A Lantern of Hope
@alanternofhope.bsky.social
Multiverse cartographer, intersectional justice activist, history hobbyist, geography geek, friend to felines, and dedicated daddoo. He/Him
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The National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center. How could it not? If your venue's new leadership goes out of its way to ban drag, there's no way it can be a host for opera.
Opera's aesthetics are a key inspo for drag visuals, it has a huge queer following and a long tradition of gender-bending.
Opera's aesthetics are a key inspo for drag visuals, it has a huge queer following and a long tradition of gender-bending.
Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
The National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center. How could it not? If your venue's new leadership goes out of its way to ban drag, there's no way it can be a host for opera.
Opera's aesthetics are a key inspo for drag visuals, it has a huge queer following and a long tradition of gender-bending.
Opera's aesthetics are a key inspo for drag visuals, it has a huge queer following and a long tradition of gender-bending.
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Minnesota authorities should go by the video evidence, interview the witnesses, and get a warrant to arrest the ICE agent themselves, then.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Minnesota authorities should go by the video evidence, interview the witnesses, and get a warrant to arrest the ICE agent themselves, then.
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Spotify has DROPPED running ICE ads since the end of 2025 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I'm personally still boycotting for their CEO's investments, but still, BOYCOTTS WORK www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
I'm personally still boycotting for their CEO's investments, but still, BOYCOTTS WORK www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Spotify Stopped Running ICE Ads at the End of 2025
Spotify confirmed it stopped running ICE recruitment ads at the end of 2025 after a multi-platform campaign, a spokesperson told Rolling Stone.
www.rollingstone.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Spotify has DROPPED running ICE ads since the end of 2025 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I'm personally still boycotting for their CEO's investments, but still, BOYCOTTS WORK www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
I'm personally still boycotting for their CEO's investments, but still, BOYCOTTS WORK www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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The Polygon sale was really fucked up and caused a lot of pain for a lot of great people but it is neat to see so many of them go on to make such awesome things kotaku.com/mothership-i...
Mothership Is A New Website About Gender And Games Which Feels Like A Radical Thing To Launch In 2026 But Shouldn't Be - Kotaku
Founded by ex-Polygon editors, it's for her, them, and even him
kotaku.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:39 PM
The Polygon sale was really fucked up and caused a lot of pain for a lot of great people but it is neat to see so many of them go on to make such awesome things kotaku.com/mothership-i...
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Honestly not in the mood for defeatists who take no action EVER today.
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Honestly not in the mood for defeatists who take no action EVER today.
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For hundreds of years, the west's colonialist play, very often to their success, has been "divide and conquer."
Ethnonationalism plays very directly into that play, splitting apart united and strong nations worldwide.
They've now done it in Syria, and are trying to do it in Iran.
Stay wary.
Ethnonationalism plays very directly into that play, splitting apart united and strong nations worldwide.
They've now done it in Syria, and are trying to do it in Iran.
Stay wary.
January 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
For hundreds of years, the west's colonialist play, very often to their success, has been "divide and conquer."
Ethnonationalism plays very directly into that play, splitting apart united and strong nations worldwide.
They've now done it in Syria, and are trying to do it in Iran.
Stay wary.
Ethnonationalism plays very directly into that play, splitting apart united and strong nations worldwide.
They've now done it in Syria, and are trying to do it in Iran.
Stay wary.
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It should not have taken the murder of a woman who looks like you for you to finally come to this point.
January 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
It should not have taken the murder of a woman who looks like you for you to finally come to this point.
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The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
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It’s amazing that this needs to be repeated ad nauseam.
But what’s happening now, happened during Jim Crow,
Happened during the fight for labor organizing and the 8 hour work day in the 19th century
happens every time a stop and frisk of a Black/brown person goes wrong
Like Mikki said
But what’s happening now, happened during Jim Crow,
Happened during the fight for labor organizing and the 8 hour work day in the 19th century
happens every time a stop and frisk of a Black/brown person goes wrong
Like Mikki said
Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
January 8, 2026 at 8:31 PM
It’s amazing that this needs to be repeated ad nauseam.
