Last night at the University of Kentucky, I didn’t give a speech. I asked a question: How can I best represent you? kykernel.com?p=123896

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

For decades, environmental laws like the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act have helped to ensure that our water is safe to drink and our air is safe to breathe. But we can’t take this for granted. These fundamental environmental protections are currently under attack. https://loom.ly/PW4kRJA

Join our partners for "Communities Over Corporate Profits: How We Win" on Sunday, March 8, in #Durham's Central Park to celebrate environmental wins across #NorthCarolina! Learn more: https://appvoices.org/events/march-8-communities-over-corporate-profit#Durham

Great but Unsung - Doris Ulmann (1882-1934). Documented Appalachia including the black experience. Portraits, river baptisms and lynchings. #VintagePhotography

“A Beast Touch the Mountain” is about a pipeline, eminent domain, captured government & women holding the line in Appalachia. Peaceful, verdant and quietly furious. They lost the battle, not the moral high ground and vindication of history. sarahgvincentviews.com/movies/a-bea...

turning leaves and winding roads, the most photographed part of the blue ridge parkway in the appalachian mountains is the linn cove viaduct. #photography #appalachia #northcarolina #landscapephotography #autumn #carphotography

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 This destroyed building is said by Iran to be a primary school for girls in the south of Iran. Dozens killed.

#Roanoke City Public Schools continue expanding their #solar capacity! Recently, the Roanoke schools were awarded a grant to build a solar #microgrid with a battery energy storage system for emergency shelters. We love to see it! https://loom.ly/om1IzK8

If you're going to post #hopium there better be a map. I've always seen the regionalization of the US as over-simplified, and after reading "American Nations," have come to like the method from @colinwoodard.bsky.social Now, is Greater Appalachia expanding? www.nationhoodlab.org/is-trumps-su...

“Literally hundreds of African-Americans in Appalachia... stand on the shoulders of teachers in the area’s ‘colored’ schools... I thank God for the Mabels in the mountains.” -Dr. William Turner #BlackHistory is Appalachian history—today & everyday. By @appalshop.bsky.social youtu.be/fgBIwyonu-8?...

Last week we celebrated the 35th Anniversary of the Affrilachian #Poets with a reading at Transylvania University. It’s a good time to share my Beginner’s Guide to the APs. Grab some poetry from our collective born out of an affirmation of black voices in #Appalachia. bookshop.org/lists/beginn...

I love a good Sloppy Joe. I’m an Appalachian. So I can’t resist sharing with my fellow mountain folk everything you’ve ever wanted to know (and more!) about the Sloppy Joe.

UPDATE: After years of secrecy, @microsoft.com finally admitted it's building a data center at the 1,350 acre site it purchased in Person County, NC. This data center is part of the justification for building a new gas plant near an elementary school. 🧵

What the heck is going on at #TVA? 🤔 Bri Knisley of Appalachian Voices covers TVA's recent decision go all-in on coal, and how President Trump is using the TVA board of directors to cut the public out of the public power process — and how they may be making moves to privatize TVA.

“Doing so would also free up domestic residency slots and expand that training capacity, Senate Bill 137 sponsor Sen. Stephen Meredith, R-Leitchfield, told members of a health services committee Wednesday.”

Kentucky Public Radio investigated more than a dozen cases of illegal child marriages in the state that violated a 2018 law, how it happened and who is trying to stop it. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org and @joesonka.lpm.org #kyga26

Raised by a coal miner and a teacher in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, @cherlynnforky.bsky.social learned early that you fight for people — period. 157 years after the 15th Amendment, no Democratic woman has ever represented Kentucky in Congress. She's about to change that. cherlynnstevenson.com

“The Appalachian Experience, or APEX as it’s more commonly known, is a Campus Ministry-run service program wherein students spend their spring break immersing themselves in the Appalachian region. In the weeks before and after, students learn about the history and culture of Appalachia.”

Cuts to workers'/miners' safety agencies are putting people's lives at risk. Miners are already being forced to make do with black lung benefits that are decades behind inflation. We need adequate funding to protect workers.🛡️ loom.ly/jb98sA0 #BlackLung #Appalachia #OSHA #MSHA

John Sebastian gave us some of my favorite songs of the 60s (and one or two of the 70s, like Face Of Appalachia) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKeq...

