Paul Allopenna
LightNews LightNews
paulallopenna.bsky.social
Paul Allopenna
@paulallopenna.bsky.social
340 followers 760 following 890 posts
Amateur guitarist, even more amateur guitar builder, retired cognitive scientist, interested in all things human rights.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
mcsweeneys.net
LINUS: Charlie Brown, you are the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy is right. Maybe it is because of woke.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bar...
Bari Weiss’s A Charlie Brown Christmas
Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of CBS’s new initiative to modernize content, CBS Editor-in-Chief ...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
jonathancohn.bsky.social
An anti-science, anti-people death cult

www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/h...
FDA intends to put its most serious warning on Covid vaccines, sources say | CNN
The US Food and Drug Administration intends to put a “black box” warning on Covid-19 vaccines, according to two people familiar with the agency’s plans.
www.cnn.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Week in wildlife: a baby echidna, a 600lb gator and an ‘unbearable’ bear
Week in wildlife: a baby echidna, a 600lb gator and an ‘unbearable’ bear
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
stephy.bsky.social
Kiddo is learning the Pythagorean theorem so I finally have the pleasure of introducing him to the hippopotenuse
Sandra Boynton’s hippo hypotenuse (hippopotenuse) explaining the Pythagorean theorem
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
lromeranth.bsky.social
Why would Europeans want to fight to become a political Disneyland for racist white Americans?
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Opinion | Europe, Too, Is Worth Fighting For
Provided Europeans want to fight for it.
nyti.ms
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
pbump.com
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
awntiewithaw.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
around.com
If the formerly great American newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post) were really doing their jobs, it would look like this:

talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/life...
Life Inside the Undocumented Underground
During President Donald Trump’s second term, dramatic raids staged by the Immigration...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
schooley.bsky.social
Grade inflation is higher than ever.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
POLITICO: I wonder what grade you'd give the economy

TRUMP: A+

POLITICO: A+?

TRUMP: A+++++
December 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
adamserwer.bsky.social
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
There is a difference between inheritance and action. I cannot help who my ancestors are, but I can make my own choices. That so many Americans chose to place in power a man who holds people in contempt on the basis of race, religion, and national origin; that so much of the mainstream media conveys this bigotry through tired, obfuscating euphemisms; that there is so low a political price for the president’s racism that he and those around him see little risk in its expression—well, that does say something about America, and Americans. Immigration isn’t breaking our society. That’s a job Americans can do on their own.
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
mcc51.bsky.social
A thread worth your time.
larryglickman.bsky.social Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 6d
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
What is necessarily implied in this declaration of the Democratic Party? 1. That citizenship is not a birth-right, and from this it results that the majority may rightfully, in the several States of this Union, deprive the minority of all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States. I submit that no greater political atrocity can possibly be committed by human agency. Let the people accept this proposition and they will become the architects of their own ruin. Nothing can be clearer than this, that under the representative system of government the rights of the minority are as sacred and inviolable as the rights of the majority. If the majority may rightfully disfranchise the minority of citizens on account of race, color or former condition of servitude, they may, with equal propriety, disfranchise citizens for want of stature or property, or on account of nativity, thereby, presenting to teh world the miserable spectacle of a government wherein a mere majority subjects to the absolute despotism of their will a minority of their fellow citizens, almost equal in number to themselves, and per chance, greatly superior in all the attainments and virtues which adorn, or elevate, or ennoble human nature.
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
sanho.bsky.social
Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.
The Peleus War Crimes Trial
After sinking the Greek steamer Peleus in 1944, the captain ordered his crew to attack the survivors, three sailors survived and faced their attackers in a war crime trial.
www.usni.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
apocalypticanow.bsky.social
The idea that they want only legal immigration was a lie from the start.
highlandscurrent.bsky.social The Highlands Current @highlandscurrent.bsky.social · 8d
Routine naturalization ceremonies scheduled for this month in Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster counties to welcome new U.S. citizens were abruptly canceled last week by the federal government, surprising local officials.   buff.ly/8emFeDU
Citizen Ceremonies Canceled
Dutchess, Putnam clerks say they have new dates for next year 
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
liberalcurrents.com
Current Readings: Henry Farrell (@himself.bsky.social) on the new U.S. National Security Strategy: "The guff about civilizational collapse in Europe reflects the administration’s anxieties about the continued strength of liberalism within its own political system." open.substack.com/pub/programm...
America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
paulwaldman.bsky.social
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Here’s the factcheck and analysis, if you missed it ⬇️
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8d
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy: “President of Peace,” New Monroe Doctrine, and a Quiet Pivot Toward Russia

www.onestnetwork.com/post/trump-s...
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
emilymyers.bsky.social
Sometimes you're just sitting in a meeting and the universe delivers a moment of pure joy.
septic truck with the name "Fecal Ferry" and displayed on the side.
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
paulrosenberg.bsky.social
Hasenfus was shot down carrying arms. But the Contras were also involved with drugs. Just like today, our allies were bringing drugs into the US from Central America, while we accused our enemies of doing so.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
katz.theracket.news
Some relative hopecore for your holiday weekend.

New Racket.

theracket.news/p/trump-is-l...
Trump is losing it
Trump's Thanksgiving meltdown went full white nationalist as he threatened to denaturalize millions. But his cruelty isn't selling like it used to.
theracket.news
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
miriamcosic.bsky.social
This, from Ethan Hawke, is beautiful.

#TomStoppard
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
timmonsroberts.bsky.social
“What people call conflicts of interests…I call experience and trusted relationships that we have throughout the world.”

-Son-in-Law of the President of my country.

Let the record reflect what this family has done:

“Corruption..is now the norm in geopolitics”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Reposted by Paul Allopenna
radleybalko.bsky.social
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.

Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM