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Retired (for now) Tar Heel born and bred
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People need to be getting pissed off about this one and voicing it. This is greed. Protected public lands are something to be preserved for current and future generations. Once they are gone there is no going back. Once they crack open the door for this more greed will kick in

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

Here’s a rare member of the U.S. Senate who seems to understand how close we are to a dictatorship.

submitted 16 days ago • 136 comments

A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

submitted 16 days ago • 353 comments

This is so deeply embarrassing. How do these people look at themselves in the mirror?

submitted 20 days ago • 154 comments

She wasn’t joking.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

🚨BREAKING: DOJ has filed a new voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XEW...

submitted 24 days ago • 279 comments

“This thin-skinned tyrant is determined to strip the White House of actual reporters & threaten media companies if they dare to question him. It’s an appalling sign every reporter in the Oval Office didn’t speak up or get up and leave in support of NBC’s Alexander.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

submitted 28 days ago • 273 comments

DOGE guy at the CFPB owned verboten stocks. He was explicitly warned by ethics lawyers that he wasn’t permitted to take any action that could benefit those companies — and him. He then helped fire workers anyway. Including the ethics lawyers who warned him. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

submitted 45 days ago • 78 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 53 days ago • 1328 comments

Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed. He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.

submitted 56 days ago • 815 comments

Orwell

submitted 59 days ago • 88 comments

Watching the markets and the bonds and the dollar react to every single thing he does… This impending implosion is all on him. His oligarch bros all dumped stocks right before he launched these insane tariffs were launched & are just waiting to snatch them back up before he changed his mind.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

submitted 65 days ago • 398 comments

Just so you know, this is the person RFK Jr signed on to run a clinical trial to link vaccines to autism. He has been charged with practicing medicine without a license, among other things: www.yahoo.com/news/head-rf...

submitted 68 days ago • 55 comments

GOP court decision overturning Democratic victory in North Carolina Supreme Court race is 5 alarm fire for democracy. It’s January 6 without the insurrection. Make no mistake, if GOP succeeds in stealing election in NC, they’ll use that playbook everywhere www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 74 days ago • 41 comments

Tonight, Democrats forced a vote on a simple amendment. To remove new tariffs that are increasing the cost of groceries, gas and housing. Republicans rejected it.

submitted 77 days ago • 258 comments

The Shining City on a Hill has turned into a steaming pile of shit.

submitted 77 days ago • 396 comments

Trump blows off honoring dead soldiers to attend golf tournament https://twp.ai/4imNhM

submitted 78 days ago • 12 comments

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

submitted 79 days ago • 1105 comments

🚨Under the GOP’s SAVE Act, a military ID would no longer be enough to register to vote. 🇺🇸Our brave service members RISK THEIR LIVES for this country—but the GOP is trying to silence them at the ballot box. 🇺🇸They deserve a voice in our DEMOCRACY! #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/2loRCUDG

submitted 82 days ago • 31 comments

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

submitted 84 days ago • 84 comments

IT GETS WORSE Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. New via @wsj.com:

submitted 84 days ago • 2513 comments

Let's call it what it is. It's a "Data To Disenfranchisement" pipeline. It doesn't matter that voter rolls are handled at the state level, not federal. Cambridge Analytica showed the danger of allowing these actors to hoover up data. It's allowing microtargeted ballot purges at the state level.

submitted 85 days ago • 8 comments