Hearts of Appalachia offers links to three main food banks, followed by food resources listed by county: www.heartsofappalachia.org/tennessee-fo...

There’s a reason us East Tennesseans call Dolly Parton the Queen of Appalachia, and it’s because she never stops doing stuff like this:

The Hearts of Appalachia Project’s website offers a list of available food resources by county: www.heartsofappalachia.org/west-virgini...

This is what being a Mountain Democrat means to some of the folks who joined us last night in Bourbon County at our tour stop in Paris. I love it all. Because being a Mountain Democrat means something to all of us, no matter where we're from. We're in this together. As one.

In honor of the anniversary of the Buffalo Creek disaster, here's one from the vault. Check it out, share it around today, and spare a moment to remember the people that the oligarchy's greed have taken from us.

Next Thursday: How did Appalachia help turn the tide of the American Revolution? Join Alex Long for "Fight for Freedom: Kings Mountain & Revolutionary SW Virginia," part two of our Appalachian history series. March 5 | 7 PM EST buff.ly/iHpA7bl

Full stories, podcast links, and the heartbeat of the mountains in today’s Appalachia Daily Update. 👉 adu.riverrun.digital/p/appalachia... Who’s riding with Braden all the way to the finale? Eagles fans – how loud we screaming? Already voted or heading out tomorrow?

Mountain Democrats believe hard work should be rewarded. @cherlynnforky.bsky.social fought billionaire tax breaks in Frankfort and she'll keep fighting for Kentucky workers in Washington. This isn't red vs. blue—it's billionaires vs. you. #FlipTheSixth #BillionairesVsYou

We're proud to be one of the sponsors of the fifth annual #Boone Docs Film Festival! Join us Friday and Saturday this week at the Appalachian Theatre for a celebration of short documentaries that lift up stories from Appalachia. https://loom.ly/Xpzl28k#Boone

A new report from @appcitizenslaw.bsky.social and Appalachian Voices shows federal black lung disability benefits are not keeping up with the cost of living. Miners and advocates have been fighting for improvements to the system that would tie benefits to inflation. https://loom.ly/yIP6tcE

A sweeping Republican bill aiming to reform Kentucky’s Medicaid program would impose copays on some patients, among other changes that advocates say would put up barriers to care. @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/02/24/m...

Kentucky Power customers will pay $3 more each month for a new cooling tower at the 50-year old West Virginia coal plant than West Virginia customers will pay. From @tatecurtis.bsky.social at @weku.bsky.social

Today’s @kentucky.com calls the Kentucky @aflcio.org endorsement “perhaps one of the most important” in this race, and I couldn’t be more honored. When more than 131,000 union members across 60+ locals stand with you, it means something. #KY06

The new 300-acre site will have a 49.9 megawatt capacity and will supply 30% of Dayton’s energy when it opens in 2028. The cost of this energy will also be frozen for 25 years, reducing energy costs! Learn more @ loom.ly/lGoeJd8 #Dayton #Ohio #Appalachia #SolarPower #InfrastructureWinsWednesdays

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland. Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M. America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech. This is what integrity looks like.

Another video for my #BHM documentary thread. As someone who grew up in the rural South, I enjoy learning about our histories in rural communities across the US. Here’s a video on Appalachia. #BlackHistoryMonth youtu.be/DCanT3QcDS4?...

Happy Wednesday, #EarWorm friends 🎶 Rising Appalachia "Sometimes I" youtu.be/gCjBY5afkto?...

Just another beautiful day in the mountains. 😎 #Mountains #BlueRidge #Appalachia #nfl #NFL

More stupid MAGATs...getting what they deserve Trump pulled the plug on Biden’s funds for Appalachia, and the same MAGA towns he gutted are freaking out absnews.info/trump-pulled...

Definitely not for working families in Central Kentucky. 71% of our donations are $25 or less. We're not taking corporate PAC money, and we're not sitting the homes of millionaires asking for donations. We're having conversations on front porches and union halls, with people who earn a paycheck.

Cuts to Medicaid are crippling people in KY. 35 hospitals are likely going to close. More than 40,000 people didn't renew their health insurance via the state's exchange. We need leaders in Congress who will fight like hell for affordable health care because it absolutely is a basic human right.

let's not forget how that same project dumped all its nuclear waste in Harlan County, Kentucky, mines.