What they found was alarming: besides the 5 hospitals likely to close as a result of the bill's cuts to Medicaid, a whopping 54 other rural hospitals and clinics around North Carolina are likely to tip into severe financial distress.

North Carolina lobbyist Ches McDowell has successfully leveraged his relationship with the president's son to position his firm as a broker to buy a Get Out Of Jail Free card from the president of the United States. The going rate for a Trump pardon is now around $1 million.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

No. The chief problem is, AI is literally A TOOL FOR UNLEARNING. The more you use it, the worse you get at whatever it is you’re using it for. It’s the opposite of educating, it’s uneducating. 2/2

Countries that have abortion access, DEI policies or protection for LGBTQ+ people will be considered “human rights violators“ by the Trump regime We’re in the upside down. www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

So the Border Patrol announced that they arrested >250 people in their North Carolina invasion, but that only 44 had any criminal record at all. Some of those "criminal" records include shoplifting and driving with an expired registration. Some were U.S. citizens. www.wunc.org/2025-11-19/b...

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

(They’re not cowards, they’re wealthy people protecting their own interests, and years ago they made the very smart calculation that it was better to be perceived as cowards who care than as ruthless career politicians who only truly care about cash and power.)

Sunderland scored two goals today off an xG of 0.44 and just two shots on target. Some days it's just not going to go your way. #SUNARS

Wow, Trossard! What a goal. Like Arshavin at Anfield

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

Arsenal played 6 matches in October. 6 wins. 6 clean sheets. 12 scored. First club in English top flight history to do it.

i really cant believe we’re still discussing this in 2025 but if the choice you give voters is “republican vs temu republican” they are going to continue to choose the name brand over the generic, this is really basic human nature stuff

look at what happened with immigration: dems try to be “centrist” with the biden border bill, gop just went further right and started lying about eating pets…may be a lesson to learn there

Never take this team for granted. They're not normal, and we'll be waiting a long time before a similar one shows up.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

North Carolina is virtually synonymous with partisan gerrymandering. Republicans have drawn all election maps in our state for 14 years running - the last Democratic lawmaker to touch any map, whatsoever, was back in 2003. Here are just a few examples of the rigged maps that are in effect today.

If only there was some kind of signal

If you were looking for an example of everything that's wrong in our politics today, you could do worse than this sentiment from Republican North Carolina State Senator Ralph Hise on Monday, October 20th 2025, to objections from lawmakers about his proposal to rig North Carolina's Congressional map.

Genuinely what an insane image

Quiz: United States or Nottingham Forest

I know you all know what deranged, vile, propaganda nonsense this is. But for the record: Leaders of the regime are declaring the opposition party and all forms of political dissent as illegitimate - and large swaths of the population to be dangerous terrorists. This is incredibly dangerous.

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Shot/chaser:

Columbus aint do a damn thing but get lost. Happy Indigenous People's Day

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

People actually don't care about politics. They'd rather not think about it, actually. The right makes people want to care about politics. It does that by enraging and engaging them. It does that by turning them into heroes who can stop whatever is enraging by voting & sharing their content.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Who controls the House, @washingtonpost.com ? Who controls the Senate, @washingtonpost.com? Who controls the White House, @washingtonpost.com? Who controls the Supreme Court, @washingtonpost.com? Who controls YOU, @washingtonpost.com?

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

A couple weeks ago, these blowdried chucklefucks were "joking" about how they should reclaim the word Nazi and now they're "joking" about blowing up the UN or gassing the foreign leaders inside. But they didn't say anything questionable about Charlie Kirk, so no big deal.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Gabi Martinelli Goal... ♥️ Arsenal 🔴⚪

Donald Trump is not popular Donald Trump was the least popular person to run for president in US history Donald Trump lost the popular vote, twice Donald Trump is not more popular when he abuses the power of the presidency to silence American citizens & corporations

I just love Jimmy Fallon. He always makes me laugh. This is brilliant.

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

The federal government is absolutely abandoning North Carolina's recovery from Hurricane Helene. Compared to every other major climate disaster from the last 20 years, the feds are skimping on helping communities impacted by Helene get back on their feet.

Sinclair is demanding that Kimmel apologize to the family (?) and also "make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA" Are you fucking kidding me? It's not enough they got him fired, they want him to grovel and send money to these anti-free speech grifters?

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

Remember folks, social media is a vulnerability. We try to use these platforms for democratic deliberation, but they're not designed for that. They're better designed for propaganda. You're in the information wars. apnews.com/article/char...

1. Trump and his allies have concocted a series of lies about the horrific murder of a 23-year-old woman in Charlotte in a transparent effort to secure an advantage in a critical North Carolina race that could swing control of the U.S. Senate. It's nasty stuff. Follow this thread for details.

Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics. It's going to be a long fall. 🍂