I don't like cops to put it plainly. This sheriff standing up against Nazis last year actually impressed me but he lost any goodwill that generated with this ridiculous stunt. An 11-year-old?!?! Shame the parents, sure, but an 11-year-old should never be publicly shamed for political reasons. This sheriff is 100% doing this for politics, to advance his career at the expense of a child. Disgusting.

You guys gonna shout at them to get off your lawns next?

"Kids these days!!!" is the oldest trope in the history of tropes.

"Trump has been found liable to pay damages..."

Good luck collecting that debt, he'll never pay it.

When you criminalize pregnancies and their many complications through abortion bans what else do you expect to happen?

More: The law is clear. It's up to the State Board of Elections to decide on late changes to the ballot. That's why I agree with Justice Allison Riggs in her dissent: "Today, any public aspersions cast on the impartiality, independence, and dignity of our state courts are well-earned."

By removing Kennedy's name at this late hour, Republicans hope potential Kennedy voters will become Trump voters. The Republicans on the court cared not one iota it would create so much uncertainty 130,000 North Carolinians who requested mail-in ballots don't know when they'll be able to vote, county state officials are scrambling to beat a federal deadline for sending out absentee ballots, and it will cost maybe a $1 million to sort the whole mess out. There were nearly 3 million ballots " with a combined 2,348 styles " printed before court intervention. They are now null and void, must be scrapped for no good reason.

There is no sugarcoating this. At least some NC Supreme Court should justices are purely political actors disguised in black robes.

Four years ago, President Joe Biden lost to Trump by less than 2 percentage points in North Carolina. Since then, the U.S. Supreme Court uprooted the half-century long precedent that was Roe v. Wade, and the GOP nominated extremist N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson as its standard bearer. The Roe decision has been a potent get-out-the-vote engine for Democrats across the country, while the Robinson pick has made the state GOP a laughingstock. Did the party really have to nominate someone who dabbles in anti-blackness, antisemitism, and is a hypocrite abortion, among many other unsavory things?

According to the latest WRAL poll, voters have noticed those Republican choices. Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, has a 14-point lead over Robinson. Stein has been boosted not just by a Democratic base that's been energized since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, but also by conservatives who still believe in democracy and are willing to extremism even if it's found on own their side of the aisle.

The GOP had already gerrymandered its way to a supermajority in Raleigh, even though North Carolina has more registered Democrats than Republicans. This time, though, they won't be able to hide the damage their power grab has left in its wake. Voters will notice, because voters of all backgrounds and ideologies are being directly affected.

In November, that diverse mix of voters can tell the GOP, in no uncertain terms, the foolishness has to end.

More: Foremost among these is the fetish for free speech as the sole end of political life. Loath to actually govern, lest it encroach on donor-class prerogatives, the institutional right has long substituted procedural claims " why can't I ask questions! " for substantive ones about the good life. Free speech and inquiry are valuable. But treated as the highest good, these ideals give rise to a pure shock-jock politics.

Second, and there is no delicate way to put this, the right suffers from a talent shortage. For all the rhetoric about free inquiry, the same donor class severely disciplines the mainstream right's media and academic operators. To go beyond certain hawkish, free-market lines is verboten.

This leaves conservative institutions dominated by doctrinaire hacks who can churn predictable opinion pieces, but can't report or write at anywhere close to the level expected of left-of-centre counterparts. There are many applicants to be the next Fox or Newsmax loudmouth, but few young rightists aspire to the excellence and enterprise daily showcased by the New York Times or the New York Review (for all their shortcomings). Being a successful loudmouth is much easier: all you need is to bellow about how "they" want us to eat bugs and take poison vaccines.

The third and final cause is what might be called the young right's epistemic snap. Thoroughly alienated from the American mainstream, they feel compelled to believe that everything they've been taught is a big lie " even the relative decency of the Allied effort against the Nazis.

purge the criminal invaders and trash and then take our country back

Was this shooter a criminal invader? Nope, just another white kid with a father who cared more about his keeping guns when the cops came knocking last year than he cared about his kid.

We're not gonna make it are we?

How do you imply Marines or any service member would rate those kinds of awards without impugning their characters or that of the Marine Corps as a whole?

Pretty sure Danni is a woman BTW.

More: Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli who was also participating in the protest, said the shooting occurred shortly after dozens of Palestinians and international activists held a communal prayer on a hillside outside the northern West Bank town of Beita overlooking the Israeli settlement of Evyatar.

Soldiers surrounded the prayer, and clashes soon broke out, with Palestinians throwing stones and troops firing tear gas and live ammunition, Pollak said.

The protesters and activists, including Pollak and the woman, retreated from the hill and the clashes subdued, he said. He then watched as two soldiers standing on the roof of a nearby home trained a gun in the group's direction and shot at them. He saw the flares leave the nozzle of the gun when the shots rang out. He said the woman was about 10 or 15 meters (yards) behind him when the shots were fired.

He then saw her "lying on the ground, next to an olive tree, bleeding to death," he said.

Oops, my post should read "they weren't Nazis either."

Good move by the USMC.

As a former Marine I take issue with your ridiculous fantasy of a post Danni. The Marines I knew and worked with weren't perfect people but they were Nazis either. The USMC is obviously taking proactive steps to weed out the few who need to be shown the door and you take that news as an opportunity to impugn the service of thousands of Marines who volunteered to do a job you couldn't do. ---- you.

This young woman is braver than any of the keyboard warriors on this site that have nothing good to say about her. I get that she intimidates a lot of you but really, trying to pick on a 21-year-old college kid makes you look even more foolish than usual.

This article is clearly antisemitic. /s

after downing half a bottle of liquor in five minutes, crashing into a combination bar-liquor store and then fighting with sheriff's deputies

Shes already got her "Florida woman" credentials with a stunt like that, she should fit right in.

The corruption never stops.

I'm happy to see them waste their donors' money.

I was stationed on Okinawa when super typhoon Bart hit. Wasn't too bad, but everything on base is basically concrete and built to withstand stuff like that.

More: In a March email to his bosses, Andy Groff, Kroger's senior director for pricing, acknowledged that the company had raised its prices more than required to adjust for higher costs.

"On milk and eggs, retail inflation has been significantly higher than cost inflation," Groff wrote.

Groff testified about his email as part of an antitrust lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and a group of states aimed at blocking Kroger from buying the Albertsons chain. US District Judge Adrienne Nelson in Portland, Oregon, is expected to rule on whether to stop the $24.6 billion acquisition from moving forward.

Dolly Parton is the closest thing to a saint any of us will ever see.

This happened a month ago.

If Israel was serious about getting the hostages back alive and achieving some sort of lasting peace they'd hold new elections immediately and get rid of Netanyahu once and for all.

I have yet to meet anyone who actually supports this clown. Even my conservative co-workers have nothing good to say about the guy, and they are Trump voters.

Good. I hope the workers demands are met promptly.

Right wing bomb-thrower Ann Coulter took aim at Tim Walz's 17-year-old neurodiverse son, Gus, for crying while his father spoke at the DNC on Wednesday night.

The moment Gus got to his feet clapping, crying and pointing at his father was captured live on TV and prompted an outpouring of positivity for the teenager.

But it was also latched on to by elements of the online right, with Coulter writing "Talk about weird..." in a post on X Thursday. The Harris-Walz campaign has successfully been using the weird' description to describe Donald Trump and JD Vance.

However, she appeared to quickly delete the post after social media erupted with anger.