Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7h

That's two Chicago journalists feds have arrested (that I know of) in the last few weeks.

We're less than 24 hours out from federal judge Sara Ellis entering a restraining order that was supposed to protect journalists, among others, from abuse by federal agents.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 9h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

4 110 170

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

this is a recipe for a four year government shutdown

you simply cannot make deals with people who are telling you up front they are going to break those deals and claw back everything you won in them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

12 160 650

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 8h

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

10 220 520

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 20h

This is enough carbon-free energy to power maybe two thirds of Vegas btw

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 20h

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

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

8 210 510

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 1d

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

18 210 810

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

"The demise of literate culture has just left us with a form of nonliteracy, in which simple texts can be processed but elaborate ones may as well be written in Linear B."

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

2 26 75

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

2.9K 10K 17K

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

How? How are we losing this messaging war? This is insane shit.

Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

16 72 340

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour.
https://www.ft.com/content/5ba8caec-61d3-4aa9-a877-9b200ef4b5b0

Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

Recommended

Oil & Gas industry
BP’s new chair signals more asset sales and demands faster restructuring

“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

8 130 290

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

16 310 520

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 1d

they hate us because of our freedoms.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

3 19 160

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.

10 150 850

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

stellar investigation by 972Mag on IDF's manufactured videos that are reproduced uncritically in media. Truly a propaganda war."These videos are produced in-house by a small animation cell in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, working mainly in After Effects + Blender"
www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

1 17 28

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I joked about it but it may actually be worthwhile for every Dem who gets on tv to start saying Stephen Miller is the real president

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

50 570 3.8K

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 2d

I interviewed @triofrancos.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/centering-...

"Centering the Climate-Economy Intersection Is Our Only Way Forward"

An interview with Thea Riofrancos on climate left strategy, asymmetric polarization, and "critical" minerals

climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com

4 19

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a dumpster fire now, but in its earlier era, the other site was helpful for learning from other people, sharing knowledge, meeting collaborators, etc. A lot of great things happened in my career because of it. That's part of why it was sad to watch it get destroyed.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

6 6 76

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 1d

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

9 190 790

Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 2d

Go Tigers

Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 2d

I would like some reporters to investigate the president's information diet

6

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 2d

ICE has been pulling guns on civilians, spraying tear gas in the face of protestors who film them, shooting priests with pepper spray and pellets—and, increasingly it seems, targeting journalists and others trying to document their activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

5 40 110

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

52 970 2.3K

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

130 1.3K 2.9K

Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 2d

I interviewed @triofrancos.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/centering-...

"Centering the Climate-Economy Intersection Is Our Only Way Forward"

An interview with Thea Riofrancos on climate left strategy, asymmetric polarization, and "critical" minerals

climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com

4 19

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

55 1.4K 2.3K

Reposted by Matthew Haugen

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.

In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services

Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…

www.urban.org

8 59 240