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The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 18/11/2025

His attorney said the FBI would not allow him to meet with his client before federal officials questioned him, which would violate the Constitution.

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Border agents arrested Charlotte man for documenting them, friends, partner say

His attorney said the FBI would not allow him to meet with his client before federal officials questioned him, which would violate the Constitution.

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The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Scenes of panic, paranoia, and solidarity unfolded across Durham on Tuesday as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents descended on the Triangle. www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...

Employees closed down La Superior grocery store following reports federal agents were coming. (Lena Geller for INDY)

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Hooper @hooperhooper.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

NC’s House Majority Leader has set his sights on UNC’s LGBT Center’s measly $200k in state funding… despite the fact that UNC’s new conservative incubator “School of Civic Life and Leadership” has burned up $2 million plus of taxpayer dollars this year. Appeals to “viewpoint diversity” are a joke.

Screengrab of tweet from Brendan Jones questioning state funding for UNC’s LGBT Center

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Good Seats Still Available @goodseatsstillavailable.com · 18/08/2025

🏀 From barnstorming road shows to the WNBA, women’s basketball has mirrored America’s social struggles and triumphs; a revealing survey w/"Shattering the Glass" authors Pamela Grundy & Susan Shackelford; NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or tinyurl.com/2usu9tbw #GoodSeats

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North Carolina Museum of Art @ncartmuseum.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Hi, Bluesky! We're happy to be here 😁 Stay tuned for more content from us! #NCMA #ArtNaturePeople

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NC Stories @ncstories.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Carrboro has a new online news publication: The Carborean

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Carola van Dyke, contemporary fibre artist based on the UK south coast, who is inspired by close observation and appreciation of nature #WomensArt

Textile artwork resembling a butterfly wing with embroudered realistic markings in green, red, blue and white, resting on a white surface

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Mega👻Thee🎃Tron @valarmordollars.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🕯 🐈

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 01/07/2025

Big update: after overnight meetings with the parliamentarian my team successfully got these exemptions stripped from the bill. Special giveaways to protect certain states from these devastating Medicaid cuts is the worst form of hypocrisy.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/07/2025

I'm so fucking tired can't we please just have good things I mean fucks' sakes we're all so goddam tired we're just trying to fucking survive and thrive and be happy and together and jesus fucking christ why can't we just have that just let us fucking have that you evil goddam BORING wannabe dragons

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NPR @npr.org · 30/06/2025

The WNBA is adding three new teams: Cleveland will join in 2028, Detroit begins play in 2029 and Philadelphia will be added to the roster in 2030. This will bring the league to a record 18 teams. n.pr/44h8HMo

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The WNBA is expanding again, adding 3 new cities for a record 18 teams

The WNBA is adding three new teams: Cleveland will join in 2028, Detroit begins play in 2029 and Philadelphia will be added to the roster in 2030. This will bring the league to a record 18 teams.

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Greg Flynn @gregflynn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

H958 a sweeping elections bill in NC House would make it illegal for state or county elections board members to encourage voting “Make written or oral statements intended for general distribution or dissemination to the public at large encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election.”

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Detour Delights @detourdelights.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This sent me on a Detour! No AI here, promise 🧵

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Brighton McConnell @brmcc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

WCHL & Chapelboro spoke with Tom Jensen of PPP - the only pollster who publicly had Mamdani ahead of Cuomo - last week. Jensen (a Chapel Hill legend in many ways) dug into why he thought that was and how it aligned with some of his past polls deemed "outliers" that ended up being correct. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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What We're Thinking: 2017 Redux? - Chapelboro.com

Tom and Aaron discuss new polls from Virginia and New Jersey that suggest a big shift to the Democrats in 2025.

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25/06/2025

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Crime photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig) snapped this shot of an individual who was arrested at a dance for "dressing as a girl." We love their defiant smile. [🧵3/4]

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

the progression of posts is really something else

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Kelly Bastow @moosekleenex.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

add yours!

a watercolor comic of 'stuff in nature I always stop to look at' mossy rocks, a little stream, a tree that fell over, dappled lighting

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

You either need god or the Thursday night tv block. Without it, we lost our minds.

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Anita Earls @anitaearls.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

68 years ago today on June 23, 1957: a local minister & six Black students in Durham walked through the “Whites Only” door at Royal Ice Cream in the Bull City & took their seats at the booths for white folks (the restaurant was partitioned down the middle in the name of segregation). #NCHistory 🧵

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Jose Carlos Fajardo @fuzyjoe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

My work week comes to an end and here are my favorite four images from this week. Enjoy and thanks for following me. #photojournalism #photography

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Trump has talents. There was a global rightward movement. We do have elite capture. But he also proved that a Republican candidate can be corrupt or crude or illegal and the GOP gerrymander will hold.

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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 19/06/2025

We recently launched a San Francisco South Asian Radical History Walking Tour Our public SF opening weekend is coming up July 12 and 13, and over half the spots are already registered. Here are the details: www.berkeleysouthasian.org www.berkeleysouthasian.org/tour/sf/

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(or use this link)

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this c. 1936 white, violet, and lavender striped silk brocade evening dress designed by Elizabeth Hawes. Hawes has used clever construction to create an intricate stripe pattern cut on the bias. Museum at FIT collection. #fashionhistory

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LGBTQ History @lgbtqhistory.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Text of the poem:

WHERE WILL YOU BE?
by Pat Parker (1978)
Boots are being polished
Trumperters clean their horns
Chains and locks forged
The crusade has begun.
Once again flags of Christ
are unfurled in the dawn
and cries of soul saviors
sing apocalyptic on air waves.
Citizens, good citizens all
parade into voting booths
and in self-righteous sanctity
X away our right to life.
I do not believe as some
that the vote is an end,
I fear even more
It is just a beginning.
So I must make assessment
Look to you and ask:
Where will you be when they come?
They will not come
a mob rolling
through the streets,
but quickly and quietly
move into our homes
and remove the evil,
the queerness,
the faggotry,
the perverseness
from their midst.
They will not come
clothed in brown,
and swastikas, or
bearing chest heavy with
gleaming crosses.
The time and need
for ruses are over.

They will come
in business suits
to buy your homes
and bring bodies to
fill your jobs.
They will come in robes
to rehabilitate
and white coats
to subjugate
and where will you be
when they come?
Where will we all be
when they come?
And they will come --
they will come
because we are
defined as opposite –
perverse
and we are perverse.
Every time we watched
a queer hassled in the
streets and said nothing –
It was an act of perversion.
Everytime we lied about
the boyfriend or girlfriend
at coffee break –
It was an act of perversion.
Everytime we heard,
"I don't mind gays
but why must they
be blatant?" and said nothing –
It was an act of perversion.
Everytime we let a lesbian mother
lose her child and did not fill
the courtroom –
It was an act of perversion.

Everytime we let straights
make out in our bars while
we couldn't touch because
of laws –
It was an act of perversion.
Everytime we put on the proper
clothes to go to a family
wedding and left our lovers
at home –
It was an act of perversion.
Everytime we heard
"Who I go to bed with
is my personal choice –
It's personal not political"
and said nothing –
It was an act of perversion.
Everytime we let straight relatives
bury our dead and push our
lovers away –
It was an act of perversion.
And they will come.
They will come for
the perverts
& it won't matter
if you're
homosexual, not a faggot
lesbian, not a dyke
gay, not queer
It won't matter
if you
own your business
have a good job
or are on S.S.I.
It won't matter
if you're
Black
Chicano
Native American
Asian
or White

It won't matter
if you're from
New York
or Los Angeles
Galveston
or Sioux Falls
It won't matter
if you're
Butch, or Fem
Not into roles
Monogamous
Non Monogamous
It won't matter
if you're
Catholic
Baptist
Atheist
Jewish
or M.C.C.
They will come
They will come
to the cities
and to the land
to your front rooms
and in your closets.
They will come for
the perverts
and where will
you be
When they come?

