Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Duke energy had a record $4.5 billion profit and paid their CEO $32 million. Seems to me when consumers are already stretched thin in this high inflation environment, there should not be increased rates. How much more profit do they need?! 010
Reposted by Rani DasiNorth Carolina Association of Educators @wearencae.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Wake educators are speaking out, and they’ll be marching in Raleigh on May 1st! Will you stand with them and join us? #KidsOverCorporations 022
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026NC parents, your students need you! Worried about your schools EC program? Teachers living on 2023 budgets in 2026 cost environment? Enough bus drivers? School facilities? Let’s show up to demand the North Carolina General Assembly use our tax dollars to #InvestInPublicEducation. Friday, May 1. 010
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026NC parents, your students need you! We send our tax dollars & elect people to #InvestinPeople NC legislature is not doing their job. And need to hear from us. Please join teachers, parents & others who care about education, in Raleigh on May 1 to speak out for our students. 11a-2p. See you there. 000
Reposted by Rani DasiCongresswoman Valerie Foushee @foushee.house.gov · 18/02/2026It was great to join local farmers and agriculture leaders at the Orange County Agriculture Summit! Farmers are the backbone of NC—our state needs Congress to ensure proper federal funding and the passage of a strong Farm Bill that supports farmers and protects consumers. 0226
Reposted by Rani DasiMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/02/2026Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧 The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement. May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve. 233457669
Reposted by Rani Dasi97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 18/02/2026U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee’s office highlighted recent federal funding secured for the upcoming fiscal year for local governments and utilities in her district, including millions of dollars for local projects. Read more here:chapelboro.comLocal Affordable Housing, New Sidewalks and Water Treatment Projects Receive New Federal Funding - Chapelboro.comU.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee's office highlighted recent federal funding secured for projects in Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Pittsboro. 022
Reposted by Rani DasiQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17/02/2026The Pentagon just failed its 8th consecutive audit and still got approved for a $1 TRILLION budget without blinking so I'm gonna need every corrupt hypocritical politician complaining about made up food stamp fraud and forcing drug tests and work requirements on poor people to shut up forever. Thx. 221546639
Reposted by Rani DasiTriangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 27/12/2025What’s up with the loud AF noise coming from UNC’s coal plant? We have a few queries out and will let you know what we find. 4115
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 27/12/2025It is amazing the number of ways humans find to separate ourselves and then act in ways that harm groups that are other than the ones we identify with. D@ve Ch@pel has a new standup special and I’d heard that it was worth watching. It was not. 100
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025On World Kindness day, (which we need more than ever) I’m remembering the kindest person I had the honor of meeting. My mother who passed away 5 years ago today. Pass along kindness. 010
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Mentors can help you know that you deserve to be in spaces. Thank you #MistyCopeland and #WomenLeadNC 010
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Alternatively, we could. #InvestInPublicEducation. And materially changed people’s lives to the better. 010
Reposted by Rani DasiChe @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Fear will try to convince us to isolate, to hoard resources, to avoid community, to build the least threatening campaigns making little impact. A grounded risk assessment will move us closer to each other, it’ll remind us of that we are millions, it’ll make our work more bold and more brave. 5416142
Reposted by Rani Dasialec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 09/09/2025One of the defining features of authoritarian society is the ruthless but selective use of the machinery of repression—and associated propaganda about criminality and “order”—to immunize predatory behavior of the powerful while crushing everyone else into profitable obedience. 011333
Reposted by Rani DasiSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Kavanaugh doubles down on (& misapplies) the most shameful standing decision in the Court’s modern history, Los Angeles vs. Lyons (1983). In Lyons a Black man who was victim of a chokehold by LAPD sought to enjoin its use. SCOTUS said no standing b/c….how do you know it will happen to you again? 953428976
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025So much love to the families and community. We should chose to live in a way that are children are safer. 000
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Happy first day of school to all the teachers, staff, administrators, and school personnel, especially the bus drivers! Thank you, thank you thank you! 110
Reposted by Rani Dasijdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Everyone on TV not asking this question is doing it wrong 6778162
Reposted by Rani DasiKayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money. 101104372591
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Hey NC,the request was to turn the heat DOWN, not OFF. Thank you 100
Reposted by Rani DasiCongresswoman Valerie Foushee @foushee.house.gov · 06/08/2025We simply cannot continue to provide the Israeli government with weapons when they are not being used in accordance with international law to maximize the protection of civilians in Gaza. (3/3) 0263
Reposted by Rani DasiSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/08/2025More attention here please. 2720041101
Reposted by Rani DasiACLU @aclu.org · 02/08/2025Those held in President Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being held in dangerous conditions with no regard for people's safety or humanity. This cruelty must end.nbcnews.com'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditionsOne of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday. 33888276
Reposted by Rani DasiJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 29/07/2025More than two dozen rabbis were arrested this morning for sitting down on the floor in Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s office and praying for food aid for people in Gaza. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...huffpost.comRabbis Arrested In John Thune’s Office For Praying For Food Aid To Gaza 311307593
Reposted by Rani DasiNicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Emmett Till would be 84 today. Not 114. Not 104. 84. He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember. 5037241203
Reposted by Rani DasiReuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 25/07/2025JUST IN: US judge reaffirms nationwide injunction blocking Trump executive order on birthright citizenship reut.rs/3H3p2Na 212533
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025www.tmz.com/2025/07/21/m...tmz.com'The Cosby Show' Star Malcolm-Jamal Warner Dead At 54"The Cosby Show" alum Malcolm-Jamal Warner has died at the age of 54, TMZ has learned. 100
Reposted by Rani DasiChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/07/2025“But Superman, stopping that country from invading another was politically fraught” “THEY WERE GOING TO KILL PEOPLE!!!!” James Gunn made a movie that says this: people worrying about politics are not the heroes. The people trying to stop mass murder are the heroes. That’s that on that 5856931051
Reposted by Rani DasiThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/07/2025A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s immigration raids in the Los Angeles region, calling some tactics unconstitutional.trib.alJudge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration RaidsA federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions. 50834152
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 12/07/2025This is what democracy looks like. Thank you veterans! ❤️ 000
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 12/07/2025CHCCS: Parents/community: In line with recent state legislation, CHCCS will implement a no cell phone policy for students beginning this fall. One exception is lunch for high school students. Students: Bruh, y’all gotta keep cell phones in lockers/backpacks when we go back to school. 000
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Sending so much love to the families of the children in Texas impacted by the flooding. 000
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Language is so important as we think about how to keep people safe. I refute all forms of antisemitism. 000
Rani Dasi @rdasi.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I also deny that I ate ice cream yesterday. Pls ignore the bowl and spoon in the sink. Thank you. 000
Reposted by Rani DasiTown of Carrboro, NC @carrboronc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The Town of Carrboro will hold its 12th Annual Community Reading of the Frederick Douglass essay "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" on Friday, July 4, 2025. The reading will occur from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro St. ℹ️ monkeylink.co/b17ec9 0112
Reposted by Rani DasiMax Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 04/07/2025The deficit was $1.8 trillion, or 6% of GDP, last fiscal year. Moody’s estimates it will reach nearly 9% of GDP by 2035, pushing publicly held federal debt from under 100% of GDP now to more than 130%. That compares to the previous record of 106% in 1946. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...wsj.comWall Street Worries as Crisis-Level Deficits Become the Government’s Default ModeNew legislation could push federal debt into dangerous territory—without an emergency requiring it. 53752329