Melanie Sill
@melaniesill.bsky.social
Board chair, @NCLocal nonpartisan local news hub. Former top editor News & Observer, SacBee, KPCC/LAist. Posting on journalism and stuff people in NC might want to know about, look for #HeadsUpNC tag.
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This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
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very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
If you're trying to give people accurate, reliable information on the #NationalGuard shootings, you don't quote Laura Loomer. Shame on the Washington Post. What happened to verification?
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If you're trying to give people accurate, reliable information on the #NationalGuard shootings, you don't quote Laura Loomer. Shame on the Washington Post. What happened to verification?
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DHS claimed immigration authorities arrested “the worst of the worst” during recent NC detention operations.
Evidence shows that wasn’t always the case and federal officials arrested people with no criminal records.
my latest for @newsobserver.com
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Evidence shows that wasn’t always the case and federal officials arrested people with no criminal records.
my latest for @newsobserver.com
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Evidence shows DHS didn’t arrest only ‘worst of the worst’ in NC detention surge
DHS alleged it focused on dangerous criminals during operations in NC but has not released proof. Very few names have been made public among hundreds of people seized this month.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
DHS claimed immigration authorities arrested “the worst of the worst” during recent NC detention operations.
Evidence shows that wasn’t always the case and federal officials arrested people with no criminal records.
my latest for @newsobserver.com
www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
Evidence shows that wasn’t always the case and federal officials arrested people with no criminal records.
my latest for @newsobserver.com
www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
The student-run Daily Tar Heel is doing stellar reporting on deep struggles over #UNC's School of Civic Life and Leadership, created by the legislature, here's the latest from reporter Aidan Lockhart: www.dailytarheel.com/article/inve...
'Dictatorial powers': SCiLL dean ignored vote of the School's advisory board
New evidence obtained by The Daily Tar Heel gives weight to claims made by professors who resigned from the School of Civic Life and Leadership.
www.dailytarheel.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The student-run Daily Tar Heel is doing stellar reporting on deep struggles over #UNC's School of Civic Life and Leadership, created by the legislature, here's the latest from reporter Aidan Lockhart: www.dailytarheel.com/article/inve...
The @nytimes could be a great source of civic education but it never takes the opportunity --
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The @nytimes could be a great source of civic education but it never takes the opportunity --
Ezra Klein's NYT take today on housing overlooks a reality Patti Smith pointed out to him last week: building more units won't bring down costs jacked up by greed: investors snapping up bigger share of homes, for instance www.mpamag.com/us/mortgage-... @nytopinion.nytimes.com @ezraklein.bsky.social
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November 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Ezra Klein's NYT take today on housing overlooks a reality Patti Smith pointed out to him last week: building more units won't bring down costs jacked up by greed: investors snapping up bigger share of homes, for instance www.mpamag.com/us/mortgage-... @nytopinion.nytimes.com @ezraklein.bsky.social
This was the scene at "Chapel Thrill" on the UNC campus early afternoon when I strolled through with a visiting relative. Stadium a stone's throw away and game against Duke a few just a few hours away, band playing but no one around.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This was the scene at "Chapel Thrill" on the UNC campus early afternoon when I strolled through with a visiting relative. Stadium a stone's throw away and game against Duke a few just a few hours away, band playing but no one around.
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The English-language internet is flooded with material from a pro-Kremlin network publishing up to 23,000 articles a day. A firehose of propaganda flooding search sites enabled by AI
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda
Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The English-language internet is flooded with material from a pro-Kremlin network publishing up to 23,000 articles a day. A firehose of propaganda flooding search sites enabled by AI
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Thanks to staff of the Harvard Crimson for demonstrating the importance of local, community journalism (and for running a wiser, more informative, and more righteous editorial department than the Washington Post's). www.thecrimson.com/thread/2025/...
Amid Epstein Fallout, Summers Retreats | News | The Harvard Crimson
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November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thanks to staff of the Harvard Crimson for demonstrating the importance of local, community journalism (and for running a wiser, more informative, and more righteous editorial department than the Washington Post's). www.thecrimson.com/thread/2025/...
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Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.
Love the “at stake” focus —
Repeal Obamacare” has failed. So now what?
— GOP is sprinting to create ACA alternatives (again)
— Economists warn Trump’s plan won’t work
— Democrats say the best, popular path is to just extend expiring ACA subsidies
At stake: millions of people’s health care
w @paigecunningham.bsky.social
— GOP is sprinting to create ACA alternatives (again)
— Economists warn Trump’s plan won’t work
— Democrats say the best, popular path is to just extend expiring ACA subsidies
At stake: millions of people’s health care
w @paigecunningham.bsky.social
GOP plans to replace Obamacare have failed. Here’s what lawmakers propose now.
