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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 21h

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Blandy Fisher @blandyfisher.bsky.social · 14h

Sadly agree.

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Joshfrai @joshfrai.bsky.social · 1d

He's more like the icing on the shit sandwich the legislature has been whipping up in Chapel Hill for the last decade+. Amazing how quickly and ruthlessly they've trashed things.

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ToWhom ItMayConcern @grbbngtheshovel.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. Her "focus" on rifling through her notebook to find her prepared statements and her weird voice reading them, even her tenor when attacking the Dem senators with her prepared oppo research, all were meant to cover her terror.

She knows this will end eventually. And badly.
It always does.

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Rick Gualtieri @rickgualtieri.com · 1d

Their arrogance is a smokescreen. They want us to think they're certain of a coming thousand-year Reich so we give up hope. Their anger and defensiveness is the giveaway that it's all smoke and mirrors.

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Blandy Fisher @blandyfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I will forward to the organizers.

Blandy Fisher @blandyfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Durham NC friends, come join us! You will be uniting with Americans everywhere in solidarity, and these rallies are FUN!

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Durham No Kings, No Billionaires!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Durham No Kings, No Billionaires! · No Kings

Hello activism warriors!! October 18th is the next national mobilization date. We will gather at Central Park (501 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701 by the Farmer's Market) from 2pm-4pm. We plan to have a l...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

OH, THE RAVAGES OF THE WAR ON CARNIVORISM

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

“…bucking tradition…”??

You guys.

No

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no.

Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News forced Stephen Miller to watch AOC call him 4’10”. AOC: "He looks like he's so mad he's 4’10” that he's taking that anger out on any other population possible."

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Yeah Buddy @73snangel.bsky.social · 1d

Heel fan and fellow NCian here. UNC is getting exactly what they deserve with the Belichick hire. This had disaster written all over it from the start.

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Blandy Fisher @blandyfisher.bsky.social · 1d

I'm afraid you're right.

Blandy Fisher @blandyfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Sign the Consumer Reports petition to ban surveillance pricing.

action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251002-...

You shouldn’t be charged more based on who you are

ACTION: Let's ban surveillance pricing!

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 1d

Greta is what MAGA pretended Charlie Kirk was‼️A real humanitarian trying to make the world a better place‼️

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Blandy Fisher @blandyfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Although I must admit, as a North Carolinian in support of public higher education and a parent of a UNC grad, this is awful. The legislature and trustees are wrecking the school. It's not just Bill.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s fast forward to when these ICE fuckers are all on trial for their crimes against humanity and the Constitution.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Petee and Petey aka 2 Old farts in a truck @peteyandpetee.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare! The difference of prioritizing healthcare, not health insurance.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.

They’ve been disappeared.

People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.

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Blandy Fisher @blandyfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha! Go Duke. 💙💪

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Divided locker room, disastrous results: Players, parents blame Belichick culture for UNC problems

Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Bill Belichick's program say that UNC football's losses are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to ...

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Blandy Fisher @blandyfisher.bsky.social · 1d

North Carolinians of all stripes disapprove of gerrymandering. A glimmer of hope.

Poll exposes potential Achilles’ Heel for the political right ncnewsline.com/2025/10/07/p...

Poll exposes potential Achilles’ Heel for the political right • NC Newsline

A new poll conducted by a GOP polling firm and released by the good government nonprofit Common Cause found that 84% of voters – including 78% of unaffiliated voters and 65% of Republicans – said gerr...

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The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 2d

To make up for a shortfall in funding from the legislature, North Carolina is cutting its Medicaid payments to health care providers by 3% to 10%, but for Julie Crockett the potential loss is much bigger.

Families of medically fragile children fear NC’s Medicaid cuts will drive away home nurses | Opinion

To make up for a shortfall in funding from the legislature, North Carolina is cutting its Medicaid payments to health care providers by 3% to 10%, but for Julie Crockett the potential loss is much bigger.

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Petee and Petey aka 2 Old farts in a truck @peteyandpetee.bsky.social · 2d

There should not be deportation without due process and fairness. This is not “Justice for All “

Blandy Fisher @blandyfisher.bsky.social · 2d

Everything about this is illegal and unconstitutional. EVERYTHING.

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More deportees from U.S. arrive in African nation of Eswatini

The Eswatini government confirmed in a statement that 10 deportees had arrived and "have been securely accommodated in one of the country's correctional facilities."

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