Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics. Whether to tolerate political corruption is a choice voters get to make every time you go to the ballot box.

Direct federal government assistance has quietly become the backbone of rural North Carolina's economy. The reason: most rural counties have been in a permanent recession for 15 years running, and the leaders of our state legislature have mostly decided they're fine with that. 💸

Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics. [May 1, 2026] We have to fight for our kids. Because our lawmakers sure as hell don't. ✏️

A lot of people are very cynical about whether voting makes a difference, and they're not always wrong to feel that way. But elections do have big consequences for your daily life - just ask folks up in Vance county. 🚰

Yet again in the North Carolina state legislature, we have political theatrics coming from wealthy, super-ambitious politicians. But the real story isn't what they're saying - it's why they're doing it at all, and why it's hurting rural North Carolina. 🤨

Evidence is mounting that the 2026 election will be a "blue wave." In North Carolina, the generic ballot average currently sits around D+4 - and there's still five months before the election. Try it out for yourself: https://carolinaforward.org/news/2026-shift/

The worst kind of misinformation is mostly just folks honestly not knowing how stuff works, and then getting frustrated when it doesn't.

The reason why Phil Berger lost his primary isn't complicated: he and his family are out of touch, corrupt and arrogant.

Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics. [March 20, 2026] Berger might be done. Who's going to pay for firefighters? They should be less Craven.

This Wednesday is Tax Day across America, and North Carolina is no exception. Most people have no idea what their taxes pay for, which leads to a lot of weird ideas. So let's just break it down. 💵

Trump: We have a ballroom that's under budget. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. And we're right now on budget, under budget and ahead of schedule. I DOUBLED THE SIZE OF IT YOU DUMB PERSON!

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Ukraine built more than 1,170 kilometers of anti-drone protection routes in frontline regions amid the Russian FPV drone threat Over recent months, construction speeds have more than doubled, rising from 4 km to 8.5 km per day compared to 2025 📹 Fedorov

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Michael Jackson wrote a song, "Palestine, Don't Cry" that Sony REFUSED to Release A few months later, the allegations about him came out.

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Great news! The govt will finally introduce local content rules for streaming platforms. This is a huge win for Aussie stories, jobs and our screen industry. Proud to have stood alongside actors, creators and so many others who helped push for this outcome. It’s a great day for Australian stories.

Democrat party in the 1970's would have had STROKES if they saw what their party is pushing now. They were for the working people, closed borders and loved America. Today they're complete psycho.

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Today, #Ukraine commemorates the #Chornobyl catastrophe. In April 1986, any mention of the disaster was quickly suppressed by Moscow. People paid with their lives for the delayed response. In february 2025, a russian drone struck the anti-radiation shield over the reactor unit 4. 📹

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Six years ago today: The nation tunes in to the daily White House COVID-19 briefing for information & guidance, and the president free-associates about curing it by injecting disinfectant or light or heat or something. The next day, he refuses to answer questions, and then cancels the briefings.

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Lovin’ Jennifer Welch’s work. More people need to wake up, DJT and his regime are career criminals/liars, they run a coordinated propaganda network, they’re all in it. We need to keep fighting back until the tyrant’s out of power. #protest #fightback #removetrump #arrestrump #arresttrumpregime

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Sen Schiff calls the court ruling blocking Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund a start — but only a start. Next week he’s introducing legislation to shut it down permanently and make sure convicted cop assaulters never see a dollar of your tax money.

Another night, another attack. Russia launched a fresh strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa overnight, leaving several people wounded and causing damage to residential buildings. Our correspondent Don Arleth is in Odesa and has more.

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A video appeared showing the aftermath of the Ukrainian strike against the docked „Boykiy“ in Kronstadt, Russia. What and absolute embarrassment for the Russian army, having lost a ship in the middle of one of their most fortified ports in all of Russia.

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The oldest living ocelot in human care recently celebrated its birthday. 🎂🥳

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Thanks to "DRUMPF DERANGEMENT SYNDROM" Republicans will do whatever it takes to steal elections. They follow their leader exactly in every step he takes. Soon, they will be following him straight to hell, where they all came from !!!!!

DJT is corrupt & entitled his greed would brazenly break laws w/ actions not protected as “defrauding the court,”collude & steal from US IRS, attempt to enrich seditious insurrectionists w/ US tax payers MONEY, settle case avoiding judges scrutiny, drop settlement to bypass answering for avoidance.