Lawmakers are racing toward a mid-December deadline, with Republicans hoping to present side-by-side legislation with Democrats’ plan to extend ACA subsidies.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Love the “at stake” focus —
Terrific reporting, though soft pedaled: The president is using his office to help his family business make high-dollar business deals of all kinds. Missing: Why this is possible (lack of law or oversight), and context re past presidents who avoided conflicts. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal
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November 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Terrific reporting, though soft pedaled: The president is using his office to help his family business make high-dollar business deals of all kinds. Missing: Why this is possible (lack of law or oversight), and context re past presidents who avoided conflicts. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
What constitutes bribery today? www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...
A Rolex, a gold bar, a trade deal and the ethics of presidential gifts : Consider This from NPR
At a recent gathering of Swiss business executives in the White House, the CEO of Rolex presented President Trump with a gold-plated desk clock.The CEO of a precious-metals company presented the presi...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What constitutes bribery today? www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...
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Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
There is really not much here, either in subject or reporting. But by playing it so prominently, and in the way the piece and headline are written, the NYT embarrasses itself
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There is really not much here, either in subject or reporting. But by playing it so prominently, and in the way the piece and headline are written, the NYT embarrasses itself
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Asheboro has discharged a likely carcinogen 1,4-dioxane at levels of 651 ppb into the drinking water supply. That's 18,000+ times the EPA's health advisory goal. Yet NC's Enviro Mgmt Commission refuses to regulate it in surface water
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Asheboro has discharged a likely carcinogen 1,4-dioxane at levels of 651 ppb into the drinking water supply. That's 18,000+ times the EPA's health advisory goal. Yet NC's Enviro Mgmt Commission refuses to regulate it in surface water
The @washingtonpost.com "Editorial Board" opinions anymore are just rants. They don't reflect original research or reporting, and definitely don't point to solutions or provide insight. Instead, they read like a cranky conservative relative's outbursts of frustration. What a waste.
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The @washingtonpost.com "Editorial Board" opinions anymore are just rants. They don't reflect original research or reporting, and definitely don't point to solutions or provide insight. Instead, they read like a cranky conservative relative's outbursts of frustration. What a waste.
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
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I was focused on one specific, provable fact, and how it got warped.
In terms of Trump's viral photo — it's evocative. It speaks for itself.
But it appears to be a split-second shot. You can see from the video — Trump immediately stood up and turned to look. (RFK Jr, meanwhile, did go to get help)
In terms of Trump's viral photo — it's evocative. It speaks for itself.
But it appears to be a split-second shot. You can see from the video — Trump immediately stood up and turned to look. (RFK Jr, meanwhile, did go to get help)
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I was focused on one specific, provable fact, and how it got warped.
In terms of Trump's viral photo — it's evocative. It speaks for itself.
But it appears to be a split-second shot. You can see from the video — Trump immediately stood up and turned to look. (RFK Jr, meanwhile, did go to get help)
In terms of Trump's viral photo — it's evocative. It speaks for itself.
But it appears to be a split-second shot. You can see from the video — Trump immediately stood up and turned to look. (RFK Jr, meanwhile, did go to get help)
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Broads: Are They Really People? Join us tomorrow at nytimes.com as Ross Douthat and a Neanderthal model we swiped from the Smithsonian investigate.
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Broads: Are They Really People? Join us tomorrow at nytimes.com as Ross Douthat and a Neanderthal model we swiped from the Smithsonian investigate.
This conversation is as bad and ridiculous as the headline itself: wealthy, privileged people removed from the reality of actual workplaces — an insult not just to women but to working people everywhere. Ruin -- in what way? For whom? How? Sloppy.
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This conversation is as bad and ridiculous as the headline itself: wealthy, privileged people removed from the reality of actual workplaces — an insult not just to women but to working people everywhere. Ruin -- in what way? For whom? How? Sloppy.
News outlets that cover the election mainly through the prism of which party / politician gained politically are missing the message from voters — and a market opportunity to be relevant to people's real-life struggles, worries and hopes.
Democratic wins in Tuesday’s elections give the party a sorely needed burst of momentum ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Takeaways from the 2025 elections: Trump looms over every race, while Democrats win on the economy
Democratic victories in Tuesday’s highest profile, and under-the-radar, elections give the party a shot in the arm as they look to regroup and storm into next year’s key midterm elections.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
News outlets that cover the election mainly through the prism of which party / politician gained politically are missing the message from voters — and a market opportunity to be relevant to people's real-life struggles, worries and hopes.
Curious that the NYT's coverage of food aid cuts has determinedly used the term "food stamps," which was phased out decades ago. SNAP or EBT are terms now a generation in use.
November 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Curious that the NYT's coverage of food aid cuts has determinedly used the term "food stamps," which was phased out decades ago. SNAP or EBT are terms now a generation in use.
So many revelations about NC's chief supreme court justice Paul Newby in this @propublica.org piece: how he is using his office as a Christian and Republican activist, and with what impact. Details and the stakes. www.propublica.org/article/paul...
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
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 be...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
So many revelations about NC's chief supreme court justice Paul Newby in this @propublica.org piece: how he is using his office as a Christian and Republican activist, and with what impact. Details and the stakes. www.propublica.org/article/paul...