Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 25m

Well I would say it’s not about “just tech” it’s about how the funneling of all forms of capital (and state functions for that matter) through tech platforms, and the opportunity for asset capture by private equity, have restructured capitalism in a way that resembles feudalism, that’s my pitch :D

1 1

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1h

Is this for global coal use? The habitat destruction this would imply doesn’t exactly endear me to solar :/

1

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1h

The book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by the former Greek finance minister yanis varoufakis relates all of this to the rise of the tech sector and the consolidation of capital within private equity— one of my fav reads of the year!

1 2

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 6h

vote.nyc

Home | NYC Board of Elections

vote.nyc

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 6h

Registration deadline Oct 25th!
Early voting Oct 25-Nov 2,
Election Day is Nov 4th!!!

1

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 7h

Def needed this on my way to my first canvassing shift :’)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

2

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 8h

That’s not what he’s saying at all. He’s saying Gavin has proven his support in other contexts (much like Obama, not supporting gay marriage in 08 but was trusted by swaths of the gay community anyway) and is strategically moderating for a national run. I *disagree* but conflict is not abuse.

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t think elevating one of the highest profile anti-trans democrats is a good way to unite the base around it tho :/ I see your point, and I’d vote for Newsom in a general. But why would I vote for him over someone like Pritzker in a primary?

5

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 23h

Yea we’re not a monolith, neither of us are trans women. And he’s fucking THEM over. And we need to stand in solidarity with them because our rights are dependent on us standing together as a coalition. We cannot and should not abandon any of us.

2 5

Reposted by Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Good news for transgender people at MIT.

Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms.

The latest from reporter S. Baum.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban

“A government that can reward colleges and universities for speech it favors today can punish them for speech it dislikes tomorrow.”

www.erininthemorning.com

17 350 1.7K

Reposted by Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe actually sign those bills on your desk specifically focusing on trans protections too while you're there.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

The Trump Administration’s removal of LGBTQ suicide prevention programs this summer was a disgrace.

I just signed legislation requiring student ID cards in public middle schools, high schools, and colleges to include the Trevor Project’s crisis and suicide prevention hotline.

10 98 480

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Bruh 😭 he has no commitment, if the polls say throw trans people under the bus he’ll throw them under a train. He’s not for us, he’s only for himself.

1 7

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh thank god we can call someone to complain after the governor took away more of our rights, how fucking generous!

5

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Why won’t you demonstrate the same proactive stance when it comes to the rights of trans kids? The group most at risk of suicide. Do you expect to get votes when your platform shifts with the breeze of opinion polling? Fuck you 🖕🏼🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

5

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Not to bash those disciplines but to insist that science can be woke too!

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

LFG MIT! Between this and the amazing work of their Palestine solidarity community MIT continues to show that the hard sciences often have just as much if not more moral backbone than the humanities/social sciences

MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban

“A government that can reward colleges and universities for speech it favors today can punish them for speech it dislikes tomorrow.”

www.erininthemorning.com

1 2

Reposted by Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

110 1.3K 3.1K

Reposted by Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

1.4K 8.4K 15K

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

They couldn’t contain their bloodlust lmaooo this has got to be parody man

2

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

His wife and 3 children. RIP Ibraheem.

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 2d

Israel killed today another of journalist Motasem Dalloul's children.

Motasem made the announcement 3 hours after the ceasefire should have taken effect.

Israel has now killed his wife & 3 children.

He himself has been wounded twice, once during the Great Return March & once during the genocide.

7 6

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Deeply disappointed to see @whitehouse.senate.gov voting for this. Shame!

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

www.erininthemorning.com

Reposted by Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Dec 14

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

43 560 1.4K

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

I believe in pragmatic voting but it is NOT the time to trivialize or dismiss the way democrats have turned against trans people. Maybe instead of bashing trans folks your time would be better spent lobbying democrats to stand by their base.

2 1 4

Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @thommurphy.bsky.social · 1d

CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS CALL YOUR REPS

Find Your Representative

Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.

www.commoncause.org

2 10