Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 15h

Google, Meta, Apple, Oracle, Palantir, Amazon, and every telecom already know exactly where you are, what you're thinking, and what you're going to do all the time. Until recently, ICE would be much less risky than any one of those companies because you used to have constitutionally protected rights

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

1 3

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

140 1.4K 3.7K

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

220 2.4K 8.3K

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 10h

TIL that Texas exports are mostly oil, gas, and byproducts. No wonder its politics resembles that of a rentier state. Florida is dominated by agriculture, tourist resorts, port facilities, and real estate. So, its politics is like many Latin American countries. Huh!

1 3 19

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

220 3.6K 17K

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 17h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

78 310 1K

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

JudyJaguarianJetta @judyjagurianjetta.bsky.social · 10h

Bobert kicks off her reelection campaign with an email

Lmao

I shit you not

The first sentence reads

Are Aliens Real?

Farron breaks it down for us

It gave me the giggles

Has that Botox reached her grey matter?

youtube.com/shorts/G4lOJ...

1 2

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 19h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

220 1.3K 3.3K

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22h

Unfortunately still no #Arctic sea ice thickness and volume update for the month of September on my website... data issues from the U.S. government shutdown

PIOMAS notice: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...

Screenshot that says "August 2025 Monthly Update [September update delayed due to US Govn’t shutdown resulting in unavailable data]"

5 33 110

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

31
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

210 4.6K 13K

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

440 3.7K 14K

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 10h

Good analogy!

1

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 10h

So boss!

1

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 12h

More truck-free cargo trailer action! This was a 30-mile bike ride to pick up a bedroom set from a Craigslist ad. Once you live a car-lite or car-free lifestyle, you can't unsee the waste and inefficiency of personal car ownership. #CargoBikes #CarsRuinCities #FossilFuel #CleanAir #CarsStink

6 16 160

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 13h

But GOP-Trump head-in-the-ass-first-ism makes that impossible.

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 13h

I think if the US declared electrification of the I-5 & I-95 corridor & complete electrification of all trans US rail - it could create thd same security needed to promote REE mining.

1

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 13h

Unfortunately the US is also hydrocarbon rich & it has invested 50+ years of policy into securing the petro-dollar. So it is very difficult to fund a "Manhattan Project" in this context.

1

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 13h

In China the government has invested in a huge electrification program with massive investment in Renewables, EVs and railway electrification. This makes. Lot of sense in China because it is hydrocarbon poor.

1

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 13h

The refining costs too much and the revenue neutrality timescale is quite large even by mining timescales. Guaranteeing a stable commodity price over such a large timescale is quite ... difficult regardless of whether it is China or elsewhere.

1

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 13h

👀

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 13h

I doubt it has reached those numbers. Very skeptical

1

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h

The Trump regime's cuts to early carbon removal projects, like DAC hubs in Louisiana and Texas, cause industry uncertainty. Though the DOE says these projects aren't terminated, the risk of further cuts remains. This highlights the fragility of early projects and inconsistent government support.

Is Trump about to squash America’s carbon-removal moonshot?

Nascent direct-air-capture projects were hit with funding cuts last week. A new list has caused confusion over the fate of DAC hubs in Louisiana and Texas.

www.canarymedia.com

5 11 59

Sunil S 🇺🇦 @sunils.bsky.social · 13h

And despite all the efforts of this administration- the eventual unification of these agendas will be unavoidable.

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 1d

THE VOTE COUNTERS HAVE CHANGED HANDS-AND AMERICA SHOULD PAY ATTENTION
www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-vote-c...

THE VOTE COUNTERS HAVE CHANGED HANDS-AND AMERICA SHOULD PAY ATTENTION

When a firm that counts votes gets sold behind closed doors, the price isn’t what matters. What’s being traded is confidence...and that’s the one currency a republic can’t print more of.

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

14 170 310

Reposted by Sunil S 🇺🇦

Politico @politico.com · 23h

Dem party leaders in the two Midwestern states are mobilizing campaigns to prevent the GOP-drawn maps from going into effect ahead of next year’s midterms.

Neither has seen much support from Washington for their efforts.

Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they’re largely on their own.

Despite relatively little investment from Washington, Missouri and Ohio Democrats are looking to block new Republican-drawn maps through uncertain avenues.

www.politico.com

7 60 170