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NC. News junkie. Love politics and animals.
Member of FB page North Carolina Women for Harris-Walz
NC. News junkie. Love politics and animals.
Member of FB page North Carolina Women for Harris-Walz
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Two weeks after a Dem governor's win, the North Carolina legislature’s GOP supermajority fast-tracked a bill that would transform the balance of power in the state.
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Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
This post first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of...
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December 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Two weeks after a Dem governor's win, the North Carolina legislature’s GOP supermajority fast-tracked a bill that would transform the balance of power in the state.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
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Since 2016, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have passed law after law stripping powers from Democratic governors. These power shifts have left North Carolina’s governor ranked dead last among state chief executives.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
This post first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Since 2016, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have passed law after law stripping powers from Democratic governors. These power shifts have left North Carolina’s governor ranked dead last among state chief executives.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
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“the problem is that nobody is giving the president credit for all the good things happening in the make-believe world he inhabits.”
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Stop criticizing Trump's bad economy. You're making him sad. | Opinion
Donald Trump is swiftly losing control of his presidency, and he has it in his head that 'affordability' is a hoax and not a real word.
www.usatoday.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“the problem is that nobody is giving the president credit for all the good things happening in the make-believe world he inhabits.”
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Kamlager-Dove: Biden put together a very restrictive plan around selling these chips to other countries. And Republicans were saying, “Hey, Biden, you’re not protecting our national security.” Fast forward to Trump, and he’s selling these things like you sell Snickers on the corner.
December 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Kamlager-Dove: Biden put together a very restrictive plan around selling these chips to other countries. And Republicans were saying, “Hey, Biden, you’re not protecting our national security.” Fast forward to Trump, and he’s selling these things like you sell Snickers on the corner.
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WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
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Long overdue subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Senate panel to hold hearing on Trump’s Guard deployments to US cities
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December 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Long overdue subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
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Timothy Ash,Chatham House Associate Fellow,Russia&Eurasia Programme:
Putin wants the whole of #Ukraine.The answer is for the West to show strength to Putin,to arm Ukraine,to give Ukraine everything it needs to defend itself…that's the only way to stop Putin
The reality is,Putin's a spy mafia boss
Putin wants the whole of #Ukraine.The answer is for the West to show strength to Putin,to arm Ukraine,to give Ukraine everything it needs to defend itself…that's the only way to stop Putin
The reality is,Putin's a spy mafia boss
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Timothy Ash,Chatham House Associate Fellow,Russia&Eurasia Programme:
Putin wants the whole of #Ukraine.The answer is for the West to show strength to Putin,to arm Ukraine,to give Ukraine everything it needs to defend itself…that's the only way to stop Putin
The reality is,Putin's a spy mafia boss
Putin wants the whole of #Ukraine.The answer is for the West to show strength to Putin,to arm Ukraine,to give Ukraine everything it needs to defend itself…that's the only way to stop Putin
The reality is,Putin's a spy mafia boss
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This guy is awarding himself a fake "peace" prize coerced through quid pro quo with a global sports body, and most of legacy media just shrugs in response and doesn't call into question his mental health. What are we doing here?
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This guy is awarding himself a fake "peace" prize coerced through quid pro quo with a global sports body, and most of legacy media just shrugs in response and doesn't call into question his mental health. What are we doing here?
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After this, federal agents tear gassed the public on their way out of Elgin, per our photographer who was present. The Feds tear gassed eight Chicago neighborhoods this fall and now a suburb.
In Elgin, ICE agents have been in a standoff with the community as they’re trying to arrest a man. Here’s an altercation between the feds and residents ending with arrest and pepper spray. Video from Sophia Peterson
December 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
After this, federal agents tear gassed the public on their way out of Elgin, per our photographer who was present. The Feds tear gassed eight Chicago neighborhoods this fall and now a suburb.
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More federal tear gas in the Chicago area. Homeland Security isn’t keeping us safe. It’s terrorizing us on the orders of a criminal president.
After this, federal agents tear gassed the public on their way out of Elgin, per our photographer who was present. The Feds tear gassed eight Chicago neighborhoods this fall and now a suburb.
