LightNews LightNews
kate-e-mooney.bsky.social
@kate-e-mooney.bsky.social
95 followers 250 following 0 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
jenkatesdc.bsky.social
"Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...
Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says
The victims died on a grueling three-hour walk in scorching heat as they tried to reach the nearest remaining health facility, officials of Save the Children said.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Reposted
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...
Nobody wants an emergency, but perhaps we should want some of the remarkable things that can happen during them. On the top of my list of those things is how in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane, a fire, an earthquake,  people take care of each other and work together without the kind of vetting and fretting whether they agree entirely about politics or religion or other matters. We are in an unprecedented emergency in the United States with fallout that poses threats to environments, economies, human rights and even survival beyond our borders, and we could use some of that energy. As political scientist Erica Chenoweth said in Saturday's Meditations in an Emergency interview, "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone."  Right now the courts are doing important business as they render verdict after verdict against Trump and Musk thanks to lawsuits brought by states, federal employees, and others with standing. Some of the Democrats in office are being amazing, and others in the opposition party are being waffles, milquetoasts, cookies that crumble, and other  refined-carbohydrate items. As is now clear, the administrative branch of the federal government of the United States is engaging in a coup attempt against the legislative and judicial branches, against the law and constitution itself, and against your rights and mine and the security and stability of the world. They can be defeated and at a minimum held in check, and the sooner they are the more limited the damage. But as Chenoweth points out, it's up to us. Are we up to it?
February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reposted
karlykingsley.bsky.social
We could’ve had Tim 😭
Tim Walz
February 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reposted
lizszabo.bsky.social
Protests against mass deportations in San Diego

fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
GALLERY: Protests against mass deportation erupt across San Diego
Groups of protestors waving Mexican flags and homemade signs with pro-immigration messages were seen gathering throughout San Diego on Sunday, with the main message being — “stop mass d…
fox5sandiego.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Reposted
artcandee.bsky.social
Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.
February 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reposted
charlieangus104.bsky.social
Today we launched the Pledge for Canada.
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
Pledge for Canada | Engagement pour le Canada
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
January 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposted
alexneve.bsky.social
I've joined 80+ other Canadians, from many walks of life, united in this Pledge for Canada. At a time of turbulence, division & peril, we call for solidarity, human rights, reconciliation, climate action & global alliances.

"This is now our time." engagement-canada-pledge.ca
January 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted
altnih4science.bsky.social
This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US.

Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪

We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.
January 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reposted
anandwrites.bsky.social
Call it a purge, not a buyout. Call it a coup against Congress, not a spending pause. Call it censorship, not a review. Words matter, and we in the media have a chance to do better this time.
January 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted
bencollins.bsky.social
Incredible things continue to happen on the federal worker subreddit.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
www.reddit.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted
aoc.bsky.social
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Reposted
jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Reposted
aclu.org
GOOD NEWS: A federal court temporarily halted President Trump's order to freeze all federal funding, including grants for public health, education, and safety.

Trump's order would have devastating consequences for communities in every corner of the nation. Our leaders must block it for good.
January 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Reposted
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Read, share, act.
January 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Reposted
phillewis.bsky.social
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Reposted
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
chenoweth.bsky.social Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Jan 26
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Baldoni tried to weinstein Blake Lively (remember Harvey even used ex-Mossad agents to shut up women he abused) but the nice thing is that it seems to have backfired, thanks to this excellent journalism. But also this Nathan person sounds like she's made out of strychnine.
December 22, 2024 at 7:46 AM
Reposted
rjjago.bsky.social
It's disappointing that this doesn't get the same amount of coverage as the arm choppers and the 7-11 stabbers do in Vancouver. Pedestrian and cyclist deaths are a policy choice, and some cities (ex. Oslo) choose to have none [NB: Vancouver and Oslo have about the same area and same population]
visionzerovancouver.ca Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · Dec 5
1/ Another tragedy on Nanaimo St. Less than a week after a driver plowed onto a sidewalk by a bus stop, just two weeks after a pedestrian was critically injured, a cyclist has been killed 3 blocks south. These aren’t accidents—they’re policy failures. We know how to stop this.
The aftermath of a fatal crash at Nanaimo and Kingsway. A body lies in the north crosswalk under a white sheet. A box truck belonging to Sunrise Soya Foods is directly in front of the body, headed northbound on Nanaimo. A police SUV with lights on is in the southbound lanes on Nanaimo, with a police officer standing next to it. More officers are on the sidewalk. Another police SUV is in Kingsway, facing west. Police tape surrounds the scene. Screenshot of a tweet from the Vancouver Police Department. It reads, #VanTraffic: #VPD officers are responding to a fatal collision between a cyclist and a vehicle in the area of Kingsway and Nanaimo. Traffic on Nanaimo Street in both directions will be impacted while investigators collect evidence. Please use an alternate route. More information will be provided when available.
December 6, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Reposted
omarbaddar.bsky.social
The world’s largest human rights organization is now affirming the growing consensus among credible experts: Israel is indeed committing genocide in Gaza.

In a better world, it wouldn’t require courage to speak the truth. But in this world, Amnesty International deserves credit for speaking up!
December 5, 2024 at 12:29 AM