Carole Tarrant
@carolet.bsky.social
Once a #journalist, now a fundraiser in #communitycollege land.
Former editor, The #Roanoke (Va.) Times, with earlier stops in Fargo and Tampa.
#WVU grad
Teach Les Mills BODY PUMP, CORE and RPM on the side 🏋️🚴♂️
❌👑
Former editor, The #Roanoke (Va.) Times, with earlier stops in Fargo and Tampa.
#WVU grad
Teach Les Mills BODY PUMP, CORE and RPM on the side 🏋️🚴♂️
❌👑
The bottom of the barrel get lower again.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The bottom of the barrel get lower again.
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Author Beth Macy, who wrote nonfiction bestseller "Dopesick" that became a miniseries, will seek the Democratic nomination to oppose GOP Rep. Ben Cline. Virginia's 6th District is safely red, but it may not be much longer if Democrats pass a new map. www.the-downballot.com/i/179197084/va
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Author Beth Macy, who wrote nonfiction bestseller "Dopesick" that became a miniseries, will seek the Democratic nomination to oppose GOP Rep. Ben Cline. Virginia's 6th District is safely red, but it may not be much longer if Democrats pass a new map. www.the-downballot.com/i/179197084/va
Absolutely jam-packed house inside Fire Station No. 1 for @bethmacy.bsky.social campaign launch. As the Rev. Bill Lee just said, "Beth's not running against anyone. She's running for us."
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Absolutely jam-packed house inside Fire Station No. 1 for @bethmacy.bsky.social campaign launch. As the Rev. Bill Lee just said, "Beth's not running against anyone. She's running for us."
The overflow crowd at the @bethmacy.bsky.social for Congress event tonight in Roanoke!
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The overflow crowd at the @bethmacy.bsky.social for Congress event tonight in Roanoke!
If you love community colleges, you might perk up hearing that my friend, "Dopesick" author and former community college instructor @bethmacy.bsky.social is running for Congress in Virginia. #vote2026
cardinalnews.org/2025/11/18/b...
cardinalnews.org/2025/11/18/b...
Beth Macy makes her run for Congress official
Roanoke-based journalist Beth Macy sat down with Cardinal News for an interview about her decision to run for Congress. Her formal campaign announcement is slated to take place Tuesday at the Histo…
cardinalnews.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you love community colleges, you might perk up hearing that my friend, "Dopesick" author and former community college instructor @bethmacy.bsky.social is running for Congress in Virginia. #vote2026
cardinalnews.org/2025/11/18/b...
cardinalnews.org/2025/11/18/b...
Listen: A North Carolina family struggles with the ridiculous choice that their hardworking electrician father either starts over in Mexico or faces #ICE. Devastating.
In every house, behind every closed door, a private drama is unfolding. In the Rivera house, the drama comes in the form of a question: should they stay or should they go?
Under One Roof
What’s great about living in a family is that everyone sees everything differently. Also, that’s what’s awful about living in a family. We go behind closed doors with two families. Visit…
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Listen: A North Carolina family struggles with the ridiculous choice that their hardworking electrician father either starts over in Mexico or faces #ICE. Devastating.
I love that the bad guy in "The Lowdown" is wearing a Glenn Youngkin vest.
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I love that the bad guy in "The Lowdown" is wearing a Glenn Youngkin vest.
Good lord, @propublica.org is on 🔥this week! I can't keep up with all of their outstanding reporting. There's this, Trump's BS about the Portland "riots" and the Chicago ICE escapade. Go support these people!
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Good lord, @propublica.org is on 🔥this week! I can't keep up with all of their outstanding reporting. There's this, Trump's BS about the Portland "riots" and the Chicago ICE escapade. Go support these people!
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You’re going to have to bear with me, as I haven’t been sleeping well for a decade or so.
Admittedly, I’m not at my best these days.
I’m exhausted from having to give all the sh*ts about people that you’re supposed to be giving, along with my own.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
Admittedly, I’m not at my best these days.
I’m exhausted from having to give all the sh*ts about people that you’re supposed to be giving, along with my own.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
A Letter to My Unbothered Friend, From Your Angry Friend
Dear Friend,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You’re going to have to bear with me, as I haven’t been sleeping well for a decade or so.
Admittedly, I’m not at my best these days.
I’m exhausted from having to give all the sh*ts about people that you’re supposed to be giving, along with my own.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
Admittedly, I’m not at my best these days.
I’m exhausted from having to give all the sh*ts about people that you’re supposed to be giving, along with my own.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
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"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
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Last Saturday my little community raised $10,000 for Feeding America, which they turn into 100,000 meals. I run a meme account and have done more for the hungry in this country than the president, who is intentionally starving women and children for no reason.
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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If you're in line to see the full moon, STAY IN LINE
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
If you're in line to see the full moon, STAY IN LINE
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The Vaccine Integrity Project’s new Executive Summary on COVID, RSV, & flu vax pulls together findings from 509 published studies to show where we stand for the 2025–26 season.
Highlights & interactive data tool: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
Full manuscript: bit.ly/42MMMNu
Highlights & interactive data tool: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
Full manuscript: bit.ly/42MMMNu
Vaccine Integrity Project - Data visualization tool
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Vaccine Integrity Project’s new Executive Summary on COVID, RSV, & flu vax pulls together findings from 509 published studies to show where we stand for the 2025–26 season.
Highlights & interactive data tool: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
Full manuscript: bit.ly/42MMMNu
Highlights & interactive data tool: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
Full manuscript: bit.ly/42MMMNu
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A recent HHS video is filled with selective data and misleading claims about vaccines.
