Thank you @samrasoul.bsky.social for speaking out. Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, & others in VA are working hard to #DeFlock. A July 2025 law set guardrails for ALPR data security, but agencies statewide have broken it 100s of times through undefined searches & giving data to 800 out-of-state agencies.

Thank you for covering! Abortion is healthcare Healthcare is a human right #Universalhealthcare now! #virginia #richmond #reproductiverights #abortion

Seems like there's a desire by all to gloss over what happened as a policy disagreement gone awry. Real story: we've got ample funds for student safety & there's no place for a misogynist at the top of County govt. #Resign #mckay! #studentsafety #misogyny #supervisors #ffxdems #vadems #fairfax

Abortion is healthcare. Healthcare is a human right. #Universalhealthcare now.

It's become even more absurdly expensive to attain basic general welfare. Access to fresh, quality food, water and air. Housing. Freedom from undue stress and despair. Decent healthcare. The Epstein class has put basic dignity on a premium tier and to hell with everyone else.

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.

Today, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos is at the Nakba Day demo in London as he has been for nearly all the demos against Israel's genocide for the last two years. Stephen attends with family & members of his group the ‘Holocaust Survivors & Descendants Against the Genocide in Gaza’.

A semi-regular reminder that, while everyone loves a ❤️, on Bluesky, "likes" do NOT amplify skeets you admire. ONLY reposting and quote-posting floats them into the feeds of your own followers. (This is now how it worked on X/itter.) If our #FreeDC craftivism vibes w/you, please *repost*. Thanks!

For the umpteenth time: The most corrupt president in American history.

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Can we please never ever do this crap (calling any woman, let alone a School Board member, a "bimbo")? And if you really can't help yourself, then should you really be leading the largest jurisdiction in Virginia??? bluevirginia.us/2026/05/thur...

Did the state electeds just give cover today to the BOS so that they can express no confidence in the chair & demand he step down? His trust is irreparably broken among women in Fairfax County, more than half his electorate. #jeffmckay #resignation #ffxdems #vadems

Let's back up: the Chairman seeks a pass for misogyny. An elected woman's offense was seeking students' safety/crossing guards. There are ample funds for this basic need: cancel the Flock surveillance contract, and curtail the drones in our bloated FCPD! Done. Resign, Chairman. #ffxdems #vadems #

The silence of #ffxdems today is deafening, regarding the #misogyny of the highest elected Dem official in Fairfax County: Chairman Jeff McKay. His weak "sorry I got caught" FB apology should be called out by all supervisors, who should be demanding his resignation. Get busy! #wordsmatter #vadems

Fairfax Co Chair Jeff McKay must resign. Words matter. Democratic women voters do not abide misogyny towards our elected school board reps, or anyone. We stand in solidarity with Melanie Meren, who called for our students' safety & school crossing guards. #vadems #fairfaxcounty #resign

The highest ranking executive in Fairfax County, VA, Chairman Jeff McKay, a Democrat, now thinks he can spew misogyny at our elected school board members. We can't stop the president's behavior, but we will demand accountability from #jeffmckay. Resign! #misogyny #vadems #FairfaxBOS #chairman

McKay must go. Now. #ffxdems #studentsafety #fairfaxcounty #supervisors #chairman #misogyny #resign

listen, it could always be worse

reminder that one of the most promising emerging treatments for glioblastoma, the most lethal of all cancers, is customized MRNA vaccines, which HHS under Trump now refuses to fund: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Shaking things up with some French wordle: Le Mot🥖🤌

DON'T TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE ACCELERATE IT

Baby otter at a UK rescue center learns to dive after overcoming its fear of water.😍

“We the people, in whose name these murders are being committed, we’ve got the power and the responsibility to nonviolently withdraw our support."

Tonight! #deflock #masssurveillance #cameras #datasecurity #deflockhburg #harrisonburg

More than half of humanity today lives under political leaders over age 70. We need to imagine something different

Israeli forces have continued to directly target Lebanese ambulances, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, and those attacks resulted in at least two paramedics killed Sunday and five others wounded.

🎯🎯🎯 and listen, the students are ALWAYS right. #readyourhistory #freeDC

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Also, why does DMV get to be butthurt here, they don't know or decide what any requested sequence of license plate letters means to the requestor. No spelled out profanity? Fine. But this? get over yourselves.

This Mother's Day, at least 125,000 mothers will be separated from their minor children because of mass incarceration. Today reminds us again that people behind bars are not nameless “offenders,” but beloved family members and friends whose presence—and absence—matters. #MothersDay

White bros and sisters, WE are responsible for this. A majority of white folks haven't voted for the Democratic presidential candidate since 1964!

The story’s already changing - before we were told he was a “wanted man” now we’re told it was an altercation

The people united will never be defeated🙌 Police are gaslighting local electeds about surveillance camera data security, but taxpayers are seeing through it.

Oh my.

"The VA General Assembly has rejected expanding ALPR authority to state highway rights-of-way... Rather than seeking that authorization, Flock Safety & Elkton PD documented a strategy to place cameras on private property... same surveillance... zero legislative oversight, no VDOT permit required."

Oh yum😋

Not enough electeds of either party will see this, even this, as another illustration of the need for universal healthcare. We'll instead snicker about how this grifter is undeserving of govt assistance. Rather than consider the true issue: healthcare is a human right, even for despicable people.

Accounting for armament use, troop deployments, and other factors, a new expert analysis estimated that the U.S. government spent $71.8 billion on the Iran war over the course of 60 days — an average of $1.2 billion per day.

To those of you who claim there isn't enough money for healthcare, while spending billions on endless wars and corporate giveaways: We don't believe you. Hands off Medicaid. Hands off Medicare. Hands off affordable healthcare! - Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ)

The United States now ranks 64th in press freedom, falling seven places since last year, according to Reporters Without Borders.

#deFlock #Harrisonburg #surveillance

Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying.

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Community Event: 5/16 Local showing of 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' along with a panel discussion, starting at 7pm on May 16 at Court Square Theater in Harrisonburg, VA Hosted by Mennonite Action, Peace Praxis, and the Muslim Community www.instagram.com/p/DX-e88bDwc...

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.