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Liz Arnold
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Conversation starter, retired librarian, Middle of the Road Humanist, Moms Demand Action and Red Wine and Blue volunteer.
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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October 4, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Flock surveillance cameras raise constitutional questions, bipartisan US senators say ncnewsline.com/2026/09/24/r...
Flock surveillance cameras raise constitutional questions, bipartisan US senators say • NC Newsline
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, the chair of the Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, said the point of the hearing was to find out “what is going on with the expanding surveillance network that...
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September 25, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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September 23, 2026
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September 23, 2026
Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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September 24, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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September 12, 2026
On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.
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September 13, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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If Revenge Is What You Seek, Dig Two Graves
On September 11, 2001, Tom Baker IV was 16 and watching from a high school weight room. He enlisted the next year. Twenty-five years later, here's what he learned.
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September 12, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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September 5, 2026
Events of Friday, September 4, showed the Trump administration in a nutshell.
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September 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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September 1, 2026
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September 1, 2026
Yesterday, by a vote of 5–4, the United States Supreme Court allowed Trump to continue to build his ballroom.
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September 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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August 20, 2026
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August 20, 2026
On Saturday, August 15, the New York Times editorial board published an op-ed noting that the Republicans are trying to hide the cuts they have made to health care in the U.S.
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August 22, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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A year ago, just 42% of Americans opposed a data center being built in their community.

Today, a staggering 75% do.

Are data centers really that bad? Let’s take a look.
August 22, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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“Limiting the focus of Democratic tech reform efforts to data centers would be a generational missed opportunity. Moments when the public suddenly sees and feels the consequences of unchecked corporate power are rare.”

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Memo to Democrats: Your Anti-Big Tech Majority Is There for the Taking
The backlash against data centers is the perfect opening for a popular mandate to rein in Silicon Valley.
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August 22, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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August 21, 2026
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August 21, 2026
On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about 70 of his enslaved and free Black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slaveholding and t...
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August 22, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Data Centers Are Becoming A Big Problem For Big Tech—And Trump
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Data Centers Are Becoming A Big Problem For Big Tech—And Trump
Voters across the political spectrum agree: No one wants data centers built near them.
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August 18, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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August 17, 2026
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August 17, 2026
From Friday through Sunday, Trump continued his now-habitual weekend flooding of social media with fantasies that he is smart, beloved, and powerful.
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August 18, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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August 13, 2026
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August 13, 2026
Today Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board voted to put Trump’s name back on the Kennedy Center, this time in letters saying the building was “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J.
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August 14, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Carte Blanche
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Carte Blanche
Now that Todd Blanche is confirmed as attorney general, we need a roadmap to assess the principal risks and prepare for what’s coming.
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August 11, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Very disturbing: www.wral.com/news/nccapit...
ICE inks deal with private prison company to operate eastern NC immigration detention center
The GEO Group said Wednesday that it agreed to a five-year support services contract with ICE for the activation of a federal immigration processing center at the GEO-owned, 1,320-bed Rivers Facility ...
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July 29, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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The Mail’s the Thing
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The Mail’s the Thing
Trump’s plan to disrupt the November midterms increasingly turns on maximizing chaos in the mail-in ballot system.
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July 29, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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These consumer brands are bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress
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These consumer brands are bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress
From the outset of President Trump’s second term, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has engaged in a deadly immigration crackdown that has trampled the constitutional rights of migrants and...
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July 26, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Stitching a life back together: North Carolina’s push to improve reentry services ncnewsline.com/2026/07/21/s...
Stitching a life back together: North Carolina’s push to improve reentry services • NC Newsline
Shirlye Grandy served nearly six years in the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women. She's now the public arts project coordinator for Arise Collective, a Raleigh nonprofit dedicated to helping inca...
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July 21, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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We are not powerless to fight back against data colonialism. www.ted.com/talks/jen_go...
How surveillance tech erodes your privacy
You've probably heard the warnings about digital privacy: read the terms of service, think before you share, be careful what you click. But AI ethicist Jen Golbeck says the problem runs a lot deeper t...
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July 14, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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The state has formalized the nonprofit as the official provider for its Feminine Hygiene Products program, shifting from a school-grant model to statewide distribution based on the number of female students in grades six through 12.

Full story: www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2026/07/08/p...
July 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Funded by taxpayer dollars, but no requirement to make the results public. Shame on the NC Legislature.

NC budget sets $22M aside for new PFAS study, but moves to keep its results confidential ncnewsline.com/2026/07/01/n...
NC budget sets $22M aside for new PFAS study, but moves to keep its results confidential • NC Newsline
The budget allocates a total of $22 million to the North Carolina Collaboratory at UNC-Chapel Hill for research related to PFAS.
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July 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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The Supreme Court's Birthright Ruling Is Not A Win
The 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause survived by the skin of its teeth.
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July 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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NC’s ballot has 3 constitutional amendments. Should voters have the power to add more?
Constitutional amendment proposals can give the people of North Carolina the power to force lawmakers to act. Legislative leaders say they represent the public will already, but some on both sides of ...
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June 29, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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NC House committee okays a sweeping election bill, but its sponsor says it needs more work. • NC Newsline
An NC House committee okayed a controversial voting bill that would tighten rules for overseas voters and give the auditor more power, but the bill's sponsor says it's still a work in progress.
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June 19, 2026 at 8:53 PM