LightNews LightNews
colleenthy.bsky.social
@colleenthy.bsky.social
26 followers 27 following 1 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Thousands of you shared heartbreaking and maddening stories with me about rising health care costs. But the fight is far from over.

If you're willing to record your story, we can make sure GOP lawmakers see and hear the direct impact of their policy failures: wintheera.myctbl.com/share-your-s...
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted
marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, a Trump-appointed Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, has been serving unlawfully in the nation’s largest federal district — the third such finding against a prosecutor installed by President Donald Trump.
Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Reposted
andycraig.bsky.social
Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 24
Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."
September 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Reposted
thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
US Weekly COVID update: Sep 22, 2025

🔸1 in 57 Actively Infectious
🔸857,000 New Daily Infections
🔸6,450,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸177,000,000 Infections in 2025
🔸323,000 to 1,290,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,800 to 3,100 Weekly Deaths

Source: pmc19.com/data/
This image is a COVID-19 Heat Map of the U.S., dated September 22, 2025, based on CDC wastewater data. Key Features Color Scale: Very High (dark purple) High (red) Moderate (orange) Low (yellow) Very Low (light yellow) Grey = No Data Diagonal stripes = Limited Coverage Map Findings: Most states are shaded dark purple or red, indicating High or Very High transmission. 29 states (30 when including North Dakota by imputation) and Washington, D.C. fall into this category. Transmission is shifting from the South and West toward other regions. Notes The underlying wastewater data are a week old, so some states may have already peaked. Around 60% of transmission happens after the peak, highlighting the need for continued precautions. California and several other western/southern states show especially high levels. This image is a data sheet titled “National COVID-19 Estimates (U.S.) – September 22, 2025” from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC). It provides key figures on infections, Long COVID, and excess deaths: Infections Proportion Actively Infectious: 1 in 57 people (1.8%) New Daily Infections: 857,000 Infections in the Past Week: 6.45 million Infections in 2025 (to date): 177 million Cumulative Infections per Person: 4.64 Long COVID From New Daily Infections: 43,000 to 171,000 cases From New Weekly Infections: 323,000 to 1.29 million cases Excess Deaths From New Daily Infections: 240 to 410 deaths From New Weekly Infections: 1,800 to 3,100 deaths Notes Daily infections have declined sharply from peak levels, similar to trends seen two years ago. Long-term health impacts and excess deaths remain significant. California is disproportionately affected due to its population size and scale of surges.
September 23, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Reposted
xitter-refugee.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Reposted
thebandcake.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Reposted
madz123.bsky.social
yeah …
April 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Reposted
marcelias.bsky.social
Conservative and liberal judges across the country this week ruled against President Donald Trump in at least 11 different lawsuits challenging his administration’s immigration, elections and anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Courts Handed Trump A Slew of Legal Losses This Week
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Reposted
marcelias.bsky.social
Democracy Docket is currently tracking more than 200 cases that will decide the fate of our democracy. www.democracydocket.com/cases/case-s...
Active Cases
Learn about voting rights lawsuits moving through the courts.
www.democracydocket.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted
billmontei.bsky.social
Keukenhof, Netherlands 🇳🇱
#photography
April 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted
madz123.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reposted
propublica.org
NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social
NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire
A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.
propub.li
April 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reposted
madz123.bsky.social
Damn it! Anyone else?
March 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reposted
noahshachtman.bsky.social
NEW: The FBI's biggest, most important field office has been reprioritized to a single task: redacting the Jeffrey Epstein files.

By me in @vanityfair.com...

