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Montreal is the best city I’ve ever cycled in. On our last trip, we rented an e-cargo bike for my 80-year-old mom and toured the city exclusively by bike. It was fabulous!

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Jack Posobiec, a prominent influencer, has a long history of promoting antisemitic and white supremacist content. He traveled to Ukraine with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week.

submitted 6 days ago • 257 comments

Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

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Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

submitted 5 days ago • 102 comments

Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

submitted 8 days ago • 892 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 10 days ago • 2291 comments

New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 12 days ago • 411 comments

Update: www.wcnc.com/article/news...

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Hilarious NYT headline: REPUBLICANS LOVE TRUMP’S SPENDING CUTS. JUST NOT IN THEIR STATES.

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Presidents Trump and Musk laid off dozens tonight at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas. “There will be students on campus whose classes have no instructors when school resumes...accreditation could also be at risk, as it cannot support all its students.” lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

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🧵 Blue folks in Red states, we really need you to call your electeds. Watch AOC. ✅ From your phone: 5 Calls even offers useful scripts to follow, based on topics. 5calls.org ✅ Hit 'em w/email them via: democracy.io ✅ Locate all your officials, fed, state (such as your AG!), local.: is.gd/pn7Q0e

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.

submitted 18 days ago • 489 comments

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

submitted 20 days ago • 777 comments

NEW: Trump and Musk have unleashed chaos at US weather forecaster: muddled directives and early-morning emails put NOAA on edge. Exclusive by @laurenthal.bsky.social @weathersullivan.bsky.social 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 19 days ago • 61 comments

How does gutting scientists working to identify and remove toxic chemicals in our water and air help make America healthy again???

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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 26 days ago • 311 comments

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 25 days ago • 145 comments

We may have done more episodes about Jimmy Carter than any other president. Will start a thread to highlight some favorites. Starting with his fateful encounter with a swamp rabbit podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

Disasters are going to get more severe and more frequent, and it’s no surprise that this year’s federal price tag is exceeds 100 billion dollars. Climate action is way way cheaper than climate inaction.

submitted 100 days ago • 53 comments

Protestors dressed in traditional Māori attire performed hakas while marching alongside thousands of people through Wellington, New Zealand, on Tuesday in protest of a bill that would reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi, which underpins Māori people's unique rights.

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20 mostly white private academies, all founded in the 1960s and 1970s, brought in more than $20 million from North Carolina in the past three years alone. None reflected the demographics of their communities. Few even came close.

submitted 101 days ago • 30 comments

In case you missed it, our 2024-25 winter outlook blog post has more on what to watch for in the coming season. #ncwx climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2024/11...

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Today’s #officedog wisdom: Always stay committed to the things worth fighting for

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NC voters who did not present voter ID at early voting or Election Day but did NOT complete the ID exception form have until 5 pm today to present ID at their county board of elections office (as of late Tuesday, about 15 of 160 such voters in Wake Co did so.) #ncpol

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And these are the days when our work has come asunder. And these are the days when we look for something other. #Lemon #U2

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Welcome new followers! Happy to be here. (And please share so other folks know, too!) A little reintroduction: We are a community paper covering the Triangle since 1983. We do on-the-ground reporting on city council meetings, landlords, elections, art events, the local food scene, and much more. 📰

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In addition to office dog pics, I’d like to share office dog wisdom. This sweet elder pup reminded us today of the importance of taking a few minutes to catch your breath and accept belly rubs 🐾

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