Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8mThread. (It’s a new world, fellow academics.) 1206
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 20hOof the weather forecast for tomorrow keeps not getting any better but we will be marching rain or shine!! ☔️ (my first Durham Pride parade was in 2015 in the rain, I marched w/ Planned Parenthood as a board member and they’re back in the parade again this year & marching right behind us!!) 030
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 22hYeah, meanwhile in NC-04... 😂 www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comThe little-known Democrat with big influence over AI policyRep. Valerie Foushee wants to put civil rights and liberties at the center of the debate over how to regulate artificial intelligence. 000
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 22hI'm part of a team of attorneys who have received specialized training and we will be assigned to precincts statewide as determined by NCDP (probably suspected hotspots). I would prefer to stay in Durham/Orange but I'll go where I'm sent! :) 141
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 22hIf you're not following this account, you're really missing out on some bangers. 020
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 23hI don't think this line got as much coverage as it should have.talkingpointsmemo.comJD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance... 626287
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 02/10/2026Yes! This is why trained observers are so important bc that’s how these issues get reported back to county elections directors. 👍🏻 120
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 02/10/2026Having said that, I do think we’ll see more voter challenges than we have in past cycles, if only bc the NCGA has made them easier to do. But challengers still have to follow the rules and my guess is most won’t. 😉 100
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 02/10/2026Thank you for your service! And yes, it’s almost always boring and that’s awesome. 110
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 02/10/2026I also said that observers are trained to call the police if presented with dangerous situations. Him: But the police will be the ones doing it! And the National Guard!” Me: I’m not sure what you expect the NC Democratic Party to do about a tank. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yes, the doomers are exhausting. 000
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 02/10/2026I was at my new Democratic precinct meeting this weekend and someone asked what the party was planning to do to stop all of Trump’s planned disruptions on Election Day. I talked a bit about the party’s legal poll observer program which is designed to address those kinds of problems… 232
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 02/10/2026Y’all have no idea how pissed my 18 year old daughter is about this. PISSED. 😡😡😡 010
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A new French presidential poll today calms fears of an “all extremes” run-off in May between Far Right and Far Left. An Ifop poll shows Centrist former PM Edouard Philippe 5 points ahead of radical Left veteran Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the “race for second place” in the 1st round on 18 April. 1/ 3294
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 30/09/2026Friends, @laurareece.bsky.social and I will be marching in Saturday's Durham Pride March with our kids. It's one of the things I missed so much about being in France and I'm so thrilled to be back this year! If you see me at the parade, let me know bc I'd love to hug each and every one of you. 090
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 30/09/2026Been spending a little time lately looking at mid-18th century deed transfer documents from Surry County, NC. Familysearch.org is a beast! In related news, if anyone has a line on other primary sources for deeds, wills and other legal transactions in NC in the 1700s, let me know! 😂 001
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comIn Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s FaultThanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state. 983858978
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 30/09/2026My teen goes to college next year too and her solution to *waves hands* all of this is to focus on women's colleges in her application process. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 030
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026What's fun about this whole contretemps and why it's worth watching again is how smirky Schmitt starts out - this is going to be his big moment – and how honest a puzzled Smith comes off, and how sharp Klobuchar was to quickly figure out the basic mistake. And then how pissy Schmitt gets at her. 361362210
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America. 412648390
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yeah I could have said, “across group identity, information seekers’ emotional valance rapidly progressed from positive to negative as the precognition to satisfy their information need became more complex” but I was trying to talk like a human! 11049
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 27/09/2026This take did hit a little too close to home tho!!! 😂 bsky.app/profile/figg... 030
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 27/09/2026I don't have anything useful to add to The Discourse around that Rolling Stone article about that one song but I will say that folks who write as if they understand why I might say one thing or another are annoying as shit. The presumption! The ego! "Rolling Stone. Boy, I don't know." 130
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The deeper technical risk is that autonomous AI does not always know when it is wrong" News flash: a computer *never* knows when it is wrong...nor does it know anything else, either. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comWhy did an OpenAI system hack Australia's health system - and can it be stopped in the future?News that an automated AI agent hacked a government IT system raises big questions about regulating the tech. 031
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 24/09/2026Ha yes! Life and many reasons brought us back to North Carolina. I miss France every day but you do what you gotta do! 😂 010
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 24/09/2026Most Americans I know in France vote online via the UOCAVA system? We never had to deal with mailing ballots. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 210
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 23/09/2026This ain't it, folks. This cannot be the energy we bring into the next Congress. No. 083
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Sarah Willets @sarahwillets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@indyweek.bsky.social's annual Pride edition is out! 1105
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 22/09/2026And I haven't seen much from the Democratic Party leadership to suggest that anything has changed since then. 😫 140
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 22/09/2026My optimism about the current Democratic Party has been nearly nonexistent since the Democratic primary for Congress in my district this year. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 160
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 22/09/2026I'm sorry to say that I agree with this. I can be glad that the GOP seems to be headed for a huge repudiation at the polls while simultaneously having very little optimism about how the current Democratic Party will use their new institutional power if they manage to win the House and the Senate. 271
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There is no "platform" and no one on this site can honestly say that they know what they would do if they win the House and/or Senate starting in January. What's the immediate first order of business, for example? No voter can say. It has not been communicated to anyone. 22610153
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.opb.orgOregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new reportA first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities. 8030831808
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Josh Stein @joshsteinnc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is no way to respond to a tragic disaster, no way to run a country, no way to campaign for office. Western North Carolinians have been working their tails off for the past two years to recover from Helene. It’s time for Washington to match their grit and fund our $10 billion request. 1334
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 16/09/2026Yes exactly, Burnham should latch onto this as a UK preservation tool! The only question is whether there’s any appetite on the EU side to allow the UK to do it after all the shenanigans. 050
Reposted by Charlie Reece ✅Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers. 332697387
