Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Drew Dalton (He/Him) @drewdalton.bsky.social · Jun 6

Want first chance tickets for the UK’s biggest LGBTQ+ rights week-long #SaferToBeMe Summit? Lots of events coming, many are free! Held in Newcastle and Gateshead, UK 🇬🇧

Join our WhatsApp community here: chat.whatsapp.com/G2y9ALq8HTU5...

1 3 7

🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · Aug 27

LGBTQI+ rights are human rights!

1 2

🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · Aug 27

1 1 2

🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · Aug 27

Time to join the movement - attend the UK's first global LGBTQI+ human rights Summit (in Newcastle/ Gateshead or online):
#SaferToBeMe!
As LGBTQI+ rights are pushed back across the globe, let's come together to fight for our communities and to stand as allies.
www.reportout.org/safertobemeh...

#SaferToBeMe Summit Diary

Welcome to our Summit diary page for the 2025 #SaferToBeMe Summit. It is time to make the world safer for LGBTQ+ people.

www.reportout.org

2 1 3

🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · Aug 23

🚨Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace organisations for hundreds of millions of dollars for solidarity with the ongoing Indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies to stop their attacks on free speech. Sign the petition: act.gp/3Hrx6Ye

NO more corporate bullying! - Greenpeace International

Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies to stop their attacks on free speech. Sign the petition now.

act.gp

2

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · Aug 14

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

150 2.6K 6.8K

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Environmental Defense Fund @envdefensefund.bsky.social · Aug 13

A new report written by climate science deniers hand-picked by Trump Energy Secretary Wright is packed with cherry-picked data and is being used to dismantle climate protections—to the benefit of polluters. (1/2)

Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · Aug 12

"We should all relentlessly question who stands to gain from efforts to upend this unassailable and peer-reviewed scientific truth.”

Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Today, @ucs.org and @envdefensefund.bsky.social filed suit to challenge the Administration's efforts to use a shoddy DOE report filled with climate disinformation to rollback federal climate action. Their actions are indefensible and we will not let it stand. www.ucs.org/about/news/e...

3 16 24

🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · Aug 15

Authoritarians often target scientists and suppress any who might have the knowledge or power to challenge government transgression. In response, the scientific community can work to rebuild critical elements that are now being dismantled!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

www.science.org

1

🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hey! I just signed a petition calling on the UN to ban fossil fuel lobbyists from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. They’re trying to sabotage the talks to protect their profits and block real action on plastic pollution. Let’s stop them! act.gp/3YxOUXa

Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks

Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.

act.gp

1

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jul 23

"A canary in the coal mine of the rule of law." This is an immensely important story about the DOJ being turned into an institution that is breaking the law at the behest of the President...the kind of story that would have tanked previous administrations. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/p...

A D.O.J. Whistleblower Speaks Out

www.nytimes.com

27 410 970

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · Jul 14

The United States summed up in two headlines.

Headline 1, "Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life.'" Headline 2, "The 10 richest Americans got $365 billion richer in the past year. Now they're on the verge of a huge tax cut."

60 2.9K 7.6K

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · Jul 16

The northern lights in Alaska

54 330 2.8K

🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · Jun 7

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/st...

Stoppt die Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza!

Die Kriegsverbrechen des 7. Oktober 2023 durch die Hamas haben die israelische Bevölkerung tief erschüttert und traumatisiert. Allen Betroffenen, insbesondere den Geiseln und ihren Angehörigen gilt un...

weact.campact.de

2

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · Jun 6

🚨🚨🚨 Call for Global Referendum to Remove Donald Trump from Power 🚨🚨🚨

Please Share & Sign the Petition Today!
chng.it/6C8rWtRQdq

Sign the Petition

Call for Global Referendum to Remove Donald Trump from Power

chng.it

18 130 410

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 5

That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.

620 5K 23K

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

sassafrasgirl @sassafrasgirl.bsky.social · May 9

June 14th is very big! We MUST come out in numbers too big to count! Hundreds of marches across the country. www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US! Keep making phone calls! Keep writing emails! Keep boycotting! MARCH! All of us together can make a difference!

44 460 1.3K

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Love @celiebug.bsky.social · May 8

youtube.com/shorts/QDbQz...

Trump is An Anti-Institutionalist I Anthony Scaramucci

YouTube video by Anthony Scaramucci

youtube.com

2 3

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · May 1

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption.

Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.

We cannot let this stand.

590 6.8K 14K

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Sherri 💙 @sherrilf.bsky.social · Apr 29

And not a single freaking female in the bunch. 🤬

7 22 88

🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · Apr 21

From April 2025 - must watch !!

#NoToTechAutocracy
#TechAccountability
#TechEthicsNow
#DataPrivacyMatters
#ProtectDemocracy

🐸 Empathy1st ❌👑 @empathy1st.bsky.social · Apr 20

-Carole Cadwalladr

"It's a coup. The purchase of an American president (and American sovereignty) by Elon Musk is unprecedented, and it appears to be advancing unabated."

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
america2.news/americas-mel...

America's Slide into Authoritarianism, as seen from TED 2025

The main message from TED 2025 wasn't the talks, but America's rapid slide into authoritarianism.

america2.news

1

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · Apr 19

"It's a coup... we can't fight it if we can't see it and we can't see it if we don't name it." - Carole Cadwalladr

This was a very alarming TED talk!

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

YouTube video by TED

youtu.be

21 160 590

🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · Apr 21

Wusstest Du, dass ab Januar Banken Beweise für illegale CumCum-Geschäfte vernichten dürfen? 28,5 Milliarden Euro Steuergelder sind in Gefahr. Fordere den*die nächste Finanzminister*in auf, sofort zu handeln. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen!
weact.campact.de/petitions/cu...

CumCum-Milliarden: Zeit ist Steuergeld

Wusstest Du, dass ab Januar Banken Beweise für illegale CumCum-Geschäfte vernichten dürfen? 28,5 Milliarden Euro Steuergelder sind in Gefahr. Fordere den*die nächste Finanzminister*in auf, sofort zu h...

weact.campact.de

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

NO THANKS TO KINGS @wallawalla-99.bsky.social · Apr 6

8 key #resistance tactics used against the #nazis in #WWII, that helped lay the groundwork for #liberation.

1. Disruption
2. Sabotage
3. Espionage
4. Guerilla warfare
5. Underground press
6. Helping Escapes
7. Uprisings
8. Assassinations

31 200 620

Reposted by 🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋

Dr. Romain Fernandez @romainbioimage.bsky.social · Apr 19

Tell the bully to fuck off, a growing trend in science 🧪
🤭

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Apr 19

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Further proof, if we needed it, that it pays to stand up to bullies.

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

www.nytimes.com

5 24