Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 6h

The Enigma of Amigara Fault but with Sherman, the dog, yelling "TH-THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!" edited into the picture.

Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 15h

Quite literally giving the goons cover to scare up some bounties

"Menace the masses, get your payout" should not be a thing, folks, but here we are

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

1 3 5

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

10 660 3.2K

Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 16h

Y'all, in a world of AI slop, take a look at this real human art:

Telephone is a worldwide, multimedia, interactive game/art project/human-powered portal of inspiration

Each of us did our own part, and this is the first time we're seeing the sprawling results!

telephonegame.art

TELEPHONE

Whispering a message among art forms. Explore the TELEPHONE interactive art exhibition featuring diverse artists and creative expressions.

telephonegame.art

1 2 5

Reposted by Tara Campbell

spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 19h

If I were a DC reporter, I’d consider maybe pressing Johnson on how he reconciles these two statements.

@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, l'm a very patient guy, but l've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ..."

@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "People have got to stop framing simple policy disagreements in terms of existential threats to our democracy. You can't call the other side fascists and enemies of the state and not understand that there are some deranged people in our society who will take that as cues to act."

37 380 1.3K

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 2d

Submissions are open for one more week. Speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

23 26

Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Portland is doing it right!

This regime is a rickety treehouse full of bullies who want to force respect rather than earn it. Clowning on them strips all that posturing down to the weakness at its core.

Creative and joyful resistance is their kryptonite.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

7 15

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Foxtrot Delta Taco. (Lauren/Melusine0811) @neuroarborescent.bsky.social · 2d

I love this frog. The dude inside was sprayed but is ok.
This is what we are- joy in the face of destruction. We are love in the face of hatred. They will NOT take our joie de vivre. They will not get our silence or our compliance. However they can be invited to our rave if they stop being dicks.

1 16 35

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 2d

My editing & publishing class at Temple will be opening soon for submissions for a special online issue of Barrelhouse, with the theme "The Dirty Issue." Fiction & nonfiction up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 poems. Usual @barrelhouse.bsky.social contract & payment.

1 8 11

Reposted by Tara Campbell

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

900 9.5K 17K

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Chae! (ANTIFA Squad Leader) @smartchae.bsky.social · 4d

I can't not see it! 🤣😂

Jesse Watters IS Caesar Flickerman!!! Fox News works directly for the Capital. 😂

3 6 13

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

trib.al

590 14K 29K

Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 4d

Contrast Miller's description with the actual footage of--people in frog costumes

These people are so unserious. It's just too bad that the ramifications of their unseriousness are so very serious

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

4 8

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 4d

Registration is open now!

Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 5d

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026, and we're open for registration! It's $95, and that includes the one-day conference, 1 book, 1 meeting w an editor, and your choice of literary stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

The Barrelhouse conference, Conversations and Connections, is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026.

4 3

Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 5d

It's time

#halloween

Orange plastic Jack-o-lantern head lit from inside atop orange skeleton body standing at a balcony over an urban intersection, looking back over its shoulder

17

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 5d

All the journalists who rushed to lionize Kirk and decry political violence are gonna get right on this, right?

Right?

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

8 240 650

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Guilherme Nunes - Commissions Open!! @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 5d

penguin who doesn’t believe in aliens will be the next to be abducted

painting of a penguin posting on the internet about how he doesn't believe in aliens, but through the window there's a UFO releasing a beam to abduct him

3 88 220

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

390 2.8K 8.3K

Reposted by Tara Campbell

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

810 17K 38K

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 7d

You have to admit it’s hilarious that literally 6mos ago Argentina was the country MAGA was saying was gonna dunk on all the neolibs and show them how to run a proper economy and now they’re literally begging for (and getting!) a handout from American taxpayers.

Clown ideology. 🤡

130 1.3K 5.2K

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 6d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 7d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

65 2.3K 8.2K

Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 6d

A skull in the hand is worth...

Tiny neon yellow crocheted skull with pink facial features neatled in the palm of a hand

1 1 7

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 7d

History repeats.

280 5.6K 12K

Reposted by Tara Campbell

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 8d

No lie.

180 2.9K 9.4K

Reposted by Tara Campbell

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

1.4K 10K 29K