Sandra Wilcox Conway

Must be a Libra thing. All my favorite people have RANGE. Happy Happy Birthday and thanks for all you do.

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul.It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound - it will not hold your flesh together for long.The US needs stitches. #NCEd

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

"You can be forgiven for not knowing this. Professional intellectuals and political observers cannot be forgiven for pretending not to know this. It is not hidden history."

See Lee Atwater and Jesse Helms for recent history and a good start...#NCEd

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“. . . many of Mr. Kirk’s words were marked by racist, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-immigrant rhetoric, by violent pro-gun advocacy, and by the promotion of Christian nationalism. These prejudicial words do not reflect the qualities of a saint.” scny.org/sisters-of-c...

The power of sports and humor - straight from the anti-narcissist playbook. Love it.

One thing I don’t find very useful is how one day no one was just a mean asshole and instead had a psychological disorder.

We're excited to bring our Flood the Red Zone: Save America campaign to Mount Olive High School's Communities Day. We’ve made Whiteville our home the past three years, and we have no intention of changing that!

"Trad influencers gloss this unjust workload as a homage to homesteading (and leverage it to market unsubstantiated remedies) instead of calling it what it is: picking up the state’s slack. Cuts to education seem less threatening when you are convinced your role is to homeschool your children" #NCEd

WFAE | Charlotte NC WFAE, Charlotte. 18,960 likes · 2,141 talking about this. WFAE is a public media organization The mission of WFAE is to provide informative and creative radio programming as a regional community...

If the victim had been from Haiti or the Congo, we would have never heard about this tragedy. www.facebook.com/WFAE/ to U.S. House committee to hold hearing in Charlotte about light rail stabbing from Local News on my WFAE App!

Exactly this

I take no pleasure in this. Most Black people in the U.S. live in red states. But it’s important to be truthful about the caliber of governance. And so much of this is the bad decisionmaking that results from racism. Like refusing Medicaid expansion. Underfunding public education.

Unreal.

So interesting incl. valuing emotional stability or not...

No solidarity. I've been thinking about this a lot with higher ed.

The President's are in those seats b/c they are all about competing for funding and their own power. Gay, Ryan, Washington...

The NC movie starred Ross, Spellings, Folt, Guskiewicz. They too will end up with a private equity guy.

You’re my boy, Blue.

"My whole life I’ve showed up at just as the wizard is being unmasked and I’m so tired of dining in a burning building. I almost want them to get it over with so we can move on."

I feel this way about my K-12 work in CLT in the era of the AEI playbook.

Yes pay attention - NC is the "HOTTEST". 💔🤮

A College Sports Fan’s Lament As college sports become more professional, players change schools, and rivalries get diminished, a loyal Duke fan mourns what’s been lost.

Great piece on Belichick Day 🤮👣

“Can you just be a fan of laundry?” Giglio asked. “Can you just blindly root for a coach and a school because of the colors and the mascot, or the nickname or the logo? I think that’s really what’s going to be tested.”

www.theassemblync.com/culture/spor...

ushering in the new illiberal arts

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A gerrymandered, cruel GOP with corporate Dem complicity has been the norm in NC for years. If you have any doubt on who wins and who loses using this playbook...

NC was named America's Top State for Business in 2025, making it the third time in four years the state has received the top ranking.

The New Yorker…

tressiemcphd on Instagram: "More ill-advised sharing on: Black women being pushed out, liberal allies, managing my own boundaries, the shittiest lotto ticket y…" More ill-advised sharing on: Black women being pushed out, liberal allies, managing my own boundaries, the shittiest lotto ticket you can buy, and a lesson from “Big Bob” Korstad (so-named by @known.agitator and not me!)

As always @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes it plain.
Today's hit list and shittiest lotto ticket - Lisa Cook.

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Sending NC love and respect to my Texas sisters representing the best of the South - badass, brilliant, diverse, funny, caring and courageous.

@crockett.house.gov Cecile Richards, Barbara Jordan, @wendydavistexas.bsky.social, Nicole Collier and @voteannjohnson.bsky.social and more...

Great visuals and message summary.

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.

The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.

Something has gone terribly wrong.

I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history"

It is propaganda, pure and simple.

It’s very instructive that this is considered acceptable. It means that many of the people we assume are our friends really are not.

An amazingly good list of recommendations

Oh good, at least someone isn’t ignoring that this happened — as the Sunday shows and press corps say nothing.

Felt like we were losing our minds.

Basic needs should not be left to charity.