Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Jenka

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

46 690 1.4K

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 9h

Thats what these little japes are for

bsky.app/profile/jenk...

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 15d

At a party of people I didn't know at all tonight someone said that the the rattlesnake venom vaccine for dogs was discontinued, and I said, "why, because it causes autism?" just to cut to the chase and clock who laughed.

1

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 9h

Not that there is only one associated identity, im just profiling them on the particular associated identity. But i also used to profile ppl based on identity for a living when i worked in marketing and also have no off switch on the pattern recognition so.

1

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 9h

Immediately profiling new people on likelihood to be antivax + associated identity from the moment i meet them. Arent you?

1 5

Reposted by Jenka

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 10h

Trump got his covid & flu shots today, ofc.

CNN reports, "The report says Trump’s test results are 'stable,' but [CNN medical analyst Jonathan] Reiner said that’s different from saying they are normal." Yeah, but was anyone suggesting he's normal? 🥁

Here's the memo.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Memorandum by Trump's doctor saying he got his flu and covid vaccines today, as well as preventive health screenings, etc.

3 15

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 12h

More generous than the image of a bed-bound person I was envisioning.

Reposted by Jenka

Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 13h

imagine overhearing your 12-year-old threaten to fuck their opponent’s mom over Xbox live and they are speaking to Bashar al-Assad

9 61 360

Reposted by Jenka

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 15h

China put Trump in a corner. Every way out hurts. www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

China's latest threat to clamp down on exports of rare earths appears to have blindsided President Donald Trump. The Chinese plan "came out of nowhere," Trump said Friday in a social media post.
"Nobody has ever seen anything like this."
Beijing's escalation of the trade fight has put the Trump administration on the backfoot at a moment of weakness. China's actions show that the U.S. is vulnerable to economic pressure, and China has forced the administration to choose between further escalation or a humiliating climbdown.

30 110 520

Reposted by Jenka

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hadn’t realized we reached the Fascist Leader Talking In An Endless Loop At Sites Of Mass Transit stage of the dystopia.

Good to know.

26 59 330

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 13h

bsky.app/profile/jenk...

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · Jul 14

Just a reminder regarding the worldview that has powered Trump’s populist success:

If you dont exploit those who are weaker and have less power than you, such as children, then what the fuck do u have all the power for then?

8

Reposted by Jenka

Mark G. Sheppard @markgsheppard.com · 15h

Even without jobs data, Google Search Results for "Unemployment Benefits" being at a post-Covid high is probably —and I hate to use such labor econ/technical jargon here, but it's probably— "not good."

#EconSky

2 19 56

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 14h

4

Reposted by Jenka

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 17h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

110 3.2K 16K

Reposted by Jenka

Marcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @marcellograz.bsky.social · 14h

3 31 110

Reposted by Jenka

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

150 2K 6.1K

Reposted by Jenka

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 16h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

28 360 1.4K

Reposted by Jenka

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 16h

3/ illegal. In an extreme case...wastewater testing could help identify a particular street or home where the pills were used, though such measures would be legally fraught and extremely costly."

This is from the "bodily autonomy" folks. Maybe they’ll use the $ from throwing folks off healthcare.

2 2

Reposted by Jenka

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 16h

2/ members of Congress to [the EPA admin], asking the agency to investigate how the abortion drug mifepristone might be contaminating the water supply."

EPA officials said "the general technology they had developed for testing wastewater could be used for surveillance in states where abortion is...

1 1 2

Reposted by Jenka

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 16h

Checking wastewater for mifepristone: So much for Repubs railing against a surveillance state; they might as well get t-shirts that read, "It's fine when we're the ones doing it."

The "request appears to have originated from a letter sent from 25 Republican...

1/3

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

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

www.nytimes.com

1 3 9

Reposted by Jenka

DG from FW @dgfromfw.bsky.social · 18h

If Michelle Obama had ever said this the entirety of the GOP’s heads would have exploded simultaneously.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

37 140 560

Reposted by Jenka

People's CDC @peoplescdc.org · 18h

Due to the federal government shutdown, there is no updated CDC data to inform a Weather Report. COVID is still being transmitted around the country and everyone should continue to use their layers of protection: high-quality masks, get your updated boosters, testing before gathering,

3 18 31

Reposted by Jenka

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

57 560 3.1K

Reposted by Jenka

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

39 380 2.3K

Reposted by Jenka

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 22h

“Thiel says an Antichrist will emerge who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster.
That figure, would curtail individual freedoms and halt humanity's shot at a future innovation that would avoid Armageddon, Thiel believes”

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

www.reuters.com

3 12 16

Reposted by Jenka

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 22h

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

24 51 81