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Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

submitted 54 days ago • 165 comments

There's still some legal battles ongoing, but @ncdemocrats.bsky.social are recruiting a rapid response team to reach out to these 60,000 people to get them to cure their ballots and make sure their votes count. Sign up here:

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

Start your weekend with this banger from @aselrod.bsky.social

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

This is the biggest, underreported news right now. Republicans are trying to STEAL an election in North Carolina. Straight up. This is a test case for 2026 and 2028. They will never voluntarily give up power again.

submitted 62 days ago • 80 comments

🚨 🚨 🚨 the North Carolina state court is going along with Jefferson Griffins request to disenfranchise tens of thousands of NC voters by throwing out their votes. And thereby hand the seat on the NC SCT to Griffin when Justice Allison Riggs won the election. This is a HUGE deal.

submitted 62 days ago • 57 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social Instead of writing your thoughtful posts, hold some rallies. If you’re worried about crowd sizes invite @aoc.bsky.social If you want to be president….lead from in front. You (both) have the right message for these dark times.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Once again Thom Tillis threatens to buck the MAGA crowd - this time on Canadian tariffs. Then sees his shadow and votes in lockstep with MAGA. Why does the MSM keep falling for this act?

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

RTI lays off 340 employees in response the the DOGE cuts. Assume these will not show up in the DOGE ‘savings’ ledger? We are going to discover this whole exercise has cost us enormously. Financially and morally.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

TIL that Tesla insiders (executives, board members, etc) have sold 1.46 million Tesla shares over the past 12 months, and bought precisely zero www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...

submitted 76 days ago • 146 comments

Schumer should take a look at what is happening to Allison Riggs in NC before he caves. There is simply not politics as normal.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

My question is whether Wall Street understands that an important segment of the EV market customer base will not buy a Tesla at any price. It could teleport me places and I would not buy it. I would not drive one if you gave it to me for free.

submitted 87 days ago • 1192 comments

Wish @aoc.bsky.social or @petebuttigieg.bsky.social would just start running for president. The Dem strategy of waiting is failure personified. Fill some stadiums. Get on TV. Suck up some oxygen. And they just might beat the do nothing establishment figures - assuming we still run elections.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

A sitting judge in NC is STILL trying to change election rules after he lost, toss ballots from 65,000+ eligible voters, & grab a seat on the Tar Heel state’s highest court? Scary, but true. Bob Crawford, Ben Sawyer, and I talked about why we all should be paying attention to this story.

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

It is astounding to see ‘experts’ shocked, shocked I say, that Trump, JD and the Muskrats are wrecking American standing in the world and destroying its economy. It was all so utterly predictable to anyone half following along. Dems will have nothing left to fight for unless they get in the ring.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

If only AOC, Mayor Pete or Jamie Raskin would declare they’re running for President in 2028 it would drive the narrative to counter the blizzard of lies coming from the red hat brigade. He/She who dares. Wins.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

A text from my daughter after just one month of this farce: My friend ‘X’ got into the university of ‘Y’ for her PhD. They just emailed her and said because of funding complications they ended up only being able to take 1 person into the lab instead of the previously planned 7.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

@alicetalksfootball.bsky.social Maybe Ashworth was right? He was certainly right about the squad fit and the manager. No wonder he had a falling out.

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Every election matters.

submitted 190 days ago • 32 comments

If you voted Trump to lower costs, the next four years are going to be a real kick in the pants. Luckily, you won't be able to afford pants.

submitted 192 days ago • 687 comments

As the crony capitalism of the Trump administration ramps up, we will soon discover that DOGE, headed by Musk, will become the Department Of Greed and Enrichment.

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

Notable that the only 3 Republicans who voted against this bill (see below) were the three who represent the westernmost districts in the state--districts that were all affected by Helene. #ncpol #wncpol

submitted 198 days ago • 3 comments

Make that 106 votes(!) #ncpol

submitted 202 days ago • 1 comment

I love BlueSky in the mornings. It is all so calm as the Brit’s discuss appalling growth #’s, how to reframe immigration debates or how expensive trains are. By afternoon, when US audience arrives, it is the end of days with rapists, charlatans and Russian stooges in charge.

submitted 203 days ago • 0 comments

Surely the election of Trump and his emerging cadre of incompetents will be the biggest act of self harm inflicted by one nation unto itself since Brexit. But maybe Brexit is small ball in comparison.

submitted 203 days ago • 0 comments

There's been too much talk of 'realignment' and not enough talk of 'dealignment'.

submitted 206 days ago • 7 comments

Prognosticators have short memories and are too US centric in their prognostications. In 2019 the UK Tories broke Labor’s ‘red wall’. It apparently signaled a generational realignment. Yet, through incompetence and lies and lairs by 2024 it had completely reversed.

submitted 208 days ago • 0 comments

After some much-needed sleep and continuation of caffeine into my system, first-attempt analysis of NC's general election: www.oldnorthstatepolitics.com/2024/11/earl...

submitted 211 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans have lost their supermajority in the North Carolina House. This means that they will not be able to use party-line votes to override vetoes by Josh Stein, the Democratic Governor-Elect. www.wral.com/story/d...

submitted 211 days ago • 2 comments

After last night I finally, finally followed through on my vow to delete the other place. Anyone else use it as a catalyst? A personally symbolic gesture to the coming oligarchy.

submitted 211 days ago • 0 comments

If you want a case study in what gerrymandered politics gets you just look at the GOP candidates running down ballot in NC. A whole lot of WTAF.

submitted 448 days ago • 1 comment