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Welcome. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. The platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight and inspiration as we take back our state from some of the most extreme Republicans in...
by randallt
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Will all North Carolinians pay the price for Republicans nominating�a gubernatorial candidate who favorably quotes Adolf Hitler , compares LGBTQ+ people to “maggots” and “flies,” and thinks ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Experts still aren’t sure if the shorter, adaptive exam — beginning in March — will narrow test score gaps for girls, students of color and youth with disabilities. By Nadra Nittle Originally published by The 19th College-bound students will soon get...
by The19th
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 10:44 AM PST
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Some people think there’s a new Boogeyman in town and he’s out to get white people: crushing white opportunity, pushing ‘woke’ ideology and threatening democracy itself. His scheme embodied in three simple words: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…DEI....
by Trudy Bayer
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 06:07 AM PST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrqNzRn4DE Greetings and welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 04:36 PM PDT
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LATE-NIGHT MUSIC—THOUGHTS ON A SCOTUS DIVERSITY RULING I was speaking to my therapist regarding the current climate of modern diversity challenges, especially in the legal arena recently—we had an in-depth chat on the subject. Long and short, Dr. Mack...
by sepiasiren
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 12:37 AM PST
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Kevin McCarthy sucked as speaker, but he’s good at revenge At least he’s good at something. House GOP to launch critical investigation into just how old Biden is Yes, they’re really doing this. Trump officially takes over the GOP Hello to the official...
by Jen Hayden
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 01:48 PM PST
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Probably because she’s a despicable sub-human bigot Fox Propaganda Host and rumor-monger Maria Bartiromo idly wondered today if Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts are at fault for the death of the 3 U.S. Soldiers recently in Jordan. Because of...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 03:20 PM PST
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Representation matters.�Different points of views matter. Joe Biden not only knows this and talks the talk about it, he also walks the walk. For example, in his judicial appointments. Most of Biden�
by GoodNewsRoundup
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 04:30 AM PST
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From Guttmacher Institute email: In a new comment published in The Lancet, experts Ann Starrs, Alex Ezeh, Gilda Sedgh and Susheela Singh outline the collective work needed to advance sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for all by 2030....
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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From This Week in Freudenfreude: Surprise! This is Naz Hassan: As you can presumably infer from the photo, she's adorable, very young (4 years old), and a big fan of Halloween. True enough. I’d call her unreasonably adorable, but all 4 year-olds are...
by Dalbert
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 09:49 AM PST
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Republicans have been pushing hard on “parents’ rights”—meaning book bans and elimination of any LGBTQ+ representation or serious discussion of race from public schools. It’s an effort to ...
by Laura Clawson
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 10:00 AM PST
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Commentary by Black Kos editor JoanMar It’s about 1:AM in the morning and I’m traveling�south on Interstate 91. It’s been a long day and I need to get home, to be in my bed like in the next 5 ...
by Black Kos
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Nightmare dentist Rep. Paul Gosar continues to spew hate-filled, misinformed invective out into the public sphere. On his official government website, Gosar unspooled a conspiracy theory in which former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Chairman of the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 12:22 PM PDT
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Hello, DailyKOS. I come to you from my kitchen, where I’ve dragged myself having had to come home from work early. Why, you ask? Hot dogs. Let’s back up. Food allergies have been on the rise for decades. There are multiple reasons for this, and...
by Ninalyn
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on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 02:36 AM PDT
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By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com Republicans are falling over each other trying to show who is more racist, more misogynist, more embracing of political violence and authoritarianism. Trump even published his “to-do” list if he manages to...
by NewsPhotosFeatures
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 11:51 AM PDT
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All we like sheep have gone astray confesses: our crucifixion from within. While neither global nor American first, domestic monsters seek to agitate the still tyrant voice within each of us. MAGA Republicans are increasing dissembling havoc,...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Sat Jul 22, 2023 at 01:26 PM PDT
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Ah, the multiverse. That wondrous array of infinite possibilities. Truth is, comic book reading boomers have known of the multiverse for quite some time now. It was DC, who, according to some accounts, first explored this realm, somewhere back in, oh,...
by Jay B
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on Fri Jul 21, 2023 at 04:04 AM PDT
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President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have worked to pass a major milestone in approving the 100th district court nominee. That marks 139 federal judgeships in total under the Biden administration. We celebrate Biden being on track to fight back...
by Erin Tulley
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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So you’re a Conservative Republican and you’re against DEI. I wonder why. Many Republicans have passed laws or forwarded bills against DEI initiatives in state universities. Also, some companies have terminated their DEI initiatives, along with their...
by Zeke Springer
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on Sat Jul 15, 2023 at 05:09 PM PDT
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