Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The father of a family in our apartment complex has been kidnapped by ICE.

My daughter found out when she went to walk our dog and heard one of the children crying from the hallway.

12 130 370

Karen Meisner @whatnext.bsky.social · 1d

thank YOU sir!

1

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

There was never going to be a moment when everyone—everyone in government, everyone in media, everyone in the population—was roused to action at the same time. We're turning a battleship. And Pritzker understands that.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

12 250 900

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

91 710 2.6K

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

"DO SOMETHING"
(people do things)
"FUCK YOU, THOSE ARE THE WRONG THINGS"

...is quickly becoming my least favorite discourse.

6 28

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1d

New season of Fleabag has taken a grim turn

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

2 9

Karen Meisner @whatnext.bsky.social · 1d

A luxurious pacing is the magical shift these books accomplish, and the experience of reading them that way is a joy

Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely love people saying they're taking their time reading these. So much of life is whirling glurge. I didn't want to dole out more. There're word choices you can sit with, unapologetically poetic action sequences, dialogue at times bordering on non sequitur: things that invite a slowdown.

The fantasy novel BREATH WARMTH & DREAM and its sequel AMNANDI SAILS side by side on a glass table.

1 1 2

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 2d

I've read the first one of these and do highly recommend to folks looking for a book that prompts you to slow down and savor the journey

Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely love people saying they're taking their time reading these. So much of life is whirling glurge. I didn't want to dole out more. There're word choices you can sit with, unapologetically poetic action sequences, dialogue at times bordering on non sequitur: things that invite a slowdown.

1 2 7

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 2d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

45 650 2.8K

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 1d

No boo. That’s Timothèe Chalamet.

Duvet is when you put liquor in a hot pan and flames burst out.

LadiDadi @loki-013.bsky.social · 1d

Oh nah, you're thinking of richocet.

Duvet is that actor from Call me by your name that's dating Kylie Jenner

Poor Righteous Teacher @brothaskeeper.bsky.social · 1d

My friend, you're thinking about touché.

A duvet is when a projectile rebounds one or more times off a surface, or the title of a 1991 film starring Denzel Washington.

2 5 22

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

This is hilarious

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

2 50 280

Reposted by Karen Meisner

AnnaMolly will typo @anna-molly.bsky.social · 1d

My dog is very loudly cleaning her privates, like a show off

5 14 50

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

110 1.9K 7.1K

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 2d

Hundreds of people arrested by ICE agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new fed. ruling.

|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/

Hundreds Could Be Freed From ICE Custody After Warrantless Arrest Ruling

Immigration attorneys said they have already identified more than 200 arrests that potentially violate the consent decree. However, they said those 200 arrests are likely "just the tip of the iceberg....

blockclubchicago.org

34 440 1.1K

Reposted by Karen Meisner

EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 2d

Black stories are unfairly targeted in recent book bans. In the last six years, the book banning movement has increased significantly.

A substantial amount of the ire is directed at Black authors and works highlighting Black stories.

Book Bannings Targeting Black Authors and Perspectives Are Skyrocketing

Books by Black authors are being disproportionately banned at an alarming rate.

buff.ly

2 42 81

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so damn spooked by this headline

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

13 120 520

Karen Meisner @whatnext.bsky.social · 2d

Which is a job Meghan McCain couldn’t do, so you’d be safe there

1 9

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning from the dysregulation disco — otherwise known as my classroom over these last two weeks. I am not sure exactly why it's been so rough, but I have my suspicions that the fascism has something to do with it.

Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 3d

Reminding myself it is still early in the year & there are no shortcuts to building a community of care.

I want to resist the coercive pressures of the calendar and curriculum. I want to claim our classroom as a sacred space for unwieldy and deep reflection, learning, and expression. Our curiosity, investigations, and conflicts will be too big and too wild to fit into strictly quarantined lessons, class periods, units, quarters, semesters, and grading windows. I am not interested in penalizing, punishing, regulating, or controlling them. I want students to be able to breathe. I want to be able to breathe. Breathing takes time. I want to offer comfort to my students by honoring their youth; as an adult, I want to lighten their load as they reckon with inheriting what is a very, very scary world. But I cannot offer comfort to those I do not know. And students would be foolish to let themselves be known by someone they do not trust. Trust, like breath, cannot be established without time.

1 10

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 3d

A Star Wars Sister Act crossover film called Force of Habit

9 42 200

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Becks @boonrs.bsky.social · 3d

"When I was younger, I thought I was missing some basic psychological component—a psychic gasket that allowed other people to move through the world, seeing what I saw, without reacting. Unbothered. Uncurious. I thought that the absence of that missing part was eventually going to kill me."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

18 62

Reposted by Karen Meisner

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 3d

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

bit.ly

3 400 1.4K

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

I like my trainer for many reasons but one of the top reasons has nothing to do with form or expertise. This dude sincerely loves alliteration and will talk about it every chance he gets. 😂

3 2 140

Reposted by Karen Meisner

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3d

😂

310 1.1K 5.5K

Reposted by Karen Meisner

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 5d

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

12 190 520