Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Zac Estrada

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11h

"By the time she died at the age of 79, she had as strong a star persona as her original screen fashion idol Katharine Hepburn — the kind that made inattentive viewers assume she was just playing herself." Wherein I write about the incomparable Diane Keaton. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

www.vulture.com

5 55 220

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 6h

WHAT

Reposted by Zac Estrada

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 6h

I did not know that Marc Benioff was the grandson of Marvin Lewis, the godfather of BART.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 6h

Marc Benioff called for the National Guard in S.F. The city doesn’t need the military on its streets. It needs the Salesforce founder to follow his grandfather’s example, Peter Hartlaub...

Marc Benioff wants troops in S.F.? There’s a path back to sanity, and it’s close to home

Marc Benioff called for the National Guard in S.F. The city doesn’t need the military on its streets. It needs the Salesforce founder to follow his grandfather’s example, Peter Hartlaub...

bit.ly

3 3 23

Reposted by Zac Estrada

Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 7h

I know this makes me impossibly out of touch for an American, but I’m amazed that we live in a country where you can write this sentence. I did not grow up in a place where children had any access whatsoever to guns. It was not in our culture at all. I didn’t even know of an *adult* with a gun.

The study suggests that adapting firearm safety guidance to different childhood developmental stages could be crucial to saving lives.

6 10 140

Reposted by Zac Estrada

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 9h

27 350 2K

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 10h

Don't name the minivan that but it's the first delicious-sounding Toyota ever www.caranddriver.com/features/col...

T.S. Eliot wrote that "the naming of cats is a difficult matter," but that's not true. Everyone knows you name cats after famous queens or junk food. Cleopatra and Crunchwrap. Done. Now, the naming of cars? That's the difficult matter, because who is going to feel safe taking their kids to school in a Toyota Crunchwrap?

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 13h

"But in the crash that injured the Paper brothers, the officer behind the wheel was a department veteran with plenty of training: He was a member of the LAPD's street racing task force." www.latimes.com/california/s...

When police are bad drivers: LAPD crashes kill — and payouts soar past $90 million

Two brothers injured in a crash caused by a speeding LAPD officer were recently awarded an $18-million legal settlement — one of many cases in recent years where taxpayers shelled out for dangerous dr...

www.latimes.com

Reposted by Zac Estrada

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 16h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

270 2.4K 14K

Reposted by Zac Estrada

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 14h

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

24 330 1.5K

Reposted by Zac Estrada

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 16h

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

9 89 580

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 16h

Story was finally updated but no mention that these insane factual errors were there for a while

3

Reposted by Zac Estrada

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

10 73 500

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 1d

What alternate AI-generated universe is this list from? www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Kate Hudson, who co-starred with Keaton in the 2016 film “Mother’s Day”: “We love you so much Diane ❤️🕊️”

Rosie O’Donnell, the comedian, actor and television host, who appeared with Keaton in the 1996 movie “The First Wives Club”: “oh this breaks my heart - love to her children- what style what grace - she will be missed #ripdianekeaton”

Octavia Spencer, the actor, producer and author who co-starred with Keaton in the 2020 Netflix film “Let Them All Talk”: “Today we lost a true original. @diane_keaton wasn’t just an actress: she was a force. a woman who showed us that being yourself is

Elizabeth Banks, the actor, director, producer and writer who co-starred as Keaton’s daughter in the 2007 film “Because I Said So”: “She was beloved in her industry.

1 5

Reposted by Zac Estrada

Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 1d

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

18 1K 3.8K

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 1d

Had to check that this wasn't about a theme park

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

1

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 1d

$20 might be a deal if that's the case

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 1d

something that color implies cough syrup is an active ingredient

1 2

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 1d

at least the grimace shake is alright (for the price)

1

Reposted by Zac Estrada

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

the rich yuppies, they yearn for the grimace shake:

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

In the name of journalism and for reporting purposes, I got the $20 Erewhon Smashing Pumpkins "goth smoothie" in silverlake.

It was extremely bad.

3 3 55

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 1d

Saw more organization in a Costco parking lot yesterday

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

5

Reposted by Zac Estrada

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton directed this banger music video on top of all her other achievements, RIP to a legend

youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO

youtu.be

7 68 230

Reposted by Zac Estrada

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

By the way: Isn't it time somebody released (or leaked) Tilda, the HBO pilot that starred Diane Keaton as a Nikki Finke-like gossip columnist? Also with, I believe, Elliot Page, Wes Bentley, Jason Patric, Sanaa Lathan. 2011, many cooks inc. Bill Condon, at least two versions.

5 31 340

Reposted by Zac Estrada

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna get bounced out of court so fast the sonic boom will be louder than the Concorde

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

While the Trump admin has accused state AG Letitia James of using a Virginia house as an "investment property" to rent out rather than a second home, The New York Times reports that she a house for her grandniece, who lives in it rent-free. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Ms. Thompson’s testimony that she has lived in the house rent-free — Ms. James pays even for basic upkeep, the people said — could make it difficult for prosecutors to convince a jury that the house was meant to be used as a rental investment property.

8 40

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 1d

it's a nancy meyers before we really knew what a nancy meyers was so it should be judged by that bar and not by the original

1

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 1d

didn't know it needed so much defending after 35 (or 75) years!

1