The tweet heard ’round the world was posted last Saturday morning at nine a.m. “If you recognize any of the Nazis marching in #Charlottesville,” the Twitter user @YesYoureRacist wrote, “send me their names/profiles and I’ll make them famous #GoodNightAltRight.” The account quickly went viral as shocking images of Saturday’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, […]
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Constituents to Congressman George Holding: You Suck
A small group of Triangle activists and constituents gathered in front of U.S. Representative George Holding’s office yesterday to deliver a simple message: he’s failing. In the form of a fake report card, they gave the Republican representative a bright red “F” for his track record on issues related to health care, the economy, special […]
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The Twitter User Doxxing White Supremacists Who Marched in Charlottesville Is from Raleigh
The pseudonymous Twitter account that’s gone viral in recent days for helping to reveal the identities of white supremacists involved in Saturday’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville is based in North Carolina, BuzzFeed reports. The user, who goes by the handle @YesYoureRacist, has been calling out racists online for nearly five years. When he […]
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Yesterday’s Marathon Redistricting Hearing in Review: Angry Dems, Partisan Maps, and No Race Considerations
Greetings from the thrilling world of legislative redistricting, where state Republicans and Democrats are hard at work trying to nail down maps that pass constitutional muster. Yesterday, members of the Joint House and Senate Redistricting Committee met to adopt rules for redrawing lines for the twenty-eight legislative districts ruled unconstitutional last year. The conclusion: mapmakers […]
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Report: Electronic Voting System in Durham Targeted by Russian Cyberattack. Officials Say No Vote Counts Affected.
You might remember hearing about voting issues at several Durham precincts on Election Day—particularly, screw-ups with poll books, the electronic systems used to check voters in. Now, NPR reports that the company responsible for providing the poll books was the target of a Russian cyberattack. According to a leaked NSA report, Russian hackers tried to […]
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wants to Target Affirmative Action. How Will That Affect UNC?
Last week, The New York Times reported that the Department of Justice is preparing to investigate universities over their affirmative action policies. The news ricocheted across the Internet, in part because it seemed like a singular representation of President Trump’s messaging around race: playing into fears that minorities are taking away a limited resourcein this […]
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ICE Deports North Carolina College-Bound Soccer Player
Lizandro Claros Saravia, a promising nineteen-year-old soccer player slated to attend North Carolina’s Louisburg College on a scholarship, was deported back to his native El Salvador yesterday, The Washington Post reported—the same day the White House announced plans to limit legal immigration to the United States. Saravia had been living with his twenty-two-year-old brother, Diego, […]
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Duke Alum Stephen Miller Defends Trump Administration’s Definitely-Not-Racist Plans to Curb Legal Immigration
It’s been another eventful twenty-four hours for Team Trump. Less than a day after details of the administration’s plan to sue universities over affirmative action policies that discriminate against white students were made public, the White House unveiled plans to limit legal immigration into the United States, especially for non-English speakers. That announcement led Stephen […]
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After Pat McCrory Lost, the NCGOP Falsely Accused Hundreds of Voter Fraud. Shouldn’t That Be Harder?
A few weeks after the November election, Joseph Golden’s phone rang. On the line was an official from the Brunswick County Board of Elections, who called to tell Golden something entirely unexpected: the North Carolina newcomer had been accused of voting both in Maryland, where he had previously lived and voted in the primary, and […]
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Today in N.C. Gerrymandering: Redistricting Panel Convenes, GOP Leaders Confirm They Will Use Notorious Consultant
Unless you’re a political junkie, the expression “joint committee meeting on redistricting” probably doesn’t get your blood pumping. But if you care about voting rights, gerrymandering, and the makeup of the General Assembly, pay attention, because the outcome of that committee could have major implications for more than two dozen legislative districts in North Carolina—and […]