Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Michelle Olley

@michelleolley.bsky.social

840 followers 1.1K following 510 posts

Writer/theatre-maker. London-based Northerner of 30+ years innit. She/her. Protect the Dolls. Free Palestine. No Vatniks. Slava Ukraini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Olley

en.wikipedia.org

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Michelle Olley @michelleolley.bsky.social · Apr 14

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

Michelle Olley @michelleolley.bsky.social · 1d

I love my box of mind tricks - thank you Ali and thank you Arts Labs!

Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 1d

Now that most of the contributors have their copies. We are making the rest of sets of this imited edtion project available to buy.

Details here:

[email protected]

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

1 3

Michelle Olley @michelleolley.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. You can meet them here in person tonight... 💗
www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...

The Lure of Othering

Produced and presented by Byline Times Join the team behind the independent investigative news outlet Byline Times for an entertaining evening of challenging discussion to help us understand the

www.thecockpit.org.uk

3 3

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

23 720 860

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 2d

Show this to a flagshagger. They’ll hate it.

Reform isn’t a party. It’s a pyramid scheme. Farage and his billionaire donors aren’t patriots. They’re con men up to their BALLS in foreign money.

This explains how they do it.

Stop believing the bullshit.

youtu.be/e4CrfRpjvCY?...

The Farage Con Explained: Send This To A Flagsh*gger. They’ll Hate It

YouTube video by Supertanskiii

youtu.be

18 130 330

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Roger Hallam @rogerhallam.com · 1d

Now that I’m free from prison, I can finally restart my podcast.

Listen to my first talk since freedom --- now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/3PY4...

I Went to Prison for the Climate — Here’s What I Learned

Designing the Revolution · Episode

open.spotify.com

1 3 12

Reposted by Michelle Olley

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Kate Bush and artists harness power of Running Up That Hill for War Child appeal

Musician invites 52 UK visual artists to create works based on song lyric to raise money for children affected by war Kate Bush is harnessing the power of her global hit Running Up That Hill in collaboration with leading names in British art to raise money for children caught up in global conflicts. The singer-songwriter invited 52 visual artists to respond to her lyric “If I only could, I’d make a deal with God” from her 1985 anthem. One of her best-loved songs and hailed as “one of the greatest songs of all time” by Rolling Stone, it became a hit all over again in 2022 when it featured in the fourth season of the US TV series Stranger Things. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

28 110

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

270 3.1K 11K

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

690 12K 30K

Reposted by Michelle Olley

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

290 3.3K 14K

Reposted by Michelle Olley

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3d

‘The platforms got worse because we let them’: Cory Doctorow talks to @zoecorbyn.bsky.social about his fight to save the internet from enshittification

🔗 Read the full interview www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

‘The platforms got worse because we let them’: Cory Doctorow on the enshittification of the internet

5 40 120

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

35 510 820

Reposted by Michelle Olley

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 5d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

9 1.1K 4.8K

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Lollioness @lollioness.bsky.social · 5d

Please share this! Let everyone see for themselves in real-time. isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

2 19 59

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 7d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 7d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

140 2K 7.7K

Michelle Olley @michelleolley.bsky.social · 7d

...annnnnd another one...

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 7d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

Reposted by Michelle Olley

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

810 15K 23K

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 8d

Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️

750 2.6K 8.2K

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Prescott Indivisible @indivisprescott.bsky.social · 8d

36 100

Reposted by Michelle Olley

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

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

810 17K 38K

Michelle Olley @michelleolley.bsky.social · 9d

'four legged friends' - 11/10 heckin' good job x 🐕💗

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9d

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

260 1.7K 5K

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 15d

After a great first run, Byline Times returns to The Cockpit Theatre Oct 13 to venture, once again, 'Out of the Comfort Zone.'

The Lure of Othering explores scapegoating in politics and media, feat. @nafeez.bsky.social, @karishmapatel.bsky.social and others.

👉 www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...

4 11

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14d

Joining this discussion:

• Byline's @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
• @nafeez.bsky.social – investigative journalist, systems theorist
• @karishmapatel.bsky.social – journalist & media critic
• Jake Arnott – Author and Dramatist
• Albie Amankona – Conservative Commentator

5 10

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12d

Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda and 600+ entertainment figures in re-launching the Committee for the First Amendment. Fonda announced the revival of the organization, initially founded by her father, Henry Fonda. The organization was founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.

180 3.6K 11K

Reposted by Michelle Olley

Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 12d

29 230 820