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

Can someone get this to the reactionary centrist "gas is cheap" crew?

“They got this idea from the people who raised them that you raise hell”: thanks @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for talking to us about her new documentary short, theories of change, and Winston-Salem’s Black Panther Party chapter.

Shout out to my fellow “made it well into middle age and still don’t understand the difference between the modem and the router” people. (Do not try to explain it to me, please. I have looked it up many times. Brain is just like, nope, we are managing too many other things to keep that on deck).

If you’re like, “Wait, everyone is shackled on ICE flights?! Wait, there are 50 ICE flights a day?! Wait, they’re sending people to countries they’ve never been to?!” I am begging you to please read my ICE Air FAQ. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...

At about minute 32 you can hear @davidlneal.bsky.social talking about Duke Energy and data centers, and how different choices could help us all live long and prosper (sorry could not help myself). www.wfae.org/show/charlot...

At its April 21 meeting, the Orange County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing on a proposed ordinance to impose a 1-year moratorium on large-scale data centers as a land use. The board will meet at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill.

"We don't like having car payments for cars we're driving, and so that's what Duke gets to do. They get to charge you for the car before you get to drive it, and that's penny-wise and pound-foolish when they're making $5 billion in profits." #ncpol www.wunc.org/politics/202...

Quality bike lanes can magically create new cyclists out of thin air. "The installation of protected and buffered bicycle lanes was consistently and significantly associated with increased bicycle commuting." doi.org/10.1177/0361...

The first annual Hillsborough Jazz Festival begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at Moorefields in Hillsborough. Check out this story from the Orange County Arts Commission on what to expect:

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

This was a sweet read. Long live the mom and pop retailers of the land.

What I've learned is that you don’t move on from grief, you go on and carry it with you. You will be happy and still carry the grief of his passing. You will be sad and carry the grief. The thing about grief is that it makes room for every other emotion to exist beside it.

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

1. I think the HRB may have an actual wizard working the sound. It always sounds incredible in there without making me regret the follies of my youth. 2. Magical show last night. If you can snag a ticket for tonight back in Sax, don’t miss it.

The limitations on violence established after World War II were not brought by pacifists or peaceniks but by literal old soldiers. They knew. They had seen.

Wake up nerds, gorgeous new image of Earth, our home, from Artemis II 🥹 📸: NASA/Reid Wiseman

hegseth pledged "no quarter." earlier this year a US sub sank a boat of iranians coming back from a fleet regatta. those we didn't kill we abandoned to drown. this week the iranians shot down and captured US pilots who were bombing them and it's being called a "hostage taking."

Here is my thread on Trump's budget request, which I'll update throughout the day. He calls to cut domestic discretionary funding to the lowest level in the modern era. Trump's budget reimagines Americans' relationship with our govt, and proposes a country that does less to help people get by.

NASA posted this like 25 minutes ago and it's partially why I have so much energy today 🥰😭 www.instagram.com/p/DWq-l0gDegd/

Oh my god. Lol I saw it here and ran to turn on the tv. My long national nightmare is over!

Millions of ordinary people coming out for No Kings yesterday is why Dook lost I am sure of it. Evil cannot stand in the face of such goodness.

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If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Chaka Khan what the hell (complimentary)

Incredibly bummed to have a prior commitment. I know this is going to be great and everyone else should go!

The Trump Administration is spending nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money to pay off a company to stop investments in the clean energy we need. This is a terrible deal for the people of North Carolina and our country.

New from me: by the end of the week, the war in Iran will likely have cost $25 billion, with Trump poised to ask for $200 billion more Below is a writeup, but the meat of it is this table, which shows what an equal amount of funding could cover domestically www.americanprogress.org/article/by-t...

In 2014, NYC lowered the citywide default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph. In the year that followed: - Traffic fatalities fell by more than 22% - Pedestrian fatalities fell by more than 25% Yes, adding physical traffic calming is imperative but just lowering the limit can have a halo effect.

Las carreteras de NC se llenan de mensajes críticos: Vallas publicitarias cuestionan el aumento del presupuesto de ICE y exigen priorizar a las comunidades sobre las deportaciones. Conoce los detalles de esta campaña aquí: enlacelatinonc.org/con-vall...

From little Wallace who broke our hearts to Smoke and Stack. I feel like we watched him grow up 🥹

Q: “So, hundreds of millions of dollars in grants were terminated from the NEH. The deficit didn’t change much. And you were paid $150,000 to do that job of reducing the deficit. Do you feel like the $150,000 paid to you was wasteful spending?” A: *Laughs, frowns….long pause*

This is almost never mentioned in mainstream news content on transportation! "Transportation portion of climate-changing emissions has grown by 54% since 1990, in part because people have been driving more and buying bigger pick-up trucks and SUVs SHIFTING TO EVs IS NOT ENOUGH" #bcpoli #vanpoli

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

I know this is impossible for us discuss in this current moment but... People want to do interesting, thoughtful, creative, day to day work. They want to care for each other, and feel like they are contributing to something bigger. It should be where we start when we think about our communities.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity. n.pr/4ul3y2p

Dub C! 🦁

The largest payment eliminated by DOGE was $38,468,659 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for transition support services to adulthood for disabled children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The missles in this video cost more than that.