Nancy Huntly
@nhuntly.bsky.social
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Ecologist, researcher, prof emerita, volunteer, speck in the universe; former city council member; past candidate for Utah Senate; engaged in our community
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Nancy Huntly @nhuntly.bsky.social · 20d
The statement below is not “left ideology”. It is a foundational principle of the US, from the Declaration of Independence. It’s well past time to stop the scapegoating and demonizing.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24d
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Count Every Hero @counteveryhero.org · 6h
Nine former service secretaries + retired four-star admirals and generals filed a brief in federal court in Illinois today challenging the administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago as a dangerous trend of politicizing the military, and militarizing society. 🔗 bit.ly/48gA25b
“Over the short period of only the past several months, the Administration has abandoned the American tradition against domestic deployment of the military, embracing instead what the District Court of Oregon described as ‘martial law,’” they wrote. “The Administration has suggested it plans to use United States cities as ‘training grounds’ for the military, turning our troops on the ‘enemy within’ – the very people they have proudly sworn to protect, with their own lives if necessary. Thousands of troops have been deployed in at least five such communities over the objection of local leaders, with the promise of more.”
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6h
One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17h
New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.
Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 6h
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This is an iron lung for polio victims. Remember these? Me neither, it’s now in a museum where it should stay. Why? Because vaccines work.
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Nancy Huntly @nhuntly.bsky.social · 10h
Good choice, MacArthur folks!
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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 10h
Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

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Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant
Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11h
"With its steady escalation of military force against its own citizens, this administration proves that the most immediate threat to our constitutional order is not on the streets.

It is coming from inside the White House."

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The ‘Chipocalypse’ is now
A training ground for the military?
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12h
Over the next 15 months, we can expect a coordinated campaign — backed by the full power of the executive branch — to undermine confidence in our election system. Here’s what to expect, and how key actors can be ready to respond: bit.ly/4fRIqtA
What to Expect Next in the Trump Administration’s Strategy to Meddle with the Vote
Efforts to protect the coming elections must begin now.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 1d
The overreach of the Jim Crow regime in response to peaceful lawful protest brought it down
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 13h
“Miller is working overtime to polarize the public debate about Trump's increasingly dictatorial abuses of power…He relentlessly depicts Democrats as allied with a vast, inchoate class of violent criminals and insurrectionists…” sharp read of what Stephen Miller wants from @gregsargent.bsky.social
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12h
This year's Supreme Court term will be a historic one for the future of presidential power and our system of checks and balances. Will the Court defend the Constitution? Listen to our new podcast, The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/3KZVm57
Supreme Court Preview
This year’s Supreme Court term will be a historic one for the future of presidential power and our system of checks and balances. The Court has steadily chip...
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16h
Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 13h
“We speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation.”

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h
We must all stand up and speak out.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h
As @gregsargent.bsky.social argues, Gov Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and some Dems are rightly treating Trump’s abuses against American freedom as the biggest issue, taking it on directly, instead of treating it as a “distraction.”

Say no. Call it out. The regime relies on complacency and appeasement.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h
Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 14h
Trump fired a bunch of Immigration Judges + Board of Immigration Appeals members so that he could stack those orgs with loyalists. Our NSF funded research confirms the work background of IJs and BIA members predict their rate of asylum denial. See also our description of the immigration bureaucracy.
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Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social · 15h
"The greatest weapon that the forces of regime change possess is the fear of inevitability. If everyone believes that Mr. Trump will succeed in reshaping America, he will." @himself.bsky.social on how civil society can win by sticking together (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d
It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d
Aside from shattering core state sovereignty, it's saying one state's Guard (TX) is somehow more loyal to the national authority than another's (IL). It's treating the latter as something bordering on hostile, or at least alien. One part of the country and its soldiers are more America than another.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d
Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d
The Supreme Court’s campaign finance interventions since Citizens United have wrongly second-guessed Congress’s policy judgments and sharply diverged from the preferences of the American public — which supports reasonable limits on the role of money in politics. 2/2
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d
NEW: The Brennan Center and Steptoe LLP filed a brief in
National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC, urging the Supreme Court to reject the argument that limits on coordinated party expenditures violate the First Amendment. 1/2
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d
this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 1d
Tom Nichols on the situation in Chicago: “This story really isn’t about immigration… It’s about getting the American people used to idea that Donald Trump is an absolute ruler who can put the military in streets at will, and intimidate everyone, including citizens.”

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d
Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d
“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 2d
Psychiatrists have joined other public health groups in calling for the removal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.

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Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary
Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.
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