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jrobin.bsky.social
Former editor of the News & Record in Greensboro, NC; former UNC journalism professor. He's strolled all alone through a fallout zone & came out with his soul untouched.
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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

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Can you imagine being treated by a guy who believes in these ridiculous conspiracy lies?

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“The UNC System Board of Governors last month approved an almost $150,000 raise for Hans, bringing his total salary to $600,000.” www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

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Thank goodness there was not anything newsworthy happening yesterday. Some N.C. newspaper front pages:

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No split screen here: 3,000 in High Point, NC’s 9th largest city.

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Far be it from me to criticize the @nytimes.com & @washingtonpost.com but I question how the nationwide protests (& Trump parade) are 3 screens down on their home pages. (Beneath 5 stories on Iran & 5 on Minneapolis in the Times). All important stories but millions of Americans participated in one.

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Of course

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Caption this photo

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The deep state in the Army

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Yiiiiiiiikes

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His own family says he’s nuts

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👇👇👇

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Beaufort, NC, in the rain in a red, red county. #NoKings

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To all my friends at the No Kings rallies -- well, to everyone -- be safe, be peaceful and make good trouble.

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One day apart.

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A friend in Minneapolis said “This fucking sucks and isn’t even a shock sadly.” America.

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Why can’t I find a list? www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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We await President Trump, breaking from his cake & ice cream birthday party, to condemn the violence.

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Two important things to note: 1) the most significant violence we’ve seen this year was not against ICE or Trump or members of his administration, but against Democrats 2) when ICE scoffs at people asking for warrants or for identification, THIS IS WHY THEY ASK www.fox9.com/news/melissa...

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Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

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I’d ask him to name a pro-riot governor but I doubt he even knows his own name.

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Both Democrats

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So, yes, Republicans are lying about it. “The bill as passed by the House in May would raise after-tax incomes for the highest-earning 10 percent of American households on average by 2.3 percent a year over the next decade, while lowering incomes for the poorest tenth by 3.9 percent”

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If the soldiers salute Trump as they march pass his viewing stand, his North Korean idolatry will be complete. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The 2 Republicans without the courage of their convictions: Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska and Nick LaLota of New York.

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First it was violent undocumented. Then it was all undocumented. Then it was whomever we can get. Now it’s everyone but farm workers & servers. Is it the bigotry, the cruelty or the stupidity of these policies that appeal to Republicans?

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Ahem: “The First Continental Congress, which met in 1774, refused to establish a standing army, afraid that a bad government could use an army against its people.”

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So TACO strikes again! Stephen Miller must be furious!

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What a good look for Republicans The marines saved Los Angeles by detaining a veteran on his way to the VA. Doesn’t everyone feel safer now in our police state? Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

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Giving Marjorie Taylor Greene a run for her money.

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Predator drones are flying over Los Angeles.

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A consistent pattern: Federal judge says “Hold on, that’s illegal. You can’t do that.” Appeals or Supremes say, “Maybe it is, maybe it ain’t. You can keep doing the possibly illegal thing it til we hear arguments later.” Trump doubles down, keeps appealing & doing possibly illegal things.

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Left-wing woke media telling people stuff we don’t want them to know. Let’s defund it.

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Tomorrow’s parade and protests is a huge test for the nation’s news media. Personally, i have a bad feeling about how they’ll do. But @froomkin.bsky.social has a good list of ways to cover them and help people understand what’s happening.

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There’s a lot of evidence that rural N.C. depends on public radio, especially during hurricanes. Every GOP representative in NC voted to hurt their constituents.

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Voters in California elected Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom in free and fair elections. Noem is threatening to take away the power of the voters and the people they elected. Full stop. This is huge news and should be treated as the anti-democratic threat that it is.

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The con continues. “The official said there will be “no change” in the current approach to deportations, adding that no carveout exists currently for farm, hotel or other migrant workers”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/13/trump-immigrant-farm-workers-hospitality/

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A consistent pattern: Federal judge says “Hold on, that’s illegal. You can’t do that.” Appeals or Supremes say, “Maybe it is, maybe it ain’t. You can keep doing the possibly illegal thing it til we hear arguments later.” Trump doubles down, keeps appealing & doing possibly illegal things.

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Conspiracy nutjobs in the NC legislature embarrassing themselves www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

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Without any sense of irony, Kristi Noem said: “I will say that people need to identify themselves before they start lunging at people,” she said.

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“Sen. Lisa Murkowski told reporters that she was shocked after seeing the video. “It’s not the America I know.”” It is, however, the America that many people of color know, Senator. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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The budget bill Sen. Budd supports is estimated to increase the budget deficit by roughly $2.5 trillion over the next decade.

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Dude, you lost the high ground when your party’s leader pardoned all the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

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This is remarkably incoherent even for him. But I especially like the notion that these evil criminals are applying to pick crops and mop hotel bathrooms.

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Brian Wilson was the most musically inventive voice in all of pop, with an otherworldly ear for harmony. He was also the visionary leader of America’s greatest band, The Beach Boys. If there’d been no Beach Boys, there would have been no “Racing In The Street.”

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