Meyers and others hold hope that a nonprofit or a regional art institution might preserve Jones’ house, turning it into a living museum dedicated not just to folk art but to the kind of community that made a phenomenon like Clyde’s Critter Crossing possible in the first place.
North Carolina's complaint system for regulating swine, poultry, and cattle farm waste is broken, reports @lisasorg.bsky.social in @insideclimatenews.org. Complaints become part of the record only if a violation is found, but the state has only 14 inspectors for thousands of industrial farms. #ncpol
Brenntag Mid-South continues to amass serious environmental violations related to its chemical repackaging plant in East Durham, where state inspectors cited the company in November for failing to clean up leaking barrels on the property.
i went to fayetteville, nc a last month to learn about the city and scene that made j. cole who he is. read about it here at @theassemblync.bsky.social
Sally Rooney: "By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth"
Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for a Spanish-language outlet in Nashville, was covering immigration raids. The next day, ICE agents arrested her without a warrant. Read Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.cjr.org/analysis/est...
what is there even to say at this point
here’s something fun I learned today: if you lose your AWP lanyard you must pay $525 to re-register and get a new one
An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.
Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
With @nytimes.com
“Toni Cade Bambara gave us the quote, “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible.”
I define myself as a cultural organizer. And in this moment, I think culture work is what saves us. Culture is how we be. Art is the evidence of how we be.”
impossible to capture on a shitty phone, but I so love seeing rural north carolina & virginia landscapes by train — clay / pine / pine / steeple / awning / clay / pine / field / pine
on suggestion from Mab - “the old guard is making a comeback”
yess very excited to start them! hoping to find a home for a feature on the series.
UPDATE: Senate Republican leader Phil Berger, North Carolina’s most powerful politician, trailed Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page by two votes with all precincts reporting in the state’s most-watched primary on Tuesday.
www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...
what’re you doing if you’re not reading our live election blog?
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My research is on working class women and AI and the ONE consistency among all of the interviews we’ve done so far is concerns about data centers and environmental impact. We do not bring it up - they do. Every single one.
a v sick mail day - the first three reprints in @uncpress.bsky.social’s new Radical Souths series
We’re bringing you election updates and results in Durham, Orange, and Wake counties.
BOOM Club, a music space for “freaky, semi-disreputable but open-hearted” people, will open at 600 Foster Street on March 6.
"I’m constantly thinking: Who is this speaking to? Who’s at the center? And sometimes it’s okay if something isn’t for everyone. But it’s also okay to say: You might not get every reference—but you’re welcome here."
What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?
“This crisis-management system in the United States is itself in crisis." What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever, by @cgaribay.bsky.social
Gerstl says he modeled Soif after coffee bars where he grew up, in Italy, where the bar is the center of the community and “everyone starts their day standing at the counter talking about sports or politics or whatever’s going on around town.”
I have a short story in the spring/summer issue of the Yablousha Review - you can read it here: www.yalobushareview.com/yellow-bird
"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.
I have a short story in the spring/summer issue of the Yablousha Review - you can read it here: www.yalobushareview.com/yellow-bird
UNC-Chapel Hill will “scrap” a policy that would have allowed administrators to secretly record professors, Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday. The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.
www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
Did congress authorize this fucking war where American lives will undoubtedly be lost? If not, why the fuck do we have a congress? Why are we paying very large salaries and benefits to all these assholes since they do absolutely NOTHING!
“He had to have something to do,” said Jones’ niece Loretta Brady. “He started looking at the trees and seeing the critters in there.”
