Eric Frederick

Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want."

Really?

Defensive caution can’t compete with right-wing propaganda Is it so hard for journalists to clearly state that the Trump administration is lying?

@sulliview.bsky.social did what I couldn’t.

“The right-wing media— led by Fox News, as always — was immediately spilling out its propaganda with, yes, passionate intensity…. A few hours after the shooting, I watched Fox’s coverage for as long as I could stand it…”

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Could Raleigh Finally Get A Major League Baseball Team? Fast-growing Raleigh appears to be a good candidate for a Major League Baseball team. But even a minor league club has eluded it for years.

My latest, for The Assembly:

Raleigh Tries to Break Its 54-Year Baseball Losing Streak www.theassemblync.com/culture/spor...

#Tigers

The Tragedy of Charlie Kirk’s Killing The activist’s murder is a disaster for the country.

"Those who disagreed with Kirk ought to be able to deplore what he stood for and also the violence that killed him." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Holy shit -- Markwayne Mullin insists later in the interview again that Obama oversaw actually oversaw the sweetheart deal with Epstein, even after Tapper (accurately) fact-checked him. Yikes.

GOP narrowly advances rescissions package to Senate floor - Roll Call Senate Republicans had barely enough votes Tuesday to advance President Trump's proposal to claw back money appropriated for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

Among 19 developed countries, the average the government spends annually on public service broadcasting is about $80 per person. In the USA, it's $1.35.

Like so much of what Congress is doing (or not doing), this is not about saving money.

rollcall.com/2025/07/15/g...

Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?"

English is the official language of Liberia...

COMING SOON TO RALEIGHWOOD 🗣️

Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

“Delay, Interfere, Undermine” President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....

Outstanding, crucial reporting here. Trump's bud Bukele seems to be in bed with MS-13. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

This AL Central team ascends to No. 1 for 1st time in '25 If you’re a sad White Sox or Rockies fan right now, if it all seems lost and hopeless, look at the Detroit Tigers. The 2019 Tigers, just six years ago, lost 114 games. They lost 96 in 2022. They misse...

#RepDetroit www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pow...

Ernst is up for reelection next year. Campagin slogan:
"Well we all are going to die. Vote Ernst."

#ETTD 🤣🤣🤣 #LetsGoCanes

Goodbye to the Duck-Rabbit One of North Carolina's O.G. craft breweries abruptly closed this week. It's a sign of the times, but also showed that big things are still possible in small towns.

Like Jeremy, I also loved the Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout (and their barleywine, when I could find it). The only thing about this brewery's demise that doesn't suck is @ncrabbithole.com's beautiful elegy. open.substack.com/pub/jeremyma...

Griffin concedes defeat in NC Supreme Court election Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is to be seated next week. Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin on Wednesday conceded.

Griffin concedes defeat in NC Supreme Court election
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Pere Ubu’s David Thomas Dies at 71 The frontman of the influential, avant-garde rock band was heralded for his untamable voice and spirit

A hero of mine. #RIP pitchfork.com/news/pere-ub...

Outstanding...

Wow. Yeah, I shoulda. Where was this?

The American Age Is Over Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

The American Age Is Over
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

This is what we have come to. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Fox now mentioning the Signal scandal. For about 60 seconds.

just add the judge on Signal

Musk calls Sen. Mark Kelly a ‘traitor’ in response to post about visiting Ukraine Kelly, a former Navy pilot and NASA astronaut, called for the resumption of U.S. military aid to Ukraine

Is every day "opposite day" now? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

" ... forces loyal to Musk’s junta have established him as the all-but undisputed unelected head of government..." Garrett Graff imagines "how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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