Sometimes, I find it therapeutic to return to this country's foundational documents and insert the word fucking where it seems appropriate

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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

Wow

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This seems important

• This is bullshit • Where else is this happening?

This is an absolutely brutal journalism prediction for 2026. And it might be right.

This should be a clear signal that hospitals and other institutions should not capitulate to the administration’s lawless anti-trans demands. Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.

Good piece by @drewharwell.com on the the utter pieces of shit running our government today

I taught Genetics again this year. We need to include discussion of the problematic history of our field, especially as the claims of eugenics are once again centered in our political discourse. Last year I wrote this piece, explaining my reasoning and approach 🧪 1/n www.cell.com/trends/genet...

I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...

NC prison officials say “shifting economic conditions” forced them to raise their markup on basic goods like food, drinks, batteries to run radios, etc Phill Smith, who’s incarcerated there, reports on the impact of the price hike and how prisons squeeze revenue from those who can least afford it

We are always grateful to be part of a community of care that only continues to grow...

Performative Fascism: ‘They’re Just Kind Of Grabbing People’: Fear Grips Durham as Federal Agents Arrive www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...?

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.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

If you're reporting ICE sightings outside of the Ojo Obrero app, PLEASE make sure you at least try to follow the SALUTE reporting format so that your info can be as helpful as possible.

The Monday session of Siembra's ICE Watch Training in Charlotte is full, so there is now a second session being offered on Wednesday, Nov. 19th. Sign up: #ncpol #CLT actionnetwork.org/events/ice-w...

If you know folks in Charlotte, tell them to head to Siembra's ICE Watch training this Monday! actionnetwork.org/events/ice-w...

Played a Be In yesterday in Carrboro. Beautiful day to see our community do its thing. Raised a bunch of $ to help feed children because what’s left of the federal gov’t refuses to do so

Lovely fall day here in the Piedmont. Mail arrived early

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments during the government shutdown.

Listening to the game on the radio while google and disney fight for my pennies

did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb

The Center released two findings from the October Catawba-YouGov Survey of 1,000 North Carolinians. You can review the newsletters covering the releases at: From Tuesday: myemail.constantcontact.com/New-Catawba-... From Thursday: myemail.constantcontact.com/New-Catawba-... #ncpol

Found a little pocket notebook I kept during the 2003 SXSW Interactive. All the weirdness, beauty and depravity of the time in little scribbles to myself

Sixty degrees here in the Piedmont night and the frogs are carrying on like they haven’t in a while

The ghost of Eugene Debs had a good morning You just know it

Verity Den, Fish Store Amphitheater, Carrboro North Carolina, November 2, 2025

a hangry mob is a hangry mob

Greetings from Bynum, NC

Damn

The USDA “has broken the law in a way that will create really severe consequences for a lot of vulnerable people,” AG Jeff Jackson said.

NC AG announcement on SNAP actions at noon today (Tuesday)

One year ago

Sassafras turns in its own way

If all it took was trans people existing to turn you into a Nazi, you were already a Nazi.

🚨 #BREAKING: A leaked plan indicates that the Trump administration is looking to expand offshore drilling on the U.S. East and West coasts – risking vital marine habitats and threatening coastal communities across the country. http://bit.ly/4oAnnyR

Lovely afternoon here in the Piedmont.

Help me share to 100 (big number!) You know you want to 😀 #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth youtu.be/G71MZynajjQ?...

If you're a North Carolina resident and you have an opinion you'd like to share publicly about the gerrymandering redistricting plan, here's where to share it. www.ncleg.gov/requestforco...

In a win for the Gullah Geechee, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the island community descended from enslaved people could proceed with a referendum to overturn zoning changes they argue will price them out of their homes. Check out our Substack for more on this and other state court news.

Former CDC Director and former NC Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen is serving as an advisor to the Governors Public Health Alliance. apnews.com/article/gove...

In a clear rebuke of recent federal health policy, 15 Democratic governors announced today they’ve formed a public health alliance that breaks with guidance from the Trump administration and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ncnewsline.com/2025/10/15/r...

Got a gig at The Drakeford tonight! Former Mayor Damon Seils and I are having a conversation with School Board & Town of Carrboro candidates about what they hope to accomplish/ managing challenges like housing, school enrollments, flooding and other thorny issues. 6-8pm downstairs in the theatre

Seems appropriate

Here’s an incomplete list of federal data and statistics that’ve been deleted or tampered with since Trump took office.