Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

404 Media @404media.co · 19h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

55 540 880

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

57 670 4.5K

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

180 2.1K 9.4K

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4d

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

48 460 2.2K

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 9d

“He believes in science”

Hickenlooper, Bennet Announce Support for Chris Wright's Nomination
A Coloradan, Wright has been nominated to serve as Secretary of Energy
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet announced their support for the confirmation of Chris Wright to be Secretary of Energy. Wright's nomination will have a vote in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today before advancing to the full Senate.
"Chris Wright is a scientist who has dedicated his life to the study and use of energy. He believes in science and supports the research that will deliver the affordable, reliable, and clean energy that will not only lower costs but make our country more secure. While we don't always agree, we will work together because none of us have four years to wait to act," said Hickenlooper.
"Chris Wright is a successful Colorado entrepreneur with deep expertise in energy innovation and technology. He is passionate about strengthening America's energy independence and lowering costs for Colorado families.
While we don't agree on everything, we look forward to working with him to ensure Colorado continues to lead the country in energy production and innovation," said Bennet

10 19

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

210 710 4.7K

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 15d

Here's a story I reported in 2023 in Pueblo County, Colorado, which shifted 7 points towards Republicans in 2024 despite being a huge beneficiary of IRA-fueled clean energy investment: coloradonewsline.com/2023/10/12/p...

By any objective measure, Pueblo is well on its way to fulfilling Gradisar's hopes, and has already established itself as an epicenter of the global energy transition. But if the green economy is turning things around for Pueblo as a whole, it isn't easy to see it in the pocketbooks of people around town. Incomes here are roughly 30% lower than the statewide average, a gap that hasn't narrowed over the last decade. Population growth remains slow, and local tax revenues are mostly flat.
Should it trouble the climate movement, and Democrats looking to capitalize on their leadership in the global energy transition, that an old-economy city establishing itself in the epicenter of the new economy doesn't exactly feel like a boomtown?

In formal interviews and casual conversation, few Pueblo residents cite the impact of green jobs or IRA investment without specific prompting. They're more likely to note the proliferation of marijuana farms in the surrounding Arkansas Valley - Pittsburgh of the West, meet the "Napa Valley of cannabis" - or the county's booming health care industry, another development Pueblo has in common with many Rust Belt cities.
"Talk about big employers in this town - Parkview (Medical Center), they are just expanding and expanding," said Kathryn Adams, who's called Pueblo home for decades along with her husband, John Norton, a former business reporter for the Pueblo Chieftain.

For Bennet and other congressional Democrats, selling communities like Pueblo on the benefits of the energy transition is a political necessity, as the party looks to defend its climate agenda at the polls and fight off any GOP attempts, now or in the future, to roll back Biden's signature accomplishment.
That's not a task made easier by the structure of the climate law, even if its scope is far more ambitious than any federal effort to date. Nothing like the Green New Deal emerged from the 117th Congress. No federal agency will unfurl its banner in Pueblo to herald its green jobs boom as part of an important national public works project.
When the final phase of CS Wind's factory expansion is completed in 2028, the city will owe the impact of hundreds of millions of dollars in local investment to a few submerged tax provisions in the quixotically-named Inflation Reduction Act.

On multiple sides, the Comanche plant is now surrounded by Pueblo's energy future: solar farms generating hundreds of megawatts of zero-emissions energy simply by soaking up the abundant southern Colorado sunshine. As real property assets, they're a poor substitute for Comanche's boilers; Pueblo County only supported early retirement of Unit 3 after a settlement with Xcel and the state that guarantees a $30 million annual property-tax payment will continue for a decade after its closure.
What's more, the only ones at work here, beneath the shade of the solar panels on a hot August day, are the sheep, grazing on prairie grass as part of an "agrivoltaics" initiative of the kind supported by a new state grant program. Though there are already more Americans employed today by the fast-growing clean energy sector than by fossil fuels, in blue-collar towns like Pueblo, it can be easy to forget it.
Workers at CS Wind aren't unionized. Though wages there and in the clean energy sector generally are higher than for many of Pueblo's retail or service jobs, they are also, in many cases, lower than wages for the best union jobs at the coal plant or the steel mill. The widespread perception among fossil-fuel workers, said Smith of the SMART union, is that the energy transition will mean a step down in pay and benefits.
"The jobs in solar and wind and the renewable sector don't pay the same as the unionized jobs at the power plant, at the railroad, at the coal mine," Smith said. "Even the non-union coal mine in Colorado still pays significantly well, because they have to compete."

2 8 26

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 18d

The round-up.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

Reflections on Free Speech; The Lost Art of Debate; Machiavelli on ‘Good’ Cruelty; When Hitchens was Great

Reading, Watching 09.21.25

www.unpopularfront.news

120 920 5.9K

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18d

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

390 2.8K 14K

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

90 6.2K 34K

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 19d

He's turning into Ursula Le Guin

Pic of Jay Leno speaking in defense of Jimmy Kimmel and he's got the Le Guin shaggy bowl cut

73 110 1.5K

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 20d

"[F]ear is a weapon. Fear is a force multiplier. ... [T]he modern dictatorship does not need to rely on bloodcurdling terror of torture and death so much as the fear of nuisance, the fear of trouble, the fear of harassment."

