After three decades off, I started running again a few years ago for one reason: My 10 year-old son needed a partner and asked me to join him. I didn't choose this path for myself, he nudged me onto it. Now, I can’t imagine my life without all the many benefits it brings me. #nced

How Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Is Shaking Up Health Care in N.C. Some people on the private market are already seeing higher insurance premiums for 2026, and thousands who rely on Medicaid could lose coverage. #ncpol www.theassemblync.com/news/health/...

So happy and relieved to log in this morning and learn that I have successfully renewed my National Board certificate for another five years through 2031. That means a quarter century as a National Board Certified Teacher!! #nced

South Carolina’s measles outbreak shows chilling effect of vaccine misinformation www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/h...

“I feel a responsibility to show the good things immigrants bring to this country,” Betancur says. “To show we love and suffer and care about this nation and are so grateful to be here. Our children are the future of this country.” southparkmagazine.com/the-changeba...

If you don’t think three squashed mini donuts can make someone’s day, you don’t know middle school. #nced

After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right? www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...

Zero gratitude for a Russia-authored plan which gives the invader 20% of Ukraine, reduces the size of its army and bars it from ever joining NATO? That’s weird 🤔 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

NEW: After ProPublica reported that the White House intervened on behalf of Andrew Tate, two senators say the behavior “raises grave questions regarding the independence and impartiality of federal law enforcement operations. By Avi Asher-Schapiro and @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

‘It’s Very Bleak’ As the Border Patrol’s Charlotte operation continued—or ended?—the city’s Latino businesses began to assess the damage done. www.theassemblync.com/news/busines...

With honking horns and locked doors, here’s how one Charlotte community faced the immigration enforcement crackdown www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/u...

ACLU says Border Patrol agents violated NC mask ban, racially profiled residents www.wfae.org/crime-justic...

ICE raids are driving Charlotte students out of the classroom. More than 20% stayed home this week. #nced notesfromthechalkboard.com/2025/11/20/i...

Children missing school because of immigration enforcement doesn’t just mean they are falling behind academically. Many also rely on school for meals and basic medical needs, not to mention the important social needs that go unmet when students aren’t in school. #nced

CMS teacher: I’ve already seen the impact from Charlotte’s Border Patrol surge #nced www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/arti...

Border Patrol needs a warrant to enter private business areas www.wcnc.com/article/news...

Thank you to the Charlotte Observer for sharing my thoughts on how the ongoing ICE/Border Patrol raids are impacting our students #nced www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/arti...

Greeting Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools students as they got off the bus this morning. #nced

Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Oh wow. Who could've ever seen this coming? "Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies" abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...

I was elected 6 weeks ago. Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear me in. It’s time for House Speaker Mike Johnson to end his vacation and get back to the work that the American people elected us to do. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Families ‘horrified’ after daycare teacher pulled out of preschool by armed federal agents www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

How severe will SNAP disruption be for NC families? President Trump promises partial payments in response to court rulings. Disruption, lower SNAP food program payments will affect many in NC. #ncpol carolinapublicpress.org/73218/how-se...

Report: ICE Shot a US Citizen Trying to Help Kids According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry Schmoozing the super-rich to fund a $300m ballroom while cutting food aid for those on low incomes threw the president’s architectural folly into sharp relief www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why this former Republican education secretary wants to keep, not kill, the Education Department Margaret Spellings, who led the agency under George W. Bush, says scrapping it would be ‘inefficient.’ cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/the-former...

With rising healthcare costs and no raise, this NC teacher's family sells scrap metal and plasma #nced www.wunc.org/education/20...

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. #ncpol www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Charlotte pantries brace for food assistance funding to run out www.wcnc.com/article/life...

ICYMI: This week, I published my story about text messages I exchanged with Lindsey Halligan — the prosecutor now pursuing criminal cases against Letitia James and James Comey. It’s a wild ride, and I’m still trying to make sense of it all. Your Sunday read: ⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Very grateful for the opportunity to serve on the NCCAT Board of Trustees as an appointee of Governor @roycoopernc.bsky.social from 2019-2025, working closely with Executive Director Brock Womble, Board Chair Terry Worrell and Deputy ED Karen Sumner (among many others). #nced

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’ Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

When Trump Says Jump Hoping to preserve a razor-thin majority in the U.S. House, the White House has ordered red states to redraw congressional districts. North Carolina Republicans plan to oblige. #ncpol www.theassemblync.com/politics/tru...

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

Waiting for Leandro It’s been more than 600 days since the state Supreme Court heard arguments in the latest round of legal wrangling over funding for public schools. Can the court put it off forever? #nced www.theassemblync.com/education/wa...

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. My latest video for @propublica.org.

North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. #ncpol www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Sweeping layoffs announced by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for making sure states provide special education services to the nation's 7.5 million children with disabilities. www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. www.propublica.org/article/educ...

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process. www.propublica.org/article/heal...

North Carolina students face reduced access to fresh, local meals amid federal funding cuts #nced www.ednc.org/north-caroli...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Dept of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Settled legal precedent in the US is not “gospel” and in some instances may have been “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with”, the US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas recently said ahead of a new court term beginning next month. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...