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Solar panels and greenways are my jam! Vice mayor in Beer City. Democratic nominee for NC Senate, 2020. Stetson/UNC-Wilmington grad. Dad, granddad, writer, surfer, 240Z driver. NO DMs, please.
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Democrats are going to have to learn what the term ‘opposition party’ actually means. Get tough, dig in. Don’t help them, no matter what. Every action should be to either destroy or delay, indefinitely.

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Hell has gotta be absolutely, 100%, up to the brim full of laser printers.

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What if they made a Super Bowl commercial and nobody cared? 🤣

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Post you from another era. North Carolina. 1887. Playing on train tracks.

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Come on now, you have to at least wait for the second D…

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We’re not a serious country anymore

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Wolves can howl to locate one another + to communicate danger, but they can also howl to bond as family 💕

submitted 29 days ago • 38 comments

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

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With JD Vance now breaking ties in the US Senate, do we need any more evidence that we are *fully* in the Upside Down?

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Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract

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What in the heck is this?

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😂 I pity anyone trying to loot my house. We’ve been there over 30 years. The closets alone are like boobytraps. They’ll break an ankle trying to cross my daughter’s room.

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"Biden should publish both volumes of Smith’s report before leaving office. Doing so would serve the public interest and—most importantly—would be legal. Because, as an official action of a sitting president, it falls under the Supreme Court’s blanket of immunity." www.thebulwark.com/p/biden-has-...

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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

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Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama

submitted 51 days ago • 285 comments

'World Wide Web' contains fewer syllables than its intended short form, 'www.' The shorter version actually takes longer to say.

submitted 51 days ago • 62 comments

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

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Oklahoma's state slogan is "Oklahoma is OK" because the kids can't spell "mediocre."

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"With help from his GOP enablers and voters who can’t seem to be bothered to give a damn, Trump has normalized White House corruption to an extent that would’ve been unthinkable in Carter's era."

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Americans are going to be seeing a lot more stuff just like this report that was issued by the House Oversight Committee: facts mixed with bullshit science, masquerading as official government policy. Resist! oversight.house.gov/release/fina...

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Jets jets jets…

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May her memory be a blessing — Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

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