"The head of the [NC state] Senate is relying on the very provisional counting process he and every other member of the GOP caucus fought to impede."
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#ncpol
Picture of a panel in a conference center. There is a dias with a black curtain at the front, and a gray podium. Behind the dias sits Carmen Maria Machado, a fair-skinned femme wearing glasses with dark hair, Umair Kazi, a brown masc with dark hair, Alex Hanna, a brown butch trans woman with short brown hair, and Vauhini Vara, a brown woman with long black hair wearing a red blouse.
There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching.
It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.
This amount is double what anon MoC were saying 2 days ago. And Trump is escalating.
this is not news. we have been a fully sentient posting museum since at least 2016
Brian McGinnis, a Green candidate for US Senate in NC who recently received a broken hand in DC, is trending on Ballotpedia.
#ncpol
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Or call it the “tiny free library” bundle.
🙂
everything is terrible and on fire but I have coffee and a sausage-n-cheese kolache so that's not nothing
Please I need a rewards bundle that combines about three print copies, one digital copy, and a tentative promise of an author-read audiobook sometime in the future.
Call it the "book club" bundle.
I'll be back, Please do remind.
This has been on my list for NC-focused donations and subscriptions. Finally just did it. And you can too!
It's not a big collective ask from Billy, but in this economy, it'll take all of us. Chip in.
#ncpol
Just got some exciting feedback from the first person to read my new book!
It’s a biography of my hero, Justice Anita Earls. This is an inspiring story that needs to be told. You can read the (revised) first chapter and help me tell this story. www.kickstarter.com/projects/206... #ncpol
Julius Chambers, a life in the legal struggle for civil rights, an image of a smiling Black man with glasses and a mustache.
I just read a biography of Julius Chambers, a civil rights legend and a mentor for Anita Earls in North Carolina. It’s an amazing story, and I can’t believe I didn’t know it until now. 🧵 #ncpol
Podcast transcript with Nilay Patel and Liz Lopatto, on why prediction market players want to be seen not as gambling but as news, incentivizing insider trading (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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Sources: Axel Springer agrees to buy the Telegraph for £575M, ending the proposed acquisition by DMGT and a bid by a consortium led by Dovid Efune (Financial Times)
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"As last month's jobs report was just released moments ago, with the economy adding 92,000 jobs in February"
"Actually, we lost 92,000 jobs"
"OK, so that was wrong in the script"
Tell Congress No Copper Mining in the Boundary Waters
Congress is voting on a bill that will pave the way for copper mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a 1.1-million-acre public area with federally protected forests and freshwater ecosystems.
#BWCA
in a long line not long ago I wound up chatting with a friendly fellow who offered me some new to Minnesota pro tips, all of which I forgot save the first, where he implored me to never speed on I-90 because, quote, “all the crank comes in from South Dakota”
Proton's entire sales pitch, from the front page of their website, relies on you assuming things about the privacy laws of Switzerland that are simply false. Switzerland is a party to a wide range of information sharing agreements and responds to MLATs from across the world routinely.
Important to remember re: Proton (Mail/other services) is that they have always bragged about being governed by Swiss law in their marketing, but let people assume that Switzerland's famed privacy in banking transactions applies in other realms of civil society.
It firmly and resolutely does not.
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. https://to.pbs.org/47ug2uu
This week's primary election saw over 1.5 million North Carolinians cast their ballot. That's a new state record, with the majority of unaffiliated voters asking for a Democratic ballot. Let's break another record in November! #ncpol #primaries
Wow, who amongst us could’ve foreseen that appointing Rucho would be a clown show?
#ncpol
President Trump fires DHS’ Kristi Noem following tense hearings with North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, Deborah Ross over Hurricane Helene. Sen. Tillis called for Noem to resign. Rep. Ross called for her impeachment. (Via @daniellebattaglia.bsky.social)
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North Carolina primaried the hell out of all 3 Dems that voted with NCGOP to override the governor’s vetoes and THAT’S WHAT TF I’M TALKIN ABOUT 👏🏻👏🏻 #ncga #ncpol
One of the politicians behind extreme gerrymandering in NC, Bob Rucho, has resigned from the state board of elections. #ncpol
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Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home when a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait killed her.
“You don’t go to Kuwait thinking something’s going to happen, and for her to be one of the first — it hurts,” her husband, Joey Amor, said.
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
#ncpol
Public funding for crisis pregnancy centers has grown exponentially, but oversight hasn’t. States Newsroom’s investigation is ongoing.
If you’ve had an experience with a crisis pregnancy center, please get in touch: cpcproject@statesnewsroom.com
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