Happy National Library Week! This week you should:
1) Donate $ to your local Friends of the Library
2) Write to your public library director to thank them for standing up for diversity or to condemn them for caving to fascists
3) Plan a similar public comment for the next library board mtg
Under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency is relaxing longstanding clean water requirements that had been used to force Duke Energy to clean up the company's toxic coal ash disaster.
More: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government...
watching the charlotte hornets on a friday night
More perfect union: BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters. The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.
Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation.
For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.
i'd never thought about the science behind lifting a dog, so hat tip to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social -- this week's 'she's a beast' newsletter was a delight, as always
I'm kind of fascinated by that big Lauren Sanchez Bezos feature in the Times. There's just nothing going on there at all, no insight or conflict or notable color, so the hook is just "this unfathomably rich but otherwise fatuous person enjoys their lifestyle a great deal." Fantastic stuff.
This is what a reliever’s entrance would look like in a Christopher Nolan movie where everything was backward and the scene before showed him giving up 8 runs.
Screenshot of sophiafornc from Threads: This is eleven year-old Genesis and six year-old Denis, two Durham elementary school students whose families came here to seek asylum. On Monday, they were detained by ICE and immediately sent back to Honduras without due process. Don't you dare tell me that this is making our country safer.
I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process.
Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.
Horrifying doesn't even begin to describe. This is pure evil.
No redemption for those who support and uphold these fascist policies.
Scouting one of the top players in the portal: Flory Bidunga
♦️Scheme versatility defending pick-and-roll
♦️Ability to switch out on guards
♦️Weak-side rim protection
➕On-off impact
🔵Gravity as a rim-runner
🔵Post game improvements
🔵Short roll development briangeisinger.substack.com/p/flory-bidu...
Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social
In his new documentary, 'Everyone Is Lying to You For Money,' Ben McKenzie exposes cryptocurrency as a modern Ponzi scheme.
But he's ready to move on.
Salute to Chapel Hill legend Freddie Kiger for landing in the background of this one
“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad2l...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, citing "reasons of national security," has triggered a meeting this week that could exempt the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico from requirements of the Endangered Species Act.
Pete Hegseth gestures and speaks during a cabinet meeting, seated in front of US flags.
February 28, 2026, Tehran, Iran: Smoke rises on the skyline after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, on February 28, 2026
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FT Exclusive: A broker for the US defence secretary attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter ft.trib.al/erwM82D
New Yorkers, join us in the first ever Mayor’s Municipal Madness: a competition of city fixes where everyone wins.
Pick your fix and vote here:
nyc.gov/madness
NCAA Tournament Notebook + Film Study
🟠Strong debut seasons: Ryan Odom (Virginia) + Jai Lucas (Miami)
🟠How UVA adjusted vs. Tennessee's 3 Across action
🟠How Purdue defended Malik Reneau's short roll
🟠Scouting Chance Mallory + Shelton Henderson briangeisinger.substack.com/p/march-begi...
Sally Rooney: Though I have no real understanding of the mechanics of football, and can only nod along helplessly at complex post-match analyses, I do enjoy watching people who are enormously good at something doing that thing very well. And Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah – the Premier League’s top goal scorer at the time of writing – is truly, spectacularly good at playing football. The ingenuity of professional footballers always impresses me, not only because of their extreme technical skill, but because of the unimaginably rapid pace at which they have to make high-pressure decisions. For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.
Hadn’t come across this from Sally Rooney on Mo Salah until today, but I quite liked it. From a Guardian interview in 2017:
Phil Berger...sit down, man www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdV-...
ICE Agents driving enormous rented Dodge Rams around the concourse and security areas at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, periodically steering one into an oversized rolling suitcase and then abandoning the vehicle.
Just want to draw college basketball fans’ attention to this matchup in NC State-Michigan
John Calipari's iconic 8/14/14 tweet reading "Walking on the beach this morning, doing a little thinking when I saw footprints in the sand. Reminded of the poem Footprints in the Sand."
Tough loss for High Point, but sometimes you just run into a more prayed-up opponent.
the people who organized the aid going into cuba and are there on the ground are some of the best among us
“Eastern Monarch Butterfly Numbers Increase, but Remain Below Historic Levels”. Many monarch butterflies clustered together on the branch of an evergreen tree.
Each year, Mexican conservationists track eastern monarchs by the area of the forest they use while overwintering. This year, they covered 7.24 acres, which is 64% more than last year. While still less than the 15+ acres common in the 1990s, we're glad to see improvement!
xerces.org/press/easter...
Given the horrific destruction that Israel’s extremist government has wrought on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon, the last thing in the world American taxpayers need to do right now is to provide 22,000 new bombs to the Netanyahu government.
No more weapons to support an illegal war.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZIz...
