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Billman

@jeffreybillman.bsky.social
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I report on North Carolina courts and politics for @theassemblync.bsky.social. (jeffrey@theassemblync.com). Sometimes I make music. I’m probably tired.

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Matt Hartman @themhartman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
whenever you see @jeffreybillman.bsky.social's name with "part 1," buckle up and start reading www.theassemblync.com/news/investi...
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What’s in My Weed?
Our investigation found many hemp products for sale don’t have the THC levels they claim—but do contain bacteria and other contaminants.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
How is not deporting citizens a *concession*?
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Curious why Fox News thinks DeCarlos Brown was released from prison b/c of a 2021 COVID settlement when state records show that he’d already been released in September 2020 b/c his sentence had concluded. www.foxnews.com/us/charlotte... webapps.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffe...
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Charlotte rail murder suspect linked to inmate release approved under ex-Dem governor, GOP alleges
The suspect in the Charlotte rail murder case was released from prison during a mass inmate release authorized under a former Democratic governor, state GOP says.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
As Justice Kavanaugh might say, she was “briefly inconvenienced.”
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Is he planning to make the illegal thing extra super duper illegal?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/01/2026
Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Nothing says projecting strength like having all of your traditional allies denounce you at once.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Stephen Miller sees three women on TV at once and demands an entire franchise be handed over to a 94-year-old. (I thought the new show was fun, fwiw.)
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
BREAKING Two people have been found dead at the home of director and actor Rob Reiner. The LA Fire Department said the ages of the two victims is 78 and 68 which matches the ages of Rob and his wife Michele. Full Story: bit.ly/497DhMd
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
One of the best uses of Roman-numeral suffixes ever
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
News. www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...
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Immigration Agents Coming to Raleigh Tuesday, Sources Say
Democratic legislative sources briefed by Gov. Josh Stein’s office told The Assembly and INDY agents are coming to the state capital.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Border Patrol can operate anywhere in the country. The 100 mile zone is where they have heightened vehicle stop authority.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 12/11/2025
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Both of the Georgia Public Service Commissioner Special Election seats called for Dems. This won't get the attention of VA/NJ/CA/NYC but for students of southern politics is incredibly imp--a rare ex. of Dems holding statewide elected offices in the South outside of NC & VA.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I have no words.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Just trying to imagine the reaction if a Dem president ordered generals to fly home and told them they'd be deployed to "straighten out," e.g., Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025
pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Reminder that Thom Tillis cast the deciding vote to put this weekend Fox News host in charge of the Pentagon.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2025
NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social
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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene
An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Apple has decided a show about taking down white nationalists is too sensitive to air in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder
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Jessica Chastain’s Apple TV+ Drama ‘The Savant’ Postponed Following Charlie Kirk Assassination
Jessica Chastain's Apple TV+ drama 'The Savant' has been postponed following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Triangle folks: Do you like beer? Do you value @theassemblync.bsky.social? Do you like Frank Bruni or @billadair.com (or me, I guess)? If the answer to any of these is yes, I invite you to come to our October 8 event at Motorco www.theassemblync.com/events/octob...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
On top of everything else, this is utterly insane capitulation to an administration that can barely tie its shoes in most areas and is already scrambling to avoid losing the House with a year still to go.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My history teacher (also a football coach) told us that the Civil War was caused by trade and FDR caused the Depression.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Competition keeps getting stiffer, but this might be the dumbest thing ever posted by an official government account.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Is the Trump administration really arguing that it has the right to kill—as opposed to interdict—in international waters based on an unproven allegation of criminal activity?
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
As a lawyer, I'll tell you that there's nobody who knows this law better than Ryan and Brian. Sure looks like murder or war crime to me. But as a human, I'll tell you that the Rubio statement -- we could have stopped the boat but we blew it up to send a message -- is sickening and depraved.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Also: 1) Is there any evidence that the people we killed had committed crimes in the U.S.? 2) If so, why not interdict and arrest them? 3) Either way, how is killing them in international waters w/out congressional authorization not simply murder?
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 02/09/2025
Lets get a headset on Jordon and see if she can do any better
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“It will embarrass us if you say the illegal thing we did is illegal” cannot be a real argument.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
RICO for protesting.
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The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A week after RedSpeed’s donation to the Senate GOP, the chamber’s transportation committee inserted a provision into a wide-ranging bill that could make the company millions of dollars. www.theassemblync.com/politics/leg...
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A New Way to Pay to Play
After a company that sells camera technology donated to a Republican fund, lawmakers passed legislation that could make it millions.
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Center for NC Politics & Public Service @ncpolitics.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
New @catawbacollege.bsky.social-YouGov Poll of North Carolina: Trump Approval: 45% Disapproval: 54% Stein Approval: 58% Disapproval: 30% Cooper App: 55% Disapp: 38% Whatley App: 30% Disapp: 35% Never heard of: 35% 8/11-18 of 1K NCians with MOE =/- 3.83% #ncpol www.catawba.edu/news/all-new...
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YouGov #12
Catawba College is ranked #4 among the best colleges in the South. Located in historic Salisbury, NC, it is a private, coeducational liberal arts college established in 1851. Our mission is to enrich ...
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Don't print lies in the newspaper. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Can’t even fathom how many people are going to die for this guy’s conspiratorial fantasies.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/08/2025
Dog Named Murph Lives Up To Name
Dog Named Murph Lives Up To Name
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
10 million jobs coming next month!
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I mean probably, just not in the way they mean www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
In North Carolina, a state very close to 50-50, Republicans have a lock on 10 of 14 congressional seats.
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Via Trump's logic, Kamala Harris should file a $50 billion lawsuit against Fox. She'd have a stronger claim than Trump did against CBS. (This is arguably a misleading edit, and she actually lost!)
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
You would think that when the court is signaling to lower courts that they did something wrong, it might say why.
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