By Alito's reasoning, even lynching in the old South would not constitute racism, since vigilante violence was usually justified as a law enforcement measure.

If a case record had someone making these remarks about white people, Alito might actually faint from rage. But if you're talking about black people it's fine and not racist at all bsky.app/profile/jame...

Chicago is going to LOVE Caleb Wilson.

The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame’s 2026 class includes Hillsborough jazz legend Billy Strayhorn and the 1970s band Arrogance, a founding figure in Chapel Hill’s bustling music scene.

Daughter is going down a list of must-see cinema. Currently downstairs watching “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”. Peals of laughter keep floating up the stairs. 🤔

Sunday NYT came this week without Style section or magazine. What am I supposed to do, read the news? I am bereft.

Juneteenth, recognized on June 19, celebrates the emancipation of those enslaved in the United States. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when the last of enslaved people were declared free in Galveston, Texas, under the terms of the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation. Learn more: buff.ly/pAmjb47

1. This is peak excellence in mayoring. 2. Sweet bonus that former Tar Heel Raymond Felton made mentions in this speech. 🩵

Fossil fuel infrastructure is being fast tracked to supply the energy undergirding data centers. This point is often not upfront but the externalities and costs are certainly born by communities.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were given access to voter files in two counties in Texas and North Carolina, according to an Axios news report. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It's amazing how many posts and stories like this you see. E-bikes are revolutionizing transportation, enabling people to go more places without cars, and there's an all-out assault to kill them.

Drought so bad that I’ve officially become a neighborhood crazy lady and put a bowl of water at the end of the culvert where the groundhog lives and around by the shed where the deer try to sneak in my garden.

When these people insist the mere presence of people unlike them is an attack on them, their country, or their rights, this is exactly the outcome they are seeking, and disappointment among far right Trumpists is largely that he failed to produce events like this here. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Who you say you are, what you say you believe, your identity as a citizen of this country, are all on the table. “Are you prepared to stand and watch as Black political representation is erased? Do you not yet understand that this is also your fight if you have any hope of living in a democracy?”

I am always — always — stopped short in stories like this when it's mentioned that the fight for the VRA was only 60 years ago. Both my parents were born before the VRA. It was just not that long ago, and it's unforgivable that it's been killed www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...

I am deeply disappointed that UNC Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro have deleted their posts about Pride Month under the guise of ‘neutrality on political and social issues’. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

The most underreported story in America today is the extent to which neo-Nazis and neo-Confederates have taken over the Republican Party.

Thinking of getting into hockey is this a good time?

The town of Hillsborough added its voice to a growing trend this week, as the town board voted unanimously to impose a 60-day moratorium on the approval of any new AI data centers or data mining facilities in town limits. Here are the details:

My heart broke to see Americans fighting Americans in our streets yesterday. As I saw ICE agents tackling civilians and firing pepper balls into the crowd, I was overwhelmed by how broken we’ve become. We cannot normalize this violence. Here’s what happened at Delaney Hall: THREAD

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

“Babies are real, and they’ve got to eat. To provide for them, the economy has to redistribute its largess, families have to be able to afford health care, and healthy food has to be accessible — for every mother.” Boom 🎯 By @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/o...

I Love Boosters. 🩵 It’s a wild and brilliant ride - takes big, exciting swings. Go support this movie in the theaters!

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

Brian Howe’s profile of poet Fred Joiner is lush and attentive: “So the book is about jazz and moves like jazz. It’s about the mysteries of art, how “the grayscale song of a camera’s / eye says what our words cannot.” Read!

Y’all have no idea how often as a Hillsboroughian I am yelling “REGULATORS…Mount up!” inside my head. Fondest wish is for a music video depicting this history w/reworked lyrics to the Warren G/Nate Dogg classic. @thehometownholler.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DYmTlNt...

New in PN: @chrislhayes.bsky.social on thinking intelligently about AI "The power that comes from putting a finger on the scale of these models to manipulate political info you consume is so insane to think about. The biggest threat is that it just makes everyone stupider, which is a genuine worry"

a reminder that segregation among other things is a form of theft

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

Suburb? SUBURB? Who do I need to fight at the N&O?! This better have been written by a robot! Grumble grumble.

A reminder that there is no profit model for solar geoengineering other than capture of government appropriations. In the absence of systemic governance and policy, VC investors can get their return only through public corruption, not technological innovation.

Louisiana's SCOTUS-enabled racial gerrymandering will bring the tyranny of toxicity without representation to the mostly Black folks of heavily polluted 'Cancer Alley,' who'll lose a seat in Congress Voting rights die, environmental racism thrives. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/raci...

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

NC News Update: Capping local property taxes won’t add much, if anything, to working families’ budgets, but it could amount to another tax break for greedy corporations who already refuse to pay their fair share. #ncpol #breakingnews #ncga https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RzaG5qhI1zA

Today is the day that mothers are thanked for their vital work, without ever formally recognizing their vital work. Don't just thank your mother today. Fight to formally recognize the unpaid work of all mothers. UBI has always been necessary. Happy Mother's Day! ❤️ newmatilda.com/2017/02/23/m...

Less than 100 pages left in The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. I am so eager to read every word but reading every word means this book will end. 😭 The most exquisite novel I have read in a long time.

I want to add that class in the U.S. is only legible among white people. Black people have been the MOST working class segment of U.S. society for decades AND YET... Black people are consistently written out of the narrative of "working class" USians.

The Supreme Court is trying to *fast track* the elimination of Black Congresspeople in the upcoming midterms. Its destruction of the Voting Rights Act has devolved into a pure political power play for Republicans BY the Republicans on the Court. I explain in @thenation.com

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

My mom doesn’t like to drive on the interstate anymore so I took her down to Gaston County for the Stanley High all classes reunion. I hardly ever drink sweet tea anymore but maaaan when I do I’m always hoping it tastes like what they’re making at the Pentecostal Church of Stanley meeting hall.

This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

There are very few more obvious things every state government could be doing to cut pollution, costs, traffic, and road accidents than just buying people e-bikes.

Duke Energy wants to raise your electricity rates again, and this time it's by another 15%. Before any decision is made, state regulators are holding public hearings, and North Carolinians have a chance to speak directly about how these rising costs are impacting their lives.

What the fuck are we doing here