Infuriating #ncpol

Dana Stachowiak, UNCW Director Gender Studies and Research Center: "It reflects for us a longstanding pattern in which women and trans communities are excluded from conversations and decisions that directly affect their well-being.” #ncpol Gift link: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

WHOA. At least three passenger jets appear to have had rejected landings/go-rounds in ~30 minutes while that UFC light show was going a mile away. @aaronparnas.bsky.social previously reported a commercial pilot filed an FAA safety report about being “nearly blinded” by a test run of the lights.

Just overheard an exchange Youth 1, singing: 🎵 shine bright like a diamond Youth 2: who sings that song? Youth 1: Rihanna! Youth 2: Keep it that way 💀

Happy anniversary to my favorite sign from the original No Kings Day...

Let’s make it a trend!

Memo to Democrats: You can be cis and straight and the Republicans will still run a homophobic and transphobic campaign against you. Also there will be racism. So just do the right thing. Support the most vulnerable in our society full throatedly and proudly.

The GOP-majority on the Board of Elections hates universities and hates voting. #ncpol ncnewsline.com/2026/06/12/r...

This is an NCGOP post on FB. They're grasping for anything. #ncpol

The GOP-majority NC state legislature has consistently underfunded key public services—including K–12 schools, community colleges, and correctional facilities—while shifting more of those costs onto counties. #ncpol They're not good managing money or resources. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

Beth Wood resigned as NC State Auditor after crashing a state car while driving drunk and keeping it quiet. #ncpol Dave Boliek's response? He hired her. That hair. 🤢🤮 Gift link: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

So they're investigating '86 47' marked in the grass at the National Mall but have meetings in the Situation Room to discuss how to protect a pedophile???

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

NC has gone a year without a budget. People are going to cuss. #ncpol (The video is engaging, and you don't hear any bad words.) Gift link: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

For $600 billion, Americans could get: $200B: universal free child care for all kids before TK $95B: generous free college plan $150B: Free in-home care for 4.3 million seniors ... with money left over.

#ncpol How ridiculously irresponsible and infuriating is this?! The NCGOP/UNC Board of Governors invested 10% of its endowment in SpaceX?!

Scene on Radio is back with its 8th season, “The News," which takes a deep dive on the evolution of local and national media landscapes. On Due South, John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika talk about their work on the new season and future of news consumption in America. www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...

It's a war crime.

Why is the Supreme Court Historical Society selling a peg doll set featuring only the current male justices? Who would want this? supremecourtgifts.org/products/sup...

Nancy Mace 🤝 Riley Gaines Trans obsessed conservative women who placed 5th

Who didn't see this coming? #ncpol

Republicans don’t want Black people to vote. And they try to justify their voter suppression with racist lies.

It says a lot about Rep. Sarah Stevens character that she's leaving her district without a representative so that she can run for another office, and the legislature is in session. #ncpol www.wunc.org/politics/202...

Chief Justice Newby's family bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of stock in Duke Energy (maybe more). Since then, Newby has voted for the company 7 times. I wrote about the shady guy who runs our judiciary. beaconmedianc.substack.com/p/billy-corr... #ncpol

He needs a coke.

Oh wow, Clearwater did a similar study: "That study concluded Clearwater residents could save millions of dollars on their utility bills if the city formed its own utility." If cities and FL can do it, so can cities in NC. #ncpol

This is the "HR lady" stuff, the "smoothgroin politicians" stuff, it all comes back to "boys will be boys." Stoller & his dipshit buddies think that if you want a rootin' tootin' fightin' populist, you gotta find a manly man & you gotta look past a little violence & sexual indiscretion.

Oh boy. Here we go. Time to buckle up…

We'll never have nice things in NC with a House Speaker like, Destin Hall. #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Jeez, why doesn’t he just come out and say “the wrong side won”?

US artist Nicole Eisenman, Another Green World, 2015 #womensart

This is only political because of bigotry. #ncpol Gift link: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

Pretty sure I could at LEAST name the coach. #ncpol It's not the most important thing, but it's extremely important to the people he wants to represent. He doesn't care.

Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026), the French-Iranian author and illustrator behind the popular graphic novel series and film “Persopolis,” RIP 🙏

The key in hand, 2015, by Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota #Womensart

“A ribbon tied around a bomb” was the description of Frida Kahlo by Surrealist theorist André Breton.....

Basically, what Frank De Luca is saying is that what happened is normal. Nothing to see here. #ncpol He can take his "both parties are the same," and stick it...

Democrats in the North Carolina House have introduced a constitutional amendment that would keep our justices from deciding cases when they have a conflicts of interest. Newby couldn’t rule on Duke Energy cases and Berger couldn’t hear his dad’s appeals. www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/202... #ncpol

BREAKING: James Comer announces investigation into whether Hunter Biden ever stole an erection.

#ncpol State Auditor Dave Boliek named an internship after, gave an award to, and contracted with disgraced former state auditor Beth Wood who had to leave office after pleading guilty to hit and run (to avoid DWI) and misuse of her state vehicle. Definite quid pro quo for her endorsement.

WTF, #ncpol? NC State Auditor, Dave Boliek, gave former auditor, Beth Wood, an award to honor her vigilant oversight of state resources. Beth Wood wrecked a state car while driving drunk and lied about it! Gift link: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

NC State Auditor, Dave Boliek, is clearly corrupt. His office is running the state's elections! #ncpol Gift link: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Post an album you have listened to 100 times. (Can't listen to it anymore.)

Thom Tillis, the Chairman of the YOLO Caucus, has spoken. #NCSen #NCPol

This PFAS presentation by the NC Water Quality Assn is professional malpractice. So many inaccurate statements backed by science

To whomever is reading this, you are just as qualified for this role as Bill Pulte

Awwww

Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, A Terribly Strange Tree, 1949 #womensart

I think we need a new Constitution. I don't think I've said so in published work, but it's coming. And others have said so. Sandy Levinson for a long time. Dave Pozen, more tentatively. Jed Britton-Purdy, here. law.duke.edu/news/purdy-w...

'Idlewild' by contemporary US realist painter Samantha French #WomensArt ##FridayFeeling