Nancy Huntly

This post encourages people to vote, and provides people who live in Utah about where to drop off their ballots, or how to register to vote and vote in person . (Most people in Utah vote by mail, but as of today, Oct. 31, people are asked to drip their ballots off at official drop boxes across their counties). In odd numbered years, elections in Utah are mostly non-partisan races for mayors and city councils.

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...

This is going to be another massive blow to working class and disabled people: www.propublica.org/article/soci...

going to be hard for trump to claim the Ds are responsible for stopping SNAP when he's literally got a court order saying he's responsible and needs to give people food.

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.

1) Take over Kennedy Center
2) Lose gobs of money
(——> You are here)
3) Book 6 Month Lee Greenwood Residency
4) Make attendance mandatory under Federal law

wapo.st/4hxOdFo

US tax dollars at work?

This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.

LETTER: Harry Reid Dinner debuts in Cache Valley with Senate Minority Leader as guest speaker The Cache County Democrats are excited to announce that our annual Fall Fundraiser, newly named the Harry Reid Dinner, will take place on Friday, November 7th, 2025, 6:30-8:30 PM at

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Intellectual diversity is important, critical we have both people who report history accurately and those who lie about it.

LETTER: Harry Reid Dinner debuts in Cache Valley with Senate Minority Leader as guest speaker The Cache County Democrats are excited to announce that our annual Fall Fundraiser, newly named the Harry Reid Dinner, will take place on Friday, November 7th, 2025, 6:30-8:30 PM at

www.cachevalleydaily.com/opinion/lett...

3 words in Letitia James’ mortgage contract could doom the fraud case against her James is charged with illegally collecting rental income on a second property. But her contract permits renting, according to POLITICO’s review of her contract and legal experts.

The indictment of Letitia James is legally weak & politically motivated

Her contract allows short-term rentals, meaning the case rests on a misreading of the law

This prosecution is baseless & this weaponization of the DOJ cannot stand

Read 👇 - TN
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Join Cache Democrats for our annual fundraising dinner! Speaker to be announced soon, but get your tickets today at secure.actblue.com/donate/harry...
The tickets are limited so you won’t want to wait!
Questions reach out to cachedems@gmail.com.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

2/ "Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Seven Million People Unite at Peaceful No Kings Protests to Defend Our First Amendment Rights | ACLU ACLU Justice Division leader Ellen Flenniken saw people across the country come together to stand up for free speech, protest peacefully, and show that our power grows when we act as one.

On October 18, millions of people across the country took to the streets to send a message: Our democracy belongs to We the people.

The best way to protect our First Amendment rights is to keep using them.

But the barbarism couldn’t and can’t be concealed.

This is not a beautification project. It’s a monument to the end of the republic—a gilded Amazon warehouse of grift, excess, and monarchical power.

Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project Trump, the tacky and chronically bankrupt real estate developer, and Hitler, the failed artist who was too bad at math to try his hand at architecture school, are alike in at least these ways. A love ...

My entry in the Trump ballroom discourse.

It’s a monument to Trump’s insecurities, a symbol of our descent into authoritarianism, and a gaudy bribery palace all in one. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-loeil-...

Speaker Johnson says clergy protesting deportations have no right to 'get in the face' of DHS agents (RNS) — Johnson initially claimed he was not aware of the instances, despite having been directly asked about one of the incidents in a press conference earlier this month.

NEW from me: Speaker Mike Johnson dismisses religious freedom concerns of clergy who have been shot by DHS/ICE with pepper balls, pepper rounds, or rubber bullets, insisting he hasn't heard about such incidents despite being asked about one earlier this month. religionnews.com/2025/10/29/s...

The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah “We believe that the first thing we have to do is build something that people want.”

Many of you, I know, receive a lot of national news, but care a lot about local. You also hate paywalls.

If that's you read this detailed story. "The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah."

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

These people have civilian jobs. It's one thing to mobilize them for an emergency or a legitimate war, another thing to send them to American cities to stand around and mill about. You're messing with people's careers to further a hostile and idiotic agenda.

State propaganda watch

Political Scientist here: the entire point of a constitution is to outline the rules so that political officers cannot "go around it"

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.

Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.

“We Can Persist Because We Are Not Alone” | Friends Committee On National Legislation This was the question FCNL faced nearly two decades ago. The “War is Not the Answer” movement had sparked widespread energy, and members of FCNL’s General Committee and staff were ready to build on th...

👏“An antidote to despair:” A decade after launching, FCNL's Advocacy Teams network includes 1,500+ people in 135 teams—now in all 50 states and D.C.

“Advocacy Teams show that we can persist because we’re not alone," said FCNL's Tim Heishman.

⬇️ Read more & find out how you can get involved!

Graphic announcing the update of 'Health Policy 101' with text and images of documents related to health care policies, including Medicaid 101, The Affordable Care Act 101, and The Politics of Health Care and Elections. Logo of KFF at the bottom right.

Our Health Policy 101 — a guide to U.S. health policy and programs — has been updated to address the changes underway in health policy.

Explore this mini “textbook” for faculty, students, and others interested in health policy. https://on.kff.org/hp101

In a Looming Nuclear Arms Race, Aging Los Alamos Faces a Major Test

This piece in the @nytimes.com highlights many of the risks and challenges facing plutonium pit production that we analyzed in our recent @ucs.org report:

✨ www.ucs.org/resources/pl...

The current plan is unnecessary, expensive, and risky and there are many alternatives that could increase safety

There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders Notwithstanding pronouncements from leading officials of the Trump administration, the consensus of federal courts is that the Constitution protects the right to record immigration raids, and federal ...

New from me at Cato: The Trump administration lately has falsely asserted that ICE / CBP agents are immune from state law no matter what they do, and also that citizens have no right to videorecord, photograph or identify the agents. There's a pattern that links these two stories! /1

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

President for Life Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.

Donald Trump has amassed the powers of a king, J. Michael Luttig writes. He won’t give them up easily:

Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.

Louisiana's surgeon general Ralph Abraham WAITED MANY MONTHS to warn public of whooping cough outbreak

He's an anti-vaxx activist and has been a vocal supporter of RFK Jr

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

This is also wrong, immoral, unscientific, and an abuse of power, among other things. This administration is killing its own citizens (MAHA) and engaging in extrajudicial killings abroad.

US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats

Straight to the Hague.

US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats in Pacific

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