LightNews LightNews
@jgrey7.bsky.social
15 followers 68 following 0 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
matthewhodson.bsky.social
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).

"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reposted
In which I try to call things what they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Reposted
aurabogado.bsky.social
*reporters: STOP WRITING THAT THESE MEN WERE DEPORTED. Deportation is a specific legal process. These men didn't go through that process. When we describe what happened as deportation, we fail to convey to our readers just how unprecedented this situation truly is.

Do the minimum: be accurate.
March 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reposted
theferocity.bsky.social
“An Alabama House committee Wednesday held a hearing on a bill that would allow law enforcement to arrest people who direct abusive language at first responders, make obscene gestures or linger at a response scene after being ordered to leave.”

LINGERING.
Swearing at Alabama police could soon lead to year in jail: Opponents say it makes protest impossible
Rep. Chris England requested the removal of the provision that a person could be arrested for speaking ill of the officer or making an obscene gesture.
www.al.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reposted
tonytula.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reposted
john-self.bsky.social
Streisand Effect to be renamed Zuckerberg Effect:
Meta stops former Facebook director from promoting critical memoir
Social media company wins US emergency ruling preventing ex-director from publicising her book.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reposted
roxanegay.bsky.social
I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.
jenszalai.bsky.social Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · Mar 14
WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":

"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?” So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.) Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.
March 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reposted
theonion.com
Trump’s 25% Tariffs On Canada, Mexico Take Effect
theonion.com/trumps-...
“It won’t affect me, because my wife does all our grocery shopping.” Dustin Schroat, Pronoun Expert
March 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Reposted
miriamgershow.bsky.social
Planning to spend spring break sending 100+ postcards to indie bookstores asking them to stock CLOSER. Plz tell me your fave indie to add to my list.
Stack of postcards with the cover of CLOSER (6/3/2025 from Regal House). The cover is orange and green and brown, the inside of a great room looking out at a sunset. CLOSER is in white font across the floor to ceiling windows and an orange sky.
March 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted
mikechenwriter.bsky.social
100000000% THIS

Remember Mitch McConnell's strategy was to use unchallenged seats on school boards, city councils, etc to build a foundation of extreme right-wing power. Progressives need to do the same.

This is why I donate to @runforsomething.net monthly. If you're willing, they'll help you run.
aoc.bsky.social Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Feb 22
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Reposted
chriswarcraft.bsky.social
Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project

www.thetrevorproject.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Reposted
rumpfshaker.bsky.social
vaccines are miracles and the scientists and doctors who work for years to develop them are amazing
scifri.bsky.social Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · Feb 21
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.

Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
buff.ly
February 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Reposted
crampell.bsky.social
A sign that the Trump admin is taking your egg price concerns very seriously www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Reposted
eveettinger.com
if you consumed RF content and want to atone, you can help prevent more abuse thru homeschooling by urging UT legislators to vote against HB 209 this session le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/...
February 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reposted
abbyhiggs.bsky.social
Get in, losers. We ain’t goin anywhere
February 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reposted
theferocity.bsky.social
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
February 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reposted
kimmymonte.bsky.social
in honor of president’s day, i would like a new one.
February 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted
smashfizzle.bsky.social
Belle Gibson, Ruby Franke, and Amanda Riley will all have their lies, scams, and abusive actions dissected in television series and documentaries over the next several years, and I fear we won’t meaningfully address how whiteness works in this, and why they were able to get away with it for so long.
February 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Reposted
theferocity.bsky.social
Publishing this during black history month is DIABOLICAL. LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!! The NYT is so wild.
February 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted
alexanderchee.bsky.social
There’s a Project 2025 tracker to follow their progress and to see what’s ahead. The project Trump and the GOP disavowed because it was so unpopular and then began immediately to put in place. www.project2025.observer
Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
www.project2025.observer
February 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Reposted
borderless.bsky.social
Yall are supporting 100 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits a day. 🥹

That is *100 years* worth of HRT support for trans people being created *every day*.

Hell yes, this rules!! 🏳️‍⚧️⛑️
A screenshot of the HRT Toolkit fundraising page. $60,000 campaign goal $54,039.51 raised by 952 people in 54 days
February 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Reposted
lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Reposted
murshedz.bsky.social
DOGE is reportedly posting classified details of National Reconnaissance Office which has info on US satellites. Folks at nuclear weapons agency are freaking out over layoffs.

Let’s see what @markwarner.bsky.social - the ranking Dem of Sen Intel Comm - doing?

Letting loose at a pub in Munich.
February 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reposted
splitlippress.com
A reminder that we sell our ebooks on our website...for way less than the price on *mazon...and they're epubs...and you own them forever 😇

www.splitlippress.com/store
February 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Reposted
opjohn.bsky.social
Fight the power.
February 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM