Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver

In addition to be overjoyed that Mamdani won, I'm incredibly relieved that a serial sexual abuser lost.

An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night

Zohran Mamdani:
America’s Mayor
♥️

bravo!

State Lawmakers Put Funding for Nonprofit Legal Help on Ice Republicans in the General Assembly paused a 40-year-old trust and accused it of “awarding grants to leftist groups.”

Legal Aid of North Carolina, the state’s largest non-profit law firm, estimates that the freeze will result in a loss of nearly $6.3 million they had expected to get during the grant cycle that begins in January 2026, Anne Blythe reports. www.theassemblync.com/politics/leg...

The right’s war on the poor hits a new low with attack on legal aid • NC Newsline In a nation in which the yawning gap between the wealthy and everyone else continues to metastasize, the IOLTA freeze is just the latest broadside in a longstanding and hugely destructive war on the p...

In a nation in which the yawning gap between the wealthy and everyone else continues to metastasize, the IOLTA freeze is just the latest broadside in a longstanding and hugely destructive war on the poor. ncnewsline.com/2025/11/04/t... #ncpol #LegalAid

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

Impressive. Cuz media are complicit.

N.C. counties that busted budgets after Helene still waiting for FEMA to pay them back A year after Hurricane Helene, FEMA hasn’t reimbursed millions of dollars spent on cleanup and recovery, upending local budgets and hindering reconstruction.

"Since Hurricane Helene devastated the community in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the county government has spent nearly $50 million on cleanup and recovery — while getting reimbursed only $4 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency..."

www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

😭

It’s that time of year - what’s the best streaming service these days for being able to watch ALL the UNC bball games? 🏀 🩵 🐑

Oh.

Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change His essay comes ahead of next month's COP30, a global summit focused on battling climate change.

Let's argue about whether it's more effective to fight hunger and poverty or climate pollution once we have exhausted the many ways to fight both at once.

Just sadistic behavior.

I just cannot fathom getting into government and not wanting to make the lives of regular people better. It should be so simple

I am just incredibly distracted from pretty much everything by the fact that 12% of the U.S. population is about to use their lifeline for buying FOOD while the Republicans in Congress sit in their hands holding out for a budget that will make that situation even worse.

Citing privacy concerns, Hillsborough town leaders terminate contract for license plate reader cameras amid rollout Following a lengthy discussion during a closed session Monday night, the Town of Hillsborough Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to terminate a contract with for Flock cameras, which read lic…

Prime example of why local elections are so important. I am super grateful to live in Hillsborough and see this strong, values-driven leadership.
www.cbs17.com/news/local-n...

Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit. A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that he says led to his resignation.

Alan Greenblatt walked away from his position as editor of Governing last week because his bosses kept telling him to spike stories that were critical of Trump.
On Tuesday, Oct. 28th, I will be interviewing him on this subject at a Substack Live Video. Join in at 1PM MT / 3PM ET that day!

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Sitting in the old Charlotte coliseum (that’s what I’m calling it!) with my daughter for the first time I think since I was in the building to see INXS and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers exactly 1000 years ago to the day.

‘We need action’: Medicaid recipients and advocates call on lawmakers to provide funding • NC Newsline More than 200 people gathered in Raleigh Tuesday to call for Medicaid funding before heading to the legislature to make their pitch to lawmakers.

More than 200 Medicaid recipients and advocates called on lawmakers to act in Raleigh today, weeks into statewide rate cuts due to inadequate funding. “There are lives on the line.”

The oil magnates were the first to perceive the prize that could be extracted from the wide distribution of the motorcar. If people could be induced to travel in cars, they could be sold the fuel necessary to move them. For the first time in history, people would become dependent for their locomotion on a commercial source of energy. There would be as many customers for the oil industry as there were motorists—and since there would be as many motorists as there were families, the entire population would become the oil merchants’ customers. The dream of every capitalist was about to come true. Everyone was going to depend for their daily needs on a commodity that a single industry held as a monopoly.

really hard to overstate how horrendous the oil industry has been for every aspect of human society--the biggest source of industrial pollution and also the biggest funder of reactionary politics

I seldom share substack links, but this one is such a good explainer.

Inconvenience for drivers -
lowered speed limits,
design that creates friction,
& roads that feel narrow and challenging to navigate -
is necessary to substantially improve safety and reduce injuries.

Incl driver injuries!

I would point an interested reader and careful thinker to two things.

One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well.

Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.

Anyway yes I did this awhile ago. Thanks for the reminder.

"History will be kind to us and to the hundreds of public comments and people that dropped everything to be here. We must speak out for the people of CD1. Just like those who marched in Selma, as they were bleeding and being chase by dogs, we will dream for a better tomorrow." Sen. Murdock #ncpol

I know I’ve said this more than once, and I know it’s really obvious, but taking the train between cities in Europe is just fantastic. So easy.

One of the dumbest mistakes North America ever made, and continues to make, is doing so relatively little with trains. Train networks are nation-building.

A bike with a sign that says “hands off Chicago”

no kings except biking

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.