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The Poughkeepsie Journal Photo Morgue and the Fight to Save Local History The Poughkeepsie Journal photo morgue holds decades of unpublished images. Artists, scholars, and librarians are fighting to keep it from disappearing.

“In 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collection—by then scattered across the basement—was suddenly in limbo… The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archive…”

18.02.2026 04:09 👍 66 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 6
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Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.

A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

24.11.2025 02:13 👍 251 🔁 63 💬 41 📌 199
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North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities

NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:

19.11.2025 20:54 👍 253 🔁 130 💬 4 📌 5

Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss

18.11.2025 00:59 👍 528 🔁 241 💬 8 📌 31
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Elon Musk offers $1M for murals to be painted of light rail stabbing victim The tech giant posted on X, the social media platform he owns, in response to another post offering $500,000 in $10,000 grants to paint murals around America.

The bolts story about the charlotte sheriff is part of it, but video of a stabbing a few months ago went extremely viral on Twitter and in certain right-wing circles— Elon musk promised to pay for murals of the victim, e.g. www.wcnc.com/article/tech...

15.11.2025 22:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund
Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse
Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance
Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund
Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds
Nov 1: no funds go out
Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts

04.11.2025 16:53 👍 742 🔁 398 💬 26 📌 37
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

A great story about a truly malignant figure www.propublica.org/article/paul...

30.10.2025 13:25 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that

22.09.2025 02:17 👍 462 🔁 72 💬 9 📌 2

This is the moment for print. People will want to read the truth and when it’s hard to find online people will want paper.

20.09.2025 02:58 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0

Jesus Christ, this has got to be one of the worst public statements by a leader in history

26.07.2025 12:15 👍 228 🔁 71 💬 13 📌 7

The latest from the Great Leap Boerward…

25.07.2025 19:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"

25.07.2025 13:49 👍 3162 🔁 1092 💬 756 📌 758

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

22.07.2025 21:11 👍 6395 🔁 1204 💬 92 📌 50
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Billionaires Destroyed American News Media On Purpose It's not a conspiracy, it's simply what happened.

this is right www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...

22.07.2025 22:40 👍 126 🔁 46 💬 2 📌 1
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Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal

I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad.

But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.

Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...

01.07.2025 17:47 👍 134 🔁 36 💬 14 📌 11

The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

27.06.2025 00:25 👍 445 🔁 132 💬 16 📌 16

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

23.06.2025 20:36 👍 7326 🔁 3114 💬 296 📌 290

Wichita Falls Times, November 27, 1977

22.06.2025 16:54 👍 69 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 2
photo of two pages of the New York Times, Sunday June 22: left page is aerial photos accompanying the headline “U.S. Joins War Against Iran, Bombing Its Key Nuclear Facilities,” a NYT ad headed “Innovating new story formats,” and right page is an ad comprised of the front page of the latest print issue of the Onion, headlined: “Congress, Now More than Ever, Our National Needs Your Cowardice”

photo of two pages of the New York Times, Sunday June 22: left page is aerial photos accompanying the headline “U.S. Joins War Against Iran, Bombing Its Key Nuclear Facilities,” a NYT ad headed “Innovating new story formats,” and right page is an ad comprised of the front page of the latest print issue of the Onion, headlined: “Congress, Now More than Ever, Our National Needs Your Cowardice”

here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning

22.06.2025 15:06 👍 2500 🔁 500 💬 22 📌 27
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War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?

Of course he was going to bomb Iran.

Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?

22.06.2025 02:13 👍 246 🔁 67 💬 6 📌 11

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

09.06.2025 21:27 👍 18411 🔁 3892 💬 560 📌 187
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Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on the way back to the United States to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., sources say.

ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

06.06.2025 19:02 👍 9513 🔁 2278 💬 80 📌 659
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Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

30.05.2025 13:15 👍 5947 🔁 2983 💬 177 📌 334

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

15.04.2025 12:47 👍 39895 🔁 13245 💬 546 📌 503

Pretty much exactly what Tooze predicted two days ago
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

09.04.2025 04:52 👍 104 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1
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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.

Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...

