Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver
@jennweaver.bsky.social
Former mayor of #HillsboroughNC, A better world is possible. Carolina Basketball, Fall, Get me outside. Can we get some buses, trains, and bike lanes up in here?
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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The NC Supreme Court’s inexplicable, historic silence on Leandro | Opinion (School Funding) #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
The NC Supreme Court’s inexplicable, historic silence on Leandro | Opinion
Gene Nichol: To be honest, I’m not anxious to hear from Paul Newby’s court. They’re no friends to the low-income students of North Carolina. | Opinion
www.newsobserver.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The NC Supreme Court’s inexplicable, historic silence on Leandro | Opinion (School Funding) #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
listen
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
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1. Cars are the biggest source of climate pollution in the country.
2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage.
2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy.
Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage.
2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy.
Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
1. Cars are the biggest source of climate pollution in the country.
2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage.
2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy.
Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage.
2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy.
Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
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Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.
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On this day in 1865, the state of North Carolina ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
#History #Abolition #13th #Slavery #OTD
#History #Abolition #13th #Slavery #OTD
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
On this day in 1865, the state of North Carolina ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
#History #Abolition #13th #Slavery #OTD
#History #Abolition #13th #Slavery #OTD
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George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The real scandal is 9:30 PM Carolina games.
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The real scandal is 9:30 PM Carolina games.
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Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is built by and for low-wage workers across the service industry. We are building our union by any means necessary, and building it in a way that makes sense for us.
Read how to support workers
ussw.org/actions/
Read how to support workers
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Take Action - Union of Southern Service Workers
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December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is built by and for low-wage workers across the service industry. We are building our union by any means necessary, and building it in a way that makes sense for us.
Read how to support workers
ussw.org/actions/
Read how to support workers
ussw.org/actions/
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THE TENANT UNION FEDERATION IS A UNION OF UNIONS.
TUF organizes tenants to wield power at a massive scale, to bargain for tenant protections… and to establish tenants as a political and economic class that cannot be ignored. Read how to support a local.
tenantfederation.org/tenant-unions/
TUF organizes tenants to wield power at a massive scale, to bargain for tenant protections… and to establish tenants as a political and economic class that cannot be ignored. Read how to support a local.
tenantfederation.org/tenant-unions/
Tenant Union Federation
We organize tenants to wield power at a massive scale, to bargain for tenant protections, to disrupt the flow of capital to those who commodify our homes, to secure alternatives to the current housing...
tenantfederation.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
THE TENANT UNION FEDERATION IS A UNION OF UNIONS.
TUF organizes tenants to wield power at a massive scale, to bargain for tenant protections… and to establish tenants as a political and economic class that cannot be ignored. Read how to support a local.
tenantfederation.org/tenant-unions/
TUF organizes tenants to wield power at a massive scale, to bargain for tenant protections… and to establish tenants as a political and economic class that cannot be ignored. Read how to support a local.
tenantfederation.org/tenant-unions/
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The Hometown Holler amplifies voices across North Carolina, sharing the stories and tackling the issues that shape our state. Together, we’re building a better North Carolina, one conversation at a time.
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Building a better North Carolina, one conversation a time.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The Hometown Holler amplifies voices across North Carolina, sharing the stories and tackling the issues that shape our state. Together, we’re building a better North Carolina, one conversation at a time.
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In NC, there are often 0 appointments available at the DMV - to the point where people trade availability in the local mom’s Facebook group.
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
In NC, there are often 0 appointments available at the DMV - to the point where people trade availability in the local mom’s Facebook group.
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Need some positive news?
Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way.
I document the train-love in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED.
🚅🧵
Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way.
I document the train-love in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED.
🚅🧵
March 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Need some positive news?
Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way.
I document the train-love in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED.
🚅🧵
Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way.
I document the train-love in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED.
🚅🧵
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Us: We are buying a precooked turkey so that we don’t have to fool with it.
Also us: “Rewarming” the turkey for two hours at half the required temperature.
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Also us: “Rewarming” the turkey for two hours at half the required temperature.
🤷♀️
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Us: We are buying a precooked turkey so that we don’t have to fool with it.
Also us: “Rewarming” the turkey for two hours at half the required temperature.
🤷♀️
Also us: “Rewarming” the turkey for two hours at half the required temperature.
🤷♀️
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My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
How North Carolina Rose Up Against Trump’s Latest Anti-Immigrant Crackdown
“Operation Charlotte’s Web” may mobilize North Carolina’s working-class Latino members and allies to shift the political balance of power at the local, state, and national levels.
www.thenation.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Hello from the Raleigh to Charlotte corridor, where the Piedmont operates like the Cascades and keeps breaking ridership records: www.axios.com/local/raleig...
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Hello from the Raleigh to Charlotte corridor, where the Piedmont operates like the Cascades and keeps breaking ridership records: www.axios.com/local/raleig...
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The people want trains!
A growing number of Americans are rolling into the holidays by train with Amtrak reporting an increase in riders after federally mandated flight reductions led to thousands of delays and cancellations at major airports nationwide. NBC News' Emilie Ikeda reports.
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The people want trains!
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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Every time Congress threatens SNAP, the message is clear: “You’re on your own.” Libraries, by contrast, send the opposite message: “You’re part of a community, and we take care of each other.”
When Libraries Do More Than Congress: Food-for-Fines in American Libraries
While Congress debates cutting SNAP benefits, local librarians are stocking food pantries, organizing donation drives, and ensuring that struggling families don’t walk away empty-handed.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Every time Congress threatens SNAP, the message is clear: “You’re on your own.” Libraries, by contrast, send the opposite message: “You’re part of a community, and we take care of each other.”
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this business is right down the street from my house and I love them so much for how much they love our beautiful town. thank you bright black candles for this great message
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
this business is right down the street from my house and I love them so much for how much they love our beautiful town. thank you bright black candles for this great message
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Elected officials in Orange County affirmed their support of immigrant community members and criticism of federal efforts that brought ICE officers and Border Patrol agents to North Carolina through a statement on Tuesday.
Here's what they had to say:
Here's what they had to say:
Orange County Elected Officials Share Support of Local Families, Speak Out Against ICE Raids - Chapelboro.com
Elected officials in Orange County affirmed their support of immigrant community members and criticism of federal deportation efforts.
chapelboro.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Elected officials in Orange County affirmed their support of immigrant community members and criticism of federal efforts that brought ICE officers and Border Patrol agents to North Carolina through a statement on Tuesday.
Here's what they had to say:
Here's what they had to say:
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FWIW, Elizabeth Warren and Larry Summers go back years. They had this interaction in 2009 after the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession.
billmoyers.com/2014/09/05/i...
billmoyers.com/2014/09/05/i...
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
FWIW, Elizabeth Warren and Larry Summers go back years. They had this interaction in 2009 after the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession.
billmoyers.com/2014/09/05/i...
billmoyers.com/2014/09/05/i...
My take is that I can talk about my momma but you had better not talk about my momma.
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My take is that I can talk about my momma but you had better not talk about my momma.