Gerrick Brenner

Finished top-10 in class @ now defunct Brinkman-Froemming Umpire School 1995. 😆One ejection in the Gulf Coast League 1995. 👍🏽

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

@xuzin3sefh 572

[Acyn @Acyn]

Tillis: These people don't deserve restitution. Many of them deserve to be in prison. This is just stupid on stilts.

Reporter: Do you think you have colleagues that share the same concerns—

Tillis: They do and they need to speak up. This is beyond the pale. This is not good for my colleagues. There's not one positive thing that could be spun out of this between now and November. This is bad policy. It's bad timing, and it's bad politics

[Today In History @historigins]

In 1998, the United States achieved its first federal budget surplus in 29 years, effectively ending a streak of deficits that had lasted since 1969. ⁠
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This milestone was achieved under President Bill Clinton, following the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which resulted in a fiscal surplus of approximately $69 billion for that year.⁠
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[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

The proof is in the data.

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

He was reported for drinking tea all day and not working. Security cameras were checked, and he was given a salary bonus

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Children in a kindergarten in Italy napping to the sound of birds singing.

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

There was a secret pipeline of information designed to raise prices on almost all the chicken, pork, and turkey you bought - for years.

We just shut it down:

[Bill Leslie @wralbleslie]

May in the mountains is heavenly. Everything starts blooming from rhododendron to flame azaleas and mountain laurel.

Early mornings echo with the sound of birdsong coming in from exotic places.

And there’s nothing sweeter than the fresh garment of green on hillsides.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Despite a decade of broad and bipartisan support, Wilmington and the Cape Fear Region have almost completely failed to get any action taken on PFAS in their water supply.

Right now, today, the State of North Carolina still enforces no limit on how much toxic PFAS chemicals polluters can dump in the water. And this fact is even crazier than it sounds. Why?

Because Wilmington and New Hanover county has powerful representatives in the North Carolina state legislature. State Senator @MichaelLee4NC, who represents New Hanover County, is the Republican Majority Leader, and rumored to be jostling to succeed Phil Berger as Senate President Pro-Tem. In other words, Lee is already one of the most powerful politicians in Raleigh today - and could become even more so.

Representative Ted Davis, who also represents much of New Hanover, is a very senior member of the State House.

Yet neither men have supported, much less secured, any legal limits on PFAS whatsoever in their years in the state legislature.

The reason? Because the NC Chamber of Commerce opposes any such limits on polluters - and "The Chamber" is one of both men's biggest campaign contributors.

(By the way: under the Biden-Harris administration, the EPA introduced the very first legally enforceable limits on PFAS. But under the Trump administration, the EPA rolled back most of those limits in March of 2025, right after assuming power.)

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

Literally 30 years after I was last a high school baseball coach, Coach Bryan Tillman and I helped these guys at @eesmithhigh in #FayettevilleNC make it to the playoffs for the first time in 31 years. Only 2 seniors on this team, so the future is very bright for the Golden Bulls

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

@Showcase_Keith @latsondheimer Right. Humans. How dare they! 🤣

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

This is a very well-done piece. It breaks down all the earmarks by county in the new state budget and shows who got what, and where. Great work.
https://t.co/hgQSAFApVO #ncpol

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

🎯👇🏽

[Justin Parmenter @JustinParmenter]

One reason NC’s status as a great place to raise a family is in decline is because of Republican policies that are wrecking our traditional public schools and making it very hard for us to recruit and retain the excellent teachers our students deserve. #nced #ncpol

Since 2010:

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Don't take our word for it. Just listen to @markrobinsonNC himself when he tells us exactly what he wants to do if he's elected Governor of North Carolina. #ncpol

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

"...Careerism is a normal part of politics. But when democracy is at stake, choosing political ambition over its defense can be lethal."

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

"Many mainstream politicians who preside over a democracy’s collapse are not authoritarians committed to overthrowing the system. They are careerists who are simply trying to get ahead. They are less opposed to democracy than indifferent to it...
https://t.co/6ITawyEGEw

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

🤣🤣👇

[Gary Pearce @jgaryp]

Did she pull for South Carolina in the second half? #ncpol #ncga

[Keung Hui @nckhui]

This may encapsulates life in North Carolina public schools in 2023. On the 1st day of traditional-calendar classes: lockdowns due to safety threats, students being dismissed early due to HVAC issues & bus driver shortages leading to students getting to campus late. #nced

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

@MrJFox_ NOTE: Jordan had a 4th and goal from the 3 and later on had a 4th & goal from the 7 early in the 2nd half. Both times they decided to go for it and not kick field goals. Both times they were stopped with ZERO points. They take the points on those easy kicks, they win. Weird.

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

Jordan HS has a football team. Grinding #5 Cardinal Gibbons HS running right up the middle. 3Q: Jordan 24, Gibbons 21. #BullCity

[Gerrick Brenner @GerrickHBrenner]

@MrJFox_ I think it was Gibbons 35-31 in the end with Gibbons going 70 yards in the last 2 min. to win.