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The recipe for confirmation

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2025/02/03

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Trump: irresponsibly playing games with people’s...

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2025/01/31

Throughout 2024, Democrats and many Republicans warned that if Donald Trump got back in the White House, he would debase the presidency by seeking personal vengeance on enemies, empowering unqualified toadies to lead important public agencies, and issuing half-baked edicts that ignored established law and common sense. Now, after less than two weeks since […]

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Disgraceful pardons of January 6 insurrectionists...

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2025/01/30

December 25, 1868, and January 20, 2025, will now be forever linked in American history. These are the dates when two of our worst and most immoral Presidents, Andrew Johnson and Donald Trump, gave full pardons to traitors to the U.S. Constitution. On that Christmas Day in 1868, President Johnson issued a proclamation declaring that […]

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Once again, Sen. Thom Tillis threatens to do the...

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2025/01/30

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis has a longstanding reputation for giving hints he’ll do the right thing on important issues and then, when the chips are down, chickening out and caving into pressure from the far right. Sadly, it happened again last week as the Senate considered the nomination of Fox News talking head […]

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Sen. Thom Tillis’s latest maddening but unsurprising...

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2025/01/29

The Wall Street Journal reported on January 27 (the story is protected by a pay wall — click here to read a Vanity Fair summary) that North Carolina’s senior senator Thom Tillis set a new standard for disingenuous flipflops last week with his vote to confirm Trump nominee Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. This […]

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A golden age indeed

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2025/01/28

It’s long been a tradition in American politics that new presidents experience a “honeymoon period” during their first several weeks in office — a time during which allies and supporters heap praise upon the new chief executive’s initial actions and much of the general public coalesces around the hope that change and new blood in […]

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Griffin’s democracy disposal

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2025/01/27

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Sports betting in NC: off to a fast and destructive...

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2025/01/24

Based on state numbers reported for the final six months of 2024, sports betting in North Carolina is on track to rack up more than $6 billion in annual spending. Sports betting was enacted, its sponsors said, to generate significant revenue for several university campuses and to boost the state general fund. That has not […]

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An incarcerated NC man reflects on (and celebrates)...

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2025/01/23

When former Governor Roy Cooper issued a final round of pardons and criminal sentencing commutations on New Year’s Eve, his last day in office, I learned that he hadn’t commuted the life without parole sentence I’ve been serving for nearly 23 years. To comfort me, a friend said I’m entitled to feel sad or angry, […]

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GOP Supreme Court candidate’s voter purge demands...

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2025/01/23

In his infamous 2020 post-election phone call to Georgia’s Secretary of State, Donald Trump demanded that Brad Raffensberger “find” him the votes he needed to reverse Joe Biden’s election win. Today, four years later, it feels like we’re watching a rerun in the actions of Republican North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. In […]

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Now what? Three to-do list items for caring and...

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2025/01/21

Donald Trump is president again. Four years after his first term ended in an unprecedented spasm of lies, criminality and violence that threatened the very survival of constitutional government in the world’s greatest democracy, a convicted felon sits in the White House surrounded by a cadre of fawning enablers and extremists. While there are obviously […]

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Wind chill warning

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2025/01/20

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Sen. Tillis should heed the call of NC physicians to...

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2025/01/17

President-elect Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – is an interesting fellow who’s sometimes espoused good ideas. Though he often contradicts himself, Kennedy has generally defended reproductive freedom and has long blasted giant food and chemical corporations for endangering public health. But as thousands of physicians across […]

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The attempt to overturn the NC Supreme Court election...

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2025/01/16

Here in North Carolina, we are still dealing with the fallout of one of our closest electoral races, more than two months after the fact. Why? Because of baseless attempts to overturn the results of a legitimate election. The election for a seat on our state Supreme Court was very close but underwent rigorous scrutiny […]

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Latest review board actions reveal once more how NC’s...

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2025/01/16

It’s been almost 30 years since North Carolina started allowing charter schools, and as the actions of the state Charter Schools Review Board showed again this week, that experiment has been a wasteful failure. When they were first established, supporters assured us charters would be “incubators of innovation” that would, because of looser regulations […]

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Trump and the latest climate change red flag

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2025/01/14

Like a three-pack-a-day smoker who blames their chronic cough on allergies, or a recent flu shot — everything but their addiction — President-elect Donald Trump continues to embrace an absurd and criminally irresponsible brand of denialism on the subject of climate change. This hard truth was exposed yet again by the latest horrific California wildfires. […]

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Gov. Stein’s new hurricane recovery effort gets off...

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2025/01/14

In many important areas, North Carolina’s new governor, Josh Stein, is wisely following in the footprints of his predecessor, Roy Cooper. In critical areas like public education, environmental protection, and reproductive freedom, Cooper was a champion of just and common sense policies. One area, however, in which the new administration can make needed improvements is […]

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Trump cabinet nominee Pete Hegseth is completely...

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2025/01/13

The Secretary of Defense of the United States is one of the most important jobs in the entire world. The person nominated for this role needs to be someone of the highest character and with the credentials and experience to match. This is why the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense by […]

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Activists to read the names of 60,000-plus voters GOP...

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2025/01/13

North Carolina is in the national news again and, as with past embarrassments like the infamous bathroom bill and efforts to ban talk of sea-level rise, it’s not a flattering story. This time, it’s Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin’s effort to retroactively throw out 60,000-plus ballots cast by registered voters in the […]

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Premiums that take a bite out of the paycheck

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2025/01/13

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