De-flocking Yancey
On May 8 Michael Minor, Lea Charlton and Michael Harrison went to speak during the public comment period of the Yancey county Commissioners monthly meeting and present the petitions containing 58 signatures from citizens, asking for more transparency from Yancey with regard to flock usage and deployment.
We’re working on an organized release of information obtained from Mitchell and Yancey and will be making that available as soon as possible.
Alien Fest March
On June 13 several Mountain Indivisible members descended on the Spruce Pine Alien Festival, scooped up unsuspecting members of the public and took them into space.
Alright, we didn’t take them to space, but we did…
Rise Up, Sing Out Watch party
Thank you to everyone that came out, brought food (it was all great!) and hung out during the watch party. Apologies for the technical glitches with the feed and echo that unfortunately wasn’t fixed until 20 minutes to the end.
A big thank you to the Birdfoot folks for being such welcoming hosts!
If you’d like to see the show, head to https://www.youtube.com/live/Uxap5XA61ng
Upcoming events
Bi-weekly demonstrations – June 19 – Burnsville
Time: 11am – 1pm ←- TIME CHANGE. It’s getting warmer, so we’re switching to an earlier schedule for the summer.
Place: The intersection of 19E and S Main St in Burnsville.
More details later this week.
79th Annual Rhododendron Festival Craft Fair – June 19-20
It’s this weekend and several of your fellow MI members will be helping out.
Come by the booth, say hi and see how you can help your local Dems!
https://ncrhododendronfestival.org
Pridefest – Pride In Every Holler – June 27
JUNE 27, 1PM – 6PM, 2026
PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT, NORTHLIGHT BUILDING
https://www.mypridenc.org/pridefest-2026
Join MY Pride for PrideFest 2026: Pride in Every Holler, a joyful, in-person celebration of LGBTQIA+ community, creativity, and belonging in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
The Mitchell Democrats could use volunteers to help man their booth. Email [email protected] to volunteer.
July 4 (on the 3rd) PARADE! Calling all Mountain Indivisibles and friends!
MI will have a large float in the “250th National Birthday Parade” in Spruce Pine on July 3rd. Time to be determined, but will be late afternoon, approximately 4-6 or 5-7.
The float will carry the oh-so-talented Samba Appalachia drummers. Yippee!!
We want y’all to come dance with the band and/or hand out candy to kiddos!
Please…no political signs for this one!!! No exceptions unless your dog has a “dogs for democracy” vest! (I’m looking at you, Rocky and Luna!)
This is a spread-good-cheer-and-love event (and to show folks how adorable we are.) Bring your friendly dogs! Dress yourself (or pooch) in red, white and blue! If you have Mountain Indivisible merch, wear that too. But definitely bring your dancing shoes!
Must be able to be on your feet for about 2 hours, but if you need a rest, (or to ride the whole time,) that can be accommodated in the bed of the pick-up.
Be there or be square!
Other News
The FOXification of our govt continues apace
https://www.whitehouse.gov/media-bias-publication/leftist-influencers
Leftists posing as unbiased news sources lied about the reorganization of the United States Forest Service. Brian Tyler Cohen – a known liar – went so far as to claim President Trump was “dismantling” the U.S. Forest Service.
Trump wants to kill the “roadless rule”
https://www.reddit.com/r/INFPIdeas/s/fPqyMy1wrq
The Roadless Rule safeguards nearly 45 million acres of unfragmented, pristine national forest lands—some of the last intact ecosystems in the country.
Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case in Mississippi were caught using artificial intelligence, a situation where, effectively, generative AI tools were used to argue against each other.
FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors.
Two Boulder residents filed a class action to shut down the city’s 31 Flock cameras, arguing warrantless tracking violates the Colorado constitution
https://www.reddit.com/r/vpnet/s/8mkBDTVxBe
Two residents in Boulder, Colorado filed a class action lawsuit this week asking a district court to shut down the city’s entire license plate camera network. They argue the 31 Flock cameras track people driving and biking through the city without a warrant, in violation of the state constitution.
Flock’s Secret Relationship with “The Nation’s Leading Conservative Grassroots Organization”
https://jasonhunyar.substack.com/p/uncovering-flocks-secret-relationship
Their funding is hidden behind redacted filings and pass-through nonprofits. But one email I found through open records gave their partnership away.
The first grand jury proceeding in the Broadview Six case began with a *textbook example* of forbidden prosecutorial vouching.
Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/10/trump-boat-strikes-human-trafficking-victims/
Nine months into the Trump administration’s deadly campaign against so-called drug boats, there is a pattern to the strikes. And a glaring anomaly.
The U.S. military has conducted more than 60 attacks, resulting in over 200 extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. In almost all the strikes, between one and four people lost their lives. In only one strike did the death toll of a single boat reach double digits: the first attack on September 2, 2025.
The U.S. welcomed this child of the Vietnam War. Why did he die in ICE custody?
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan-van-bui-ice-custody-death-20260611.html
Tuan Van Bui came to Philadelphia in 1990 under a congressionally approved program for Vietnam’s Amerasian youth. He was arrested last August at an immigration check-in and died on April 1 in an Indiana detention center. He was 55.
Pregnant Girls Who Were Detained by ICE and Trapped in Texas, Where Abortion is Banned, Are Apparently Missing
In February, it was reported that within a uniquely evil trench of Trump’s deportation campaign, more than a dozen pregnant girls—some as young as 13, at least half of whom got pregnant because they were raped, and several of whom had already given birth in custody—were being crammed, sometimes with their babies, into an ICE facility in San Benito, Texas. And according to a more recent report by the Guardian, no one knows where these girls—or their infants—are.
No Crocs or baby onesies – the draconian Delaney Hall dress code ICE uses to deem toddlers ‘too provocative’
In January, Gabriela Soto’s husband was detained in Delaney Hall, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Newark, New Jersey. She has regularly visited her husband on weekends at the facility. But Delaney Hall has rejected her visits time and time again over supposed dress code violations. More than 10 times, Soto said, she has been told that either she or her children could not visit because of what they were wearing.
ICE agents accessed voter files in Texas and North Carolina
Election officials from Forsyth County, North Carolina and Webb County, Texas, gave voter file information to agents from the ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit, as part of the Trump administration’s agenda to find instances of noncitizens voting.
10-15 ICE vehicles unexpectedly rushed into Delaney Hall ICE Prison yesterday on Day 23 of prisoners’ hunger strike/protests.
Prisoners’ anger has reached a boiling point as guards refused to allow their loved one’s visitation