Always read the alt text.

Important to note that the judge doesn't have the power to restore funding that Congress clawed back in its recission bill. Public media is still defunded and your local station simply will not survive without your help. Many are barely hanging on. www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...

A formal state complaint claims Wake County Schools' vendors often fail to pick up students. Parents made over 16,000 complaints about the service since the last time the state investigated the issue. www.wunc.org/education/20...

I dooooo declare, Miss Amy Adams made some mighty bold linguistic choices here. What in tarnation.

FWIW, I wrote this in my book four years ago when it comes to #ActuallyAutistic transgender people. Still stand by it. #TransDayOfVisibility

🙋 As a kid with learning/fine motor skill issues, I couldn’t write cursive to save my life. Teachers and classmates shamed me for it.

New federal restrictions threaten licenses for noncitizen truckers, including Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion

🙋 As a kid with learning/fine motor skill issues, I couldn’t write cursive to save my life. Teachers and classmates shamed me for it.

North Carolina has jumped ahead of Georgia for the nation’s 2nd most Dollar Generals. The discount chain has expanded considerably statewide since the Great Recession, with 1,150 locations today:

Raleigh-Durham International Airport TSA workers have not been paid since Feb. 14. Nonprofits like the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina are partnering with RDU to provide some relief to TSA workers. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

Residents in rural and urban areas in North Carolina are raising their voices against federal plans to open immigration jails in their communities. www.wunc.org/race-class-c...

Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered Ku Klux Klan items while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters

Total will receive nearly $1 billion and instead pivot to oil and gas development in and around Texas.

NEW: from pickup artists filming drunk women to pranks on retail workers, @milesklee.bsky.social looked at how Meta Ray-Bans are making annoying men everyone's problem: www.wired.com/story/the-ri...

SCOOP: Nexstar is operating TEGNA as a subsidiary business for now, which allows it to spin out or otherwise separate the broadcaster if any of the lawsuits against it succeed. Additionally, Newsmax has joined a group of broadband companies in suing over the Nexstar-TEGNA deal.

Germany: Rhineland-Palatinate regional parliament election: The AfD (ESN) received 19.5%, its best result in the Rhineland-Palatinate regional parliament election, and is projected by Infratest Dimap to reach 24 seats in the local parliament. https://europeelects.eu/germany/ #germany

By 2030, the amount of oil avoided due to EV adoption could more than double to 5.25 million barrels, according to BloombergNEF

Hey! My colleagues at NPR made a voter registration guide. Enter your state and learn the deadlines to register in time to make your voice heard in this year’s primaries. apps.npr.org/voter-regist...

“I asked ChatGPT.” Well I asked Boss and here’s what he said:

the makers of oxycontin and the opioid epidemic now turn their attention to... a southeastern grocery store chain www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2...

Sometime in the mid-1980s, when Larry Tisch owned CBS, he ordered a New Jersey warehouse holding the CBS corporate archives to be cleaned out to save money. Those files were largely destroyed. They likely could've resolved several mysteries in U.S. media history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Everything is terrible, but Koyaanisqatsi is streaming for free on YouTube.

nothing will induce me to go back on x but i'll note that breaking news events in the middle east don't happen here because the community for it isn't here. also? iran protests + war has been a fucking slop propaganda shitshow of x-poisoned insanity

Give to public radio, folks. Non-profit news media organizations will never sell you out and will spend your hard-earned money on mission and not maximizing shareholder profit.

The rage I feel right now…

Nashville reporter Estefany Rodríguez is free

Unsurprisingly, Harold Meyerson offers additional context to the horrific allegations against Cesar Chavez. Essentially, he kept an iron grip on the UFW and turned it into a personality cult. The killings of King and Kennedy bolstered his image. prospect.org/2026/03/19/c...

"I essentially downloaded an entire album's worth of data just to read a few paragraphs of text."

Woman charged with attempted murder under Georgia abortion law Kingsland police say Army veteran, mother of 2 had taken medication to cause abortion (Hospital security guard called police to report this; unclear how guard got patient info) #gapol thecurrentga.org/2026/03/18/w...

We Asked Every UNC System School For a Simple Record. Here’s What Happened. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

"At least 10 people who have mistakenly found themselves at military checkpoints across North Carolina have wound up in ICE custody since late last year." www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

“I asked ChatGPT.” Well I asked Boss and here’s what he said:

North Carolina farmers are preparing to plant soybean crops in the coming weeks, but tariffs and global conflicts are making it harder for them to turn a profit. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

Under oath, ICE agents in Oregon revealed: -quota of eight arrests a day per team, equaling roughly 50 arrests a day in OR -agents use a special app to choose areas + ppl to surveil -agents have followed, stopped + arrested ppl without probable cause, warrants or basic info about their targets.

Put it in rice.

ICYMI over the weekend: A judge ordered those who uploaded videos of the DOGE bros to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

My dad can never remember Timothée Chalamet’s name and calls him “that little French boy” like he’s a drummer in Napoleon's army or a haunted marionette.

This is one of the funniest corrections I’ve ever read

Following yesterday's vote, the commission will use the next 180 days to “evaluate other resources that may be available” to support the retention of PBS programming. current.org/2026/03/arka...

The internet should go back to this.

I spent about two full years working on this story. The FBI announced its investigation of ARC for Medicaid fraud in 2024, but there has been little indication of what they were specifically accused of. Thanks to two new pieces of information this year, I pieced it together, here:

As American Airlines seeks a new city deal, airport workforce and issues ask officials to consider higher wages for employees

Telic Alcatel Minitel 2 (1980s) could access the open French network Teletel through the phone.

With the Berger-Page recount looming, I made a list of all the people who might have a role in the post-election process (from the local board of elections to the N.C. Supreme Court) and also have connections to Berger. It's a long list: www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol #ncga

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Immigration to Become the Sole Driver of U.S. Population Growth - What Does This Mean for North Carolina? (part 1) www.osbm.nc.gov/blog/2026/03...

I asked President Trump about the FBI reportedly seizing election records in Arizona. He said they must have done that because it was a “rigged” election. I pointed out to him that his own AG said there was not measurable voter fraud to overturn that election. Then he called me a rotten reporter.

“.. Pictures shared by the Thai navy showed black smoke pouring out of the vessel.” (via AFP) #Hormuz uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/cargo-v...

Armadillos! The Steve Buscemi of the animal kingdom has finally toddled into North Carolina. Great story from @wunc.org's Jay Price with fun illustrations from @elichen.bsky.social.