Emily Smith Pearce
@emilyspearce.bsky.social
Writer, Maker of Stuff, Pop Culturist
My church is now using what appears to be AI images on its worship music slides. It’s giving 1980s myrtle beach airbrush shop vibes.
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My church is now using what appears to be AI images on its worship music slides. It’s giving 1980s myrtle beach airbrush shop vibes.
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ICE raids a Charlotte church and arrests a member whose child was inside www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship
Witnesses say one man was detained while doing yard work while his wife and child were inside.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
ICE raids a Charlotte church and arrests a member whose child was inside www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
The demolition of the East Wing feels like a daylight heist, too. Did anyone even save pieces of it?
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The demolition of the East Wing feels like a daylight heist, too. Did anyone even save pieces of it?
After watching season one of Slow Horses, I have changed my mind. I will allow a ginger Darcy, just this once. You’re welcome.
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
After watching season one of Slow Horses, I have changed my mind. I will allow a ginger Darcy, just this once. You’re welcome.
That feeling when you walk out the door first thing in the morning and a frog lands on your head!
September 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
That feeling when you walk out the door first thing in the morning and a frog lands on your head!
Sometimes I think about the family recipe of my college boyfriend’s that was a kind of snickers-type ice cream dessert called, for some inexplicable reason, Peter Robinson. I guess I’ll never get that recipe. There’s some things google just can’t answer.
June 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Sometimes I think about the family recipe of my college boyfriend’s that was a kind of snickers-type ice cream dessert called, for some inexplicable reason, Peter Robinson. I guess I’ll never get that recipe. There’s some things google just can’t answer.
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Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
May 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
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SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA
MOBILIZE
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MOBILIZE
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Spartanburg District 7 School Board meets tomorrow to vote on a policy that removes pregnancy from its anti-discrimination policy. If it passes, they can fire pregnant teachers without cause. They did that 50 years ago. What’s next? Show up tomorrow to raise hell. @spartanburgdems.bsky.social #scpol
May 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA
MOBILIZE
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MOBILIZE
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today is the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first law to bar a specific ethnic group or nationality from the US. though it was repealed in 1943, this law continues to echo through history.
May 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
today is the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first law to bar a specific ethnic group or nationality from the US. though it was repealed in 1943, this law continues to echo through history.
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saw some folks clowning on this but hard to think of a better use for a bulletproof vehicle right now.
The popemobile is being transformed into a mobile health clinic to treat ill and wounded Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip — an initiative that Pope Francis blessed in the months before he died.
A Popemobile Used by Pope Francis Will Become a Mobile Clinic in Gaza
In his last months, Pope Francis blessed an effort to transform the vehicle he used when he visited the West Bank in 2014 into a mobile health clinic to treat Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
saw some folks clowning on this but hard to think of a better use for a bulletproof vehicle right now.
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It was always performative outrage.
May 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It was always performative outrage.
So good. Watch this documentary about teens in my home state ❤️
Just four days after Donald Trump took office earlier this year, his Department of Education released a statement declaring book bans a “hoax.” Documentary ‘Banned Together’ follows three students’ efforts to preserve intellectual freedom in Beaufort, South Carolina.
We Took on Book Bans in Our Small Conservative Community — and Won
The documentary Banned Together tells the story of three high school activists in South Carolina.
www.teenvogue.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
So good. Watch this documentary about teens in my home state ❤️
Dear Lord, people do not know where to put commas.
April 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Dear Lord, people do not know where to put commas.
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I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
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“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend.
“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? (Gift Article)
The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend.
“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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New Mexico, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas have active measles outbreaks and U.S. measles cases have topped 700 as of Friday.
Montana has a measles outbreak with its first cases in 35 years. Here's what you should know
New Mexico, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas have active measles outbreaks and U.S. measles cases have topped 700 as of Friday.
bit.ly
April 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
New Mexico, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas have active measles outbreaks and U.S. measles cases have topped 700 as of Friday.
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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
April 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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The whole fucking point of "due process" is that everyone gets it. Everyone. All people. Timothy McVeigh and Mark David Chapman and Ken Lay and Harvey Weinstein and also guys who stole candy bars from 7-11 and ran stop signs. The worst monsters on earth and the most angelic sweeties. Everyone!
The problem with … the two problems with .. AMONG the problems with people like Natalie Jackson is their credulous and sheeplike willingness to accept the government’s narrative about who is a “hero” or a “villain” based on dubious claims,
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April 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The whole fucking point of "due process" is that everyone gets it. Everyone. All people. Timothy McVeigh and Mark David Chapman and Ken Lay and Harvey Weinstein and also guys who stole candy bars from 7-11 and ran stop signs. The worst monsters on earth and the most angelic sweeties. Everyone!
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One person one vote.
NEW: A North Carolina appeals court effectively disenfranchised over 60k voters in ruling against Justice Allison Riggs' (D) victory in the state Supreme Court race.
Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy'
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
One person one vote.
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North Carolina - Check to see if you are on the thegriffinlist.com
For everyone in NC who has ever ordered from me, I looked for you and didn't your full name, or your last name matching the zip code you provided to me (except one last name starting with G). Go look for your friends and family!
For everyone in NC who has ever ordered from me, I looked for you and didn't your full name, or your last name matching the zip code you provided to me (except one last name starting with G). Go look for your friends and family!
The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to
early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted.
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thegriffinlist.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
North Carolina - Check to see if you are on the thegriffinlist.com
For everyone in NC who has ever ordered from me, I looked for you and didn't your full name, or your last name matching the zip code you provided to me (except one last name starting with G). Go look for your friends and family!
For everyone in NC who has ever ordered from me, I looked for you and didn't your full name, or your last name matching the zip code you provided to me (except one last name starting with G). Go look for your friends and family!
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Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
www.propublica.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.