Professor of Global Studies and GIS at Warren Wilson College. @dabernathy on Mastodon, @dabernat.bsky.social on Bluesky.
Asheville, NC
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This is America as it should be in the face of injustice.
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state.
The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via @tmsimmons) greensboro.com/news/local/go…
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Within the administration, there was immediate and “pretty universal revulsion” about the livestream plan. By late last week, even the president’s inner circle was making its distaste clear. Vance barely hid his disgust.
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Trump running on lower gas prices and no more foreign wars and then starting a war with Iran that literallly everyone except Pete Hegseth knew was going to be a quagmire has to be on the shortlist for dumbest political blunders in American history.
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If Obama or Biden had built a monument to themselves after destroying the East Wing, the Republicans would have passed a bill allowing its destruction with tactical nuclear weapons.
The next president should just take it apart quietly and quickly.
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“I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States,” Trump began, as the audience repeated his words, “that loves us so much he can’t even breathe…”
I assure you that I am not making any of this up. There is video. And it's weird.
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Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government buff.ly/kRXF5x9
Pretty sure TR would not approve. But Trump is a robber baron and would've been ousted long ago.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Proposal Would Give Part of Yosemite to a Developer nytimes.com/live/2026/08/28/…
U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America’s Borrowing Binge Continues nytimes.com/2026/08/19/busin…
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Imagine this even being a question a decade ago
With children heading back to school, @margbrennan asks NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya whether parents should trust federal recommendations to vaccinate their kids.
“Yes, you should vaccinate your kids,” Bhattacharya says, noting he vaccinated his own kids, and later adding, “I trust the science.”
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Not one of the biggest, but definitely one of the most brazen lies they’ve been caught telling
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There was plenty senators could have asked Dr. Fauci about what lessons he learned, and the country should, from the COVID pandemic. Instead they engaged in an obvious attempt to demonize and entrap the 85-year-old, who received the Medal of Freedom from a Republican POTUS for the work he did to save millions here and abroad from the AIDS epidemic.
This was not about public health. It was about one senators longstanding vendetta.
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Trump last month on Iran's missiles: “I mean, they have to have some, because other people have some.”
One of those missiles is apparently what killed the two American service members in Jordan.
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BREAKING: The White House is in a panic because inside reporting from Jonathan Swan just revealed that none of Donald Trump's advisors have any idea how to get us out of the Iran War. This is a disaster.
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Ten years ago, the vice president wrote that one day, voters would realize the truth about Donald Trump. That day has now arrived.
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This 2016 article by @JDVance is the second-most read piece at @TheAtlantic right now:
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