Tracey Barrett

How many people will lose health care in YOUR counties in North Carolina under Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"? #ncga #BigBeautifulBill Alamance - 11,059 Alexander - 2,140 Alleghany - 640 Anson - 1,892 Ashe - 1,476 Avery - 1,074 Beaufort - 3,167 Bertie - 1,282 Bladen - 2,793 Brunswick - 8,684 Buncombe - 15,825 Burke - 6,907 Cabarrus - 11,478 Caldwell - 5,958 Camden - 330 Carteret - 3,870 Caswell - 1,268 Catawba - 9,602 Chatham - 2,516 Cherokee - 2,195 Chowan - 790 Clay - 760 Cleveland - 7,219 Columbus - 4,189 Craven - 6,256 Cumberland - 28,516 Currituck - 1,095 Dare - 1,556 Davidson - 11,949 Davie - 2,008 Duplin - 3,690 Durham - 17,072 Edgecombe - 5,479 Forsyth - 25,309 Franklin - 3,561 Gaston - 16,436 Gates - 439 Graham - 805 Granville - 3,003 Greene - 1,178 Guilford - 41,678 Halifax - 3,871 Harnett - 8,360 Haywood - 4,154 Henderson - 4.875 Hertford - 2,000 Hoke - 4,134 Hyde - 258 Iredell - 9,134 Jackson - 2,926 Johnston - 12,145 Jones - 620 Lee - 3,545 Lenoir - 5,271 Lincoln - 4,357 Macon - 2,143 Madison - 1,513 Martin - 1,599 McDowell - 3,745 Mecklenburg - 81,665 Mitchell - 889 Montgomery - 1,739 Moore - 4,697 Nash - 6,527 New Hanover - 12,496 Northampton - 1,291 Onslow - 11,742 Orange - 4,525 Pamlico - 803 Pasquotank - 2,507 Pender - 3,531 Perquimans - 764 Person - 2,510 Pitt - 13,533 Polk - 1,099 Randolph - 9,698 Richmond - 4,494 Robeson - 14,745 Rockingham - 6,071 Rowan - 9,289 Rutherford - 5,166 Sampson - 4,698 Scotland - 3,546 Stanly - 3,645 Stokes - 2,962 Surry - 4,695 Swain - 1,773 Transylvania - 1,886 Tyrrell - 187 Union - 10,624 Vance - 4,107 Wake - 48,213 Warren - 1,160 Washington - 840 Watauga - 1,694 Wayne - 8,508 Wilkes - 4,582 Wilson - 5,624 Yadkin - 2,152 Yancey - 1,088 That's more than 663,000 lives the governing majority just put at risk.

The folks at @TheAssemblyNC are out with a bombshell investigation of the shadowy network of evangelical anti-abortion groups disguised as medical clinics operating across North Carolina - and the tens of millions of our tax dollars Republican lawmakers are dishing out to them. The investigation documented how these clinics not only straight-up lie to women, but harass them and even steal their personal information for manipulation. Even better? Most of the taxpayer money isn't even going into services at all, but straight into the pockets of anti-abortion leaders. When Democratic lawmakers demanded more information - where is taxpayers' money going? What are they doing with it? - Republicans blocked their inquiries, and informed the groups they shouldn't respond. Republican legislators like @DeanArp @RalphHise @joycekrawiec refused to comment for the story. Our tax dollars at work!

With the @uncwomenssoccer NCAA title today, every four-year @UNC student who enrolled since 1977 has been on campus for at least one @goheels national title. Those original students are now 65 years old. #GDTBATH

North Carolina! I'll be coming to Durham for a *live show and Q&A and book signing on Monday 12/2. Come on out. *Listen, most podcast live shows are just a couple of dudes sitting in chairs doing a lesser version of their usual show. This is not that. It's actually good.

@eddy_sarah theyre truly the best 💛

@traceyebarrett dude they are so amazing!! I've been so blown away by their general approach; I'm sure they do great work with high schoolers.

Did a standardized test write this

We just got water in Asheville, 19 days after Hurricane Helene. It’s brown and you can’t drink it yet, but once the impurities are flushed out it will be fine. The city has done an amazing job repairing catastrophic damage. Pipes 30-40 feet underground were destroyed.

What this has made me realize, as an educator who has recommended kids chase these scholarships for 10+years— is that they’re basically operating as head hunters for prestigious schools who want a hand-picked list of students of color who aren’t seen as “risky” to admit

Yeah so this is extremely disappointing. I did genuinely hope @QuestBridge would react to this disaster with the values they claim to espouse re: giving marginalized students a boost in a process that is stacked against them.

I was at a water distro site w/a guy who would only direct traffic, no other job. But he kept stopping cars w/ADA tags from being able to park near the water… and pitched a fit when his fellow volunteers called him on it and he left, rather than adjusting. Don’t be that guy

Also some of y’all have never cared about poor, rural, or people of color & said the same thing after Floyd, Katrina, Maria, Harvey & Matthew because you are and have always been racist and classist — so I’ve already spent too much brain space acknowledging this and I’ll stop now

I’m more & more convinced that the impulse to question victims of climate apocalypse is just a childish desire to feel safe, to continue deluding yourself that it could never happen to you. It’s embarrassingly dumb, but I see why your immature lizard brain would want to do that

Most roads, including mine in NW AVL, were initially cleared to allow emergency vehicles through by regular people with chainsaws & ATVs —- people who are tougher and more self-reliant than anyone who has fixed twitter fingers to blame them

I really hoped the allusions to victim-blaming of Appalachia for “not evacuating” or “ignoring warnings” I had seen in my scraps of cell service this week were overblown. Tonight I have wifi…. and many of y’all will not see heaven

I have no idea why people didn't have stores of fuel and generators, and stocks of food and water. Anyway here's a totally unrelated poverty map of Appalachia.

I don’t know if y’all have seen this post on FB about Asheville, NC right now, so I’m sharing it here: @Imani_Barbarin has BEEN telling us about how disabled people are abandoned incrisis, here’s the latest of that happening in the aftermath of #HurricaneHelene #Disability

Since it is Paulo Freire's birthday, I want to remind everyone what he taught us: there’s no such thing as a politically neutral education, a politically neutral curriculum, or a politically neutral pedagogy.