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Laura Huenneke

@lfhuenneke.bsky.social

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Plant ecologist/conservation biologist, happily retired professor and academic administrator. Now seeking as a private citizen to bring rational approach to bear on the huge challenges of our time - democracy, climate disruption, loss of nature's richness. .. more

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Dr. Laura Huenneke is an American ecologist and former President of the Ecological Society of America. She is known for her research in public health in Arizona's Native American community, focusing on cancer prevention, invasive species, and desert ecosystems. Huenneke is the former Vice President for Research at Northern Arizona University where she continues her research studying the impact of biological diversity on ecosystems and teaching classes in Environmental Sciences. She has served on a variety of boards and review panels for ecological research journals and has received a number of awards and honors during her career as an ecologist. .. more

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 13h

So happy to see our Senators standing up for us!

Jonathan Nez @formerpreznez.bsky.social · 14h

I support Senator Kelly and Senator Gallego fighting to ensure thousands of residents in AZ-2 don’t lose their health insurance.

This is a critical fight. www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...

Video shows hallway confrontation between Senate Dems and House Speaker Johnson | CNN Politics

Arizona’s Democratic senators got into a hallway confrontation with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday as the government shutdown’s eighth day dragged on. The clash between Johnson and...

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Jonathan Nez @formerpreznez.bsky.social · 14h

I support Senator Kelly and Senator Gallego fighting to ensure thousands of residents in AZ-2 don’t lose their health insurance.

This is a critical fight. www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...

Video shows hallway confrontation between Senate Dems and House Speaker Johnson | CNN Politics

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson said he would swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva "as soon as she wants." His office then backtracked — saying Johnson would only swear in the duly elected Grijalva once the government reopens. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago.

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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 8d

Whether she's finding beauty amidst the horror, or the other way around, there's no one writing about the immensely important AND the deeply personal quite like @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

The United States of Flying Carp

The stupidest way to get injured.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 8d

And one of my personal heroes. A primatologist and a prime example of how to human. RIP, Dr. Jane Goodall.

Thanks for living up so supremely to your surname. What an inspiration. I'm glad I've lived when you were alive. Such a loss to our planet. Our hearts with her loved ones tonight. 🌍🐒🌏🦍🌎

(Quote and image credit: Jane Goodall Institute) Image of world renowned primatologist and humanitarian, Dr. Jane Goodall, sitting in the shade of trees wearing a green shirt and gazing upwards. The text for the quote by her says: "Somehow we must keep hope alive - a hope that we can find a way to educate all, alleviate poverty, assuage anger, and live in harmony with the environment, with animals, and with each other." RIP to my queen who died today at 91 years of age. October 1, 2025.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 8d

Democrats need to stand firm and fight for a funding bill that keeps families on their health care.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 10d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you for sharing this! A great assessment - for me it started slowly but builds to a damning indictment. Worth reading for all, especially my open-minded friends and colleagues…

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10d

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 13d

Just received my flu shot and COVID vaccination! Grateful to our governor for ensuring that people in AZ don't need prescriptions, grateful to supermarket pharmacy for making these accessible to people. I'm old enough to also be grateful that we even HAVE such things as MMR and hepatitis vaccines.

Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 17d

These are sad times for media, for journalists, and for the First Amendment. "Stories are not being knocked out of the news: news is getting knocked out of the stories, because people are afraid to tell it." Fantastic piece by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social . sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/tunnel-vis...

Tunnel Vision

Do you remember September 9?

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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 18d

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19

What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
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U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says

U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

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Sun Day @sundayofaction.bsky.social · 18d

TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19d

Yes, I don't think that'll work, because the oligarchs leading the worst political initiatives have finances that exist outside the normal economy and even outside the economy of the 1%. Boycotts won't work as well when they WANT to destroy everything. Building new things is a better strategy now.

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ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you Canada and FDT.

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Nicole Walker @nikwalk.bsky.social · 28d

House Dems should drop a “Charlie Kirk Gun Safety Act” on the floor just to make the Republicans go on record voting against it.

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 8

I am excited about serving as a poll worker in our local election this fall!

Stand Indivisible AZ ❌👑 @standindivisible.bsky.social · Sep 8

#AZindivisibles

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Stand Indivisible AZ ❌👑 @standindivisible.bsky.social · Sep 8

#AZindivisibles

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 8

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 6

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 5

A fantastic new piece by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social I am a retired academic - while I personally loved my higher ed / science career, and admired its supposed ideals, even at the time it fell far short. And now there is almost nothing left of the opportunity and the idealism.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 5

New article! On the authoritarian attack on higher education and the exploitative practices that preceded it: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-ti...

The End Times of Academia

"It was the non-existent future that I was working toward that was the problem."

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 5

New article! On the authoritarian attack on higher education and the exploitative practices that preceded it: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-ti...

The End Times of Academia

"It was the non-existent future that I was working toward that was the problem."

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 2

That’s despite fossil fuels getting nine times as much government consumption subsidies as renewables. (Global fossil fuel subsidies amounted to $620 billion in 2023, compared to $70 billion for renewables, according to the United Nations.)"

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Renewables—solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy and geothermal—have become astonishingly cheap in the last few years, and batteries to store renewable energy are getting amazing. Today, solar is 41 percent cheaper than fossil fuels, and offshore wind is 53 percent cheaper...

Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm tardy in acknowledging this content from Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social in the newsletter "Heated" - but will be sharing this with my county government officials to remind them why I and others are pushing for fleet electrification, more sustainability efforts for county operations, etc.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · Sep 1

It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now.

This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist

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If President Trump intended to drive a wedge between Democratic leaders and their constituents, he has also exposed a division in his own coalition.

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Xi, Modi and Putin Clasp Hands in a Rare Show of Unity

At a summit, the leaders of China, India and Russia projected an alternative to U.S. global leadership, even as serious differences among them remain.

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Nestlé Dismisses Chief Executive Over Relationship With Subordinate

The world’s largest food company named Philipp Navratil, a longtime employee, to replace Laurent Freixe.

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The Supreme Court has expanded Trump’s power. He’s seeking much more.
The president’s firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook and other cases could serve as major tests of how far the high court is willing to go.
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Medical Mysteries: After a fall, he had no appetite and liver trouble. Doctors were stumped.
Extra-strength acetaminophen helped a Wisconsin farmer cope after he broke two ribs. Despite taking no more than four pills a day — which is considered safe — he developed a series of unusual…

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 1

Not the largest crowd we’ve had, but loud and energetic. Everyone from “elderly hippies” to a young boy who brought his own #NoKings sign to wave before rushing off to his baseball game! Lots of support from passing vehicles for #WorkersOverBillionaires

Crowd with American flag and pro-democracy signs on green lawn of Flagstaff AZ City Hall.

Crowd of peaceful demonstrators on green lawn of City Hall, Flagstaff AZ.

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looking forward to our local #Flagstaff demonstration later today!

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Sep 1

We the People — the workers, immigrants, families, Americans — are PISSED and we are rising, with over 1,000 actions across the U.S. today! ❤️‍🩹

#FamiliesOverBillionaires
#WorkersOverBillionaires
#WeThePeopleArePISSED

Find your local protest at www.FiftyFifty.one.

#50501movement #SolidaritySeptember

Graphic shows people at the forefront of a massive protest wearing union insignia embracing. Bold text overlays says: “FAMILIES FIRST, NOT BILLIONAIRES” at the bottom, in smaller text it says “50501, LABOR DAY 2025”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Sep 1

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