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Hemingway, evergreen

submitted 22 hours ago • 63 comments

On the Left(s), we constantly have to beg and borrow. You spend countless hours to raise a fraction of what rightwing organizers raise in a quarter of the time. It really hinders what can be done. Hardly anyone wants to have honest conversations about money and organizing.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

submitted 9 days ago • 231 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 11 days ago • 523 comments

fire photographs by Angelica Edwards in this story about the voting (now underway) that will determine whether or not RDU1 becomes the second Amazon warehouse in the country to unionize. (@indyweek.bsky.social)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Proud to have played a very minor role in this @bloomberglaw.com piece about how the SCOTUS decision in Brnovich reshaped voting rights claims: news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/v...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

AI is taking a toll on society that its wealthy creators don’t bear

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

On January 24, Trump's DOJ said it won't enforce the FACE Act except under “extraordinary circumstances.” Within hours, the FBI called an abortion provider in North Carolina and said it wouldn't continue investigating the bomb threat the clinic received in July. My latest:

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

If, like me, you're often asked about alternatives to Big Tech's AI, then this report on "AI technology that’s informed and guided by the principles of decoloniality, feminism, antiracist, and post-capitalist AI systems" from @schock.cc and co-authors may be of interest to you:

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Are NC schools safe for undocumented students? Districts try to reassure worried families #ncpol #nced www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/e...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The road to the VRA: After the arrests in the original post, the next day, Feb 2, another 520 people were arrested, including 120 people for contempt of court b/c they tried again to register to vote. And 60 years ago today, on Feb 3, another 1000 people were arrested as protests spread. #VRAat60

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

This is not just a "pause." It is an unlawful destruction now. Foreign aid is a cornerstone of national security with diplomacy and defense. USAID's work reaches 100s of millions worldwide and America will be harmed. Here are some of the lives at stake.

submitted 21 days ago • 46 comments

Have a timeline cleanse. This is Flurry. She's a Samoyed-Golden Retriever mix, and she's 15 years old (although she still thinks she's 15 months old!). She loves rolling in the snow and getting the zoomies whenever there are, well, flurries.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

Important guidance for supporting folks affected by executive branch targeting, from one of the leading experts on these issues.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

ACLU denounces UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor’s indication school will comply with ICE raids ncnewsline.com/briefs/aclu-... Report by @christinezhu.bsky.social #ncpol #UNC

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

A helpful mini-course in managing trade offs and change.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

👋 please share with the demographers, sociologists, and health policy folks in your lives.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

"The administration has put in doubt whether the safest places in our community are still safe for everyone," says Nikki Marin Baena, co-director of Siembra NC. www.wunc.org/race-class-c...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

NEW from @wunc.org's Rusty Jacobs: We now know who's funding Judge Jefferson Griffin's legal challenge to the Supreme Court election results. One is a fellow GOP judge on the Court of Appeals: www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Both chambers of Virginia’s legislature just advanced a constitutional amendment to take voting rights restoration out of the governor’s hands and ensure people automatically regain their rights when they leave prison. boltsmag.org/virgini...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

For The Emancipator, I expanded on an argument I’ve been making on Bluesky. The so-called anti-DEI movement is segregationist, and we should state that plainly. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

An analysis by the Voting Rights Lab found that young voters are 3.4 times more likely than those over 65 to have their ballots questioned by NC Supreme Court candidate Judge Jefferson Griffin. In urban counties like Durham, the disparities are starker.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

✨ ¡Mantente informado sobre tus derechos y comparte esta información con toda la comunidad! ☝📌 💻📲 Visita www.enlacelatinonc.org 📰 ¡Periodismo que construye comunidad! 🙌

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Multiple data analyses show that the voters whose ballots were targeted by a North Carolina Supreme Court candidate are disproportionately Black, Democratic and young. These are some of those voters’ stories. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 58 comments

If you live anywhere near me, consider this your invitation to join me in the League of Women Voters. We do stuff. We don’t even have that many meetings! my.lwv.org/north-caroli...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a great list of things individual people can do that go beyond just voting

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Lead up to the Voting Rights Act: 60 years ago this week, 105 Black teachers in Selma, Alabama marched to the county courthouse in an unsuccessful effort to register to vote. At the courthouse, they were told the registration office was closed & twice prevented from entering by sheriff’s deputies.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

As someone who increasingly relies on the blogblog for local news… I endorse this idea. Looking to do something useful but not sure what? Write clearly? Don’t mind attending the occasional public meeting? Blogblog may be for you. civicfutures.substack.com/p/in-the-loop

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration. If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/

submitted 29 days ago • 52 comments

i truly believe that like 70% of organizing is being the person willing to send out the scheduling email and bring doughnuts to the meeting

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

If you live anywhere near me, consider this your invitation to join me in the League of Women Voters. We do stuff. We don’t even have that many meetings! my.lwv.org/north-caroli...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

People are hungry to do something that isn't doomscrolling or texting money to dems, they just need an invite, a plug, an on-ramp. It needn't be (and won't be) an epic battle. It'll be a grind-- meetings. But you'll have more power in that room than you did separately, and you'll feel better too.

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

i am the chair of the local water and sewage board and i highly recommend that everyone look into joining a local board. i’ve been on mine for three years and became chair last july.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Lovely day here in Chapel Hill what with the snow-covered pines and magnolias and such. Seems like a perfect time to remind you that a bunch of us are trying to get the university to stop burning coal in their downtown power plant and certainly not switch to plastic and wood scraps because c'mon

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

“Spend some time reading a PDF” is a superpower with local government. For every 100,000 people in a city there’s maybe 2-3 at most who will do this.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Something that is really going to be more necessary than ever is embracing uncertainty and it's actually the most difficult thing for human beings to do. It really is. But everyone needs to practice. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN. That means there's a possibility your actions can make a difference

submitted 33 days ago • 72 comments

We published a guide to the new executive actions on the federal workforce — including the rebranded Schedule F — plus concrete things civil servants can do to protect themselves right now. Read and share this resource widely: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/dear-civil...

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Jefferson Griffin is asking the court to do something experts say no court has done before: throw out thousands of votes not because voters did anything wrong, but because a candidate believes a state agency did. www.theassemblync.com/politics/ele...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This is the sort of graffiti I look for to document. I found this underneath a pedestrian bridge along the Bolin Creek Greenway in Chapel Hill NC. In addition to graffiti like this, I am interested in documenting more direct political & hate speech in graffiti and ephemera. Photo ©DKThompson.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

NC voter, Spring Dawson-McClure, discovered she was one of the voters who could be disenfranchised by Jefferson Griffin's lawsuit challenging the NC Supreme Court election he lost. This suit could be a dangerous blueprint to steal elections in other states. www.wral.com/news/local/v...

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

An underreported facet of Jefferson Griffin's shocking attempt to undermine the NC Supreme Court election is that he doesn't want military and overseas absentee votes to be counted—though he himself voted that way in previous elections. So, both shocking and hypocritical. Via @propublica.org. #ncpol

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

I haven’t done this yet but I’m thinking about it. Grateful to Dan for the model.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that this is today, Thursday the 16th of January, at 6p. Chapel Hill Town Hall. www.deq.nc.gov/news/press-r...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

While burning the pellets would reduce greenhouse gases from the university’s physical plant, it would increase harmful levels of nitrogen oxides, lead, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds. indyweek.com/news/orange/...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments