Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦

@thomasswords.bsky.social

1.4K followers 890 following 4.4K posts

Race, gender, and class traitor I block antisemites and Zionists alike. Tiocfaidh ár lá. Saoirse Don Phalaistín.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · Apr 11

I’m willing to ally with any liberal, centrist, or fellow leftist willing to fight fascism, but I can ✊never✊ trust or respect you if you were silent as Joe Biden funded the Gaza genocide.

As always:

15 8 65

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 1m

Sending love to you from the USA, Owen. Thank you for tirelessly supporting Palestine.

Reposted by Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 2h

A message for the Palestinian people:

Your spirit, your determination has inspired so many people all over the world. And one day, you will not just free Palestine - you will free us all.

7 51 180

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 5m

Everything I see from this Polanski guy is really encouraging. Is there some reason to worry about him?

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 3h

Zack Polanski: "If the straight question is, ‘would I abolish the monarchy' - yeah, absolutely.”
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence

The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.

open.substack.com

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 7m

That dude needs to get off his ass and start doing things like that. Because Chicago is being utterly crushed by ICE right now.

Reposted by Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 44m

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

4 180 630

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 18m

I really like Platner and gave him a little money already. But that argument makes sense. None of us want to be Fettermaned again, though Platner is espousing left-populist ideals in a way that the Pennsylvania Ogre never did.

Reposted by Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

120 830 2.3K

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 10h

Agreed but what in particular prompted this?

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 10h

You’ve been pink-pony-pilled

Reposted by Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 18h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

52 2.8K 6.1K

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 11h

Not Kissinger bad but bad nonetheless!

Reposted by Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

75 130 260

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 11h

Agreed, though I do think that when he exits the scence, there will be an opportunity to reset things.

Reposted by Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦

Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 12h

the scariest thing about donald trump is the widespread belief that he is The Problem, rather than a symptom of The Problem

12 66 240

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 12h

There are definitely incel types who feel oppressed because they're rejected by women. But I don't think that's the bulk of modern-day Nazis. They subscribe to a supremacist ideology that appeals to people of all different levels of physical attractiveness. Their common thread is cruelty.

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 12h

came here to say this. For all the Mackenzie Scotts, there are more Elon Musks and Peter Thiels. Billionaires shouldn't exist, full stop.

2 2

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 12h

That would be catastrophically stupid for Hamas. If Israel wants to disarm, then they should consider it.

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 12h

Substack post from Ricky Hale: Sorry everyone, I know I'm in the minority, but I think it's wrong to recognise a "state" that has spent decades launching terror attacks against its neighbours who just want to live in peace. That recognition is a reward for terrorism. No country should be recognising Israel.

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 13h

And in your heart

1 2

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 14h

Because of big brain

1 1

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 15h

Pretty sure his favorite cliche is “testicular fortitude.” 🙄

1 1

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 15h

Never forget that these are the same people who say it’s not a genocide because Israel could kill every single person in Palestine and yet they choose not to.

a man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 15h

Butt he use bigg werdz

1 1

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 19h

Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but the American flag doesn't represent me. I love a lot of Americans and a lot of things about America, but that flag represents imperialism and conquest to me.

I want a world without nations and without borders.

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 21h

I like the way you’re thinking about this. It gives me hope that we can create a broad coalition of groups to oppose fascism. I think that is already happening.

1 6