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“One might react to my story by concluding that this whole white genocide story is a racist lie cooked up by white supremacists in Europe and America.” Ryan Cooper reveals how he survived South Africa’s “white genocide.” prospect.org/world/2025-0...

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.

More than five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the United States, hundreds of people are still dying every week. Last month, an average of about 350 people died each week from COVID. abcnews.go.com/Health/300-p...

This is really bad for democracy in NC

Ange Postecoglou said he always wins something in his second season. He is a man of his word. Tottenham have beaten Manchester United 1-0. They have won the Europa League. Their 17-year trophy drought is 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿.

COYS! Been waiting a long time to see this.

Jesus

"Somebody’s got to be covering the school board. Somebody’s got to be covering the zoning board. Somebody’s got to be covering... the lives of ordinary people who are caught up in the indifference, the icy indifference, of incipient authoritarianism." interviewed ken burns!

"Waste" is when people get Medicaid. "Efficiency" is when you let 60,000 tons of food that's already been paid for rot instead of feeding someone with it.

What a beautiful example of collaboration between the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Western Carolina University working to preserve the endangered North Carolina dialect of Cherokee language at the New Kituwah Academy language immersion school! #nced dailyyonder.com/preserving-c...

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

Three justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court who tried to steal this election for Griffin are up for election in 2028: Paul Newby, Phil Berger Jr., and Tamara P. Barringer. When Election Day comes around, I hope the state's voters remember what these lawless partisans tried to do here.

Hell yeah. Finally!

I really don’t understand people. Read to your kids!

“At this moment, attorneys, law firms, and nonprofits that do legal work are being called to the front to stand in the breach between people and an administration that’s trying to trample civil and human rights and the Constitution,” says Pham.

It looks like ICE is becoming Trump’s Gestapo. Nobody is safe. We must take the offensive. It will soon be too late. Even Trump-appointed judges are voicing alarm. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Selling access to the president with a presidential shitcoin 🫠

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

With the exception of Buncombe, the other Helene-ravaged west NC counties that Vice President Trump has just flipped off are republican strongholds. Or *were*, if they have the good sense God gave a goose. He doesn't give a shit about you unless you're a billionaire. #ncpol

If you were wondering how the recent efforts to claw back funding for CPB might impact local journalism and radio and tv programming, this is a good explainer. WUNC is just one of 1000+ locally-operated public media outlets across the United States. And they are all non-profit.

Of all law enforcement needs, Trump and the GOP are prioritizing taking otherwise law abiding moms and dads away from their kids.

Consumer sentiment has never tanked this far, this fast.

Tariffs still at historic high

🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One of two things is happening. They don’t understand what’s happening. They want it to happen. Pick your poison

He’s “floating” the idea of ripping up the Constitution. Impeachment? Impeachment ? Impeachment?

What other kinds of First Amendment protected speech will this administration decide it doesn’t like? This is just the beginning.

Beto 2030

Among many other reasons Pauli Murray is an important figure, Murray is the person who came up with the legal strategy that Thurgood Marshall used when he argued Brown v Board before the supreme court.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

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This is the most detailed guide I’ve found for the 65,000 voters in NC whose votes might be thrown out. Tells them step by step what to do.

Hands off! #Durham

My favorite time of the year @fullframefest.bsky.social

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

It seems clear that the U.S. has destroyed something pretty valuable in forcing Canada to look elsewhere for trusted allies. And I'm simply left asking: To what end? I see no gains to the U.S. from aggravating Canadians. Pointlessly destructive.

I’m also a little sad Cadeau is transferring while noting he might’ve been the kind of guy to leave anyway, NIL era or no. In hindsight, he’s been giving off some Larry Drew vibes this year.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now