Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Gary R Simonds

@garys79.bsky.social

34K followers 45K following 27K posts

Author, Speaker, Educator, Has-Been Neurosurgeon Asheville NC Married Would prefer to discuss life, books, kindness, wellness, wonder. Instead I spend hours a day opposing a mad king. But here we are. RESIST! Good Trouble! https://garyrsimonds.com

garyrsimonds.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 10d

Some concern out there that many people in the military are very conservative and quite a few voted for trump.
All I can tell you is that in my 15 years with the army, soldiers took very seriously their oath to the constitution and NOT to any individual.
Let's hope that hasn't changed.

10 24 80

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

Aleays

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

So do something about durbin. Drag Johnson and thune there. Call the national guard. Get a court order. Don’t whine. Act

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

1 1 2

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds.

FFS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

77 120 870

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 8h

Michael Fanone on the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned: Daniel Rodriguez, he was sentenced to over 12 years in prison, for driving a stun gun into my neck while I was restrained and being beaten. Kyle Young, who attempted to take my firearm. Thomas Sibick, who stripped me of my badge and my radio.

6 210 500

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

He cannot admit he played himself and American consumers.

As Trump likes to say “you don’t have the cards.”
China has moved on.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

More tariff policy evolution — via one man’s whim.

$SPX $FXI

53 190 810

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8h

Weird random meme-y shit (laudatory) like this is how it might eventually be called The Great Frog Resistance, where everyone wears a frog pin, & remembrance events in 50 years begin with reverent croaks. Just from some dude's choice of a frog for a costume. Humans are weird.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 11h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

42 110 760

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

Can’t wait for his trial

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

Can’t wait for his trial

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 10h

So they are adding new wrinkles to the #KavanaughStops

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

1.2K 5.8K 14K

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 8h

We were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois.

WHAT is the Trump Administration hiding?

76 330 1.1K

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

25th amendment him now!!

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

25th amendment him now!!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

1 3

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

300 5.5K 11K

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

Dunno if he’s an agent but he’s clearly a treasonous coward

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

Dunno if he’s an agent but he’s clearly a treasonous coward

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
"

Tricia McLaughlin ®
@TriciaOhio
X.com
She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

8 280 820

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

Sue the mfs

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

Sue the mfs

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

These guys hogtied a journalist who is probably their mom’s age for nothing.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

240 6.1K 15K

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

The rallying cry across the country should be 25th amendment!!

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

The rallying cry across the country should be 25th amendment!!

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 7h

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

2 3

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

420 2.3K 5.5K

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

autocracy? How about fascism??

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 2h

autocracy? How about fascism??

David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 🚨

This is a producer for WGN Chicago.

This is Putin-style autocracy.

WATCH

Reposted by Gary R Simonds

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15h

Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

itep.org/trump-tax-la...

Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit

Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

itep.org

16 320 650