Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted

Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 12h

Cruise ship video voyeur may have spied on 900 passengers from #Florida based trips. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/10/w... via @orlandosentinel.com

Did cruise ship video voyeur spy on 900 passengers? Royal Caribbean in legal showdown

A crew member planted a hidden camera to watch a young girl undress in her cabin, and there may be many more victims.

www.orlandosentinel.com

4 4

Reposted

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12h

Here's the reality: On any given day the President might impose an effective embargo on trade with China. This is the second time he's done it *this year*. They may patch it up again, but the pattern has been set, and it will shape expectations for the rest of his term.

43 230 930

Reposted

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

We’re getting to the “we-want-our-money” part.

$JEF $MS
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

10 36 190

Reposted

Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 12h

#Florida has reported a new case of flesh-eating bacteria, bringing the number of cases of Vibrio vulnificus to 29 so far this year. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2... via @cabridges.bsky.social

New case of Vibrio vulnificus or ‘flesh-eating bacteria' reported in Florida. Here's where

Another case of Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," has been reported in Florida.

www.tallahassee.com

1 5 13

Reposted

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

130 610 1.8K

Reposted

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.

Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.

"Drain the swamp."

50 690 1.7K

Reposted

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 11h

Just for fun…

RFK Jr. is eventually going to blame this blanket for autism

6 14 110

Reposted

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

6 71 160

Reposted

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Candyman Jackson said Trump’s visit today to Walter Reed was a follow up for his vascular issues and also to get updated travel vaccinations.

300 180 800

Reposted

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

MAGA wants us afraid and divided, but we’re not backing down. Let’s make October 18 the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Micah on Bluesky: “they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there”

Ron Filipkowski on Bluesky: “The No Kings protests have been some of the most peaceful and well attended political assemblies in American history. In fact, MAGA has mocked them as a bunch of boomer grandmothers. Now they are apparently terrorists.”

Jon Favreau on Twitter: “A top Republican in Congress just called millions of Americans terrorists.

The last No Kings protests saw 4-6 million people turn out. They were peaceful. They were joyful. There were American flags everywhere.

Those of us who will be participating next weekend in what Emmer calls a "hate rally" for "terrorists" love our country - particularly its promise that we're all created equal, that we all have the right to speak freely, to enjoy equal protection under the law, to believe what we want, and to choose our leaders without fear of reprisal.

The No Kings protests are happening because Emmer and Trump and his regime are trampling on those rights and freedoms.”

Leah Greenberg on Bluesky: “"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"”

12 190 540

Reposted

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

280 360 1.9K

Reposted

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

910 810 2.8K

Reposted

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10h

What she posted

87 85 370

Reposted

Reese Waters @troubledh2o.bsky.social · 11h

Oh my goodness! 👀

What happened to #AmericaFirst? 🤦🏽‍♂️

Can you imagine if Barack Obama allowed this? 🥴

#LooneyLoomer says she’s voting for the couch in 2026. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Are we gReAt AgAiN yet?

#LooneyLoomer #BarackObama #Maga #Trump #DictatorOnDay1

#ReeseWaters

2 4 4

Reposted

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 13h

There goes another Trump admin talking point.

Claim: Abrego told an immigration judge that he fears persecution in Costa Rica.

Judge Xinis reads the immigration judge's ruling, which doesn't say that.

"That's very troubling to me," Xinis tells Ensign.

9 80 560

Reposted

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 13h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

440 4.4K 10K

leslierob007.bsky.social @leslierob007.bsky.social · 14h

imagining how the 'pubs will be tried on all their mortgage fraud...fabulously stupid people...

leslierob007.bsky.social @leslierob007.bsky.social · 14h

asset.

Reposted

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h

Melania Trump, in her announcement, shared that since Putin responded to her letter on Ukrainian kids stolen by Russia, she had direct collaboration with Kremlin and claims 8 children have been returned to Ukraine in past 24 hours. She says children were "displaced due to fighting" and that Russia provided biographies and medical records for these kids. To make it clear, these kids were stolen by Russia - Russia that has a digital bank with Ukrainian kids "open for adoption".

She says agreed to return Ukrainian children who turned 18 while in Russia in the near future. This is an ongoing negotiation.

17 39 110

leslierob007.bsky.social @leslierob007.bsky.social · 14h

payroll fraud...

Reposted

Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 16h

BREAKING: Court blocks Trump-Vance admin’s restrictions on health and housing grants.

This win safeguards critical services for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, LGBTQI+ youth, and unhoused communities.

2 73 240

Reposted

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16h

Lead Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the EU Anitta Hipper on Putin's visit to Tajikistan:

"Russia’s President is in Tajikistan, despite the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant issued against him.

5 51 170

leslierob007.bsky.social @leslierob007.bsky.social · 14h

she's 12, and it's payroll fraud...all these asses commit payroll fraud...

Reposted

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16h

NEW: Between her personal and DOJ accounts, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon tweets over 100 times a day — a behavior that can safely be categorized as chronically online. But could her social media presence be killing her cases? @jimsaksa.com explains👇

Trump's Terminally Online DOJ Could Be Killing Its Cases Just to Own the Libs