The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted. The ruling comes after Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who lost the race, challenged the eligibility of tens of thousands of 2024 voters. Those voters will now have 15 days to verify their eligibility, potentially changing the outcome of the election.

Source: Alt National Park Service on Facebook

“These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! “

If what he said was true, it's still gross. But it looks like a gathering for Eid. That means they are gathered for a religious observance, not instructions for an attack. This could even be civilians.

What is wrong with this person? He just shot a round of golf and decided to gleefully tweet some killing?

The US is in a bad place.

I don't know what he is going to drop, but I truly hope it takes this administration down. Sounds big... really big

https://www.youtube.com/live/pQ67HwQZ0uQ?si=UD5xR1KS_diq0TKm

I'm going to lead this and state off the bat that yes, there are a lot of MAGA people who really are genuinely convinced that tariffs are great, Trump is great no matter what, and they're absolutely sincere about that, to the end.

However,

When I see these anecdotes about people talking to conservatives and they absolutely are convinced about dumb shit, yes, a lot of them really are like I said above, but a huge part of conservative social culture is saving face. Lying about dumb shit to save face is completely and totally acceptable in conservative social culture. ESPECIALLY in a group of other people.

A lot of progressive people will take what they say at face value, like "Well they said they love Trump literally no matter what so it must be true!" Yes, that is indeed true for a lot of them, but there's a sizeable amount that are lying about the depth of their support, but they're all in and they HAVE to maintain that appearance. If they have any doubts about their loyalty to MAGA, or the efficacy of Trump's policies, or how much they have to give up, etc etc, the absolute last person a lot of them are going to express their doubts and be honest is to is Mega Liberal Person.

If it's a question of the social impact, a lot of conservative people (and by extension MAGA people) would literally rather die than admit that they're wrong or you're right. They have to convince themselves to maintain their ego, otherwise it would totally collapse and they'd completely crash out. Have you ever seen a person like this really cornered into telling the truth, Wonder Woman lasso style? It is not pretty.

I don't have a formula to deduce who's really not lying about the depth of their support and who's simply saving face, but honestly it really doesn't matter. Just don't necessarily take them at their word, for whatever that's worth.

Et al; if a conservative person knows you're liberal/leftist/democrat/progressive, you can count on them to never be honest with you about their possible dissatisfaction with Trump, ever. Your best bet is to ask a third mutual friend who that conservative believes shares their views.

the clip at victory rally has 29 million as well now.

A lot of positive things happened this week! In an attempt to push back on some of the doomerism in here, I was hoping to compile a list of maybe 10-15 good things and ended up with over 50 because I kept finding more and more stuff (and there’s more, I just got tired of listing things lol)

Election results - Susan Crawford won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election by 10 points. The court retains a 4-3 liberal majority, and it shows other republicans that Elon’s involvement may be a liability - Florida special elections for district 1 and district 6—although republicans kept those two seats, the margins were cut in half. They were both about R+30 in November and down to about R+15 this week. Gay Valimont flipped Escambia county, which has been red for decades - Democrat John Laesch beat the republican incumbent in the Aurora, IL mayoral race - Winnebago County, Wisconsin—flipped the county executive seat to a dem - Wisconsin superintendent of instruction—democrat won against a republican backed by DOGE and Moms For Liberty - Dems won every partisan race in DuPage County, IL - Dozens of township elections in IL flipped power to dems, some of which had never before elected a dem

Legal stuff - The Democratic Party is suing the Trump administration over his EO to control elections. Named plaintiffs are Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, the DNC, DGA, DSAA, and DCCC - Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over his EO to control elections - WA and OR filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over the election EO - Judge ruled that Pennsylvania has to count undated and incorrectly dated ballots - Judge ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute anyone for helping women travel to other states for abortion care - The New Civil Liberties Alliance (right wing group) is suing Trump, saying that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn’t give him power to impose tariffs - Judge denies DOJ effort to move Mahmoud Khalil’s case to Louisiana, it stays in New Jersey - Judge ordered Trump admin has to bring back Abrego Garcia from El Salvador - Tufts University filed a declaration in federal court supporting Rumeysa Ozturk’s release (first time a university has done so for a detained international student) - Judge denies DOJ effort to move Rumeysa Ozturk’s case to Louisiana, moves it to Vermont instead

Republicans breaking ranks - 9 House republicans sided with dems to force a vote on proxy voting, causing Mike Johnson to shut down the House and cancel all votes for the rest of the week - Anna Paulina Luna left the Freedom Caucus - 4 Senate republicans voted with dems for a resolution to undo the tariffs on Canada - A bipartisan bill was introduced by Chuck Grassley and Maria Cantwell to require congressional approval for tariffs - Republican representative Don Bacon said he plans to introduce a bill that mirrors the bipartisan Senate bill to reclaim Congress’s authority over tariffs - Rand Paul gave a half hour speech on Trump’s tariffs being an unconstitutional abuse of executive power - Other senators criticizing the tariffs: Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, Thom Tillis - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be looking to quit soon - Republican senator James Lankford said it’s “entirely appropriate” for an investigation into Signalgate

