Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Zelnut 🍉𓅨

@dahliaiterations.com

1.1K followers 800 following 6.3K posts

Unconditional bodily autonomy. Prison / police abolition. Regicide enthusiast. Jobs guarantee, UBI, and healthcare free at point of access. Pedocon theory: more evidence than gravitation. DDD Free Luigi. 187:6/9. 🍉🏞️🌊⛓️‍💥 Law school drop out, Seminary grad. ☕

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · Aug 29

One of the foundational laws of conservativism is that parents own their children, and the concept of a minor to them is one of earning the right to self-ownership (which remains a privilege in their eyes even after adulthood) rather than guardianship as a means to cultivate natural self ownership.

4 8 68

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 57m

Judges do know that they can deputize agents of the court to carry out a court order, right? It has always been an option. It's right there. They almost never do.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 1h

Not sure what’s up but this flatbed with what appears like more fence materials has pulled up outside Broadview.

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · Aug 19

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

380 2.4K 8.5K

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1h

<bored, monotone, not even looking up> This story is worth a read, but also I assumed that this literal exact specific thing was happening.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 9h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

73 2.1K 5.2K

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1h

I feel like Joe Cappa and Tim Robinson both play exactly one note, but they do it well and consistently. One trick ponies with an extremely good trick. Kind of like Brad Neely before Adult Swim got a hold of him.

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 4h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

41 2K 4.5K

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 7h

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

65 440 950

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

Another deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. Like previous ones:
-targeted based on proven liars saying “drug traffickers” without presenting any evidence
-illegal under both US and int’l law
-where US forces aren’t under threat and can interdict
-bad strategy if actually against traffickers

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 7h

7 86 200

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 11h

My most controversial geopolitical opinion is that America with unlimited national sovereignty unfettered by international law is like a toddler with diplomatic immunity who only eats chocolate and ice cream that they steal from the corner store.

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 11h

Another: Ayn Rand's philosophy is detestable, but she is not a horrible writer – at least, not in the way that people want her to be. Her books are all pretty good. All of them. The events are absurd and could never happen, but that's most fiction anyway.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 11h

Ok, but this is just true.

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 11h

This is hella unhinged. Real S-class unhingedness.

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 11h

The Catcher in the Rye — in fact, all of Salinger's work — is brilliant.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

1 3

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 11h

I love that novel and desperately want an accurate-to-the-book miniseries with Space Rastafari and holographic implants and Molly crying about Johnny and everything.

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 1d

Bring your army; but, I think, you'll find
They've not prepared for us.
- Coriolanus (I, 2)

The Portland protest frog stands up to a line of POS ICE goons.

1 80 420

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

33 4.5K 11K

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

There is no way that this is an anonymous individual, and the statute of limitations on insider trading – which absolutely applies to cryptocurrency – is 6-10 years.

Just, in case someone who matters might be paying attention.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 3d

Man what a lucky guess.........

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 2d

If democrats weren’t also so married to nakedly corrupt insider trading like the stuff done by Pelosi they could run on anti-corruption and win in landslides.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 3d

Man what a lucky guess.........

3 220 1.2K

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

130 780 4.2K

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

yeah i don't think i ever appreciate how well constrained Trump was during his first term and how everyone kinda assumed that would happen again without putting in any of the work

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

7 48 500

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Matt Nelson @mattnelsonart.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me you wouldn't celebrate this man

1 10

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Mind you, the Constitution very plainly gives Congress the power to protect voters from racial discrimination

But GOP argues that remedying a racial gerrymander is *also* a racial gerrymander, because it's taking race into account when drawing electoral maps

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

11 53 250

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

When the enemy runs on vibes, we too must run on vibes. The origin of all written law is ritual magic—looks like we’re back to the beginning.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

1 2 5

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

Is there a more classic Republican move than to suddenly adopt the moderate position as soon as it affects them?

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

3 7

Reposted by Zelnut 🍉𓅨

Bernard Taylor @btaylorforcongress.bsky.social · 2d

As a parent of a child with autism, this isn’t just politics, it’s personal.

The federal gov’t firing special-needs staff in the Dept. of Education is a direct blow to families like mine. Our kids deserve better.

In Congress, I’ll fight to protect & fully fund special education.

34 430 2K