Keith Caughran
@keithcaughran24.bsky.social
Retired health care worker in NC. Avid reader. Political researcher. History buff. Volunteer. Husband. Traveler. Music fan. Unaffiliated voter. “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” ― Thomas Pynchon
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Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 5h agoIn the past year, the Trump administration has killed at least 223 people in Caribbean Sea and East Pacific boat strikes. These attacks are extrajudicial killings and should be considered murder under domestic law and crimes against humanity under international law, writes @seharrison7.bsky.social.
Every time you think the Republican Party can’t get any more racist & repugnant to everything the “party of Lincoln” was founded on, they do something like this again. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images. Some Republicans see a pattern.
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) is challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). The former Collins staffer posted a swastika and shared an image of himself in what appear to be KKK robes.
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#ncpol I did not find any scheduled or already-held debate between Mark Harris and Colby Watson for the fall general election. Nothing has surfaced yet from local TV stations (WBTV, WSOC), the League of Women Voters, or other typical debate hosts specifically for this rac
Polls are wonky, so take it with a grain of salt, but this is a pleasant surprise for the solidly red South Carolina.
Tim Moore's weekly email : "Her death exposed serious failures in a system that repeatedly allowed a violent offender back onto our streets." Republicans were in charge when this happened. What a confession❗️ Tim's office goon tried to smear Josh Stein when I called. 🤡 What losers.
David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · yesterdayIf you care about having a Senator from North Carolina who respects the people who elect him & will work tirelessly for his constituents, share this. Cooper is actually a good, caring human being. A Republican attack ad has falsely accused Cooper. No surprise that is GOP playing loose with facts.
Dear America: Black people do not hang themselves. I repeat, Black people do NOT hang themselves. “… a man whose family remembers him primarily for music, faith and his children.” thegrio.com/2026/08/26/d...
Black father of nine found hanging in North Carolina as police say ‘everything is on the table’
Police say the death of Demetrius Fleming remains an open, equivocal investigation as his family remembers the Roanoke Rapids father of nine.
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#ncpol Take Action: Impeach Trump for Unjustified Killings citizensimpeachment.com/impeach-trum...
Take Action: Impeach Trump for Unjustified Killings - Citizens' Impeachment
November is the IMPEACHMENT MIDTERMS. If we’re going to hold Trump and his cronies accountable, we need representatives who are willing to do it. That’s where our Courage Candidates come […]
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The South’s extraordinary demographic shifts include sharply falling numbers of people moving to the region and a white population that is beginning to shrink in absolute terms. bit.ly/4cHsYzQ
The South at a Demographic Tipping Point
Census data shows profound demographic changes taking place across the South.
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Have you seen our impeachment action yet? Articles are filed! Let's get the House onboard.
Citizens' Impeachment@citizensimpeachment.com · 2d agoEmail your rep here: citizensimpeachment.com/action/ We're nice enough to copy Hakeem and Mike for you :)
People are finally learning that capitulating to a mob boss only brings more pain. Standing up and speaking out is effective. And contagious. Pass it on. . Gift article.  www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
In Canada and at Home, Deference to Trump Turns to Defiance on Tariffs and Other Issues (Gift Article)
While the president remains the most dominant figure in the world, other leaders and institutions are pushing back more vigorously than at the beginning of his second term.
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He's running a $1.5 million ad campaign that portrays him as driving county to county. But it turns out Michael Whatley has been flying in a $2 miilion private jet that belongs to a felon Trump pardoned for fraud and money laundering. #ncpol https://popular.info/p/gop-senate-candidate-campaigning
GOP Senate candidate, campaigning as truck-driving everyman, travels by private jet
North Carolina Senate nominee Michael Whatley’s committees have spent over $100,000 for use of a private jet linked to a convicted felon
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ICE is President Trump’s paramilitary force. @algreen.house.gov 's NEW articles of impeachment address the President’s weaponization of federal agencies to intimidate communities, suppress free speech, and advance his political agenda.
As ever, what you fail to say is also a message. It's the sworn duty of Congress to protect the American people from enemies foreign and domestic; our greatest present threat is the criminal in chief metaphorically and physically destroying our government.
