Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

david zaslav haters club @meamdal.myatproto.social · 2h

judd apatow has never recovered

3

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans are almost as good at making mountains out of molehills as making molehills out of mountains.

2 14 84

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h

i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need

32 240 2.4K

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 4h

the hell in which american jewry is now trapped — everything is antisemitism except actual antisemitism

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

3 33 130

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Rebecca Diamond ✡️🧶🇺🇸🇨🇦 @rebeccadiamond.online · 6h

The amount of folks I see using “fake Christian” when they mean “awful person who is part of my own religion but that is too uncomfortable to acknowledge”…

And yet they just say “Jew” or “Muslim” when talking about Jewish or Muslim folks who are also awful people 🤷🏻‍♀️

Gosh why could that be?

2 12 44

david zaslav haters club @meamdal.myatproto.social · 4h

Every single person on my old Facebook who engaged in ironic cringe bigotry and didn’t stop is now a full on neo-nazi

Not even kidding

My old Facebook is terrifying

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 5h

One day y'all gon learn that trying to split hairs between aesthetic/ironic bigotry and bigotry-bigotry is a fool's errand.

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 5h

Vance reacts to the Young Republicans chat leak

10 290 1.6K

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like you could only ever be shocked about that republican group chat leak if you were never on the receiving end of their hate. It's only a surprise if you didn't have them up in your replies, telling you the myriad ways they were going to execute you.

You don't get it unless you get it.

11 53 290

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Coyote Mae (he/they) @coyotethewitch.bsky.social · 13h

Return to office mandates disproportionately affect women and disabled people.

I see it in my own workplace. Those are the two biggest groups asking for help fighting it.

In jobs where it's been demonstrated that an in office presence isn't required to get the job done, it's just asinine.

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

This is also a disability justice issue.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave

4 22

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 9h

A particular delusion of the liberal gentry, sadly influential even at this late hour, is that table manners somehow preclude someone from truly being a fascist, or increase the likelihood of their redemption. They do not.

4 44 160

david zaslav haters club @meamdal.myatproto.social · 9h

john mccain was a "war hero" for getting caught bombing civillians during the vietnam war and being imprisoned for several years.

1

david zaslav haters club @meamdal.myatproto.social · 10h

luckily the former escapist folks now run @secondwindgroup.com which is doing the real gaming journalism work

david zaslav haters club @meamdal.myatproto.social · 10h

also i have never written a newsletter before but now i have:

it's about judaism. it's about reading a parsha every week. this is my first time writing about it, so it's really for anyone who feels like they're not jewish enough.

special thanks to my lovely partner for their help with this <3

introduction: what this is all about

An introduction to what we'll be doing here.

buttondown.com

david zaslav haters club @meamdal.myatproto.social · 10h

my first article w @comfycozygaming.com about a game that means a lot to me

you should read it, and then read the rest of their stuff, especially if you love cozy games like i do!

Retrospective: A Short Hike - a cozy game with a short runtime and a massive heart - Comfy Cozy Gaming

Looking back on A SHORT HIKE, a game all about collecting and exploration, with light-hearted humor and a layered story to boot.

www.comfycozygaming.com

1 1

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 22h

If it weren't for the circle of people I've built who care I would absolutely be on here crashing tf out every day. WAY too many people think that me wanting to be able to participate in public life is a ridiculous thing to ask for.

People really, really don't like disabled people.

1 6 22

david zaslav haters club @meamdal.myatproto.social · 21h

can't forget PAUL BLART MALL COP 2

david zaslav haters club @meamdal.myatproto.social · 21h

good news

keep on masking y'all

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

1

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 23h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

57 3.1K 6.9K

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Sarah M. - Blerdy Baddie @killianfantasy.bsky.social · 22h

I just love* how everyone was for masking until it was revealed that Black people were more at risk from Covid then masks became oppression. And now I'm still having to mask to protect my family from all these filthy people.

*I don't, in fact, love it.

2 9 69

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 23h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

19 300 1.6K

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 2d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.

54 360 1.9K

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 22h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

Quote Tweet of:

Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

24 270 1.8K

david zaslav haters club @meamdal.myatproto.social · 1d

We’ve now had two presidents in a row suckered into this exact outcome at the expense of innocent lives

2

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

52 2.5K 7.4K

Reposted by david zaslav haters club

Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 1d

Because I’m older, we had a lot of holocaust survivors to speak at our school. They all had different stories, but they all touched on two things- so for this moment
1. Family separation is one of the most traumatic things a child/family can go through.
2. This moment in history shall pass.

1 8 49