Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by omi

Snack Queen @auntiebaecc.blacksky.app · 8h

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

1 3 7

omi @omi55.bsky.social · 4h

🤣🤣🤣🤣
....but also: very sweet 😄

Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 1d

🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

1 1

omi @omi55.bsky.social · 4h

now ain't this some bullshit.....

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site vandalized

Despite the vandalism, the King Center reported minimal damage and remains open to visitors.

www.wsbtv.com

omi @omi55.bsky.social · 19h

Ok now hold on one gotdamn minute.....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr0q...

Extended First Look at The Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Premieres 2026 | AMC+

YouTube video by amc+

www.youtube.com

1

Reposted by omi

stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 1d

diane keaton definitely ain’t got no business bein gone.

a woman is sitting on a bed looking at a laptop computer .

ALT: a woman is sitting on a bed looking at a laptop computer .

media.tenor.com

1 2 5

Reposted by omi

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

440 6.2K 21K

Reposted by omi

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Give every politician as much credit as their actions and no more

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

31 72

omi @omi55.bsky.social · 1d

😔

Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific. A 50-year old black man had a stroke & was confused from it. Cops didn’t want to “waste time” doing a thorough evaluation for a medical emergency, assumed it was drugs, & simply threw him in jail. He died

A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism

www.kare11.com/article/news...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

1

omi @omi55.bsky.social · 1d

I also thought she was a little older when she passed... I didn't realize she was less than a decade older than me.

I'll be older than she was soon... lots of perspective.

omi @omi55.bsky.social · 1d

What I learned this morning: listening to Whitney still makes me cry. 😔

I finally got to the point where I can do Prince (sparingly)... but hearing peak Whitney since I've been old enough to really get it? Whew.

1

omi @omi55.bsky.social · 1d

🙁🙁🙁

1

omi @omi55.bsky.social · 1d

😲😲😲

Reposted by omi

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

This needs to be a sport, Competitive Bulldog Holing.

People compete to see how fast they can unhole a bulldog, how many they can unhole, how heavy a bulldog they can unhole, etc

Maybe add some wombats at the pro level for extra challenge

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

we are all sherman

5 9 76

omi @omi55.bsky.social · 1d

😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans. n.pr/4h2pwRc

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

n.pr

Reposted by omi

Spooky action at a distance @mkranz.bsky.social · 2d

There’s also now a Northeast Public Health Collaborative on the same wave www.health.ny.gov/press/releas...

Several Northeastern States and America’s Largest City Announce the Northeast Public Health Collaborative

www.health.ny.gov

1 11

Reposted by omi

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

some more interesting interstate collaboration efforts in this thread!

bsky.app/profile/samh...

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 2d

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California

www.gov.ca.gov

2 12 81

Reposted by omi

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

19 140 700

Reposted by omi

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

4 16 190

Reposted by omi

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

Soo everytime America swears that something has never happened before

It has happened and usually to a Black person

History may not fully repeat but it rhymes with

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 3d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

7 87 260

Reposted by omi

Melania Noire @melanianoire.bsky.social · 3d

I know Thomas was a problem. Look at that eyebrow.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 3d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

2 6

Reposted by omi

Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 3d

Will they be clapping on the 1 and 3?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.