Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood has fired deputy over “I am antifa” social media posts. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

NC’s House Majority Leader has set his sights on UNC’s LGBT Center’s measly $200k in state funding… despite the fact that UNC’s new conservative incubator “School of Civic Life and Leadership” has burned up $2 million plus of taxpayer dollars this year. Appeals to “viewpoint diversity” are a joke.

🏀 From barnstorming road shows to the WNBA, women’s basketball has mirrored America’s social struggles and triumphs; a revealing survey w/"Shattering the Glass" authors Pamela Grundy & Susan Shackelford; NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or https://tinyurl.com/2usu9tbw #GoodSeats

Hi, Bluesky! We're happy to be here 😁 Stay tuned for more content from us! #NCMA #ArtNaturePeople

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Carrboro has a new online news publication: The Carborean

No, this is not a joke. This is real. North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...

Carola van Dyke, contemporary fibre artist based on the UK south coast, who is inspired by close observation and appreciation of nature #WomensArt

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Big update: after overnight meetings with the parliamentarian my team successfully got these exemptions stripped from the bill. Special giveaways to protect certain states from these devastating Medicaid cuts is the worst form of hypocrisy.

I'm so fucking tired can't we please just have good things I mean fucks' sakes we're all so goddam tired we're just trying to fucking survive and thrive and be happy and together and jesus fucking christ why can't we just have that just let us fucking have that you evil goddam BORING wannabe dragons

The WNBA is adding three new teams: Cleveland will join in 2028, Detroit begins play in 2029 and Philadelphia will be added to the roster in 2030. This will bring the league to a record 18 teams. https://n.pr/44h8HMo

H958 a sweeping elections bill in NC House would make it illegal for state or county elections board members to encourage voting “Make written or oral statements intended for general distribution or dissemination to the public at large encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election.”

This sent me on a Detour! No AI here, promise 🧵

WCHL & Chapelboro spoke with Tom Jensen of PPP - the only pollster who publicly had Mamdani ahead of Cuomo - last week. Jensen (a Chapel Hill legend in many ways) dug into why he thought that was and how it aligned with some of his past polls deemed "outliers" that ended up being correct. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

Crime photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig) snapped this shot of an individual who was arrested at a dance for "dressing as a girl." We love their defiant smile. [🧵3/4]

Chad Mitchell Trio did not come to play

the progression of posts is really something else

add yours!

You either need god or the Thursday night tv block. Without it, we lost our minds.

68 years ago today on June 23, 1957: a local minister & six Black students in Durham walked through the “Whites Only” door at Royal Ice Cream in the Bull City & took their seats at the booths for white folks (the restaurant was partitioned down the middle in the name of segregation). #NCHistory 🧵

My work week comes to an end and here are my favorite four images from this week. Enjoy and thanks for following me. #photojournalism #photography

Trump has talents. There was a global rightward movement. We do have elite capture. But he also proved that a Republican candidate can be corrupt or crude or illegal and the GOP gerrymander will hold.

We recently launched a San Francisco South Asian Radical History Walking Tour Our public SF opening weekend is coming up July 12 and 13, and over half the spots are already registered. Here are the details: www.berkeleysouthasian.org www.berkeleysouthasian.org/tour/sf/

This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this c. 1936 white, violet, and lavender striped silk brocade evening dress designed by Elizabeth Hawes. Hawes has used clever construction to create an intricate stripe pattern cut on the bias. Museum at FIT collection. #fashionhistory

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Really good @thehometownholler.bsky.social featuring @blairreeves.bsky.social if you want to learn a bit about NC state politics. overcast.fm/+ABGNDtOVbMg

I do not like AI in Slack I do not like AI on Mac I do not like AI in Zoom I don’t want AI in my room I do not want ChatGPT — please stop, AI, and leave me be! I don’t want AI here, or there; I don’t want AI anywhere! (… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

She inhaled trace amounts of empathy and her body went into anaphylactic shock.

The protest follow-up Zoom call that Indivisible held this evening that Rachel mentioned at one point had 60,000 participants was also streamed on YouTube. It looks like that recording is now viewable here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECEb...

Perhaps of interest to some of you...I no longer live in an eligible county, otherwise I'd already be registered 🌱 growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/2025/06/2026...

Triangle readers, a new bookstore has opened in S. Durham! And it sounds delightful! 📚💙

every time Paopao hits a shot I think about this post lol #wnba

More awesomeness from the Chapel Hill / Carrboro, NC #NoKings protest. 💙♥️💙 I love, love, LOVED seeing the John Lewis sign! 🥰 Credit for the American eagle and owl art pieces: @shirlmc.bsky.social. (Artistic expression is its OWN form of protest! Brava! 🥇)

S.E. Rogie - She Caught Me Red Hot [Sierra Leone, Palm Wine] (1960s) https://redd.it/ftukb8 https://youtu.be/n-35RRDm768

(2011 me, reading this post out of context, whispering frantically "what the fuck what the fuck")

Americans are not into order & discipline. It does not appeal to them. They have a yearning for it, they'll read about Marie Kondo and think "I've gotta get my life together," but at the end of the day they want as many choices as humanly possible and they favor self-expression over all.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

« the largest show of military might » somehow looks like a Doonesbury comic strip from the 1970s

Me and newest poster at No Kings!

YES! I LOVE this for him! Meanwhile..I was busy protesting his orange ass!

So proud of our state!! North Carolinians showed up all over the state today to lift their voices in support of democracy! NO KINGS NC…a thread 👇 #ncpol

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

NEW: The DOJ filed a lawsuit against the newly GOP-controlled North Carolina Board of Elections. It represents a troubling Trump administration tactic: Filing lawsuits in cases where the plaintiff and defendant are aligned, allowing for sweeping policy changes without the legislative process.

It was good day to whip fascism. #NoKingsDay

Another good sign, seen on second pass: “Monarchs: [picture of butterflies] Yes! [picture of a crown] No!”