Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ashley Zacharias

@ashleyzacharias.bsky.social

470 followers 510 following 1.8K posts

I write my own erotic fiction. I have never used AI in my writing.and never will. Masochistic women fascinate me, but I'm not interested in sadistic men. I'm old, married, and monogamous. But on the plus side, I spent a long time in university.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 4h

Understanding the cause of pain, whether it's physical or emotional, won't make it go away, but it will make it easier to bear.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 4h

Is there a law prescribing a specific procedure for swearing a representative into the house, or is having the speaker do it merely a tradition? Because if it's not enshrined in law, then the Democrats have to follow the Republican lead, ignore inconvenient traditions, and seat Grijalva themselves.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 5h

Netanyahu bombed Gaza to rubble, killing and burying hostages along with countless Palestinians, and now he's restricting aid into Gaza because the Palestinians can't produce every single body on demand. Every time Netanyahu opens his fucking mouth, I have more sympathy for Palestine.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 5h

It Republicans spent half as much time running the country properly that they spend making up insulting names for people they don't like, America wouldn't be teetering on the brink of disaster.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 5h

How much of our money did Kristi Noem spend making video anti-Democrat ads that are illegal to play in airports?

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 7h

Why should we be upset by the word nxxxxr? Read Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" It was synonymous and used interchangeably with 'slave". You call someone that word, you are saying they should be enslaved. That is obscene.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 12h

So what happens if lower courts simply refuse to conform to the decisions of Robert's corrupt Supreme Court, and rule according to the actual words in the Constitution? What can the corrupt Supreme Court do about it?

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 12h

Republicans broke America by breaking American democracy.
This was not an accident; it has been the Republican plan since Reagan.
America will not work properly again until democracy is restored.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 19h

Many countries, including Canada, have issued travel warnings about the US.
What does that mean?
It means you were warned.
Your government many not provide diplomatic assistance if you get into trouble, and insurance companies may invalidate your travel insurance.
So don't get arrested or get sick.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 19h

Remember back when you heard GOP and thought "Grand Old Party" instead of "Gang Of Pedophiles"?
Those were good times.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 19h

How many small American pleasure craft tooling around in US territorial waters are actually smuggling guns into Latin America?

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 1d

No one is going to give the Nobel Peace Prize to a president who blatantly breaks international law by blowing up boats carrying civilians in foreign territorial waters.
It's not the Noble Murder Prize.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 1d

In the old days, Kings led their troops on the battlefield and sometimes took an arrow to the eye or a sword to the chest.
Let's bring back tradition and put King Donnie Bonespurs on the front lines in any wars he starts. He can still serve his country the old-fashioned way.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 1d

I was in my first year at the University of California, San Diego when Reagan was elected governor. He immediately tripled our tuition because he figured students would stop opposing the Vietnam war if they had to struggle harder to pay for their education. I could see ugly times coming.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 1d

Woke. Adjective. Opposed to discrimination on the basis of race, gender, or religion. Believing in equal rights and freedoms for all.

1 2

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 1d

Libtard: Noun. A person who did not get sucked in by Trump's lies and scams. A smart person. A streetwise person.

2 6

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 2d

Young people may find it hard to believe that there was a time when America had an honest Republican party and a courageous Democratic party.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents wear masks because they're hiding their faces in shame.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 2d

The destruction of the American Constitution began on 9/11.
It gave aspiring fascists the means to begin destroying ordinary American's freedoms, beginning with the so-called Patriot Act.
Don't let the 9/11 terrorists win.
Resist the ongoing destruction of America!

2 2

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 2d

Canada needs to stop foreign investors from buying and owning Canada's natural resource industries. This is a matter of national security.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 2d

Columbus Day is a good day to consider how far we've progressed since 1492, and how much farther can progress going forward.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 2d

You would have to be irredeemably naive to think that the only time Tom Homan ever accepted a cash bribe happened to be the one time he was caught by FBI agents. The only reason the FBI set up their sting was because they knew he had already taken many bribes.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 3d

When I was in high school, I never predicted how many obscure details of the constitution and federal law (like the posse comitatus act, the emoluments clause, and the definition of "insurrection") would become important in my lifetime. I should have paid closer attention.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, Donald: It's a PEACE prize, not a "maybe-temporary-cease-fire-in-exchange-for-permanent-occupation-by-blood-thirsty-murderous-warlords" prize.

Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 3d

Hannah Arendt commented on the "banality of evil" when she studied the German Nazis.
Russel Vought is an American embodiment of Arendt's banality of evil.
Stifle your yawns and pay attention to this boring bureaucrat because he has spent his whole life working flat out to destroy your country.

2 4