Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Beingsass

Abbey 8647 @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 5h

Welcome to permanent Republican rule, courtesy of the Supreme Court.

Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling

Many experts are forecasting the end of a key provision of election law — enabling Republicans to shore up their advantage in the House, according to a new report.

www.politico.com

1 1

Reposted by Beingsass

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 5h

5 23

Reposted by Beingsass

A [rapey] Felon President @afelonpresident.com · 5h

Trump picks a fight with two jungle countries and then stops paying troops.

I said, 'fuck no' when Panama came up in 87, and landed in dry heat. Very best part of the desert is less livestock and smaller man-eating bugs.

1 2

Reposted by Beingsass

Reality Ausetkmt @ausetkmt.bsky.social · 5h

I absolutely love your idea and I think that if they started getting a shitload of calls from people all over the country they would not be able to just say well this is a crack pot because you don't get 100,000 Crack-Pot calls saying exactly the same thing.

Sounds like a plan to me. I like it

3 8

Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 5h

This is infuriating.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

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

Reposted by Beingsass

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 16h

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 16h

CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

2025 (January estimate, adjusted to fix issues) 2025 CBO estimate (remove student loan one-time revaluation) 2025 (adjusted for student loans) vs. 2025 projection (adjusted to fix issues)
Spending 7061 7166 105
Program spending 6108 6205 97
Interest 953 961 9
Revenue 5163 5226 63
Primary deficit 945 979 34
Total deficit 1898 1940 42

37 460 1.2K

Reposted by Beingsass

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16h

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

5 110 280

Reposted by Beingsass

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

Softening up the public. If they’re saying they’re talking about it, they’re going to use it.

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

50 110 310

Reposted by Beingsass

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 15h

2 11 52

Reposted by Beingsass

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 15h

Holy crap.

For non-Jews, please understand that Yom Kippur is THE most important & solemn holy day of the year for us.

It's a Big Fucking Deal, and there's no way that the Post didn't know about it.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

8 32 77

Reposted by Beingsass

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 15h

ICE brought a videographer to record its criminality.

3 17 56

Reposted by Beingsass

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 15h

"Originalist" on Trump's Supreme Court appears to mean "no amendments allowed."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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."

4 11

Reposted by Beingsass

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

Trump thought threats he couldn’t follow through on would be enough

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h

The Shutdown, Zombie Politics and How Trump Stumbled Into Not Being All-Powerful talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

The Shutdown, Zombie Politics and How Trump Stumbled Into Not Being All-Powerful

It’s always a complicated matter to say who is “winning” a shutdown...

talkingpointsmemo.com

4 49 210

Reposted by Beingsass

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 15h

Jack Posobiec is at Trump’s “Antifa roundtable” at the White House today. Last week we reported about Posobiec voting in a state he didn’t seem to live in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

25 140 640

Reposted by Beingsass

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15h

At Yale Political Union, 72% of students voted against Curtis Yarvin’s resolution to “end the democratic experiment.”

He debated a Yale Law professor on the question.

New rule: Anyone who “debates” Yarvin is an even bigger and more desperate dork.

yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...

Yarvin argues for American monarchy at closed-door debate

Curtis Yarvin, who is known for his anti-democratic views, argued to “end the democratic experiment” against Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld in front of the Yale Political Union Tuesday evenin...

yaledailynews.com

7 22 82

Reposted by Beingsass

⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 14h

1 6 14

Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 6h

You'd think someone would object... 🧵

Molly White @molly.wiki · 14h

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news

Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 6h

@gallego.senate.gov Listen up!

Molly White @molly.wiki · 14h

America’s largest union federation, @aflcio.org, has opposed proposed crypto market legislation as “the perfect environment for the next financial crisis to germinate”. Whether anyone’s read the letter yet is another question, because the shutdown is stalling legislative work.

