Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2h

there may literally be an international food shortage due to current policies at some point. we are a very large net exporter.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5h

"we must restore labor discipline with the lash and the deportation order."

*touches earpiece*

"all my workers gone? all of them? oh"

2 7 66

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5h

"we must restore labor discipline with the lash and the deportation order."

*touches earpiece*

"all my workers gone? all of them? oh"

3 26 310

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

people become terrorists when they get engineering degrees, offering us a simple solution.

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 4h

It's taken for granted that when people are in bad enough circumstances, they become terrorists because they have nothing else to live for, but actually that doesn't seem to be the pattern at all.

5 15 130

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

they're saying that my heart is tastier than any beforehand, folks, that Ammit is licking her lips at the prospect

billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 4h

Could you just imagine the comedy of Trump Weighing his Heart (lols) against The Feather of Ma'at?

2 21 220

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 3h

“I am a very serious and badass anarchist militant activist and it is extremely good tactics to draw a giant line in the sky pointing directly at my location. I am _definitely_ not a fed.”

4 70

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

the best anarchists are the people who are genuinely kind of saintly themselves, and just a little bit naive about the fact that the rest of humanity is fallen.

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 3h

Pictured: the four primary forms of anarchism (mostly laudatory, except for Rick of course).

The cast of the 1980s British sitcom “The Young Ones”.

3 12 130

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

it’s less that and more that they just liked his first album before anyone had heard of him better

aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 3h

Unfortunately many people (tankies) have issues with frog suit guy

7 8 180

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

your tactic of protesting in an inflatable frog suit which gets normal people on your side is far inferior to my tactic of posting about laser blinding helicopter pilots which is both wildly illegal and, were it to succeed, would put basically *everyone* against me

19 100 910

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 9h

This will be the hill I die on, “porn addiction” is not real, that phrase specifically is used as a dog whistle and is backed only by pseudoscience which has been created by right wing fascist organisations with the intention to demonise minorities. It is not real, actual science proves it isn’t.

10 280 870

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 5h

"We have views identical to those of stormfront" and you think this makes liberals look bad?

scorby mcmichaelson, G.E.D. @scorbymcmichaelson.bsky.social · 7h

lmao, how is it a stormfront meme? "israeli" is a synthetic settler colonial nationality that has coopted every single one of its supposedly defining characteristics from other ethnicities

3 12 82

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5h

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:”

400 3.1K 12K

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

why is it always a european who comes into my mentions convinced that all hope is lost, you guys don’t even know how our elections actually work

4 14 130

Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 6h

starting a polycule not to participate in it, but solely to be the Spreadsheet Guy

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 6h

one reason I disagree with the idea that "redemption arcs" do more harm than good is the fact that right now we can clearly see there's a world leader who, through toxic influence from the fascists surrounding him, is not renouncing fascism to get into heaven

imagine if Trump had seen Star Wars

7 7 61

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

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.

190 4.2K 11K

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

MrNelson007, Defender of Skara Brae @mrnelson007.bsky.social · 7h

His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the president. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 8h

the president is constantly talking about dying because his heart is so powerful that he will never die, and the fact that others will fascinates him

4 16 170

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 7h

he has to have a terminal diagnosis of some description even 14th century monks weren't this preoccupied by their own mortality

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

6 10 76

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h

once again asking simple question "does america have a free market in housing"

6 13 140

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7h

i get kind of annoyed that the political compass has caused a lot of people to view liberalism, conservatism, etc as a gradient that you can move “four left and two up” instead of as a series of distinct political philosophies with their own unique assumptions about the world and its ideal state

3 22 160

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Jan 12

So one thing I'm pretty convinced of is you can't legislate or policy your way out of culture war stuff. We'll see how that holds up! The tech world is indeed changing its dei policies in all the ways right wingers want. My prediction: they'll still find themselves angry and upset with the culture.

47 67 950

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

30 500 3.4K

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h

the killdozer guy became this only semi-ironic epic hero for the average man who will be oppressed no longer, which is funny, because if you read anything about the background it becomes like 100% clear that he was in the wrong. Which makes sense! His actions are not those of a reasonable person!

6 20 270

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 8h

If you’ve paid any attention to Trump, you can plainly see he’s terrified of dying. His death marks the obliteration of the only thing he’s ever thought about.

This sudden obsession with the afterlife sure is, uh, notable. Doubly so now that he thinks he’s bound for hell.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

5 16 100

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

37 270 810

Reposted by Wannabe Apparatchik

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

*sigh*

Absolute idiots. If you see somebody doing this, stop them. If you come across the fliers encouraging it, trash them. It's not a prank, it's not a protest, it's a literal violent crime endangering the public.

OHSU says emergency flights will be diverted amid planned 'laser party' in South Portland

OHSU said air ambulance vendors are not going to land at the hospital helipad Saturday; instead, they'll land at other airports and transfer patients via ambulance.

www.kgw.com

3 19 94