A Tennessee mainstream news piece went out yesterday covering Patriot Front and including detailed aerial photographs of their compound in the east of the state.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/this-isnt-your-granddads-kkk-inside-the-influential-hate-group-thats-expanding-in-tennessee

While we're glad that this information is reaching a wide audience, and overall Phil Williams has done fantastic work covering the far right, we'd also like to note that our group is the one that originally exposed Ian Michael Elliott in 2021 and also first discovered and published the location and ownership of the compound in 2024.

We're not mentioning our original pieces because we're in it for the credit, but because it's better for everyone when news sources cite original antifascist grassroots research. The more exposure our pieces get, the more likely it is we get tips on white supremacist activity.

https://atlantaantifa.org/2021/12/04/ian-michael-elliott-alabama-patriot-front-member-neo-nazi-and-combat-instructor/

https://atlantaantifa.org/2024/01/30/revealed-patriot-front-linked-aryan-tribal-land-in-eastern-tennessee/

More links exposing white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the south:

https://appalachiaresearchclub.noblogs.org/research-club-roundup-appalachias-neo-nazi-network/#more-92

https://arelephanteau.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/15/aryan-freedom-network-north-carolina-exposed/

#PatriotFront #Tennessee #georgia #alabama #IanElliot #IanMichaelElliott #antifascism #nazi #NorthCarolina

(i want to note that this is an older article and so im not sure how its been affected by the storms)

You can get free N95 masks (+ COVID tests) delivered to your door in Charlotte. Here’s how

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/know-your-704/article291586130.html#storylink=cpy

#Covid #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #Masks #NorthCarolina

Extensive Information About Hurricane Helene including Missing Persons, Resources, and Ways To Donate

https://appvoices.org/helene-relief/

Places to Donate

Foundation For Appalachian Kentucky

Helene Evacuees Support Fund

#HurricaneHelene #MutualAid #Kentucky #NorthCarolina #Appalachia #HurricaneRelief

How you can help residents of western NC after Hurricane Helene

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/weather/severe-weather/ways-to-help-donate-support-western-north-carolina-asheville-boone-hurricane-helene-relief/83-0830dd9c-6675-4737-bc3e-097fff5eb436

#MutualAid #Flood #HurricaneHelene #Hurricane #NorthCarolina

List: Ways to donate and help flood victims in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene

https://www.bpr.org/bpr-news/2024-09-28/list-ways-to-donate-and-help-flood-victims-in-western-north-carolina-after-hurricane-helene

#MutualAid #Flood #HurricaneHelene #Hurricane #Flood #NorthCarolina

If you think mask bans are “no big deal” because there’s medical exemptions, please consider the following:

😷 Police are not doctors
😷 Many disabilities are invisible
😷 Disabled people don’t live in a bubble. I need my friends and caregivers to mask to protect me
😷 Everyone should have the right to protect their health, you shouldn’t have to already be sick to be permitted to mask
😷 Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers and increases odds of aggression

The reality is that mask bans are discriminatory, ableist and eugenicist. They push disabled people out of public spaces. They put marginalized and POC at increased risk of police profiling.

There’s no official policy for a medical exemption either, it’s at police discretion.

If you’re stopped and questioned, you will have to prove you’re masking for the “right reasons”

I’m more than willing to admit that if I were stopped by a cop for masking, I would appear nervous, shaky, tachycardic and probably “suspicious”.

Not because I’m doing anything wrong, but because my illnesses do not respond well to stress and the police are stressful.

It’s not right to put the onus on the masker to defend their right to mask. We’re still in a global pandemic. Texas has a measles outbreak. There’s tuberculosis in Kansas. Bird flu is spreading and it’s the worst year for influenza A in over a decade.

Masks are a public health tool. They’re a disability accommodation. They should NOT be criminalized.

