Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 1h

"Stop Casting The Guy Who Looks Like If Grigori Rasputin Had A Podcast."

They hated LEAF because SHE told them the truth

1 7 54

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 3d

torchship.txt

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

hey admiral, we stopped on planet X-14938-J7 in response to a federation emergency beacon broadcast and -- yeah, yeah, it was our ship we found crashed. yep. yeah. no the bodies of the crew were us. yeah Twilight Zone bullshit, that's what we figured. we'll take off and nuke it.

6 37

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

6 2.2K 8K

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

look i'm just gonna say: everyone involved in this shit needs to go to jail

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

16 82 370

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 4h

You sometimes have to take a step back and really...like...look at just how HARD transphobes have to work to make transphobia not seem like unhinged hateful bigotry that disgusts everyone around it - and how bad they are at doing it.

1 7 35

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 4h

You can only have so many tech billionaire supervillains before someone dresses up as their favourite animal to conceal their identity as they try to help people.

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

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

1 35 110

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

X-Wings & History @xwnhist.bsky.social · 4h

1 3 26

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 20h

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

15 580 1.6K

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Roxyite Fox Spirit @ikomatanomori.bsky.social · 6h

At this point we are no longer playing, this is just the actual Gestapo.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

I think we need to be crystal clear about how Trump's creation of a nationwide police force—loyal only to him—threatens to create a feedback loop of lawlessness in which our constitutional right to dissent may vanish. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It is now beyond debate that one of Donald Trump’s key goals is the creation of a national police force that is loyal to him alone. To that end, the president has repeatedly federalized the National Guard—often over governors’ objections—and deployed troops to invade blue cities whose residents oppose his administration. He has also transformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a kind of secret police that targets, with especially sadistic brutality, journalists, protesters, and others exercising their First Amendment rights. Trump’s multifaceted attack on the Constitution creates a feedback loop of lawlessness: He first erodes the structural limits on his authority, then exploits his newly unchecked power to trample the people’s freedom to dissent.

1 3

Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 5h

*wing not "song"
X/

1

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 15h

A common canard about the civil war is that it was about states rights, or that the union didn't care about slavery and...like all good lies, there is an element of truth there

But only an element - it ignores the fact that the war directly exposed the union troops DIRECTLY too slavery

Teufelaffe @teufelaffe.bsky.social · 16h

"I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" is metal af

Post by user @jamellebouie.net that reads, "from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper Sout, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."

3 63 210

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 8h

I'm home go to the grave as a Tron Legacy defender but come on, the original had a sauce no big sci fi movies do anymore

DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 2d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

1 6 45

Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 6h

This is how you fucking do it!!!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

2

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

320 4.5K 15K

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

19 430 1.6K

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

olive🌺 @wick.works · 15h

a pixel golden age is IMMINENT, I cannot overstate how lucky LT is to have Gen making art for it

Gen @gentrigger.com · 18h

Put my 2 weeks in at my day job so I can work on Lancer Tactics more full time!

YIPPEE!

4 46

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

D Tier Translator (JP to EN) @dtiertl.bsky.social · Nov 28

160 470

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

59 800 2.4K

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Ada Basilisk, Haunted Doll VTuber @comfybasilisk.bsky.social · 21h

what the fuck do you MEAN you can evolve eevee into jolteon in gen 1 by getting into a trainer battle, levelling eevee up, switching to growlithe, and finishing the battle with growlithe, because growlithe's pokemon index is the same as thunder stone's item index. WHAT. WHATTT

20 410 1.2K

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

4 650 2.7K

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Orion @lizardorion.bsky.social · 23h

Question yourself, would a Mecha-Maid be able to shred?

I sure as fuck think so :)

13 26

Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 9h

Report back from vaccine fever dream land:

Y'all ever seen a pterodactyl furry get caught in power lines while swooping? I have now. (They were okay)

Costume was really inventive. It clearly had one song that was "prosthetic" and used little pride flag bits to make a flight surface.

1 1

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 19h

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

40 1.2K 4.6K

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

170 2.5K 7.6K

Reposted by Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 19h

100%

5 54 160