it's cool that we're going to pay for this 81 year old congresswoman's healthcare so she can get back to voting for a healthcare system where she won't have to pay for ours

A North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate’s Bid to Overturn His Loss Is Based on Theory Election Deniers Deemed Extreme Republican Jefferson Griffin narrowly lost his race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Now he’s asking that 60,000 ballots be thrown out based on a theory that an election denier said amounted to…

NEW: Republican Jefferson Griffin narrowly lost his race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Now he’s asking that 60,000 ballots be thrown out based on a theory that an election denier said amounted to “voter suppression.”

By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

U.S. House fails to reauthorize 20-year-old bipartisan bill to fund rural schools, communities • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon will miss out on millions in funding from the Secure Rural Schools bill in 2025 after House Republicans failed to take a vote on it.

Counties and schools in rural Oregon (and 40 other states) to lose millions in federal money in 2025 after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that typically pays up to $80 million a year to the state.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/23/u...

NC Republicans pass law shifting government power, overriding Cooper's veto • NC Newsline North Carolina lawmakers approved a wide-ranging bill to shift executive power in state government on Wednesday

North Carolina lawmakers approved a wide-ranging bill to shift executive power in state government on Wednesday while offering limited aid to storm ravaged western NC. ncnewsline.com/2024/12/11/n... #ncpol #sb382 #WNC

Putting Kari lake at the head of Voice of America is not only an attack on journalism and the duty to tell the truth, it’s an assault and an insult to every person around the world who turns to VoA to look up to America.

Arizona grand jury indicts pair for alleged school voucher fraud An Arizona grand jury has indicted two out-of-state residents for allegedly applying to the state’s private school voucher program as parents to 50 children — 43 of whom did not exist.

One AZ couple faked records for 50 kids to scam more than $100K for vouchers. There is little to prevent this from happening in NC as only 6% of applicants are required by law to be reviewed for accuracy. Ask your legislators why!
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Did you know that Elon and Trump want to start using the same AI claim denial process used by United Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs?

Just thought you might want to know.

The United States of Broligarchy: How Billionaires Took Over Our Government and Rigged the System

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End Citizens United

A Criminal Injustice: How a City Ignored the Rape, Murder and Terrorism of Black Women for Four Decades The most disrespected person in America is the black woman.The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.The most neglected person in America is the black woman. —El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

For 5 decades, police officer Roger Golubski sexually assaulted Black women and forced to give false testimony that he used to send Black men to prison while he ran a sex trafficking and drug cartel in Kansas City Kansas

www.theroot.com/a-criminal-i...

The Hunter Biden story is a perfect encapsulation of what’s wrong with American media:

Is it a story? Sure.

But every newspaper in America devoting front page headlines to Hunter fucking Biden while Trump appoints a cabal of rapists, racists and con-men to positions of enormous power is MADNESS.

Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence

Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.

This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.

www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...

Today the NC Senate voted to override the will of the people. They moved the time of the vote without notice.

Thank you to those who came early and defended our democracy!

There will be a House vote, and we need ten times the number of protesters there!

#ncpol #ncga #indivisible #demcast

One protestor called out the power grab, others applauded, and Robinson ordered the gallery cleared. Absolutely ridiculous, but it’s standard procedure for the authoritarians who run #ncga.

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
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Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

Talking to a lot of “school choice” proponents, it’s very apparent that many of them do not know the history of “school choice” in our state and country. And now our legislature in NC is going to vote to give hundreds of millions more to this segregatory program…
#nced #ncpol

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.