Dems doing stuff - CORY BOOKER 👏 broke the record for longest Senate speech, knocking segregationist Strom Thurmond out of the top spot. He read letters from constituents, bringing their voices to the Senate floor, and talked about all the horrible things the Trump administration is doing, getting it all on record - Ruben Gallego is putting a block on all VA nominees until they reverse their gutting of the VA - Adam Schiff is putting an indefinite hold on Ed Martin’s nomination - Senate democrats created a Social Security war room - Adam Schiff announced that dems (led by him and Jamie Raskin) will hold a shadow hearing to question ousted DOJ officials on Monday - Georgia democrats staged a walkout in protest of anti-trans bills - Gavin Newsom is pursuing trade agreements with other countries to spare California from retaliatory tariffs - Obama spoke out against Trump - DNC Chair Ken Martin launched “People’s Cabinet”—experts in different policy areas to cut through Trump’s lies and speak directly to the people

New bills - Andy Kim, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff introduced a bill to require security training for those with high level security clearance - Mikie Sherrill introduced a bill to require Elon and his team to pass a drug test in order to continue government work - Sarah Jacobs introduced a bill to defund DOGE

Elon’s L’s - Trump told his inner circle that Elon’s on his way out soon - Tesla sales fell 13% in Q1 - Tesla stock is down 43.5% since inauguration - The EU is preparing penalties of $1B against X for failure to combat illicit content and disinformation - EU officials are building a case that X’s failure to moderate content has made it a “hub of illegal hate speech, disinformation and other material that is viewed as undercutting democracy across the 27-nation bloc”

Misc - The Pentagon is launching an investigation into Hegseth for Signalgate after receiving a joint letter from the chair and ranking member of the senate armed services committee (Republican Roger Wicker and Democrat Jack Reed) - The White House cancelled all tours on 4/5 in anticipation of protests - RFK stated that HHS will be reinstating programs and employees that were cut by mistake - San Francisco to begin issuing speeding tickets based on income. Low income people are eligible for further discounts or to pay it off via community service - LA city council unanimously passed a motion for a study of independent Know-Your-Rights training, paid time off, and fair scheduling for the CA Fast Food Workers Union - GOP pollster Frank Lutz praised Cory Booker’s speech and said it puts him in a leading position for 2028. He also said if you ask senate democrats right now who they’d want as party leader, they’d choose Booker over Schumer

Other resistance - Thousands of people went to the Capitol in Utah for trans day of visibility and unfurled the world’s largest trans flag, in response to Utah outlawing pride flags in schools and government buildings - Students at the University of Minnesota held a protest to demand their school become a sanctuary campus - Two more associates left Skadden over the firm’s capitulation to Trump, their resignation letters are public - Celebrities and fashion houses put together a trans-led runway show as a fundraiser for the Trans Justice Funding Project

https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3lluxkmx7wc2m

"The tariffs are Trump’s tool to erode that independence. Now, one by one, every industry or company will need to pledge loyalty to Trump in order to get sanctions relief."

"The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry.

As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears"

🙏🏾 We need 3 Republicans to vote this way! Let's bug them!!! We NEED this! ❤️

https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3llyx3yo4ys2r

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/nc-voters-must-fix-ballots-in-15-days-court-rules/

Please share everywhere! This affects overseas and military voters as well. If you are in NC they are still trying to invalidate over 60k ballots!!

Edit: https://thegriffinlist.com/ here's a quick look up to see you are affected!

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence but does anyone else think it’s a bit odd that a world class cyber security expert and his wife were raided by the FBI and disappeared the same week that the head of the NSA cybersecurity spy team was fired? Something in the vodka maybe?

https://www.wired.com/story/cybersecurity-professor-mysteriously-disappears-as-fbi-raids-his-homes/

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/g-s1-58247/national-security-agency-chief-fired-trump-timothy-haugh

What's happening? It feels like we're all just waiting for the clouds to start falling out of the sky or something.

We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow or the day after that except that it's going to be worse than the day we're on.

9/10 people don't even care about their planet. They are blissfully unaware we have 50 years tops and will laugh at you if you brush the subject.

Everytime I hear someone dreaming about retiring in Florida, planning to have more kids or planning to buy a Tesla without being aware of protests in the area, I die another death inside.

Most people just have no clue. This year has aged me so much quicker and faster than I ever thought was possible (I'm 24)

I still see maga hats. I still see men asking to speak to someone that isn't a woman. I (surprisingly) hear black people moaning about how it's good that birth right citizenship is going to be taken away next

Why is everyone 50 years behind times? Especially when news reaches far more people than it ever did before.

Why is a mentally arrested 70 year old felon in office?

When can I say what I really want to say again? And protest (as a POC) while feeling safe doing so?

If you're from another county reading this, please don't judge us based on the average American who doesn't care. A large majority of us really, really, REALLY did not want this.

The Government is already appealing Judge's decision.

North Carolina Maga Republikkkans are cheating.