Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by klia 🌻

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

I agree with Donald Trump:

Trump is not the right leader for his moment.

Graphic where Senator Warren says: In 2013, Trump himself said, about a potential government shutdown, quote:

Then, a Donald Trump quote: “if there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He’s the one that has to get people together.”

Senator Warren says: Donald Trump today should take a hint from Donald Trump yesterday.

32 190 1.2K

Reposted by klia 🌻

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10h

Donald Trump wants to sell YOUR student loan debt to Wall Street.

He's not looking out for you — he's looking to make his CEO buddies more money off of your back.

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

60 350 970

Reposted by klia 🌻

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 8h

The President of the United States is openly seeking revenge on his political opponents.

First Jim Comey. Now Tish James. Anyone who seeks to hold Donald Trump accountable could be next.

Trump is ripping a page right out of the authoritarian handbook.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

Breaking News: Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, is said to have been indicted after President Trump pushed the Justice Department to seek charges against her. James, who is accused of committing mortgage fraud, brought a civil case against Trump in 2022. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Attorney General Letitia James of New York is in front of a microphone. A headline reads: "New York Attorney General Letitia James Indicted After Pressure From Trump."

72 330 1.3K

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 1h

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a suit and tie is saying help help

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying help help

media.tenor.com

1

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 2h

1 1

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 2h

None of it makes any fucking sense. Maybe they think it's easier to "lose" paper ballots than hack a computer system?

1

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 2h

I know! But why else would they sell to a R? Unless it's something to do with one owner being 🇨🇦? Because it's a blatant conflict of interest and reeks of election interference.

1 1

Reposted by klia 🌻

🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 3h

1 16 34

Reposted by klia 🌻

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 3h

"And The Free Press? Never issued a correction. Never followed up on the contradictory accounts from parents and patients. Never addressed the fact that their star whistleblower had serious credibility problems that were evident even at the time"

Coming to CBS.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 11h

Over at @damemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about CBS' hiring of Bari Weiss in the context of one of The Free Press's sloppiest reported stories. h/t @evanurquhart.bsky.social www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/09/c...

CBS News Just Made a Terrible Mistake - Dame Magazine

On Monday, Paramount announced it had acquired The Free Press for $150 million and would be installing its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss will report directly to Paramount ...

www.damemagazine.com

1 3

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 2h

Probably shit-tons of money? 🤑

🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 2h

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

Omg what can this mean? Why would they sell it to this entity?

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

www.cnn.com

2 1 2

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 2h

Old enough to remember he used to be a SV libertarian.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

Um holy shit. Did Ro Khanna really sit down for an interview with far-right influencer Ian Carroll and share a video of it?

This is really fucking bad. What the fuck is going on?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 9h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 3h

Private Equity's a fucking scourge and ought to be illegal.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

and that's why we don't trust private equity

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 11h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Reposted by klia 🌻

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: While Dominion settled lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell ahead of acquisition, it's still suing Mike Lindell and Patrick Byrne.

Mike Lindell tells me all voting machines "need to go": "They all need to be melted down and turned into prison bars."

2 14 64

Reposted by klia 🌻

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 11h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

120 1.3K 2.5K

Reposted by klia 🌻

Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 3h

Donald Trump is a confessed serial sexual predator, an adjudicated rapist and a convicted criminal.

Yeah this tracks.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

20 75 400

Reposted by klia 🌻

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

Is this comparison fair to the Geheime Staatspolizei?

1 6 26

Reposted by klia 🌻

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 8h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

260 2.1K 9.1K

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 3h

There's a reason I've been calling that sadistic psychopath Goebbels 2.0.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

zeteo.com

klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 4h

"What am I supposed to do—give it to my children?" Musk responded, in Thiel's telling. "You know, it would be much worse to give it to Bill Gates."

This OTT level of greed is a mental disorder. These mercenary psychopaths need to fuck off to some remote island and keep tf away from society.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

As Pope Leo and the Catholic Church directly attack Musk, Thiel and other techbros over their intense greed and failure to engage in charitable giving, Thiel doubles down on avarice and asks Musk to join him. www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

Exclusive: Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their wealth to charity.

www.reuters.com

Reposted by klia 🌻

Wilson H @wilsonh.bsky.social · 5h

Legal scholarship has finally started asking this question. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Is Originalism Bullshit?

It’s finally time to answer the big question. This Article draws on the surprisingly robust literature examining the definition, essence, and significance of bu

papers.ssrn.com

3 2 31

Reposted by klia 🌻

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h

Serious question: does there come a point where everyone admits that Constitutional originalism is just a made-up vibe-based philosophy that gives Republican judges a pretext for ruling however it is that Republicans want them to rule?

94 150 1.2K

Reposted by klia 🌻

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when presidential admins were generally believed?

"Not only did the judge say that that she didn't see a credible evidence of rebellion, she also said the Homeland Security Department's perception of events are unreliable, which is incredibly damaging."

www.rawstory.com/trump-illino...

'Stinging rebuke!' CNN legal analyst floored as judge shreds Trump admin as 'unreliable'

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig had much to say on CNN Thursday evening about President Donald Trump's latest loss in court over his use of the military to keep order in U.S. cities.A federal dis...

www.rawstory.com

15 160 450

Reposted by klia 🌻

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 7h

if there isn't a statue to the Fuck ICE Frog when this is over then we've failed as a society

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

2 25 110

Reposted by klia 🌻

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

www.documentcloud.org

44 590 2K