Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 6m

With all due respect governor, back off. Graham Platner's making plenty of headway, is attracting independents, and presents an excellent challenge to Collins. You're not helping anything at all with this.

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 1h

lil' dude is like a pez dispenser that lets out rotted baloney candy

pffft.

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 1h

Counterpoint: I say she's...probably not.

6

Reposted by Cody K.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 3h

It kind of feels like the Washington Post will keep shedding journalists until the only thing left is an AI bot trained on the writings of Ayn Rand.

2 11 49

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 3h

Trump loves his "right out of central casting" types, and Cheung is exactly that if anyone ever could be. A real cinematic fireball.

3

Reposted by Cody K.

Alex Moody @moodyblx.bsky.social · 3h

María Corina Machado has quite a lot of experience hiding from crazed murderous autocrats. This will serve her well today.

1 1

Reposted by Cody K.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Dusty, taxidermic armadillo in American flag bandana makes case to replace Lee Greenwood.

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 4h

🤣🤣🤣😢🤣 www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

Lee Greenwood makes his case to replace Bad Bunny

The Outrage Machine has been on overdrive lately, as it relates to the NFL's decision to tap Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl LX halftime show.

www.nbcsports.com

10 18 150

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 3h

If they're really struggling with this problem, I'd be happy to hide some of their wealth in my cellar for them, where nobody'd ever think to look for it. Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to take it all, because my cellar's only so big. Perhaps others would be willing to join me in helping them out.

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 4h

This. This, this, this.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

1

Reposted by Cody K.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 5h

Felicitaciones, María Corina Machado, por recibir el Premio Nobel de la Paz.

This award honours not only your courage and conviction.

But every voice that refuses to be silenced. In Venezuela and across the world.

25 180 870

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 13h

A little something for Prime Day, I guess

4

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, now that the warfighters are warfighting on home turf (and *against* home turf, no less) they're gonna need every last billion they can get. A lot of palms bout to get some heavy greasing.

2 2

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 13h

I've always thought so. Nobody has cheekbones like that in real life. Nobody.

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 13h

Jeepers, they must have used some kind of a filter or something because everybody looks so much younger than they usually do. Artificial intelligence is SO much better than real intelligence, isn't it? It'll save us all! Can't wait!

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 14h

Who? The guy in the blue? Where'd he ever get the idea that something like this could ever be all right?

Would-be Romeo Ingrassia looking pretty chummy with that Andrew Tate guy.

1 4 10

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 14h

are you TRYING to make TROUBLE

Reposted by Cody K.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 16h

the epstein files aren’t dropping & this isn’t a distraction from them.

this is a fascist setting up the field to eliminate every point of friction that might impede an attempt to seize absolute power.

quippy posts about epstein are delaying your realization of, & motivation to fight, that fact.

9 110 440

Cody K. @codykinski.bsky.social · 15h

No, because they might get in trouble with the boss. You might not know it to look at them, but they're both pretty risk-adverse.

Reposted by Cody K.

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 16h

For a while it felt like “gamification” was this vacuous buzzword that companies would talk about because investors wanted to hear it. That lasted for about eight years. Then one day gamification had won and our whole mass culture was downstream of the gamification feature kit.

2 1 32

Reposted by Cody K.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 19h

Challengers to Connecticut's assault weapons ban are now asking SCOTUS to take up their case and declare all assault weapons bans unconstitutional.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

5 22 39

Reposted by Cody K.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 18h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

1.7K 10K 36K

Reposted by Cody K.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

3 37 76

Reposted by Cody K.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 2d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

10 190 550

Reposted by Cody K.

Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 1d

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

32 290 610

Reposted by Cody K.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

42 490 2.1K