In Elgin, ICE agents have been in a standoff with the community as they’re trying to arrest a man. Here’s an altercation between the feds and residents ending with arrest and pepper spray. Video from Sophia Peterson
December 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
More federal tear gas in the Chicago area. Homeland Security isn’t keeping us safe. It’s terrorizing us on the orders of a criminal president.
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Editorial: An urgent wake-up call to study Trump's health
www.thestate.com/opinion/us-v...
www.thestate.com/opinion/us-v...
Editorial: An urgent wake-up call to study Trump's health
The leader of the free world is having trouble walking and talking. We need to know why. In recent w...
www.thestate.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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I don't know, seems bad for your ability and reputation as a journalist if you spent a lot of time during the current administration of a president in declining health not reporting on that but instead hawking your book on the declining health of a previous president who'll never be president again.
December 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I don't know, seems bad for your ability and reputation as a journalist if you spent a lot of time during the current administration of a president in declining health not reporting on that but instead hawking your book on the declining health of a previous president who'll never be president again.
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I’ve been saying this since last December and constantly am accused of being a groupie or something.
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I’ve been saying this since last December and constantly am accused of being a groupie or something.
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Watching CNN as I write my column and the entire hour has been about two drunks -- that racoon that broke into the Virginia liquor store, and Pete Hegseth
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Watching CNN as I write my column and the entire hour has been about two drunks -- that racoon that broke into the Virginia liquor store, and Pete Hegseth
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Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chairman, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
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Donald Trump spent last night having some bizarre social media fever dream. It’s long past time for the president's mental fitness to be a sustained front-page story. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
It’s time to talk about Donald Trump’s health (again)
The most consequential topic in the world is the simple question: Is the President mentally fit to serve?
www.doomsdayscenario.co
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Donald Trump spent last night having some bizarre social media fever dream. It’s long past time for the president's mental fitness to be a sustained front-page story. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
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Why should I accept giving money and military equipment to Argentina and Saudi Arabia but not Ukraine?
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Why should I accept giving money and military equipment to Argentina and Saudi Arabia but not Ukraine?
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@eggerdc.bsky.social breaks down a stunning moment: Trump sitting beside Saudi Crown Prince MBS—the man U.S. intel believes ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s murder—and getting angrier at an American reporter asking a legitimate question than at the autocrat who used a bone saw on a journalist.
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
@eggerdc.bsky.social breaks down a stunning moment: Trump sitting beside Saudi Crown Prince MBS—the man U.S. intel believes ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s murder—and getting angrier at an American reporter asking a legitimate question than at the autocrat who used a bone saw on a journalist.
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The deal to reopen the government didn't include ACA subsidies but it included giving Lindsey Graham the right to sue the government (read taxpayers) for $500,000. Graham opposed the subsidies & plans to sue for that $500k. Classic Lindsey Graham. SC can do better with @drannieandrews.com
Deal to reopen government allows SC’s Graham to sue for $500K. He plans to do it
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is one of eight senators who had their phone records subpoenaed from around Jan. 6, 2021, by special counsel Jack Smith.
www.thestate.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The deal to reopen the government didn't include ACA subsidies but it included giving Lindsey Graham the right to sue the government (read taxpayers) for $500,000. Graham opposed the subsidies & plans to sue for that $500k. Classic Lindsey Graham. SC can do better with @drannieandrews.com
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
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Thinking today about how when she was VP, @kamalaharris.com invited diverse groups of Americans who love their country to the VP’s residence. JD Vance instead invited his political hero, authoritarian strongman Viktor Orbán, to the VP’s residence.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thinking today about how when she was VP, @kamalaharris.com invited diverse groups of Americans who love their country to the VP’s residence. JD Vance instead invited his political hero, authoritarian strongman Viktor Orbán, to the VP’s residence.
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Is @jaketapper.bsky.social covering Trump’s problems staying awake on @cnn.com this morning?
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Is @jaketapper.bsky.social covering Trump’s problems staying awake on @cnn.com this morning?
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She wants an order from the First Circuit upholding the trial court. That would give the liberal minority a foothold to argue the Supreme Court should do so as well. a strategic stay to increase chance of restarting SNAP benefits.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
She wants an order from the First Circuit upholding the trial court. That would give the liberal minority a foothold to argue the Supreme Court should do so as well. a strategic stay to increase chance of restarting SNAP benefits.