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Cristóbal Palmer
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Views expressed here are mine and not official positions of the Town or Council. I run a lab where we teach students how to manage and maintain software for websites, streaming radio, and software mirrors. Come visit Carrboro. It’s lovely here.
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Nov 16
Shout-out to mayors Foushee and Anderson for encouraging folks to donate to the Care to Share program which supports families struggling to pay their water bills. What better way to get in the spirit of the season than to donate to help those in need. www.owasa.org/help-my-neig...
Help My Neighbor - OWASA
Help My Neighbor Do you Dare to Share? DONATE TODAY! This holiday season, Mayor Anderson and Mayor Foushee are daring the communities of Chapel Hill and Ca...
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · 15d
Thanks for coming out!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22d
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22d
First the grand juries, now the trial juries. This Admin is not winning.
Jurors acquit anti-ICE protester accused of assaulting federal officer in Paramount
Brayan Ramos-Brito was the first of immigration protestors to go to trial in Los Angeles federal court.
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · 27d
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For folks asking about yesterday in Carrboro, the link has the answer near the bottom of the page: “Note: Flags will also be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday, September 13, in honor of civil rights activist Major General Joseph McNeil.”
Lowering U.S. and NC Flags to Half-Staff in Honor of Patriot Day, A National Day of Service and Remembrance
Gone but never forgotten, this day honors the victims of the terrorist attack, their families and the heroic sacrifices of first responders.
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Town of Carrboro, NC @carrboronc.bsky.social · Sep 9
The Town of Carrboro expresses its deepest sympathy following the recent death of former Town Alderman Hilliard Caldwell.

Caldwell was a pivotal figure who advocated for and participated in the desegregation of schools in Carrboro during the Civil Rights Movement.

ℹ️ https://monkeylink.co/7b5a56
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Sep 8
“Para mis amigos, todo; para mis enemigos, la ley” era un dicho de mi niñez en 🇵🇪 bajo Fujimorismo.
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Sep 8
You can know with confidence that the current executive is misleading the public about its immigration policy because they talk out of one side of their mouth about removing criminals, and out the other they remove legal status. The point is not promoting law or justice. The point is criminalization
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Sep 8
The abrupt and incoherent end of TPS today throws a lot of your neighbors into a legal limbo. Many of these are people who have worked here for decades. enlacelatinonc.org/fin-del-tps-...
“Mi vida sería un caos”: conductor de Duke University enfrenta el fin del TPS
Noticias en español sobre política, inmigración y asuntos comunitarios para los latinos en Carolina del Norte.
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Sep 8
Set up shop outside Gray Squirrel Coffee in Carrboro and got recognized by the Mills River Town Manager. Small world!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 6
If folks want a protest on a weekday and want people to stay in the streets indefinitely, then you have to organize it. Who is supposed to make this happen? Why not you?
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Sep 3
This is tomorrow night!
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 28
Come learn and share!
Event card with text: NEXT CHAPEL HILL & CARRBORO PopUp Town Council Meeting! September 4, 6-8pm Drakeford Multipurpose Room 203 S. Greensboro St., Carrboro Remember VH1's PopUp Video - watch a video, learn fun facts? Well, this is like that, only fun facts about how local town council meetings work! With the aim of encouraging greater civic engagement, Mark Chilton, former Chapel Hill Town Council member and former Carrboro mayor, will discuss the elements of a Town Council meeting - from proclamations to public comments and public hearings to what to do if your local government isn't discussing your issue - - while showing a livestream of a past council meeting. Designed to be educational and non-partisan, as well as interactive, lively, and hyper-local. Chilton is the register of deeds for Orange County Government. There will be activities for kids and a snack potluck, so bring your favorite snack to share (optional).
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 28
Come learn and share!
Event card with text: NEXT CHAPEL HILL & CARRBORO PopUp Town Council Meeting! September 4, 6-8pm Drakeford Multipurpose Room 203 S. Greensboro St., Carrboro Remember VH1's PopUp Video - watch a video, learn fun facts? Well, this is like that, only fun facts about how local town council meetings work! With the aim of encouraging greater civic engagement, Mark Chilton, former Chapel Hill Town Council member and former Carrboro mayor, will discuss the elements of a Town Council meeting - from proclamations to public comments and public hearings to what to do if your local government isn't discussing your issue - - while showing a livestream of a past council meeting. Designed to be educational and non-partisan, as well as interactive, lively, and hyper-local. Chilton is the register of deeds for Orange County Government. There will be activities for kids and a snack potluck, so bring your favorite snack to share (optional).
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · Aug 31
Such an outstanding column by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social!

