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...

Happy National Coming Out Day! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️ Whether you are out and proud or still finding the language to understand your identity, just know that you are loved and our community is ready to welcome you. Learn more coming out resources from @trevorproject.bsky.social buff.ly/kZ9Eoo7

For some reason the Trump cert petition did not cite my piece, but figure it might become relevant papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

In Carrboro, we saw that new development in key locations, because of its MUCH stricter standards, can even catch and slow water from neighborhoods without controls and reduce flooding locally, even in a huge storm like Chantal. Want to stop flooding? Build smart and retrofit older neighborhoods!

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

Right now, there are so many around us who are spreading anti-trans hate-- in political office, in the media, and in our own personal lives. We want you to know that you are not alone. We will continue to do everything we can to advocate for trans rights and offer real, tangible resources.

NC’s House Majority Leader has set his sights on UNC’s LGBT Center’s measly $200k in state funding… despite the fact that UNC’s new conservative incubator “School of Civic Life and Leadership” has burned up $2 million plus of taxpayer dollars this year. Appeals to “viewpoint diversity” are a joke.

"Of course, I am not K, but I find myself uncannily identified with his predicament." Judith Butler's open letter to UC Berkeley.

We must stop funding this genocide. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians live in Gaza City. They will have to flee again or risk being killed. This is what Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meant when he said “we will eliminate everything” in Gaza.

I wonder if we should be more specific than #multimodal.” Sometimes the term “multimodal” can be perceived as “all modes equally.” Yet in practice, it’s nearly impossible to realize true travel mode parity, as cars utterly dominate the spaces they occupy.

We are in the middle of a campaign in this state to turn Charlotte into Chicago in the general public’s mind. For the obvious reasons. I would just like to add that this Republican controlled general assembly still has no budget & likely won’t this year.

NEW: Gov. Josh Stein signed an order Friday afternoon allowing eligible North Carolinians to receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine without obtaining a prescription. ncnewsline.com/briefs/stein... By @christinezhu.bsky.social #nc #ncpol

My favorite quote of his was about the potential merger of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. He said he wouldn’t mind “as long as they call it Carrboro”

The Town of Carrboro expresses its deepest sympathy following the recent death of former Town Alderman Hilliard Caldwell. Caldwell was a pivotal figure who advocated for and participated in the desegregation of schools in Carrboro during the Civil Rights Movement. ℹ️ https://monkeylink.co/7b5a56

The town of Chapel Hill’s Office of Mobility and Greenways is holding an open house this week to provide information regarding the towns upcoming projects

EXCLUSIVE: Two years and two months after a fire destroyed the interior of Med Deli, the business is preparing to welcome back customers to in-person dining next week. The restaurant will reopen for dinner hours starting on Tuesday, Sep. 9.

⚕️ Need to know who should get the flu, COVID-19, and RSV #vaccines this year? With the US #publichealth system in chaos, the Common Health Coalition produced this excellent graphic to help people prepare for the respiratory virus season.

It's so great to see this project happening! It's been a long time coming.

Brief 🧵 about the purpose of streets coming your way! Argument: streets are for far more than driving or even walking, biking, rolling, and other modes. At their core, streets are for exploring, creating, and connecting. Think play. Socializing. Expression. Commerce. Civic action.

Descendants of Toney and Nellie Strayhorn unveiled the recently approved marker of Honorary Strayhorn Drive in #Carrboro today. The Strayhorns are thought to be the first Black family to settle in what is now Carrboro, and their descendants have lived here since 1879.

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.

A North Carolina law passed in 2013 made it much harder to improve access for pedestrians and cyclists on state roads. The law says state funds can only go to such efforts if they’re part of projects that benefit drivers.

Chapel Hill really needs to do something about people leaving their cars parked in the lane on Franklin Street while they run into Starbucks, especially when that’s the lane that the buses use

Thank you. To be clear, I did not merely “dismiss” AI as mid. My argument is that LLMs 1) are not intelligent 2) average textual responses in a way that is mid 3) most generous use cases are a revolution of middle skills that don’t produce anything ergo LLMs are in every demonstrable way mid.

Sometimes it’s worth remembering that what often motivates these people is simple cruelty. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Excellent article on the science misinformation playbook and how it's likely to be used again in the government's current "study" of links between vaccines and autism. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New today: “We continue to be underfunded while the demand—and the stakes—grow. And it’s not as if the attacks on abortion have slowed down in Texas, we still deeply need investment, possibly now more than ever.”

Last week: Both NIH grants that support the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program were terminated as part of a broader attempt by the federal government to terminate direct NIH funding to Harvard Medical School. 32 students who spent countless hours applying for and earning fellowships saw their awards vanish.

If you’re concerned about what’s happening in Washington and in our state legislature here in Raleigh, you have to be concerned about our state courts. Visit www.earls4justice.com to get involved in my campaign as I seek to keep my seat on your NC Supreme Court!

The only place in DC where crime is up is the White House.

"During this news conference, President Trump has said more about the ballroom he wants to build in the White House than about how homeless people will be supported if they are moved out of Washington." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Small Town, Big Responsibilities: Town Manager Patrice Toney On Her First Year in Carrboro thelocalreporter.press/small-town-b...

Were you affected by Tropical Storm Chantal? Grants are now available to help you with temporary housing and rental assistance, replacement of personal property, medical expenses, and more. You can apply at the Drakeford Building in downtown Carrboro. #carrboro #chapelhill #hillsboroughnc #ocnc

Carrboro Fall Festivals: ✳️El Centro Hispano's Fiestas en la Calle: 8/24: 12-6pm, Weaver St ✳️Carrboro Music Festival: 9/27: 2-4pm, Town Commons & show @ Cat’s Cradle 9/28: day of concerts around town ✳️West End Poetry Festival: Oct 16-18: poetry events around town ℹ️ https://monkeylink.co/36e261

Throwing a rock and then hiding their hand is the signature of these Republicans.