In Congress
The AFL-CIO, the largest federation of US unions, has slammed proposed crypto market structure legislation in a letter to the Senate Banking Committee. They write, “As drafted, this bill will enable the crypto industry to operate in wider and deeper ways in our financial system without sufficient oversight or meaningful safeguards.” They urge Senators to oppose the proposed bill, citing concerns that it will poorly regulate assets that may be incorporated into pension funds, and that it would increase financial instability. “This legislation provides the perfect environment for the next financial crisis to germinate,” they write.11

Whether anyone’s actually read the letter is unclear, as the government enters its second week of shutdown. With many congressional staff furloughed and legislative business largely stalled, the shutdown has thrown a wrench in the crypto industry’s hopes to get market structure legislation expeditiously passed into law. The industry had been pushing for quick passage before midterm campaigning begins and before a potentially less crypto-friendly Congress could make their preferred rules more challenging to implement [I84, 85].

Reposted by Beingsass

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14h

MSNBC published my response to ICE's baseless claims about me. "I am more interested in ICE officer safety than ICE itself is. ICE cares more about running up the deportation numbers than protecting its officers." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

2 19 81

Reposted by Beingsass

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 14h

JIBBERS CRABST ON A STICK.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Democrats want to approve healthcare for illegals coming into our country, many of them coming from prisons and mental institutions and drug dealers. We don't want that for our people because that's gonna destroy the healthcare that we already have. We'd like to make Obamacare better."

6 6 33

Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 6h

Interesting..

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

New Harrispoll on US sanctions on Russia. Those Republican responses are very interesting.

OVER THREE IN FOUR SUPPORT FURTHER SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA TO END THE WAR, AND MOST VOTERS THINK GOVERNMENTS THAT BUY RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS SHOULD INCUR TARIFFS
ARVARD CAPI
IARRISYULL
Do you support or oppose additional economic sanctions on Russia to try to force it to end the war?
77%
Do you think that governments that buy oil and gas from Russia should be punished with tariffs or should they not be punished for buying that oil?
57%
23%
•Support
• Oppose
Column %
DEM
GOP
Support
71%
86%
Oppose
29%
14%
IND/OTH
72%
28%
UKR0901: Do you support or oppost additional economic sanctions on Russia to try to lorce it to end the war?
UKR0902: Do you think that governments that buy oil and gas from Russia should be punished with tarifs or should they not be punished for buying that of?
•Punished
Column %
Punished
Not punished
43%
• Not punished
DEM
55%
GOP
45%
66%
34%
IND/OTH
51%
49%
MOST VOTERS SUPPORT ARMING UKRAINE, SANCTIONING RUSSIA, AND PREFER EUROPE BUY U.S. OIL OVER RUSSIA'S
HARVARD CAPS
HARRIS POLL
Do you think Europe should stop buying oil from Russia and buy it from the United States instead if it were practical?
Should the Trump administration continue to provide weaponry to Ukraine and impose further economic sanctions on Russia if it refuses to negotiate and prolongs the bloodshed, or should it not do so for fear of antagonizing Russia?
79%
68%
Aug: 67%
32%
Column %
Yes
No
• Yes
DEM
76%
24%
21%
• No
GOP
86%
14%
•Continue to provide weaponry and impose sanctions
• Not continue for fear of antagonizing
IND/OTH
74%
26%
Column %

GOP
IND/OTH
Continue to provide weaponry and impose sanctions
72%
73%
60%
Not continue for fear of antagonizing
28%
27%
40%
UKR0903: Do you think Europe should stop buying of from Russia and buy it from the United States instead if it were practical? (
(UKRON Should the trumn atminstration continue to rovide weaponry to Utaine nd im coster economie cantions on assurE reduses to nasatete ans alongs the leadther or should ? not do so or tear of an…

1 1

Reposted by Beingsass

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13h

The most frustrating thing about this war is that the US could step in forcefully now with harsh sanctions against Russia and a large military package for Ukraine with ranged weapons as the centrepiece, and the war would end soon with a Russian defeat.

19 130 510

Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 6h

Very ugly. That is what he is.

1

Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 6h

It's disillusioning that SCOTUS has turned the strength of our legal system into the strength of a cobweb.

Reposted by Beingsass

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13h

The question isn’t whether ICE has become secret police or its functioning legally within very bad law. Very bad law made it possible for form secret police.

13 84 400