Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Wiseowl374 @wiseowl374.bsky.social · 14h

This man is your friend he fights for freedom poster but it’s portland frog hero

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6h

I would not call it foolish that folks are trying their best to protect their community from chemical weapons, but I trust Dan on this sort of weapons information and I hope it gets to folks on the ground

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 6h

Best to not actually pick up any alleged tear gas or smoke grenade or projectile. Too hot. And there’s been a lot of use of flashbangs. The misfire rate on them is not zero. Only a matter of time before some damn fool bleeds out because they lost a hand

2 37 77

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 6h

Best to not actually pick up any alleged tear gas or smoke grenade or projectile. Too hot. And there’s been a lot of use of flashbangs. The misfire rate on them is not zero. Only a matter of time before some damn fool bleeds out because they lost a hand

13 50 170

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

13 270 1.4K

Reposted by Beck 🐧

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6h

well that was a nice few minutes of enjoying a duck drinking a milkshake.*

*I'm sure it's all more complicated than this keep in mind I am a cartoon cat on a social media site

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 6h

2 8 80

Reposted by Beck 🐧

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 5h

moments ago, state + local charged the crowd outside the broadview ice detention center and detained three people.

it happened after someone tried to cross a street that isp has blocked off.

after the arrests, a state trooper warned the crowd that anyone in the street would be arrested.

5 23 45

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

As far as I can tell, the case with Letitia James is one where she told them a specific thing and the mortgage lender checked a different box and it didn't get caught.

This is the kind of shit that could happen to literally anyone, and I have two thoughts.

18 140 850

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

1. This is authoritarian, retaliatory bullshit.

2. We should not have laws that allow us to prosecute literally anyone.

5 25 480

Beck 🐧 @mastergatherer.bsky.social · 4h

"yeah frogs were Nazis but they're woke now. Oh, woke? Yeah it basically means anything good and decent, I guess? It's from AAVE, it meant 'being aware of the system of oppression', but then semantic drift happened. No, I'm not on drugs."

Beck 🐧 @mastergatherer.bsky.social · 4h

Christ, just imagine trying to explain this era to people ten, twenty, thirty years ago

1

Reposted by Beck 🐧

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 6h

I love that Portland’s solution to being invaded was simply “Be weirder.”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 15h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

5 99 390

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15h

The fact that their ticket was mysteriously canceled the day before and then they were questioned by DHS is both one of the greatest political scandals and crises of my lifetime and just another fucking Thursday in 2025.

Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 16h

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

2 170 660

Reposted by Beck 🐧

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

230 2K 7.8K

Reposted by Beck 🐧

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

it's kind of wild that a guy died a little while ago and the government swore we would reap the whirlwind and that his widow would lead a howling army of valkyries across the galaxy and then the most you heard about it since was the secretary of domestic war saying they arrested the wife of antifa

32 190 1.5K

Reposted by Beck 🐧

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 5h

epic sign / costume combo

a person wears a cow costume and holds a sign that reads “this heifer hates nazis”

5 24 160

Reposted by Beck 🐧

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 5h

it looks like every state trooper in illinois is hanging out in the parking lot across from protesters.

a mix of regular troopers, riot cops, and swat officers, in addition to cook county sheriff’s police and local cops.

a group of cops stand in the street. behind them, dozens more cops and vehicles are in a lot.

4 14 50

Reposted by Beck 🐧

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

People have been loudly booing the few ICE cars with masked agents inside that we've seen roll through.

ISP telling the crowd anyone who steps over the barricades or into the driveway will be arrested.

7 30 210

Reposted by Beck 🐧

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5h

A chill crowd out here, again, singing and chanting.

3 17 65

Reposted by Beck 🐧

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5h

A ton of state troopers. Some in riot gear.

Crowd is 200+ now. Still relaxed and singing with occasional boos as ICE vehicles pass by.

State troopers. Photo right: ISP in riot gear.

4 14 64

Reposted by Beck 🐧

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6h

In Broadview this morning, just outside of Chicago, where you can get a police surveillance pod, a drone, and a helicopter in a single shot.

12 160 420

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

Damn, The Las Vegas Sun newspaper, @lasvegassun.bsky.social, is calling it like it is:

120 800 2.4K

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Three @wsj.com headlines from the past three days. 👀

45 380 1.2K

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 8h

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

37 370 2.4K

Reposted by Beck 🐧

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

29 610 2.3K

Reposted by Beck 🐧

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

52 300 1.9K