Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 9h

boomers entering their dementia period is happening on a personal and national level

1

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 9h

Best quote

Eileen 🧛🏻‍♀️ Antifa Croquet Team @percysperson.bsky.social · 16h

“If you are doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing; his word isn't worth shit, not with the good Lord telling him how to fuck you over.”

- William S. Burroughs

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

Reposted by love on the bit

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

The mounting deaths in Trump's concentration camps. “Contracts are being distributed to Trump’s buddies and people with no experience running detention centers, many of these contracts are no-bid. They’re incarcerating people and allowing them to die, not providing medical facilities. It’s horrific”

The “Moral Monsters” Among Us

Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?

www.thebulwark.com

1 47 68

Reposted by love on the bit

Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

$11 billion to raise and widen a highway, through a wetland, during a climate crisis.

Imagine spending $11 billion on workforce housing in Marin/Sonoma/Napa/San Francisco so the people driving across 37 every day to get to work ... could just live where they work.

California is a climate pariah.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 1d

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

3 53 330

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 1d

Is their goal the collapse of the government as we know it? (Yes.)

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

Typically, federal government shutdowns don't have much macroeconomic impact because all the workers receive backpay after they return. If they never get paid at all, that changes things quite a bit. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

www.axios.com

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 3d

“We have this fixed correlation between gender and pitch today, but, in the eighteenth century, Handel wrote Julius Caesar for a cas-trato, and women in the audience would faint for castrati just like they did for Michael Jackson."

I need to read a doctoral thesis on this immediately

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 3d

The pearl clutching crackdown on e-bikes would be more convincing if the same leagues of concerned parents fought for slower speeds, traffic calming, and protected bike lanes

Not to mention speed limiters on cars that can be driven 100+ mph on freeways

Wes Marshall @wesmars.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not saying that e-bikes aren't a growing safety concern, but 2023 saw over 3,000 teenagers die plus another 200,000+ teenagers injured due to car crashes... and this problem has been around since before Rick Reilly was even born

5

Reposted by love on the bit

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 8d

🎙️ Join us Sat. 10/4, from 4-5:30pm at The Dance Palace for a free conversation with KWMR's Jordan Bowen and author Samathana Kimmey about her debut novel!

📻 For a preview of their discussion, tune in Thurs. at 5pm for Community Buzz on KWMR!

More info: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-1...

1 2

Reposted by love on the bit

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely molten-hot language here from Professor Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, on the decision to spend *half a billion* to widen Highway 37, which is sinking into the bay.

3 42 120

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 7d

Yep Same folks who refuse to build expand and fund public transit! No one can have a house or a train

1 2

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 7d

In my SF neighborhood the only political issue that has everyone worked up is making absolutely sure no one can build another house ever again! Except mansions where there already was a mansion that’s ok

1 24

Reposted by love on the bit

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 8d

"In 1933 it was no longer a question of overthrowing a state by an act of violence; meanwhile the new State had been built up and all that there remained to do was to destroy the last remnants of the old State—and that took but a few hours.”

Shirer, William L. Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p. 204

2 17 76

Reposted by love on the bit

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

before and after hegseth's directive

Sean Connery is a red strapped outfit. He's very hairy.

William Shatner as Captain Kirk. He's in a black strapped outfit and has a smooth chest.

120 990 6.8K

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 8d

the playbook is to destroy the safety net and blame the left for the results, over and over

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Trump admin looks at deep cuts to homeless housing program

A new policy change will significantly cut funding used to place people experiencing homelessness in permanent housing.

www.politico.com

2

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 9d

It makes me 150% more depressed and irritable for a full day in exchange for 10-15 minutes of “this is nice”

In my 20s it was all a rollercoaster of rainbow binges and mildly amusing hangovers, which were themselves a kind of reverse but still amusing high

2

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 10d

big PTA fan and it left me entertained but cold. The first act is unconvincing and cringe, doesn’t work as fantasy or realism. It gets more fluid and kinetic after the mom is out; I thought Penn was perfect and the chase/desert scenes terrific. It’s not a masterpiece, or at all his best

2

Reposted by love on the bit

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10d

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Local News
Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

380 2.1K 9.5K

Reposted by love on the bit

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11d

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Not 'the gospel.' Ahead of Supreme Court term, Clarence Thomas weighs in on precedent

As the Supreme Court is about to revisit some major decisions, Justice Thomas said there's nothing sacred about precedent.

www.usatoday.com

370 2.2K 5.2K

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 11d

Oh wow Blueberry Morning

4

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 11d

I was wondering. News doesn’t have anything about it but that smell is unmistakeable.

Reposted by love on the bit

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11d

It appears the federal government is invading Portland because Trump tweeted it would and they scrambled to put together an invasion in response.

digby @digby56.bsky.social · 11d

Pentagon officials appeared to be surprised by the Truth Social post and told NBC News they were not aware of any new orders to send troops into Portland. The officials said they had no immediate information about any potential operation, including the size and scope of the mission or who — National Guard or active-duty forces — would be deployed.

19 70 270

Reposted by love on the bit

Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 11d

War ravaged Portland

90 770 3.7K

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 11d

just got back from Europe and encountered QR hell everywhere. I would rather struggle and pantomime past an insurmountable language barrier than order a gin and tonic thru a nested menu on my dying phone, ice and lime additional options on additional menus

Reposted by love on the bit

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17d

Tonight's Milky Way taken from Point Reyes, California. The frames were taken about 33 miles, as the pelican flies, from San francisco. Light the curvature of the Earth is weird!

The Milky Way vertically with some orange and yellow tints at the bottom. These are four 60 second exposures edited in Lightroom and Stitched together on my phone comma so there's definitely a better version on my laptop if I ever release it

9 82 590

Reposted by love on the bit

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18d

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

37 350 1.5K