Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by karima

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 2h

I'd like to take a moment to say "fuck Columbus" www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsUD...

The Coup - Dig It

YouTube video by sirdynozxiv

www.youtube.com

3 20

Reposted by karima

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2h

White people on the left seriously act like people of color made up racism to sow division & if we can just get in line & absolve them of their privilege we can all get back to the class war.

15 69 230

Reposted by karima

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 6h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

78 1.9K 6.1K

Reposted by karima

Non Serviam Media Collective @nonserviammedia.bsky.social · 34m

“I think we all engage in anarchist practices every single day when we transgress societal norms, laws, rules, expectations.”
- @susurros.bsky.social

🔗 youtu.be/_sgEWS-7BJA

@lucystag.bsky.social @rubixhelix.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy #anarchism

Non Serviam Podcast #70 - Anti-Colonial Meditations with Scott Campbell

2

Reposted by karima

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 5h

i think this was from a history book from the used bookstore...

i dont recall the original context but im pretty sure he's telling christopher columbus to get the fuck out.

a brown-skinned man with long black hair and wearing gold jewelry stands pointing out a window while a seated tan-colored bearded man wearing a hat with a blue feather in it looks up at the first man.

3 7 29

Reposted by karima

Eze @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app · 9h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day, and a big fuck you to all colonizers both in practice and in spirit.

62 130

Reposted by karima

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 8h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

20 1.8K 4.2K

Reposted by karima

The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

250 2K 8.7K

Reposted by karima

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 7h

11 10 120

Reposted by karima

The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. @tariq-khan.bsky.social comes on to speak about his 2023 book "The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean" (@illinoispress.bsky.social), US Settler Colonial violence, Red Scares in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Americanism + the importance of education

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...

book cover of "The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean" featuring the text "TFSR 10-12-25 | Tariq D. Khan on Americanism & Red Scares" over a political comic of a greek soldier labeled civilization attacking a woman with serpentine qualities labeled Anarchy

2 22 49

karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 19h

Tattletales From Tanqueray Is Humans of NY’s Most Enthralling Story Yet tinyurl.com/vyyvffuu 💔

Tanqueray appears in her motorized chair near a street in NYC. She wears a hat and a coordinated outfit with a wise, warm smile. In the background there's someone standing next to an SUV, several buildings, and the road itself. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFpOxXFHXVJ/.

6 18

karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 20h

I was at LDF back in the day when Judith Reed, Elaine Jones, and Sherrilyn were there. I'm excited to see how things continue moving forward with Director-Counsel Nelson!

Reposted by karima

Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Resistance Day

38 150

Reposted by karima

Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 21h

Tyesha Long asked Oklahoma County District Judge Susan Stallings to revisit her sentence under the Oklahoma Survivors Act. Stallings ruled against doing so on Oct. 6, according to online court records. Long’s attorney, Colleen McCarty, said they intend to appeal.

She Got 27 Years for Killing Her Abuser. Judge Rules Oklahoma’s Survivors Act Won’t Free Her.

A judge will submit a written decision in Tyesha Long’s hearing next month.

capitalbnews.org

8 20

Reposted by karima

Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

Inconsistent. No clear goal. Sporadic and performative.

2 4 18

Reposted by karima

Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 1d

I think true unity among Black people scares White people. They worry what we’ll do with our power because of the way they’ve abused theirs.

35 76 390

Reposted by karima

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 23h

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.

240 5.1K 14K

Reposted by karima

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 1d

A mini bouquet of pink dahlia on a bookshelf with inventory (Dionne Brand), Feeding the Ghosts (Fred D’Aguiar), Blacklife (Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi), The Renunciations (Donika Kelly), Slave Moth (Thalias Moss) and Wilson Harris (Companions of the Day and Night) among others. Some beauty.

1 11 95

Reposted by karima

🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 21h

thing 💘 ladyfingers

a feminine-perceived hand coming out of a box next to a masculine-perceived hand coming out of a box, to reach for each other

1

karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 21h

Cool! I'll have to check this out.

Reposted by karima

IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 3d

Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

4 51 110

karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 21h

Benito Martínez Ocasio!

Bad Bunny stands unclothed with tattoos, holding several chain necklaces to his chest as he peers into the camera. He also has several tattoos on his gorgeous body. Image source: https://tinyurl.com/2scmufs7.

2

karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 22h

Check out Stolen Anarchy: Playing Indian & The Roots of Collectivism to find out how this guy, Ely Parker (born on an Indian Falls, NY, reservation), influenced European political thought. tinyurl.com/4y5hh5zv 💥

Ely S. Parker, left, and Ulysses S. Grant, center, are pictured together in an undated photo (source: https://tinyurl.com/nhasarxa).

1

Reposted by karima

Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

White people…….Keeping this energy would send a message.

The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 1d

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

26 94

Reposted by karima

Southern Gothic @thesuburbanthug.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry but this has me screaming 💀

Patrick, Not Pat @patricknotpat.bsky.social · 1d

Creating an AI image of your adult self hugging your childhood self is not a replacement for therapy. Please seek help y’all.

1 8 16