Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Maggie WW

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

62 730 2.5K

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 12h

Such projection. We are no longer getting Bureau of Labor, public Health, NOAA weather, and more statistics from his cabal. We won’t have numbers from CDC, jobs or economic reports.

How do we know? Because there are a lot of people in the United States, who know good data from no data and BS.

CDC.jobs

Reposted by Maggie WW

Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 14h

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

650 4.2K 13K

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 12h

That sounds like fun!

3

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 12h

🧪

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 12h

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

2

Reposted by Maggie WW

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 12h

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

5 110 110

Reposted by Maggie WW

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 13h

I heard about someone in Alaska yesterday. They got a letter telling them their health insurance was going up from $600 to $2000!

It makes seeing or hearing House Speaker Mike Johnson say we are terrorists and that we hate America - well, it just makes it clearer to me who really does care.

2 4 5

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 13h

These are not only not only lies - it hurts the soul of our nation for leaders to talk - even pretend to think like that.

The rest is in the photo.

This is a short essay reminding us of what our three branches of government are supposed to do, but they are failing us. If our leaders hear only from the very, very rich they cannot represent, protect, or govern us. We become dispensable. I say: Mike Johnson and the majority, get back to the table and set a better example or get another job.

This is a picture of AOC giving a tour of Congress to a group of visiting high school students. She’s doing this because the government is shut down and there is no one else to assist the visiting students.

1 2

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 13h

I heard about someone in Alaska yesterday. They got a letter telling them their health insurance was going up from $600 to $2000!

It makes seeing or hearing House Speaker Mike Johnson say we are terrorists and that we hate America - well, it just makes it clearer to me who really does care.

2 4 5

Reposted by Maggie WW

Ardent Freedom Atheist ⚛ 👨 🧍‍♂️ @potatoe.bsky.social · 23h

And that's a ship load of truth their Paul.
Their deity was passing out brains and they all said, no thank you, we have trains. harr harr!! 😁
The Republican party is being lead by not benevolent actors but by foreign spies intent on dismantling and controlling this country.

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

They "unfired" the CDC employees when they figured out what a gigantic mistake that idiot Russell Vought had made. The Trump Administration is one idiot show after another. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

1 2 2

Reposted by Maggie WW

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

In places throughout the world and in moments of great social duress, such as in Poland during the Solidarity movement and El Salvador during St. Oscar Romero’s episcopate, “people’s Masses” have been organized by grassroots Catholic communities.

Amid Chicago ICE raids, a people’s Mass is an example of ‘political holiness’

Several hundred Catholics and people of faith gathered on Sept. 13 to celebrate a people’s Mass, or Misa popular, outside the gates of the Great Lakes Naval Station in the city of North Chicago.

www.americamagazine.org

10 89 270

Reposted by Maggie WW

USpolitics 🇺🇸 @uspol.skyfleet.blue · 1d

MIT Rejects Trump’s Loyalty Pledge, JD Vance Protested In Indiana, and A Portland Frog Becomes An Unexpected Resistance Hero

www.dworkinsubstack.com

6 19

Reposted by Maggie WW

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

240 2.5K 9.2K

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 1d

Of the ~35,000, they’ve returned 8 - and this is news? A direct line and you’ve found 8? You/We won’t live long enough at this rate.

Shame on this administration for working for Putin.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to Russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanages

www.theguardian.com

1 1 6

Reposted by Maggie WW

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

520 6.2K 14K

Reposted by Maggie WW

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

390 7.3K 14K

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 1d

I love the WNBA. But I’m not opposed to baseball. I actually have a story about my talk on Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson given to the NIGMS Advisory committee - back in the good old days.

1 1 2

Reposted by Maggie WW

Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 1d

on why there isn't a progressive media ecosystem the way there is on the right

Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 1d

I really do think this is a lot of it. The battle is inherently asymmetrical because people whose sole goal in life is to accumulate as much money and power as possible tend to not generally be on the side of human rights and egalitarianism.

1 2

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 1d

What a time.

2

Reposted by Maggie WW

Jonathan @frakitall.bsky.social · 1d

The ANTIFA in Portland looks dangerous. LOL

9 37 160

Reposted by Maggie WW

BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

My spouse pulled data from the CDC’s MMWR team on a weekly basis for her company to include with public health reports. That entire team has just been RIFed by Trump.

No more public health reports.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

www.cdc.gov

7 61 86

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 2d

Qatar setting up a military facility in the US - on a US Air Force Base in Idaho?

Time to pick up the phone and see if anyone we voted for is awake.

@repstansbury.bsky.social
@repgabevasquez.bsky.social
@fernandez.house.gov
@heinrich.senate.gov

open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

BREAKING: Trump Allows Qatar to Build Military Facility in United States

Trump allies are already rebuking the President for this decision as his ties to Qatar grow deep.

open.substack.com

2 1

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 2d

I feel sorry for him, all the way to assisted living in prison. If he ever apologizes or stops threatening people, or enjoying seeing people - especially children, suffer, I would reconsider. But today, wherever his soul ends up, send me somewhere else. I do believe in redemption and not violence. 🦋

1 1

Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 3d

I love this Daily Show documentary of the real problems in Portland.

@guywithtie.bsky.social
@rehablady.bsky.social
@coccodrillo21.bsky.social

youtu.be/BSkDJ7eCpb8?...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. #dailyshow

YouTube video by The Daily Show

youtu.be

2 2

Reposted by Maggie WW

Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 3d

1 4 15