Oh wow. Who could've ever seen this coming? "Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies" abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...

I was elected 6 weeks ago. Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear me in. It’s time for House Speaker Mike Johnson to end his vacation and get back to the work that the American people elected us to do. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Families ‘horrified’ after daycare teacher pulled out of preschool by armed federal agents www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

How severe will SNAP disruption be for NC families? President Trump promises partial payments in response to court rulings. Disruption, lower SNAP food program payments will affect many in NC. #ncpol carolinapublicpress.org/73218/how-se...

Report: ICE Shot a US Citizen Trying to Help Kids According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry Schmoozing the super-rich to fund a $300m ballroom while cutting food aid for those on low incomes threw the president’s architectural folly into sharp relief www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why this former Republican education secretary wants to keep, not kill, the Education Department Margaret Spellings, who led the agency under George W. Bush, says scrapping it would be ‘inefficient.’ cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/the-former...

With rising healthcare costs and no raise, this NC teacher's family sells scrap metal and plasma #nced www.wunc.org/education/20...

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. #ncpol www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Charlotte pantries brace for food assistance funding to run out www.wcnc.com/article/life...

ICYMI: This week, I published my story about text messages I exchanged with Lindsey Halligan — the prosecutor now pursuing criminal cases against Letitia James and James Comey. It’s a wild ride, and I’m still trying to make sense of it all. Your Sunday read: ⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Very grateful for the opportunity to serve on the NCCAT Board of Trustees as an appointee of Governor @roycoopernc.bsky.social from 2019-2025, working closely with Executive Director Brock Womble, Board Chair Terry Worrell and Deputy ED Karen Sumner (among many others). #nced

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’ Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

When Trump Says Jump Hoping to preserve a razor-thin majority in the U.S. House, the White House has ordered red states to redraw congressional districts. North Carolina Republicans plan to oblige. #ncpol www.theassemblync.com/politics/tru...

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

Waiting for Leandro It’s been more than 600 days since the state Supreme Court heard arguments in the latest round of legal wrangling over funding for public schools. Can the court put it off forever? #nced www.theassemblync.com/education/wa...

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. My latest video for @propublica.org.

North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. #ncpol www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Sweeping layoffs announced by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for making sure states provide special education services to the nation's 7.5 million children with disabilities. www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. www.propublica.org/article/educ...

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process. www.propublica.org/article/heal...

North Carolina students face reduced access to fresh, local meals amid federal funding cuts #nced www.ednc.org/north-caroli...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Dept of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Settled legal precedent in the US is not “gospel” and in some instances may have been “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with”, the US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas recently said ahead of a new court term beginning next month. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers The conservative supermajority’s lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in NC hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes. #ncpol www.propublica.org/article/fema...

Trump’s Repeated Attacks May Undercut Case Against Comey The president’s voluble vitriol could provide defense lawyers with an avenue to protect the very people he most wants to punish. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Berger threatens to redraw congressional districts, but denies talking to Trump about it #ncpol www.wral.com/story/berger...

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted days after Trump demanded his DOJ move 'now' to prosecute enemies abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

In his first public remarks since leaving the Justice Department, Smith said he's sad and angry about the dismissals of career public servants and the loss of credibility the DOJ has suffered.

Public schools have fewer vacancies this fall, but it's because many districts cut positions #nced www.wunc.org/education/20...

Arizona Democrat’s Win Clinches Bid to Force Epstein Files Vote Adelita Grijalva’s victory in a special election for a House seat in Arizona appears to give backers of a so-called discharge petition enough signatures to compel action. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

Democrats seize on Tom Homan bribery probe, seek access to FBI recording Democrats have initiated “a robust oversight inquiry” into the White House border czar’s controversy, but will Team Trump choose silence over transparency? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

A statue of President Trump holding hands with Jeffrey Epstein appeared briefly on DC’s National Mall this week. The bronze-painted installation, titled Best Friends Forever, depicts the two men smiling at each other, each with an arm and leg raised as if in mid-frolic. www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...

Very much appreciated participating in this Indivisible Guilford County NC panel last night with Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls, Joanna Likness Pendleton, Monica Walker and Belle Boggs discussing the current state of our courts and educational system and the path forward. #nced

Arizona public schools remain ranked last in the US as voucher spending hits $1 billion The analysis cites crowded classrooms, low graduation rates and inadequate funding azmirror.com/2025/09/22/a...

Trump officials reportedly set to tie Tylenol to autism risk Washington Post says announcement imminent despite guidelines showing drug – known as paracetamol elsewhere - is safe for pregnant women to take www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A Fatal Stabbing and Its Aftermath Republicans have used Iryna Zarutska’s killing as a political cudgel. The Assembly obtained a draft bill that sends a tough-on-crime message. But critics say it reflects political posturing more than real solutions. #ncpol www.theassemblync.com/politics/cha...

RFK Jr. Has a Prescription for America: Pure Chaos Last week offered the clearest picture yet of his plan on vaccines—and the damage it’s already causing. www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-pre...

Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity The move strips the government of its main gauge of hunger in America, and will impede efforts to track the impact of aid cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Trump admin cancels special ed grant to UNC-CH to train future Pre-K teachers across NC It's part of the U.S. Department of Education's crackdown on grants promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. #nced www.wunc.org/education/20...

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

‘I had teachers crying’: the schools trying to plug million-dollar funding holes after Trump cuts Ashe county, North Carolina, and thousands of other school districts are scrambling after a freeze on nearly $7bn #nced www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In new level of stupid, RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe MMRV recommendation The vote to strip the recommendation came after a day of inept discussion. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...