Last fall, Duke bought a duplex that housed a pro-Palestinian community space. A few months later, it was gone, as was the longtime tenant next door. I looked into what happened:

Same. We are over a year into the administration and 115 of our embassies are without ambassadors?!

The naked corruption and grifting…

The fact that one of our cats is fat and the other not indicates that I seriously fall down on the job regularly here.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

OFFICIAL from @noaa.gov today: March blew the cover off the record books here in the U.S. ❗️Average temperature: 9.4° ABOVE the 20th century normal ❗️First time ANY month exceeded 9°F above average ❗️This was the ALL-TIME WARMEST March in the 132-year record A quick 🧵

Wall Street Journal publishes Iran's 10 point peace plan which President Trump said in his Truth Social post last night was ‘a workable basis on which to negotiate’

I’ve been proud to vote in favor of advancing articles of impeachment against Trump at every opportunity in this Congress. It’ll be my pleasure to do so again. It’s what the American people want.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

"Filing taxes should be really easy and completely free. It is in most other developed countries. In 2024, the Biden administration debuted a program called Direct File to make tax filing easy and free for most American taxpayers, too. President Trump killed it." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/o...

This is dynamite municipal politics - tell people about the service, show them their government solving problems, and as usual with Mamdani it's all happy and fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1vb...

100% agree, this is the best podcast out there.

i just think Watering Flowers While Black should not be an arrestable offense nor do i think this should be controversial ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Our military budget should actually be much smaller, not just because we should be able to fund what Americans need, but also because the endless unconditional upward appropriations — DoD has never passed an audit — encourage monopolies in the private sector and outdated military doctrine. (2/4)

Let's do this one time in good faith: Wealthy private universities in blue states should be bastions of humanistic education (including basic science), fully protected from the anti-education laws being passed in red states that afflict private and public schools alike. But instead .... /1

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

This article does not quote any Democratic politicians supporting illegal immigration. That's because they do not. Crazy to blame "the left" for the horrible state of our immigration system.

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

Puerto Ricans were set to receive $1 billion worth of solar+battery systems under a program established by the Biden administration -- desperately needed on an island with a run-down grid, battered by severe weather. Trump axed it. Only 6,000 of 40,000 planned systems were installed.

I do think it is noteworthy that the first two cabinet-level firings were both 1) women 2) doing everything possible to do what he wanted. I mean, Trump’s a misogynist, news at 11, but still.

Fellow history BA and MA here. Agree completely. I work in publishing.

The church profiled here has 100 parishioners. This IS a fringe movement and should be treated as such. Very few Americans and even fewer female Americans think women should lose the right to vote.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

North Carolinians gathered across the state on Saturday in the third wave of No Kings protests, with many protesters most angered by the conflict with Iran. ncnewsline.com/2026/03/28/t... @kingdollar.bsky.social #ncpol #NoKIngs

Not sure what this normies stuff is about but if you haven't noticed nice ladies do a lot of the activist work in this country and have since the abolitionist movement, you maybe should.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

Durham turned out for No Kings. Marchers all the way to the building in the background and presumably more around the block.

#NoKings in Durham.

Spotted at a No Kings protest in Durham, North Carolina! Epic creativity!

Downtown Durham, NC is a loop - like Chicago, but smaller. #NoKings has filled the loop w/ a joyful crowd of people who are ready to join hands and reconstruct democracy.

Good turnout for Durham, NC’s #NoKings

No Kings in Durham, NC!!! #NoKings

#Durham #NC #NoKings #March28

More from Durham, NC #NoKings:

DURHAM WE SEE YOU! #NorthCarolina #Durham #NoKings Spotted on @psltrianglenc’s IG 🤝

reaching new levels of inflatable frog choreography

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

Durham showed up for #NoKings, as we always do.

It’s not strange. Grown Americans in positions of power & authority called the police on to campuses, and threatened the future work and livelihood of 20 year olds because they dared to stand against the mass bombing of women and children. And they will never forget it.

Elizabeth Banks

A political earthquake: Berger has been NC's most powerful Republican since they won the legislature in 2010. During his tenure, the GOP has attacked democracy, gerrymandered, suppressed voters, hurt public education, targeted LGBTQ people, & more. He had Trump's backing but still lost his primary

In 2020 we had a nationwide panic over a 30% increase in the murder rate. This is a 666%(!) increase in the immigration detention death rate.

Berger concedes defeat. #ncpol

This Administration's attempts to pay a foreign company nearly $1 billion to stop offshore wind farm construction is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Great piece from @carolinaforward.bsky.social. The path to fixing all the damage the GOP has done to North Carolina, starts by taking back our courts. They open the doors to fair maps, funded schools, & so much more. #ncpol https://bit.ly/4lQ7PqC