LightNews
Lucian K. Truscott IV
@lktiv.bsky.social
2.6K followers 24 following 580 posts
Writer
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 1d
That’s a homemade tie-dyed t-shirt, bellbottoms from Brooklyn, and Acme boots. It was the 60’s, man.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/2nd-lt-tru...
2nd Lt. Truscott relaxing during the Fort Benning Great Mustache revolt in September of 1969
That’s a homemade tie-dyed t-shirt, bellbottoms from Brooklyn, and Acme boots.
luciantruscott.substack.com
1 18
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 2d
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/kristi-noe...
Kristi Noem visits "war ravaged" Portland, observes protester in a chicken suit from rooftop
“It’s like living in hell,” Trump said of the Oregon capital.
luciantruscott.substack.com
5
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 2d
There will be nothing restraining Trump from using soldiers from the state of Texas as his own private army, following his orders and nobody else’s. This isn’t a slippery slope we’re on. Trump is following the playbook of Adolph Hitler in the 1930’s.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-u...
Trump is using the National Guard as his own private army
Lots of news today on the ICE and National Guard front.
luciantruscott.substack.com
1 5 10
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 4d
Politics is the way we elect our representatives to run the governments of the country and the states. When federal soldiers become involved in enforcing the law in a state that has not requested them, politics ends and something else begins.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
The end of politics
Forest fires and tornados and hurricanes are the common enemies of all Americans.
luciantruscott.substack.com
2 5
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 5d
12 Noon Eastern today: I'll be doing Substack live on Steve Schmidt's "The Warning"

Steveschmidt.substack.com
2 5
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 6d
In the court room overseen by at least one female jurist in the state of Oregon, the rule of law still prevails. For how long that will hold true is a question not only for Oregon, but for the whole nation.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-wha...
Trump’s whack-a-mole militarism, part II
On Saturday, within hours of Federal District Judge Karin Immergut issuing her temporary restraining order against the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard in Portland, Secretary Pet...
luciantruscott.substack.com
2 5
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 7d
Following plans laid down in the Heritage Foundation in “Project 2025,” Trump is inventing a war that does not exist in order to carry out repression using federalized state National Guard soldiers.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-a-...
“This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.”
That is a quote from the temporary restraining order issued by District Judge Karin Immergut blocking President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
luciantruscott.substack.com
4 8 19
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 9d
Trump’s masked and armed agents are already approaching people on the street in cities who look “suspicious” because of their race or ethnicity and requiring them to produce citizenship papers.

This isn’t a slippery slope to fascism. We’re already there.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
The perfect fascism of a raid in Chicago
This is what we must guard against.
luciantruscott.substack.com
7 11
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 10d
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-just-gav...
I just gave myself a massive headache fixing a printer problem, so I'm taking the night off.
That’s me last night working on the Great Mustache Revolt column under the not very watchful tutelage of Tuli.
luciantruscott.substack.com
8
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 11d
This story is about the obsession with grooming standards of some officers in the army. The obsession dates back decades, and it has a history that echoes the history of this country. It is extraordinary that we are still dealing with this problem.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great Mustache Revolt and the racist history of grooming standards in the military
This story is about the obsession with grooming standards of some officers in the army.
luciantruscott.substack.com
1 2 4
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 12d
In the end, the generals and admirals know that presidents come and go, but their job remains the same. The soldiers, sailors, airmen and airwomen and Marines under their command need them to do their jobs in spite of the madness at the top.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-spe...
Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals: I don’t even know where to begin
“Unhinged” is one word I heard on the news shows describing Trump’s speech this morning.
luciantruscott.substack.com
1 9 21
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 13d
I don’t envy the generals and admirals and noncommissioned officers who will be there tomorrow. I would not want to have to maintain a straight face while Trump treats them as if they are his followers at a MAGA rally and bellows grievance and braggadocio.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/249-years-...
249 years. Nothing like this has happened before.
I’m speaking of tomorrow’s meeting between Hegseth and Trump and 800 generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia.
luciantruscott.substack.com
5 13
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 14d
Our soldiers didn’t sign up to patrol American streets and arrest or help to arrest their fellow citizens. Martial law, in the end, will be more difficult to impose than Trump thinks it is.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/will-portl...
Will Portland be Trump’s first step toward martial law?
Let’s count down the steps.
luciantruscott.substack.com
1 2 6
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 16d
You would think that at some point, cooler heads might prevail, and things could go back to something approaching political normalcy. And then you look at Trump and his Supreme Court and you think...
Not.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
Trump and Comey and the whirlpool of revenge politics
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted yesterday by a grand jury in Richmond, Virginia on two lame-o made up counts – perjury and obstruction of justice by committing perjury.
luciantruscott.substack.com
1 6
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 17d
Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous. Everyone at the Pentagon knows it. How do they know Pete is shaking in his loafers? That five-sided building is just like a small town. And what they’re talking about is how weirdly frightened the boss is.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-the-h...
What the hell is Hegseth up to?
Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous.
luciantruscott.substack.com
1 5 9
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 18d
Trump knows he isn’t going to get the Nobel Prize for his phony claims of ending seven wars. Maybe he’s got his eye on the prize in Ukraine now.

