Author | Lightnews

Reposted by Wendy

NPR @npr.org · 16h

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

n.pr

16 150 970

Wendy @wendysgarden.bsky.social · 22h

Chicken of the sea strikes again.

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

10th boat blown up in the Caribbean.

6 people dead this time.

Not a single arrest made.

Not an ounce recovered.

Not a shred of evidence provided.

Reposted by Wendy

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

This is, hands down, one of the worst witness accounts in a long line of horrifying accounts of cruel and unusual capital punishment in this god forsaken country

Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 1d

Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.

Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.

www.treadbylee.com

5 44 100

Reposted by Wendy

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life,” Pope Leo said late last month: americasvoice.org/blog/pope-le...

8 27

Reposted by Wendy

Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 1d

They're going to ruin it all. It makes me so sad.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and road construction in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...

Trump Opens Pristine Alaska Wilderness to Drilling in Long-Running Feud

www.nytimes.com

4 2

Reposted by Wendy

Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 1d

Found on Instagram

The Instagram post shows a digitally altered image in which a large, dome-shaped structure is under construction immediately next to the White House, dwarfing the East Wing and surrounding grounds. The partially built sphere clearly resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, with detailed scaffolding visible where the structure is incomplete and a distinctive circular indentation at the top, similar to the superlaser dish on the Death Star. The massive construction dominates the scene.

The accompanying caption declares: “BREAKING: areal photograph reveals Donald Trump’s new $250M ‘ballroom’ is nearing completion.”

This image and caption together depict the fictional scenario of President Trump destroying and rebuilding part of the White House (specifically the East Wing) to construct a gigantic Death Star—an unmistakable reference to the iconic planet-destroying weapon and battle station from Star Wars. The visual and textual elements serve as a pointed comment on presidential power and the willingness to remake historical landmarks with grand, controversial projects by inserting a symbol of authoritarian rule and destruction into the heart of American democracy.

49 150

Reposted by Wendy

Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Boyd’s last words.

Boyd, strapped to a gurney with a transparent gas mask attached to his face, spoke out for the last time.
"I didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in killing anybody," he said. "There is no justice in this state. It's all political. It's revenge motivated. It's not about closure, because closure comes from within, not with an execution. There will be no justice in this state until we change this system. I want all my people to keep fighting. Let's get it."

3 39 63

Reposted by Wendy

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

480 4.9K 17K

Wendy @wendysgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Reposted by Wendy

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

This enrages me. Honestly, you should just roll up the paper, throw it in the trash can, and join the White House Office of Communications if this is what you’re going to do these days.

=
The New Work Eimes
Trump
Administration
Updates
Tariff Tracker
GIVE THE TIMES
Empowering Ele
Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel
Strikes
The president said he would bypass
Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.

41 530 2.7K

Reposted by Wendy

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 1d

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

1.9K 11K 32K

Wendy @wendysgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Louver. Portland is for louvers.

1 4

Wendy @wendysgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Are you kidding, you can't guarantee your boys didn't do the Louver heist, toddlers are sketchy at best

1 4

Reposted by Wendy

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

When Tish James walks into a courthouse tomorrow — the target of a political prosecution demanded by a President obsessed with revenge — she does not walk in alone.

New York has her back.

Grateful to Governor Hochul for bringing us together tonight.

320 4.9K 23K

Wendy @wendysgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Explain to me how he is different from Ted Bundy besides Ted being kind of good liking and slim

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

Reposted by Wendy

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

37 870 3K

Reposted by Wendy

Lauren Miller @laurenmiller.bsky.social · 2d

The "Let Them Eat Cake" presidency, folks.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

1 6

Reposted by Wendy

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

It’s evidently less of a regulatory hassle to destroy a third of the motherfuckin White House complex that dates back to FDR than it is to repoint the bricks on a historic brownstone in prospect park.

Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 2d

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

26 110 680

Reposted by Wendy

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

Trump says he’s making military decisions based on what random “friends of mine” tell him about crime.

180 480 1.4K

Reposted by Wendy

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here.

NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.

NYT
Breaking News
President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the
cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao.
6m ago
Notification
enter i
24
NBC NEWS
Breaking news
27m ago
Trump pardons crypto executive
Changpeng Zhao, who served four months in prison after pleading guilty to enabling money laundering at Binance
12
WSJ
Breaking News
1h ago
Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family's own crypto venture

33 840 3K

Reposted by Wendy

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty soon we’re gonna have to revise up the “40% of all cops” statistic

Staff members at ICE's training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong-arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident, the current DHS official said. They've also found as recently as this month that some recruits going through the six-week training course hadn't submitted fingerprints for background checks, as ICE's hiring process requires, the current and former
DHS officials said.

2 32 72

Reposted by Wendy

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d

Government of the scammer, by the scammer, for the scammer

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. PRESIDENT TRUMP PARDONS BINANCE CRYPTO FOUNDER ZHAO - WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL

10 160 690

Wendy @wendysgarden.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the communications I've sent to my reps, the one demanding that Hakeem Jeffries move out the way for new leadership did not receive the lengthy pre-written response like all the others.

Re: CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP - Thank you for contacting me. I always appreciate hearing from the people of California about the issues that matter to you most. My office has received your letter, and we will review it and respond as quickly as we can. In the meantime, if you would like more information about my work in the Senate, please see my website or connect with me on Facebook or Twitter.

1

Reposted by Wendy

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 2d

It seems like 20 hours would have been plenty of time to get the details.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: You said yesterday you were still trying to get the details of this $230m Trump wants from the DOJ. Now that you've had some time, are you ok with taxpayers potentially being on the hook for that kind of money?

MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not trying to dodge. I haven't had time to get the details

34 46 520

Reposted by Wendy

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

What is Mike Johnson doing all day? He claims not to know the "details" of anything happening in Washington. What a useless liar he is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: You said yesterday you were still trying to get the details of this $230m Trump wants from the DOJ. Now that you've had some time, are you ok with taxpayers potentially being on the hook for that kind of money?

MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not trying to dodge. I haven't had time to get the details

90 220 950