I would've loved to have seen four things in Stein's proclamation for Public Schools Week:
1) A mention of how public education is vital to a multi-racial democracy
2) Leandro
3) Leandro
4) Leandro
#ncpol
hard to be the pro democracy party when they keep messing up the democracy part
Three candidates in the Democratic primary for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District are calling out the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for backing another contender in the race. ncnewsline.com/2026/02/26/n... Story by @christinezhu.bsky.social #ncpol #nc11 #WNC
Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
I cried after my daughter told me they're posing as crossing guards. Snatching up kids and parents as they cross the street to get to school.
@jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social, how about Leandro next?
"She withstood all the vitriol. She certainly was threatened. Her friends reportedly were concerned about her safety.
But Budde responded philosophically—in fact, heroically, given the temper of the times."
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
"In a statement, the University of Oklahoma said it supported the decision by the director of the school’s First Year Composition program to suspend the second instructor." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Your man couldn’t even find an image of the cover of the book he was pretending to listen to
Hopeful story for the Halloween season: Bob Ross saving public television from beyond the grave
“Plenary” will haunt them in court and Miller realizing in real time
Great Isabell take, “Drown” was my gateway too.
Kipling, really?
Anyone else feeling the increasing pressure of internal self-censorship these days? It’s an embarrassing injury every time we can’t express our views for fear of governmental power.
they all came out of the woodwork…
Granite and fire.
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
#Atwood with a scorcher
“Vaterland,” from the original translation
a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How much of a pay cut are NC state employees getting?
“An electorate that has lost the capacity for long-form thought will be more tribal, less rational, largely uninterested in facts or even matters of historical record, moved more by vibes than cogent argument and open to fantastical ideas and bizarre conspiracy theories.”
“As long as we’re talking about violence, this spring the medical journal the Lancet estimated that Doge’s dismantling of USAid could result in more than 14m deaths, a third of them children, by 2030.”
Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
#BookSky
