Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 4h

Here’s an incomplete list of federal data and statistics that’ve been deleted or tampered with since Trump took office.

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

1 90 180

Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 6h

Lindsey Burke, ex-Heritage Foundation policy director + lead author of Project 2025's education section, is now a top Education Dept advisor.

She wants to see a dramatic decline in public school enrollment: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/top-tru...

Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big...

talkingpointsmemo.com

2 3 9

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 19h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

28 540 1.9K

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 9h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

110 880 2.1K

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 1d

The political right's greatest project is discrediting experts. Only in a "do your own research" world can their cultural preferences - anti-abortion, anti-gender affirming care - claim equal legitimacy to the left's medically-backed positions on those issues. SCOTUS is a full partner in that effort

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

The Supreme Court's conservatives advanced the right's greater project of discrediting experts Tuesday, feigning that there is no medical consensus against conversion therapy.

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias

If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...

talkingpointsmemo.com

12 110 270

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

patrick @redford.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

defector.com

26 160 530

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 2d

Funders or groups that promote 'anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity' could be treated as domestic terrorists, under recent directives from the Trump administration.

The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition

Last month, the White House issued two executive orders that direct federal...

talkingpointsmemo.com

3 29 59

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d

DHS used to have a program to stop politically motivated violence. Under Kristi Noem, this program was stopped and replaced with the incitement of political violence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-had...

DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. Trump Largely Abandoned It.

In July, Franklin School District Superintendent Dan LeGallo got a surprise letter...

talkingpointsmemo.com

1 14 34

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 5d

-“Some events? And that’s enough to call up the National Guard?”
-“Really? A social media post is going to count as a presidential determination that you can send the National Guard into cities?"

More: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/thats-e...

‘That’s Enough To Call Up The National Guard?’ Trump-Appointed Judge Skeptical Of Portland Occupation

U.S District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, was brimming with skepticism...

talkingpointsmemo.com

23 110

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 5d

Having some degree of plausible deniability is one reason memes and cartoon imagery have gained traction in white supremacist circles. And now, some of those same memes and images are popular on the Trump administration’s social media. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...

DHS Includes ‘White Supremacist’ Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz

A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included...

talkingpointsmemo.com

3 27 66

Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 6d

The shutdown is making Republicans' punitive approach to governance clear, @davidkurtz.bsky.social, writes.

"When in power, conservatives don't run the government, they occupy it like an invading force."

talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

4 14

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6d

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:

130 360 1.4K

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

220 2.8K 5.6K

Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 7d

Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, the only House Democrat that voted for the GOP's continuing resolution, blames the shutdown on "far-left groups." talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/sh...

Government Shutdown, Day One

Follow along with our coverage here:

talkingpointsmemo.com

14 7 22

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 7d

The US Supreme Court refused to let Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook while she sues to keep her job, dealing a setback to his efforts to exert more control over the central bank. The justices deferred taking action, saying they'll hear arguments in January.
buff.ly/T6ZMXpS

2 11 58

Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 8d

"We are actually having mock conversations with students because they're not used to having a conversation. They're used to [texting]," one teacher said.

"I like to be around people. Being on a phone, I feel like it really just takes you away," a student said.

www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

New York schools' 1st week with a cellphone ban is in the books. Here's how students, staff and parents are feeling.

Schools across New York state were required to come up with their own procedures to implement the full-day ban on cellphones.

www.cbsnews.com

2 7

Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 8d

The Trump admin has cut more than $15 million in targeted violence prevention grants nationally since taking office, per @joshkovensky.bsky.social. Some addressed domestic terrorism & targeted political violence that the US has seen multiple times this year.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-had...

DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. Trump Largely Abandoned It.

In July, Franklin School District Superintendent Dan LeGallo got a surprise letter...

talkingpointsmemo.com

3 19

Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 8d

@kateriga.bsky.social + @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social are tracking shutdown hell for you 🫠

After top Dems + GOPers met w/Trump,
"Trump posted an AI deepfake video of Schumer saying Democrats are 'woke pieces of shit' w Jeffries nodding along in a sombrero"
talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/sh...

Hours Away, Government Shutdown Seems Inevitable

The government will shut down at midnight. The Senate is in session,...

talkingpointsmemo.com

4 19 40

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 8d

DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. The White House Shut It Down.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-had...

DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. Trump Largely Abandoned It.

In July, Franklin School District Superintendent Dan LeGallo got a surprise letter...

talkingpointsmemo.com

2 22 62

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12d

1. Great news for trans students in Chicago.

Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms.

Trump will now pull millions in federal funds.

"Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right."

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Chicago Public Schools Defy Trump, Reject Trans Bathroom Ban Demands

The school system has refused to capitulate, despite Trump pulling back millions in federal funds.

www.erininthemorning.com

30 830 3K

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14d

The Supreme Court has made it increasingly difficult to successfully prosecute public corruption, making it easier for people like White House “border czar” Tom Homan, who accepted $50,000 cash in a bag, to get away with alleged bribes.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/no-one-...

No One Is Sure If It’s Illegal to Accept a $50,000 Bribe Stuffed In a Cava Bag, Thanks to the Supreme Court

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

talkingpointsmemo.com

15 82 260

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14d

On sale now, hope to see you there!

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/get-y...

Get Your Tickets Now for TPM’s 25th Anniversary Celebration!

Tickets for TPM’s 25th Anniversary Celebration — a two-day event featuring a...

talkingpointsmemo.com

2 13

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 14d

People not at risk of deportation are showing up at gas stations and parking lots to help protect day laborers from ICE www.coyotemedia.org/sonoma-count...

A New Kind of Neighborhood Watch

Sonoma County’s ‘Adopt a Corner’ program aims to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE.

www.coyotemedia.org

4 63 200

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 16d

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

77 1.8K 4.1K

Reposted by Allegra Kirkland

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 14d

BREAKING

A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial.

Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

450 3.8K 12K