Bruce Siceloff

Trump administration cancels millions in school mental health grants, four NC programs affected The sudden cancellation of federal grants will halt planned — and much needed — expansions of school-based mental health services in NC

You know how after school shootings, the gun lobby and Republicans say we need more mental health counseling?

Yeah, Trump just canceled it. #hypocrisy

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@nchealthnews.bsky.social www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/08/07/t...

And Jonathan Wiggs

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👍 Or, as we are in dream mode, Valyrian steel

I never liked the Swiss Army blades & don’t need most of their bulky tools, but I have a dinky SA on my keychain for the vital tweezers & scissors.
The sharp knife I carry, slim but also with tools I use, is Leatherman Skeletool CX.

$1b for TV and radio, not $9b

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR (Gift Article) The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

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Zip Code areas at risk of losing public radio access

By one reckoning, two vital, HBCU-based public radio stations in North Carolina are in mortal jeopardy: WNCU in Durham (Triangle jazz source) & WRVS in Elizabeth City.

Let's see some reporting on how the Triangle & NC will suffer from the cancellation of all federal funding for public radio and TV.

Paulette Jiles, 82, Dies; Novelist Evoked the West in ‘News of the World’

If you liked the Tom Hanks movie 'News of the World,' you'll enjoy the outstanding Paulette Jiles novel more. Also terrific: 'The Color of Lightning.'

' ... the “Poet’s Western,” a lyrical subgenre of historical fiction shaped by writers like Cormac McCarthy.'

Trump Doubles Down on Coca-Cola Tariffs

Is this legit? What year?

Everything old is new again.

And probably fraud. You forgot fraud.

“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

— A. Whitney Griswold

So what did Chitlik actually say? This is a thin minute, Rob

Meanwhile in another universe, DEI gets a big loud boost from NCDOT

This message would’ve been unremarkable in 2024. But with US corporations, pols & govts now recanting or erasing their affirmations about racial equality, I’m encouraged to see the NC Dept of Transportation renew its commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (using the words!).
Happy Juneteenth!

She Confronted a History of Enslavers in Her Family. Here’s What Happened.

She Confronted a History of Enslavers in Her Family. Here’s What Happened.

Power & Secrecy: N&O investigative series wins national journalism award Reporters and visual journalists collaborated to show impacts from North Carolina General Assembly leaders’ move to consolidate power and increase secrecy.

Congratulations to reporter Dan Kane, editor Cathy Clabby, and the rest of the N&O team! Good work!

Power & Secrecy: N&O investigative series wins national journalism award
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Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

Appalling!
Perhaps Donna’s and my 2017 #Fulbright awards to teach in Montenegro would have been canceled for similar reasons.
When high school students asked me what I thought of Trump, I had no qualms about calling him the worst person in the world.’
Now I would have qualms.

Scientists find DNA proof of swine feces in North Carolina homes Residents and researchers teamed up to show the airborne spread of pig poop pollution from nearby factory farms in Duplin County.

Boss Hog 2025

Anybody have links to news stories / data on how specific North Carolina radio and TV outlets would suffer?
I don’t worry much about the biggest ones with lucrative fund drives. But what about Blue Ridge, WNCU, and rural radio?

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.

Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

Trump Cuts Leave Few Caretakers for a Massive Federal Art Collection

A staff of about 10

Trump Cuts Leave Few Caretakers for a Massive Federal Art Collection

Thanks @sulliview.bsky.social for this rural emphasis & the apt anecdote about Blue Ridge Public Radio in western NC.
Wish you had looped back to examine how BRPR specifically would suffer when federal funding dries up.

Puh-leeze. Keep up this assertion for months and months, in the absence of evidence that the election was stolen from your candidate (mine too), and you sound more and more like the 2020 MAGA sore losers.

The Washington Post Plans an Influx of Outside Opinion Writers

This sounds dreadful. Using an A.I. editor named Ember, teamed with a ‘live A.I. assistant’ - neither of which presumably would know or care whether the writer is just making shit up.

Lots of priorities to choose from in this Democratic Governors Assn survey/money plea.
I choose Other: “restoring democracy & rule of law.”

@deadder.bsky.social

And Reps Fox, Edwards, Harrigan & Moore, all Republicans in the WNC mountains, will not do a thing about it.