Free Speech For People@fsfp.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING: @algreen.house.gov introduces NEW articles of impeachment charging Donald Trump with operating ICE and CBP as "unconstitutional paramilitary police forces."
#ncpol Functional Unemployment Up for Fourth Consecutive Month, Says Ludwig Institute www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
Functional Unemployment Up for Fourth Consecutive Month, Says Ludwig Institute
/PRNewswire/ -- The percentage of the American workforce classified as "functionally unemployed" increased for the fourth consecutive month even as the...
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Rep. Al Green Introduces New Articles of Impeachment Charging Trump with Operating ICE and CBP as Unconstitutional Paramilitary Police Forces freespeechforpeople.org/rep-al-green...
Rep. Al Green Introduces New Articles of Impeachment Charging Trump with Operating ICE and CBP as Unconstitutional Paramilitary Police Forces - Free Speech For People
Measure Alleges President Has Used Federal Immigration Agencies to Terrorize Communities, Violate Civil Liberties, and Advance Personal and Political Goals WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congressman Al Green...
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IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE. Invoke Rule IX and vote to impeach, now. Do not give this tyrant another day to sow destruction. What will future generations say about this Congress that did nothing? Call your Representatives - Honor Your Oath! @couragefordemocracy.com youtube.com/shorts/IVUKa...
What More Does Trump Have to Do to Get Impeached?
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Hear this message from Congressman Al Green: I filed H.Res.1486 to impeach President Donald John Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors. Read the articles of impeachment on my website at algreen.house.gov/rep-al-green...
Byron Donalds and Tim Scott think their sycophancy will improve their standing in their party. They need to wake up and see the truth! They are being used and abused by the most racist party in existence. They are pathetic to watch.
Mindcite💥@mindcite.bsky.social · last wk.Byron Donalds now lies like Trump. Blames like Trump. And blathers over interviewers like Trump. When Byron stops lying, blaming and blathering long enough, he may finally realize that the white supremacists he supports really don't care what color one is. As long as it's white.
Nice to see the Times covering this. I read about it in @jacobsilverman.com’s excellent book Gilded Rage.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.
High oil prices, subsidies and affordable models rev up European EV sales reut.rs/3S40yJu
High oil prices, subsidies and affordable models rev up European EV sales
Electric vehicle sales accelerated across much of Europe in July, as high oil prices, subsidies and availability of more affordable models encouraged consumers to ditch their combustion-engine cars, data provided to Reuters showed.
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From wanton tariffs, wars and decorating binges to UFC and IndyCar circuses, mass distraction is the lifeblood of a president and his party robbing our rights and assets in broad daylight. And unless resistance ups its game, media savvy and unity, the death knell of constitutional democracy.
(🚨) I can’t believe this hasn’t been major international news for weeks. Everything about this screams massive security breach—and worse still, the shape of this bizarre trip appears to mimic certain corrupt maneuvers Trump used during his 2016 preelection Russian collusion. Is new collusion coming?
BREAKING: Trump Hid From State Department That He Sent Man Behind His White House Military Complex to Meet with Kremlin Officials—and Now Major Details of That Trip Are Shifting
Trump says his six-story bunker under the White House—which critics fear is a prelude to martial law—is so classified that U.S. citizens who even discuss it commit Treason. So why is Putin involved?
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Donald Trump is breaking yet another law to help his friends. trib.al/G9YT9vP
How Trump is Making the U.S. the Money Laundering Capital of the World
Donald Trump is breaking yet another law to help his friends.
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Can we rant for a minute? It's utter *bullshit* when John Cornyn claims "There's nothing we could do to rein in Trump." OF COURSE THERE ARE THINGS THEY COULD DO! Not voting to confirm Trump's personal attorney for AG should be the bare minimum.
'There's Nothing We Could Do to Rein in Trump,' GOP Senator Says
John Cornyn, senator from Texas, said on Tuesday that there's "nothing" Republicans could do to "rein in" Trump's push for an anti-weaponization fund.
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Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
