Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Helen

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

The Texas redistricting hearing started on Wednesday in El Paso. Democracy Docket is covering it every day like it is the most important case for free and for elections in the country -- because it is. Legacy media is no where to be found.

Support the DD team to make it possible. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

65 1.6K 5.1K

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · 7d

The whole country is watching. As my Dad used to say: Faint heart (etc.)

Reposted by Helen

Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 7d

Today Chicago is the frontline in the battle for American freedom. Our resistance is peaceful, but it is not weak. We will not stop until Donald Trump gets his masked battle-armed thugs off our streets.
My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Today Chicago is the frontline in the battle for American freedom

Our resistance is peaceful, but it is not weak. We will not stop until Donald Trump gets his masked battle-armed thugs off our streets.

open.substack.com

4 36 140

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · 8d

You first, Sock Boy

3 3

Reposted by Helen

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18d

Best source out there for tax filings on nonprofits is @propublica.org's Nonprofit Explorer. It tends to have returns that aren't even on the IRS's website.

4/

Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

projects.propublica.org

1 15 57

Reposted by Helen

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19d

Proud girls, you gorgons,

gorgeous in your gowns,
rising back unrepentant
out of your loam house,

tiptoe fripperies,
overlook my misreading.

‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Autumn Cyclamen’

www.lrb.co.uk

1 13 46

Reposted by Helen

🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 21d

The return of once-rare birds: when habitat is restored & protected, when people remove harmful substances from the environment & address harms caused by human infrastructure such as lights at night & reflective windows, some species may return to the places we live.

No pay wall.

The surprising recovery of once-rare birds

It’s not every day that you see a 4-foot-tall bird, but it’s happening more often. Several fascinating species are nesting in and near towns once again.

theconversation.com

9 20

Reposted by Helen

rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 23d

What if one could automatically monitor what politicians promise and enhance the ability to check, at scale, whether they deliver?

Pledgetracker, by @fullfact.org and researchers, tries to retrieve relevant evidence and reduce human verification effort.

Read their preprint here: lnkd.in/ec5gHYV9

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

3 2

Reposted by Helen

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 24d

Bravo @willbunch.bsky.social

"..the Washington Post has been the newspaper of this career journalist’s dreams...

The Washington Post is dead to me."

6 37 140

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · 28d

Understandable, but she has egg on her face today.

1

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · 29d

I have to remind myself that no one gets to her level without having proven their bona fides as a propagandist. Being good at it is a prerequisite. Anyone who speaks like this without any evidence or factual basis can only be a tool. Her job is to trigger us while fanning some flames on the right.

1 1 4

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 30

He's been instructed,right?

Reposted by Helen

John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · Aug 13

One good thing about rewatching films you already know quite well, is it encourages you to concentrate on aspects other than the narrative - in this case, Haskell Wexler's cinematography. [and to enjoy, always, the scenes between Steiger & Poitier].

2 2

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yes, I can see how that would be so. I read the Martin Beck series last year for the first time, putting the beginning near the middle, and am looking forward to a second, slower pass. Meantime, I'm working my way through your Resnicks. Then onward, only to circle back again to see what I missed.

1

Reposted by Helen

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Aug 26

For me, hope is not a feeling of certainty about the future. It is born of the knowledge that we may do everything we can without the assurance that it will be enough. Hope is accepting that the arc of the moral universe may not bend toward justice — even if all of us push with everything we have.

What Gives Me Hope

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

37 280 1.2K

Reposted by Helen

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 24

Abundance but for bees

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 23

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

www.sciencedaily.com

10 55 360

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 22

I think about that a lot too.

2

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yes, he's been much on my mind lately.
His wit and rage would be helping me get through this.

1 3

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 22

@nancyterhune.bsky.social
This made me think of you...and of Harry.

1 1 6

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 21

@johnbharveywriter.bsky.social
Just read your short entry on Peter Temple's The Broken Shore, for Connolly and Burke's Books to Die For: .."they use it as a tool, a tool with which to open up and expose a small area of society for us to examine and understand." Yes, you, too. Thank you.

Reposted by Helen

Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · Aug 17

Full piece:

Sunday Pages: "The Spell of the Yukon"

A poem by Robert Service

gregolear.substack.com

11 41

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 7

Yes, you can learn how to fix just about anything on YouTube. It can be a time sink.

2

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 7

I guess it's ingrained in some of us to like fixing things. Problem solvers back to the Ice Age.

1 2

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 7

Yes, a Farmall. It sat for years until I found a mechanic who got it running. When I retired I gave it back to the people I bought my place from. It was very symbolic for them. Then they sold their adjacent land so I don'tknow where it is now. Very nostalgic to think about.

1

Helen @hcandler.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's alot of fun to work on equipment that is basically mechanical. I inherited a late 50s model International Harvester tractor when I bought my little place. It was just as you describe, but it was too dangerous to use much as it was tipsy (narrow front wheel base.)

1 3