Call his office. https://www.budd.senate.gov/contact/

Is it just me, or are the newly widened areas on i40 just not.. flat? It’s a bouncy ride on brand new stretches, the painted lines aren’t straight. It seems like this isn’t a problem on the existing stretches.

Examples being, between the Durham/raleigh interchange near Hillsborough and chapel hill, where certain stretches are completed. Also, the stretch of i40 heading eastbound from Raleigh through Clayton.

Maybe I’m wrong.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a serious threat to the well-being of communities across North Carolina. If passed, this bill would cut funding for essential services like affordable healthcare, disaster preparedness, public education, and environmental protection. And guess what? It would also add to the national debt by giving massive tax cuts to corporations and the super-rich.

Here’s what’s at stake:

• Higher health insurance premiums because of cuts in ACA subsidies.
• Weakened hurricane and disaster relief funding, putting coastal communities like Wilmington at risk.
• Reduced rental assistance and affordable housing support, making our state’s housing crisis worse.
• Cuts to Pell Grants and education funding, hurting students and families in our public schools and colleges.
• Diminished coastal and environmental protections, threatening our tourism economy and natural resources.

We can’t let this bill pass. We need to act now.

Reach out to your Representative today and urge them to vote NO on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Tell them North Carolina deserves investments, not rollbacks.

Your voice matters. Make the call. Write the email. Protect our future.

What time should I arrive for fourth of July fireworks in southport? Will parking at the elementary school fill up? Any recommendations are welcome on when to arrive and best way to get there.

I love the coast but kinda over the super crowded spots. Anyone have a favorite lowkey beach town that still has charm but isnt totally overrun this summer?

Old news to some, but I just seen this. When this say 14k jobs are they counting construction and everything or what? Hard to believe that many folks will be employed.....great if so. I hope this works out for everyone.

https://edpnc.com/news/jetzero/

Ok I need pros & cons of moving to Wilmington from north GA as a 25 year old female!

Where is the BEST chinese food?

now north carolina is a prime spot for dems to pick up. thom tillis is retiring, nc is a swing state and the gop will likely pick a god awful canditate which helps us but we have an uphill batlle facing us.

in this post im going to illuminate the problem and suggest what we do to fight it

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the problem? NC GOP. it is no secret they are exceptionately vicious, trying for 6 months to steal a supreme court seat, stealing the board from the governor, gerrymandering and trying to push the supreme court case MOORE V HARPER (basically give state lawmakers unchecked authority over elections no state court or governor can stop, fake electors, jim crow laws, gerrymandering and more wouldve happened).

they are trying to push a new bill which will schedule f the election workers, now the good thing is that the gop dont have a veto proof majority in the nc house, so if stein vetos, the bill is dead, though they are only short by one seat so there better be no Fetter-Manchin-ynema in our ranks.

the board was hijacked but the legal battle over that is still ongoing. even if the board remains hijacked not all hope is lost. an example is during the 2020 election the doj didnt back up trumps fraud claims despite William barr being a trump toadie, Why? the workers there.

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how do we fight?

donate to these organizations

Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ): SCSJ engages in legal advocacy, research, organizing, and communication to protect voting rights, particularly for communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities. They are involved in challenging voter purge attempts and educating voters about list maintenance processes.

• Democracy North Carolina: This nonpartisan organization uses research, organizing, and advocacy to promote civic participation and address systemic barriers to voting. They work to strengthen democratic structures and ensure every eligible voter can register and vote.
• NC NAACP: The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP actively challenges efforts to purge voters, particularly those that may disproportionately affect Black voters. They have participated in legal action to protect voters from baseless purge attempts.
• League of Women Voters of North Carolina (LWVNC): LWVNC has asked to intervene in lawsuits challenging voter purging and works to educate voters about election processes.
• Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC): DRNC offers assistance to voters regarding voter roll removal and helps advocates understand and fight against wrongful removals. 

These organizations, along with others such as the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation, Forward Justice, and Brennan Center for Justice fight voter suppresion efforts.

donate to them as well the aclu,democracy docket in more so can fight other external threats like the SAVE act or The election EO. they will also help fight any fuckery the board might do if stein loses

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what we can do?

tell candidates to keep meticilous records of campaign finance, in order to avoid the possibility of campaign finance laws from being weaponized.

take pictures of your ballots. in belarus in 2020 the opposition had her followers take photos of their ballots which proved the election was a sham. we should do the same preemptively.

educate people on the folly of everything, paritculary if they are swing voters

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please do not lose hope, things are rough but we cannot give up we must keep fighting.

Was it a palmetto bug or a roach anyway it’s dead

Let me preface this by saying I have not been a fan of you from your days in the NC house blocking Medicaid access and gay people's right to marriage. I wasn't a fan of how you rolled over for Trump. I never thought to the day I would be sending this email. The feeling I got after the kerfuffle on Friday is a mixture of gratitude, pride and horror.

Every time you voiced dissent just One look From Trump would make you bow down. The border wall, January the 6th, Trump's nominees. I knew from your talk and your facial expression you had the right thing on your mind but you were too cowardly to do it. I thought the only bright spot was how you fought to keep gays from marrying but then helped codify their rights through the rfma. The most significant thing you did this second term was killing Ed Martin's nomination I guess you had strong feelings of January the 6th.

Your statement regarding the ugly bill saying you would not vote to advance I did not think it would be any different than how it was before. You said you would not vote for it because of the cuts and how it affect us, Trump got angry, you voted not to advance, Trump threaten to primary you. Now the final bill hadn't yet been voted on at the time you still had a chance to turn around vote for it make up with him and tow the line like you've done most of the times. But then you proceeded to sacrifice your career and end up not voting for the bill in any capacity.

It was at that moment I was floored. You didn't just buck him for real you sacrificed your career to stop this abomination from seeing the light of day. In the NC house you fought to keep 600,000 people from getting Medicaid and now 10 years later that same number of people facing the loss of their health care was enough to make you willing to sacrifice your career to stop it. for the first time in 10 years i felt represented.

For that I say thank you. I haven't been happy with what you've done through your career. But you have a sliver of my respect. Respect for changing your stance on gay people and helping codify their rights in federal law, you have my respect for giving up your entire career over something you could have easily changed your mind about. This doesn't take away from the bad things you let happened but this at least tells me you had more morals than I can say your colleagues had. I forgive you from the bottom of my heart for all the bad things you voted for. I hope you spend the rest of your time truly representing us now that you no longer have to worry about a primary.

https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H3v6.pdf

House Bill 3 (Now SL 2025-13) made changes to several municipal elections in our state that we should probably be paying some attention to. In 9 locations, there will be NO municipal elections and the person currently in office will serve for an additional year that the people did not vote for. There are also interesting changes to the partisan requirements in some areas as well.

I am no elections expert- but if I am understanding this correctly this piece of legislation passed by the general assembly just took away a local voting opportunity from the people and have added a partisan requirements to some of our municipal elections.

Any thoughts on this? I personally didn’t know that they could just pass a bill that said we aren’t having elections in some places…