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This shameful injustice cannot be allowed to stand • NC Newsline
It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of the injustice that would result from overturning the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election
ncnewsline.com
The Republican-majority North Carolina Supreme Court has picked and chosen the counties whose absentee ballots should be counted. In case you don't immediately see why that's a lawless attempt to overturn election results, here's an explanation: ncnewsline.com/2025/04/15/t...
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The Trump administration is investigating James Comey, the former FBI director who President Trump fired in his first term, for a social media post that officials claim amounted to a call for Trump’s assassination.
Ex-F.B.I. Chief Being Investigated Over Social Media Post About Trump
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The Trump administration is investigating James Comey, the former FBI director who President Trump fired in his first term, for a social media post that officials claim amounted to a call for Trump’s assassination.
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The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin.
www.wunc.org/2025-04-15/d...
www.wunc.org/2025-04-15/d...
DOGE cut a CDC team as it was about to start a project to help N.C. flood victims
The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin.
www.wunc.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin.
www.wunc.org/2025-04-15/d...
www.wunc.org/2025-04-15/d...
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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
The Republican-majority North Carolina Supreme Court has picked and chosen the counties whose absentee ballots should be counted. In case you don't immediately see why that's a lawless attempt to overturn election results, here's an explanation: ncnewsline.com/2025/04/15/t...
This shameful injustice cannot be allowed to stand • NC Newsline
It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of the injustice that would result from overturning the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election
ncnewsline.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Republican-majority North Carolina Supreme Court has picked and chosen the counties whose absentee ballots should be counted. In case you don't immediately see why that's a lawless attempt to overturn election results, here's an explanation: ncnewsline.com/2025/04/15/t...
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Makes ya think
April 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Makes ya think
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This executive order is bad — cartoonishly so. But it is also a wake-up call for those who believe the danger of election subversion has passed.
To the contrary, it has only just begun.
And so has our fight.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
To the contrary, it has only just begun.
And so has our fight.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
Trump’s Latest Executive Order is a Sham—and a Warning
From Marc | The greatest threat to Donald Trump’s authoritarian dream is not the courts — it is free and fair elections.
www.democracydocket.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This executive order is bad — cartoonishly so. But it is also a wake-up call for those who believe the danger of election subversion has passed.
To the contrary, it has only just begun.
And so has our fight.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
To the contrary, it has only just begun.
And so has our fight.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
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My dear friends of Bluesky! This one has hit way too fing close to home for me. This young woman, Rumeysa Ozturk from Istanbul, Turkey wax detained by US Homeland Security today. One of her professors at Tufts University in Medford, MA just spent a week in my home in Charleston, SC.
March 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My dear friends of Bluesky! This one has hit way too fing close to home for me. This young woman, Rumeysa Ozturk from Istanbul, Turkey wax detained by US Homeland Security today. One of her professors at Tufts University in Medford, MA just spent a week in my home in Charleston, SC.
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Hegseth is literally denying a story that the NSC has already confirmed and in which receipts were printed verbatim.
Remember this the next time he impugns another journalist.
Remember this the next time he impugns another journalist.
Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?
Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
March 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hegseth is literally denying a story that the NSC has already confirmed and in which receipts were printed verbatim.
Remember this the next time he impugns another journalist.
Remember this the next time he impugns another journalist.
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We’re not “heading” towards fascism. We’re there.
Fabien Schmidt, a German green card holder married to an American citizen and with an eight year old daughter, was tortured by the Trump admin www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.
www.wgbh.org
March 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We’re not “heading” towards fascism. We’re there.
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The original purpose of NATO, our columnist Bret Stephens writes, was "to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down. Under Trump, it's something like the opposite: America out, Russia in, and (the wrong kind of) Germans up."
Opinion | The (Fatuous) Case for Betraying Ukraine
The organizing principle of Putin’s reign has been the restoration of Soviet power at the expense of people power.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The original purpose of NATO, our columnist Bret Stephens writes, was "to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down. Under Trump, it's something like the opposite: America out, Russia in, and (the wrong kind of) Germans up."
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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My 1st thought was Chamberlain can in fact finally rest in peace.
February 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My 1st thought was Chamberlain can in fact finally rest in peace.
Sometimes, when I see someone for the first time in several months, he or she asks me how my recovery is going. It's not always immediately clear to me that the reference is to my June 13 bicycle crash, because I was at 90% by the end of August and at 98% by the end of September.
February 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Sometimes, when I see someone for the first time in several months, he or she asks me how my recovery is going. It's not always immediately clear to me that the reference is to my June 13 bicycle crash, because I was at 90% by the end of August and at 98% by the end of September.
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The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming season.
Trump Administration Cancels Meeting of FDA Vaccine Advisers, Risking Flu-Shot Delay
The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the up...
www.bloomberg.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming season.
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The Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy is responsible for expanding and strengthening the relationship between the people of the United States and citizens of other countries. This is who Trump & Rubio selected for that role. Any questions?
February 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy is responsible for expanding and strengthening the relationship between the people of the United States and citizens of other countries. This is who Trump & Rubio selected for that role. Any questions?
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.
Elon Musk Installs Illegal Server to Seize All Federal Workers’ Data
Elon Musk’s DOGE henchmen are helping him make his most terrifying power grab yet.
buff.ly
February 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.
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Collins: He said that Canada is going to be implementing a $1.3 billion border plan, where they talk about reinforcing the border. I should note that's actually something that was announced back in December
February 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Collins: He said that Canada is going to be implementing a $1.3 billion border plan, where they talk about reinforcing the border. I should note that's actually something that was announced back in December