I wrote about what happened when the Border Patrol came to North Carolina and the after effects in the community. I’ll give some highlights here. theoperaticsaxophone.com/2025/12/04/w...

Claire Saffitz's Creme Caramel. Surprisingly easy, and simple enough to justify using the whole vanilla bean in the pantry.

This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

The CEO of Google admits that Google search provides more accurate information that the company’s AI. He acknowledges that Google search is "more grounded in providing accurate information."

This song has been ringing in my ears through the holiday - the original version was on this 2004 album of (mostly) protest covers, Black Cat Orchestra backing Mirah. Several of these renditions are definitive for me - including "Bella Ciao" and the "Story of Isaac." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nwo...

The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?

Nevermind that a reporter told me about cases they've encountered in which Venezuelan immigrants have used the CBP Home app to "self-deport," only to spend months in detention instead. It goes without saying that they also never received the promised $1,000 from DHS.

I criticize all the time so credit where credit is due. Just state the plain, damning facts, without any euphemisms or both sides double speak. More please.

just here to remind you that you can waffle that leftover stuffing (either with or without an egg added) and it kicks ass.

James Baldwin wrote convincingly that 60s civil rights progress stemmed from competition with the USSR.

this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. -Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These #everynightapoem it's necessary to talk about trees.

Cycling legend Major Taylor won the 1-mile sprint event at the 1899 world track championships to become the first African American to achieve the level of cycling world champion Happy #BicycleBirthday, Major! November 26 (1878-1932)

when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this." IG mr.funkys0ul

Second part of this great, devastating, reporting. "As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed" Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

Illegal and shameful and just how police behave in authoritarian regimes. And also wildly unpopular and not the country Americans want.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry

North Carolina has really shown out. Comrades are telling me that they have gotten 500 to 1000 people out to ICE Watch trainings [with more people wanting to attend].

Devastation my door was left open wide You brought me into your heart, then you swallowed my pride. I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts I made a note to myself, i nearly forgot.

Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.

Today is Pauli Murray's 115th birthday. If you're a law student (or just a curious person) and don't know who they are, look them up! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_M... (And if you're in Durham, go check out @paulimurraycenter.bsky.social ! I had the privilege of visiting yesterday and it's great.)

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

Timeline cleanse. Cackalack energy in the KEXP studios. #ladiesandgentlementheweekend www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCgZ...

very funny to be scolded by a train conductor for having my bike in the wrong place, showing him the literal rule written on the amtrak website showing that i have my bike in the only place it is allowed to be, and being told that we’ll have to “agree to disagree”

I've been thinking about the incredible work that @siembranc.bsky.social has been doing over the past few years ago and how so much of that work helped lay the groundwork for the community resistance that's taken place over the past few days across NC. I made a donation: www.siembranc.org

Three blocks from my house. Hell yes Durham North Carolina

It's cclo5'ko somewhere. h/t Metafilter. clocks.brianmoore.com

Also! I'm in the process of migrating everything over from Substack to Beehiiv over the next few weeks, so no new newsletters during that time. If you're thinking of becoming a paid subscriber, now's a good time to...wait? All stories will still be available at the same URL (ncrabbithole.com).

Arrests now top 250 in immigration crackdown across North Carolina trib.al/yh5age4

Tonight, as the sun set in Durham, while hundreds more joined patrols in Charlotte, courageous local officials, people of faith, and community leaders gathered to say: Enough is enough.

G took this photo. He titled it “accidentally hilarious foliage”

Homelessness is a HOUSING problem. Homelessness is not a drug problem. Homelessness is not an economic problem. Homelessness is not a climate problem. HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM. When we don’t build enough homes, the price of housing goes up. via @zillow

Although Durham officials were not informed of any planned CBP activity, individuals have reported seeing agents in the city, and Nida Allam, who chairs the Durham County Board of Commissioners, said she witnessed three people taken into custody in a Durham shopping center on Avondale Drive.

This fascist panopticon is powered by Motorola and @reuters.com.

Happy birthday, Danny DeVito!

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

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.

I'm spending the weekend meditating on what circumstances would encourage me to spend several hours discussing the weather and gratitude with the fascists in my family at Thanksgiving. Such a good *idea* for sparking change, but I haven't seen much development of my abilities in previous attempts.

“It definitely will save us a lot of money.” Durham Public School’s first two electric school buses have hit the road, saving the district money on fuel and maintenance costs 🔌💡

Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...

*stares off into the distance*

Thinking about picking up my book? Do it this week! all @islandpress.bsky.social print titles are 50% off until 11/16! islandpress.org/books/when-d... also lots of other great books to grab as well -- thread below with some links of my favorites

Possibly my favorite photo of MF DOOM

Catherine Ferrell was born in 1912 in Warsaw, a small town about 100 miles southeast of Durham. By 21, Ferrell should have been able to vote.

Marlon Brando? The guy who played Superman's alien Dad?

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

that’s not very gneiss