Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Erik Gunn

@erikgunn.bsky.social

3.7K followers 1.4K following 1.3K posts

wisconsinexaminer.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Erik Gunn @erikgunn.bsky.social · Nov 13

On my lunch break at the moment, so with so many more followers I thought I'd take a minute to introduce myself. I'm a journalist reporting for @wiexaminer.bsky.social, part of @statesnewsroom.com, a national nonprofit that now operates or partners with nonprofit newsrooms in 50 states. Short 🧵...

5 9 35

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Victorious Boo Bleue @bwellsmc.bsky.social · 2d

This incident is one of the main reasons we have strict building codes & inspections now, plus separations of zoning for industrial, business, & residential areas. The Great Molasses Flood changed a lot about how cities are designed, built, & laid out. Still makes me sad how many ppl died in it

1 3 7

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 2d

Across the United States, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters by making it harder to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives.

www.propublica.org/article/red-...

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.

In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power t...

www.propublica.org

12 7

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

23 380 1K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

230 1.4K 3.6K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

A trend I’ve noticed after having watched too many of these despicable ICE arrest videos is when bystanders demand they let detainee go, an officer suggests they’re being picked up for a serious crime to try and deter help. But we know that’s not true of a vast majority of people and the jig is up.

14 180 1.2K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

220 2.6K 5.8K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6d

Students and faculty can’t speak out about political issues anymore or criticize a dead activist but a therapist has a constitutional right to try to reeducate gay kids?

4 21 49

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

400 2.6K 8.4K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump admin's recent warnings against pregnant women taking Tylenol, Covid shots and antidepressants clash with the mainstream medical consensus. But they also highlight a dangerous data vacuum -- one that's gotten worse since the fall of Roe v. Wade.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

RFK Jr.’s got advice for pregnant women. There’s limited data to support it.

Women of reproductive age have long been missing from clinical trials. It’s getting worse where abortion is banned.

www.politico.com

2 15 18

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

110 410 1K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

230 1.9K 13K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Then they’d have to learn that there are other religious practices in the world besides conservative extremist versions of them

1 3 59

Reposted by Erik Gunn

WIRED @wired.com · 4d

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

wrd.cm

25 410 1.5K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

45 1.1K 4.2K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo Calls on U.S. Bishops to stand up for migrants rights
my latest...

Opinion | Why Pope Leo gathered more than 100 Latino Catholics at the Vatican this week

The pope met this week with a group of more than 100 Latino Catholics from the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

www.msnbc.com

20 430 1.7K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

160 3.3K 6.5K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4d

And would be an instant national scandal if a Democratic Cabinet Secretary every did it. Two totally different standards applied to two totally different parties. Every day. Every year. Every decade.

2 21 120

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 5d

HOO BOY. I just acquired the FINAL, approved 2026 #ACA rate filings for #ARIZONA and it's not pretty at all.

Premiums are going up 46.3% on average...and that's for full price enrollees.

acasignups.net/rate_changes...

2026 Final Gross Rate Changes - Arizona: +46.3% (updated)

Originally posted 8/7/25 Overall preliminary rate changes via federal Rate Review database. Antidote Health Plan of AZ: (Unfortunately, no rate justification summary is available, and the full actuari...

acasignups.net

4 79 140

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

Like, I think our society has given way too much political power to guys whose worldview is reshaped by political invitations to dine with the King of England and have no idea about what is happening in American cities.

Mr. Benioff is close enough to Mr. Trump to have been invited last month to a state dinner that was hosted by King Charles for the president at Windsor Castle in England. Mr. Benioff said that he was incredibly honored to be seated directly across the table from Mr. Trump and spent the dinner telling him “how grateful I am for everything he’s doing,” he recounted.

Mr. Benioff, who also owns Time magazine, said he had not closely followed the news about the immigration raids, Mr. Trump’s call to gerrymander congressional districts before the midterm elections, the government shutdown or the Trump administration’s attacks on the media. He said Time, which named Mr. Trump its “Person of the Year” last year, had faced no pressure from the White House.

7 36 300

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4d

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

73 1K 4.4K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 4d

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.

120 1.1K 2.7K

Reposted by Erik Gunn

Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 4d

A federal judge in Maryland seemed inclined to order the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention after oral arguments in court Friday, a potentially major development in the high-profile case, Ariana Figueroa reports.