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Amanda Underwood
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Designer. Developer. Photographer. Political junkie. Mom. Adding some ✨ to my little corner of Johnston County, NC.
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Stepping back in after a while offline—with big news: I’m running for Clayton Town Council.

I’m a Clayton native, small business owner, mom, and downtown resident. I believe we deserve leadership that listens and plans for the long term.

Find out more at ThinkClayton.com
#ThinkClayton #ClaytonNC
August 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Hallelujah
June 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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@aoc.bsky.social Will you help me start the Bread and Roses Party? The US needs a real labor party.
May 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.
From dogs to rabbits, NPR readers share how adopting shelter pets impacted them
National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.
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April 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Higher wages = good. More billionaires = bad. That is all
April 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Beacon Media is available to republish in your local newspaper! Learn more here:
Republishing Policy | Beacon Media
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April 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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What Trump isn't talking about tonight...

His approval ratings are plummeting

The economy is showing major signs of strain due to his policies

DOGE looks more and more like a giant hoax

The GOP is trying to gut Social Security and Medicaid to pave the way for big tax cuts for the rich

Hello?
March 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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@marxbrosthing.bsky.social You had me at MANY cats, lol
March 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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It's been 20 years, Google, but we're breaking up now that you're evil.
March 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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My favorite author of all time, this is a terrible loss. I never got to meet him, but he did send me a birthday card one time www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
Tom Robbins, comic novelist of US counterculture, dies aged 92
Author of books including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction, was known for his outlandish tales of sex, drugs and mysticism
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February 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Why is WRAL asking if Mark Robinson is done with politics? Seriously? He should be done with politics, please don't encourage him.
February 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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January 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The Log Lady made quite the impression on 6-year-old me. I haven't been the same since
January 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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His legacy of kindness will live on. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100
Former president faced series of economic and foreign policy crises, including Iran hostage affair and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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December 29, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Why didn't the McAllister's try a staycation at any point?
December 25, 2024 at 5:21 AM
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Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
spavel.bsky.social Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Nate Silver says he can’t tolerate a Democratic president lying. But the incoming guy, he never lies, right?
Tweet by Nate Silver: I discussed here how I voted for Harris despite feeling like Democrats indulged in a lot of bad behavior that voters were rational to publish. After the White House lying about the Hunter pardon I'm not sure how much more I can tolerate.
December 2, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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"He name-checked a who’s who of MAGA celebrities and pundits who have made it their business to convince working-class voters that Democrats can’t be trusted." Apparently, Gavin Newsome has identified that the projection is strong on the other side.
November 23, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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An NDA before you can discuss your child, really? www.wcnc.com/article/news...
'She was embarrassed' | Charlotte mom says she was met with NDA when trying to talk to charter school principal about daughter's braid being cut off
Another student reportedly used scissors to cut the braid out, down to the scalp.
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November 22, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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No bathroom breaks or fair wages for you. www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n...
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
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November 18, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Not a question of if, but when www.thephoblographer.com/2024/11/13/g...
Getty Images Just Made Life So Difficult for Photographers
Getty Images has launched two new AI features that will uproot the livelihoods of commercial photographers. Here's how.
www.thephoblographer.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:42 AM