Myron B. Pitts

I voted. #FayettevilleNC #LocalElections #Voting
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McKoy’s case illustrates the difficulty a defendant can have exonerating themselves when there is no DNA to serve as incontrovertible evidence. #FayettevilleNC #DukeLaw #WrongfulConviction
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The money from late donor S.T. Horne comes with the stipulation that the park facility must be built within a five-mile radius of the Market House in downtown #FayettevilleNC.

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a man in a white shirt is sitting in a dugout with his eyes closed and a sad look on his face . ALT: a man in a white shirt is sitting in a dugout with his eyes closed and a sad look on his face .

The sad irony of #Comey's untimely kneecapping of #HillaryClinton in 2016.

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted | CNN Politics Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury, an extraordinary escalation in President Donald Trump’s effort to prosecute his political enemies.

Purely political. The latest new low. #ComeyIndictment

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The US abdicated its world leadership role, so there is nothing #Trump's UN speech will do except antagonize further. Dig deeper to discover the only point of it: His vain attempt to win the #NobelPeacePrize.

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MacKenzie Scott gives $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs The gift is one of Scott's largest single donations ever and among the first to be publicly disclosed in 2025.

She shows billionaires don't have to be takers only. It's a choice.

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She sued Cumberland County, NC, in 2014. Her story illustrates that the fight for equal access can be a long one. #ADA #CivilRights

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J. Cole getting his props as the latest honoree on the #ncmusicianmurals trail. @fayobserver for the deets: https://shorturl.at/uoSOc TikTok video by Myron Over Matter

#JCole mural, artist Scott Nurkin puts on finishing touches in #FayettevilleNC

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This is how you satire

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the #SupremeCourt spoke at Fayetteville State University, an #HBCU that was founded during Reconstruction. Her message was both personal and historical. shorturl.at/LL5tk

Fayetteville's #JCole will join an elite club as the newest entry on the #NC Musician Murals Trail. @ncculture.bsky.social

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South Korea vows 'all-out efforts' to help hundreds detained in raid at Hyundai facility in Georgia South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said he was “deeply concerned” and felt “heavy responsibilities for the arrests of our citizens.”

South Korea, which had been a close ally, is acting (properly) as if it is dealing with a hostile nation as it tries to help its citizens targeted by US #immigration authorities. Several foreign automakers have plants here, which is GOOD. That could end.
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DeSantis to make Florida first state to end all vaccine mandates for schools Florida surgeon general equates vaccine mandates to ‘slavery’ while announcing new policy push

That he is only the second most shameless politician of this era is a sad fact in and of itself.

#Desantis

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Yes. It is meant to other-ize a targeted group. Seeking equal treatment is not a separate ideology but human ideology.

Where We Are After seven months of Trump.

"Where We Are:

(1) Donald Trump is acting as a dictator.

(2) He is fairly easily defeated time after time when people fight back.

(3) Far too few people are fighting back."

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This is the accurate way to report this development. (Washington Post). #LisaCook #Trump

The first thing to know is that #Trump’s actions, which are controversial in the U.S., are likely judged even more harshly abroad.
#MassDeportation #USAID #NobelPeacePrize
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Tesla Cybertruck wanted by U.S. Air Force as targets in munitions training

#Trump is trying to get #Musk some sales for his failed vehicle. Good looking out, I guess.

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Fayetteville coffee shop manages tariffs, stress on a 'personal daily level' | Opinion Molly Arnold, owner of Rude Awakening in Fayetteville, NC, said she has always been fascinated her customers have embraced Zotter Chocolates.

Existing #Trump tariffs on the #EU are already biting small businesses like this one in #FayettevilleNC. While it's great the new number will not be 30%, the 15% figure is no picnic either.
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Indictment part 2. (See my prior post.)

#MinimumWage

This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband More older Americans are working well into their 80s just to survive. Meet a couple from the Silent Generation who say they can't afford to retire.

This is an indictment. I have seen stories of people working into their 80s played as "feel-good." This one most decidedly does not do that.

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Check out the price tag for #AlligatorAlcatraz, a vanity project for Florida's governor. He can feel comfortable wasting #FEMA money like this b/c FL never gets hurricanes. www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

Tillis won't run for reelection. Will he finally do the right thing about Trump? | Opinion North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis announced he wouldn't seek reelection. He'll leave under the notion that Donald Trump ran him out of town.

NC's #ThomTillis could have been a contender but he shrank when faced with the reality of Trump. But now he does not need #MAGA. He can tell them to jump in a lake. He can still do some good.
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US’ top general tells lawmakers | CNN Politics The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s largest nuclear sites last weekend because the site is so deep that the bombs likely would not have been effective, the US’ top general...

#Trump's narrative the program was "obliterated" continues to fall apart. The U.S. did not drop a bomb on Iran's key facility that contains almost 60% of it's uranium stockpile.
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Private equity firm will finance Harvard research lab, in possible template for future A private equity firm will finance a Harvard University research lab, a possible template for the future as schools nationwide absorb federal funding cuts.

Oh no.

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#NoKings protest in #FayettevilleNC, named for the revolutionary Lafayette, home of Fort Bragg. TikTok video by Myron Over Matter

#NoKings in the Ville, home of #FortBragg.

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Sources say two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot Sources have told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS' Tom Hauser that two Minnesota Lawmakers have been shot.

absolutely horrifying: "Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer."

Trump’s proof of citizenship elections order blocked for now in federal court • NC Newsline A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring states to mandate voters in federal elections provide documents proving their citizenship, ruling the...

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring states to mandate voters in federal elections provide documents proving citizenship, ruling the measure would cause a significant burden to states and potentially harm voters. ncnewsline.com/2025/06/14/r... #ncpol