I have rotted around our apartment since I finished working while my fiancée is almost home from biking 20 miles for fun 🤪

Survey shows Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears' opposition to LGBTQ+ workplace protections, same-sex marriages and those couples' ability to adopt children. 🧵1/3 virginiamercury.com/2025/08/28/s...

"Alexandria is projected to lose $479,913,904 total in SNAP & Medicaid funding by 2034," from a new report by @voicesforvakids.bsky.social vakids.org/posts/cuts-b...

I've had my windows open today and with the cross breeze, I'm a little chilly! In late August! This is so weird

Spent a bit of time at the WNBA All-Star Game chatting with a new basketball fan: Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who has been advising the WNBA players in their labor negotiations, part of a more robust strategy this year from the union

All eyes are on VA this year and now is the time to secure the resources we need to succeed. Join me, @kathykltran.bsky.social, and @staceycarrollva.bsky.social for a fundraiser to support our Democratic majority in the House on Sunday from 3-5 pm! Get your ticket: secure.actblue.com/donate/fundr...

🤩 no Albert or Heaps 😭 no Cat, Lily, Foxy or Phallon

all the respect to adrian but this is frustrating and concerning

Dr. Badar Khan Suri is a scholar of peace and conflict resolution at Georgetown University and a legal resident of the US who calls Northern Virginia home. He has been unconstitutionally detained by ICE for 51 days and must be returned home to his family ASAP. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

I voted! Proud to support @senatorhashmi.bsky.social and @jonesjay.bsky.social and can’t wait to vote for @abigailspanberger.com!

I was so proud to stand with @abigailspanberger.com and my colleagues today at her rally with @momsdemand.bsky.social in Alexandria! I can't wait to have a Governor who will stand for safety instead of the gun lobby and sign critical gun violence prevention legislation.

in case you were wondering it was a wonderful night

My thoughts on the very crushworthy new album by Lucy Dacus www.npr.org/2025/03/24/n...

my take on the new lucy dacus album: it's a beautiful deep album about lesbian love with clever, thoughtful lyrics. is the music the most groundbreaking or interesting she's made in her career? no but it's still an album i really enjoy with several songs that have made me cry that will stick w me

Northern Virginia legislators decry Youngkin's veto on bill limiting firearm transfers from domestic abusers

shoutout to everyone who is mourning 10 years since zayn left one direction 😭✊

I am so excited for the spirit game tonight but I am so nervous with the injury report and because I am always cold and I don’t want to freeze

Cate Blanchett, have you considered how well you'd fit in Alexandria, VA as a 55 year old white woman who hates leaf blowers?

The portrayal in Yellowjackets of the drive from New Jersey to Richmond is hilarious. Why would you see the VA is for lovers/welcome to VA sign in a cornfield?? You’d just take 95?

Woooo go tribe!!! What a game

My brother goes to VCU and my girlfriend went to BYU so I am #tunedin and as a proud Virginian, I am 100% rooting for the Rams today

Del. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker named most progressive legislator in Virginia; files reelection paperwork

Next Friday I get to go to a record store for a Lucy Dacus album release event then to a Washington Spirit game. Let’s Go Lesbians!

Julien+Lucy 4EVA. (i love this so much. this is SO SO WHOLESOME.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

happy last week of session I tripped and skinned my knee on the way from my garage to my apartment after getting stuck in traffic on my drive to Richmond and my badge not letting me into the garage 🤪

I keep reminding myself to take session one week at a time but I know that I am going to be so ready to be done this weekend and not want to go back for the last week 😭

I started a sweater on Saturday and my first ball of yarn is now this big. Will I finish it today? We’ll see! Happy crossover!

“Senator Danica Roem, Virginia’s only openly trans member of the General Assembly, told Radio IQ her office was looking into ways to help those impacted. “‘We are going to not give up. We are going to fight like hell every step of the way.’” @bradkutner.bsky.social www.wvtf.org/news/2025-01...

title and registration by death cab for cutie:

I read this and was like "why don't they just say 'old generous george's space'" then saw that it closed 16 years ago lol

Time to press play on the 2025 season ▶️ 🎶

Go to City Council meetings to learn about cool stuff like this: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c1bf...

My little cousins (8, 8, 6, 3 yo boys) and I ran into Aubrey Kingsbury at the US Botanical Gardens today so I had to show them her saves in the Spirit semifinal win in PKs. Then Naeher, Bethune, Rodman, Girma, Banda, Chawinga and Kerr highlights 🤩 gotta indoctrinate them before tomorrow’s USWNT game

The Spirits will be back and so much stronger. This is a very different game with Croix Bethune. Or Ouleye Sarr. Or Andi Sullivan. A terrific game and a fabulous season from the Spirit. Players and fans should hold their heads high, this team is great and they will be back.

and to be fair, extremely proud of the Spirits — we thought this would be a disaster season and look at us

I got breakfast with my girlfriend, went on a good run, did an everything shower, now I’m going to buy yarn, knit some Christmas gifts, greet some fam then watch my Washington Spirit in the NWSL Championship! What a day 🤩

We are two weeks past daylight saving time and my cat has still not adjusted 🙄

Trying to befriend my girlfriend’s nieces of thanksgiving with monogrammed handknit hats. Wish me luck.

Still can’t believe she saved every single PK

I was on One Direction stan twitter from 2011 onward so I have been on Twitter genuinely for more than half my life at this point. Let's see if this will do the job.