Nancy Huntly
@nhuntly.bsky.social
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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American journalism needs more people like Will Bunch.
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MAD Hero of the Month: Will Bunch
Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer is not afraid to call out the Trump regime’s fascism. Bunch exemplifies the power of opinion journalism to tell the truth and defend democratic principles.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
American journalism needs more people like Will Bunch.
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The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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@hebagowayed.bsky.social on Trump’s rhetoric and policy of ethnic cleansing.
The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
@hebagowayed.bsky.social on Trump’s rhetoric and policy of ethnic cleansing.
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this is what a climate shock looks like as our world warms 👇
Washington State Issues Evacuation Orders for 100,000 Amid Floods #Climate
Washington State Issues Evacuation Orders for 100,000 Amid Floods
heatmap.news
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
this is what a climate shock looks like as our world warms 👇
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Seven conclusions about what we've learned about Trumpism and the resilience of American democracy across 2025 — the big one: Donald Trump is losing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump is losing.
Seven conclusions as 2025 winds down.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
December 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Seven conclusions about what we've learned about Trumpism and the resilience of American democracy across 2025 — the big one: Donald Trump is losing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/donald-tru...
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Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
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(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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ICYMI: Last night @jeremyfaust.bsky.social revealed that Drs. Makary and Prasad of the FDA have lied to all of us with their claims that COVID19 vaccines “killed 10 children”.
The scientists that did the work found that there were ZERO deaths that they could be certain were caused by the vaccines.
The scientists that did the work found that there were ZERO deaths that they could be certain were caused by the vaccines.
Scoop: FDA vaccine chief’s memo cited 10 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deaths—but the agency’s own analysis found 0–7.
Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.
insidemedicine.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
ICYMI: Last night @jeremyfaust.bsky.social revealed that Drs. Makary and Prasad of the FDA have lied to all of us with their claims that COVID19 vaccines “killed 10 children”.
The scientists that did the work found that there were ZERO deaths that they could be certain were caused by the vaccines.
The scientists that did the work found that there were ZERO deaths that they could be certain were caused by the vaccines.
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“Scrapping the cap” is a popular, effective way to fix Social Security’s funding gap. 🙅🧢 FTW
Nearly 3/4 of Social Security’s projected long-term shortfall would be eliminated if the cap were eliminated without increasing benefits.
Will the mega-moneyed go for it? The answer’s not what you think
Nearly 3/4 of Social Security’s projected long-term shortfall would be eliminated if the cap were eliminated without increasing benefits.
Will the mega-moneyed go for it? The answer’s not what you think
Should high earners support scrapping Social Security’s cap on taxable earnings?
Earnings above a cap aren’t subject to the payroll taxes that fund Social Security. As a result, billionaires pay the same tax as someone earning $176,100 in 2025 (the cap is indexed to the average wa...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Scrapping the cap” is a popular, effective way to fix Social Security’s funding gap. 🙅🧢 FTW
Nearly 3/4 of Social Security’s projected long-term shortfall would be eliminated if the cap were eliminated without increasing benefits.
Will the mega-moneyed go for it? The answer’s not what you think
Nearly 3/4 of Social Security’s projected long-term shortfall would be eliminated if the cap were eliminated without increasing benefits.
Will the mega-moneyed go for it? The answer’s not what you think
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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The president simply cannot have the power to use the state as a his own political tool.
Democratic reform must include dramatically weakening the executive and strengthening congress.
Democratic reform must include dramatically weakening the executive and strengthening congress.
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The president simply cannot have the power to use the state as a his own political tool.
Democratic reform must include dramatically weakening the executive and strengthening congress.
Democratic reform must include dramatically weakening the executive and strengthening congress.
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In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
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Important post & interview, but problematic wording here. Don't use "U.S. government" as a euphemism for "the Trump administration". It normalizes this outrageous behavior by making it sound as if both sides do this.
🚨BOMBSHELL: Federal judges caught the U.S. government lying in over 35 court cases; falsified records, fake declarations, and sworn statements built on fiction.
This isn't clerical error. It's institutional deceit.
Even legal scholars now say it looks intentional.
📺60 Minutes
This isn't clerical error. It's institutional deceit.
Even legal scholars now say it looks intentional.
📺60 Minutes
December 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Important post & interview, but problematic wording here. Don't use "U.S. government" as a euphemism for "the Trump administration". It normalizes this outrageous behavior by making it sound as if both sides do this.
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Americans are following the news less closely than they used to: https://pewrsr.ch/4iOmCAw
December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Americans are following the news less closely than they used to: https://pewrsr.ch/4iOmCAw
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Once again we see the Trump ethos that says simply being rich makes you “the best.”
