Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 10h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

28 320 990

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

71 2.6K 5.1K

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

30 580 1.8K

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h

Derry Girls and The Truman Show were huge hits this weekend with preteen girls + adults. We lucked up on this combo. Sharing because holy crap its hard finding stuff to watch.

18 9 400

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Soundkeeper @soundkeeper.bsky.social · 1d

I went to a new Indian grocery today. I didn’t get any of these—just a bottle of Thums Up.

Ching’s Secret Tomato Soup, featuring Ranveer Singh on the package! Winking!

1 1 2

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

6 4.4K 7.8K

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

Locally, in recent weeks especially, our communities have been very well served IMO by @blockclubchi.bsky.social @thetriibe.com @southsideweekly.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org They are on the ground doing good work on the daily, give them support/$$ if you are able 💚

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

1 33 77

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social · 1d

I love this piece and glad this part was noted: "The question of who wins or who loses in Triangle Posting Politics is divorced from material conditions, justice, or the common good."

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

4 44 240

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Having healthcare tied and partially administered by employers is a shackle to both workers and companies, which have to bear the 15-20% annual price hikes or cut benefits.

It's insane.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

if healthcare was not tied to employment in the USA what would you be doing differently in your career?

11 58 270

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 1d

One thing the last year has taught me, in at least an intensified way compared to before, is how many people didn't seem to think about public health in the US as a political thing that could in fact be dismantled, and such an action would have effects everywhere.

1 4 11

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

910 6.9K 24K

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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

300 7.7K 19K

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

2.9K 5.6K

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 3d

there's something very sinister about white women in their 30s and 40s frankensteining the most popular ethnic features onto their recession starved chic faces to create the same face over and over again that isn't young or old but something so much worse and uncanny

1 18 120

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3d

they are really just rolling up on random landscapers and street vendors and kidnapping them

6 54 210

Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 3d

OMG, I hadn't even thought of that! You've got me hoping for some early frosts.

1 1

Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 3d

WAR 2 comes to Netflix, Konkona Sen Sharma's new series debuts on Hulu, plus more in today's Streaming Video News: accessbollywood.net/2025/10/09/s... #DesiWatch

Streaming Video News: October 9, 2025

I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with the streaming premiere of War 2. The main catalogue entry features Hindi and Tamil dialogue options than can be chosen from the audio menu. The…

accessbollywood.net

2

Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 3d

SON OF SARDAAR 2 is too busy for its own good, obscuring some really nice acting performances. My review of the comedy sequel, streaming on Netflix: accessbollywood.net/2025/10/09/m... #DesiWatch

Movie Review: Son of Sardaar 2 (2025)

2 Stars (out of 4) Watch Son of Sardaar 2 on Netflix Hidden within Son of Sardaar 2’s overstuffed story are some wonderfully executed performances — but, boy, do you have to sort throug…

accessbollywood.net

1 1 4

Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 3d

I'm putting myself through the ordeal this afternoon, so I'll let you know. 🤣

1 1

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 4d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

34 870 5K

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 4d

Rogers Park moon.

Just after Full Moon, over Lake Michigan, with mångata on the water. Clouds on horizon, leafy fall foliage in foreground.

3 17 110

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 4d

At least a thousand but most likely more folks marching in Chicago to protest the deployment of the National Guard and continued ICE raids. Chanting "whose city our city!"

2 150 510

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

It's hard for me to tell when he's intentionally lying and when it's the dementia talking because, at any given moment, who can say?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

17 30 220

Reposted by Kathy Gibson

Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 4d

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s video of the incident

22 520 1.3K