Since MAGA wasn’t serving her political ambitions enough, MTG is moving to the Fuentes/Carlson wing, aka the people who actually do criticize Israel when they mean Jews.

Trump’s thugs have come to my state to kidnap people/put them in concentration camps Anthony Lewis, Superintendent of Durham Public Schools, sent around a really wonderful letter to all parents explaining how DPS would handle any of these thugs coming to any public school What a time we live in 😢

NC and those visiting NC: add these numbers to your phones and use them. Ice verification via local, respected, deeply rooted organizers is still a number one ask here. Are you a journalist? You can still text or call in what you see. Community first, always. Document and call it in immediately.

Gonna assume this is a "crackpot history takes" bot.

Friday's planned participation of Jewish left-wing activists in the Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank was derailed by the IDF and Israel police, who only appear to stop those suspected of nonviolence: @haaretzcom.bsky.social editorial www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

One of the most important lessons you have to learn about what a university "is" is a very vulgar marxist distinction between its *managers* (directly or indirectly appointed by capital and/or state government) and its *labor,* who come to the university out of love and idealism.

As always, if you see something that you suspect could be an immigration enforcement action in progress, call our hotline at (336) 543-0353 or the hotline number in the About tab so we can verify and provide support.

OJO Obrero (ojonc.org) is now available. This website features information about confirmed ICE operations in our state to help parents and workers get to school and work safely. OJO Obrero only features sightings that we can confirm involve federal agents, rather than crowdsourced reports

Sports betting is a scourge.

A major North Carolina solar power firm in Asheville has been forced to close and lay off hundreds of employees due to the Trump administration's war on renewable energy. www.newsobserver.com/news/busines...

My social media is swamped with ads saying ‘We’re Hiring…for volunteers’ I don’t think you should be allowed to use the word ‘hire’ when it’s voluntary and unpaid 🤬

On the passing of David Richards, an outstanding leader for social justice — Fresh out of law school, on my first job assisting a US District Judge, I quickly identified Dave as the most effective advocate appearing in our court.

The 1967 billboard for Love's Forever Changes album in West Hollywood. The original album art was by Bob Pepper.

imagine trying to negotiate for the extra dollar and they say nvm and dont hire you

City of Brotherly Love

Someone never got enough swirlies as a youth and it shows.

Kentucky has Big Bone Lick, just down the road from Beaverlick.

You’ll never find a better distillation of how technology and capitalism fit together in the 21st century.

This swan doesn’t cross picket lines @sbworkersunited.org

"International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative. The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software" #DigitalSovereignty www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

At least, portions, of her “lecture” are still up on IG. Ought to take a look and listen. It’s vile, and shame on Meta. Sounds like her textbook is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. (the comments or worth it, too) www.instagram.com/reel/DRAFSxT...

American alternative roots rock band The Beat Farmers cover Neil Young's "Powderfinger" live in a 1980s concert for the series Live in London. Song on the 1986 EP Glad 'N' Greasy. m.youtube.com/watch?v=vu8X...

Poultry scholar urges fox to guard henhouse. www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

The @newyorker.com discovers Daniel Pullen and his incredible photographs of the Outer Banks. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social signed their state's budget into law. That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget. Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.

The UNC Board of Trustees balked at an initial proposal to consider increasing undergraduate tuition for the first time in nine years, requesting it stay flat for another class of students. Here’s what they had to say:

To meet critical needs, we must expand the financial toolkit of public banking beyond traditional loans.

A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity. How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Stairs are just the floor with extra steps

55 years ago today (12 November, 1970), authorities in Oregon attempted to get rid of a beached sperm whale carcass by exploding it with dynamite. It did not work as planned. youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?...

The birth of the author

There are many Microsoft products I do not get along with but of all of them I believe I hate Teams the most.

This barrel has no bottom

Ha. I thought Kash had overblown this, but it looks like he just blew it.

"To hell with the rich, they make me sick." Raymond Chandler

Everyday my desire to venture outside my house diminishes.

my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️

YOU MIGHT SAY THEY’RE PUTTATOES

Putos Park??? Excuse me?

Sometimes the sheer stupidity of the Third Red Scare really gets to me...

Trump Administration Plans to Send Border Patrol to Charlotte and New Orleans Plans for the operations were still being finalized, according to a federal official with knowledge of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...

What if Eleanor Roosevelt could fly?

"the heist film offers audiences a spectacle of highly choreographed expertise. From Rififi to Sneakers to Soderbergh canon (Out of Sight Logan Lucky Oceans 11–13), the genre has generated some of cinema’s most powerful allegories of collective action" homework: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Elon Musk says that he can see why Daryl Hall broke up with Joyce Carol Oates.