Police abuses.

Immigration raids.

Dehumanizing technology.

Rethinking political party loyalty.

History is repeating itself. Ruben Salazar already covered it all.
Commentary: Slain L.A. Times columnist Ruben Salazar matters more than ever, 55 years later
Fifty-five years ago, Salazar was killed in an East Los Angeles bar after a tear gas canister launched by an L.A. County sheriff's deputy tore through his head.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 29
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

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The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
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Enlace Latino NC @enlacelatinonc.bsky.social · Aug 28
HB 318 in North Carolina: Activist Stefanía Arteaga warns that this measure does not strengthen safety but instead expands racial profiling, fear, and unnecessary incarceration. (Carolina Migrant Network )

What is racial profiling? Find out here 👇
enlacelatinonc.org/what-is-raci...
What Is Racial Profiling and Why Does HB 318 Increase It?
Noticias en español sobre política, inmigración y asuntos comunitarios para los latinos en Carolina del Norte.
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 28
We are working to build joy, peace, and justice in Carrboro. Tomorrow is another day, and I hope you’ll come find me here in Carrboro to talk more about how we will take care of each other.
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 28
To my trans neighbors, my public health professional neighbors, and my fellow parents of school age children: today was rough. I see you. You’re not alone.
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 28
Come learn and share!
Event card with text: NEXT CHAPEL HILL & CARRBORO PopUp Town Council Meeting! September 4, 6-8pm Drakeford Multipurpose Room 203 S. Greensboro St., Carrboro Remember VH1's PopUp Video - watch a video, learn fun facts? Well, this is like that, only fun facts about how local town council meetings work! With the aim of encouraging greater civic engagement, Mark Chilton, former Chapel Hill Town Council member and former Carrboro mayor, will discuss the elements of a Town Council meeting - from proclamations to public comments and public hearings to what to do if your local government isn't discussing your issue - - while showing a livestream of a past council meeting. Designed to be educational and non-partisan, as well as interactive, lively, and hyper-local. Chilton is the register of deeds for Orange County Government. There will be activities for kids and a snack potluck, so bring your favorite snack to share (optional).
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 25
A good morning especially to parents putting their kids on a Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools bus for the first time today. 🚌
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 8
For more on the “why this EO bad for science” front, this thread is good bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 8
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 8
If you have spare dollars and want to support your trans neighbors, here you go equalitync.org/support/
Support Our Work | Equality North Carolina
Ensure a State of Equality for All Equality North Carolina builds LGBTQ power in North Carolina through advocacy, championing policies that protect LGBTQ rights and fighting against discriminatory pra...
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 8
Dear fellow elected democrats: please stand up and say denial of rights to trans people is not okay! It’s bad!

This is bad.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Aug 7
WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 7
It’s also anti-science! It helps nobody!
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 7
It’s 2025, not 1935.
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Cristóbal Palmer @palmerforcarrboro.com · Aug 7
Making denial of the existence of my intersex, nonbinary, and trans neighbors, colleagues, and friends a condition of federal science funding is gross and despotic. They are here, and I will stand up for them.
Screenshot of executive order with highlighted text: (B) denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable
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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · Aug 5
We've put 5 famous artists on a tow truck and will remove them one by one as we raise $500 for the artists towed at Carr Mill Mall during the Uproar Arts Festival. triangleblogblog.com/2025/08/05/w...
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