In 2022, when gas prices soared post-COVID and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Republicans unfairly blamed it on Joe Biden and Democrats.
Now, with the Iran war is directly driving up fuel prices, the GOP is telling us not to worry so much about gas.
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So far, the story of AI regulation is what North Carolina and federal politicians AREN'T doing. 🤖
In the new Billy Ball Explains NC, we break down the AI revolution, the good and the bad, and what policymakers are doing (or not doing) to protect people from the bad.
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The Republican-dominated state Supreme Court just threw out the Leandro case.
It is a devastating blow for public education advocates. Here's why. 👇
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This is a huge story.
Get this: ICE has three of these "hold rooms" in North Carolina.
To find out where they are, watch the new Billy Ball Explains NC at the 🔗 below.
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🤯 ICE is reportedly keeping detainees indefinitely in temporary “hold rooms” across the country, with little oversight.
And get this: These hold rooms are not required to have beds. Or even toilets.
ICE has three of them right here in North Carolina. Watch 👇
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You might have a direct line to the White House—like Sen. Phil Berger appeared to have—but that doesn't mean you've won over voters in your local district.
Thanks to @timboyumnews.bsky.social for having me on Wednesday.
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Phil Berger conceded, but the GOP still has a HUGE problem with election denial.
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In the story of America, land has mostly moved one way—out of Native hands, and into the hands of white people. But recently, leaders in one western North Carolina town came to a remarkable decision.
A new Billy Ball Explains NC has the story for Cardinal & Pine. 🔗 is in the thread.
In the new BB Explains NC, we wanted to tell the stories of NC women who don't get enough roses.
So we have the first recorded women-led protest in US history, the NC woman who co-founded Mother’s Day, and a NC woman who broke a 90-year drought in Congress. 👇
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Whatever they say, it is patriotic to ask questions of a war that sends our troops into harm's way.
And, most importantly, it is human to ask those same questions when bombs target children and other civilians, wherever they might be from.
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I don't think that losing a child makes me any more primed to be pissed off when I read about children dying in war. But it does make me more inclined to not let it pass quietly.
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Grief warning ✋ For @cardinalandpine.bsky.social, I wrote about the war in Iran, specifically about the alleged US-Israel bombing of a school in Minab, and about the terrible position our troops find themselves in today, caught between one liar and the other.
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The new Billy Ball Explains NC (🔗 below) just premiered on YouTube.
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In February 2025, a US Coast Guardsman went overboard in the Pacific Ocean.
Naturally, the Coast Guard went into search and rescue mode. But you won't believe what US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did next. 🤯
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Ok, believe it or not, here's your teaser for the new Billy Ball Explains North Carolina. The 🔗 is below. Your likes and views make a big difference.
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Over the weekend, I wrote about America's most confusing senator for MS NOW. Here's a tidbit:
"The epitaph on Tillis’ political career: A smart man who for most of Trump’s rise played dumb or caved to the most corrosive president in American history."
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Thanks to @anitaearls.bsky.social for taking the time.
Her story is worth your time.
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Read my full deep-dive on Earls, one of the most important civil rights attorneys in the modern South, at the 🔗 below.
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"I think that we are in an era where where silence is complicity," she says, "and so not speaking is a view. It is supporting the status quo. It is endorsing what is happening."
Predictably, conservatives chastised her.
But Earls says it shouldn't be controversial for a judge to point out that, based on media reports of ICE and Border Patrol activities, agents appeared to be racially profiling people.
On Nov. 19, several days after Border Patrol arrived in Charlotte, Earls put out a statement on social media.
"I cannot be silent while the constitutional rights of our neighbors are being violated right here in North Carolina," she said.
In mid-November, agents with the US Border Patrol and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began a high-profile crackdown in Charlotte and other North Carolina cities.
Social media was filled with videos of armed, masked men in action.
NC Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls knows Republicans are out to get her. But in November, Earls did something she's never done before as a sitting Supreme Court justice. She spoke directly about something happening in the news.
Keep reading the thread. 👇
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New BB Explains NC:
The data centers being built to run AI seem like a godsend to rural NC, and any place that's struggling.
But they come with red flags—skyrocketing utility bills, massive water consumption, and an ever-harder fight against climate change. 👇
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President Trump—who last week portrayed former President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as apes—called the show a "slap in the face." Some on the left wanted it to be that. But it was too joyous for that.
My take on Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show 👇
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