But what’s happening now, happened during Jim Crow,
Happened during the fight for labor organizing and the 8 hour work day in the 19th century
happens every time a stop and frisk of a Black/brown person goes wrong
Like Mikki said
But what’s happening now, happened during Jim Crow,
Happened during the fight for labor organizing and the 8 hour work day in the 19th century
happens every time a stop and frisk of a Black/brown person goes wrong
Like Mikki said
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I feel a way about being asked to take advice from how to process the death of a woman murdered trying make sure her neighbors didn’t disappear .. six blocks from where a Black man was compressed to death
From people who can’t speak up when every Black person around them is fired or pushed out
From people who can’t speak up when every Black person around them is fired or pushed out
January 8, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I feel a way about being asked to take advice from how to process the death of a woman murdered trying make sure her neighbors didn’t disappear .. six blocks from where a Black man was compressed to death
From people who can’t speak up when every Black person around them is fired or pushed out
From people who can’t speak up when every Black person around them is fired or pushed out
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If there’s ever been a time in history to educate yourself, it’s now. We’re living through a modern war against intelligence and literacy.
January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
If there’s ever been a time in history to educate yourself, it’s now. We’re living through a modern war against intelligence and literacy.
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Because of the lack of black and brown people in it.
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
www.independent.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Because of the lack of black and brown people in it.
I’ve finally gotten to the part of my Star Trek rewatch where I’ve started DS9.
I missed this show so freaking much.
I missed this show so freaking much.
January 6, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I’ve finally gotten to the part of my Star Trek rewatch where I’ve started DS9.
I missed this show so freaking much.
I missed this show so freaking much.
Dammit, I totally just realized what Captain Seven’s command thing should be:
“Warp may now commence.”
“Warp may now commence.”
January 2, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Dammit, I totally just realized what Captain Seven’s command thing should be:
“Warp may now commence.”
“Warp may now commence.”
The biggest reason I want to seize control of the entertainment industry is so I can make dreams like CJA’s come true.
In the unlikely event I ever have a massive hit TV show, I hope I have the guts to make the final episode a weird as fuck trippy freak show that makes the final episode of The Prisoner look like the Home Shopping Channel by comparison.
Viewer's brains melting right and left. Go the full gonzo.
Viewer's brains melting right and left. Go the full gonzo.
January 2, 2026 at 6:40 AM
The biggest reason I want to seize control of the entertainment industry is so I can make dreams like CJA’s come true.
I just gotta say that “Ode to Spot” is the single greatest moment in all of TNG.
December 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I just gotta say that “Ode to Spot” is the single greatest moment in all of TNG.
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As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down. trib.al/iSSkej1
The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification
As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down.
trib.al
December 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down. trib.al/iSSkej1
If Andreas Katsulas hadn’t died, I have no doubt he would have returned as Tomalak in Picard.
What an epic that would have been…
What an epic that would have been…
December 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
If Andreas Katsulas hadn’t died, I have no doubt he would have returned as Tomalak in Picard.
What an epic that would have been…
What an epic that would have been…
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Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
For the price Netflix paid for WB, we could have had seven seasons of Raising Dion, Sense8, I Am Not Okay With This, Anne With an E, Gentified, Age of Resistance, Dead Boy Detectives, The Brothers Sun, Shadow and Bone, Santa Clarita Diet, Warrior Nun, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, First Kill…
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
For the price Netflix paid for WB, we could have had seven seasons of Raising Dion, Sense8, I Am Not Okay With This, Anne With an E, Gentified, Age of Resistance, Dead Boy Detectives, The Brothers Sun, Shadow and Bone, Santa Clarita Diet, Warrior Nun, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, First Kill…
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Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.