Heads-up on the North Carolina Supreme Court election this year. @anitaearls.bsky.social is running for reelection - former civil rights atty, brilliant jurist. Get registered and re-elect her.

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Glad to see @foushee.house.gov listed as a cosponsor of this important bill.

With oil prices reaching record highs and everyone talking about affordability, thought I'd throw my lot in with that good old American value: Freedom. mateosfo.substack.com/p/americas-d...

Traffic stops uncover serious crime in under 1% of cases, yet we keep treating enforcement as the answer to a road safety crisis rooted in poor land use decisions and street designs. The Policing Project and ACLU have a new report worth your attention. www.policingproject.org/news-main/we...

Tonight in Carrboro, one of this country’s great major cities

Carrboro Town Commons, May 3, 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm. chborozinefest.carrd.co

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

“It makes perfect sense to take a year to look at the research and see where it fits and put the regulations on as we do with other land uses.” Orange County approved a one-year moratorium on the construction of large-scale data centers. More here:

A Supreme Court where 5 of 6 conservative justices appointed by GOP presidents who initially lost popular vote & confirmed by senators elected by minority of Americans just effectively killed Voting Rights Act, country’s most important civil rights law. This is not democracy

the most important thing we can do right now is to build a ballroom for president trump

RFK Jr rejects germ theory, is an AIDS denialist (he says “the gay lifestyle” causes AIDS), says chemicals in water are turning kids gay or trans, falsely argues COVID vaccines are “the most deadly vaccines in history” & HPV vaccine increases cervical cancer risk 🤯 Bhattacharya, RFK’s closest ally:

The 15-minute city isn’t the conspiracy. A true conspiracy is spreading everything so far apart driving becomes mandatory and then calling that freedom. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/04/27/u...

The Northside Festival is this Saturday!

This ordinance was approved. The data center moratorium is effective for a year and applies to all unincorporated areas of Orange County. Meanwhile, county staff will study the potential impacts of data centers and draft land use ordinance amendments and performance standards to regulate them.

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.

This is exciting news, even if the project timeline is glacial.

A zoning capacity calculator! 🤯 I'd love to see a tool like this for Carrboro and Chapel Hill.

On top of the questionable editorial decision by @indyweek.bsky.social, it's hard to see why a senator would go to this effort to smear a potential future colleague by repeating these anonymous—and, as far as we can tell, baseless—allegations. Politics is exhausting enough without this nonsense.

Justice Anita Earls offers a typically brilliant dissent in today's embarrassing North Carolina Supreme Court decision on the state's obligation to ensure all schoolchildren can access a sound basic education. #ncpol

EXCLUSIVE: Carrburritos, a popular Carrboro burrito restaurant, will soon take over the Carr Mill Mall suite previously occupied by Grata Diner. The space is most famous for being the former home of Elmo’s Diner. Here are the details:

Transgender Day of Visibility is Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Carrboro stands with, celebrates, and defends its transgender residents and employees The Transgender Pride Flag will be flown at Town Hall in honor of the holiday from Friday, March 27 - Thursday, April 2 https://monkeylink.co/d4aadd

Due South's Leoneda Inge hosts a segment remembering the late Rev. Jesse Jackson www.wunc.org/2026-03-27/h...

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Participants in the CROP Hunger Walk begin their annual trek through Carrboro and Chapel Hill to bring attention to hunger and poverty in our communities.

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.

This is a heartbreaking loss for Carrboro and Chapel Hill.

The events, which are organized for older LGBTQ adults, include a film series in Raleigh and a gathering in Chapel Hill to highlight the role that libraries have played in queer communities. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

This is a peak UNC Chapel Hill story. They've put a popular undergrad tour guide on probation after an undercover UNC employee went on her tour and disapproved of a few things she said. It's astonishing how fragile this university often is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThTSf6dk/ #academicsky

One of the biggest and least understood shifts in immigration enforcement isn't happening at the border. It's happening at your local sheriff's office. A thread on 287(g). 🧵

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:

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...