Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Steve Bergin 🌎

@stevebergin.bsky.social

1.3K followers 1.8K following 1.5K posts

Rainforest Conservation, Cacao Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Nature is not your Carbon Sink. Projects in Amazon and Indonesia IG: @conservationcacao

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · Nov 19

Cacao comes originally from the Amazon Basin. It grows under shade trees. Out on agricultural frontiers in the Tropics, where rainforest is being lost, cacao in agroforestry can be a barrier to deforestation. The alternatives, cattle, Oil Palm, mean farmers cutting down all their trees.

2 24

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

1.3K 11K 35K

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 13h

Who the fuck wrote this?

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 15h

The Senate has defeated an effort to use the War Powers act to block President Trump's use of military force against drug boats in the Caribbean. Fetterman D-PA voted 'No.' R's Paul & Murkowski votes 'Yes'

4 12 21

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

1K 7.5K 26K

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: The judge has set a trial date of Jan. 5.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking:

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Former FBI Director James Comey pleads not guilty to Trump Justice Department case accusing him of lying to Congress.

21 44 200

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

Next, separate feeds for photos and videos!

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.

To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:

www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

www.techpolicy.press

8 48 130

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

NBA returns to the lucrative China market this week following a six-year absence after a team official tweeted his support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong

u.afp.com/Smd7

2 2

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

170 900 7.8K

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 1d

I want to urge anyone interested in FRANKENSTEIN to see it at a theater where the big screen will let you bask in the visuals. And do it soon after the movie opens (Oct. 17) because I don't think Netflix plans a long stay in cinemas.

johnshutt.bsky.social @johnshutt.bsky.social · 1d

I want to check this out when it comes to the Lightbox. This was made to be seen on the big screen

2 6 28

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

The state is not a personal slush fund for the monarch, but Trump is absolutely determined to use the tools of the 21st century along with the economics of the 19th to rule like it's the 17th century

4 83 430

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

320 2.2K 5.5K

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

51 660 1.9K

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

You mean, more fielding, base stealing, base running plays? more throwing, deking, bang-bang plays? more baseball? sorry, that's not coming back.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

The House of Representatives—is invested with the “power of the purse,” the ability to tax and spend public money for the national government. apnews.com/article/clim...

Groups sue EPA over canceled $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans

Several groups and nonprofit organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power access...

apnews.com

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

340 5.3K 19K

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 2d

Renewables have overtaken coal in the global electricity mix for the first time, @ember-energy.org has found
www.linkedin.com/pulse/renewa...

2 26 92

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 2d

"This order is so atrocious, it’s nearly unbelievable."

Trump Signs Order to Approve Mining Road Through Alaskan Wilderness

www.nytimes.com

4 46 85

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

Or we assumed Merrick Garland was afraid of releasing the horrifying files as MAGA might accuse DOJ of being partisan?

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

29 680 2.6K

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

Do these guys have their own version of Del Close? Stella Adler? Different schools of shameless lying method? I need to know.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 2d

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/d...

"Journalism is not a crime": Chicago reporters sue Trump over violence at ICE protests

Press groups say Trump's agents used force to silence reporters.

www.axios.com

8 84 310

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3d

Italy trying to get US to call off mega tariff on imported pasta that will double prices for American consumers. Via Reuters

Rome calls on US to reconsider extra tariff on pasta imports

With almost $800 million in exports, the U.S. is one of Italy's top three export markets for pasta, a staple of the country's culinary heritage and a substantial export commodity.

www.reuters.com

30 110 250

Reposted by Steve Bergin 🌎

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Hundreds of people were trapped on Mount Everest after heavy snow over the weekend, according to the Chinese authorities, prompting a closure of the scenic area during a national holiday that had drawn large numbers of tourists to the site. nyti.ms/46JVxZy

10 17 79

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 3d

I was in Kathmandu almost exactly a year ago just as abnormal torrential rains hit, causing severe flooding & loss of life. Climate weirding hopefully not becoming an annual occurance. #keepitinthefround

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Heavy rains have triggered landslides and flash floods, blocking roads, washing away bridges and killing dozens of people since October 3 across Nepal, officials said.