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@drnickiw.bsky.social

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.

The website to check linked in the reply.

www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility

The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.

www.newsobserver.com

April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Philip Bump

@pbump.com

The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.

April 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

Happy 1st gotcha day ❤️

April 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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Molly Jong-Fast

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

This is very smart

www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

March 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

Finally (ran out of a color I needed). Stress-management mermaid No. 2. Haven’t decided what to put on the sign

Mosaic of a mermaid in blue water with gray hair and red scales

March 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM

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Peter Sagal

@petersagal.bsky.social

UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:

I just now got off the phone with Allan Schappert, the author of this letter. He’s not on social media. When I shared how his letter has travelled, he said, “I’m gobsmacked.” He wrote to share his story, and perhaps to let other veterans know they’re not alone, and he’s amazed that he touched a nerve. “The pen is mightier than the sword!” exclaimed this pilot who once wielded the nuclear sword at the controls of an American B52. Whew. He thanks you, Peter, for sharing his words. Allan and I have plans to grab a beer together this weekend.

March 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

My goodness. My pops (USMC, r.i.p.) could have written this, including the Agent Orange cancers. Devastating.

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Mar 11

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…

March 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

So much corruption, so little time youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...

Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy

youtu.be

March 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

It is a lot. Ned suggests taking breaks to fold yourself in half

Brindle dog taking a couch nap with his legs up by his face

March 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

Welcome back, Monica Hesse www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | All the splinters we cannot see

Regardless of the thorns in any of our feet, we all just have to carry on.

www.washingtonpost.com

March 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM

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Dana Milbank

@danamilbank.bsky.social

I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX

Opinion | Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’

The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms.

wapo.st

February 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

Ned thinks this week calls for both nap and toe beans

Brindle dog sleeping with his toes in his face

February 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM

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Kara Swisher

@karaswisher.bsky.social

No notes

February 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

Om

February 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

“Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, your money, your country, and your future, make it known to your elected officials that you wanted something else.” But “oops” or “my bad” will do open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

open.substack.com

February 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

Hiiii I am still here but I will be posting my columns here haxcolumn.bsky.social and there will be certified Ned content in both places

haxcolumn.bsky.social

January 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

you’ve been ned

January 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

So many Neds, plus a chat: www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...

Carolyn Hax chat: How do I tell my aunt not to count on me for elder care?

Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life.

www.washingtonpost.com

January 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

Pick your intro: 1. Read this 🎯 essay; 2. Meet my niece @helennnholmes.bsky.social (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/m...

‘The Rizzler’ and the Creeping Childishness of Pop Culture (Gift Article)

Some corners of American entertainment are becoming worrisomely infantile.

www.nytimes.com

January 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

There’re no zoomies like snow zoomies (some brindly counterprogramming for your feed)

January 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

Look at Neddy when hears? sees? his boy coming

Dog waiting by the door to go out but craning his neck to see who’s coming around the corner

January 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM

Carolyn Hax

@carolynhax.bsky.social

What fresh hell is this

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Jan 4

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump

A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...