Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 12h

This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 15h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

36 350 2.6K

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

140 1.4K 3.6K

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

13 210 820

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

they are really trying to provoke some shit

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

soooo i guess that means the yellow tape stays up?

Benny Johnson
Follow
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: DHS Sec. Kristi Noem announces she warned Portland's mayor and police chief today in their meeting that she will flood the city with four times the number of federal agents if they don't immediately crack down on Antifa at the ICE facility:
"What I told him is that if he did not follow through on some of these security measures for our officers, we were going to cover him up with more federal resources and that we were going to send four times the amount of federal officers here so that the people of Portland could have some safety, they could have some security."

1

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

truly vile times

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

1 1

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

Schumer’s gotta go 👋👋👋

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Janet Mills is 77, turning 78 at the end of this year. If she won in 2026, her first term in the Senate would end when she's 85 years old.

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has lobbied Mills to run for months..."

Axios @axios.com · 1d

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

3

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1d

The obvious answer is because you’re implicated in organizing with treasonous criminals who attempted to overthrow the government and they want to know what you said to them, you seditious piece of shit

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Graham: Can you tell me why my phone records were sought by the jack Smith agents. Why did they ask to know who I called and what I was doing from January 4th to the seventh? Can you tell me that?

13 58 210

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

one way to understand the moment’s grand conflict is between apartheid and inclusion as the structuring ideal of the state. 1/

1 2 3

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

its funny how not a single actual journalist has been like, “actually she’s good at journalism”

36 290 3K

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · Aug 26

Reconstruct, or be reconstructed: those are our options.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26

Brooke Rollins: "I do believe we're in a revolution. 1776 was the first one. 1863 or so with Abraham Lincoln was the second. This is the third with Donald Trump leading the way."

3 4 19

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 3d

Abolitionists didn’t give up! They kept fighting - we need to channel that energy.

2

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight is really showing us that we not only need to get ourselves out there on the 18th, but we really need to encourage every fucking person we know to join us.

NO KINGS.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

2 3

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

240 3K 12K

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3d

Disgusting piece of shit

Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 4d

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

2 5 140

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 3d

“HIT” ?!?!?!?!

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 4d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

17 110 470

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · Jun 26

We were overthrown and the reaction our incoming leadership had was to scold the perpetrators and then pretend that holding them accountable would be “playing politics”

Excerpt of a June 2023 Patreon essay from Gothamgirlblue: During the 2020 campaign, Biden promised an end to the dysfunction and acrimony in Washington. He'd get government working again by bringing civility back and cutting deals like the old hand returning for one last rodeo. His win was supposed to put Trump and Trumpism to rest, restoring sanity to a country sorely in need of it.
And then a violent coup attempt happened two weeks before he took the oath of office.
In the days and weeks that followed, the problem of Trumpism went unaddressed. By the time midterms rolled around, the Dobbs decision from the Trump SCOTUS majority and the increasingly unhinged candidates served up by the GOP showed that far from dissipating, Trumpism had metastasized in the body politic. Added to the frankly outrageous behavior from the new GOP House majority, it doesn't seem like Biden can identify the problem, let alone solve it.
Which is kinda what he was hired to do.

5 110 510

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 5d

"You say to voters, fire, fire, the house is on fire, this is a fascist threat. But then you refuse to go into the building with an extinguisher and pull them out, they are left either thinking you’re lying… or you don’t give a shit about them." @anatosaurus.bsky.social #Persuasion2025

1 35 120

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 5d

seems optimistic

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

And the solution the country landed on, was to give them more money.

Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter @thewriteverdict.bsky.social · 6d

This is the thing - D mayors and governors can't control their law enforcement. We've seen cops refuse to work in cities that elected Black men as mayors - Cleveland and Chicago for instance. They are not afraid to assert their independence when they don't like the person elected. Massive problem.

3 69 220

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 6d

it’s completely crazy making

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

istanbulshiite.bsky.social @istanbulshiite.bsky.social · 6d

DHS posted a sizzle reel about it.

160 140 420

Reposted by Lauren Macdonald

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

480 4.8K 21K

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 7d

ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL WHO IS NOT SCREAMING ABOUT THIS NEEDS TO BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

1

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 7d

well that Freedom Caucus now runs the whole freaking country, so maybe their strategy wasn’t so stupid after all

Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 8d

"Thus the Democratic Party shut off any potential escape valve to avoid a shutdown," the Editorial Board writes.

Progressives embraced the same disastrous mentality that led the House Freedom Caucus to believe it could come out ahead in previous government funding standoffs:

Opinion | Democrats just marched into a shutdown trap

Progressive Democrats, like the Freedom Caucus, are urging their party in a dangerous direction.

wapo.st

3