We, and Ukraine, can only hope.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-didn...
Trump didn’t pivot on Ukraine. He’s playing catch up.
Somewhere down in the bowels of the Pentagon, there is an office in which people actually know what they’re talking about.
luciantruscott.substack.com
2 4 8
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 19d
But these are niggling details, and as we all know, Donald Trump doesn’t do niggling details. By this time next year, he will probably be bragging that he has ended six more wars, that windmills are blowing up off the coast of Great Britain.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-long-o...
How long, oh Lord, how long? I endured Trump’s UN speech so you don’t have to
How many more times will we have to untangle and debunk another lip-wagging screed of Donald Trump like the one he blubbered through at the United Nations today?
luciantruscott.substack.com
2 9
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 20d
If I were Brendan Carr, I would duck and cover. Kimmel will be coming for the easiest target he’s had in his career, with the sole exception of Orange Littlehands himself.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-big...
Trump’s big gift to Jimmy Kimmel
One word: Ratings.
luciantruscott.substack.com
1 12
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 22d
My question is, why is he even bothering to ask for legislation that will allow him to commit murder when he’s already doing it?
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/using-our-...
Using our military, Trump is committing murder on the high seas. Our streets could be next.
That’s a front-page headline from today’s New York Times.
luciantruscott.substack.com
8
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 23d
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/oh-my-good...
Oh, my goodness, the entities! The entities!
I’m spending the evening having a reaction to a Covid booster and flu shot.
luciantruscott.substack.com
2
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 24d
Slavery and its descendants are everywhere in this country. All you have to do is look around. History is in our bodies and in our land. It cannot be denied because it is alive in all of us.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-trump-...
Why Trump cannot write slavery out of our history
Donald Trump would like nothing better than to pretend that this country was not founded on the backs of slaves.
luciantruscott.substack.com
3 10
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 25d
Kimmel’s remarks were made with his vocal chords, forming sounds we normally refer to as “speech.” The First Amendment is supposed to protect remarks like Kimmel’s, even if people in power consider his words objectionable or offensive.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...
Trump is trying to cancel the First Amendment and turn us into Putin’s Russia.
ABC just announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will be suspended “indefinitely” over comments he made on Monday night about the killing of right-wing Christ figure, Charlie Kirk.
luciantruscott.substack.com
1 1 12
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 26d
Silly me. It’s not a lawsuit. It’s an 85-page tantrum.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/whiny-litt...
Whiny little bruised-ego baby blubbers a defamation lawsuit against the Times and book
I read his $15 billion claim so you don’t have to
luciantruscott.substack.com
3 10
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 27d
I will not be cowed. I will not bend. I will stand up and be counted and be damned with Stephen Miller and his thought police.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-few-thou...
A few thoughts on the thought police
I really don’t know how George Orwell did it.
luciantruscott.substack.com
9 16
Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 29d
The next thing you know, he’ll be renaming the Rose Garden “Charlie’s Garden” and putting Kirk’s name under his on the Trump Bible.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-new-bl...
The new blasphemy: you can be fired or deported for being insufficiently worshipful of Charlie Kirk
I knew that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was an important guy on the Right and had a lot of friends in high places – hello there in the Oval Office – but I didn’t realize he had become a god...
luciantruscott.substack.com
3 8