Sally Greene
@gosallygreene.bsky.social
Local pol, sometime writer, chasing the light.
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NEW: Justice Ziegler has corrected her misquotation of Moore v. Harper. However, her new summary of the Supreme Court's decision in Moore does not, in my view, accurately reflect the holding. The sentence she quotes doesn't match the "exceedingly limited" paraphrase. www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
![Worse yet, the plaintiffs’ theory disobeys the United States
Constitution’s Elections Clause which vests redistricting responsibility
exclusively in “the Legislature thereof.” U.S. CONST. ART. I, § 4. As the
United States Supreme Court recently reaffirmed, the role of state courts in
congressional redistricting is exceedingly limited. See Moore v. Harper, 600
U.S. 1, 36 (2023) (“[S]tate courts may not transgress the ordinary bounds of
judicial review such that they arrogate to themselves the power vested in
state legislatures to regulate federal elections.”). This lawsuit invites the
very judicial meddling that the Constitution prohibits. We see other states
invoking fairly interesting procedures to address congressional maps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreihf3o2inbcy54ozy3cocdmwrkq32ogoswxi5i4auoysm4ucqx3o54@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW: Justice Ziegler has corrected her misquotation of Moore v. Harper. However, her new summary of the Supreme Court's decision in Moore does not, in my view, accurately reflect the holding. The sentence she quotes doesn't match the "exceedingly limited" paraphrase. www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
Loved this! Listening, I started thinking about @marthasjones.bsky.social long before you mentioned her. Martha, how does it feel to hear your memoir praised in the same breath as Moby Dick!?
I remember asking @katecarp.bsky.social if @draftingthepast.bsky.social was a confessional space...I think it is, and I was giddy to get to talk with Kate about the joy of writing history -- and my tremendous good fortune to get to do it. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Episode 76: Karin Wulf Keeps Her Brain Humming Along - Drafting the Past
In this episode, Kate is joined by Karin Wulf, the director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, to discuss her new book, Lineage, and her research and writing process.
draftingthepast.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Loved this! Listening, I started thinking about @marthasjones.bsky.social long before you mentioned her. Martha, how does it feel to hear your memoir praised in the same breath as Moby Dick!?
As soon as I published this newsletter on SNAP last week, it started to be superseded by events. Now the administration wants states to "undo" efforts to provide the benefits in full. The cruelty is bottomless. mailchi.mp/8140fd5606af...
The New War on Poverty
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November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
As soon as I published this newsletter on SNAP last week, it started to be superseded by events. Now the administration wants states to "undo" efforts to provide the benefits in full. The cruelty is bottomless. mailchi.mp/8140fd5606af...
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The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...
October 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...
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New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
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We are all the UN escalator.
September 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We are all the UN escalator.
Decades ago, this grassroots coalition did restore truth and sanity to the history we tell about George Washington.
Activists vow to protect display on George Washington's ties to slavery at The President’s House in Philadelphia www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Activists vow to protect display on George Washington's ties to slavery
The President's House in Philadelphia educates visitors about Washington's ties to slavery and is a memorial to the people who were enslaved.
www.usatoday.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Decades ago, this grassroots coalition did restore truth and sanity to the history we tell about George Washington.
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This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up
Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.
After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump's team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter
President Donald Trump used an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter at the United Nations to paint the global body as dysfunctional.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up
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What a book cover that is! 🗃️
My book exploring how generations of Americans have fought over how to understand George Washington and slavery officially has a pre-order page up! a.co/d/j5sBjLH
September 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What a book cover that is! 🗃️
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I'm moving to Bonn, Germany in a few weeks! My wife got into a master's program there, and I'll focus on intensive study of the German language for the first year. If you are in the area or know anyone I should meet there, please let me know!
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm moving to Bonn, Germany in a few weeks! My wife got into a master's program there, and I'll focus on intensive study of the German language for the first year. If you are in the area or know anyone I should meet there, please let me know!
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donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
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September 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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So, I live in Birmingham, Alabama. One of my bosses recently told me he doesn't think all the police dogs and fire hoses really happened because his parents took him downtown when he was small and everyone was nice. He's white and was born in 1963. He's also thoroughly on the right and brainwashed
September 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
So, I live in Birmingham, Alabama. One of my bosses recently told me he doesn't think all the police dogs and fire hoses really happened because his parents took him downtown when he was small and everyone was nice. He's white and was born in 1963. He's also thoroughly on the right and brainwashed
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We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
September 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
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Our Autumn 2025 issue has arrived! Highlights include J. Malcolm Garcia’s visit to an Oregon tent encampment; Kristin Idaszak’s look at the link between horseshoe crabs and the human heart; Steve Yarbrough’s profile of writer James Whitehead; and much more!
Autumn 2025 - The American Scholar
“My father lived an honorable life. He fulfilled his responsibilities to those who depended on him. Without question, he was a loving man, but there was something unknowable and untouchable about…
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September 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Our Autumn 2025 issue has arrived! Highlights include J. Malcolm Garcia’s visit to an Oregon tent encampment; Kristin Idaszak’s look at the link between horseshoe crabs and the human heart; Steve Yarbrough’s profile of writer James Whitehead; and much more!
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On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough.
Sep. 6, 1913 | 8 Black Men Suffocate In Prison Cell, Punished for Not Picking Enough Cotton
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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September 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough.
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oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
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In recent public remarks about deploying the National Guard to Chicago, Donald Trump said:
“I have the right to do ANYTHING I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.”
Not even a King has that right. Certainly no president. Who knew a non-drinker could be so drunk with power?
“I have the right to do ANYTHING I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.”
Not even a King has that right. Certainly no president. Who knew a non-drinker could be so drunk with power?
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
In recent public remarks about deploying the National Guard to Chicago, Donald Trump said:
“I have the right to do ANYTHING I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.”
Not even a King has that right. Certainly no president. Who knew a non-drinker could be so drunk with power?
“I have the right to do ANYTHING I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.”
Not even a King has that right. Certainly no president. Who knew a non-drinker could be so drunk with power?
In NC it is the Western Piedmont Symphony.
Bringing unity through music, pianist Jeffrey Biegel's 21st century initiative joins 60+ orchestras in all 50 states for Peter Boyer's "Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue". It nourishes our souls, and I encourage orchestras to join this evolving historic moment.
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Boyer-Biegel Rhapsody project reaches 50-state goal; Naxos to release London Symphony Orchestra recording – Peter Boyer: Propulsive Music
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August 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
In NC it is the Western Piedmont Symphony.
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Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!
August 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
US government orders states to destroy trans education materials
The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
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Just watched ICE pull a guy out a car at 16th and Park.
August 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just watched ICE pull a guy out a car at 16th and Park.
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i like when these guys just say things like "union station has fallen into disrepair" which is plainly false to anyone with eyes apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's transportation secretary takes management of Washington's Union Station away from Amtrak
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says his department is taking management of Washington's main transportation hub away from Amtrak, in another example of how the federal government is exerting its ...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
i like when these guys just say things like "union station has fallen into disrepair" which is plainly false to anyone with eyes apnews.com/article/trum...