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Absolute garbage trying to intimidate my neighbors with #ICE cosplay

https://abc11.com/post/ice-raid-hoax-durham-leaves-community-edge/15837313/

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North Carolina friends! Please check to see if your or your neighbors' ballots are at risk of being thrown out as part of the state supreme court race challenge. There's over 60,000 ballots on the list; odds are you or someone you know is having your right to vote challenged: https://thegriffinlist.com/

What kind of asshole robs LocoPops at gunpoint???

https://abc11.com/post/tyler-joe-ussery-suspect-charged-10-durham-business-armed-robberies-week/15804077/

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Works for me.

An acrylic tip jar with many stickers including a large white square with black text that reads, "Make America an endless expanse of old-growth forests with no certain borders again."

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Now if you'll excuse me, my giant tortoise and I are late for a grand party with the elves in the old forest. Good night.

(Artist Virginia Frances Sterrett, 1920)

a woman rides a giant tortoise through the forest at night

Join me at Broad and Main in Durham today at 5 to stand up for Palestine!

You don't have to be a mom, just give a shit!

Screenshot of an instagram story from @mothersforceasefire

New year, same time and place

Moms* on Main
@ the corner of Broad and Main St
Every Wednesday

That says it right there:

"Nationally, North Carolina ranks among states with the highest police presence in schools but among the worst in overall school funding."

https://indyweek.com/news/wake/wake-county-employs-sros-in-80-schools-some-parents-and-civil-rights-advocates-say-their-presence-harms-and-criminalizes-students/

Please contact the Durham County Commissioners TODAY (Sunday) if possible as they will be discussing the Sheriff's proposed training facility at their work session Monday morning!

https://bit.ly/Petition16Mil

We need to protect our children's health, education, and opportunities. Spending more money on policing makes it harder to fund public health, affordable housing, better schools, HEART, and other investments in our future.

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You can help stop the funding of $16 million to Durham's proposed cop city. The Durham Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) will be deciding on whether or not to move forward with a bond to pay for this. We are urging them to say no. Please show up in all the ways you can & bring a friend or 2:

📝 Sign the petition against the spending of $16 Mil https://bit.ly/Petition16Mil

📣 Join community members at the Jan.4th press conference & rally from 2-4pm @ Durham Central Park

👥 Show up to the work session that Durham BOCC are having on Jan.6th at 9am @ 200 East Main Street

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Continue showing up & bring a friend to the regular session that Durham BOCC are having on Jan.13th at 7pm @ 200 East Main Street

What would it look like if Durham County invested in real paths to community safety?

How to comment at the Durham BOCC meeting

I love that the city of #DurhamNC is rethinking the freeway that was built on top of what was once a thriving Black community. If you live here, please take this survey to learn more about what we can do and share your thoughts. https://bit.ly/ptc2024survey!

A map of the study area in downtown Durham

What is the Pathways to Connection Study?

The City of Durham Transportation Department is leading the Pathways to Connection study which will produce a community-led vision for the Durham Freeway Corridor (NC 147). The study’s purpose is to consider ways to mitigate the damage caused by the construction of the Durham Freeway to well-established Black communities in central Durham in the 1970s. The vision plan for the Durham Freeway will:

- Acknowledge and evaluate the impacts of the Freeway
- Reimagine the future character of the corridor
- Reconnect vital communities adjacent to the corridor

This handout includes information being shared in Phase Two of Public Engagement, including a “playbook” of potential strategies available for discussion by the community. The strategies will be used to develop draft recommendations for the community to decide on to eventually select a Preferred Concept.

Ruby Sinreich boosted:

Republicans *never* take a break from trying to subvert #democracy. It couldn't be clearer that they know they can't win a fair election.

https://www.wral.com/story/right-wing-political-activists-call-for-nc-lawmakers-to-decide-2024-presidential-election-results-after-hurricane-helene-s-impac/21684652/ #NCpol #electionIntegrity #GOP

White people are fucking broken.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/north-carolina-hurricane-helene-fema-armed-militia-threat?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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According to an email obtained by the Washington Post, a US Forest Service official sent out a message warning that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) “has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately”.

The message said that soldiers with the national guard “had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying they were out hunting FEMA”.

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#Helene #volunteering
If you are near the NC triangle, Day One Relief needs help sorting and packing donations. Sign up here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOylKgzPI3ezJCmhz7JYDFU-pMdPfrESnz2QM4h9NCXqEbZQ/viewform

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Hey NC peeps! If you are a member of SECU please read this and vote in the board election by Tuesday!

https://chipfilson.com/2024/09/historical-election-entering-final-phase/

#creditUnion #democracy

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There are widespread power, internet, and cell phone outages across #westernNC. Most of the information I'm getting and relaying is from NCWX authority (https://www.ncwxauthority.com/?), Day One Relief (on FB only), and the politically-endanged National Weather Service.

Photos of flooding from #helene in Durham today via Bull City reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/