assets to issue their own reparation loans to Ukraine when the group’s finance ministers gather in Washington next week, according to the bloc's economy chief Valdis Dombrovskis.

EU pressures G7 countries to loan frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

Brussels wants other countries to follow the EU’s lead in issuing reparation loans to help war-torn country.

www.politico.eu

6 24 97

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5h

““Burn, burn,” he said, according to the intercepts. “I want the whole kibbutz to be in flames.”

“Set fire to anything,” a commander in the northern Gaza city of Jabaliya referred to as Abu al-Abed said around the same time.”

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5h

A directive, which Israeli officials believe was written by Yahya Sinwar, the powerful leader of Hamas in Gaza, and recordings called for fighters to target soldiers and civilian communities — and to broadcast the violent acts.

Ronen Bergman and Adam Rasgon

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

A Memo in a Bunker, Intercepted Communications and Hamas’s Oct. 7 Plans

www.nytimes.com

2 3 4

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 6h

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

340 2K 4.9K

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Louise Crossley @candidepeel.bsky.social · 6h

Again, an MP with some balls needs to use their Parliamentary Privilege to skewer Farage, when he's next in the Commons chamber, over his disavowals of Gill's activities and his connections with both him, and his Russian paymasters.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 9h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

1 11 34

Reposted by Arthur Snell

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Reminder: Trump vaccinates himself 👇🏽

100 500 1.5K

Reposted by Arthur Snell

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

260 2.2K 16K

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 8h

Idiocracy

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 11h

So important. They fired people working on Ebola in Africa tonight. The people who track and investigate and report on disease outbreaks. The CDC prior to the first Trump administration was the global gold standard... but the ideologues can't stand it.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

2 11 60

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 11h

So important. They fired people working on Ebola in Africa tonight. The people who track and investigate and report on disease outbreaks. The CDC prior to the first Trump administration was the global gold standard... but the ideologues can't stand it.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

2 25 38

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 9h

Fun fact: the Tories have won the same number of elections and been in charge for the same number of years since WW2 as the Italian Christian Democracy party, and they disbanded in 1994.

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 9h

A small thing, really, but is it typical British exceptionalism to describe the Tories as (until now) the most successful political party in the world? They’re not as successful as Japan’s LDP or Sweden’s SAP. Am I missing something?

economist.com/britain/2019...

Britain’s Tories are the world’s most successful party. Here’s why

How the Conservatives dominated the 19th, 20th and—so far—21st centuries

economist.com

1 2 12

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 8h

And DC arguably operating in a much more competitive environment.

1

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah but I guess if you’re talking pre universal suffrage is it really relevant?

2 1 6

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 9h

“Fog in channel, Europe cut off.”

2

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 9h

A small thing, really, but is it typical British exceptionalism to describe the Tories as (until now) the most successful political party in the world? They’re not as successful as Japan’s LDP or Sweden’s SAP. Am I missing something?

economist.com/britain/2019...

Britain’s Tories are the world’s most successful party. Here’s why

How the Conservatives dominated the 19th, 20th and—so far—21st centuries

economist.com

14 6 76

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10h

“A pointed insult”.
The pre-Copernican weltangschauung of @telegraphnews.bsky.social

Luckily, most Telegraph readers will have no idea what either of those words means.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 10h

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, it's still early June 2016.

3 5 24

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

Has Paul Wolfowitz joined the Trump regime?

1 3 17

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

😂😬

1

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 1d

Labour suggestions that 13 year old children should have to have a digital ID card is simply wrong.

Home Affairs Spokesperson @MaxWilkinson.bsky.social sets out why Lib Dems will continue to oppose mandatory digital ID.

3 21 50

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, the US Ambassador in Oslo sought assurance that I would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sadly, the US has received no such assurance from the Nobel committee.
It is my solemn duty to inform you that we are now at war with Norway.

5 18 95

Reposted by Arthur Snell

Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Friday, Antifa warriors! 🥂🩵

Funny meme with a picture of an "Antifa" headquarters that reads:

Just got to my desk at Antifa. I can't believe Karen in HR scheduled the mandatory Molotov cocktail safety training today.
Nobody feels like that shit on a Friday.

33 150 520

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

I guess it's not surprising that in the land of the troll they're very good at trolling...

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

1 34 160

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

...marzipan hat goes back into cupboard..

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

If he wins the Nobel Prize I’ll eat my hat*

Not because I’m dismissing the Gaza deal but because of the Nobel Committee timing.

*marzipan hat, obvs

9 3 45

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

I think you’re missing Israel’s sense that it only had one ally left and it risked losing that too

1 3

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

All the people who argued that Palestine recognition had no impact whatsoever, might want to consider whether Israel’s diplomatic isolation was a factor, alongside the pressure from Trump. None of these things exists in a vacuum.

5 15 140