🩵 It was a special moment for Watauga Football when @CoachHabich & his team presented Braxton Clark with the game ball, marked with a #61 decal, following last night’s victory. We remain grateful for Coach Shawn Clark’s impact on so many WHS players, & on our entire community.
The Republican leaders of North Carolina's state legislature called everyone back to Raleigh to find a way to rig another US House seat for Donald Trump, but not to pass a state budget, or fund our state's Medicaid system.
Do you get it now? 🤡
The General Assembly plans to come back next week to shamelessly and unfairly redraw Congressional maps. Here’s what they should be doing instead:
Passing state budget
Fully funding Medicaid
Increasing law enforcement pay
Giving teachers a pay raise
I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to what's happening in this country.
Crockett: When you I say you are the least qualified in the history of the FBI, it’s real…
Patel: That’s false
Crockett: I didn’t ask you a question. I want to talk about why you're a failure and honestly we need to tell you, bye, bye
Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.
Nancy Mace just blamed Democrats for Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but when asked if Republicans “own” the mass shooting of Black lawmakers in Minnesota?
She laughed and said, “Are you kidding me?”
So it only counts when the victim fits your agenda?
.@NancyMace you're a POS!
We should all feel a deep sense of grief and outrage at the terrible violence that took place in Utah today. Charlie Kirk's murder is sick and reprehensible, and our thoughts are with his family, children, and loved ones.
I knew Charlie, and I admired his passion and commitment to debate. His senseless murder is a reminder of how important it is for all of us, across the political spectrum, to foster genuine discourse on issues that deeply affect us all without resorting to political violence.
The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.
Honest disagreement makes us stronger; violence only drives us further apart and corrodes the values at the heart of this nation.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
In a display of unity across the political aisle, the Young Democrats of Connecticut and Connecticut Young Republicans have issued a joint statement offering prayers for Charlie Kirk and condemning political violence:
All true:
1. The world is a much better place bcuz of the state of Israel.
2. Iran must never have a nuke. Never.
3. Every moderate Arab nation in the region has been cheering Israel on.
4. But this is, once again, what the world looks like without a United States Congress.
First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors.
This ain’t about law and order.
This is what authoritarianism looks like.
REPORTER: On the president's dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president?
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
This father went to his citizenship hearing expecting a handshake.
Instead, ICE shackled him, threw him into a van, and tore him away from his pregnant wife and four children—without even letting him say goodbye.
Kasper Eriksen arrived in Mississippi from Denmark in 2013, fully documented and determined to build a life here.
He started a family, became part of his community, and followed every rule. He was never accused, let alone convicted, of any crime.
But as best we understand, he's now imprisoned because of a single clerical mistake made years ago. In 2015, Kasper and his wife, Savannah, missed filing one form, among the hundreds required on the complicated path to citizenship.
Savannah had just suffered a stillbirth, losing their first child. In the painful days that followed, paperwork deadlines understandably slipped past unnoticed.
Now, over a month after his arrest, Kasper remains locked in a detention facility notorious for cruelty, neglect, and abuse.
Savannah—eight months pregnant, at high risk, and terrified—is desperately pleading for her husband's return.
She and their children have no idea when or if they'll ever see him again, and she doesn't know if he'll be present for her child's birth.
Every day brings another nightmare under the Trump administration.
The actions of our government are evil. There's simply no other way to describe it.
May God have mercy on us all for allowing this to happen.