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 18/06/2025

Really good @thehometownholler.bsky.social featuring @blairreeves.bsky.social if you want to learn a bit about NC state politics. overcast.fm/+ABGNDtOVbMg

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THE HOMETOWN HOLLER
Fear & Loathing in North Carolina (Feat.
Blair Reeves)
JUN 16,2025 • 43:19 LEFT
This week on The Hometown Holler podcast, we sit down with Blair Reeves—North Carolina's favorite Waffle House Democrat and co-founder of Carolina Forward. Blair breaks down how the collapse of local media and a decade of ruthless gerrymandering paved the way for unchecked corruption in Raleigh. We dig into how the GOP supermajority seized control-and what it means for our schools, environment, voting rights, and future. What will it take to fight back and restore sanity in North Carolina politics? Blair's got ideas.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/06/2025

I do not like AI in Slack I do not like AI on Mac I do not like AI in Zoom I don’t want AI in my room I do not want ChatGPT — please stop, AI, and leave me be! I don’t want AI here, or there; I don’t want AI anywhere! (… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

She inhaled trace amounts of empathy and her body went into anaphylactic shock.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The protest follow-up Zoom call that Indivisible held this evening that Rachel mentioned at one point had 60,000 participants was also streamed on YouTube. It looks like that recording is now viewable here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECEb...

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No Kings: What's Next in the Fight?

YouTube video by No Kings June 14

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Pam Brown @pamlivengoodbrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Triangle readers, a new bookstore has opened in S. Durham! And it sounds delightful! 📚💙

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Mo @mo-shmo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

every time Paopao hits a shot I think about this post lol #wnba

aaron. @ayroned • 6h
You know Te-hina Paopao humble as shit cuz if that was my last name and I was knocking down big shots you'd have to call the national guard to stop me from doing finger guns

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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

More awesomeness from the Chapel Hill / Carrboro, NC #NoKings protest. 💙♥️💙 I love, love, LOVED seeing the John Lewis sign! 🥰 Credit for the American eagle and owl art pieces: @shirlmc.bsky.social. (Artistic expression is its OWN form of protest! Brava! 🥇)

Colorful no kings sign that reads, "Nobody's free until everybody's free."

Two pieces of art displayed at the Chapel Hill #NoKings protest. One reads, "Together, we can," with an image of an American eagle. The other depicts an owl with the words, "Stop privatization."

Artist: @shirlmc.bsky.social

A sign seen in Chapel Hill that reads, "Democracy will endure. We are stronger together. Love will win." ♥️

A black and yellow No King's protest sign that reads, " Pass the For The People Act.". A picture of Rep John Lewis accompanies the words.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 15/06/2025

S.E. Rogie - She Caught Me Red Hot [Sierra Leone, Palm Wine] (1960s) redd.it/ftukb8 youtu.be/n-35RRDm768

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S.E. Rogie - She Caught Me Red Hot [Sierra Leone, Palm Wine] (1960s)

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

(2011 me, reading this post out of context, whispering frantically "what the fuck what the fuck")

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Americans are not into order & discipline. It does not appeal to them. They have a yearning for it, they'll read about Marie Kondo and think "I've gotta get my life together," but at the end of the day they want as many choices as humanly possible and they favor self-expression over all.

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Vernors Herzog @vernorsherzog.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

No Kings includes Draft Kings

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/06/2025

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions

Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

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Thierry @tcote.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

« the largest show of military might » somehow looks like a Doonesbury comic strip from the 1970s

Two people casually sitting atop a tank’s turret kind of looking like people who stole a tank and accidentally stumbled into a parade

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Shirlmc@bsky.social @shirlmc.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Me and newest poster at No Kings!

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ScarlettOHorror @annesayre.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

YES! I LOVE this for him! Meanwhile..I was busy protesting his orange ass!

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Perquimans County Democratic Party, NC @perqdems.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

So proud of our state!! North Carolinians showed up all over the state today to lift their voices in support of democracy! NO KINGS NC…a thread 👇 #ncpol

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

a photo grid of dolls with protest t-shirts and signs.

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