Burnsville protest June 19
“What a great turnout! And beautiful weather! And I clicked 335 positive responses.”
Upcoming events
It’s time to get trashy again! – June 22 – 11am-1pm
June 23rd, 11am – 1pm with a late lunch social after.
MEET at 31 Cross Street <-map link
Map below. When parking, just look for the people already in green vests.
We’ll have extra vests and grabbers, just bring yourself, water and a rain jacket just in case.
Please reply to this email if you plan to come out.
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 “Spruce Pine Independence Day Parade” on July 3rd. This is a non-political event during the “Stars, Stripes, and Strings” festival. Gather/line up is between 5-5:30 pm. Parade starts at 6 pm.
The float will carry the oh-so-talented sambAAppalachian 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!) Bring water, sun screen, and pup foot protection, in case it’s a blister of a day!
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!
Email questions to: [email protected]
If you’re planning to join the parade, please register through https://www.mobilize.us/mountainindivisible/event/976395/ so that we have a rough headcount beforehand.
July 23rd MY Vecinos benefit at Birdfoot
https://youtube.com/shorts/7r8mswdMr4w (
Beginning at 6:30 pm
Join Vecinos on July 23rd at 6:30pm at Birdfoot in Burnsville for a special benefit event with Las Montañitas. We’re excited for this opportunity and look forward to seeing our community there to support our neighbors.
Acompaña a Vecinos el 23 de julio a las 6:30 p. m. en Birdfoot (Burnsville) para un evento benéfico especial con Las Montañitas. Nos entusiasma esta oportunidad y esperamos ver a nuestra comunidad allí para apoyar a nuestros vecinos.
Other News
I found a second vote.gov — and it’s registered to the White House
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead. Mine found me on TrumpRx.
If you have not been to TrumpRx, it is a federal drug pricing website that looks like Wix and a Pinterest board threw up on each other. There is a gold three-dimensional eagle on the homepage clutching a ribbon in its talons that says TrumpRx. There are pills floating across the screen like a pharmaceutical screensaver. The tagline, and I am quoting directly from a website owned by the United States government, invites you to TrumpRx the price. It has the typography of a Brooklyn juice bar and the self-regard of someone who has never been told no. It is, in every conceivable aesthetic sense, a catastrophe. And while you are busy looking at the eagle, the website is busy looking at you. I wish I were being metaphorical.
Some local police have access to an ICE facial recognition app
Federal immigration officers often use facial recognition technology to identify immigrants in the field. Now, a newly revealed document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to give local police working on its behalf the same type of technology.
ICE has been dumping people on the streets and left to die
https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/s/3fXZXHMf4x
Daphy Michel, a Haitian asylum seeker and TPS recipient, was found dead on the streets of Pittsburgh on March 2nd, days after having been released by Trump’s deportation force into the cold, far away from her home or family. She had spent months in jail awaiting an evaluation on two misdemeanor counts after a mental health episode before a judge dismissed both her charges. She was picked up by ICE on a detainer, given an ankle monitor, and then dumped in a city she did not live in on February 27th. Neither her brother Carlo, who lived an hour away, nor her legal representatives were notified.
On Friday, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office announced it had found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled it a homicide. This came just a week after we learned ICE will no longer report the deaths of recently released detainees.
Flock says its cameras don’t track people. Its own training videos say otherwise.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/s/mLz4ie2jyQ
Over 3,500 people were detained during Operation Metro Surge. Here’s where they went.
Often: the Whipple Building and Camp East Montana, then Mexico or Ecuador
Most immigrants arrested in Operation Metro Surge were sent to Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, after being detained at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minnesota.
Nearly half of them were eventually deported, mostly to Mexico and Ecuador.
Only two people were deported to Somalia, according to the data, even though the ostensible reason for the immigration enforcement surge of federal agents to Minnesota in the winter was to target Somali Minnesotans. The vast majority of Minnesotans with Somali ancestry are citizens.