Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

m a x

@maxgrobinson.bsky.social

780 followers 680 following 5.9K posts

Lavender, rose hips and a little Tahitian vanilla. Film essay collection DRYING OUT AT THE MOVIES out now! https://ko-fi.com/maxgrobinson/shop Movie thoughts @ https://boxd.it/4861

ko-fi.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 3d

Some very exciting news: I made a 25 minute visual essay about director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s life and career with @bsoderberg.bsky.social and it’ll premiere this Sunday at the @mahoningdit.bsky.social’s upcoming screening of HOUSE!

2 6 22

Reposted by m a x

Riley @raaleh.bsky.social · 11h

seeing the phrase “since 2009” crop up a lot these days

4 32 220

Reposted by m a x

Masuke🐶+rocogirl👩 @rocogirl.bsky.social · 19h

布団かけて寝る犬🐶

Tonight, Masuke will sleep under the futon. Good Night🖐️

4 36 250

Reposted by m a x

On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 1d

32 years ago today, Homer showed his new chainsaw and hockey mask to Bart. "Cape Feare," first aired October 7, 1993.

9 210 550

Reposted by m a x

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

190 4.8K 10K

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is deploying a regiment of early 2000s Danny McBride characters to Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

This is all really bad but more so for people who rely on federal programs

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like the GOP didn’t count on six months of layoffs and the dangling threat of getting fired softening the blow of a shutdown. Harder to use an operating federal government as leverage when some random Trump flunky can decide to fuck up your life on a whim.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

(Politico) - One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot.

#RepublicansInDisarray @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

1 12

Reposted by m a x

Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 1d

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

48 320 1.6K

Reposted by m a x

Drew @4484.cool · 1d

My kid's school had put up a wishlist. This isn't a rich area, lots of families here rely on WIC and jobs at the Navy shipyard, which means the government shutdown is really going to hurt. These snacks are easy to hand to kids at the end of the day or before a weekend www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Check out my list on Amazon

www.amazon.com

5 22 32

Reposted by m a x

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

👀👀👀

1 8 77

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Boogie Nights 4K coming in December…

a man and a woman are dancing in a disco club .

ALT: a man and a woman are dancing in a disco club .

media.tenor.com

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

I was at Shozin Fukui’s bar in Tokyo earlier this year and he has a DEAD & BURIED poster on the wall

Reposted by m a x

Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 8d

Lobby card for DEAD & BURIED (1981)

Directed by Gary Sherman

Written by Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon, the latter of whom was BOTD in 1946

O'Bannon also penned the screenplay for ALIEN, based on a story he and Shusett wrote together

Lobby card features a photo of a woman in a nurse's outfit getting ready to stab a man wrapped in bandages in the eye with a needle.

2 4 25

Reposted by m a x

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller has the aspect of a guy who thinks he really could have been a great school shooter the same way other guys feel about their baseball careers

5 8 110

Reposted by m a x

Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

gotta say I don't think it's a great sign for society that the top editor of a major American news outlet thinks we're in a "fight for the West." (against WHOM, Bari?)

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

bellissima

We're thrilled to announce that Anduril founder Palmer Luckey will join Bari Weiss live in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 8, at 7:00 p.m. for a conversation on the future of American power-and the fight for the West.
Tickets are LIVE- get them here!

1 32 150

Reposted by m a x

Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

80 1.8K 5K

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

Man I love Dead and Buried

Reposted by m a x

Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 2d

Dead and Buried (1981) /// The Empty Man (2020)

A crowd of scary people in shadow and darkness advancing into the night

Dead and Buried (1981)

A crowd of scary people in shadow and darkness advancing into the night

The Empty Man (2020)

1 6 16

Reposted by m a x

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

17 1.4K 3.8K

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

Trump really has no fucking idea what’s going on these days lol

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

1 2 8

Reposted by m a x

Seinfeldism @seinfeldism.bsky.social · 2d

Guess who just finished laying out her first issue of the J. Peterman Catalog. / S08E01 The Foundation

1 3 11

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

I for one am excited to see how she parlays her rich experience running a right wing blog to overseeing a network news operation

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

How long before Bari Weiss tries to get herself fired from CBS now that she is expected to work for a living

3 17

Reposted by m a x

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking how Stephen Bannon got fired in 2017 because Trump got mad that people were saying he's the real president. Probably wouldn't work with Miller because they only feed Trump AI slop now. They got him in the Professor X rig watching videos of himself leading troops in battle

25 420 3.8K

Reposted by m a x

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

truly a Hall of Fame grift from weiss here. the frank lucas of bad faith bullshit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News

www.nytimes.com

88 520 3.5K