C. Fray
@cfrayforcarrboro.bsky.social
Town of Carrboro councilmember, land use nerd, plant dork, fandom lurker, non-binary (they/them)
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C. Fray
@cfrayforcarrboro.bsky.social
· Nov 27
This conflict - we love our artists and musicians but don't build enough places for them to live - or teachers, firefighters, restaurant workers, grad students, or anyone else who doesn't have money! - is why I ran for council.
Want to help fix it? Let's talk!
Want to help fix it? Let's talk!
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
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Numerous groups and organizations have taken up the fight against hunger on a local level as the government shutdown holds up SNAP funding.
Here is Chapelboro’s guide to food resources in the Orange County and Chatham County communities:
Here is Chapelboro’s guide to food resources in the Orange County and Chatham County communities:
GUIDE: Where to Find Food Resources In Orange and Chatham Counties - Chapelboro.com
Here's our guide to where residents in both Orange and Chatham counties can find food assistance and services as SNAP funds run dry.
chapelboro.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Numerous groups and organizations have taken up the fight against hunger on a local level as the government shutdown holds up SNAP funding.
Here is Chapelboro’s guide to food resources in the Orange County and Chatham County communities:
Here is Chapelboro’s guide to food resources in the Orange County and Chatham County communities:
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While we do not agree on all issues, I want to publicly thank UNC-CH Chancellor Lee Roberts for clearly stating today in Faculty Council that UNC cannot and will not sign Trump's Compact, because it raises irresolvable issues of academic freedom. That was important for faculty & students to hear.
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
While we do not agree on all issues, I want to publicly thank UNC-CH Chancellor Lee Roberts for clearly stating today in Faculty Council that UNC cannot and will not sign Trump's Compact, because it raises irresolvable issues of academic freedom. That was important for faculty & students to hear.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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“Cities are good, people want to live in dense walkable neighborhoods, and urban governance should prioritize city residents’ quality of life over suburban drivers’ convenience” remains a genuinely radical political program in America.
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“Cities are good, people want to live in dense walkable neighborhoods, and urban governance should prioritize city residents’ quality of life over suburban drivers’ convenience” remains a genuinely radical political program in America.
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Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding SNAP amid the ongoing government shutdown, Orange County will host emergency food distributions for local residents who rely on benefits.
Here are details for this weekend’s events:
Here are details for this weekend’s events:
Orange County to Host Emergency Food Distributions This Weekend for Local SNAP Recipients - Chapelboro.com
For residents who rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, Orange county will host food distributions this weekend.
chapelboro.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding SNAP amid the ongoing government shutdown, Orange County will host emergency food distributions for local residents who rely on benefits.
Here are details for this weekend’s events:
Here are details for this weekend’s events:
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UNC student groups are taking the lead as faculty leadership falters. I'll be speaking, representing @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social at today's rally, and then we'll head over to the Faculty Council meeting to demand that they pass a resolution rejecting Trump's compact, as our peer universities have done
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
UNC student groups are taking the lead as faculty leadership falters. I'll be speaking, representing @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social at today's rally, and then we'll head over to the Faculty Council meeting to demand that they pass a resolution rejecting Trump's compact, as our peer universities have done
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
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At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
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If it's more likely that voters will turn out in years when big name races are on the ballot, why are so many cities, towns, and villages in North Carolina holding their biggest elections during off-years?
Here's your answer: www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-north-...
Here's your answer: www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-north-...
Hardly anybody votes in off-year elections. Why does North Carolina have them?
Generations ago, leaders thought local elections should be protected from state and national issues. We're still dealing with the effects of that thinking today.
www.ncrabbithole.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If it's more likely that voters will turn out in years when big name races are on the ballot, why are so many cities, towns, and villages in North Carolina holding their biggest elections during off-years?
Here's your answer: www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-north-...
Here's your answer: www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-north-...
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A politics of joy is Kryptonite to the politicians who specialize in inflicting pain and inciting fear.
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
A politics of joy is Kryptonite to the politicians who specialize in inflicting pain and inciting fear.
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We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation.
If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?
If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?
This is why Gavin Newsom is a non-starter for me.
Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader.
A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.
Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader.
A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.
I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 AM
We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation.
If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?
If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?
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Triangle area NC folks- Triangle Mutual Aid is working with local orgs to collate food resources for folks losing SNAP. This link lists orgs, both for donors to give $ and people to who need food to access resources: bit.ly/4321Pmt (Link is to a canva page.)
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October 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Triangle area NC folks- Triangle Mutual Aid is working with local orgs to collate food resources for folks losing SNAP. This link lists orgs, both for donors to give $ and people to who need food to access resources: bit.ly/4321Pmt (Link is to a canva page.)
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No one should go hungry in this goddamn billionaire infested country.
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
No one should go hungry in this goddamn billionaire infested country.
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Paris shows what happens when cities put people before cars: cleaner air, greener streets, and healthier lives. The data (and the air) speak for themselves! 🌱🚶♀️🚴
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Paris shows what happens when cities put people before cars: cleaner air, greener streets, and healthier lives. The data (and the air) speak for themselves! 🌱🚶♀️🚴
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Reeling from the scale of the SNAP cliff. In Orange County NC alone: 8700 individual SNAP recipients in 4683 families.
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reeling from the scale of the SNAP cliff. In Orange County NC alone: 8700 individual SNAP recipients in 4683 families.
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space for sustainable mobility and trees replacing space for cars is the climate hack for urban areas
Avant / Après le remplacement de places de stationnement sur le trottoir par des arbres Rue Pixérécourt dans le 20ème arrondissement de Paris. Les places sont descendues sur la chaussée.
October 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
space for sustainable mobility and trees replacing space for cars is the climate hack for urban areas
For my local folks, please consider a donation to IFC, Porch, or Table if you can spare it. Let's keep our neighbors fed.
I just made a contribution to IFC for their food pantry.
You can also get involved with your local Food not Bombs or Triangle Mutual Aid to help feed people.
I just made a contribution to IFC for their food pantry.
You can also get involved with your local Food not Bombs or Triangle Mutual Aid to help feed people.
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
For my local folks, please consider a donation to IFC, Porch, or Table if you can spare it. Let's keep our neighbors fed.
I just made a contribution to IFC for their food pantry.
You can also get involved with your local Food not Bombs or Triangle Mutual Aid to help feed people.
I just made a contribution to IFC for their food pantry.
You can also get involved with your local Food not Bombs or Triangle Mutual Aid to help feed people.
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"Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest."
Wendell Berry, "Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front"
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest."
Wendell Berry, "Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front"
I keep reminding my friends that civil rights activists in the US not only worked toward goals they knew wouldn't be achieved in their lifetimes, but felt hopeful enough about the future to have kids who'd grow up in it.
None of us are going to be doing the last part, but we can sure do the first.
None of us are going to be doing the last part, but we can sure do the first.
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest."
Wendell Berry, "Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front"
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest."
Wendell Berry, "Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front"
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Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.
Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.
First Weekend of Early Voting Shatters Record, as Mamdani Rallies Thousands in Queens
Turnout was massive across all five boroughs, with voters telling THE CITY that they were motivated to vote for — and against — the Democratic nominee.
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.
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I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
In Costa Mesa for work and lucky enough to be here for the @segerstromarts.bsky.social Rocky Horror showing. Refreshing my memory on some callbacks.
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
In Costa Mesa for work and lucky enough to be here for the @segerstromarts.bsky.social Rocky Horror showing. Refreshing my memory on some callbacks.