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Amelia

@amelialeigh.bsky.social
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NC-based, but on a mission to see the world. Feminist, humanist, agnostic, wine-tasting, dancing, tech nerd. Devoted cat lady. Not obeying in advance or otherwise. #ncpol #neveragain

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Common Cause North Carolina @commoncausenc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
POLL: As North Carolinians get ready to vote, a new survey shows the state’s voters are united across party lines in support of college campus early voting sites and Sunday voting options – and in opposing partisan influence in election administration. ➡️ See the poll results at ccnc.me/2026poll
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
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Todd Warren @toddwarren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vote AGAINST all constitutional amendments on the NC ballot.
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NC groups launch campaign to defeat two tax amendments on November ballot • NC Newsline
Two North Carolina groups are launching a campaign against two tax-related constitutional amendments on the November 2026 ballot.
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Amelia @amelialeigh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ll help as well.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chick-fil-A isn’t open on Sundays, so polls shouldn’t be either. That was one reason a GOP county board member in North Carolina offered for scaling back weekend voting during a heated North Carolina State Board of Elections meeting Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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No Chick-fil-A, no voting: One North Carolina county’s argument for closing polls on Sundays
“I do not support these companies that are employing people on Sunday to make another dollar. I like how Chick-fil-A has done it, and I wish more companies would do that,” Anson County's Matt Longwort...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This thread in response to David Perry's post of the (horrific) NYer piece on a Nobel laureate/serial child molester brings me back to something I run into all the time: a lack of awareness of how much society has changed over the past several decades.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🧵 I'm going to clarify why the Black community has had it with the wholesale tap dancing taking place in America today—be it in politics and/or across social media platforms. While I have no problem with Black conservatives—the "performing" for racist whites is the issue. (cont)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/08/2026
Q: On the economy - what do you plan to do to make North Carolina more affordable? MICHAEL WHATLEY: *walks away* NARRATOR: He wouldn't take Qs on that even though we sent Whatley Qs more than 24 hours ago looking for specific plans. We have not been given a response beyond 2 paragraphs on his site
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Amelia @amelialeigh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Oh my goodness. Just listen.
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sen. Tillis caves and supports an unqualified candidate for AG. Sen. Budd continues to want to suppress the vote. NC has terrible senators.
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Progress NC Action @pnca.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Because of the Republican budget, NC is now the only state without civil case legal aid. The 40 year old program helped support people with low incomes as they fought for their rights in court. It did it without spending a penny of taxpayer dollars. #ncpol bit.ly/4g9JVFd
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After NC lawmakers pull plug on civil legal aid, nonprofits are left searching for solutions • NC Newsline
The budget makes North Carolina the only state in the country with neither state funding for legal aid in civil cases nor support from IOLTA.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"The Gotham Publish a Book Scholarship is open to people of color who have completed a book manuscript (or nonfiction book proposal) and are ready to seek agent representation and go to market with their book. Three scholarships will be offered every year to un-agented writers."
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Publish a Book Scholarship - Gotham Writers
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: A North Carolina Senate committee greenlit new voter suppression measures Tuesday, moving forward a bill that would make it easier to purge voters from the rolls and impose stricter requirements for registering to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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North Carolina advances more voter suppression measures
The bill also reduces the early voting period for primaries, runoffs and special elections from 17 to 10 days.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New article! Where is America going? On Trump's July 4 disaster, the stolen sovereignty of the US, the leftist primary wins, and the plan to merge the US and Israeli militaries. Also, Vanilla Ice: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/stop-colla...
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Stop, collaborator, and listen!
On stolen sovereignty and Americans fighting back.
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Beatrice Sexton @bsexton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Virginia Foxx seems to have endless energy for bullying. Maybe dehumanizing people is what keeps her so active. #ncpol www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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House Republicans advance education bill restricting discussions on racism & gender
The measure would bar federally funded civics and history programs from promoting what the bill calls “gender ideology” and “discriminatory equity ideology.”
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WUNC News @wunc.org · 06/05/2026
Compensation for public university employees in North Carolina is a public record, from football coaches to professors and security guards. But legislation introduced today in the N.C. House would exempt payments to athletes from public records law. www.wunc.org/politics/202...
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Should college athlete pay be public? NC legislature could make it confidential
Compensation for public university employees in North Carolina is a public record, from football coaches to professors and security guards. But legislation introduced in the N.C. House on Wednesday wo...
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS just denied our motion to recall the judgment in Louisiana v. Callais, which the Court transmitted prematurely and in contravention of the procedural rules that typically affords litigants 25 days to request a rehearing of a case that was wrongly decided. 1/5
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.
