Woody Cain

@wfae | former @NASCAR | former Kmart Santa | @appstate grad | “The trouble is, we're used to it.” -Avett Brothers | INSTA: woodycain

[Bryan Anderson @BryanRAnderson]

It’s now been 1,000 days since NC lawmakers last passed a comprehensive budget. #ncpol

[Steve Harrison @Sharrison_WFAE]

The Matthews attorney says in a memo that @SenatorSawyer draft amendment to require Charlotte, Matthews and other governments to repay the DOT for money spent designing I-77 tolls is "unlawful." The memo comes as Monroe looks to support I-77 again, and it's on CRTPO agenda Wed.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

WTI and Brent crude oil have both dropped below $80/bbl for the first time since March- the coast isn't clear- but for the time being lower gasoline and diesel prices are in the pipeline

[Woody Cain @WYcain]

@RadioFreeTom Same. Nothing after the first, but that second one 🥴

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

North Carolina property tax facts:
- The average county property tax rate in 2025-2026 in North Carolina is 58.3 cents per $100 of value
- Wake, Mecklenburg, New Hanover, Durham, Forsyth and Buncombe counties all have property tax rates below the state average
- the highest property tax rates in the entire state are in the rural and very low-income northeast and southeastern parts of the state
- the highest property tax rates in Western NC are in Alexander (65 cents/$100) and Cherokee (61 cents/$100) counties
- the lowest property tax rate in the state is in Carteret county: 22.5 cents/$100

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC on Medicare Advantage: In theory, agents and brokers work with everyday people enrolling in a plan and are there to help them pick the best plan for their health, right?

That’s how it’s supposed to be set up.

What gets complicated is that agents and brokers are paid by health insurers for enrolling individuals in specific plans.

And so you’re supposed to have agents and brokers talking to your mom or your grandparent, saying, “We’d like to enroll you. We think this plan is what’s best for you.”

But what that person doesn’t know is that UnitedHealthcare is saying, “We’ll give you a vacation if you enroll people in our plan,” or, “We’ll give you a couple of extra hundred dollars if you enroll someone in a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, a United plan, or any number of other plans.”

And in your testimony, you stated that agents and brokers received $10 billion in this kind of compensation in 2022 alone, right?

That’s $10 billion in taxpayer money. A lot of it is being funneled through these corporations. And so that is money that is not going to care. It’s going to perks, trips to Boca, and financial incentives for brokers to enroll people out of traditional Medicare and into for-profit Medicare Advantage plans.

[Social Security Works ❌👑 @SSWorks]

BREAKING: The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report confirms that Donald Trump's policies are weakening Social Security’s finances.

Now Republicans are eyeing benefit cuts.

Here's what you need to know: 🧵

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

California and Wisconsin have already documented slower ballot delivery since the USPS policy changes began. The NAACP says the new rule violates a binding 2021 settlement requiring timely ballot delivery through 2028. And a DOJ filing revealed DHS is exploring using USPS to monitor mail-in ballot flows and generate federal investigative leads on voters. All three tracks running at the same time.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Here's Utah (@SenMikeLee 's home state) one day after the November 5, 2024 election.

62.1% tabulated.

(Utah is an all mail state like California)

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

In large part because of the ongoing Iran war (total cost $29 billion and counting), diesel prices have skyrocketed. That means @NCDOT may have to cut ferry service to the Outer Banks unless state lawmakers come up with a budget - and quick.

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi.

And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face."

Then he lied about it.

https://t.co/3hZWckf54M

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Solar is irrelevant in the winter"

(this, dear reader, is false)

[Woody Cain @WYcain]

@wxcrum Soaking it up while we can!

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

[Woody Cain @WYcain]

@johnlockhart05 @Megafrayder2 Times are different.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.

This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

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[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

46.3 million barrels: that's how much U.S. gasoline inventories have fallen since january, the largest such drop on record going back to 1996. it's 54% bigger than the second-largest ever recorded, 2022's 30.3 million barrel plunge.

[Woody Cain @WYcain]

@Clt_TrafficGuy Looks like a key staff member right there 🤪