Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

sundene 🇳🇴 📎

@sundene.bsky.social

9.5K followers 8.9K following 12K posts

Retired Chemistry Educator, Jazz afficionado, Reader, Recycler, Lover of tech and green spaces. USMC wife; mother of 2 fantastic adults. Chicago 'burbs. Love is Love. Vote Blue! DM's *only* if we've been friends for quite awhile!

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

sundene 🇳🇴 📎 @sundene.bsky.social · Feb 8

I just got back from the DuPage Democrats Volunteer Expo, and it was *amazing*. I’ll say more later, right now I’m just processing everything. It was such a relief to spend some time around like-minded people and to know we are not alone and are doing the work.

Various pamphlets and papers from democratic organizations in my county.

9 22 120

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17m

I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

98 140 670

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 2h

Pam Bondi’s testimony in front of the Senate was both contemptuous and dismissive. She is supposed to work for the country not just the President.

42 110 560

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

𝓞𝓹𝓾𝓼 @opus24.bsky.social · 10h

Day #262 of the ClusterTrump

Now THAT is funny! 🤭 🍩🍩🍩

@hawkeye8.bsky.social
@jacqueline321.bsky.social

10 31 110

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

ChristopherE @christopher664023.bsky.social · 54m

Assolini’s lacky Lutnick comes out today saying Canada will not be allowed to have an auto industry. (We have had a shared industry with the USA for over 100 years.). It was never about fentanyl. It’s always been about domination.

11 20

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4h

Former Oklahoma state superintendent of education Ryan Walters says that his new mission is to "destroy the teachers union." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

31 42 110

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 2h

I am canceling tonight's antifa pot luck due to the tumor I got from taking the measles vaccine. I appreciate privacy during this difficult time and whatnot.

28 78 710

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · 11m

My research coordinator (who is Latino) and I will be traveling to Chicago for #CHEST2025 (Oct 18-22).
Me: I'm bummed I won't be there on time for the No Kings protest.
Research coordinator: If you get a phone call from jail, it's because ICE picked me up.

Sigh.

2 1 9

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

Pritzker fights. It's refreshing as all hell.

32 140 820

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Devlyn Angel, ETQ 😈😇 @devlynangel.bsky.social · 2h

They're going out of their way to hurt us.

And they're using our money to do it.

Patients rationing insulin costs the US $1.5 billion a year. $800 million would provide insulin for free to everyone.

Homelessness costs the US $100 billion+ a year. Ending homelessness would cost under $20 billion.

Doing the wrong thing is expensive.

15 55

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 7h

Monthly listeners on Spotify

Bad Bunny 79,631,000
Lee Greenwood 447,000

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 7h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

5 4 26

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 2h

He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably.

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

81 450 830

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 2h

DHS head Kristi Noem snarled
at Portland Mayor Wilson
who doesn't see the need
for federal forces in this
peaceful & quirky city.
She said, "You have
blood on your hands!"
& threatened to increase
the occupation by 4X.
Is this just a culture clash?
She shoots dogs
& we don't?

6 19 81

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

T.C. Boyle @tcboyle.com · 4h

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

nancyjjones.bsky.social @nancyjjones.bsky.social · 1d

I went to a banned books session put on by librarians this past weekend. Of course it’s Moms for Liberty who made the majority of book challenges. Support your libraries and request books you want to be able to borrow, especially those that feature people of color and 2SLGBTQIA+ characters.

1 4 22

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Scot Turner @scotturner.bsky.social · 10h

Happy milestone 75th birthday today - October 8 - to Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & The Gang)

2 11 45

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

So The Guardian reported yesterday that Jimmy Kimmel's return "rankled" Trump. So today's episode of the @dailybeanspod.com is called "Kimmel Rankles Cankles." You're welcome. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Kimmel Rankles Cankles (feat. Alder Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford)

Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 10/08/2025 · 1h 3m

podcasts.apple.com

28 200 1.1K

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

JPM DESK: “.. the US budget deficit has not shrunk despite the tariff revenue.

“.. if tariffs are not being used to pay down debt or in some cases as a bailout (e.g., soybean farmers ..) at what point does the bond market react negatively?”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

27 180 470

sundene 🇳🇴 📎 @sundene.bsky.social · 19m

Great thread.
#Chicago

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3h

Back in federal judge Sara Ellis' courtroom in Chicago for a second day of discussion on a proposed restraining order to rein in federal immigration agents' violent behavior.

Debate began on this issue on Monday, and ended without the court entering a formal order.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

@unraveledpress.com & other press have been threatened, shot with less-lethals and arrested while reporting on federal immigration activities in Chicagoland and on the resulting protests at Broadview.

I'm now at a hearing asking the federal court to rein ICE & co in. I'll let you know how it goes.

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3h

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

14 340 1.2K

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 1h

Secretary Rubio has this wrong.

The US is not currently engaged in hostilities with Houthis or Iranian proxies, so there's no termination required.

And the resolution specifically states it does NOT prevent the US "from defending itself from an armed attack or threat of an imminent armed attack"

12 24

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 39m

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

69 260 980

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Diana E @bluedee.bsky.social · 22m

youtu.be/olKg9OC6Jm0?...

Senators confront Mike Johnson about not swearing in Arizona colleague

YouTube video by Associated Press

youtu.be

1 3 4

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 16h

19 50 190

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 42m

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

79 590 1.3K

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22m

"Trump’s threats, Bondi’s attacks & Miller’s madness are the latest signs they'll do anything to expand their power & further dismantle our democratic system & the values principles, rules & laws that hold it together & inspire a functioning society." A video: www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...

Snapshot: Trump's Threats, Bondi's Disgrace, Miller's Madness

Got a Minute or Two? Mad Hattery and Other Outrages

www.americaamerica.news

6 46 87

Reposted by sundene 🇳🇴 📎

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1h

A plainclothes officer sucker punches and violently arrests a man after he points out that another officer is deliberately stepping on a woman’s shoes while she is carrying her child.

55 240 300