Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 1d

During college summers, I worked for an investment bank. Some of my best friends are in finance. I was offered a job at a VC firm at graduation (which I declined). I have investment accounts.

Will the NYT give me space for an op-ed about much needed Wall Street reforms?

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

1 1

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 1d

During college summers, I worked for an investment bank. Some of my best friends are in finance. I was offered a job at a VC firm at graduation (which I declined). I have investment accounts.

Will the NYT give me space for an op-ed about much needed Wall Street reforms?

2

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 2d

Calvinist: Bad Bunny is Totally Depraved Bunny
Roman Catholic: Bad Bunny needs sacraments to be Good Bunny
Baptist: Bad Bunny must be born again as Good Bunny
Pentecostal: Bad Bunny needs to be slain by the Spirit.
Episcopal: Bad Bunny should repent… politely, then BCP and tea make him Good Bunny

3 12

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 5d

It would be funny if our Augustinian Pope weighed in on this ...

Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 5d

a fascist president, a corrupt president, a vindictive president, a senile president we might endure — but a pelagian president?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

1 9

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 5d

a fascist president, a corrupt president, a vindictive president, a senile president we might endure — but a pelagian president?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

9 37 170

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10d

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 10d

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.

4 320 1K

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10d

People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.

10 39 230

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe go bowling tonight? Might help …

Okay, no more Lebowski references

1

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 11d

If you will it, it is no dream.

1

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

210 2K 4.7K

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 11d

Wait until you become a Pynchon AND a Gaddis guy.

1

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 12d

A meme for the modern university...

Meme showing a worker labelled "academic staff" digging a hole in the ground while 10 others look labelled with management titles such as "Director of Human Resources" look on. The caption underneath reads "The only way we can cut costs is to reduce the number of academic staff..."

8 110 290

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13d

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."

350 2.7K 12K

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 14d

It’s such an amazing book. It still haunts me more than a year after I read it.

1 1

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 15d

I, for one, would not call that a comeback.

2

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 16d

It’s also why there’s no way around it—combating the loneliness epidemic will take virtue/ascesis because it will require many people to engage in the momentarily painful act of putting down PHONE and spending time with other awkward, sometimes unpleasant people.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 16d

The loneliness crisis isn't from a lack of third spaces, it's from being at home becoming ever more appealing thanks to broadband / phone combined with suburbanization.

3 18 81

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17d

This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side.

What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18d

Well, I guess my question for all of the doomers now would be why they think no one can stop Donald Trump from taking our democracy from us?

The guy couldn't even take Jimmy Kimmel.

11 120 490

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19d

So many coverups.

Release the Epstein files.

Release the Homan tapes.

Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.

440 6.5K 20K

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 19d

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.

www.afr.com/work-and-car...

The net result is the worst of both worlds. Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite. They operate without the checks that private ownership provides, yet subject staff and students to the cost-cutting and efficiency drives that profit-maximising firms pursue. The result is waste at the top and insecurity at the bottom.

15 130 450

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 19d

This is the Beshear 2028 play.

Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 19d

Basically stuff like centrist dems/swing voters in purple and light red states getting that if you’re in a blue state using a lot of social-justice coded language is mostly the local equivalent of talking about how you pray on every decision because it makes the church grannies happy and vice-versa

1

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19d

The only way to understand the MAGA movement is as a giant collection of people dumb enough to imagine they’re not being tricked but everyone else is. I really believe this, all the way down.

3 16

Reposted by Scott D. Moringiello

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 23d

“Paused” majors at Syracuse include Classics, Modern Jewish Studies, and Religion, as well as French, German, Italian, Russian

The following eighteen majors were put on “pause”:
African American Studies
Applied Mathematics B.A.
Chemistry B.A.
Classical Civilization
Classics (Greek and Latin)
Digital Humanities
Fine Arts
French and Francophone Studies
German Language, Literature, and Culture B.A.
History of Architecture
Italian Language, Literature, and Culture B.A.
Latino-Latin American Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Modern Jewish Studies
Music History and Cultures
Religion
Russian Language, Literature, and Culture B.A.
Statistics B.A.

14 52 96

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 22d

Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death.

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead.

1

Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 22d

Evergreen, really. But today especially.

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 22d

Image is of a statue of St. Catherine of Siena, wimpled and veiled, eyes narrowed, lips tightly drawn, and a quote: "Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified." (I got it from the geniuses at Women's Ordination Conference.)

1 1