For more on mask bans and medical exemptions, I wrote an article on the Nassau County ban here:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/nassau-county-ny-makes-masking-illegal

#nomaskban #uspoli #texas #northcarolina #maskban #disability #uglylaws #publichealth #ableism #eugenics #h5n1 #measles #longcovid #covidisairborne

🚨”A Stress Test for Democracy: GOP justices on the #NorthCarolina Supreme Court have positioned themselves to consider overturning the results of a race won by their incumbent Democratic colleague, foreshadowing an ominous trajectory for the future of free and fair elections” https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/a-stress-test-for-democracy-will-the-north-carolina-supreme-court-allow-a-gop-candidate-to-steal-a-seat-on-the-bench/

“NEW A Stress Test for Democracy: By halting the election certification for a seat on its own court, the #NorthCarolina Supreme Court revealed its anti-democratic behavior, causing concern for the future of free and fair elections in the Tar Heel State and beyond”- Democracy Docket https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/a-stress-test-for-democracy-will-the-north-carolina-supreme-court-allow-a-gop-candidate-to-steal-a-seat-on-the-bench/

👏🏻#WompWomp 👇🏼

‪Democracy Docket‬:

BREAKING: Wake County Superior Court judge denies #NorthCarolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin’s (R) request to overturn his 2024 election loss by tossing out over 60,000 lawfully cast ballots

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-judge-rejects-gop-state-supreme-court-candidates-bid-to-throw-out-60k-ballots/

🥇Today's best weather will be in western North Carolina. The town of Salisbury will lead the way. Salisbury, is known for Cheerwine, a cherry-flavored soft drink that was created there in 1917.

#northcarolina #weather #travel #sunshine #blog #outdoors #maps

Looks like #Trump threw US Army pilot & crew under the bus with his anti-DEI diatribe.
Trump suggests US Army pilot Captain Rebecca Lobech from Durham, NC maybe a DEI hire.

Here comes the ambulance chasers. Lawsuits will fly and the Government has a fat wallet.

#AmericanAir #dca #AirCrash #FAA #faaupdate #dmvnews #dmvdelays #washdc #nationalairport #USArmy #planecrash #usarmyhelo #washingtondc #Flight5342 #dc #aviation #dmv #AmericanEagle #PAT25 #JIA5342 #rebeccaLobech #durhamnc #northcarolina #FemalePilots

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/01/aviation-lawsuit-experts-say-trump-duffy-comments-will-impact-claims/78091407007/

#HeadsUpNC: #NorthCarolina public and private research universities, nonprofit research outfits and companies get literally billions in NIH funding, now frozen and perhaps threatened by the Trump administration's agenda https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring #NCPol (1/2)

#NorthCarolina:

"TRIANGLE FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE
Save the date for January 18-19th for a weekend long festival focused on community defense, resilience, and liberation. "

More info here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDzhL-rRbkW/

Important reporting out today from #NC Health News: #NorthCarolina is holding juveniles in what amounts to solitary confinement, which the state publicly disavowed for teenagers in 2016, for extended periods, claim a federal lawsuit and advocates and lawyers for young clients in the juvenile system (1) https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2024/12/02/nc-juvenile-detention-centers-under-scrutiny-for-use-of-isolation/

#Segregation Academies Get Millions From #School Voucher Programs
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In #NorthCarolina, ProPublica identified 39 “segregation academies” that have received #voucher money. Of these, 20 schools reported student bodies that were at least 85% white.

#News #Education #Schools #Students #PrivateSchools #BlackHistory

https://propub.li/3VldI3d

Via Kyle Griffin:

#NorthCarolina Democrats appear to have broken the GOP's supermajority in the state legislature -- flipping a key seat an hour east of Raleigh.

Come January Republicans will no longer hold the power to override gubernatorial vetoes from Democrat Josh Stein.

Democrat Dante Pittman unseated Republican Rep. Ken Fontenot in House District 24. https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2024/11/06/nc-democrats-break-gop-legislative-supermajority

Trump at Greensboro North Carolina rally, "Every rally's full, you don't have any seats that are empty."
Then the camera person pans the crowd showing people leaving and 100`s of empty seats.

#uspol #Trump #NorthCarolina #Rally Nov 2, 2024

You don't need government. It needs you.😎

A "lifelong resident of Western #NorthCarolina... explains the scale of the (Hurricane) impact on such a rural, poor, geologically complex area as Appalachia, how #disasterrelief blossomed out of existing community structures, how this next phase of the crisis is an economic one, how this could be a turning point for (the) region..."

#Resilience Rising: #Community, Care, and Aftermath of #HurricaneHelene, #Appalachia https://www.projectcensored.org/resilience-hurricane-helene-appalachia/ #mutualaid

Nothin' could be finah than to be in Carolina in the mornin'

#northcarolina #southcarolina #maga