This includes Flock, FUSUS, and license plate readers. Asheville uses federal funds to implement surveillance systems, and though we don't proactively share data with the federal government, we are not permitted to withhold it, and cannot prove that the companies do not turn over data on our behalf.

This is critical, ensuring that the fourth amendment is not only understood, but embraced by our city. We have a duty to honor our own rights enshrined by the constitution against unlawful search and seizure, and every step we take to step into that power, is a step in the right direction.

Hi everyone, just a friendly reminder that I'm not talking about local things much today because both my wife and I are on the phone with my health insurance because they won't pay for her lifesaving medication and we run out in 4 days.

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is BULLSHIT.”

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Who doesn't love a bit of good news in the morning that comes as a result of hard work and care. apnews.com/article/noqu...

"There's a win-win here on the table. Asheville knows that. Everybody sees through this stuff and nobody's going to sit back and watch the destruction of a beloved hiking trail," Beals said. wlos.com/news/local/u...

“People are starting to wake up— these trans kids didn’t hike your rent, billionaires did. Illegal immigrants didn’t make your groceries more expensive, billionaires did.”

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

It's just so wild that when the history books will look back on this moment, that decolonisation for the most part was a blip in history. Unless the colonialist mindset continues to win and the history books call this decolonisation again.

I did too much anti-war organizing in the 2000s to not listen to my gut when the president starts opening his mouth about what other countries are guilty of.

Can you be shocked, and still unsurprised at how the Trump administration comports itself? They want everything, and to subjugate everyone not like them. They want to take the wealth of the world, not for all us, but for those few they see as worthy.

Such a great rebuttal by David King on how wealth and understanding aren't the same thing, and how trusting billionaires with our climate is only gonna make things worst. They're gonna be fine, they have bunkers. What about the rest of us? english.elpais.com/climate/2025...

It still blows my mind how much bigger deftones have become over the years - places like target and urban outfitters lately have been stocking copies of Around the Fur in their vinyl sections - insane. Like what other band has had a trajectory like this?

Oh boy oh boy oh boy. Do you know what 2026 brings? Me. Talking about Asheville's housing crisis in social media form. Spoiler alert: we have plans to actually build nothing but missing middle housing for the next decade. Being able to keep our neighbors in Asheville, slow down gentrification...

Rebuilding Gaza for US investors rather than the people who actually live there is an obscene approach, so of course Trump's inner circle are pitching it. www.timesofisrael.com/us-said-to-p...

Help Inkstick expose war profiteers and would-be authoritarians: inkstick.substack.com/p/help-inkst...

Just thinking about this for no reason today

It's always been a policy choice.

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

20 people filed as candidates for city council. People must really think #Asheville needs change. Love to see it. Also, hey. I'm running too. www.ferrellforavl.com

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

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Today in being an overly efficient software engineer who also happens to be running for city council: I made my campaign website too fast so the entire page is loaded before my external javascript donation form & signup form has a chance to load.

My wife said it's a shame my food photos are terrible because my food is actually really good.

A new documentary shows the global human toll of military pollution — and why environmental justice demands demilitarization. inkstickmedia.com/how-us-milit...

It's baking szn y'all

Thank you very much for reading! And our partners at Carolina Public Press dug into the Helene relief bill provision that benefitted the company: carolinapublicpress.org/73527/defens...

Big story here - North Carolina gov't divesting from Israeli bonds. But as we reported, the state continues to give grants to a major weapons manufacturer, Raytheon, that produces the engine used in a jet the Israeli military flies over Gaza: inkstickmedia.com/special-trea... @inkstickmedia.com

Anyway, hello, contra dancing rules and unlike anyone else having a good time watching the EPL, my team is having the roughest go of it.

Today we celebrate a victory in North Carolina divesting from Israeli Government Bonds. NC shouldn’t be funding a govt hellbent on illegal detention, kidnapping, and genocide. But how about our own federal government being involved in those same things with ICE? mountainx.com/blogwire/nor...

Once you learn the plagiarism machine's banal writing style, you see it everywhere it crops up. 100% from ChatGPT.

Honestly when ski resort patrols say they're gonna unionize and are well organized it makes me want to cry. We all deserve someone having our back.

This is incredibly important to fight in every single corner. www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

I love going to a 3 hour training on planning for ICE in Asheville and coming home to my kids saving me half a cookout milkshake and some pupusas from Pupusaria Patty's.

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES

Honestly the amount of sleep I've had disrupted because of the encroaching fascism on every corner of my life is starting to take its toll, and frankly I feel such empathy for people struggling with the world being as hard as it is, my life is easy in so many ways now, but we all deserve safety.

Yes. It is. Honestly, we need to figure out a way to house people without propping up an entire industry hellbent on raking people's livelihoods over coals just for asking for what is a human right–a place to live.

Nine-month-old AI company you've never heard of that revealed its first product last month wants to be valued as much as Ford

The point of the economy is for people to have good lives, and asking people to have little while the powerful take everything? They're feeding you lies about what you deserve.

remember earlier this summer when I said the fascists were building comprehensive databases that were easily searchable that were coming very quickly and I had some of the loudest white pundits on this site Say I was a doomer, a conspiracy theorist and uneducated/lying about my academic record whelp

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

You ever just can't sleep because kids are going hungry?

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

Overall, this tells the disappointing reality of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 4 years after: —Construction cost inflation ate up most of the increased spending —There was no move to increase support for transit—in fact, there appears to have been a greater focus on highway than before

again i am perfectly fine with locking every one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends in prison, Democrat, Republican or Whatever.

the venn diagram of people mad at social emotional growth and people who think kids need to learn grit and resilience are a circle. make up your mind