My story today is unlike anything I've written before. It's basically a FAQ style guide (with dozens of legal citations) explaining what happens when someone goes to the emergency room during a mental health crisis. Let me explain why I wrote it. 🧵 https://t.co/NE7nm9CtOe

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NC lawmakers consider options to force psychiatric treatment for people with severe mental illness Read more🔗 https://t.co/SILpvQcNER

Latest BERGER-PAGE update: Page's lead just grew from 2 votes to 23. Berger's camp believes a Democratic group was meddling in the provisional ballot process -- and the state is investigating. Page worries he won't get a fair shake in a recount. Buckle up, North Carolina.

Fact check: Was DeCarlos Brown on Charlotte's streets in 2025 because of Roy Cooper's 2021 agreement to release prisoners early? No. Here's a timeline of events, according to state officials and public records:

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Gov Stein signed executive order on mental health

⚠️ Reuters has now confirmed what many suspected. In early 2024, U.S. diplomats blocked internal cables describing northern Gaza as an “Apocalyptic Wasteland.” The reports included harrowing details: human bones scattered in the streets, bodies left abandoned in cars, & a total

@Phil_Lewis_ Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

“This is nothing anybody here, or probably anybody in the country, has ever experienced,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty told the Minnesota Star Tribune on Sunday. “Our own federal government not following the law.”

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

The woman in the lede of this story is a home health aide. Important to note: the elder care and home health care industry will collapse without immigrants.

Just left Lidl in Garner and it was fully stocked with everything on my list. Workers were unloading more boxes as I left.

I’ve declared a State of Emergency as North Carolinians brace for winter weather this weekend. The State Emergency Response Team is already working to make sure resources are in place to keep folks safe.   Now is the time to be prepared and get everything you need in advance of

Friendly reminder to go pick up your medication refills if you have less than a week’s supply.

Officials cautioned that rural communities are especially reliant on SNAP, with the program supporting more than 1.4 million residents and stabilizing local grocery stores and economies. #rural #ruralcommunities #nc #northcarolina #snap #ncpol #ncga https://t.co/t7cwXsc8Tk

substance use grant funding. Spent the rest of the day tracking down which NC organizations and services were impacted. Now reading at 10 p.m. that the cuts are already being reversed less than 24 hours later: https://t.co/6eiHNmhYLH Just wild.

what a roller coaster... started the day in a legislative committee on mental health where state lawmakers scratched their heads over what to do about the magnitude problems. Left that 3 hour meeting and read that the Trump administration canceled $2B in mental health and ...

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Have you heard of a peer cafe? Well, one just opened in downtown Raleigh. A rare bit of good news in mental health: peer-run support programs are expanding across North Carolina, with new state and local backing. https://t.co/BCJyo1iugU

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot."