Author | Lightnews

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 22h

Since today is Saint Martin's Day, here's a humble image of the popular saint that I recently encountered on Veliki Brijun, Croatia. Carved for a church in Senj c. 1330, it has "Sveti Marъtinъ" written in Glagolitic letters around the saint's head – part of Croatia's long tradition of Glagolitic.

A stone carving, mounted on a white wall, showing a bishop, with two words in the Glagolitic script on either side of his head

9 54

Reposted by Jamey Walters

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...

Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy

“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...

www.mcsweeneys.net

5 140 450

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

I have a new open-access article in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series. It examines an unknown Judaeo-Arabic manuscript of Genesis from the 10th century. I argue that it's evidence of medieval Jews reciting the Bible in a formal register of Egyptian Arabic. doi.org/10.11647/obp...

A Jewish Translation of Genesis in 10th-Century Egyptian Arabic

MS Firkovitch Yevr. II B 1526 comes from a Judaeo-Arabic translation of the biblical book of Genesis produced no later than the tenth century. It consists of two parchment folios containing most of Ge...

doi.org

1 9 19

Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing.

1

Reposted by Jamey Walters

V is for תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ @alana-m-vincent.net · 1d

I might have just made a three and a half hour long playlist filled with nothing but covers of a certain Gordon Lightfoot song and called it "Get Wrecked". Let's see how long I'm allowed to keep it playing.

12 2 95

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 2d

If you do not call for and manage removing Chuck Schumer from leadership all you are is a grandstanding poser who was in on it.

cc: @duckworth.senate.gov

Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 2d

As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state.

3 11

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d

How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans.

Becoming Arab by Yossef Rapoport arrives next week on 18 November (13 Jan UK pub).

Preorder yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History

Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East by Yossef Rapoport. How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans.

5 11

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL.
The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for
a writ of certiorari is denied.

240 1.8K 8.3K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 2d

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]

SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

37 1.6K 6.5K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

I'm sorry, I know this is not your problem, but I just felt like screaming into a void seeing that now Dems may cave and end the shutdown without getting anything they were supposedly fighting for. We've been put through hell for weeks, constantly having our ability to simply feed ourselves dangled in front of our faces, our survival used as a bargaining chip, told it was for a reason. Our suffering would prevent even more suffering and that it would be temporary and worth it to save healthcare for millions. And now it's all for nothing. They stood for nothing. They caused suffering for no reason. They'll cause even more suffering for no reason.

It wasn't 40 million people starving that made them cave. They were willing to put up with that. But the threat of holiday traveling being disrupted seems to be the thing to push them to give in. They have failed everyone. I'm so angry.

130 3.2K 7.8K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 1d

I got to go on @mikemotia.bsky.social 's podcast, New Books in Late Antiquity, and talk about my new book, Things Unseen!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Ellen Muehlberger,

Podcast Episode · New Books in Late Antiquity · 11/10/2025 · 1h 14m

podcasts.apple.com

2 8 21

Reposted by Jamey Walters

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

350 2.3K 13K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

110 5.5K 10K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 14

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

180 2.5K 11K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

24 1.4K 5.2K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

120 1.8K 7.6K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2d

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 2d

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)

310 2.3K 6.8K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 2d

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)

110 1K 3.5K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown

Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.

www.politico.com

560 3.4K 12K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

430 5.5K 17K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

85-year-old democrats negotiating with the jaws of defeat: hey bud you hungry?

39 310 3.3K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

How do you make this your central demand for 40 days and then just let it go

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:

—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan

10 170 950

Reposted by Jamey Walters

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 2d

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

250 6.4K 26K

Reposted by Jamey Walters

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 2d

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

2.1K 15K 62K