This Is It

Obedience and Support are the Same

www.unpopularfront.news

4

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

Max Read @maxread.info · 26d

im hearing he was a disturbed person with functionally illegible politics

Max Read @maxread.info · 28d

not an iron law or anything but basically every assassination attempt on a political figure over the last 20 years has turned out to be driven by a disturbed person with functionally illegible politics

8 26 230

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 26d

At LibsofTikTok's direction, Colorado Republicans are organizing to call for the firing of this state employee, who says nothing in this post that could be construed as celebrating Kirk's death or supporting violence. A retaliatory purge for political speech underway.

Tweet from Rose Pugliese: "I’m calling on @jaredpolis to immediately fire this state employee for attacking the late Charlie Kirk. Political violence is unacceptable against everyone, which a supposed mental health professional should know!"

The screenshotted post reads:

"If you haven't said anything about the countless mass shootings, school shootings, or shit about ice raids, palestine, Black Lives Matter, and the violation of rights of LGBTQIA folks, women, or folks without access to shelter, food, clean water but want to talk about how we should/should not feel or react to how a pro-gun, pro-violence dude died via gunshot literally shut the fuck up and talk to yourself.
Do some self reflection and interrogation of why you speak up for a white man who spews horrid shit against every marginalized community.
No heart? Pleeeeeease look at who and what you're speaking up for."

1 10 29

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 26d

basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 26d

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

12 940 5.1K

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

Man. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

"This news conference is very clearly a plea for help. Officials have given no indication that they know the gunman’s identity, nor where he went. 'We need as much help as we can possibly get,' Gov. Spencer Cox said."

1 2 12

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

Ah.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27d

NBC News: "Is it your understanding that [Charlie Kirk's shooter] may be close by or still in Utah?"

The commissioner of Utah’s Department of Public Safety: "We have no idea"

3 2 12

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

To be at the end of day two and still just parceling this stuff out and asking for the public's help... does not seem great.

ABC4 Utah @abc4utah.bsky.social · 27d

The FBI has released a video of the suspect that allegedly shot and killed political activist Charlie Kirk at an event held at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

Watch the full video here: https://tinyurl.com/ycxun27u

2 2 15

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

The Post reports social media accounts apparently belonging to the suspect are filled with white supremacist and antisemitic content, and a fascination with Columbine and other mass shootings: www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

JeffCo sheriff's office in a media briefing just now described the suspect as being "radicalized" by an "extremist network," but said further details would be provided later.

Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 28d

UPDATED: A juvenile male suspect died on Wednesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that he sustained after shooting and injuring two fellow students at Evergreen High School, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said.

2 2 11

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 27d

an editor only leaves a sentence like this in if they hate the writer

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28d

in case you think we are exaggerating, behold The Sentence

6 5 67

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

Here are the reporter's full comments. The most he actually says here is to imply that he "refus(es) to mourn" Kirk and "decline(s) to respect" him (while also distancing himself from those who are "celebrating" his death).

Posts from @GeraldBourguet:

"Political differences" are not the same thing as spewing hateful rhetoric on a daily basis, and refusing to mourn a life devoted to that cause is not the same thing as celebrating gun violence. Just so we're 100% clear on that.

"He was a father"

Half of y'all didn't give a DAMN about doing anything to stop gun violence when the victims of mass shootings were LITERAL children. And those kids weren't bigots spreading genocidal propaganda, or a mindset he directly fed into with this Holy Grail of Ironies:

If you're saddened by today's "political violence," horrified by the video, or repulsed by my response, ask yourself why your reaction was different when it came to school shootings, mass deportations or the HUNDREDS of videos of horrific murders in Gaza (which Kirk cheered on)

Truly don't care if you think it's insensitive or poor timing to decline to respect an evil man who died. Too many of you are more concerned with being polite and *appearing* to be good people rather than showing some damn backbone and standing on principal to condemn hate

2 1 8

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

A Denver-based sports media company fired a reporter for social media posts critical of Kirk's long history of hateful rhetoric:

MrBuckBuck @mrbuckbucknba.bsky.social · 27d

AZCentral: PHNX Sports Suns writer Gerald Bourguet fired after Charlie Kirk posts

Phoenix Suns beat reporter Gerald Bourguet has been let go from PHNX Sports for expressing opinions about the Charlie Kirk shooting.

www.azcentral.com/story/sports...

PHNX Sports Suns writer Gerald Bourguet fired after Charlie Kirk posts

Phoenix Suns reporter Gerald Bourguet has been fired over comments he made about Charlie Kirk's death on social media, PHNX Sports said Thursday.

www.azcentral.com

4 14 17

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

JeffCo sheriff's office in a media briefing just now described the suspect as being "radicalized" by an "extremist network," but said further details would be provided later.

Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 28d

UPDATED: A juvenile male suspect died on Wednesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that he sustained after shooting and injuring two fellow students at Evergreen High School, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said.

2 injured in shooting at Evergreen High School; suspected shooter dead | Colorado Newsline

Gov. Jared Polis said that he was “closely monitoring” the situation and that state troopers were assisting in the response.

coloradonewsline.com

7

Reposted by Chase Woodruff

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 27d

NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:

According to a preliminary internal report circulated inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal and local officials recovered ammunition with the shooter’s rifle that appeared to be engraved with statements “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

But a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information.

150 1.3K 4K