Not great! www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

NEW: We just filed a lawsuit alongside 25 states to restore SNAP food assistance during the federal shutdown. 141,000 DC residents rely on SNAP to afford their meals — including 47,000 children and 24,000 seniors. We will do everything in our power to prevent DC families from going hungry.

Our community just donated thousands of menstrual products that are supporting families at IFC, Freedom House, UNC's Horizons program, and students through the Carolina Cupboard and CJ's Cupboard @uncpublichealth.bsky.social 🙏

“The boat strikes constitute murder,” Eugene R. Fidell told me. He used to be a JAG in the Coast Guard and is now at Yale Law School. The entire operation amounts to “treating the world as a free-fire zone,” he said.

Huge scale of SNAP cliff continued: over 2.5 million dollars in benefits come in to Orange County NC every MONTH. For every 1 meal our food banks provide, SNAP covers 9. We will do as much as we can, but even if each of us gave past our point of pain, it still would not be enough.

Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."

Mental Health First Aid two (half) day Course starts November 6th at the Drakeford Library. See the flyer.

Reeling from the scale of the SNAP cliff. In Orange County NC alone: 8700 individual SNAP recipients in 4683 families.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

I was voter number 2 at the Drakeford Library Complex in Carrboro this morning. Early voting is happening today! Grab your ID and come out to vote. www.orangecountync.gov/2143/Photo-I...

I used to teach a college level 'community organizing' class many years ago. After a class one day, a student came to me and said "it's so much work to organize. I thought change just happened." I think of that student often.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

www.doa.nc.gov/news/press-r... For folks asking about yesterday in Carrboro, the link has the answer near the bottom of the page: “Note: Flags will also be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday, September 13, in honor of civil rights activist Major General Joseph McNeil.”

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 abrupt and incoherent end of TPS today throws a lot of your neighbors into a legal limbo. Many of these are people who have worked here for decades. enlacelatinonc.org/fin-del-tps-...

Set up shop outside Gray Squirrel Coffee in Carrboro and got recognized by the Mills River Town Manager. Small world!

If folks want a protest on a weekday and want people to stay in the streets indefinitely, then you have to organize it. Who is supposed to make this happen? Why not you?

This is tomorrow night!

Come learn and share!

Such an outstanding column by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social! Police abuses. Immigration raids. Dehumanizing technology. Rethinking political party loyalty. History is repeating itself. Ruben Salazar already covered it all.

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

HB 318 in North Carolina: Activist Stefanía Arteaga warns that this measure does not strengthen safety but instead expands racial profiling, fear, and unnecessary incarceration. (Carolina Migrant Network ) What is racial profiling? Find out here 👇 enlacelatinonc.org/what-is-raci...

To my trans neighbors, my public health professional neighbors, and my fellow parents of school age children: today was rough. I see you. You’re not alone.

Come learn and share!

A good morning especially to parents putting their kids on a Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools bus for the first time today. 🚌

For more on the “why this EO bad for science” front, this thread is good bsky.app/profile/carl...

Making denial of the existence of my intersex, nonbinary, and trans neighbors, colleagues, and friends a condition of federal science funding is gross and despotic. They are here, and I will stand up for them.

We've put 5 famous artists on a tow truck and will remove them one by one as we raise $500 for the artists towed at Carr Mill Mall during the Uproar Arts Festival. triangleblogblog.com/2025/08/05/w...

Donated! I hope you will, too.

👇👇👇 DYK there's virtually no research on the household mobility impacts of extreme flooding events in the US? We're trying to change that, starting in our own backyard #NCTriangle #Chantal #ChapelHillNC #DurhamNC #CarrboroNC

We had an agenda item this June in Carrboro about removing on-street parking on Elm St. One of the rationales given was that cars queue up for afternoon pickup at Carrboro elementary along Elm, blocking the passage of other motor vehicles.

None of us are free until all of us are free. Fight to defend the human rights of immigrants and trans kids or block me now.

#Actualidad Desde la Asamblea General de NC: ✅ La HB 318 será ley desde el 1 de octubre ⏳ Se espera la votación de la SB 153 esta tarde 🎥 Walter Gómez reporta en vivo para @EnlaceLatinoNC 🔗 www.enlacelatinonc.org

🎥 Así fue el momento en que la Cámara de Representantes anuló el veto del gobernador al proyecto HB 318. Con 72 votos a favor y 48 en contra, la mayoría republicana logró avanzar esta propuesta que ahora pasa al pleno del Senado antes de convertirse en ley.

On average, 86% of all named tropical systems in the Atlantic occur after August 2, and the first hurricane doesn't form until August 11. We have a long season to go. Prepare now – Learn how at weather.gov/safety/hurricane

Y’all I may have teared up a little at the goodbye, but there’s a **Book**. keepingit101.com

👇 The forced over-allocation of funding to highways and parking is a subsidy for accelerating climate disaster. Climate action means budgeting at the state level in a way that acknowledges we need to enable walking and rolling more if we actually value our fellow humans.

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Y’all this is exactly what Carrboro and other communities impacted by Chantal need. Thanks to Governor Stein for taking this step. governor.nc.gov/executive-or...

Want to help Carrboro neighbors who got flooded out? Drop by the Civic Club. Can't get there? Sign up as a helper here: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua... TMA will match you with a job you can do to help someone with a need. Remote and non-physical jobs too!

The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief: crisiscleanup.org/survivor +19102181569

Brief Congress update: my very own district in "deep red east NC" has been drifting to the center for years. It's flippable in '26. I'm so ready for this, I'm doing FARM FACTS FOR KIM HARDY. For every donation to this link I will post one (1) farm fact! secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...

Spent several hours helping residents of Canterbury Townhomes in #Carrboro review damage, distribute food and water, and most importantly load flood debris into dumpsters before rains hit tonight. Just as I was leaving, a City of High Point boom truck was loading large items from the curb.

Filed for reelection this morning. More soon.

I am so proud of how much work Carrboro’s staff, especially Public Works, have put into helping folks impacted by Chantal. Mutual aid groups active in impacted neighborhoods are also self-organizing. People are rising to the occasion.

🚨🚨Orange County, NC🚨🚨 Ways to help (and get help) here: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...

If your home has non-emergency damage, or you need help clearing debris, you can fill out this form and the town/county will contact you: crisistrack.juvare.com/public/orang... Town personnel are working with our fire dept to inspect flooded homes.

Hey y'all, quick updates from OWASA: OWASA Water is safe to drink. Dams (ULake & Cane Creek) have been inspected for damage. There are no imminent safety issues. Some minor things will be followed up. If you see a stray manhole cover, please report by calling (919) 968-4421. Some washed off...