Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 2h

Wow!!! Rupert Murdoch should be sued for Big Dollars to get the little weasel to stop this ugly and illegal practice.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 5h

Alberta’s Far Right Conservative Govt stopped tracking student numbers this summer. They think they’re outsmarting the public as teachers maintain that massive class sizes is a major reason for the current strike.
#AbLeg #AbPoli #PublicEducation

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | Alberta stopped tracking class sizes. Then it changed its funding formula. Now, it's a teachers' strike issue | CBC News

Get a rough idea of how much Alberta’s teaching staff has grown compared to how much student enrolment has grown since the funding formula for school boards was changed.

www.cbc.ca

1 4

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17h

130 1.8K 5.2K

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

260 2.9K 9.1K

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Texanna @texannadeb.bsky.social · 1d

10 87 250

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 9d

To the people who lent their credibility to this panel: are you having fun yet?

It might be time to resign while you can still salvage some of it.

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10d

At tonight’s “consultation”…

When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more.

Listen to the clip yourself…

It’s…

Telling.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

29 140 350

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

920 5.7K 24K

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 1d

It is an indictment upon humanity that our political leaders (and by corollary, all of us) have allowed this to happen … to children!! #Gaza

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

2

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

540 5K 17K

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

1.7K 21K 56K

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone knows that Trump has been focused on destroying American civil society. Now he is moving to destroy its environment, too. It’s an American nightmare! 🇺🇸

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment

www.theguardian.com

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 3d

Israeli forces beat and terrorize those brave people trying to get food to the starving people of Gaza.
#Gaza #Genocide

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention

Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep

www.theguardian.com

3

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 3d

“Trump’s cabinet secretaries for commerce, treasury, education, and the interior are all billionaires” … yet many Americans consider the Democrats to be the party of elitists. Seriously, WTF!?!?

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality

As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed

www.theguardian.com

3

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

380 6.8K 22K

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3d

All throughout American history, political and economic elites have insisted that better policies — ending child labor, establishing a weekend — were impossible to achieve.

They were lying then, and they’re lying now.

Elites Always Say We Can’t Have Nice Things. They’re Wrong.

All throughout American history, political and economic elites have insisted that better policies — ending child labor, establishing a weekend — were impossible to achieve. They were lying then, and they’re lying now.

jacobin.com

11 32

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, very weird. 🤷🏼‍♂️

330 7.1K 17K

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 3d

Alberta’s Far Right premier Danielle Smith works for Big Oil, NOT for public education. #Ableg #AbPoli #Cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Historic Alberta teachers' strike begins as 51,000 educators walk off the job | CBC News

Alberta school divisions are telling families not to send students to school on Monday as the largest teacher strike in provincial history cancels classes at around 2,000 schools.

www.cbc.ca

5 13

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

840 13K 34K

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Connie @texblonde89.bsky.social · 7d

Argentina's corrupt govt to get $20B bailout with trump's tariff tax on American consumers. This was orchestrated by Treasury Sec Bessent's hedge fund buddy who stands to make billions at Americans' expense.

Let that sink in.

#argentina #bailout #trumptarifftax

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

1 2 2

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 5d

8 36 93

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 5d

“There is no B.C. coast. It’s Canada’s coast”: Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal - CBC News

“By the same token, it’s not Alberta’s oil patch, it’s Canada’s oil patch,” say Canadians across the country.

🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #Ableg #SkPoli

apple.news/AJ7hiveLBTua...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal — CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

apple.news

26 43 210

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

Sheena Sharp @sheenasharp.bsky.social · 5d

There is no Alberta oil, its Canadian oil, and I vote to reduce it by 50% In the next 10 years, to meet IPCC targets.

#cdnpoli

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 5d

“There is no B.C. coast. It’s Canada’s coast”: Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal - CBC News

“By the same token, it’s not Alberta’s oil patch, it’s Canada’s oil patch,” say Canadians across the country.

🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #Ableg #SkPoli

apple.news/AJ7hiveLBTua...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal — CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

apple.news

9 22

Paul Orlowski @paulorlowski.bsky.social · 5d

“There is no B.C. coast. It’s Canada’s coast”: Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal - CBC News

“By the same token, it’s not Alberta’s oil patch, it’s Canada’s oil patch,” say Canadians across the country.

🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #Ableg #SkPoli

apple.news/AJ7hiveLBTua...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal — CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

apple.news

26 43 210

Reposted by Paul Orlowski

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

27 240 600