Received our ACA renewal today….up 37% per month. Americans will vote for anyone who will fix the healthcare system. Only one side as a plan. The other side has nadda. Zip. Zilch. This is just insanity.

Asheville, NC #Nokings

The GOP never talk about the millions of able bodied Americans working jobs that don’t offer health insurance. It is all one big beautiful lie.

Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

There's still some legal battles ongoing, but @ncdemocrats.bsky.social are recruiting a rapid response team to reach out to these 60,000 people to get them to cure their ballots and make sure their votes count. Sign up here:

Start your weekend with this banger from @aselrod.bsky.social

This is the biggest, underreported news right now. Republicans are trying to STEAL an election in North Carolina. Straight up. This is a test case for 2026 and 2028. They will never voluntarily give up power again.

This link is more user friendly to check if your ballot is at risk: terrymah.github.io/challenge/

🚨 🚨 🚨 the North Carolina state court is going along with Jefferson Griffins request to disenfranchise tens of thousands of NC voters by throwing out their votes. And thereby hand the seat on the NC SCT to Griffin when Justice Allison Riggs won the election. This is a HUGE deal.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social Instead of writing your thoughtful posts, hold some rallies. If you’re worried about crowd sizes invite @aoc.bsky.social If you want to be president….lead from in front. You (both) have the right message for these dark times.

Once again Thom Tillis threatens to buck the MAGA crowd - this time on Canadian tariffs. Then sees his shadow and votes in lockstep with MAGA. Why does the MSM keep falling for this act?

RTI lays off 340 employees in response the the DOGE cuts. Assume these will not show up in the DOGE ‘savings’ ledger? We are going to discover this whole exercise has cost us enormously. Financially and morally.

TIL that Tesla insiders (executives, board members, etc) have sold *1.46 million* Tesla shares over the past 12 months, and bought precisely *zero* www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...

Schumer should take a look at what is happening to Allison Riggs in NC before he caves. There is simply not politics as normal.

My question is whether Wall Street understands that an important segment of the EV market customer base will not buy a Tesla at any price. It could teleport me places and I would not buy it. I would not drive one if you gave it to me for free.

Wish @aoc.bsky.social or @petebuttigieg.bsky.social would just start running for president. The Dem strategy of waiting is failure personified. Fill some stadiums. Get on TV. Suck up some oxygen. And they just might beat the do nothing establishment figures - assuming we still run elections.

A sitting judge in NC is STILL trying to change election rules after he lost, toss ballots from 65,000+ eligible voters, & grab a seat on the Tar Heel state’s highest court? Scary, but true. Bob Crawford, Ben Sawyer, and I talked about why we all should be paying attention to this story.

It is astounding to see ‘experts’ shocked, shocked I say, that Trump, JD and the Muskrats are wrecking American standing in the world and destroying its economy. It was all so utterly predictable to anyone half following along. Dems will have nothing left to fight for unless they get in the ring.

If only AOC, Mayor Pete or Jamie Raskin would declare they’re running for President in 2028 it would drive the narrative to counter the blizzard of lies coming from the red hat brigade. He/She who dares. Wins.

A text from my daughter after just one month of this farce: My friend ‘X’ got into the university of ‘Y’ for her PhD. They just emailed her and said because of funding complications they ended up only being able to take 1 person into the lab instead of the previously planned 7.

@alicetalksfootball.bsky.social Maybe Ashworth was right? He was certainly right about the squad fit and the manager. No wonder he had a falling out.

Every election matters.

If you voted Trump to lower costs, the next four years are going to be a real kick in the pants. Luckily, you won't be able to afford pants.

As the crony capitalism of the Trump administration ramps up, we will soon discover that DOGE, headed by Musk, will become the Department Of Greed and Enrichment.

Notable that the only 3 Republicans who voted against this bill (see below) were the three who represent the westernmost districts in the state--districts that were all affected by Helene. #ncpol #wncpol

Make that 106 votes(!) #ncpol

I love BlueSky in the mornings. It is all so calm as the Brit’s discuss appalling growth #’s, how to reframe immigration debates or how expensive trains are. By afternoon, when US audience arrives, it is the end of days with rapists, charlatans and Russian stooges in charge.

Surely the election of Trump and his emerging cadre of incompetents will be the biggest act of self harm inflicted by one nation unto itself since Brexit. But maybe Brexit is small ball in comparison.

There's been too much talk of 'realignment' and not enough talk of 'dealignment'.

Prognosticators have short memories and are too US centric in their prognostications. In 2019 the UK Tories broke Labor’s ‘red wall’. It apparently signaled a generational realignment. Yet, through incompetence and lies and lairs by 2024 it had completely reversed.

After some much-needed sleep and continuation of caffeine into my system, first-attempt analysis of NC's general election: www.oldnorthstatepolitics.com/2024/11/earl...

Republicans have lost their supermajority in the North Carolina House. This means that they will not be able to use party-line votes to override vetoes by Josh Stein, the Democratic Governor-Elect. www.wral.com/story/d...

After last night I finally, finally followed through on my vow to delete the other place. Anyone else use it as a catalyst? A personally symbolic gesture to the coming oligarchy.

If you want a case study in what gerrymandered politics gets you just look at the GOP candidates running down ballot in NC. A whole lot of WTAF.

The sign on Trump’s desk should read, the buck stops with you in jail.

Today, in America, it feels like the only place you are not expected to tip is the grocery store. Tipping has become a way for owners to disguise the fact that their businesses would fail if they paid for the real cost of labor.

Trump leads Haley in SC by 29 & DeSantis in IA, his do-or-die, by 27. It's only a failure of the press to grasp a new shape of politics in the Trumpocene that's leading them to waste breath on this. In the real world, all energy shld be given to reporting on Trump's now explicit threat to democracy.

Joe Biden is a perfectly fine, solid center-left president. The guy running against him is a corrupt proto-fascist criminal oligarch. The US economy is strong, wages for the lowest quintile are rising fast, wage inequality falling, inflation is under 5%. So naturally it’s a toss-up

Heartened to see last night's results, and how voters reclaimed power. But I look at NC and how entrenched the GOP has become through gerrymandering. It may take the rest of the decade, including a couple of NC Supreme Court changes to get close to fair maps again.

Jeff Jackson running for NC AG after being gerrymandered out of his Congressional seat is great news. He should never have bowed out of his 2020 Senate run - hopefully we’ll get to use the swag longer this time around.

If only Republican efforts to cull the herd happened out in the open. It would make great TV. Like a Real House Wives show without the glitz and glamor.