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Kelly
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Wandering around the world in search of peace.
❤️NC Mountains and beaches
Wife, mother and grandmother. Navy vet served Reagan years. Yes, I know. I’m old.
Remember when Republicans warned us ACA would bring death panels?
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Charts! Starting with the unemployment rate, which rose to 4.6 percent, its highest level in more than four years.
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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They also gifted us with this PRACTICAL TOOLKIT: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

1. How to schedule and run trainings for ICE Watch Patrols and other key volunteer roles

2. How to build out patrol shifts and zones, including the practical nuts and bolts of the technology and systems used in NC
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It’s “racial discrimination” only when minorities benefit; otherwise it is “sparkling gerrymandering.”
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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We too often look at prices when talking about affordability & not enough at wages. As Harold Meyerson explains, had the bottom 90% earned the same share of national income they did in 1975, by 2023 they would have made an additional $79 trillion!
prospect.org/2025/12/03/7...
The $79 Trillion Heist - The American Prospect
We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.
prospect.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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“North Carolina Republicans have broadly become moral ghosts in the Trump age. They ignore, or openly embrace, monstrous words and acts wildly contrary to their declared, and boasted upon, creeds, oaths, constitutional commitments and pledges of allegiance.”

www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
Two voices North Carolina needs to hear on the Border Patrol | Opinion
Gene Nichol: Two voices North Carolina needs to hear on the Border Patrol | Opinion
www.newsobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Once again in re: the utterly abject poverty of the “Democrats Must Not Talk Funny because they are Alienating Real Folkz” Discourse™️ that we have suffered through in the last year while the Republicans keep Doing A Fascism & calling people “vermin” & “morons” & "piggy" & such.
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'

people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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I mean
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Is Hegseth drunk on the job? Is the United States of America publicly threatening to murder individuals?
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Exactly this👇
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Trump gifted Argentina $40 billion of our tax dollars. Liquidity was not a concern.
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Dear North Carolina Christians,

Y’all are showing yourselves to the world. Do better. #northcarolina #christian #ncpolitics #wwjd
This woman is calling houses of worship pretending to have a 2-month-old baby who is out of formula and asking them for help.

Most of them are failing. This Islamic Center did not

Link to her account: www.tiktok.com/@nikalie.mon...
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Question is will Stephen Miller and Russ Vought (Project 2025) double down? You know they’ll Weekend at Bernie’s Trump before they admit defeat. It’s prison for them otherwise.
I've been covering elections since 1982 and never seen a whupping quite like Tuesday, with Democrats winning everything everywhere from Manhattan to Mississippi

The question now: Does a cornered, wounded Trump double down on dictatorship? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/demo...
Will a great night for Dems and democracy mean Trump doubles down? | Will Bunch
It was a Democratic blue tsunami from Maine to Mississippi Tuesday, with the common bond between voters being they think America is way off track.
www.inquirer.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
How many ways do the elitists have to tell us how they feel about us peasants before we believe them?
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."

This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Be careful what you wish for.
Mike Johnson: "Every executive action signed by the autopen without written authorization should be voided ... including all the pardons that he signed."
October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Governing is a job, not an entitlement. If Republicans do not wish to work for the American people, we can find Americans that do.
October 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM