The advisory council co-chairs, Dr. Lawrence Greenblatt, state health director at the NC Department of Health and Human Services, and Robeson County District Attorney Matthew Scott, propose a legal, regulated market for adults, with protections for medical marijuana users. #ncpol #cannabis #Hemp

not so friendly reminder that it's impossible to understand the Trump administration without religion HIRE RELIGION REPORTERS AND TALK TO SCHOLARS OF RELIGION PLEASE

Interesting how society has always associated cooking with women and yet, 94% of Michelin star restaurants have run by male chefs. I guess what it's really "a woman's job" is the unpaid part of it.

Where? Here in “the South”, Jesse. (We fuck them up with margarine and high-fructose corn poison.)

100 percent tariff on... medicine? I'm telling you, one of the best arguments that Republicans are planning to steal the election is that they're actively trying to lose it.

For every American rube who ever argued that instead of statesmen, we should allow a businessman from outside the political sphere to helm our government, here is the internet posting that should make you shut the fuck up and bathe alone in your submoronic ignorance until you wrinkle and die.

But she had no penis. Penis will fix. (Idiocy fills up with “feck” and “range” once there is penis. Also, penis=no tossing, everyone knows this.)

A few thoughts on this (thread forthcoming) 1. the court laments the length of time and resources spent on this case: of course, this could’ve been over 3.5 years ago if Newby hadn’t decided to ignore precedent and legal norms to rehear the case.

Right after they finish with trans youth, their moving on to target youth with ADHD and autism to satisfy their austerity driven eugenics project. They don't even dignify us with new talking points.

It is extremely important to remind everyone you know that these “budget challenges” are exactly what GOP legislators in NC have been working towards year after year. Destroying public education has always been their goal. #ncpol #ncga

"Theodore Roosevelt created the national forests to protect them from exactly the kind of industrial plunder this administration is enabling. Gifford Pinchot built the Forest Service from scratch...to ensure that America’s forests would be managed by trained professionals in the public interest."

I know bad writing. I am a bad writer. Generously, one might say my style is ‘baroque’ — over-filled with ornament, busy, in desperate need of the reddest of red pens. Yet even I cannot divine the origin, purpose, or function of this “???”. To what absence, what trace of meaning, does it point?

Gosh, I always thought NATO was a collective *defense* agreement (not an aggression pact) with an institutional practice going back >75yrs that would require us to rather formally request or invoke their assistance if we want a hand in Iran. Did we, y’know, invoke any part of the NATO agreement?

Trump declares he won’t comply with law requiring president to turn over records to the National Archives at end of his term. It’s pretty cool to have an Office of Legal Counsel that’s prepared to just declare unconstitutional any laws POTUS doesn’t want to follow. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

About time

From Trump's last 5 posts: 1) "it will be the Greatest and Most Beautiful Ballroom" 2) "Is Bruce Springsteen going to sue his plastic surgeon?" 3) "Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants!" 4) "JD Vance is now in charge of “FRAUD” in the United States." 5) "we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT"

“So we’re gonna win the war?” “War, whatever, I’m busy reinstalling the whites-only water fountains.”

"In its analysis," Ann McColl writes, "the court distinguished between constitutional challenges 'as applied' in specific instances to 'facial' challenges that raise the constitutionality of the entire system in all its applications." It focused on legal procedure. www.ednc.org/4-2-2026-lea...

This resource, also authored by Ann McColl, is a terrific introduction and primer on all things Leandro/Hoke v NC www.ednc.org/everything-y...

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

We are doing double tap strikes now?

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

Oh we need green energy? Immigration. Stagnating post-industrial societies? Immigration. Housing construction and agriculture? Immigration. Aging population in need of healthcare? Immigration. Insolvent Medicaid and Social Security? Immigration. Declining cultural output? That’s right, immigration

so, for my sins, i went to the original post to see if there was some kind of context in the video that i might have been missing, but, no, it’s this picture of fess parker over the davy crockett theme song for two minutes and change. i’ve got nothing, the president has oatmeal brains.

We’re going to keep fighting for a South where regardless of your zip code, you’re guaranteed the right to an education and tools you need to succeed. Today, republicans on the North Carolina State Supreme Court said that children who are born in rural communities deserve less.

This is a huge story.

make incompetence shameful again

Even if Trump loses at the Supreme Court, I promise you that opposition to birthright citizenship is already mandatory for any future Trump judicial nominees. The conservative legal movement never treats a decision it dislikes as "settled." It just waits for another shot.

If he starts going by lowercase jd vance then we'll really know something is up

Someone sent me this.

The @wsj.com readership continues to fascinate:

Saw this sticker on a car over the weekend. Did I spend 10-12 milliseconds imagining that @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s masterpiece was behind the wheel? Well, *if* I did, that does not mean I think books can (or should) drive, okay? (NB: Tressie’s book would have gotten the “too” right.)

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

The very definition of a “douchey move”.

Epic chokemaxxing by clavicular, who really mogged that guy’s elbow joint with his neck.

Hint: you’re holding it in your hand right now.

"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked

And while I know that sounds like crazy pants bullshit to come up at a Supreme Court hearing... remeber that Alito watches Fox News all the time and is NO DIFFERENT than your racist uncle who does the same.

Really appreciate that my oil change place wants me to remain safe from vampires. They know that if customers are “turned” they’re far less likely to seek oil changes during the 8am-5pm business hours.

i like the fantasy of trump attending the supreme court hearing on revoking birthright citizenship, as though he will be thoughtfully considering the legal merits of the case with great intellectual mind, instead of staring down conservative justices to make sure they do his bidding

wouldn’t bet against this on the kalshimarkets

I was about to accuse some folks around of being humorless scrooges about April Fools Day. …but I’m warming to the heat of that take.

Genuinely delighted by someone asking this question, seemingly in good faith and getting a stream of fairly polite replies that all add up to ”Vatican II might have done away with hell BUT NOT FOR CROMWELL BITCH”

If Trump does show up at SCOTUS today will it not cause a massive clusterfuck in the competition for gallery seating? How many very limited seats would secret service agents need to do their job? Are they gonna let rando court watchers & reporters who’ve camped in line sit near/behind/around him?

FEMA was once described as a “turkey farm”: a place to store incompetent political cronies despite the importance of its work. Now it’s a place to store lunatics, whack jobs, who will put “teleportation” on the list of evacuation options.