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Journalist. Charlotte Observer alum. Researching currently: circa-1860s CLT. Amaro, adesso — con gin.

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Just realized that with Abolish ICE at +11, it's polling over 30 percentage-points ahead of Trump approval. Guess that means if the media wants to be representative, it should give at least like 40% more airtime to people who support abolishing ICE to Trump supporters

04.03.2026 01:06 👍 1279 🔁 287 💬 12 📌 5
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How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...

Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability.

Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.

(Published 2023)

09.02.2026 03:00 👍 842 🔁 293 💬 16 📌 16

Drake Maye saying “Myers Park High School” 💀 #superbowllx #704

08.02.2026 23:19 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Okay. I'm gonna try my best to be as plain and direct as I can be about the issue here.

First of all, it's absolutely fine to memorialize Renee Good and Alex Pretti. No one is against that.

26.01.2026 20:12 👍 218 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 2

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.

Excellent article!

26.01.2026 04:33 👍 10275 🔁 3514 💬 65 📌 91

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

22.01.2026 20:25 👍 15417 🔁 5848 💬 167 📌 239

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

19.01.2026 15:21 👍 6002 🔁 1731 💬 262 📌 134

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08.01.2026 20:30 👍 13876 🔁 5786 💬 153 📌 172

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

08.01.2026 16:03 👍 3709 🔁 1611 💬 353 📌 781
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Make it viral.

08.01.2026 03:22 👍 47646 🔁 21391 💬 360 📌 528

NO one hates women more than “Landman.”

14.12.2025 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In case you have never seen this.

13.12.2025 22:38 👍 3177 🔁 1268 💬 68 📌 74
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Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.

My story:

09.12.2025 22:55 👍 3540 🔁 1594 💬 224 📌 289

They didn’t struggle — they performed compliance until they thought they’d stacked enough courts, sheriffs, and media to ditch the mask.
What we’re seeing now isn’t new ideology…it’s the reveal.
Heritage Foundation isn’t hiding anymore.

02.12.2025 15:30 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

28.11.2025 19:01 👍 2604 🔁 805 💬 25 📌 61
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Ann Peebles performing "I Can't Stand the Rain" in 1974. Band is the Hi Rhythm Section, who was Al Green's band: Charles Hodges on B3 Hammond, Howard Grimes on drums, Leroy and Teenie Hodges on bass and drums respectively

23.11.2025 19:04 👍 57 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0

Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld.

Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.

20.11.2025 17:52 👍 2665 🔁 612 💬 192 📌 106

Welcome to the loophole.

19.11.2025 16:43 👍 2264 🔁 627 💬 178 📌 47

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.

Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

18.11.2025 15:28 👍 2631 🔁 1167 💬 206 📌 58
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.

Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction

15.11.2025 13:06 👍 302 🔁 140 💬 29 📌 58

If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?

12.11.2025 04:56 👍 2608 🔁 677 💬 33 📌 17
Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list
., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

11.11.2025 21:03 👍 4450 🔁 2151 💬 135 📌 114
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Republican politicians can commit all the crimes they want and victimize as many people as they want because right after they are convicted Trump pardons every single one of them. Every Republican politician is above the law and can do whatever they want. Total immunity.

07.11.2025 00:42 👍 1781 🔁 709 💬 102 📌 49

Trump said he’d be “honored” to release SNAP funds with guidance from the courts.

Today, he got that guidance from Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, FOR THE SECOND TIME.

And he immediately appealed.

07.11.2025 00:29 👍 809 🔁 244 💬 21 📌 10
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Q: A federal judge ruled that the administration has to fully fund SNAP. DOJ said they're gonna appeal. What's your message to folks as we're headed to Thanksgiving?

TRUMP: *looks at JD Vance* you wanna gowithater

07.11.2025 01:02 👍 1240 🔁 319 💬 171 📌 72

Straight back at Wrobleski? George Springer fan for life. ❤️#bluejays

02.11.2025 01:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

31.10.2025 22:04 👍 27233 🔁 9363 💬 2301 📌 788

Journalism needs so much improving right now …

21.10.2025 22:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"...amid cries of Trump overreach" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

21.10.2025 22:37 👍 125 🔁 26 💬 14 📌 2