#trek 🎅🏻

The ghosts we really need this Christmas Eve

[guy talking loudly on phone] christmas plans? gonna go visit my nexus family. nexus family, yeah. i have a wife and kids in the nexus. yeah, like a living echo of a life i turned my back on... or not i dunno, but they're chill. anyway, they go all out for christmas it's kind of their only thing.

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

North Carolina is now the only state in the country that hasn't set our budget. NC Republicans need to do their f*cking jobs. #ncpol

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

There’s a reason Customs and Border Protection, not just ICE, was deployed in North Carolina. And it says a lot about how the Trump administration is looking at immigration enforcement.

It's time....#trek

An ESL class in Durham had six students present Tuesday and a Spanish-language immersion school in Knightdale saw a third of students absent as thousands of kids stayed home from school across the Triangle. indyweek.com/news/northca...

Attendance drops in Wake, Durham, Chapel Hill schools during Border Patrol surge. On Tuesday, 19,471 Wake County students were absent, or nearly 1 in 9 kids. That was 7,841 more absences compared to a normal day. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #nced #ncpol #wcpss

BREAKING: Federal agents detained at least three people in Durham on Tuesday, chasing them through a shopping center parking lot as stores locked down and shoppers fled.

Border Patrol agents’ expected arrival in the Raleigh area has some local businesses finding ways to allow shoppers to stay at home.

Of course they do, because they're f*cking soulless ghouls.

From WFDD: Siembra NC, an immigrant worker organizing group, has developed a new app to create a historical record of DHC and ICE arrests in the Charlotte area. www.wunc.org/2025-11-17/n...

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

Just messaged a local business I've been to before to let them know that because they're having a Harry Potter themed event, they've shown they are not a queer friendly place and they've lost my business. May be screaming into the void but I'll know that at least I tried. There's just no excuse.

It's Transgender Awareness Week. We acknowledge the Transgender, Intersex & Non-Binary individuals of our community. Every person who comes out or lives their true selves in today's climate of scapegoating hate has more courage than many will ever know. You are welcome & you are loved. 🖖🏻💚

Mood.

When you recount this election day:

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

#doctorwho FTW

Save the Dolls; save the world.

Put some Morn in your Monday.

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

From Carolina Public Press: Court ruling could restore flow of federal dollars for SNAP food program that many in NC rely on. But disruption still expected. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

The federal food stamp program (SNAP) was temporarily saved last week. But unless Congress figures out a deal soon, it's going to run out of money - and when it does, 1.4 million North Carolinians will go hungry. Here's what you've gotta know about food stamps in North Carolina. 🥦🍓🍞

What’s happening with SNAP in the Triangle, where to find food assistance, and how you can help others access food as the shutdown drags on.

The most frightening thing happening today is that 42 million people, including 16 million children, will be losing access to food assistance from the US government.

Say it with me.

In the Triangle area, more than 151,000 people in Durham, Wake, Orange, Chatham, and Johnston counties rely on SNAP, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services' September 2025 data. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

Long Live the Aunties ✊🏼

It's Science.

I am incandescent with rage.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Started the day with a Mel Brooks gif (It's good to be the king) in the work chat. Ending the day with a Tracy Ullman gif (Go home!) in the work chat. Having thoroughly dated myself, I think I'll call it a day.

IT'S PUMPKIN SEASON, BETCHES

I was going through my Iceland trip pictures and I almost forgot! I spotted this killer @reforest-kelley.bsky.social sticker at the teeny tiny Punk Museum in Reykjavik 🖖

let the gourd times roll