Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Alex Steed

@alexsteed.bsky.social

11K followers 1.3K following 5.5K posts

Co-Host of You Are Good and The OC, Again. Corn Telethon coming 09/04/2025. Manager for folks in the arts. Bewildered person. Picture taker. Zine-maker (High Occulture). Activist. Into being.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · Jun 22

I’m not even going to engage in any debates because they’re all structured by fascists to be in bad faith. No fucking war. Do whatever you can to jam up the machine. This and the genocide and the kidnappings of people on our soil and the invasion of Los Angeles is all apocalyptic, stupid and evil.

13 200 830

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 9h

I’m on Letterboxd.

boxd.it/7GD1b

Alex
Demons 1985
*
文賞
DEMONS
Watched Oct 8, 2025
You'll never look at cocaine on a naked breast the same way again.
No likes yet

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 10h

AHHHHHHHHH! What a city!

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 10h

Fucking WILD. Marcus Miller! Holy shit!

2 1

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 10h

I saw Kamasi Washington play tonight and it was—no joke—the best thing that’s ever happened.

2 38

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 18h

Also a lot of the makeup was done pre-HD and then when we shined the HD light on that work it looked big bad!

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 19h

"We took the freedom of speech away."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

2 6 22

Reposted by Alex Steed

Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 22h

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

14 170 660

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 19h

I just had lunch with my wonderful friend @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social, who I adore so much. We had a long chat about loving the pursuit for context. My people.

1 18

Reposted by Alex Steed

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I need to post about pop music way more on here

30 5 420

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 22h

Dirty and dry all day long.

Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 22h

"Am I wrong not to want to brace? I am braced all day. I want to unclench. I want to slip into something comfortable." slate.com/life/2025/10...

It’s the Quickest Way to Ruin a Great Cocktail. Thankfully, Bartenders Are Finally Cutting It Off.

The era of bracing bravado is coming to an end.

slate.com

1 4

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 23h

It's funny because I used to do pilates religiously when I was young and had no pain. I wish I'd kept up but it's never too late to return, I guess.

Reposted by Alex Steed

Deaderick M 👻🎃 @mfrederickm.bsky.social · 23h

If you can’t be bothered to stand up for bodily autonomy, freedom of expression and healthcare for all, then I truly don’t know what you’re actually *for*

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

1 8 35

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 23h

Hahahahahaha

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 23h

Hahaha the annoying thing is how quickly pain started to go away with intentional stretching. I HATE stretching.

1 2

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 23h

I was having trouble maintaining health goals so I followed the lead of some friends and signed up for a few 5K races and I've been running with Junie and doing yoga and pilates and god I hate it when getting my shit together actually feels good.

4 53

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! Good question. I think like 4 layers of foundation newly in HD.

Reposted by Alex Steed

The Funky Diabetic @fnmat.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot wait to listen to this episode after just watching Pride (2014). Was absolutely something I needed right now. What a charming and affecting movie.

With our brothers and our sisters, together we will stand
There is power in a union

You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 16d

NEW EPISODE! "All aboard the deviants bus!" In which @raxkingisdead.bsky.social shares her love for Pride (2014) with @siridahl.com and Alex and Tia Kalmaru schools Alex on Welsh pronunciation.

You Are Good

Special Guests:

Rax King
Siri Dahl
and
Tia Kalmaru

3 12

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 1d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

1 9 25

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody got an award and also their balls snipped.

Hand holds Gizmo’s CERTIFICATE OF BRAVERY while Gizmo looks at the camera while wearing a cone.

4 1 72

Reposted by Alex Steed

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 2d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

17 520 1K

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 1d

NEW EPISODE! "The Second Chance" (S2E11) In which @nikostratis.com and I try to wish the Luis Guzmánaissance into existence. Also, a very long aside about Rice-A-Roni (The San Francisco Treat).

1 3 17

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not gonna Stan any politician, of course. I just wanna be clear. Bit fuck Gavin Newsom straight to hell.

2 52

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is everything Newsom wants you to believe Newsom is, including both actually brave and seemingly in possession of an actually beating human heart.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

10 88 410

Reposted by Alex Steed

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

I think the right move here is the same as the right move for any journalist working for a suspect new boss (which has happened to almost all of us): Do exactly what you would ordinarily do, exactly the way you would ordinarily do it, until you are told point-blank that you can't. Then ask why.

David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 2d

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

3 31 180

Reposted by Alex Steed

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 1d

THE TOXIC AVENGER's fundraising theatrical run wiped the floor with medical debt, with Cineverse, Undue Medical Debt and Toxie fans helping to raise $15 million for an amazing cause.

THE TOXIC AVENGER Surpasses Fundraising Goal And Wipes Up $15 Million In Medical Debt

THE TOXIC AVENGER's fundraising theatrical run wiped the floor with medical debt, with Cineverse, Undue Medical Debt and Toxie fans helping to raise $15 million for an amazing cause.

dlvr.it

89 280