LightNews LightNews
azure126.bsky.social
@azure126.bsky.social
200 followers 160 following 8 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
gtconway.bsky.social
I’m on my apartment balcony to illustrate how Donald Trump’s corruption and contempt for the rule both threatens our democracy *and* affects our everyday lives.

Behind me is the Gateway project, a $16 billion effort to build a new rail tunnel across the Hudson. ...
February 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Reposted
kansasgal71.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Reposted
scavendish.bsky.social
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.

DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
nashvillebanner.bsky.social Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 1d
EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.
Immigration process turns sour for an Antioch woman - Nashville Banner
Terez Metry, a dental assistant in Middle Tennessee with no criminal history, was detained by ICE during an interview as she followed legal steps toward citizenship.
nashvillebanner.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Reposted
rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Look closely at this graph of U.S. border crossings.

The horizontal line is President Trump's inauguration.

It explodes myths about effectiveness of Trump border patrol policies.

Important expert analysis in advance of congressional hearings next week: www.justsecurity.org/130422/fact-...
February 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Reposted
thetnholler.bsky.social
Cruelty is big business
February 3, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Reposted
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Reposted
samveep.bsky.social
Hard to say how many showed up for Alex Pretti’s vigil, but easily hundreds if not thousands. After community activists and leaders spoke at the park where they gathered, everyone marched to the site of Pretti’s killing. Streets just filled with people demanding ICE out.
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Reposted
lynnmiclea.bsky.social
She was absolutely right. And she would have been an amazing President.
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Reposted
marcelias.bsky.social
It is important to acknowledge who is standing up and who is just trying to get by. Every day Americans are standing up while the powerful are mostly standing by.

Why aren't law firms standing up and sending lawyers to Minneapolis. Why aren't the corporations speaking out? Why isn't the media?
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Reposted
womenriseup2026.bsky.social
#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
January 20, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Reposted
muellershewrote.com
The Civil Rights Division is going to charge a Black Man under the Ku Klux Klan Act on MLK day.

Do I have that right?
January 20, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Reposted
keepitbluedems.bsky.social
DEMOCRACY DOCKET
EPSTEIN FILES
newsletters.democracydocket.com/the-doj-offe...
The DOJ offers only excuses as the Epstein Files remain secret
newsletters.democracydocket.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Reposted
adamjschwarz.bsky.social
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Reposted
rebelwithacause2.bsky.social
Venezuela is a DIVERSION
Jerome Powell is a DIVERSION
Greenland is a DIVERSION
Board of Peace is a DIVERSION
Minnesota is a DIVERSION

Renee NICOLE Good is a CASUALTY of his DIVERSIONS ...

FROM RELEASING THE FUKKKIN EPSTEIN FILES!!
January 20, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Reposted
joncooper-us.bsky.social
“My precious…”
January 20, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Reposted
gtconway.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Reposted
marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Dept. of Justice lawsuit seeking unreacted statewide voter registration list. A big victory for our clients -- the NAACP, NAACP-CA/HI and SIREN --and the citizens of California. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...
🚨 United States v. Weber
Learn more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Reposted
debjordan-kauble.bsky.social
Is administration is full of ignorant liars.
January 16, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Reposted
gtconway.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Reposted
marianherra.bsky.social
a picture of two men with the words release the epstein files below them
ALT: a picture of two men with the words release the epstein files below them
media.tenor.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Reposted
muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Reposted
mollyknight.bsky.social
I suffered more internal bleeding watching Jonathan Ross shoot a mother in the face that he did when her car drove by him.

It's all on video. U.S. officials have no accountability and CBS news does not need to be stenographers WHEN THERE ARE MULTIPLE VIDEOS CONTRADICTING THAT HE WAS EVEN TOUCHED
cbsnews.com CBS News @cbsnews.com · 24d
BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say
Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, suffered internal bleeding after the incident, two officials said, though it's not clear how extensive the bleeding was.
cbsn.ws
January 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Reposted
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
As it happens though, the framers of the US constitution did say it: in the 4th amendment, the 5th, the 10th, etc.

What they didn’t provide for is federal immigration enforcement of any kind, only “a uniform rule of naturalization.” Nor did they give the federal government a plenary police power.
vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24d
It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24d
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
January 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Reposted
npr.org
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. n.pr/4qn9Iwz
Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
n.pr
January 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Reposted
jaywillis.net
The moral panic over the existence of trans people isn't just aimed at Republicans, though. Basic legal protections for trans people are now less popular *among Democrats* than they were three years ago. An unconsionable failure of Democratic leadership. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
This steady drumbeat of transphobic agitprop was maybe even more successful than its proponents had hoped. Today, fundamental legal protections for trans people—the same protections the conservative-controlled Court extended in Bostock—are less popular than they were three years ago, according to Pew Research Center data from February 2024. This is true not only among Republican voters, but also among Democrats looking to apportion blame for Harris’s loss. In the aftermath of the 2024 election, some Democratic politicians publicly argued that the party’s support for trans rights contributed to its losses at the ballot box. One Democratic member of Congress went so far as to parrot vile anti-trans talking points to The New York Times, explaining that he did not “want to discriminate against anybody,” but did not believe “biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.” Back in 2018, YouGov found that 29 percent of Americans thought society had gone “too far in accepting people who are transgender.” Today, that number has increased to 36 percent. Support for explicitly anti-trans policies like bathroom bans, sports bans, and bans on gender-affirming care for young people is stronger than it was as recently as two years ago. Sports bans like those at issue in Hecox and BPJ are especially popular, supported by two-thirds of voters, including 45 percent of Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center.
January 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM