Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LightNews

Jake Berg

@jacobsberg.bsky.social

1.7K followers 520 following 5.8K posts

Libraries. Beer. DC. You always go to the show. DCBeer.com Editor/Co-Owner He/Him

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · Dec 30

Good morning, here's the music I listened to and the beers I drank in 2024.

Beer and Music, Music and Beer, 2024

The third to last and second to last sentences I wrote on this site were, "Next year is an election year, it's going to be bad. Here's hopin...

beerbrarian.blogspot.com

Reposted by Jake Berg

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

Reposted by Jake Berg

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

Rate Dogs & • Follow
...
2h •
This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
14/10
CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 8h

Had a lot of broccoli to use up, made this.
B+, could use more aromatics.

Seared Broccoli and Potato Soup (Published 2014)

cooking.nytimes.com

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 11h

the real news story would be if they had group chats where they volunteered, donated, mentored, uplifted...

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 11h

everyone is sharing that politico article about racist fascist assholes acting like racist fascist assholes... yeah, we knew that!

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 11h

everyone is sharing that politico article about racist fascist assholes acting like racist fascist assholes... yeah, we knew that!

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 11h

Just say Ohtani!

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 11h

sounds to me like he couldn't

/ takes off sunglasses

do what's right

Reposted by Jake Berg

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 17h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 15h

i can respect this take

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 15h

i respect this take

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 15h

sir i am wounded

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 15h

Damn, gone too soon.

D'Angelo, Soul's Modern Visionary, Dead at 51

D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums — 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' — are all revered as modern classics, has died.

www.rollingstone.com

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 16h

Yaaassssssss

Clipse's 'We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 2' Turns 20

Pusha T and Malice still talk about the Knitting Factory show. I still talk about it, too. If you were there, then I bet you still talk about it. It was a special night — a moment when you could see p...

www.stereogum.com

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 18h

Tired: Potomac gondola
Wired:

Electrek @electrek.co · 18h

Flying electric boat to showcase cutting commute times in half in Washington D.C.

Flying electric boat to showcase cutting commute times in half in Washington D.C.

What if your morning commute didn’t involve gridlock on the 395 or the Orange Line crawl, but instead meant silently flying over the Potomac River at 30 knots? That’s exactly what Stockholm-based Candela is bringing to Washington D.C. this week with the U.S. demo debut of its flying electric boats. more…

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 18h

ALT: Elmo Poop GIF

media.tenor.com

Reposted by Jake Berg

Spooksica BOOlin Still Masks @olinj.bsky.social · 18h

Y'all, we've almost beaten Neil Young. Vote Spacemen 3! You won't regret it!

The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 1d

The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #96
#22 Neil Young, FREEDOM
vs.
#43 Spacemen 3, PLAYING WITH FIRE

forms.gle/rukzwujPLZFE...

The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #96: Neil Young vs. Spacemen 3

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Monday, October 13th 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 3 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highly s...

Reposted by Jake Berg

Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19h

This is a really important point.

They want “meme authoritarianism.”

They want rage.

They’re getting frogs & aging hippies.

Not great optics—for them.

But great for us: you build a movement by showing folks that they’re part of an energized and hopeful “us.”

Let’s go!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

Reposted by Jake Berg

Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 21h

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

Reposted by Jake Berg

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

Reposted by Jake Berg

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 1d

I love the inflatable costumes from a purely strategic standpoint because it quite effectively takes the wind out of the sails of "war-torn portland" "antifa supersoldier" type rhetoric. it happened organically and dare I say, memetically, but it works

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

STOP THE ANTIFA TERRORISTS

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

Just one? Shouldn’t there be more than this?

Reposted by Jake Berg

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

never say never, i guess, but neither ellison nor weiss have the kind of experience that should give anyone strong confidence that they’ll be able to even maintain CBS’ current viewership levels, let alone improve them. both have basically only ever run niche projects.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral

Reposted by Jake Berg

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral

Reposted by Jake Berg

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

🤦‍♀️

Reposted by Jake Berg

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Government workers 👇🏾

Lunch is on the house:

Being in the heart of downtown DC, we love that so many of our Federal employees stop by during lunch for a Donburi at China Chilcano or a Fútbol Club at Jaleo. And just because the government is shut down doesn't mean you have to miss out on your favorite lunch spot- because this time, its on us!
Join us for lunch from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM at any of our participating restaurants and enjoy a free lunch item when you present your government ID-you heard that right! Dine in with us Monday through Friday and choose your favorite: a sandwich at Jaleo, a donburi at China Chilcano, a wrap or pita at Zaytinya, or a torta at Oyamel.
We've always believed in serving our community with open arms and good food-no shutdown can stop that.