Amelia

The 2026 Olympics gave America two gold medals in hockey. And then one locker room took something away from all of us.

I am not surprised by him. But I am deeply disappointed in them.

A new generation of birth control skeptics leans right More young women are embracing fertility tracking methods long popular among Catholics, looking to influencers, questioning doctors — and finding a home in MAGA.

Casey Means’ Surgeon General confirmation hearing is tomorrow.

Means holds a number of extremely disturbing views, including that hormonal birth control is “disrespect for life”.

She isn’t a “fringe” or “alternative” healthcare provider. She is a person who blithely ignores scientific facts.

U.S. Department of Education Reaches Consensus on Historic New Accountability Framework and Concludes Higher Education Reform Rulemaking Sessions The Department has reached consensus on the third and final regulatory package to implement the historic changes made to higher education as part of President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts Act .

This is *literally* flying under the radar: a blatant attempt to destroy public higher ed and access to a higher ed degree, along with the decimation of entire fields of study at institutions that do not have huge endowments to back up lack of federal funding.

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#USDOE

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

A Democratic state representative in North Carolina delivered a key vote to pass several GOP immigration bills and said on the House floor that “all cultures are not equal.” In next month’s primary, she faces a challenge from her left.

Looks like there wasn’t a language barrier for kids in Uganda when it comes to Bad Bunny.

Love this!

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Aerial over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring.

UNC Administrators Can Now Secretly Record Faculty

The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.” https://bit.ly/3MyingR

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

What Vic Mensa said...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

My senator’s inability to call out Trump turns his rightful stand into mush.

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

Tariffs could wipe out nearly a third of NC farm income, new report says • NC Newsline NC Farmers have limited options for minimizing damage from tariffs, according to a report commissioned by the John Locke Foundation.

NCSU prof: estimates the #tariffs could cost the state’s farmers about $695 million. That is roughly a third of NC's average net farm income. It would cost 8,000 lost jobs in agriculture along with the ripple effects from that lost revenue.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Breaking News The E.P.A. will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

The malignant clown is making America into a pariah

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)

1. Pat Bagley

Reasons it’s ok to forcibly remove a president, according to the US president:

- doing crimes with family
- targeting vocal opponents
- domestic use of security forces
- humanitarian crisis denial
- weaponization of Supreme Court
- dismantling democratic elections
- ruinous economic policies

As @meron.bsky.social posted, Eritrean asylum seekers set to be deported by ICE are saying they'd rather commit suicide than face the monstrous regime. This happened before when Habtom committed suicide in Canada after his asylum was denied. 💔
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"Things Can Happen" (an important thing to do so they don't)

AAUP NC President Belle Boggs has written this powerful essay in response to both the Brown shooting and developments in the UNC system, with an urgent call to action for all of us in NC. Excerpts and action link in thread: 1/ @aaup.org

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Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area.

Let us know what you hear.

Degrees no longer considered professional by the Department of Education, including teaching, nursing, social work, counseling, business, and engineering.

🧵 Let’s be so effing for real right now. The Department of Education saying these jobs are no longer PROFESSIONAL is dumb as hell and insulting as fuck. It takes YEARS of post-graduate training, including passing certifying exams, to earn degrees in these fields. #fdt #momsky

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Go to tiny.cc/maindoc to find additional information, resources, and materials that you can download and print to distribute in your community, including posters, know your rights flyers, our own version of the red card and more.

TW: video showcasing a violent display of force by federal agents

From Charlotte, NC. Seen it shared on a few NC based IG pages. Based on this video, federal agents using the same tactics we’ve seen the last few months in Chicago.

Gotta take a break from social media, folks
ICE is in Charlotte
Tossing teens into vehicles who are legitimately working in an international food market
They invaded a church this morning
Even tho I avoid the news, I'm truly overwhelmed from reports of these horrors right in my neighborhood 😱 😭 😡

NC DEQ approves water permit for MVP Southgate pipeline Today, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued a Clean Water Act Section 401 certification for Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC’s proposed methane gas pipeline “Southgate,” rejecting concerns raised by North Carolina community members that the project would pollute streams and wetlands and harm protected aquatic species.

Today, NC state regulators issued a Clean Water Act Section 401 certification for MVP’s proposed methane gas pipeline “Southgate,” rejecting concerns raised by NC community members that the project would pollute streams and wetlands and harm protected aquatic species. https://loom.ly/akayNyQ

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.

The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.