Every part of the country has faced extreme weather made worse by climate pollution. Now, President Trump’s EPA is repealing limits on that very pollution. It’s clear they care more about polluters’ profits than our health or future.

This is the most dangerous environmental rollback we’ve ever seen. 🧵👇

Apropos of nothing... www.peoplesworld.org/article/doom...

They can call climate change a hoax. The facts still remain -- and ignoring the facts will be deadly and costly.

Cute ad campaign. I bet the 72,000 policyholders State Farm dropped in California appreciate the laugh. We need insurers who aren’t “halfway there”, which means: Paying covered claims. Pricing fairly. Rewarding risk reduction. Protecting people, not just company profits.

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

A lot of risk and costs around home insurance in NC -- but a lot of opportunity too. Bottom line: your home is not insurable if it's not sustainable #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

The first week back from holiday break has been five Mondays in a row...

They don't serve Americans. They aren't interested in public safety. THIS is domestic terrorism

THIS is how a President responds:

I have eschewed the Real ID because it's redundant. I have a passport, that should suffice. Took my passport with me on a recent trip to Hawai'i. With the chaos of an underfunded and understaffed DMV...$45 doesn't seem so bad. But TSA will still likely ban me after they review my social media.

North Carolina had the steepest staffing cuts to any state environmental agency since 2010. With the federal EPA facing a 55% budget cut, it's a "recipe for disaster" for the environment and public health #ncpol insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...

So this story dropped at 7 pm: #ncpol www.wral.com/news/nccapit...

First holiday gift order snafu of the season. Delivered to the wrong house. But apparently, the sender put a different name and address on it. Bah Humbug

I don’t know if a country can be good. Probably not. But a country can be better than this.

They brought back ICE before they passed a budget #ncpol ncnewsline.com/2025/11/30/i...

Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area. Let us know what you hear.

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