Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social

A rolling list of Triangle drop-off sites and other local resources for Hurricane Helene relief efforts. indyweek.com/news/hurricane…

The staff of UNC Press’s hearts are heavy due to the incomprehensible path of destruction that has devastated western North Carolina. @BlueRidgePublic has published a vetted list of ways to donate and help that will be updated periodically: uncpressblog.com/2024/09/30/hur…

Think you’re registered to vote? Think again. An army of 40,000 self-proclaimed vigilante vote-fraud hunters have already challenged the rights of 851,000 voters. Have you checked your registration lately?

@conradikal I'm a proud owner! And I hope the momentum continues! Love Letters, and this is great for Durham and downtown.

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Saw this today:

I'm always struck by how closely Trump's querulous tone resembles that of his inspiration, Livia Soprano

“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” This week, to celebrate James Baldwin’s life and legacy on the occasion of his one hundredth birthday, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive. buff.ly/3dC4FD5

Remember when John Kerry was Swiftboated by Chris LaCivita who is doing it to Tim Walz now? Guess who funded it? Harlan Crow, the billionaire who has been lavishing freebies on Clarence Thomas.

Sign in front of the Minnesota governor's residence just now. Congratulations @Tim_Walz

Pick you a Vice President that has your opponents wishing you picked somebody else.

I have never posted that gif of some muppet running around happily but if I posted gifs and could remember with any specificity what that one was, I would post it right now: a muppet with their hands in the air running around ecstatically.

One of the many extremely appealing things about Walz is that he doesn’t appear to have had a grand plan to take over the universe. He appears to have gone into politics because he likes helping people, and risen because he’s really good at that. What a concept!

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I hope that everyone is clear-eyed about the fact that the extraordinary burst of enthusiasm & unity around Harris grinds against every instinct of the US political press. They are not going to sit back & let it continue organically. Brace yourselves for immense backlash.

What's not to like about Josh Shapiro as VP? If you're a progressive, quite a lot -- school vouchers, fracking, Gaza protests, an aide's harassment scandal. My guide to why the left thinks Pa.'s gov will scare off any pro-Harris youth vote 🎁inquirer.com/columnists/att…

About to post tonight's letter and it has just hit me how much we are trying to absorb. The rally shooting was just 12 days ago. Then the RNC. Vance. Biden refused the nomination just 4 days ago. Harris clinched the nomination 32 hours later. Now EVERYTHING has changed. Stunning.

Can we focus on the fascism now?