Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Alex Burch

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

www.help99.co

21 440 1.1K

Reposted by Alex Burch

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

120 1.1K 2.3K

Reposted by Alex Burch

Zachary J. Smith @vocabulist.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone thinks this is paranoid, Trump’s junta has defined terrorism to include trespass, naming ICE agents on the internet, and whatever “civil disorder” is.

politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder

15 180 420

Reposted by Alex Burch

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 20h

Lindsey Halligan at Comey's arraignment:

"The only two words that she spoke today were her name — and she got that wrong."

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com , with a sharper eye on court transcripts than anyone in the business. Worth revisiting with today's news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJMz...

Lawrence: The only humiliation in court during Comey’s arraignment was on the Trump side

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how during James Comey’s arraignment, the judge knew he was “watching a legal Trump clown show” while the “humiliated inexperienced lawyer” Lindsey Halligan sat by…

www.youtube.com

26 140 520

Reposted by Alex Burch

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18h

To his great credit

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

8 35 270

Reposted by Alex Burch

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 20h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

350 4.5K 13K

Reposted by Alex Burch

Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 1d

This is a federal agent pointing a weapon at a person recording them.

ICE has become Trump’s personal military that he is using to terrorize communities and cities that don’t support him. And some say we shouldn’t call him a fascist? Open your eyes.

47 250 970

Reposted by Alex Burch

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: Trump is the insurrection

"It’s a wild assault on state sovereignty, bringing us ever closer to the brink of civil war. This is despotism, & whatever chaos & violence is about to be unleashed lies squarely on the robed shoulders of Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, & Barrett."

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

www.publicnotice.co

35 380 1.3K

Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 1d

“Criminal proceedings must be opened against those officials, who are from the U.S., even if it includes the highest-ranking official who gave the order: President Trump,”
-Colombian president Gustavo Petro
apnews.com/article/vene...

Colombia's president calls for criminal investigation against Trump over Caribbean strikes

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and officials involved in recent deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

apnews.com

Reposted by Alex Burch

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem, who famously revealed her own ignorance at a Senate hearing when she defined habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

71 420 1.7K

Reposted by Alex Burch

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

If you think I'm not alarmed, read this.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

www.theatlantic.com

110 360 1.1K

Reposted by Alex Burch

Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 3d

In #Chicago , violent ICE brownshirts shot peaceful protesters & sprayed chemical agents at close range.

A Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a rubber bullet while he peacefully prayed.

This is #authoritarianism and no one is safe in America.

www.fox32chicago.com/news/broadvi...

Journalists, clergy sue federal government over 'extreme' force used at Broadview ICE protests

A federal lawsuit alleges that Trump administration federal agents used violent tactics to suppress free speech at the Broadview ICE facility, prompting calls for immediate court intervention.

www.fox32chicago.com

1 3

Reposted by Alex Burch

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2d

Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol

Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law

It hasn’t been hung

120 1.8K 5.9K

Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 2d

Excerpt:
‘The 1,400 Israelis slain in the Oct. 7 attack have been widely compared to the 3,000 people who perished on 9/11. Proportionately, the Hamas attack is worse: per capita, it would be as if 40,000 people lost their lives when the World Trade Center towers fell.’
#October7Massacre

Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 3d

From October 2023: "Hamas’ deliberate attack on Israeli civilians was designed to maximize death and destruction, intending not just to terrorize the population but ethnically cleanse the land of Jews." #October7Massacre @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social irregularwarfare.org/articles/fro...

From Einsatzgruppen to Hamas: A Historical Continuum of Mobile Mass Murder

Hamas's terrorist attack on Israel on October 7 mimicked Einsatzgruppen tactics from Nazi Germany's genocidal war on Jews.

irregularwarfare.org

1 1 2

Reposted by Alex Burch

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Latinos in Chicago are our neighbors. They make our community better. They're not a problem at all.
Texas National Guard troops are not our neighbors. They make our community worse. They're our main problem right now.

10 220 810

Reposted by Alex Burch

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

I’m in Chicago where Trump continues his push for the largest mass deportation campaign in American history and to send federal troops to U.S. cities — and local leaders and civilians continue to push back.

23 110 310

Reposted by Alex Burch

Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been writing about Farage as a Putin fanboy and Brexit as a Russian active measure for 10 years.

Aggressor Russia had several hybrid war victories in 2016:
–anti-Ukraine referendum in the Netherlands
–anti-EU referendum in the UK
–Useful Idiot Trump made US president

5 24

Reposted by Alex Burch

Robert Rowley @robertrowley.bsky.social · 3d

6:29 AM Today, exactly two years ago, Hamas' attack on Israeli citizens began.
#Oct7Massacre

1 6 24

Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 3d

Build community. Look out for each other. #OnTyranny lesson:

Make eye contact and small talk.
This is not just polite. It is part of being a citizen and a responsible member of society. It is also a way to stay in touch with your surroundings, break down social barriers, and understand whom you should and should not trust. If we enter a culture of denunciation, you will want to know the psychological landscape of your daily life.
#ONTYRANNY

2

Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 3d

I’m surprised he didn’t choose the number 88, or 1488.

Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 3d

#OfficerBrianSicknick ,Capitol Police, attacked by the mob,died Jan. 7
#OfficerJeffreySmith ,Met.Police Dept.,lost his life to suicide
#OfficerHowardLiebengood, Capitol Police, lost his life to suicide
#OfficerGuntherHashida ,lost his life to suicide
#OfficerKyleDeFreytag, lost his life to suicide

Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 3d

#OfficerBrianSicknick ,Capitol Police, attacked by the mob,died Jan. 7
#OfficerJeffreySmith ,Met.Police Dept.,lost his life to suicide
#OfficerHowardLiebengood, Capitol Police, lost his life to suicide
#OfficerGuntherHashida ,lost his life to suicide
#OfficerKyleDeFreytag, lost his life to suicide

1

Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 3d

In #Chicago , violent ICE brownshirts shot peaceful protesters & sprayed chemical agents at close range.

A Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a rubber bullet while he peacefully prayed.

This is #authoritarianism and no one is safe in America.

www.fox32chicago.com/news/broadvi...

Journalists, clergy sue federal government over 'extreme' force used at Broadview ICE protests

A federal lawsuit alleges that Trump administration federal agents used violent tactics to suppress free speech at the Broadview ICE facility, prompting calls for immediate court intervention.

www.fox32chicago.com

1 3

Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 4d

“Be ready to say no.”- @timothysnyder.bsky.social #OnTyranny

Reposted by Alex Burch

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

It is no coincidence that Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Noem and other members of the admin continue to make inflammatory partisan political speeches to military and law enforcement. They are conditioning them now to embrace the planned war to come - their war against other Americans.

200 1.5K 4.6K