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...
“Ludicrous” Situation: Epstein Case Review Takes Over FBI’s New York Office
The bureau’s New York field office normally chases drug dealers and spies. Right now, according to multiple sources, priority one is redacting the sex trafficker’s case files.
www.vanityfair.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reposted
annabower.bsky.social
Here is the full text of Rachel Cohen’s firm-wide email:
Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, (i) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here. When I went to law school and to Skadden, I did so in pursuit of agency. I was driven by a desire to be in rooms where decision-makers were, to get to play a role in things that mattered, because things felt so needlessly terrible. It never occurred to me that the people in those rooms might feel that they were powerless. I am forced to hope that our lack of response to the Trump administration's attacks on our peers, both those at other large firms and the many people in this country with far fewer resources, is rooted in feelings of fear and powerlessness, as opposed to tacit agreement or desire to maximize profit. I still hope that is true. But it has not yet been borne out. It feels mortifying to say "I suspect you know who I am," but I suspect you know who I am. Over the last few weeks, I have devoted an inordinate amount of time trying to leverage various relationships and privileges to get our firm and broader industry to admit that we are in the throes of early-stage authoritarianism and that we are uniquely positioned to halt it. There is an open letter (now signed by over 600 other AmLaw 200 associates, many of them at this firm), mainstream media coverage and an oped explaining why I feel this way. To anyone who feels sympathetic to the views I've espoused but wonders why I have taken the path I have: on Thursday, March 6, after the issuance of the Perkins Executive Order, I sent emails to multiple trusted partners in management asking to help with whatever response we coordinated. One of them went unanswered. One of them replied, "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your With gratitude and ur... "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly. I did all of these things out of hope that we would do the right thing if given time and opportunity. The firm has been given time and opportunity to do the right thing. Thus far, we have not. This is a moment that demands urgency. Whether we are failing to meet it because we are unprepared or because we don't wish to is irrelevant to me— and to the world —where the outcome is the same. If we were going to resist, we would have done so already. If we were not going to respond to the EEOC (a refusal that would be fully legal), the firm would have already told us. This is the first firmwide email that has been sent on this topic. What. Are. We. Doing. Colleagues, if you question if it is as bad as you think it is, it is ten times worse. Whether what we measure is the cowardice in face of lost profits, or the proximity to authoritarianism, or the trauma inflicted on our colleagues who are nonwhite, or the disappointment that I feel in this moment, take what you suspect and multiply it by a factor of ten. Act accordingly. I recognize not everyone is positioned as I am, and cannot act the same way. But do not "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly. I did all of these things out of ho… Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't. To the many superiors, support staff and friends that I know I disappoint by making this announcement firmwide instead of talking to you first, I sincerely apologize. There are so many thank yous that I have for so many people at this firm. Please know that if you suspect that you have helped me or taught me or cared for me, that I agree and am eternally grateful. In the coming days, I will make every effort to reach out to you separately, but there is urgency here that makes it impossible to go to each of you first. I will do everything in my power to mitigate difficulties caused by my unexpected departure. Like any self-important adolescent, I spent most of my high school history classes wondering what I would do in the moments before true horror or chaos or where my values were tested and demanded great sacrifice. I do not wonder anymore. I know who I am. I thought I knew who we all were. Thank you for the opportunity. My personal email is cc'd. I wish each of you the best, and that you use the privileges you hold to work for the best for others. Rachel Rachel Cohen
March 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reposted
radleybalko.bsky.social
Every day this administration finds new ways — petty and profound, symbolic and consequential, buffoonish incompetent and cartoonishly evil — to embarrass the people it serves.
March 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Reposted
marcelias.bsky.social
I will save everyone the time. No, he doesn't.
March 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reposted
muellershewrote.com
I wish I could have been a fly on the wall the moment a 19 year old DOGEbag got access to the VA system only to realize the VA still uses VISTA - a proprietary MUMPS-based programming language from 1978.
March 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Reposted
lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted
just-jack-1.bsky.social
Word on the street: Mark is sharp, has zero felony convictions, knows what words mean, actually understands the effect of tariffs and didn't have to take a dementia test.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Mark Carney to be next Canada PM after winning Liberal leadership race
Former central banker will be only second prime minister in Canadian history without a seat in parliament
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted
just-jack-1.bsky.social
This guy will not rest until there is a mental disorder named after him.
March 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reposted
youranoncentral.bsky.social
Print and distribute. #3E #TeslaTakeDown
SELL YOUR TESLAS DUMP YOUR STOCK! #TESLATAKEDOWN STOP JOIN MUSK THE NOW! PROTEST
March 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted
irishrainforest.bsky.social
Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?

Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Learning from an awe-inspiring immense ecosystem that has returned to life
Rewilding ecologist and author Eoghan Daltun visited Costa Rica to see first-hand how the country has managed over the last 30 years to reverse one of the worst deforestation rates in all Latin Americ...
www.irishexaminer.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted
just-jack-1.bsky.social
Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM