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Part of this I think is because Eloise has a lot of safety & security as a Bridgerton that Pen never had as a Featherington- including a family she felt valued in. Eloise never recognized this disparity & how it impacts their decisions.
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I find it incredibly interesting that Chapel Hill PD declined to participate in policing the protests AND urged the UNC police to refrain getting involved, and INSTEAD, UNC bussed in “outside agitators” aka police from universities 2+ hours away
Videos captured by news outlets and shared on social media show police shoving and pushing protestors, pulling a woman’s hair, trapping a wheelchair user under a metal barricade, and using pepper spray at close-range.
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Of course the UNC frat boys “protected” the flag (cared more about an easily replaceable fabric than their own fellow students brutalized by cops, or an ongoing genocide). The same reason these racist kids below wear the flag. It represents a system they benefit from.
A white Ole Miss frat boy dances like a monkey and makes monkey noises near a Black woman who was protesting for Palestine.
Is this heart warming? (Video:
@StaceyJSpiehler
)
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Everyday I am shocked by how ugly and expensive some of these new builds are 😫
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@hebennigatu
I remember that movie came out when I was in middle school and I was like, “oh sure, totally makes sense,” and then now realizing that as an adult is 😅😅
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But what’s crazy is that this is not the first time some of these presidents encountered such movements. USC President Carol Folt dealt w/this at UNC in 2018 with Silent Sam protests (& removal). She apparently learned nothing.
It’s almost as if university presidents across the country have never taken a social movements class, have no comprehension of historical social movements and escalation, and think that over-the-top, aggressive policing will convince college students to quit. 🙄
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The lesson learned here is you don’t need any community experience or progressive service to win a seat— all you need is money and endorsements. I hope she will serve us well 🤷♀️
Final results in from Durham: Sophia Chitlik defeats incumbent Democratic Sen.
@MikeWoodard
with 57.55% of the vote.
#ncpol
#ncga
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If you’ve ever sat at Cocoa Cinnamon on Geer St & commented how much Geer St Gardens is looking like the house from Up… then you know.
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This is devastating. And a direct result of policy choices.
Much to think about here.
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This is one of those house-shaking storms ⛈️⛈️
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Congrats
@NateBakerDurham
on your primary win!
Nate had the most votes out if anyone in any race tonight. Impressive- he has worked hard, in relationship w/ community. He got his people out there; his breadth of supporters reflect his strong expertise & impact. Love to see it!
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My least favorite scad take is the one where wealthy white dudes denigrate scad opponents, reducing them to ‘loud’- overlooking diversity of race/age/class, the extraordinary number of durham natives, the range of orgs (from walltown neighborhood assoc to habitat for humanity)
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Many giant pick up trucks are a menace to pedestrian safety & safety of other drivers; they are incredibly unnecessary practically. they are always the car that feels like they HAVE TO find the closest parking spot they can, back into it, and thus block the sidewalk.
What’s the most boomer complaint you have?
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I have lived in a country abroad w/o fluoridated water, & my teeth paid the price. I never even had a cavity before then. I had not really thought about the impact of fluoridation in water until my dentist explained. It was a very expensive dental period in my life lol
I’m sorry but this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen and I’ve watched republicans in North Carolina do a lot of stupid shit this year!
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People who love children & see their humanity know there’s no such thing as other people’s children
Ms Rachel has entered the chat??!!
When I tell you, it’s so over for Israel 😭
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Here in north(ish) Durham, there are "Comply with Police" signs popping up (Cole Mill Rd. area) and am hearing that Police Lives Matter signs have popped up too on 85 as you drive towards Hillsborough. So yeah, please vote so the folks who post that garbage don’t have any power.
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Let me tell you, if I pick a side and it is full of white nationalists, Christian nationalists, and neo-nazis cheering beside me, I’m taking a serious step back
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Dang he looks like a villain from the 80s
UNC interim Chancellor Lee Roberts’ comments earlier this afternoon from the steps of South Building after he led police in restoring the American flag to the campus flagpole
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I hear this all the time from folks who have businesses/work downtown that are dealing w/sustained construction projects negatively impacting them. Where’s the energy that drove the social district to turn attention to the issues w/construction’s impact??
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This one of the most gorgeous times of year to live in Central North Carolina. Have you have seen a weeping cherry tree? Driven under a canopy of Bradford Pears? Walked down a street lined with redbuds? Stunningggg 10/10
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Wild how UNC police brought in cops from NC State, App State, ECU & UNC W yet failed to arrest/detain the folks actually being violent
(Not surprising at all though)
Will these violent UNC frat boys face consequences for injuring another student on April 30?
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Y’all: I don’t know how you defend scad after watching tonight’s meeting. A handful of mostly white men who profit from it (several who don’t live here) vs 32 diverse Durhamites opposing it
Apologies for misspellings— I followed the closed caption spelling (no edit button) 😅
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One interesting pattern is that every Israeli accusation is a confession: so many things that Israel says Hamas did turns out to be fabricated misinformation and then later that Israel is indeed the ones doing it
Israeli officers have sodomized Palestinian prisoners to death at Sde Teiman desert concentration camp, after kidnapping them in Gaza
According to a leaked UN report, one prisoner said interrogators “made me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire,” and
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People cannot be surprised that a generation raised on “Free Willy” is on the orcas’ side
“We just think the term “killer whale” is offensive, and what we’re doing here is—we’re coming together, we’re taking the name back. We’re taking away its power”
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Meanwhile in downtown Durham so much is closed on Sundays… I wonder if this would help things? (Or maybe Saturdays would be better). I appreciate this bc unlike social district this isn’t about bars/nightlife & is good for everyone (families included).
Newbury Street is open to pedestrians and closed to motor vehicles, from Berkeley Street to Massachusetts Avenue, every Sunday from 10:00AM to 8:00PM, now through October 15.
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Love this car place on 70 near Miami Blvd that has Palestinian flags on every car 🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Side note— took Amtrak today and it was soooo easy & I may be addicted bc what do you mean I can read for 2 hours then take a little nap, instead of driving down 40???
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Some of the dumbest takes this month have been people praising frat boys & that fratboysummer hashtag has reeeeeal maga vibes
one of the images really stuck in my mind from yesterday is the crowd of students chanting “we are all palestinians!” as riot cops beat and pepper sprayed them, to the sound of cheers from the frat boys watching on the hill. fascism really is colonialism turned inward, huh.
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Durham, you’re up!
Carrboro has passed the first Ceasefire Resolution in North Carolina, with "yes" votes from
@sladesammy
@damonseils
@EliazarPosada
and our very own DSA-endorsed
@nowell4carrboro
#CeasefireNOW
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Another Amtrak adventure today! I am a true train travel convert y’all
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@NinthStreetWatc
@NateBakerDurham
That’s one way to look at it. I personally was encouraged that he wasted no time making this a priority.
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I can’t believe
@JeffJacksonNC
supported this bill 😡
I don’t use TikTok. I find it unwise to do so. But after careful review, I’m a no on this legislation.
This bill infringes on the First Amendment and grants undue power to the administrative state.
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Have y’all been outside yet?? The temperature, the breeze, the gorgeous sky 🤌🤌 this is the way
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One of the reasons I fear monkeypox is the mishandling of the Covid pandemic both federally and locally.
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Meanwhile Duke’s commencement speaker is Zionist who has continued to vocally (& physically during visits) support Israel during genocide against Palestinians
In solidarity with the student walk out at the Duke University to protest the ongoing ecocide and genocide in Gaza.✊🏼
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As news spreads about issues with our drinking water here in Durham, please consider how we can vote for candidates who have been raising this alarm, who have ideas on how to make impact in their capacity, & how current leadership hasn’t done enough. Durham has known we have
The Durham City Council majority has approved thousands of acres of sprawling rezonings in SE Durham over the past five years.
Now, the Southern Environmental Law Center is intervening over the city’s “failure to enforce water quality standards against real estate developers.”
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Saw this N&O quote today that sums up how I feel about some of these local races (especially school board) going uncontested:
“The fact that so many races will be contested this year might be good for Democrats, but it’s better news for democracy. Voters deserve a choice, but
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I drive kid to school & agree it’s policy failures: we do not live within walking distance of any school (plus no sidewalks); have no public transportation. No masks on buses means not safe. No mitigations means school buses are unreliable bc drivers out sick. Bus ride can be 1hr
Every parent that drivers their children to the front door of the school is a policy failure.
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So proud of
@NateBakerDurham
and his amazing grassroots team!!
(Also does this mean we get a break from all the YIMBYs?)
Tonight our member, Nate Baker (
@NateBakerDurham
), won first place in the Durham City Council race! We won in coalition with
@DCABP_35
and
@SunriseDurham
by knocking doors and fighting for a working class vision. Durham works because we work!
That’s the
#DSADifference
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I’m currently out of town and someone asked where I’m from. I said NC, then when they asked what town, told them Durham. All for them to say “Go Duke!”
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Wait airbnbs in Durham are advertising their gentrification like it’s… a good thing??
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Super curious- are there other ideas in the works to “encourage foot traffic for businesses” beyond alcohol? Like… unobstructed sidewalks, increasing accessibility re:COVID (such as clean air), car-free areas, etc? This does not seem like an effort to encourage families to come
That's... considerably larger than I was thinking it would be.
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Spoiler alert, they are far from universally beloved IN Durham
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You know how films will use that filter to make their movies look more ‘yellow’? Currently there’s so much pollen in the air I feel like we are living in one of those movies
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Like we just literally want you to stop funding a genocide & maybe have your CDC actually control disease. Like this is truly the bottom of the list, bruh.
Have you ever used a food delivery app to order a meal, but noticed a much higher end price than when you started searching?
This is called “drip pricing” – and it adds up.
My Administration is working to end this practice and other junk fees that rip consumers off.
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Best Durham tweet of the day 🤣
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Shocking, the frat dudes who “saved the flag” were also violent against protestors. Waiting for the folks who praised them while critiquing nonviolent protestors to say something… anything.
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I have mixed feelings about ADUs (will they increase housing stock? Or just increase airbnbs/income?) but it’s weird when low income folks are talked down to, to accept things builders/owners wouldn’t. This from Indy telling low-income folks to be minimalist seems patronizing.
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This is a huge reason behind my advocacy for masking in schools.
In news that should surprise no one, a new study has found children & adolescents were a major driver of a COVID-19 outbreak in China in early 2021.
Close contacts of those aged <18 years were 81% more likely to be infected than the contacts of adults. 🧵
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Do not accept this. Reach out to your school admin and school board. Policing literally doesn’t stop school shootings but it does contribute to harm and fear. It would be more fruitful to craft school-based intervention policies to create safe climates, provide sufficient
My town has announced that in light of yesterday's tragedy there will be an increased police presence at the schools.
As a black father I now have two potential threats to be concerned over.
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@MediumSizeMeech
This man literally left her at the alter and had her apologizing… what a wild relationship
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Ugh. This is too much. Kids are experiencing so much trauma and stress.
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There’s been a lot of lazy attempts to undermine student protests (seeing this locally re: UNC protests) from Twitter- calling them lonely or uninformed, etc. I hope this thread from UNC professor sheds light on what these students stand for and what they’ve been through
I am tired of these lies, and I got time today. This is a long thread to document what happened at and beyond the UNC-Chapel Hill solidarity encampment. 🧵
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Meanwhile if you go anywhere near a construction site in downtown durham, the street parking is filled by supersized pickup trucks that could run over a kid barely register it
Urban-scale working vehicles on the streets of
#Tokyo
. This is the pick-up truck of a landscape crew. And a tow truck. /1
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True story: I just opened my front door to retrieve a package and a large black snake fell from my door wreath onto my shoulder then fell onto the floor of my house.
Legend has it that the screams could be heard for miles.
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Had some Alpaca today and I think it healed me?
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This is exactly how I felt about the social district. Like easy enough win I guess for businesses but families who aren’t part of drinking culture experience a very different Durham 🤷♀️
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PLEASE don’t call people frustrated by Biden’s debate performance “ableist”- that’s so insulting. We should all be frustrated that he shared harmful views & was a terrible advocate on his supposed strongest issue. It’s ok to want more! We deserve more.
Nothing explains why, when handed a perfect abortion question on a silk pillow, Biden started talking about a woman raped and killed by an illegal immigrant.
That’s not overpreparing. That’s… something else
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If you’re still looking for Covid vaccine for you or your kid (5+), I can’t recommend Indycare in Hillsborough enough. I made a same day appointment, did it all curbside, with no wait. And the staff wears masks, even outside!
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Soooo this convo (& all the DMs I’ve gotten) have swayed me to vote for Woodard. Then I stepped into Reddit to see if there was anything & yiiiiikes apparently Chitlik’s campaign has been allegedly been shady on Reddit:
Durham, where are you landing w/the Mike Woodard vs Sophia Chitlik race?
Sophia has grown in name through a lot of endorsements (PA, Graig Meyer, lots of local electeds), but I am concerned bc she’s a Zionist who lives part time in Israel. I like her platform, but she doesn’t
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@brosandprose
💯. That’s how I always feel about cool white church pastor bros who talk about how hot their wives are.
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I have a friend who eventually left Durham but was an incredible DPS teacher, based on the fact school mold gave her so much illness/asthma & school/district did nothing to help 😭
Pretty damning article about appauling conditions in two
@DurhamPublicSch
-
@EKPowe
and
@ClubBlvdManatee
. Broken air-conditioning, water leaking into classrooms, possible mold. And, as is the rule in Durham, empty platitudes from our elected leaders.
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Idk y’all, this doesn’t sit right with me. I know we gotta get these babies fed, but thanking district leaders when they are the ones who caused this is frustrating. To me
#weareDPS
would mean supporting our workers, not being a scab.
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My sweet 15 year dog passed away yesterday. We are bereft. If you are lucky enough to have a pet, hug them extra tight today for us. ❤️
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Evergreen reminder that wealthy developers in North Carolina often actively work to make life worse for North Carolinians.
I’m looking at you, John Kane and Jim Anthony.
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@NateB_Panic
I was exposed to Covid through my child- one day without masking when she was super contagious & we didn’t know yet (day zero) then caretaking w/masks after positive test. I used enovid starting on day 1 of her infection. Idk if it helped but I didn’t get Covid somehow!
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In Durham, our leaders have let us down. It’s so disappointing. Where’s the mask mandate?
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Y’all you can tell school is starting Monday because southpoint is crazy busy. Two stores actually had bouncers handling the lines forming to get in 😅
Also there isn’t enough seating & also can men please learn how to sit in public? Aka don’t sit in middle of bench please.
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@ABC11_WTVD
Does someone at ABC owe the owners of this church money or something? Very confused by this take that no one asked for.
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Yay Nate!! So excited for his candidacy!
July 7, 2023 – Nate Baker filed for Durham City Council At-Large
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There were a lot of those days when I was teaching but day after 2016 election is seared into my brain- we were processing ourselves, some of us crying— & then had to go teach & help them process too. Teachers are pivotal in kids’ lives for many reasons, & we take it seriously.
One of the most difficult parts of teaching is blocking out what is happening in your personal or professional life outside the classroom, and having enthusiasm and putting a smile on your face for your students when things are really bad, today is one of those days at my school
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I hope the folks applauding these frat guys are starting to understand it was MAGA coded?
Inbox: Trump campaign announces UNC frat guys will be featured speakers/attendees at the RNC next week
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Per North Durham mutual aid on IG, Duke students need support today for Palestine support efforts:
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Ugh, heard from someone at Big Duke (she’s been in ER for over a day w/ admit orders.) There are no beds. The nurses & doctors are triaging directly in waiting room chairs.
Oof.
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@BrillBkfast
@NinthStreetWatc
@NateBakerDurham
A lot of the efforts asking for ceasefire in Durham (and throughout the entire country) have been led by Jewish people. Wendy Jacobs, who is Jewish, called for ceasefire during commissioner meeting. Conflating this ask with anything like antisemitism is dangerous- especially
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Wow a car crashed into an Amtrak train in Durham 😩
Just saw a terrible train collision with a car. Vehicle completely engulfed in flames. In Durham at Pettigrew and S. Driver.
Prayers for everyone involved.
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So Bull City Political Nerd on FB covered the planning meeting last night:
“Durham Planning Commission is considering a privately initiated, 80 page Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) rewrite.
Jim Anthony, on behalf of Anthony Property Group and Habitat For Humanity are
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Jesus Christ
A white Durham restaurant owner said the N-word with a hard 'r' five times in a row while expressing distaste for a Kendrick Lamar song.
Then she fired a Black bartender who criticized her use of the slur. Then the staff quit. For
@indyweek
:
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Because I was a vocal supporter of
@ValerieFoushee
during the NC04 election, I feel the need to state publicly that my thinking towards PAC donations has shifted, & I now see AIPAC donations as a dealbreaker. I know that’s a little too late for some, but I appreciate those who
NEW: Sources say AIPAC is gearing up to spend over *$100 MILLION* as part of a campaign to knock the Squad out of congress in 2024. Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, and Rashida Tlaib are all marked for high dollar challenges.
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Thank you
@marciahmorey
! Hate crimes should NOT be tolerated but we need comprehensive bill that isn’t just trying attempt to silence Pro- Palestinian protestors by attacking free speech. This bill conflates critique of Israel w/antisemitism which does not make anyone safer.
I spoke on the floor explaining my reasons for voting against the Shalom Act. I deplore antisemitism and I deplore hate crimes committed against all people. We should pass a comprehensive hate crime bill but not a bill that could infringe on free speech.
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She really said, too many of you all are cheering for the Capitol.
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WRONG. And I will continue to do both.
Can’t brag about the ACC having 4 teams in the Sweet 16 when I spent part of this weekend rooting hard for two of their downfalls
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Sorry autumn hopefuls, but the house on Club blvd says it’s still summer
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Is is national prescribed burn week?? Why is everyone burning everywhere?? Can we take it down an notch plz
📢 We're getting some questions about the smell of smoke in Chapel Hill. A prescribed burn is happening off Bennett Road — just past Town limits. The burn is expected to wrap up this evening.
@chapelhillgov
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Can we finally see why students are protesting? There is a genocide happening and they’re not even trying to hide it.
Breaking: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared: "We must obliterate Rafah, Deir al-Balah, and Nuseirat. The memory of the Amalekites must be erased. No partial destruction will suffice; only absolute and complete devastation."
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So they brought in only police from other counties??
We checked. The Chapel Hill Police Department was *not* involved with what happened at UNC this morning. Neither was the Carrboro Police Department.
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I don’t know the details here, but I do think the fact that her fellow council members were leaking stuff to the press & censuring her without proof, ruined her political career & cost her so much – people should be held accountable for that. Especially Edens.
Dr. Holsey-Hyman has filed suit against the city of Durham, Mayor Pro Ten Middleton, former city councilmember Johnson, Planning Director Sara Young, City Attorney Kim Rehberg and developer Jarrod Edens
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You know another word for impatience? Urgency— and if people don’t have that, they don’t belong in leadership.
“There is another key here: the energy, idealism and impatience of youth.
I’m pulling for today’s impatient young Democrats. North Carolina needs them.”
#ncpol
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Y’all- the NC Senate Republicans introduced their Parental Rights Bill targeting trans & queer students: NC GOP wants to out students, remove resources, & target their wellbeing in school and at home. Let them know what you think!
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Durham City Council vacancy finalist interviews today at 3pm (can access via City of Durham, NC Government).
Rooting for you,
@NateBakerDurham
!
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So many distracted/bad driving lately. Everytime I’m on the highway lately- be it 15501, 85, 40 etc- I encounter drivers swerving between lanes. Feels like no one uses blinkers to change lanes anymore either. I hate living in such a car centric place 🫠
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