You don’t need to have earned that money yourself or even done anything ethical to get it; if you’ve got cash in your bank account, that’s good enough for him to trust you and think you’re special.
You don’t need to have earned that money yourself or even done anything ethical to get it; if you’ve got cash in your bank account, that’s good enough for him to trust you and think you’re special.
Lutnick: "We should be bringing in the best and brightest, and that's what Donald Trump is changing about our immigration system. Let's expedite the best and brightest who are gonna give a million dollars to the US to prove they're at the top of the list."
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Once again we see the Trump ethos that says simply being rich makes you “the best.”
You don’t need to have earned that money yourself or even done anything ethical to get it; if you’ve got cash in your bank account, that’s good enough for him to trust you and think you’re special.
You don’t need to have earned that money yourself or even done anything ethical to get it; if you’ve got cash in your bank account, that’s good enough for him to trust you and think you’re special.
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Fascism isn't like great bread, walkable cities, or universal healthcare; it can happen in America
Trump’s Attack on Somali Americans Is Vile Fascism
He’s testing our country’s tolerance for ethnic persecution. And we’re failing the test.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fascism isn't like great bread, walkable cities, or universal healthcare; it can happen in America
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The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity. lnk.thebulwark.com/4oIF0MJ
Trump’s Wager and the Authoritarian Shift
Is Trump getting weaker, or is the authoritarian danger increasing? Yes.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity. lnk.thebulwark.com/4oIF0MJ
It really is absurd. We are awash in grounds for impeachment - maybe try that?
I had to have a tough conversation with the third grader this morning: I sat her down and I took out her pencil case and put it on the table. This, I explained, is what’s ruining America.
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It really is absurd. We are awash in grounds for impeachment - maybe try that?
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Trump has ordered the killings of over 80 people in the Caribbean Sea for allegedly bringing drugs into the U.S., yet he pardoned someone who trafficked in infinitely more drugs than any of these people he’s illegally killing. trib.al/3HP7yud
And it gets worse.
And it gets worse.
December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump has ordered the killings of over 80 people in the Caribbean Sea for allegedly bringing drugs into the U.S., yet he pardoned someone who trafficked in infinitely more drugs than any of these people he’s illegally killing. trib.al/3HP7yud
And it gets worse.
And it gets worse.
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"model" legislation accepting JD Vance's premise that professors are "the enemy"
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"model" legislation accepting JD Vance's premise that professors are "the enemy"
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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Eye scans, licence plate readers, spyware: technology used to catch criminals and terrorists is being repurposed to fulfil Trump's pledge to deport 1mn undocumented migrants this year. Critics fear it’s the thin end of the authoritarian wedge.
An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇
An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Eye scans, licence plate readers, spyware: technology used to catch criminals and terrorists is being repurposed to fulfil Trump's pledge to deport 1mn undocumented migrants this year. Critics fear it’s the thin end of the authoritarian wedge.
An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇
An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇
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The idea that the US Constitution vests nearly absolute power in one person, in part because presidential elections are the main way govt is accountable to the people, is so crazy, illogical, ahistorical it shouldn’t need rebutting.
But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.
But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.
At will? Whose will?
Removing independent agency heads is part of a broader assault on a nonpartisan government
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The idea that the US Constitution vests nearly absolute power in one person, in part because presidential elections are the main way govt is accountable to the people, is so crazy, illogical, ahistorical it shouldn’t need rebutting.
But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.
But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.
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Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
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Americans dislike the cost and delays that accompany flying. They don’t care what people are wearing. The administration’s efforts are precisely backward. www.pbump.net/o/even-repub...
Even Republicans don’t think attire is a central problem with flying
It remains the case that a good way to learn how people feel about things is to ask them. So you don't have to simply assume, say, that people are hankering to work up a sweat before hopping onto a si...
www.pbump.net
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans dislike the cost and delays that accompany flying. They don’t care what people are wearing. The administration’s efforts are precisely backward. www.pbump.net/o/even-repub...
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I’ve really been amazed to see the sharp decline in childhood suffering over the course of the past 30 years, as measured by hospital and ICU admissions for things like: invasive Hib, invasive pneumococcal disease, meningococcemia & meningitis, pertussis, rotavirus (so many dehydration cases), & RSV
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I’ve really been amazed to see the sharp decline in childhood suffering over the course of the past 30 years, as measured by hospital and ICU admissions for things like: invasive Hib, invasive pneumococcal disease, meningococcemia & meningitis, pertussis, rotavirus (so many dehydration cases), & RSV