Tariffs are driving up food prices, and Trump et al are eroding SNAP benefits. They’ve declared war on the homeless, literally (#FireKilmeade) Medicaid cuts will take healthcare away from millions of Americans And now, housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

“One way of posing the question of who ‘we’ are in these times of war is by asking whose lives are considered valuable, whose lives are mourned, and whose lives are considered ungrievable.”

Complying will only allow fascists to go down their checklist faster. They will not spare you. Fascism is about an ever shrinking ingroup and sooner or later it'll be your turn on the chopping block. This is why solidarity is so important. We gotta fight fascism in every corner and at every turn.

VIRGINIA: Today is the first day of early voting. I cannot overstate how important this year's state election is—for Governor, Lieutenant Gov, & maybe even especially Attorney General, as well as all 100 seats of the House of Delegates. Find your polling site info at acluva.org/voters-rights

🚨ICE Alert 🚨ICE has been spotted at the intersection of 14th St NW and Missouri, with various arrests since this morning. Please avoid the area if possible.

New from me: Filings from a Virginia lawsuit offer a rare insight into how often Flock automatic license plate readers track people going about their daily lives: Multiple times a day, and hundreds over a period of a few months this year.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Anyone have experience going from Niagara (Canada side) to Buffalo by car? I’m wondering if I can leave a conference at 3pm and make a 6:30pm flight

Friendly reminder

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

Biscuit week showstoppers are always silly

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

they think liberalism is a set of rules for a discourse game, and not a fighting faith and a vision of the good

Relevant to Charlottesville. Or more specifically, Western Albemarle HS (whose TPUSA club is holding a memorial at ProRe Nata so you know who to boycott)

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

You're getting a clear X-ray of America right now. Look at who this country's powerful institutions choose to elevate, venerate, and celebrate. Look at the double standards. Look at the people who adore Charlie Kirk - then spend five minutes reviewing his hateful legacy. This is America.

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Sorry am I losing my fucking mind?? @bbc5live.bsky.social currently reporting Charlie Kirk as a “free speech advocate who helped a generation of students with their debating skills”??? He was a racist conspiracy theorist who advocated violence against women and transgender people. He was a bum.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the mutual aid request. In less that 24 hours, we were able to send this sweet mama $900 💕💕

Who could have predicted this? 😡😡😡

Imagine how much stress would be relieved from young families if free universal child care were available to everyone. Safer children, happier parents, healthier communities.

This is the best thing in Charlottesville! Pure joy! freebookbus.com/how-to-donate

So city council has an extra $1 million it can allocate to SROs? No other more pressing need?

Re-posting this today since so many Civilians were busy averting municipal catastrophe last night. 🫡

Want to know what to do when ICE shows up? Come learn (with role play!) Courage is contagious

"According to PODER VA, it has received reports of as many as 100 people being detained at the Chantilly office for up to five days, exceeding both ICE’s standard holding limit of 12 hours and an extension to 72 hours under a nationwide waiver..."

CALL TO ACTION: Follow Livable Cville's important 🧵for actions you can take. Speak up about this cruelty.

I’m so confused because BlueSky is pretty great for me

We object too. Banning "sleeping or lying down" in basically any public place (and citing a MAGA Supreme Court decision to do it) is stunningly cruel. Homelessness is solved by housing, not policing.

Camping = "sleeping or lying down" on sidewalks, trails, in parks---anywhere in public! This is some seriously cruel shit.

On Labor Day, Mon. Sept. 1st, Join us as we kick off Labor Month—a month of action lifting up local unions and the workers who keep our communities running. Make our solidarity visible, loud, & strong! 5-6 pm 401 McIntire Rd. For unions, every day is Labor Day! #WorkersOverBillionaires

We strongly object to the proposed ban on camping on public property in the city. This inhumane policy was condoned by the current right wing Supreme Court in the Grant’s Pass decision, which Chief Kochis sites in his justification for the policy. Homelessness is solved by housing, not policing.

Now I see why I couldn’t schedule a Covid vax this morning 😡

CHANTILLY, VA: ICE is overcrowding arrested/abducted ppl into a glorified office building w/little-to-no basic food, hygiene, medical or access to attorneys, up to 80ppl in a single glass box for days, a govt-enacted humanitarian crisis literally in our own backyards. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.

Only ghouls interview traumatized children 😡

I am ENRAGED

This “Let’s Talk about it” event was 2 hours. Only 20 minutes were given to the people who showed up to actually talk. In a “small group” of over 30. The rest of the time we were talked AT.

Without the engagement of faculty, staff or students, the BOV searches for someone to replace the illegitimately ousted former President Ryan #FireTheBOV

Facts

It’s much harder to build housing in Blue states than it is in Red states. So yes people are moving away from Blue states. One more reason that addressing the housing shortage in NY and elsewhere must be an urgent priority.

Seen on student doors this morning.

Military occupation of areas loyal to the political opposition is what you see in a civil war, kids.

If you don’t like how the city schools is bringing SRO’s back into the schools, take a minute to sign this petition! School division leadership has done an incredibly poor job with this process and policies. They need to hear pushback! www.change.org/p/police-in-...

charlottesville: the school administration is trying to put cops back in schools without input from teachers, students, or parents. their proposed contract is a bad joke, which cedes all meaningful power to the police department. please, sign this petition!

Srsly, cops shouldn't be in schools but how does anyone think *NOW* is a good time to put cops into schools? SIGN THE PETITION.

ICE's budget increased so much that they are now just blowing $2.4 million for 25 Chevy Tahoes and custom car wraps. They zeroed out life-saving foreign aid that will ultimately kill 14 million people under the guise of "waste, fraud, and abuse."

People are scared, they're grabbing on to Newsom, and frankly it's pathetic. Stand up. Have literally any beliefs or values. Meet the moment.