05.04.2025 20:17 👍 1305 🔁 517 💬 12 📌 53

funny how Jeff Bezos pivoted to " We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets" thinking that would be obviously pro-trump

05.04.2025 11:41 👍 3767 🔁 394 💬 57 📌 31
Screenshot of the cover page of Griffin v Board of Elections. Text reads: "IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA
No. COA25-181
Filed 4 April 2025
Wake County, Nos. 24CV40619-910, 24CV040620-910, 24CV40622-910 JEFFERSON GRIFFIN, Petitioner,
v.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, Respondent,
and
ALLISON RIGGS, Intervenor-Respondent.
Appeal by petitioner from orders entered 7 February 2025 by Judge William
R. Pittman in Wake County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 21 March 2025."

Screenshot of the cover page of Griffin v Board of Elections. Text reads: "IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA No. COA25-181 Filed 4 April 2025 Wake County, Nos. 24CV40619-910, 24CV040620-910, 24CV40622-910 JEFFERSON GRIFFIN, Petitioner, v. NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, Respondent, and ALLISON RIGGS, Intervenor-Respondent. Appeal by petitioner from orders entered 7 February 2025 by Judge William R. Pittman in Wake County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 21 March 2025."

Excerpt from the panel majority opinion in Griffin v. Board of Elections. Text reads: "Upon remand, the Board is instructed to immediately direct the county boards
to expeditiously identify the military and overseas voters challenged under this
protest and notify said voters of their failure to abide by the photo ID requirement or
equivalent, to allow said voters fifteen (15) business days from the mailing of the
notice to cure the defect, and upon verification, to include in the count of this
challenged election the votes of those voters who timely cure their failure to abide by
the photo ID requirement and to omit from the final count the votes of those voters
who fail to timely cure their deficiencies.
Finally, as to the "Never Residents" voters, we conclude these purported voters
are not eligible to vote in North Carolina, non-federal elections, and the votes cast by
these purported voters are not to be included in the final count in the 2024 election
for Seat 6. The Superior Court's order in 24CV040619-910, affirming the Board's dismissal of Griffin's protest as to these purported voters is reversed with instructions to remand the matter to the Board to direct the county boards to identify the votes from "Never Residents" and remove them from the final count of the 2024 election for
Supreme Court Seat 6.
The Clerk of this Court is ordered to issue this Court's mandate on Monday, 7
April 2025 at 5 P.M. It is so ordered.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Panel consisting of:
Judges TYSON, HAMPSON, and GORE.
Judge Hampson dissents by separate opinion."

Excerpt from the panel majority opinion in Griffin v. Board of Elections. Text reads: "Upon remand, the Board is instructed to immediately direct the county boards to expeditiously identify the military and overseas voters challenged under this protest and notify said voters of their failure to abide by the photo ID requirement or equivalent, to allow said voters fifteen (15) business days from the mailing of the notice to cure the defect, and upon verification, to include in the count of this challenged election the votes of those voters who timely cure their failure to abide by the photo ID requirement and to omit from the final count the votes of those voters who fail to timely cure their deficiencies. Finally, as to the "Never Residents" voters, we conclude these purported voters are not eligible to vote in North Carolina, non-federal elections, and the votes cast by these purported voters are not to be included in the final count in the 2024 election for Seat 6. The Superior Court's order in 24CV040619-910, affirming the Board's dismissal of Griffin's protest as to these purported voters is reversed with instructions to remand the matter to the Board to direct the county boards to identify the votes from "Never Residents" and remove them from the final count of the 2024 election for Supreme Court Seat 6. The Clerk of this Court is ordered to issue this Court's mandate on Monday, 7 April 2025 at 5 P.M. It is so ordered. REVERSED AND REMANDED. Panel consisting of: Judges TYSON, HAMPSON, and GORE. Judge Hampson dissents by separate opinion."

BREAKING: Republican-majority panel of the Republican-majority NC Court of Appeals rules 2-1 that the Republican candidate for Supreme Court (their colleague on the Court of Appeals) wins the election even though he got several hundred fewer votes than the Dem

appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=...

04.04.2025 17:36 👍 881 🔁 421 💬 71 📌 97