Billman
@jeffreybillman.bsky.social
I report on North Carolina courts and politics for @theassemblync.bsky.social. ([email protected]). Sometimes I make music. I’m probably tired.
My history teacher (also a football coach) told us that the Civil War was caused by trade and FDR caused the Depression.
September 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My history teacher (also a football coach) told us that the Civil War was caused by trade and FDR caused the Depression.
Competition keeps getting stiffer, but this might be the dumbest thing ever posted by an official government account.
September 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Competition keeps getting stiffer, but this might be the dumbest thing ever posted by an official government account.
RICO for protesting.
August 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
RICO for protesting.
10 million jobs coming next month!
August 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
10 million jobs coming next month!
In North Carolina, a state very close to 50-50, Republicans have a lock on 10 of 14 congressional seats.
July 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
In North Carolina, a state very close to 50-50, Republicans have a lock on 10 of 14 congressional seats.
I have done a lot of things as a journalist. I have never had to call a source to ask if they'd put a hit on me. Absolutely insane story from Jordan Green in @theassemblync.bsky.social
www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...
www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...
July 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I have done a lot of things as a journalist. I have never had to call a source to ask if they'd put a hit on me. Absolutely insane story from Jordan Green in @theassemblync.bsky.social
www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...
www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...
Was not aware judicial orders were optional now.
June 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Was not aware judicial orders were optional now.
Says the country currently screening student visa applicants for Correct Thoughts.
May 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Says the country currently screening student visa applicants for Correct Thoughts.
Other countries making movies is a national security threat?
May 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Other countries making movies is a national security threat?
Nothing important, just the US Secretary of State defending German neo-Nazis.
May 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Nothing important, just the US Secretary of State defending German neo-Nazis.
This guy had a college student kidnapped off the street over an op-ed.
April 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This guy had a college student kidnapped off the street over an op-ed.
“We have invented a criminal history for the man we illegally sent to a foreign gulag out of whole cloth and if you don’t report it as fact the state will come after you.”
“Why are you calling me a fascist?”
“Why are you calling me a fascist?”
April 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“We have invented a criminal history for the man we illegally sent to a foreign gulag out of whole cloth and if you don’t report it as fact the state will come after you.”
“Why are you calling me a fascist?”
“Why are you calling me a fascist?”
Trump really hated The Acolyte.
March 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Trump really hated The Acolyte.
Vandalize a car: get illegally disappeared to a Central American slave labor prison.
Participate in a violent insurrection to overturn the results of a democratic elections: pardons all around.
Participate in a violent insurrection to overturn the results of a democratic elections: pardons all around.
March 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Vandalize a car: get illegally disappeared to a Central American slave labor prison.
Participate in a violent insurrection to overturn the results of a democratic elections: pardons all around.
Participate in a violent insurrection to overturn the results of a democratic elections: pardons all around.
That’s … not how it works.
March 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
That’s … not how it works.
Maybe it wasn’t the best idea to let 13-year-old boys run the federal government.
March 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Maybe it wasn’t the best idea to let 13-year-old boys run the federal government.
Can’t even begin to imagine Frontier’s upgrade.
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Can’t even begin to imagine Frontier’s upgrade.
I did not realize the FDA had been aggressively suppressing … [checks notes] … sunshine.
February 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I did not realize the FDA had been aggressively suppressing … [checks notes] … sunshine.
Unreal that Hochul didn’t remove this chump.
February 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Unreal that Hochul didn’t remove this chump.
Just as a practical political matter it would have made no sense for Biden’s FEMA to abandon North Carolina, one of the country's closest swing states, just before the election. (Also that didn’t happen.)
February 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Just as a practical political matter it would have made no sense for Biden’s FEMA to abandon North Carolina, one of the country's closest swing states, just before the election. (Also that didn’t happen.)
DEI, is there anything it can’t do?
January 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
DEI, is there anything it can’t do?
“Appropriations is not a law,” says chair of appropriations committee.
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“Appropriations is not a law,” says chair of appropriations committee.
This headline is an embarrassment to journalism.
January 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This headline is an embarrassment to journalism.
