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/

🚨 Be aware that there's very limited bus service from downtown Chapel Hill to Durham this week. I found out the hard way this morning that the eastbound GoTriangle 400 is missing *all* stops on South Columbia and East Franklin Streets. #carrboro #chapelhill

NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

So thankful for this beautifully done memorial for Allan Troxler by @indyweek.bsky.social's own @eddysarah.bsky.social. Please read it and remember him! A giant among us. indyweek.com/culture/reme...

Today, we honor those members of the transgender community who have lost their lives as a result of anti-trans violence, bigotry, and isolation. Join us in honoring those we’ve lost this year by spending some time with the Trans Remembrance Project 🏳️‍⚧️ 🕊 transremembrance.org

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, officers and Border Patrol agents are active in the Triangle as of Tuesday. We complied a guide of resources to track confirmed ICE sightings, find detainees, and stay informed about your rights:

Elected officials in Orange County affirmed their support of immigrant community members and criticism of federal efforts that brought ICE officers and Border Patrol agents to North Carolina through a statement on Tuesday. Here's what they had to say:

Maybe you've heard about the Downtown Area Plan Carrboro is considering tomorrow night. I wrote some longish thoughts on why I think it's so important and some communityconversation behind it: dannynowell.substack.com/p/why-im-sto...

"[T]hat kind of experience makes some people want to preserve their cities in amber and makes others into fierce defenders of the ability of cities to absorb and protect other people who also need to remake themselves. They’ll all need someplace to live." This is how I feel about Carrboro.

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

Today marked Day One of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. And as we’ve come to expect from these operations, federal agents targeted workers throughout Charlotte and the surrounding areas.

As always, if you see something that you suspect could be an immigration enforcement action in progress, call our hotline at (336) 543-0353 or the hotline number in the About tab so we can verify and provide support.

Join the 2nd Friday Art Walk around downtown Carrboro and Chapel Hill on Friday, Nov. 14 Explore art galleries, artist studios, shops and restaurants: https://monkeylink.co/8c7912

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

This news makes me happy.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

For two decades, Paul Newby has pushed to make judicial elections in North Carolina explicitly partisan and consistently backed initiatives by Republican lawmakers to strip power away from North Carolina’s governor. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

While we do not agree on all issues, I want to publicly thank UNC-CH Chancellor Lee Roberts for clearly stating today in Faculty Council that UNC cannot and will not sign Trump's Compact, because it raises irresolvable issues of academic freedom. That was important for faculty & students to hear.

It’s so great to see this @GoTriangle 400 bus from Chapel Hill to Durham completely full. #Transit for the win. 🏆

This week’s elections prove that when candidates focus on the issues that really matter to voters– like healthcare, education, and the climate crisis, rather than attacking transgender people; they win. From Virginia to New York– anti-trans hate is a losing issue.

Your hometown radio station has once again been honored as the best in North Carolina. The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters named 97.9 The Hill WCHL as its 2025 Non-Metro Station of the Year Wednesday at its annual awards luncheon.

With no more votes expected in NC this year, Republicans will have gotten the least amount of things done in any long session since taking control of the General Assembly in 2011. My look at just how (un)productive the past 10 months have been--> #ncpol andersonalerts.substack.com/p/nc-leg-202...

Reeling from the scale of the SNAP cliff. In Orange County NC alone: 8700 individual SNAP recipients in 4683 families.

What Is Ezra Klein Thinking? newrepublic.com/article/2011... via @newrepublic.com

New York Times on hormone use for people who are transgender: A horrible crime against their bodies which needs to be critically examined to extreme ends. New York Times on hormone use for women to boost their sex lives: Huh, this is cute!

When I served in the majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court, the court held that extreme partisan gerrymandering violated the state constitution. That ruling was rooted in the principle that voters should choose their representatives—not the other way around.

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Overheard in Carrboro: “I’m going to be the gayest thing that ever happened to Easton, Pennsylvania.”

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

Got a gig at The Drakeford tonight! Former Mayor Damon Seils and I are having a conversation with School Board & Town of Carrboro candidates about what they hope to accomplish/ managing challenges like housing, school enrollments, flooding and other thorny issues. 6-8pm downstairs in the theatre

Before (2021) and after (2025) of the utility easement along Bolin Creek in Carrboro. It's actually walkable now. Definitely check it out if you haven't been on it lately. A good preview of what it will be like to have a greenway through here .

“It’s pronounced ‘cyclist.’” 🔥

On October 13 at 6:00 pm, the Orange County Democratic Party will host a candidate forum for the upcoming #Carrboro municipal and school board elections. Join us in the Drakeford Library Complex theater to meet candidates for mayor, council member, and school board. www.mobilize.us/orangecounty...