Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by CorJam

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

17 560 2.3K

Reposted by CorJam

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 11h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

330 2.3K 4.7K

CorJam @corjam.bsky.social · 6h

Thread 🧵

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8h

I wrote a book about January 6, 2021.

Want to know when the Trump administration began its systematized lying about antifa and the FBI being behind MAGAs' attack on the Capitol?

January 6, 2021.

Rudy Giuliani had a suite at the Willard Hotel that was the command center for broadcasting that lie.

Reposted by CorJam

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

270 690 2.4K

Reposted by CorJam

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

I still don’t get how the major reporting doesn’t frame this as obvious. It’s as if the administration just randomly shut off all traffic lights, in the absence of a plausible reason I think we could assume the goal is pain and chaos.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

They are trying to kill us

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 11h

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

12 76 330

Reposted by CorJam

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 13h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

370 3.3K 9.7K

Reposted by CorJam

ProBon @probon.bsky.social · 15h

Meanwhile the world has stopped buying American orange juice.
It now trades at 43% of the price it went for when Trump took office.

7 33 86

Reposted by CorJam

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Belgium will begin transferring F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine after Oct 13 when it receives its first F-35s from the US.

5 41 240

Reposted by CorJam

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

A member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee praises Putin.

The Trump Cult has driven Republicans mad.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
@RepLuna
X.com
The @NobelPrize commission has LOST all credibility.
@realDonaldTrump has ended 8 wars in 9 months and he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thank you @KremlinRussia_E for backing
@POTUS!

53 100 320

Reposted by CorJam

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 13h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

230 2.3K 4.7K

Reposted by CorJam

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

trib.al

570 3.6K 13K

Reposted by CorJam

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

210 4.1K 14K

Reposted by CorJam

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 9h

Yikes.

Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 15h

11 51 150

Reposted by CorJam

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 14h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

26 410 830

Reposted by CorJam

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

66 900 2.7K

Reposted by CorJam

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14h

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

“That sounds terrible.”

“What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

99 830 2.1K

Reposted by CorJam

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

79 520 1.4K

Reposted by CorJam

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

Gaza journalist Maha Hussaini: “We have returned, like we’ll always do.”

A cat sits in a window. Beyond a completely destroyed city

13 69 250

Reposted by CorJam

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine that

920 8.5K 20K

Reposted by CorJam

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

So they are adding new wrinkles to the #KavanaughStops

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.