SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Sitting in the old Charlotte coliseum (that’s what I’m calling it!) with my daughter for the first time I think since I was in the building to see INXS and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers exactly 1000 years ago to the day.

More than 200 Medicaid recipients and advocates called on lawmakers to act in Raleigh today, weeks into statewide rate cuts due to inadequate funding. “There are lives on the line.”

really hard to overstate how horrendous the oil industry has been for every aspect of human society--the biggest source of industrial pollution and also the biggest funder of reactionary politics

I seldom share substack links, but this one is such a good explainer. Inconvenience for drivers - lowered speed limits, design that creates friction, & roads that feel narrow and challenging to navigate - is necessary to substantially improve safety and reduce injuries. Incl driver injuries!

I would point an interested reader and careful thinker to two things. One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well. Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.

Anyway yes I did this awhile ago. Thanks for the reminder.

"History will be kind to us and to the hundreds of public comments and people that dropped everything to be here. We must speak out for the people of CD1. Just like those who marched in Selma, as they were bleeding and being chase by dogs, we will dream for a better tomorrow." Sen. Murdock #ncpol

I know I’ve said this more than once, and I know it’s really obvious, but taking the train between cities in Europe is just fantastic. So easy. One of the dumbest mistakes North America ever made, and continues to make, is doing so relatively little with trains. Train networks are nation-building.

no kings except biking

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

Stood in community today with 700 (easily) to 1000 (would believe) others at Hillsborough No Kings this morning. I carried a tiny but mighty sign. I love my town! 💖

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock

ProPublica is a national treasure living up to its name. Speaking truth both to power and to us all.

let me note that one of the actual tests here is going to be 'what do people pushing these ideas want for their own children' and I will bet you a lot of money that the answer is 'the elite university model of Harvard et al' not 'learning through AI slop'

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Hey Orange and Durham County, this family could use our help.

People are going to post D'Angelo doing Sometimes in Snows in April as his Prince cover, but this one's better

absolutely one of the most incandescent talents of his generation. made music for all time. a heavy loss.

A surprising sight in St. Clair County, Michigan: A man waving Fixodent denture cream before the county commissioners at an August meeting. “I am an unfluoridated child,” he declared, “with a set of uppers and lowers.”

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., the last living witness of his cousin Emmett Till's abduction, will be the convocation speaker at the conclusion of Tougaloo College’s Founders’ Week on Sunday, Oct. 12.

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend. Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

“We calculated that current tariffs, including those just announced, will add roughly $30 billion to the costs of investment in residential structures.”

Perry asks whether the “petty acts of vandalism” including "slashed tires" and "keyed cars” is significant enough to impede the execution of federal laws even if it does not make it as “quick and easy” as they would like. "Some of this frankly sounds like a Carrie Underwood song."

Honestly as someone born in 1973 I am so down for this. “Oh I’m sorry, I’m not allowed. I can only receive phone calls and sit in the sun.”

Y'all, this is a white supremacist regime intent on re-segregating the United States and removing Black people from positions of authority and access to opportunity. This must be stated as a simple 'matter of fact' and condemned at every turn.

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Come on, Dolly. 🦋

Change is happening, one protected lane, one policy, and one safer intersection at a time. And for once, the data is on our side. momentummag.com/americas-saf...

A coalition of solar energy companies, labor unions, nonprofit groups and homeowners sued the EPA on Monday over its termination of $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes.

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

Maybe it’s that I didn’t sleep last night. Maybe it’s that my dad died & everything is at the surface. But being in a crowd cheering the brilliance of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social tonight at Hill Hall made me well up w/hope and joy at the end of a terrible day for America. Blessed be the truth tellers.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

PG&E unveils $73 billion spending plan to meet surging data-center energy demand I'm once again asking, why should ratepayers subsidize the AI build out? www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Thought for five long minutes I was the victim of credit card fraud until I remembered I had to buy tires last month. 😭

The Trump Administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown Chicago in camouflage and masks. This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

My father died in July & now it’s the first Alabama 🏈 season of my life w/o him. I quit watching save the occasional championship after I left home at 18 yet here I am checking the score on this dumb game wishing he were here to loop me into annoying group texts w/my brother to cheer the good plays.

Orange County Land Conservation Manager Christian Hirni joined us to discuss a recent grant awarded by the state that allows for an expansion of the trail at 7 Mile Creek Natural Area, and more. Listen here 🎧: chapelboro.com/news-on-the-...

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

Outstanding conversation illuminating a critical issue. Rapidly growing electricity demand from AI and electrification is causing rapid inflation in customer rates, and Trump is hamstringing renewables, the only technologies that can be deployed quickly and cheaply. 1/

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

There are many things we will look back on with incredulity but what has happened over the past ten days, is absolutely criminal.

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