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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 19m

we are not tmz and cannot pay for information but we can possibly tune up your bike.

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 22m

hearing rumors about bill b and unc. really want to be the news org that breaks this news so espn has to refer to the blogblog.

if you know something tell us please.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3h

Fox: Roasted coffee prices are up 22% in the past year. There's a 50% tariff on coffee from Brazil. That's the nation's biggest coffee supplier. Take a look at this bag right here. The container that bag came in is costing this coffee shop $68,000 more than it did over the summer

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h

A healthy democracy, where the leader and his followers spent a week threatening the destruction of the UN because the president fucked up an escalator briefly, and we all just moved on largely because the president was busy invading his own people’s territory in part because he got mad at a tv

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 2h

In 2016, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate student workers at private universities are employees, and, therefore, eligible to be represented by unions.

In Trump’s second term, that decision is under threat. What paths forward are there?

Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat - Public Books

University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.

www.publicbooks.org

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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 4h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

www.reuters.com

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 4h

Timely panel on government employee speech that all my academic colleagues at public universities should attend in light of recent reprimands, firings and removals of faculty for comments about Charlie Kirk's murder and more. georgiafirstamendmentfoundation18.wildapricot.org/event-6368238

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 6h

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 7h

The Carolina Way has lost its way. Again. www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

UNC CB coach suspended in relation to extra benefits allegations: Source

Hawkins is a first-year Tar Heels assistant and former recruiting analyst and secondary coach at Washington.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20h

KBJ’s blunt question today about the Supreme Court’s culture war hypocrisy kind of floored me, because it’s the kind of meta-criticism that we aren’t used to hearing from the justices.

It’s the second day of the term, and things are that dire already. slate.com/news-and-pol...

With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term

The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.

slate.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 15h

Shitlib meme warrior, gavin newsom, has signed AB 715 into law, which penalises California teachers for "antisemitism" using the IHRA definition - that includes criticism of israel and, by relation, zionism. The law was pushed by pro-israel advocacy groups (JLC, JPAC) and Democratic party lawmakers.

Newsom approves school bias bills despite educators’ free speech fears

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a pair of bills Tuesday to address antisemitism and other forms of discrimination on public school campuses in California.

www.sacbee.com

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15h

3 MAGA extremists have introduced a bill in South Carolina that would allow the state to execute women who get an abortion.

South Carolina govt lists their cell phone numbers, in case you want to call them directly & let them know what you think.

Details here:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

www.qasimrashid.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20h

Trump Threatens More Mass Layoffs, Blames Democrats, as Government Shutdown Enters 7th Day

The U.S. government shutdown has entered its seventh day. Democratic lawmakers are holding to their demands that Republicans agree to extend healthcare subsidies from the Affordable Care Act and reverse cuts to Medicaid.

www.democracynow.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

When a conservative president loses the country stars, that ain't good.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

👂LISTEN — (U.S. Navy veteran) country Singer Zach Bryan’s lyrics about ICE that triggered the White House

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 20h

these people are such fucking dweebs www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War

www.theatlantic.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Janet Mills is 77, turning 78 at the end of this year. If she won in 2026, her first term in the Senate would end when she's 85 years old.

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has lobbied Mills to run for months..."

Axios @axios.com · 20h

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

trib.al

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Hooper @hooperhooper.bsky.social · 20h

Crazy to me that the director of the conservative anti-higher education think-tank formerly known as the Pope Center is set to be recognized on University Day at UNC.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 21h

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 20h

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical of a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors, which a counselor in the state says violates her First Amendment right to free speech. ncnewsline.com/2025/10/07/r... @coloradonewsline.com #ncpol

US Supreme Court justices skeptical of speech limits in Colorado conversion therapy case • NC Newsline

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical of a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors based on the First Amendment.

ncnewsline.com

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 1d

University general counsel, university trustee, university president

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 21h

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 1d

The image is the robot from Chrono Trigger saying "Machines can never produce true art because they can never be horny the first step in making any piece of art"

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