Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

JudyAnn

@grandmavt.bsky.social

390 followers 300 following 150 posts

End-of-life Doula, amateur photographer, retired public health administrator, proud Vermonter, feminist, 💙 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally and safe space for marginalized voices. All photos are my own©️except for reposts.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · 3d

Red-tailed Hawk captured their prey (gray squirrel) in our backyard this Sunday afternoon. #birds 🪶 #vermont

2 9

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · 4d

Autum in Vermont. #photography #Vermont

1 7

Reposted by JudyAnn

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 5d

@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social

6 110 260

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · 16d

Blue Jays are beautiful. #birds 🪶

3 43

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · 26d

American Avocet seen at Parker River NWR in Massacusetts.

Reposted by JudyAnn

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

1.1K 12K 41K

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yesterday was #nationalhummingbirdday. Small but mighty creatures #birds 🪶

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Aug 24

Some backyard visitors #photography #whitetaileddeer #vermont

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Jul 11

One more photo of the Barred Owl. They returned at 8:45pm the same night. #birds 🪶 #photography

14 110 1.4K

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Jul 10

So surprised to see the Barred Owl land in our backyard and stay for several minutes. #northwesternvermont #birds #photography 🪶

6 18 250

Reposted by JudyAnn

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Jul 7

In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing. We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers what we spend on housing. https://trib.al/hHq48nP

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?

If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

trib.al

23 79 120

Reposted by JudyAnn

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jul 7

ICE is soon to become the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in US history, with more money than the federal prison system, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration combined.

Here's what that will logistically look like.

We asked Trump’s former prisons chief how $45 billion will reshape immigrant detention

We also asked an ACLU attorney, a private prisons expert, and the ex-commissioner of New York City's jails.

www.motherjones.com

62 180 400

Reposted by JudyAnn

Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · Jul 5

it beggars belief

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 4

If you don’t think this moment of symbolism is 100% deliberate, you haven’t been paying attention.

The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.

All on #July4th too.

4 12

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Jul 2

A cascade of purple clematis. #northernvermont

1 3

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Jun 30

This president cares nothing about real people. He only cares about getting richer and helping his friends and family get rich.

Politico @politico.com · Jun 30

Hundreds of communities are struggling after Trump canceled $4.5 billion in local projects designed to protect neighborhoods from flooding, hurricanes and other disasters.

Cities lose hope for restarting disaster projects killed by Trump

The president canceled $4.5 billion in FEMA grants that helped communities prepare for rising disaster damage.

www.politico.com

Reposted by JudyAnn

Hate Liberals? Bite Me. @happyliberal.bsky.social · Jun 28

9 57 210

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Jun 28

A few photos of my backyard ruby-throated hummingbirds. Love their tiny feet #birds 🪶 #northwesternvermont

10 41 540

Reposted by JudyAnn

Politico @politico.com · Jun 27

The UVA president has resigned amid the Justice Department’s probe into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

UVA president resigns amid pressure from Trump administration

James E. Ryan, who has served as the university’s president since 2018, resigned swiftly following Justice Department demands.

www.politico.com

20 26 72

Reposted by JudyAnn

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · Jun 20

This is not Fallujah, Iraq. It’s a Walmart parking lot in LA. Look at how many heavily armed, masked men (on our dime btw) come for a young guy in a Walmart uniform. This is obscene.

www.instagram.com/reel/DLF3bV5...

Armed cpb agent in parking lot with multiple other agents & vehicles

11 74 120

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Jun 19

Awesome capture!

1 1

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Jun 17

Gray Catbird stopped by for a quick visit. #birds 🪶#photography

1 5

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Jun 17

More Red-breasted Grosbeak fun. #birds 🪶 #photography

Reposted by JudyAnn

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

830 5.3K 12K

JudyAnn @grandmavt.bsky.social · Jun 16

Male and female Red-breasted Grosbeak in Northwestern Vermont #birds 🪶

Reposted by JudyAnn

Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · Jun 9

do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter

Several hundred NIH employees sign a letter of protest to the agency’s director

Several hundred NIH employees signed on to a letter rebuking agency actions since the start of President Trump's second term

www.statnews.com

4 97 380