Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by ☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe after Dave Chapelle, Louis CK and Bill Burr do their sets at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, they can drive down to Chop Chop Square, where the Saudis used to do hundreds of public beheadings

1 7 27

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10d

Ultra-violence like the Iraq war is like a football covered in razor blades, bouncing through history forever in ways no human can foresee. Today it sliced apart four people in Michigan and three in North Carolina.

1 9 37

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10d

Two mass shootings by Iraq war vets in one day. People fought so hard to stop that war not just because they cared about foreigners, but because wars always, always come home.

7 47 240

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 11d

are we still going to be invading Greenland or was that canceled

9 8 66

Reposted by ☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social · 13d

@deanbaker13.bsky.social 's Mostly Economics Podcast is great and if you haven't listened to it, the new episode is with yours truly on the 4 day week and the longer term outlook for working time reduction. Take a minute from your desk and give a listen.
cepr.net/mostly-econo...

Mostly Economics Podcast

Mostly Economics is a weekly podcast hosted by CEPR Senior Economist and co-founder, Dean Baker, about ways US economic policies affect everyday lives—from household budgets to global trade relationsh...

cepr.net

3 10

Reposted by ☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 12d

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

140 2.1K 13K

Reposted by ☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 14d

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again?

CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but

CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty?

CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived

CHOTINER: So you’ve said

14 470 2.3K

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 14d

wow I'd missed that

1 2

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 14d

You see Megyn Kelly's brand of Medieval Peasant Brain across the right influencer world. Tucker Carlson was sleeping in a bed with all his dogs, and woke up to find some scratches on his body. His conclusion: he had been assaulted by demons.

3 1 25

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 14d

People used to believe the internet would usher in a Golden Age of Reason, but instead it's ushered in a Golden Age of Medieval Peasant Brain

20 30 170

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 17d

yes, that's why we invaded Afghanistan, to educate the children

2 6

Reposted by ☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 17d

Insanity.

AKA, official editorial position of the WaPo.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Headline: "A US return to Bagram isn't a bad idea."

140 190 1.1K

Reposted by ☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 18d

Still waiting to hear any tribute to Charlie Kirk that uses his memorable words. I guess he was a very powerful mime.

1 15 98

Reposted by ☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17d

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 18d

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins
There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

86 780 2.4K

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 18d

I am a hard-bitten, wised-up skeptical contrarian heterodox reporter who's a member of no party, and I believed Donald Trump when he said he'd be a champion of free speech. But I've now learned my lesson and won't fall for this more than 30-40 more times.

1 7 36

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 18d

I don't think I'll fall for anything like this more than 30-40 more times

1 1 3

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 18d

I admit I believed Donald Trump and JD Vance when they said they opposed all threats to free speech. This was probably my biggest mistake since I believed Jeffrey Dahmer when he said he opposed serial killing.

2 4 15

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 18d

Yes, I believed Donald Trump and JD Vance when they said they would be champions of free speech. But in fairness, this was shortly after a large anvil fell on my head.

1 1 24

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 19d

When the Citizens United decision was handed down in 2010, lots of people said it was going to destroy American democracy. Today, 15 years later, no one is talking about how maybe that was right.

9 29 130

Reposted by ☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20d

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

Nation Grateful to GOP for Protecting It From TV

Report: You to Be Fired for Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Trump Spends Entire UK Trip Trying to Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

80 1.2K 6.9K

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 20d

"Their tools." Ross Douthat does not know anything about US history. For 250 years, *including during the Great Awokening*, the vast majority of threats to free speech has always come from the right. But you have to be this ignorant to write for the New York Times.

2 18 83

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 20d

My rule of thumb is to never sign a letter decrying violence whose other signatories include Benjamin Netanyahu

1 15 220

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 20d

I would never have believed 20 years ago how quickly capitalism would be able to turn the internet into a huge pile of poisonous garbage

1 2 17

Reposted by ☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 20d

Today's media apocalypse makes it a good day for everyone to watch this 1998 SNL animation that Robert Smigel and Adam McKay managed to get on national TV once, before it was yanked off the air forever.

www.cracked.com/article_4100...

11 120 220