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Poster for an October 13 candidate forum at the downtown public library in Carrboro. Event includes candidates for mayor, town council and school board who are very very likely to take office

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

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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

Poster for a show by Lud, Shelles and Tallulah Cloos at The Cave in downtown Chapel Hill, Friday 10/3. The image is a wall cloud moving inland across the waters off Carolina beach

Tonight is thrill night

Must be a thing

It’s been terribly terribly dry here in the Piedmont. The first big thunderstorm in a while is rolling in from the south. Down in the woods along the creek, owls are going wild.

Yale Climate Blog, Tropical Tidbits, WaPo hurricane team, NHC/NWS products and the farmer/weather nerd I married

Looks like future tropical storm Imelda is going to dump heavy rains inland in NC, SC & maybe Va/WVa early next week. This is not a drill

One way is to run a court case up the chain and then Newby orders new maps

All hell gonna break loose in NC

Map showing a major storm heading for the coast

Another storm blowing up and heading this way in a few days. Wetter storms & shorter prep times— that’s our world now

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23.

A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

Yeah, the language in the bill isn’t as clear as the staff report

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

Former Provost Sues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Over Closed Meetings Chris Clemens accused the trustees of "hiding matters of grave public concern,” including tenure debates, using a Signal group and closed session.

breaking news from unc: former provost chris clemens is suing the university for open meetings and public records violations during their discussion about delaying tenure votes

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description of a section of proposed legislation in the North Carolina General Assembly that reads "ZONING REGULATIONS/UNIVERSITY PROPERTY G.S. 160D-913 exempts from local government zoning and development regulations any building project located in Wake County that is managed by the State Construction Office. Section 18 would exempt on a Statewide basis any building project managed by the State Construction Office from local zoning and development regulations. This section would also exempt projects that are both: (i) managed by The University of North Carolina or any of its constituent institutions, and (ii) are in Buncombe, Orange, or Wake County."

Going through some new #NCGA legislation this morning and this jumped out at me

A band poster that’s aphoto of a wall cloud off the coast of North Carolina. The words on the photo say Lud, Shelles and Tallulah Cloos at The Cave 10/3

Show a comin’

Exactly.

this is a truck commercial

I know THAT road

can confirm

She Held a Locket, by Lud from the album Defenestration Boulevard

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YouTube video by Lud - Topic She Held a Locket

This record and this song in particular
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

This why I don’t follow the N&O. I tried, but too much out of state clickbait mixed into the NC stuff

“Trans people have kitchen tables. People that love trans people have kitchen tables. Immigrants have kitchen tables,” Abughazaleh said. “Democrats have been messaging on this issue, which is basic human decency, wrong this entire time. It’s a two-pronged thing. When it comes to extremism, if you’re constantly ceding ground that trans people don’t deserve to exist, or that there are carve-outs for that … it never stops with the people that you deem inhuman, it will always come to you.”

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Aww

Pursuing A More Perfect Union Hagmaier, Colt Mon 9/15/2025 1:06 PM Friends, This nation was once no more than idea. Courageous whispers of dangerous thinking; a wild experiment to organize and preserve government not by despotism or dynasty, but through the continued consent of the governed. Like a hardy willow, our Republic endures upon a trunk of federalism that is both fixed and flexible. Unity, not unanimity, is our strength - we are not stymied by our differences, we are made resilient by channeling those differences into public good. Our words matter. We ought to choose them carefully, stand behind them, and offer them with empathy and kindness. My faith in our nation, like our liberties, is secured by strong, prudent, and principled democratic institutions. Institutions administered by public servants sworn to place that public good above their own. We persevere not because our Union is perfect, rather because we never stop pursuing a more perfect one - together. That is what I see here at FEMA every day. Each of you sustaining the integrity and function of our federal government. You bring hope to the hopeless and relief to the suffering. Your work is never easy, rarely appreciated, and often misunderstood or mischaracterized, but it is essential. Not only to those benefiting from it, but to the fabric of who we are as a people and a reflection of the humanity that unites us. Your effort is purposeful, noble, and compassionate. It has been my life's honor to serve alongside you in this virtuous mission of helping our communities and neighbors in their times of need. Now, it is time for me to start a new path away from federal service. This has been an incredibly difficult decision over which I have reflected, prayed, and temporized. I care immensely about FEMA's mission and for you who deliver it every day. I am blessed to have worked alongside so many passionate, hardworking, and talented people throughout my FEMA career.

Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade.

Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk.

Text of his email shared with me: