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Former editor of the News & Record in Greensboro, NC; former UNC journalism professor. He's strolled all alone through a fallout zone & came out with his soul untouched.

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WATCH — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is one we’re not spending here at home. We’re always told we don’t have enough money for schools or healthcare or for veterans, but there’s always enough to bomb people on the other side of the world.”

10.03.2026 22:39 👍 108 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 1

Ainsley Hayes did some fine work in the Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue in the White House.

10.03.2026 22:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10.03.2026 22:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So even Fox knows that Trump is lying…but of course won’t call it a lie.

10.03.2026 10:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The UNC faculty wants to see the report. The provost says, forget it. Classic bureaucratic avoidance.

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

10.03.2026 10:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Georgia Warehouse Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.

Only in Trump’s godawful vision of America.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

10.03.2026 09:53 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

A test for Florsheim: Do we risk marketing Trump’s love of our shoes?

10.03.2026 09:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

Might be some good reasons for the U.S. Constitution to require congressional authorization prior to the expenditure of blood and treasure in war—rather than leaving it to the whims of one man.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

10.03.2026 03:18 👍 176 🔁 60 💬 8 📌 0
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Two Supreme Court Justices Debate Handling of Trump Emergency Cases

This story, which could have revealed light, is a disappointment. Too short and too shallow for such a rare and potentially insightful event. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

10.03.2026 08:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brian Kilmeade has supplanted Hannity as the worst influence: “If you want to diminish the Iranian threat, if you want to make sure this ends up with complete Iran capitulation,” he said, “show some guts and go through that Strait, and do it.”

10.03.2026 07:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Follow the money. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

10.03.2026 01:54 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Trump Open to Khamenei Being Killed if Iran’s Leader Doesn’t Cede to U.S. Demands
Hits on critical infrastructure were exchanged, with Israeli strikes on Iranian fuel-storage complexes lighting up the Tehran skyline.

Trump Open to Khamenei Being Killed if Iran’s Leader Doesn’t Cede to U.S. Demands Hits on critical infrastructure were exchanged, with Israeli strikes on Iranian fuel-storage complexes lighting up the Tehran skyline.

What a wild headline.

"Trump open to Khamenei being killed if he doesn't cede to U.S. demands"

Who's ordering the killing? And we just do assassinations bow?

This reads like a Mafia hit. Gross, embarrassing, and, ofc, dangerous.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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09.03.2026 20:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here, I’ll do it for you: “I haven’t seen it.”

09.03.2026 20:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who is gonna play that role in this administration?

09.03.2026 20:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That beats mine: a class where no one could name the 4 Beatles.

One student’s response to me: “Can you name the members of N’SYNC.”

Shut me up.

09.03.2026 20:33 👍 269 🔁 7 💬 14 📌 3
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09.03.2026 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll have a lightly dirty Grey Goose martini with three olives, not two, AND a lemon twist because I’m daring.

09.03.2026 19:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The drip drip drip of disclosures keeps the Epstein-Trump connection in the public eye.

09.03.2026 19:06 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thread 👇

09.03.2026 17:20 👍 112 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 1

Speaker Johnson has reprimanded him, right? No?

09.03.2026 17:12 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Every time I think I have a terrible representative, I realize it could be worse.

Also both are terrible.

09.03.2026 17:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Variety: “The Bride” is "shaping up to be the year’s first big bomb."

Au contraire. @brianstelter.bsky.social writes:

Melania Trump's film is now streaming, "after quietly winding down its run in theaters, where it has earned north of $16.4 million domestically," THR's Pamela McClintock writes.

09.03.2026 15:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thanks. I really gonna appreciate this when I’m watching Americans come home in boxes, I’m paying $4 a gallon for gas, and I read of our allies turning against us.

09.03.2026 14:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
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Let’s get Pam “over 50,000” Bondi back to testify!

09.03.2026 13:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Who’s going to tell doofus that the senior senator from N.C. had to viscerate Noem in public over the Trump administration’s refusal to hand over that recovery money?

09.03.2026 13:55 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

As he was playing golf, the Pentagon announced the 7th American war death.

09.03.2026 13:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This dude's👇 always on the money.

09.03.2026 13:33 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

"I resent the demeaning use of "Ice Barbie" to refer to Kristi Noem.

"Respectfully, Barbie."

09.03.2026 13:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

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