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KatOtis! @kat-otis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Gee, thanks "teach the dems a lesson voters." 😡😡😡😡
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Sue Sturgis @suesturgis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“We’re giving Duke Energy money to build something and then we’re paying Duke Energy higher utility rates,“ said Rania Masri, co-director of the NC Environmental Justice Network. It is absolutely absurd.“
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Duke Energy Received Tax Breaks on Its Three N.C. Data Centers - Inside Climate News
Meanwhile, the utility is proposing rate hikes to pay for natural gas plants that would power data centers statewide.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/04/2026
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026
The child’s mom, a university professor, “suspects her daughter was flagged by the teacher’s AI detection tools because she used terms such as ‘the titular character.’”
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North Carolina Student Fights Accusation of AI Use
Wake County Public Schools faces controversy after three different AI-detection tools indicated a student's assignment was partially generated by AI, while the student, an avid reader and writer, rese...
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Mark Rodin @markrodin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
ncnewsline.com/2026/04/23/n... Anything to to divert attention from their failure to pass a budget
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NC Republicans propose banning books, withholding pay over 'Parents’ Bill of Rights' • NC Newsline
NC House Republicans filed a bill Thursday to ban some books from elementary school libraries and impose financial penalties on school leaders who don't comply.
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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Rodney D. Pierce @pierce4nchouse.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"If all the data centers currently planned in North Carolina are built, that figure would balloon to about $450 million each year, in addition to about $1.5 billion to $2.3 billion in equipment exemptions during construction, Commerce estimates." #ncpol #datacenters ncnewsline.com/2026/04/08/s...
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Stein urges review of data center tax breaks as cost to NC residents rise • NC Newsline
Stein is asking the North Carolina Energy Policy Task Force to weigh whether the state should modify or repeal sales tax exemptions for data centers.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone sent me this.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside
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Colin Campbell @raleighreporter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Worth a read if you're on the State Health Plan... -Next year you could be steered toward a "preferred provider" if you want to get lower-cost healthcare services -Future premium hikes could be tied to pay raises www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol
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NC state workers could pay less for healthcare — if they visit a 'preferred provider'
State employees could see lower costs for healthcare services next year under a new "preferred provider" program approved by the State Health Plan board Tuesday — if they're willing to choose a specif...
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 10/03/2026
For months we’ve watched ICE weaponize AI surveillance tools to intimidate & abduct people from communities across the country - the suppliers of these same tools are fueling U.S. attacks on Venezuela & Iran via Palantir’s Project Maven & Anthropic’s Claude AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...
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A Fight About the Future of War
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Sen. Michael K. Garrett @michaelgarrett.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The 2026 Olympics gave America two gold medals in hockey. And then one locker room took something away from all of us. I am not surprised by him. But I am deeply disappointed in them.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Casey Means’ Surgeon General confirmation hearing is tomorrow. Means holds a number of extremely disturbing views, including that hormonal birth control is “disrespect for life”. She isn’t a “fringe” or “alternative” healthcare provider. She is a person who blithely ignores scientific facts.
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A new generation of birth control skeptics leans right
More young women are embracing fertility tracking methods long popular among Catholics, looking to influencers, questioning doctors — and finding a home in MAGA.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This is *literally* flying under the radar: a blatant attempt to destroy public higher ed and access to a higher ed degree, along with the decimation of entire fields of study at institutions that do not have huge endowments to back up lack of federal funding. share.google/Z04SJUI47STN... #USDOE
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U.S. Department of Education Reaches Consensus on Historic New Accountability Framework and Concludes Higher Education Reform Rulemaking Sessions
The Department has reached consensus on the third and final regulatory package to implement the historic changes made to higher education as part of President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts Act .
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 18/02/2026
A Democratic state representative in North Carolina delivered a key vote to pass several GOP immigration bills and said on the House floor that “all cultures are not equal.” In next month’s primary, she faces a challenge from her left.
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The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters.
North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Looks like there wasn’t a language barrier for kids in Uganda when it comes to Bad Bunny. Love this!
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 11/02/2026
UNC Administrators Can Now Secretly Record Faculty The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.” bit.ly/3MyingR #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Aerial over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring.
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
What Vic Mensa said...
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
My senator’s inability to call out Trump turns his rightful stand into mush.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out
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Empowering Main St. Before Wall St. @rchady.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
NCSU prof: estimates the #tariffs could cost the state’s farmers about $695 million. That is roughly a third of NC's average net farm income. It would cost 8,000 lost jobs in agriculture along with the ripple effects from that lost revenue.
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Tariffs could wipe out nearly a third of NC farm income, new report says • NC Newsline
NC Farmers have limited options for minimizing damage from tariffs, according to a report commissioned by the John Locke Foundation.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
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The E.P.A. will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The malignant clown is making America into a pariah
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