Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1h

"young republican" and it's a 37 year old man with a mortgage and alimony and a back issue that flares up when he sits for too long

6 22 260

Reposted

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

10 280 1.5K

Reposted

Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 4h

No/Yes meme, top panel says 'welfare handout,' lower panel says 'inputs to stablize'

6 51 240

Reposted

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3h

"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

😡😡😡😡

52 320 1K

Reposted

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h

“but you commented earlier about a naked bike ride in portland” would be a legitimate follow up for any reporters in the room w johnson when he says he didnt see the important story youre asking him about

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

16 93 670

Reposted

James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 5h

I too don't want anyone taking medical advice from RFK, but guess who voted to confirm him as the person people should take medical advice from.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Thune: "If I were a woman I'd be talking to my doctor and not taking advice from RFK"

48 490 2.6K

Reposted

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: A photo from 2024 shows Trump backstage at a campaign rally with two members of the Young Republican National Federation involved in the deeply disturbing, racist group chat leaked this week. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Photo Shows Trump Backstage At Rally With Republicans In Racist Texts Scandal

JD Vance said the “kids” were just being “edgy” by praising Hitler. Except they were adults, and they rubbed shoulders with everybody in Republican politics.

www.huffpost.com

30 120 330

Reposted

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

260 4.1K 7.9K

Reposted

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5h

NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.

140 830 3.1K

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 12h

It does account for the speed with which they’re moving. They think the window is closing.

1 3

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 12h

I’m not very optimistic about our country. But one source of hope is that when Trump is out of the picture the GOP will lose its cheat code with voters.

For now, at least, they just don’t hear the bad stuff. Or they don’t think he’s capable of it.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14h

what did he think trump was gonna do, exactly. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Longtime Florida insurance agent Alan Reynolds, 65, predicts many of his customers will allow their policies to lapse when the price hikes become clear. An independent who leans conservative, Reynolds, of Port St. Lucie, called the Affordable Care Act flawed but said he favors the continuation of the enhanced subsidies “and not pulling the rug out from under people.”

His family is also affected. The loss of his wife’s subsidy means she is likely to pay about $1,200 or more each month, up from about $500 in 2024, he said. “I voted for Trump,” Reynolds said. “I didn’t expect this.”

1 1 7

Reposted

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 18h

“Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.”

John Locke

10 25

Reposted

Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 15h

Great 🧵; this is the main point. If the President can spend money on whatever he wants without congressionally mandated appropriations we don't have separation of powers, or even really a constitutional republic (at least under the terms of our constitution). We just don't.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

So just how bad is this? I got a text from an appropriator friend saying "The Republic has fallen. Pack it in."

10 210 660

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 13h

Lol. Amazing. Yes, it is.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 13h

Am I wrong to think the reporting in this piece is, uh, a little too credulous certain that the flag isn’t his?

American Flag With Swastika Is Found in Republican Congressman’s Office

www.nytimes.com

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 13h

Oliver Torture is those last few episodes of the final season of The Brady Bunch

2

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 13h

There was a lot of that. But I saw some passive aggressive stuff that was triggering too. That stuff was just as triggering.

2

Reposted

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16h

Shorter Mike Johnson:

Beating up a woman isn’t “really serious.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

160 710 2.5K

Reposted

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

The executive spending money on paying the military without congressional approval is "fall of the Roman republic" behavior.

Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social · 18h

The executive branch not spending the money that Congress has told them to spend is bad. The executive branch spending money on things for which Congress has not given them money is also bad (and, arguably, worse).

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

5 50 220

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 14h

More than likely she (consciously or subconsciously) posted things that were triggers to make people feel guilty.

1 2

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 14h

I have some idea bsky.app/profile/tedg...

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 14h

I’ll also give her the benefit of the doubt here, but it’s hard to unify people around divisive figures.

To a point, you can.

There are certain things we can agree on. /1

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 15h

There are Easter eggs all throughout this short gripe. “Shocked my liberal circle”? Just those words speak about how she views her friends in relation to herself.

This is written by a nobody to score points with conservatives at the expense of lifelong friends. 1/

1

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 14h

But using the death of a political figure to prod your friends into admitting the error of their ways politically is disrespectful to them and the figure who died. /2

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 14h

I’ll also give her the benefit of the doubt here, but it’s hard to unify people around divisive figures.

To a point, you can.

There are certain things we can agree on. /1

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 15h

There are Easter eggs all throughout this short gripe. “Shocked my liberal circle”? Just those words speak about how she views her friends in relation to herself.

This is written by a nobody to score points with conservatives at the expense of lifelong friends. 1/

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 16h

It's certainly *possible* this happened but it is an, ah, awfully tidy narrative

1

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 15h

“Shocked my liberal circle”

If you want to have friends who happen to be liberal don’t reduce them to some close minded political demographic you stunned with your superior open mind just so Bari Weiss’s billionaire friends can feel smug.

4

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 15h

So peace deals are put together with half assed promises and behind the scenes handshakes where bribes are exchanged back and forth to get to a point they’re willing to credit him personally with ending hostilities. 4/

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 15h

It means everything is just slapped together/taped together pretext. If you don’t look closely, it gets your ticket punched to heaven. 3/

1