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zen @zensutherland.bsky.social artist in the multiverse - lover of helen, life, people and nature. Advice: Grant love and acceptance to everyone you can, including yourself and honor your boundaries. Proud liberal.
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Brian Turner @brianturnernc.bsky.social Current: 5-term NC House Rep. District 116, Zipper Merge Enthusiast.
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Jeff Jackson @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social Dad, Soldier, Attorney General for North Carolina
Casey Blake @caseyblake.bsky.social Voices Editor @ USA Today Opinion/ would rather be petting a dog
Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • Editor @TheEmancipator.org • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Lenifaye @andreafaye.bsky.social Director of Resource Organizing at Access Reproductive Care-Southeast. Queer & Quaker Chaplain in-the-making.
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Dawn B. Vaughan @dawnbvaughan.bsky.social State Capitol Bureau Chief and Under the Dome politics podcast host at The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC. B. is for Baumgartner. Go Hokies.
Carli Brosseau @carlibrosseau.bsky.social K-12 education reporter at The Assembly NC, a magazine that produces longform journalism about North Carolina. Tender of plants and animals, baker of bread.
Melanie Sill @melaniesill.bsky.social Board chair, @NCLocal nonpartisan local news hub. Former top editor News & Observer, SacBee, KPCC/LAist. Posting on journalism's role in democracy and how people can get the information they need
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social Correspondent at APM Reports with Sold a Story. Alum: NBC News, Carolina Public Press, The News Tribune, Skagit Valley Herald. FOIA and transparency enthusiast, data digger. 3D printer. Pulling back the curtain on ██████████. kmartin@apmreports.org
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Billman @jeffreybillman.bsky.social I report on North Carolina courts and politics for @theassemblync.bsky.social. (jeffrey@theassemblync.com). Sometimes I make music. I’m probably tired. 
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Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs at Western Carolina University. American politics, state politics, North Carolina politics, southern politics, elections. Recent book: Anatomy of a Purple State (UNC Press 2024).
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