Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Friends: stop by if you can! No gufts but i’d love if folks want to donate to HIPS DC! They are a great group serving very marginalized folks! www.punchbowl.com/parties/bed4...

Bill McColl's 60th Birthday

October 9, 2025 @ 6-9pm ET : I am going to host a little 60th birthday get together from 6 - 9 p.m. on Thursday, October 9th (my actual birthday is October 10th) at Queen Vic located at 1206 H St...

www.punchbowl.com

Reposted by Bill McColl

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 6d

Kavanaugh Stops are the new Dompas laws.

3 12 19

Reposted by Bill McColl

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10d

"She had tears streaming down her face, and she told me one of the ICE agents pulled out his cell phone, laughing, and took a selfie"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10d

This passage nearly broke me.

2 37 110

Reposted by Bill McColl

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21d

Jon Stewart made a rare Thursday night Daily Show appearance to defend free speech. They nailed it!

2 8 28

Reposted by Bill McColl

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 22d

Colbert spent the entire monolog on Kimmel and the FCC.

We Are All Jimmy Kimmel | The Easy Way Or The Hard Way | Trump Urges NBC To Cancel Fallon And Mey…

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

8 120 340

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · 27d

Dear Friends and Family:

I’m turning 60 this year! Celebrating at 6 - 9 p.m. on October 9th at the Queen Vic at 1206 H Street NE, Washington DC 20002. Please stop by.

No gifts but consider donating to HIPS. please use this link : hips.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/bi....
Great org. Cheers, Bill

Bill McColl's 60th Birthday Fundraiser for HIPS

hips.app.neoncrm.com

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Sep 5

Texas State Representative Venton Jones, HIV Positive hero, fighting to save HIV Funding. #cutskill

1 8

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Sep 5

PEPFAR and USAID cuts are already killing African children. Quilt sent from 30 organization coalition in Africa. Thank you John Meade for speaking!

1 32 110

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Sep 5

HIV Community standing up against cuts with a new HIV Quilt showing what will happen if we cut federal funding. #cutskill

1 85 350

Reposted by Bill McColl

John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · Jun 22

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE - A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

Releasing this summer at: simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

13 120 540

Reposted by Bill McColl

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · May 20

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Regulations.gov

www.regulations.gov

150 3.1K 3.8K

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Apr 18

Thank you, Senator. Please continue working to bring him home to Maryland.

Reposted by Bill McColl

ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 24

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.

As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

propub.li

410 6.1K 10K

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Mar 25

This Trump terminated study helps prevent HIV among young people - not a priority for the Trump administration. Of course they took the opportunity to defame the study and life’s work of researchers, the value of LGBTQ+ kids and to sneer at the concept of anyone actually learning anything too.

Terminated and Defamed: Adolescent HIV Trials Network Attacked by US Government

"Please stand with us as we appeal this short-sighted and hopefully misdirected attack on our beloved network."

open.substack.com

2 6

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Mar 16

I am ashamed for my country and sad that we are too selfish to have prevented this entirely foreseeable result.

5

Reposted by Bill McColl

Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Mar 15

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 15

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

www.nytimes.com

230 5.4K 9.6K

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Mar 16

Important article from NYT calculating potential deaths from cuts to USAID and detailing some deaths that have already occurred. Shame! America is disgraced.

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

www.nytimes.com

1 1

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thanks Alice! Appreciate you very much!

Reposted by Bill McColl

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Mar 13

Quite so! Unfortunately, Russia controls the White House.

Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · Mar 12

Russia today controls less of Ukraine than they did three years ago. Russia today controls less of Russia than they did three years ago.

Russia is not winning this war.

6 16

Reposted by Bill McColl

Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · Mar 13

"Mooney’s business partner, Chicago-based BJ McCaslin, told Postmedia News on Wednesday that he did not know why she was detained or what the status was of her working visa."
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...

B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility

Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.

vancouversun.com

1

Reposted by Bill McColl

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Mar 11

Here's a lovely obituary for Grant Smith. He was a beautiful soul who engineered many of the drug reform & harm reduction laws we take for granted today. If you knew Grant and are in the DC area and would like to join us for a drink Friday night to honor him, please contact @caphilldcne.bsky.social.

Grant Smith Obituary (1980 - 2025) - Legacy Remembers

View Grant Smith's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

www.legacy.com

2 1 4

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Mar 11

Thanks, Sanho! Grant was a really kind soul, very insightful. And yes. If anyone wants to join us for a whisky Friday remembrance please be in touch.

1

Reposted by Bill McColl

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Feb 20

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long.

They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

1.5K 7K 55K

Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social · Feb 19

I'm pretty sure he's reacting directly to the No Kings message of President's Day.

Reposted by Bill McColl

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 18

a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."

7.9K 27K 150K