Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Julie

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 20h

In rare moment of honesty, Donald Trump owns up to shitting all over America.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 22h

The President of the United States has posted an AI video of himself unloading tons of raw sewage on American cities.

One of the targets in the AI video is Harry Sisson.

8 18 52

Reposted by Julie

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 15h

My career to this point is very much a case of "fuck it, someone needs to 🤷‍♂️"

jamesicameron.bsky.social @jamesicameron.bsky.social · 15h

It boggles my mind that you've taken up this role David (been following your writing since you used to write on videogames), that because our journalism institutions have failed us so badly, people like yourself are stepping up to the role with a mentality of 'I guess I'll do the journalism myself'.

14 22 190

Reposted by Julie

Selwyn Davis @selwyndavis.bsky.social · 14h

#auspol when Australians voted for Labor, they assumed they would get a left wing, progressive party with socialist ideals. You know, like a workers party. Like a Labor party. What we got was a more media savvy version of the LNP.

7 10 32

Reposted by Julie

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

160 1.5K 6.8K

Reposted by Julie

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

I know Donald Trump is a pathological liar, malignant narcissistic sociopath, racist, antisemite, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, hater of our troops and believer in euthanizing folks with disabilities, but we too often forget that he's *also* an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

110 1.2K 4.7K

Julie @goodgreengirl.bsky.social · 21h

Only an obsequious sycophant would do that Senator. Surely we wouldn't have those in Australian parliament?

Reposted by Julie

Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 1d

Millions of Americans are marching against Trump today. I sure hope no leader from Australia is about to pop over and bend the knee to him, offer him tribute and fawning adoration, maybe some of our resources and real estate for US military bases. Surely that won’t happen.

7 43 130

Reposted by Julie

Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @australia.theguardian.com - you forgot to mention what and who might be *causing* this excessive heat.

And the vastly inadequate response from our fossil-fueled politicians. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

October heat records could tumble in multiple states as hot weather sweeps east through central Australia

Unusually high temperatures in the low to mid 40s to hit parts of NSW, Queensland and SA, the Bureau of Meteorology predicts

www.theguardian.com

5 51 120

Reposted by Julie

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

"From glacial outbursts in Alaska, to dying coral reefs in the tropics, to tree die-back in the Amazon and the imminent collapse of the North Atlantic circulation, humans are soon to cross into an uncharted world of devastating shocks and consequences."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Tipping, tipping, tipping... the dominoes fall

Dying reefs, shrinking icesheets, withering forests and collapsing currents are the latest symptoms of an Earth system enduring dangerous trauma, according to the Global Tipping Points Report 2025.

johnmenadue.com

7 29 60

Reposted by Julie

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

A few short hours ago, 7 children and 3 women were murdered by Israel when an IOF tank fired on a Palestinian family as they tried to return home in Gaza.

Did you find this news "extraordinarily moving," @senatorwong.bsky.social? Is this the "pause" that induced you to fawn over Trump? #auspol

8 66 120

Reposted by Julie

Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 1d

No sign of the two way arms trade between Australia and Israel slowing as Australia purchases approx $20m worth of weapons from Elbit.

7 130 160

Reposted by Julie

Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

84 1.8K 11K

Julie @goodgreengirl.bsky.social · 22h

Can police make laws now? I wear a mask due to not wanting to catch Covid or...anything else. So no disease avoidance people can enter the city now?

1 1 2

Reposted by Julie

Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno if youse are across this... but it's forecast that in Sydney on Wednesday the temp will be 38C. (100 F)

It's OCTOBER! That's FIFTEEN DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE!

Our Government and fossil fuel companies are determined to cook us alive! Boil the oceans. Kill our forests. Turn habitat to ash.🥺😩

51 200 670

Reposted by Julie

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

And our clever leaders have already said no to a climate trigger in the EPBC and instead will rely on a deeply, deeply flawed and farcical ‘Safeguard Mechanism’ theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... #Ecocide #ClimateCrisis

9 57 130

Reposted by Julie

Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

50+
Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

~130
Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

~20
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

290 7.6K 16K

Reposted by Julie

Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 2d

The most damning answer at today's Senate inquiry into the Govt's #FOI Amendment Bill came from the Centre for Public Integrity’s Dr Williams when asked by Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social which one was less transparent - @albomp.bsky.social’s Govt or ScoMo’s Govt? 👇 #FactualResearch #auspol

6 44 93

Reposted by Julie

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

170 1.9K 3.8K

Reposted by Julie

Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 10d

Yesterday, in reply to a question about #FOI, @albomp.bsky.social went out of his way to take a swipe at me. His words were unbecoming of a PM, but I’m glad my #transparency efforts are getting under his skin. It shows our anti-secrecy campaign is having an impact. #auspol

13 35 130

Reposted by Julie

Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 11d

In the last hour, the brave humanitarians aboard the Freedom Flotilla, which includes at least one Australian, Madeleine Habib, have reported being surrounded and intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters.

This is direct contravention of international law.

2 23 46

Reposted by Julie

Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 12d

• South Africa takes Israel to the ICC over the #GazaGenocide.
• Spain takes Israel to the ICC over the #GlobalSumudFlotilla interception.
• Australia? Still providing Israel with F-35 components and a PM silent on both the genocide and the detention of Australians from the Flotilla. 😔 #auspol

2 20 60

Julie @goodgreengirl.bsky.social · 12d

A deeply disturbing continuation of a persecution campaign. To punish people who shone a light on her lacks. The actions of a petty, vindictive, deeply flawed, empathy lacking, grandiose individual who cannot bear to be seen as less than, so must destroy others in a pathetic attempt to "win"

Reposted by Julie

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 14d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

810 17K 38K

Reposted by Julie

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 14d

Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm

14 170 370

Reposted by Julie

Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 14d

If you're still using Amazon to buy stuff, this extract from a forthcoming book by Cory Doctorow (he of "enshittification" coinage) might just convince you not to.

/...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

10 21 56