Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 3h

The long GOP drive to end federal disaster aid to useless citizens is almost complete! Thank you Bush, Trump.

And don't forget the Democrats, they did Do Nothing like always to help make it happen!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...

How FEMA Is Forcing Disaster-Struck Towns to Fend for Themselves

www.nytimes.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 3h

24 to 35-year-olds

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 3h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Queer and trans detainees allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’

At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant warden

www.theguardian.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 3h

The West is just laying down to let the China Century roar into life

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

MI5 chief ‘frustrated’ at failure to put men accused of spying for China on trial

Ken McCallum, the domestic spy chief, says he will ‘never back off’ from confronting threats from Beijing

www.theguardian.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 3h

“we don’t live in a free country any more.”

This was about checking on conservative groups 503c status

www.thedailybeast.com/vances-hot-t...

Vance’s Hot Take on Political Persecution Comes Back to Haunt Him

The vice president has spoken before about “weaponization of the IRS.”

www.thedailybeast.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 3h

Don't expect the Democrats to use this to show MAGA is just "let'em eat cake."

They're too stupid to know what to do

www.notus.org/congress/bab...

Sen. Jim Justice Threw His Bulldog a Birthday Party In The Middle of the Government Shutdown

“I’m doing it because it’s Babydog’s birthday, and I love her to death.”

www.notus.org

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 3h

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is doing their job! Using your money to keep a dastardly grassroots progressive out of a nomination! Who cares about MAGAs when we have progressives to shoot at!

www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...

‘I got older and became a communist’: Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful’s raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

www.cnn.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 19h

We don't use "y'all" enough for 2nd person plural.
Or "gobshite," no connection.

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 19h

Generations of privilege went into the creation of this predictable nightmare

1

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 19h

They do this because they're absolutely certain there is nothing the Democrats will do to stop them or overturn them.

They appear to be right.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Sunshine here to remind you:

What all the others -- LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush(s), Obama -- did in secret, Trump does openly. That's the difference.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Xi’s Rare Earth ‘Bazooka’ Sparks Global Alarm, Race for Supplies

China’s sweeping new restrictions on rare earth exports jolted governments and set off a race to secure alternative supplies, in a stark demonstration of Beijing’s global clout and growing risks for c...

www.bloomberg.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

It can, it will

www.wsj.com/world/china/...

China, Betting It Can Win a Trade War, Is Playing Hardball With Trump

Chinese leader Xi Jinping thinks the president will fold before launching new tariffs that would roil markets.

www.wsj.com

2 1 1

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

They aren't going to get what they voted not to get. And they deserve if.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Who will lose out when ACA health insurance subsidies expire?

Here’s a look at who could be affected by the end of the Affordable Care Act credits and how much prices could change.

www.washingtonpost.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

Primary all of them. Get rid of the old-timers who got us here. New Democratic leadership, that will lead.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/15/n...

Why is Seth Moulton running against Ed Markey? He thinks the senator is too old. - The Boston Globe

In an exclusive interview with the Globe, the Salem congressman cited Ed Markey's age and seniority as core concerns behind his campaign.

www.bostonglobe.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

Not a bug. A feature.

8

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

I want a cell phone that works on the 8G network and looks like this

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, Oregon, that hellhole. Thank god for the thugs!

1 2

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

[Maine oyster farmer Graham Platner (D) criticized Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) as business as usual in the first candidate TV ad of the state’s marquee Senate race, Axios reports.

Says an older woman in the ad: “Janet Mills again? She was a good governor, but I think it’s time for change.”]

Mills’ U.S. Senate campaign ignites battle between establishment and grassroots Democrats • Maine Morning Star

Maine’s U.S. Senate primary is now teed up as a test for the future of the Democratic Party. With Gov. Janet Mills’ official campaign launch Tuesday, the Democratic primary field for Republican U.S. ...

mainemorningstar.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats push forward 77 year old who won her first race in 1980. Their brave, new, exciting face of the Dimmycratic Party!

And they'll spend millions to get her the nomination, not to beat any MAGAs. Just to beat a progressive.

[Maine oyster farmer Graham Platner (D) criticized Maine Gov...

Mills’ U.S. Senate campaign ignites battle between establishment and grassroots Democrats • Maine Morning Star

Maine’s U.S. Senate primary is now teed up as a test for the future of the Democratic Party. With Gov. Janet Mills’ official campaign launch Tuesday, the Democratic primary field for Republican U.S. ...

mainemorningstar.com

1

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats just gonna let him twist in the wind. They have no loyalty for those who tried, only old school ties at Harvard.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Jack Smith Calls Idea That Politics Infected Trump Prosecutions ‘Ludicrous’

www.nytimes.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 2d

“They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.”

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

One Eyed Alien ☝️👁👽👑 @chicagoexpat.bsky.social · 2d