Author | Lightnews

Luke

@realluke1.bsky.social

880 followers 680 following 1.6K posts

I dream of Macedonian kings and universal healthcare.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · Feb 1

watching my own country collapse in real time is making it difficult to beat the insomnia tonight

2 7 130

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 20h

if you asked Hakeem his favorite type of pizza, he’d say “i think pizza is a foundational American food, ultimately it’s the decision of the pizza parlor what type I get”

2 4 180

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 20h

hot take but i think it’s bad to have a leader in a time of fascist regime consolidation who is incapable of having a normative or prescriptive opinion about ANYTHING AT ALL

3 3 200

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 1d

good, it makes you strong and also it’s morally correct

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 1d

lol i knew when we got a good pro-Ukraine anti-Russia thread going the American Sillyman would make an appearance

1 1

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 1d

i think you missed “russia has a legitimate sphere of influence” while they advocate the complete disarmament of US allies because they’re in OUR sphere of influence. otherwise, you nailed it

1 16

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 1d

like were the nations resisting Nazi imperialism “funding the war machine instead of striving for peace”? When the “peace” in question is capitulation to a tyrannical empire, armed resistance is the most morally justifiable response in the world!

1 11

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 1d

This is apropros of nothing but the entire anti-Ukraine left needs to shut the fuck up permanently. All this (justified!) uproar over Gaza, and none about a nation in a morally similar position. I go insane, as a leftie, seeing the bonkers inconsistency here. It’s the same fucking struggle!

3 6 60

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 1d

this is how all these centrist data guys are. they’ve structured their professional lives so that someone is always telling them they got an A+. it’s just that person is now Chuck Schumer and not Mrs. Miller in 9th grade or whatever

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 1d

or used as forced labor for Putin’s siloviki cronies

2 97

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 1d

i would say that anyone defending a nation full of working people is by definition a friend of the working class, in that he would prefer them alive and not dead at Russian hands

1 5 190

Reposted by Luke

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

120 1.6K 7.5K

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 1d

shorter version: “this time centrism will work guys, we definitely won’t lose again”

1 7

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 4d

Long united, the Empire must divide; long divided, the Empire must unite

Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 4d

Donatives for the troops
Incompetent ruler with no clear heir
Fading international prestige
Powerless legislature

Welcome back Crisis of the Third Century!

Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social · 4d

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 5d

as bad as this place is this days we still walked on the moon and took the sword to the Third Reich. we abhorred kings. Now the White House is the palace of some would be Renaissance absolutist princeling

1 2

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 5d

not a US nationalist so i’m surprised this has enraged me so much

1 4

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 5d

like what is the last progressive or leftist campaign we know of that needed to do this? somehow I doubt Zohran has demanded this of his staffers

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 5d

Everybody jumping in the tank to cape for Platner’s tattoo is just setting themself up for frantic backpedaling when the next insanely damaging video comes out. I’d put money on that!

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 5d

I was somehow, contradictorily, both amazed and not surprised at all that he’s making his staffers sign NDAs. What else are they expecting to come out that they’re strategizing about? Why the need to have that strategizing be secret?

2 1 7

Reposted by Luke

Kyle C @kylevito.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine the Illusive Man from Mass Effect saying this

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 6d

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

atlantic article screenshot
headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get
sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight
by yasmin tayag

37 450 2.5K

Reposted by Luke

weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 5d

340 5.5K 27K

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 6d

the same people fearmongering about Wagner’s small scale thuggery in central Africa are the people you’re describing

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 6d

Good piece Katelyn. Best summation of the left case for ditching this guy i’ve read. wish the progressive media ecosystem had your clarity on this race

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 6d

like when you saw Blackwater on his resume you should expect a couple hundred more skeletons in the closet

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 6d

i’ve had a bad feeling about this dude for some time. the Trueanon-style nihilists had this one right. I heard some lefty podcast types defending him earlier this week and my first thought was “i’d hold off on that because obviously a bunch more shit is gonna come out”

1 5

Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 6d

I think this partly because they see Nazi adjacent content on there all the time and so assume that’s just kinda how Americans are — even though normies are going to be completely repulsed by this