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These numbers back up the feeling around the island of Ireland for what was another incredible game week for the 2026 Aer Lingus College Football Classic 🏈☘️
We can’t thank all of our supporters enough for the incredible support shown 🤝
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#MuchMoreThanAGame | #TouchdownDublin | #TouchdownIreland
Congratulations to Johnston County's Little League Softball World Series champions! Undefeated throughout the tournament, the team capped its remarkable run w/ a 2-0 win over Kentucky in Greenville to bring the championship home. You made all of Johnston County proud! Way to go!
When I was in Wilmington on Friday, I had a conversation with someone that literally turned my stomach. Here’s how that conversation went:
Me: Where are you from?
Them: I’m from X, Y, Z. I moved to Wilmington to attend UNCW for my masters. And I stayed to be “part of the change.”
From there, the conversation descended into 26 minutes of mental torture filled with every Marxist keyword I’ve ever heard.
I was in shock.
I ended that conversation as quickly as I could. And I walked away so furious I could spit.
Let me tell you about “the change” this communist wants to be apart of in Wilmington:
👉🏼increasing violence
👉🏼rampant homelessness that negatively impacts homeowners and community safety
👉🏼rising taxes and cost of living
👉🏼gentrification that has displaced local poor families of every race and turned once affordable neighborhoods into yuppy havens where Marxists plan the takeover of the Port City
👉🏼the destruction of green spaces - including tearing down mature healthy trees in established neighborhoods
👉🏼filling in wetlands that result in more flooding and more dangerous hurricane conditions
👉🏼DSA funded benches painted with socialist propaganda on city owned property
I could go on and on.
Basically? They want to destroy the city built by my ancestors. The place I was born. My hometown.
People slip in my comments all the time and they want to know: how does this happen in sleepy little North Carolina?
I’m about to tell you. 👇🏼
The communist manifesto directs these people to attack our institutions. Most people confuse those institutions with politics.
Smh. This isn’t political, y’all. Wake up! It’s cultural.
Family. Church. Education. History. The land. Our wildlife. Even the way we talk. These things belong to our culture.
Tear down a culture. Rip out everyone’s roots. Then there’s nothing left to tie us all together. And when that happens, we are ripe to fall.
You can see it in Asheville. You can see it in Wilmington.
They’re destroying our home. Eventually, it will destroy our counties. Our states. And our country.
This is a virus that SPREADS.
It’s not going to be defeated by legislation alone. And I’m sorry, I know that no one wants to hear this but if we want to win the culture war, we’re going to have to get off of our collective butts and FIGHT.
We’re going to have to think like they think.
Do you know why the shrimping ban in NC failed? It wasn’t because of social media posts. It was because conservatives flooded Raleigh. They walked the halls of the NC Legislative Building. They DEMANDED our legislators think of the NC families a ban would hurt. 18 Wheelers circled the block blowing their horns.
That’s the kind of fighting spirit we need. And it needs to flood every town. It needs to show up to fight for every cause. You can’t give them even an inch.
How many North Carolina cities need to fall before it sinks in?
Well butter my biscuit, @joshsteinnc…
A DC-born carpetbagger with those fancy Harvard credentials thinks he can school real Tar Heels on our Confederate flag?
Bless your ignorant little heart, honey. You couldn’t understand our Southern heritage if it hit you with a jug of sweet tea. That flag flew for NC boys who fought for this land — it’s our history, not your “divisive” feelings project.
But you’ll happily proclaim Ramadan for the whole state while your spox demands we stop “dishonoring the flag of North Carolina” over this? (Straight from the coverage here: https://t.co/zrHbjMzlex)
Selective much?
Denounce our heritage one minute, roll out the welcome mat for another the next.
Hypocrisy smells worse than day-old collards.
This exhibit is EXACTLY the North Carolina we love — proud, gritty, and unapologetic about our full history. Not your watered-down, feelings-first fantasy.
America 250 is about truth, not erasing the parts that make you clutch your pearls.
#NCStrong #SouthernHeritage #HeritageNotHate #SteinHypocrisy
Roy Cooper didn’t lift a finger to protect North Carolina small businesses and communities when rioters burned and looted cities in 2020.
Instead, he marched with BLM while families watched their livelihoods go up in flames.