Dr. Michael Osterholm of @CIDRAP breaks down how – and why - it misleads.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/Lh5hP6zcVrs
Dr. Michael Osterholm of @CIDRAP breaks down how – and why - it misleads.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/Lh5hP6zcVrs
Vaccine Integrity Project - Response to HHS claims about vaccines (Oct 2025)
YouTube video by CIDRAP
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A recent HHS video is filled with selective data and misleading claims about vaccines.
Dr. Michael Osterholm of @CIDRAP breaks down how – and why - it misleads.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/Lh5hP6zcVrs
Dr. Michael Osterholm of @CIDRAP breaks down how – and why - it misleads.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/Lh5hP6zcVrs
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help, how do I unlearn the term “pawtism”
(if you don’t plan to vaccinate or properly care for your pets, you shouldn’t have any)
(if you don’t plan to vaccinate or properly care for your pets, you shouldn’t have any)
Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
help, how do I unlearn the term “pawtism”
(if you don’t plan to vaccinate or properly care for your pets, you shouldn’t have any)
(if you don’t plan to vaccinate or properly care for your pets, you shouldn’t have any)
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In her new book, Beth Macy tries to understand America’s growing fissures by returning to her Donald Trump–voting Ohio hometown and talking with residents—those who agree with her and, more important, those who don’t, writes Alex Kotlowitz:
A Writer Who Did What Hillbilly Elegy Wouldn’t
In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her Donald Trump–voting hometown to find out how America got so divided.
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
In her new book, Beth Macy tries to understand America’s growing fissures by returning to her Donald Trump–voting Ohio hometown and talking with residents—those who agree with her and, more important, those who don’t, writes Alex Kotlowitz:
Reposted by Carole Tarrant
Author Beth Macy on rural radicalization
Author Beth Macy joins @chrislhayes.bsky.social to discuss how Urbana has changed from the time she grew up there.
Author Beth Macy joins @chrislhayes.bsky.social to discuss how Urbana has changed from the time she grew up there.
‘People don’t know what’s happening in their own backyard’: Author Beth Macy on rural radicalization
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Author Beth Macy on rural radicalization
Author Beth Macy joins @chrislhayes.bsky.social to discuss how Urbana has changed from the time she grew up there.
Author Beth Macy joins @chrislhayes.bsky.social to discuss how Urbana has changed from the time she grew up there.
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Two main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview:
1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
Tucker Carlson's latest guest? White nationalist leader Nick Fuentes.
Carlson and Fuentes have been at loggerheads for years. Earlier this year, Carlson said Fuentes had an "angry gay kid thing going on."
I don't think this kind of episode would've happened prior to Charlie Kirk's death.
Carlson and Fuentes have been at loggerheads for years. Earlier this year, Carlson said Fuentes had an "angry gay kid thing going on."
I don't think this kind of episode would've happened prior to Charlie Kirk's death.
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Two main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview:
1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
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And in related news. . .Americans have no idea what is going on anymore.
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
And in related news. . .Americans have no idea what is going on anymore.
"Platner, in other words, comes off as a flawed, complicated, and sometimes contradictory human being whose political views don’t always fit neatly into a box."
We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
You’re Being Lied to About Graham Platner
We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
jacobin.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"Platner, in other words, comes off as a flawed, complicated, and sometimes contradictory human being whose political views don’t always fit neatly into a box."
I'm not sure why the @newyorker.com reviewer called @bethmacy.bsky.social "a surprisingly empathetic narrator." No surprise there. Empathy has been the key to Beth being Beth!
But, I agree, "Paper Girl" is a "cogent and thrilling story."
But, I agree, "Paper Girl" is a "cogent and thrilling story."
Ever since Donald Trump was first elected President, in 2016, a slew of books have attempted to reckon with the growing divide between urban and rural populations in the U.S. Few do so as deftly as Beth Macy’s new book, “Paper Girl,” Grace Byron writes.
The Muscular Compassion of “Paper Girl”
In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as a ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization.
www.newyorker.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I'm not sure why the @newyorker.com reviewer called @bethmacy.bsky.social "a surprisingly empathetic narrator." No surprise there. Empathy has been the key to Beth being Beth!
But, I agree, "Paper Girl" is a "cogent and thrilling story."
But, I agree, "Paper Girl" is a "cogent and thrilling story."
Consider yourselves warned. No SNAP, colder weather. Not any kind of holiday season ahead.
Thinning pantries, the soaring price of fall chili, and America's Thanksgiving dilemma - do you stay or do you go? open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
Thinning pantries, the soaring price of fall chili, and America's Thanksgiving dilemma
'We do not lack the resources to fix food insecurity; we lack the conviction.'
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Consider yourselves warned. No SNAP, colder weather. Not any kind of holiday season ahead.
The Democratic Party needs to get over itself these candidate purity tests. They hold people to pre-Trump standards and then wonder why they can’t win with weak (but “clean”) candidates.
October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The Democratic Party needs to get over itself these candidate purity tests. They hold people to pre-Trump standards and then wonder why they can’t win with weak (but “clean”) candidates.
“How the federal government seized an independent nonprofit’s privately owned building is very much in the public interest.”
Heck, yes!
Heck, yes!
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“How the federal government seized an independent nonprofit’s privately owned building is very much in the public interest.”
Heck, yes!
Heck, yes!
“Sonny boy, you are midgrade.”
‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...
‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...
www.washingtontimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“Sonny boy, you are midgrade.”