Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Elemen

D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 1d

This could only be true if Frey's critics somehow tricked him into lying about banning no-knock warrants, issuing more vetoes of council majority votes than any mayor, appointing political patronage failures in important city staff positions, alienating civil servants,

3 17 55

Reposted by Elemen

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

31 290 1K

Reposted by Elemen

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

36 250 1.4K

Reposted by Elemen

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

ACAB includes you and your doorbell camera:

"texas deputies did investigate this woman's abortion as a ‘death investigation,’ they did use flock safety’s ALPR network to track her down, and they did consult prosecutors about charging her."

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

5 58 140

Reposted by Elemen

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

there is no need to take tactical social movement advice from former fbi agents posting on social media

12 170 900

Reposted by Elemen

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

trib.al

840 7.6K 16K

Reposted by Elemen

Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 5d

[Traffic Violence]

Minneapolis:
A community member of color was biking to a social justice event last weekend & was hit by a driver, on purpose, multiple times in the Phillips West neighborhood.

He's in the hospital with 12 broken ribs, but is expected to make a full recovery.

1/2

7 24 93

Elemen @elemen.bsky.social · 5d

Your daily reminder @petebuttigieg.bsky.social is a complete piece of trash.

1

Reposted by Elemen

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

72 790 2.7K

Reposted by Elemen

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 8d

Mahmoud Khalil Hails Judge’s Scathing Ruling Against Trump Efforts to Deport Pro-Palestinian Students

Mahmoud Khalil Hails Ruling Against Trump Deportation Effort Targeting Pro-Palestinian Students

A Reagan-appointed judge has issued a scathing ruling rebuking the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestine students. Judge William G. Young called the case AAUP v. Rubio “perhaps the most im...

www.democracynow.org

5 40 170

Reposted by Elemen

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 7d

Israel has intercepted dozens of boats carrying humanitarian aid towards Gaza.

Mere condemnations are "not good enough anymore,” says Saif Abukeshek, a Palestinian activist based in Barcelona, who demands concrete action in solidarity with those on the Global Sumud Flotilla.

4 92 190

Reposted by Elemen

antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 7d

Oh buddy they’re doing far more than that truthout.org/articles/sex...

2 15

Reposted by Elemen

CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 7d

US measles total climbs to 1,544 as cases spike in Minnesota

All of Minnesota's 10 new cases were unvaccinated, including 7 in families with recent domestic travel and 3 in international travelers.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

3 27 40

Reposted by Elemen

Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 8d

They found 38 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at Immaculate Conception Mission in South Dakota and it didn't make the news outside of Indian Country.

3 1.2K 2.5K

Reposted by Elemen

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.

51 300 1.4K

Reposted by Elemen

It’s Julie. Dr. Tilsen, if you’re nasty. @queeringtherapist.bsky.social · 8d

Fucking stop it. Stop fucking individualizing & essentializing social-cultural-institutional practices& ideologies that reflect results of systemic patriarchy & white supremacy.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

1 8 20

Elemen @elemen.bsky.social · 12d

Lynx down 2-1 and getting thoroughly out-coached.

Reposted by Elemen

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.

I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

160 2K 4.7K

Elemen @elemen.bsky.social · 13d

Stupid and untrained are quite the combination.

1 2 19

Reposted by Elemen

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13d

yes, the brave soldiers who murdered 300 almost entirely unarmed Lakota, including 44 women and 17 children who they had told to make camp

they took them down with the 1890s version of a machine gun as they tried to flee the first shots

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 13d

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

11 87 260

Elemen @elemen.bsky.social · 13d

Never underestimate how many liberals despise our unhoused neighbors.

Reposted by Elemen

Medic Kim @medickimw.bsky.social · 13d

There’s bodycam video of a nurse giving BAC info to a cop despite the patient refusing and no warrant obtained.

She’s on the hook criminally and civilly now & is going to lose her job (definitely) & her license (probably) while the cop faces zero consequences.

Stop playing cop as a HCP.

2 13 84

Elemen @elemen.bsky.social · 13d

@ryangrim.bsky.social making the point that the shooter killed people for the purpose of being ironic. If this doesn’t demonstrate our society’s collective failure by creating people capable of this type of nihilistic murder over the last 25 years.

1

Reposted by Elemen

kd @katalogued.bsky.social · 14d

Did you know:

🩸1 in 5 menstruating school-agers have missed school due to lack of hygiene care.
🩸14 percent of college-age students cannot afford menstrual hygiene products.

1 5 12

Reposted by Elemen

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14d

BREAKING: Israeli Forces Kill Head of Gaza Nursing Association

Israeli forces have killed Dr. Mohammed Akram Al-Kafarneh, head of the Palestinian Nursing Association in the Gaza Strip and chief nursing supervisor at Kamal Adwan Medical Complex.

4 52 82