Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Melissa

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3h

The United States is currently in material breach of over five hundred legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations. We violated even the treaties we coerced at the point of a sword.

We cannot talk about restoring the rule of law until we acknowledge and repair this fundamental truth.

10 160 550

Reposted by Melissa

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone should experience the humbling effect of sending out a small request to an organizing listserve [of people who have self-selected to be on said list] and getting zero responses. It will help you to understand how hard it is to organize anything.

19 58 380

Reposted by Melissa

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 17h

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:”

510 4.9K 19K

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 2h

Misanthropy is always a red flag in politics, and I don’t see how this kind of thing can be interpreted any other way.

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 4h

In 2008 I moved to a rural midwestern place and discovered its amazing music scene, which is still going strong 17 years later. What a profound joy to dance under the moon to the same bands with the same people for so long. Art scenes are a labor of love. Never take them for granted.

1 4

Reposted by Melissa

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

23 210 1.4K

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 1d

The keurig pods come in so many different brands and colors like there’s so much variety, but they all taste like burnt plastic.

3

Reposted by Melissa

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

33 420 1.2K

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 2d

When he plays, his face is always pure bliss. He does get a little cranky between songs if the beer and snacks stop flowing though (understandable)

10

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 2d

Also I have known the marathon bassist since he was a teenage roadie. It’s fun to watch people grow up.

16

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 2d

I am at a festival for a music scene that currently only has one bassist. The festival is in a hilly forest venue and he runs the trails between stages to get to every set, carrying his stand-up bass. People give him beers and snacks as he passes.

Anyway, I have an idea for a new Olympic sport.

9 47 290

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 2d

Spending the weekend visiting the pieces of my heart that I keep buried in the Shawnee Hills.

2

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 3d

The best road trip food in the US is obviously obtained at the array of indie taquerias that are scattered throughout this vast and beautiful land. BUT *in a pinch* the Taco Bell bean burrito is always there for you and it deserves more respect.

1 4

Reposted by Melissa

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

24 1.3K 4.1K

Reposted by Melissa

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3d

Throwing dildos at them. Trying to track their periods. Are men OKAY? Just be normal about women.

Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 3d

I feel for the WNBA. They spent decades not getting the shine they deserve and the second they did, it's come with a wave of misogynistic weirdos who enjoy watching women play but cannot help but do weird sh*t to and about them bc misogyny.

10 72 240

Reposted by Melissa

Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 3d

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression. To fight it, white people have to stop pretending government oppression arrived overnight and start dismantling the systems that have been incubating it all along.”

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

buff.ly

2 36 94

Reposted by Melissa

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 3d

Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.

30 170 900

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve got the devil blues, but I ain’t as blue as most people

Reposted by Melissa

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

61 1.4K 5.2K

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 4d

#bannedbooksweek

NYCLU statement: We have been receiving reports that ICE agents are unlawfully banning all books from entering the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility (Batavia). Titles include a dictionary, books about religiong, drawing books, and even a Sudoku puzzle book. Banning books in immigration detention facilities plainly violates the First Amendment, which is afforded to all people in the United States--including those trapped in immigration detention. The Buffalo Federal Detention Facility must take immediate steps to end this practice and comply with the First Amendment"

3 62 130

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know what the specific policy solutions are. I wish I did! But I do know how I want to organize at this time—I want to work with my community to protect those who are being targeted and to develop and implement policy democratically. I have no use for politicians who don’t support that.

1

Reposted by Melissa

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 4d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

24 300 1.2K

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 4d

Next up: the new VE Schwab. This library copy advertises itself as a signed copy, but I cannot locate any signatures.

bury our bones in the midnight soil by ve schwab

Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 4d

Abortion Arcade: Good world building and storytelling. Like all good genre fic, it’ll make you feel things. Intense body horror and gore. It’s 3 novellas on the theme of abortion written by a man—your tolerance for that sort of thing may vary.

1

Reposted by Melissa

Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 4d

God damn, this one got me. "I cannot make peace with the world such as it is, and so I cannot anesthetize myself into acceptance—and I am okay with that."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

14 46