Microsoft's purchase of Person County's 1,300 megasite is full of intrigue. It's on land between Duke Energy 's Hyco and Roxboro plants + 230 kv lines. Could power a data center. 6 weeks ago County Econ Dev Director told commissioners "this is the strictest non-disclosure 1/3

Only in New Orleans can I top off an awesome 70th birthday dinner with my wife, sons and daughters in law by running into classic a capella singers Jay-Ray and Gee on Royal Street — and they sing me Happy Birthday as only they can. No place like New Orleans. 🎵🎼🎶♥️

Served as a pollworker today in #Durham and it was *slammed*. Lots of same day registrations. Highly recommend serving as a pollworker b/c it’s a great (and rewarding) way to help people and advance #democracy Durham County Board of Elections

Donald Trump has taken the stage for his campaign rally in Greensboro, NC, almost two hours later than originally scheduled. Trump also rallied in Gastonia and Virginia earlier today.

My 6th grader got home and reported the results of his school-wide election here in New Orleans. They are as follows: Kamala Harris 58% Chase Oliver 29% Jill Stein 10% Donald J Trump 3% The kids are gonna be alright

Kraftwerk plays before a confused audience for the first time (1970). This is one of the earliest existing concert videos documenting the birth of electronic music.

Campaign to elect Democrats didn't give money to three of party's statewide candidates wunc.org/politics/2024-…

The race has narrowed, with Jefferson Griffin leading by 7,679 votes. Allison Riggs has not conceded and after the canvass is done, she has until next Tuesday to file a request for a recount.

Help save Triad City Beat! #crowdfunding @fundrazr Support and Retweet fundrazr.com/helpsavetcb?re… It’s true: I’m moving on after 10 long years. And it’s going to be a rocky road for this little paper, so we could use your help.

I think about this HN comment a lot.

It’s clear that Elon’s crack team of children ARE IN FACT CHILDREN, because only someone who had never really worked with data before would see a table like this and not think “I must be missing something about how this works”

After several delays, Department of Government Efficiency has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. 🧵

Not sure what's going on here - but the documents shown by DOGE and cited earlier for this $8 million in ICE savings has now been *changed* to $8 billion in the Federal Procurement Data System. 🧵

So what I’m hearing is that we’re experiencing historic crime lows with a reduced police department (?)

So nice of the #ChapelHill Country Club to host such an upstanding group of citizens. North Carolina Association of Educators

ICE playing “Ice, Ice, Baby” at Mardi Gras in New Orleans

Driving on St Charles now, New Orleans

It’s a no from me, FWIW

Yo i thought ppl saying Trump couldn't read was just a joke. Bro is actually illiterate.