Several clinics in NC, have announced they will no longer provide gender-affirming care for youth under 19. The Trans Youth Emergency Project is here to help & is hosting a Town Hall on 3/17 at 6:00 PM EST. RSVP:

Someone has STOLEN the Surplus Sid’s on Saturday night. Barry wants it back. You know what to do, internet

I guess people mean well but these policy prescriptions that assume the private sector’s good faith and interest in “job creation” feels especially cruel given our political moment. What are we even talking about here??? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

Amid discussions from the CHCCS Board of Education about which elementary schools to close, Carrboro Elementary School will not be in consideration. Instead, the school district is making headway on its plans to replace the facility. Here’s the latest:

This guy gets it.

The Orange County Board of Elections received and accepted my ballot for the primary election. Kind of a big deal, considering how many steps it takes to vote by mail in North Carolina! ✅

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Every person in this nation — regardless of immigration status — has the right to due process. We will defend that right with everything we've got. 📸 Scout Tufankjian

After many years of admiration, I finally get to see Karen Stegman's name on my ballot! — Vote early in person until February 28, or on Election Day, or request your mail-in ballot by February 17. 🗳️ #carrboro #chapelhill #hillsboroughnc #orangecountync @karenstegman.bsky.social

My article about Minnie Bruce Pratt and North Carolina’s place in lesbian-feminist history is out! Read it here (limited gift link) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/K9Q4K...

[NEW] Voter fraud is almost nonexistent in North Carolina. Despite overwhelming evidence that voter fraud in North Carolina is extremely rare, our state's lawmakers are pushing new rules that make it harder for eligible voters to register and cast a ballot. carolinaforward.org/blog/propose...

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

In 2023 @enirenberg.bsky.social & I wrote about RFK Jr's role in the deadly measles outbreak in Samoa (time.com/6289037/robe...) Turns out, Samoa was a trial run for the horrific, deadly anti-vaxx activism he's now inflicting worlwide 😔 Thx to @bymichellersmith.com & colleagues for their reporting

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.

What’s incredible about ICE/DHS is that they put out these statements without caring that there are multiple video recordings from multiple angles which show they’re lying every time.

I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists.

The measles outbreak in South Carolina now stands at 664 cases, basically doubling in a week, and it's spread to several other states. The outbreak first began in Texas a year ago this week - which means the U.S. is going to lose its elimination status. My latest: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Important to remember: The reason why RFK Jr will not feel even slightly bad about these 10,000 low-income people losing access to life-saving antiviral medicines is that he is an AIDS denialist He does not think HIV is the cause of AIDS His conspiracy theories are killing people

It would be insane to take stories like this seriously to the point of thinking that we’ve beaten back the assault. But it would also be foolish not to see the clues that public opinion, opposition, and protest still matter. Stand by your neighbors.

Block block block.

Great news for Carrboro and Chapel Hill! These much-needed pedestrian safety improvements have been in the works a long time. I'm so glad to see construction will begin soon. #carrboro #chapelhill #unc

Chapel Hill Transit is seeking input on Blueprint 2035, a plan for improving service over the next decade. Please take the survey to share your priorities for our local public #transit system. Learn more 👉🏻 www.townofchapelhill.org/short #chapelhill #carrboro #unc

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

As ICE terrorizes communities in Minneapolis and across the country, Congress is considering whether to INCREASE funding for deportation enforcement. Reach out to your Member of Congress and ask them to hold the line: No new funding for ICE! secure.ngpvan.com/JYJcpM0xDU6o...

Medical Groups Will Try to Block Childhood Vaccine Recommendations. The groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, say the C.D.C.’s revised vaccine schedule is not based on scientific evidence and will harm the public. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/h...

cannot stress enough that they are abducting legal observers left and right and people are hearing about this happening to other people and still immediately going “alright where can i go to help now”

The video of ICE shooting a woman in the face today is absolutely chilling. Still waiting for confirmation this was an ICE agent, not BP. For 15 years I've been writing abt these agents killing people both in the US & MX with impunity. In this 2015 piece I wrote about 67 shootings. Sickening.

hey uh if you have autoplay on videos still NOW is the time to turn it off

People across the country are taking to the streets to demand accountability, honor Renee Good's life, and make visible the human cost of ICE's actions. Join the ACLU's Protest Safety, Know Your Rights and De-Escalation Training on Jan. 9, 8 PM - 9 PM ET. Register: https://act.aclu.org/a/aclukyr

it’s a wicked world in all meridians

BREAKING: The new organization operating the thrift shop at 125 West Main Street in Carrboro has been revealed, as Extraordinary Ventures announced Monday it would be taking over the space. Here are the details:

Putting solar on your roof is great, but the world of possibilities is so much bigger than that once you notice that burning oil for cars is the #1 source of climate pollution/driver of the collapse of American democracy. Start here:

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Congress asked the Sheps Center for Health Research at UNC-Chapel Hill to evaluate the "One, Big Beautiful" budget bill passed by Congress earlier this year to determine its likely effects on the financial health of rural health facilities around the nation.

Well done and important to digest. There is plenty of human failing in any human endeavor, but the narrative and the reality in this specific situation needs sunlight. substack.com/home/post/p-...

It’s increasingly clear that social media is a net social evil which shreds attention spans, and this is why the only appropriate remedy available in this space is spending time observing Morris company wallpaper patterns

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

Orange County Public Transportation will be piloting a one-year, fare-free model for its fixed-route transit services beginning Jan. 2, 2026. Here are the details:

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

3/ Why Guinea-Bissau? Hep B prevalence is 11-18% - a high-endemic setting where the birth dose matters most. Randomize infants to delayed vaccination and some could be infected with a virus that causes liver cancer. We already know the birth dose is protective.

It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies.

Public health scientists are raising concerns following news of a $1.6 million award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a trial of hepatitis B vaccines in newborn babies in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau.

NC Court of Appeals rules for a woman who said her bosses discriminated against her and fired her for taking leave post-miscarriage. Opinion by Judge John Arrowood (D). He's on the ballot in ‘26 and is the only gay elected statewide official in the South appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=... #ncpol

Learn more and apply here: https://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/jobs/legal-outreach-worker/