Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month. 171863544
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.social4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Absolutely 👇 850169765715
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialSkip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Frankenstein (1931) Directed by James Whale and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and Boris Karloff as the monster. 721850
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialAmerican Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This year’s #BannedBooksWeek coincides with ALA’s official 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, ALA has released a list of the 150 most challenged books documented from 1990, when ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom began tracking book challenges, through 2025. ala150.org/150books 33413271
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also in this contact sheet of Peter Hujar photos of the 1973 Christopher Street Fair, I'm pretty sure that's a very young John Waters at upper left, yes..? www.interviewmagazine.com/art/5783-pho... 1274
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is one of those stories that drives home just how horrifying the current administration and its immigration policies / enforcement tactics are. It’s heartbreaking and stomach turning. 5297122
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Hijab Series: 'What if' (2014) by Yemeni photographer Boushra Almutawakel #womensart 141681375
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialsteven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...austinchronicle.comTexas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms • The Austin ChronicleTexas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms 20438482142
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialForever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Louise for Beggars of Life (1928). Portrait by Eugene Robert Richee. 110110
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialEvan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Happy Labour Day. Solidarity. (art by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social) 011664
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialaRemedy @aremedy.org · 04/09/2026I haven’t forgotten Renee Good. I never will. Jesse describes the terrorist group ICE and how they murder women—with the GOP protecting the murderers. youtu.be/El0CLduLgew?...youtu.beGood vs. IceYouTube video by Jesse Welles 7041331272
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialJames Wright @jameswrights.bsky.social · 26/08/2026RIP Tim Curry, never was a man so distinctly iconic and yet such a chameleon in a role🧡😢 17385761220
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialToss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing 2295267612863
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper... 1235235637686
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today. 226394877139
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialFreedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 19/08/2026📢 Are you a journalist who uses FOIA or other public records laws in your reporting? You could win $25K with our new journalism award, the Penlight Prize. Read more and apply today:freedom.pressNew $25K ‘Penlight’ journalism award honors paywall-free FOIA reportingThe Penlight Prize celebrates paywall-free reporting based on records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act or state public records laws. 087
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM 145101642364
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare. 11835262210
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialForever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Louise and Richard Arlen by Eugene Robert Richee for Beggars of Life (1928). 0629
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳 543167544240
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu 12443942695
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/05/2026After Missouri voters passed ballot measures to enshrine abortion rights and establish paid sick leave, GOP state legislators overturned them. Now voters may have to pass another referendum just to protect the progress they've made. The GOP's contempt for democracy is absurd.commondreams.org'Promising Milestone': Missouri Campaign Submits Signatures to Protect Voter-Approved Laws | Common DreamsMissouri organizers reach milestone in campaign for constitutional amendment to protect ballot initiatives from legislat 11928521095
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 03/08/2026True…. #BookSky 9968261507
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialr/protectUSelections @protectuselections.bsky.social · 03/08/2026We have a criminal president.reddit.comWe have a criminal president.r/protectUSelections 491154735812
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/07/2026this was the rehearsal show for the Carnegie Hall Sinead & Shane benefit. few musicians so generous with their spirit. youtu.be/QwwZXtf4oHI?...youtu.beA Man You Dont Meet Everyday - Glen Hansard (Pogues cover)YouTube video by dagalagas 340775
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026BOUIE: ".. Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading .. hateful ideology .. ".. It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life." @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there? 39683196
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialNBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/07/2026He was a young dad, working to give his daughter a stable life, before he was shot and killed by ICE after an attempted traffic stop. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comHe was a young dad, working to give his daughter a stable life, before ICE killed himJohan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was remembered as a devoted family man “with many dreams to fulfill.” 36091133684
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialLetterboxd @letterboxd.social · 13/07/2026Sam Neill (1947–2026) 3939331462
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them 61107122294
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialThe National Press Photographers Association @nppa.org · 11/07/2026The precedent established whenever journalists are compelled to disclose confidential sources affects every newsroom, every visual journalist, and ultimately every citizen who depends upon a vigorous press to hold government accountable. A threat to some of us is a threat to all of us.nytimes.comTimes Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.” 075
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialJon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat... 309149034090
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Trump just fired all three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency with no commissioners just months before the midtermsvotebeat.orgTrump fires all commissioners of federal election agencyMonths before the midterms, the only federal agency dedicated solely to election administration is now unable to do anything. 981680854
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/07/2026Your retirement could be at risk. Why? Donald Trump and his Administration are granting private equity’s wish to weaken the protections for YOUR 401(k). 55925378
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialDavid Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This story has been percolating in local media since last month – credit to Syracuse.com, which appears to be the lead dog on this story — but it just hit the national radar over the last 24 hours or so. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...talkingpointsmemo.comICE Takes On New Role in Suppressing Online Dissent‘Warning Notice’ This story has been percolating in local media since last... 15714300
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialWanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.wantedinmilan.comUmberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his deathThe University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death. 503325846
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialForever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Another classic take of Paulette by Hurrell in publicity for her role in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936). 2142
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anywaytheatlantic.comThe Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly InvestigatedSix months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings. 221108614747
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialDean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Julian Sands by George Hurrell, 1992 Sands gets the full Robert Taylor work-up from Hurrell. 312111
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026 468280876558
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Appalling but completely unsurprising: A Congressional investigation found that Trump used his partisan "Freedom 250" foundation to defraud the American people by siphoning off tax dollars from the Congressionally-funded, non-partisan "America 250" fund to create a corrupt, partisan machine.theguardian.comTrump hijacked US’s 250 anniversary to serve ‘political ideology and pet projects’, congressional report saysHouse Democratic subcommittee report outlines web of alleged corruption, wire fraud and pay-to-play schemes 1010071
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialBill Prady @billprady.com · 02/07/2026There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whswapo.stDonors were misled by Trump-backed Freedom 250, House Democrats allegeThe lawmakers’ report alleges that Trump allies worked to divert funds away from America250, a bipartisan effort to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial. Freedom 250 denies the allegations. 15829561263
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/07/2026The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.insidehighered.comU Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk CommentsThe University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New... 42971812
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I woke up needing to say just this: I don't think people understand how expansive the plan for this indictment is. 311649735
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialForever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Louise in costume on the set of Beggars of Life (1928) with director William Wellman (L) and author Jim Tully. A new to me photo and first time FLB post. 59313
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialGreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026 411227405311
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialSchera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...dronexl.coPokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military DronesPokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor. 242218932
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialForever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Jean began taking celebrity photos at Hollywood events, weddings, parties, trips and on studio film sets. Here she captures Marlene Dietrich and Ann Warner in 1939 and delivers a beautiful image of downtown Los Angeles. 1194
Reposted by @nitratelight.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country. 755204465650