Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

64 780 2K

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 5h

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

74 380 1.6K

Reposted by Greg Spooner

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 6h

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

For a new series, Times journalists are speaking with scientists whose research has ended as a result of policy changes by the Trump administration.

www.nytimes.com

1 8 15

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7h

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

29 260 1.5K

Reposted by Greg Spooner

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 7h

Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees.

Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/y6RQqAa

9 100 220

Reposted by Greg Spooner

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Context matters

94 1.7K 3.4K

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 16h

If I were running for national office right now my primary talking point for my platform would be cataloging every single incident of ICE / law enforcement assault and state violence and prosecute every last one once all the way to the top once power turns over.

16 91

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 21h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

39 1K 5.1K

Reposted by Greg Spooner

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20h

if you didn't know www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/n...

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area

Texas National Guard members have arrived in Illinois. City and state officials say Donald Trump is using them as “political props” in Chicago.

www.chicagotribune.com

1 13 59

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 20h

Are there any Republicans who might be able to end the shutdown? Or do, like, anything? I mean come on they control every branch of government.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

These Democrats Could Hold the Key to Ending the Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

1 2 6

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

110 1.8K 6.9K

Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 1d

Wills the feds also be arresting the fossil fuel execs who have made worsening western fires inevitable…?

3

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis prospect.org/politics/tru...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

1 5 11

Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 1d

Well, actually caring for children would mean rapidly phasing out oil and gas, not building a safety net upon revenues that depend on actively burning fossil fuels and ruining the climate that today’s children need for their survival.

Reposted by Greg Spooner

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

this has got to be the stupidest and most blatantly "unamerican" group of rulers this country has ever had. if you can't win against "goons in the streets, rotting food in the fields, orang is 90 dollars now" then i dont know what to say

18 140 1.4K

Reposted by Greg Spooner

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

i wonder if a sufficient number of viable democrats have it in them to effectively counter a narrative of "i am tanking the economy, firing everyone i can, and sending soldiers to push you around if i dont like the way you think, and also lee greenwood is the only music allowed"

30 300 2.4K

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 1d

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention. - @angryblacklady.bsky.social

buff.ly/tMNZeY6

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

buff.ly

2 17 51

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 6d

🔵 This week's comic!
🇺🇸 A BUSY, BUSY DAY IN WASHINGTON, DC
-
Brought to you by the heroism of the INNER HIVE, including longtime member Kyle B. and new member Amitha Knight.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
-
READ IT RIGHT HERE, Y'ALL

8 91 280

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

150 1.3K 2.6K

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

260 1.7K 4K

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

9 320 1.3K

Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 2d

Repubs control every branch of govt. Y should Dems bail out the GOP when they’re crushing democracy & the rule of law? Any deal Dems make would be ignored by the GOP anyway.

We should be standing in solidarity against funding this regime until we c them backing down from their fascist takeover.

Reposted by Greg Spooner

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

2.2K 7.7K 28K

Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just a well-known historical fact that being nice to Nazis wins the day. 🙄

4

Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 2d

Though we are all occupied with resisting authoritarianism in the US right now, the physics of a warming atmosphere isn't stopping. We have to fight fascism AND prevent a fossil fuel driven collapse of the biosphere. Support us at @srti.bsky.social in this one-day fund-raiser, if you can!

Earth Gives Day

Let's make a change together. Join me in investing in climate and environmental nonprofits on Earth Gives Day, October 7, 2025!

www.earthgives.org

1 3 5