Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 17h

His lips certainly aren’t sealed

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 18h

Relit my furnace earlier because it’s supposed to rain all day tomorrow, and the thought of a cozy fall day with candles and a book is the only thing getting me through the deluge of emails today

9

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 19h

Killing Me Softly—Fugees
Natural Woman—Aretha Franklin
Make You Feel My Love—Adele
Valerie—Amy Winehouse
Proud Mary—Tina Turner

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 21h

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

1 1 9

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 23h

The worst thing that happened to me was someone farted on a crowded muni train on the way to a Giants game.

7

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 23h

I was just in San Francisco twice last month for work. It was a lovely time filled with baseball games, brunch spots, eating chilaquiles at the Embarcadero farmer’s market, vibrant night life, and lots of safe public transit.

Elon Musk is full of shit.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

1 16

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Was I supposed to get an Antifa check for all the protests so far this year? How do we collect our stipend? Is there a per diem for water bottles, sunscreen, and poster board that I didn’t know about?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

1 11

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not imagining, I used to work in corporate design and the lead times for production on physical merch that’s first conceived by an art team, then approved by a creative director, then sent to the talent’s team for final approval, then sent to a manufacturer is way longer than you’d think.

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

They’re bots and trolls, just block most of them and move on with your life

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not, they’re trying to manipulate a very normal poetic contrast about love between dark and light stones and skies. Hundreds of Black swifties have called out the bullshit, but the conspiracy theories just keep shifting to something new every day.

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many better things you could be doing with your time than sharing bullshit conspiracy theories that Taylor Swift, a vocal Democrat and women’s and queer rights advocate, is secretly a white supremacist. Your media literacy skills shouldn’t have to be everybody else’s problem! 🫶

1 1 40

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

There are hundreds of responses from Black women on social media who are the ones saying y’all are out of your fucking minds. Stop peddling misinformation for clicks 😌

1

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Hey so the sky at night is dark like Onyx, and Opalite, an artificially-created stone, is bright. Her lyrics literally say “you had to make your own sunshine.” It’s very normal dark and light poetic imagery about love across many cultures, y’all have lost your fucking minds. 🫶

1

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Of COURSE her merch team that likely designed and contacted manufacturers over a year ago for an entire album merch collection release knew the outcome of the election. She for *sure* did this because she’s secretly a tradwife influencer who supports Stormtroopers wearing coded Pop music merch!

2 8

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

In case anybody’s wondering why Meta/Threads’ algorithm is fucked, I just logged in and immediately logged out after seeing my feed inundated with conspiracy theories that Taylor Swift is a nazi for selling a necklace with lightning bolts that reference her Opalite song lyric…about lightning strikes

16 13 150

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Famously people with another job living halfway around the world LOVE to travel back in time 6 months to plant evidence at a raid they had no part of, in anticipation of a future role they may or may not be hired for.

5

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

We should be able to buzz people like a shock collar every time they blatantly lie to the public.

Jack Smith was employed at The Hague in 2022 prosecuting war crimes against Kosovo’s former military regime, and was only tapped to be a Special Counsel because he *didn’t* work for the DOJ.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

3 14

Reposted by Adam Griffin

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

170 3.1K 9.4K

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

I’m passing out whistles to everybody for Halloween this year instead of candy.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

1 8

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Photographed a 10 hour wedding in Palm Springs on Friday and a 12 hour one in Bel Air yesterday, so I refuse to leave my couch today. Gimme all the edibles and snackies and a fat nap.

2 18

Reposted by Adam Griffin

Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s first-term foreign policy was riddled with one failure after another. Almost everything he attempted either fizzled out or blew up in his face. Don’t let this garbage revisionism stand.

11 120 810

Reposted by Adam Griffin

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

110 2K 5.8K

Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 2d

An anti-abortion MAGA Republican posing as a cop assassinated the former Democratic MN speaker of the house and her husband and their golden retriever, then attempted to kill another Democratic lawmaker. This is disgusting revisionism, and Pam Bondi is a lying, miserable cunt for this bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

1 13

Reposted by Adam Griffin

randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 2d

what really burns is that you know this discussion happens every day in the editing rooms and yet, so far, no NYT reporters are speaking up and explaining how their editors are silencing them - which leads me to conclude the reporters are ok with it - which - yeh - um -

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

6 51 330

Reposted by Adam Griffin

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

“That sounds terrible.”

“What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

110 920 2.3K

Reposted by Adam Griffin

Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 4d

Can’t believe the guy whose love language is hate speech didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize

10 150 420