Remember when there was such a thing as a ‘slow news week’? I worked in my college‘s student publication department all four years. My dad worked at a tv news station for 30- I very much remember the reaching and struggle for something to fill a spot/time.

The U.S. is the world’s leading producer and exporter of oil and gas. Expanding liquefied natural gas production into Mexico will be disastrous for communities, wildlife, and the future of our planet. Watch the latest episode of NRDC’s podcast What the Earth: https://on.nrdc.org/3XO2sNf

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Nov. 12: Cooper gains in polls Nov. 15: …#ncpol

Gerrymandering >Healthcare www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Nickel for your thoughts?

"I don't think there will be an appetite for [protests]"...Tim Moore doesn't get out much, does he?

Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social signed their state's budget into law. That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget. Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.

*Best/Worst Seinfeld voice What’s the deal with #ncpol guys named Mark? Mark Meadows Mark Harris Mark Robinson… wlos.com/news/local/p...

Wilmington knows what's up #ncpol #PFAS www.whqr.org/local/2025-1...

Maybe deploy them to Lumberton instead?

The number of septuagenarians (aged 70-79) serving in Congress has roughly doubled in the last 20 years. The number of octogenarians (80-89) has quintupled.

Great idea

I cut my teeth as a community paper. Sat in the courthouse during the 2006 election to watch the BOE staff get updated tallies by phone and update a chalk board with the vote totals.

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

What utter nonsense. I’m dizzy from the political spin. #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

Despite Chemours' decades-long history of poisoning easter NC's air and water with PFAS, the company is looking to expand pollution. #ncpol coastalreview.org/2025/10/chem...

"And here I sit, purple with rage, not just because the voters of North Carolina are being betrayed, but also because citizens across our embattled country are being given more and more reason to believe that this whole democracy thing is a sham" #ncpol www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

As electricity bills continue to rise, there is a push for solar installations as federal credits are set to expire www.wunc.org/2025-10-25/s...

The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.

Good investigative reporting from the N&O on state budget sweetheart deals. I sat thru many of these debates absolutely aghast. #ncpol

The Times apparently decided it wasn’t important to mention in the headline it was the ICE agent who shot the U.S. marshal.

North Carolina already one of most gerrymandered states. Now GOP passing new gerrymander giving Rs nearly 80% of seats in state where Trump got 51%. Specifically targets Black Dem Don Davis. This is preview of what post-Voting Rights Act America will look like www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gerrymandering is DEI for Republicans -- credit to @lisagrafstein.bsky.social #ncpol

You know you've lost the argument when even the Carolina Journal opposes your plan

I mean… at least it’s out in the open now www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

Blistering take from the N&O: "Yes, a Republican leader in perhaps the nation’s most gerrymandered state really said that Republicans would not allow politicians to undermine the will of the voters." #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

Diane Keaton is the reason I went thru a two-week phase at 13 wearing neckties to school #DianeKeaton #AnnieHall #icon

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again. Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden. Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

The N.C. Utilities Commission has ruled in favor of Duke Energy Carolinas in its dispute with EMPOWERment Inc., over the nonprofit developer’s use of a single master meter to power 10 new low-income apartments in Chapel Hill. ncnewsline.com/briefs/n-c-u... By @gchildress.bsky.social #ncpol

One of the world's greatest scientific minds 💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

In this report, Dave Boliek, the State Auditor of NC, blames Charlotte's DEI policies for not providing adequate security to the city's transit system. This report is not only politically motivated but also poorly written and sloppy. #ncpol www.auditor.nc.gov/documents/re...

JUST IN: The US lurched toward a government shutdown as a vote to extend funding past a midnight deadline failed in the Senate reut.rs/4gSEZDu

So Trump and Hegseth schedule an “unprecedented” meeting of our military leaders on the same day Congress will act on a possible government shutdown… Gotta give Fox and Friends some alternative clips, right?

Few are better advocates for our waters than rafting guides

Having witnessed this kind of disturbing behavior first-hand, we have got to take red flag laws seriously. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

Follow the money...if you can

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle federal policies to study and address the risks of climate change could pose a national security threat to the U.S., said Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser in the Biden administration.

Listening in on the #ncga committee on hurricane recovery. Right out the gate, it's a Roy Cooper bash fest. Enough with the finger pointing and US Senate campaign commercial fodder. Grow up and do the work

Sen. Mohammed is among the best of the best in #ncpol www.wral.com/story/nc-sen... "No family should have to see the face of their loved one turned into a political prop simply because a political consultant or political operative thought this was a golden opportunity to exploit someone's death”

The US currently subsidizes the fossil-fuel industry with nearly $31 bn per year. These handouts pose a massive barrier to decarbonization, says the report, which experts have long warned is urgently necessary to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My God. Chills.

NEW: Trump's historically late Spring 2025 Unified Agenda is a deregulatory nightmare for the American people. It’s yet another manifestation of the worst corporate favoritism since the Gilded Age. sensiblesafeguards.org/press/spring...

As a dedicated superfan of the em dash -- I find the recent slander and skepticism to be tragic and misguided. "I am the punctuation mark of human frailty. I am the writer’s block, resolved mid-sentence. I am the OG vibe shift." Justice for Em Dash! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.