Today is the **LAST DAY** to submit comments to VDOT to advocate for this helpful redesign of the Ridge/West Main Intersection. My submitted comments below... www.vdot.virginia.gov/projects/cul...

🚨 Advocacy opp! VDOT has created a plan to redesign the W. Main / Ridge intersection to improve traffic flow + provide protected bike lanes and many pedestrian upgrades. It’s not perfect but it’s WAY better than what is there now, and it’s designed to get state funding to get it built.

If Sally is your supervisor, how lucky are you?! Fortunately, her shared experienced is helpful for all of us in the area.

If you like Apollo’s relationship with Epstein, you’ll love their broadband service: Brightspeed.

Homeowners in Charlottesville and Albemarle County have access to help with HVAC repairs, through an initiative from Building Goodness Foundation and Beck Cohen. Full story online: augustafreepress.com/news/buildin... #Charlottesville #AlbemarleCounty

A helpful rundown of the state of some Charlottesville homelessness interventions in light of potential federal funding changes www.cvilletomorrow.org/proposed-cha...

Really interesting, nuanced, thoughtful information here.

Good idea! If you have the DominionEnergy app, though, you already have this at your fingertips. Regardless, it's going to come in handy the next few days (week??😬).

For something completely different…. the extraordinary vision of @djpatrickareed.bsky.social Decades of dedication to the art & storytelling of comic masterminds. Just a tiny sample of the tributes Patrick has been building in exhibitions around the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvIX...

Now THIS is responsive, engaged representation....!!!

In Germany, a lot of houses have these Stolpersteines on their sidewalks or stoops. They’re a memorial to victims of the Holocaust who were ripped from that home. Some houses have a few. Other houses have many. ICE has started going door to door in America.

i found some great places to donate using the list put together by @ziibiing.com don't give your money to consultants for some vague promise, give it to people who will go out right now, today, and buy a car full of groceries for a family that's too afraid to leave their home.

This month’s Dine to Donate benefits the Legal Aid Justice Center, an organization that has long been in the fight for racial, social and economic justice! Go to Rapture on Saturday, and mention Dine to Donate.

TODAY: Saturday, 2pm, at The Haven. Our Charlottesville community is fortunate to have neighbors who are showing up, together.

I wrote a quick blog post in 2014 titled "police reforms you should always oppose." It went viral and became the basis of a chart created by Critical Resistance to evaluate abolitionist steps. Money for training and body cams were the first two on my list.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Hey, I did that thing &, turns out, Virginia is sending me $108 in unclaimed property! One from a 2006 payroll reciprocity glitch with DC & the other from Century Link. Next I'm off to the DC site to try there - they have billions more in unclaimed property even than Virginia. www.vamoneysearch.gov

Sign up to attend. Numbers matter

We still have no idea what the city spends what it spends on policing. Lloyd Snook, a criminal defense attorney by trade, appears completely fine to go his entire 8 years on council approving budgets that never involved a serious query as to the reason for our public safety spending.

POP-UP RALLY at 2pm TODAY Corner of US 29 and Hydraulic Rd. (Stonefield) TODAY AT 2pm with Indivisible Charlottesville. Spread the word that last night’s U.S. invasion of Venezuela and abduction of President Maduro is not OK - and not legal. Bring signs and dress warm.

OK, we need a change of focus, desperately. We are now under the Wolf Moon, which represents renewal, reflection, & community. My brilliant, talented friend, @amcarley.bsky.social, stepped up with a new piece of music to capture the power of the wolf in this moment. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Seriously. You have to read this. The storyteller is everything, but his family... you just have to read this.

This is the way. YOU make the choice to whom you give and when. Don't let them take over your accounts. I'm also here to say it IS worth 2-4 minutes a day to unsubscribe/block/report junk every unwanted email or text you receive. Soon you have a blissfully clean account greeting you each morning:)

In 249 years, this country has yet to outlaw slavery. We change its form, we change its name, but slavery has been constant. Powerful people and businesses just really love slave labor, and a chunk of our economy is built on that.

Venmo was fast and easy

Any word on the power surge that’s shut down Fifeville and 5th St Station?

Indeed! These volunteer journalists consistently show up and do the work to keep us informed. Step up to have their backs when you can.

Holy hell, this is a thing! Looks like I could get $107 back from somewhere in DC and also CenturyLink. But what documentation will be required?? Do I still have invoices from CenturyLink? I do not.

I gave because this is what local support looks like.

Sorry. I have a pronunciation problem. Is it “Cruella”? Is that his name?

Great article on the improving potential for a grocery co-op in Fifeville. I wanted to donate to help their chances a tiny bit so I found their site: secure.actblue.com/donate/cvill.... Crossing my fingers this actually happens! www.cvilletomorrow.org/fifeville-mo...

He's here, he's here!

For more details, here's his campaign website www.tomperriellova.com

Tom's running!

I’m at the airport in San Jose, CA. The line for Volaris Airline to points south is not just mobbed… it’s insane. It lapped 4 times right into the rest of the lobby. I actually thought it was the TSA line. Please tell me this is for holiday travel & not people fleeing this country.

If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.

Hakeem Jeffries is one Scaramucci away from turning into John Fetterman.

**If there's anyone out there who would record this meeting on Wednesday, I'll be happy to do the transcription & publish it.** I really wanted to be there but am out of town. I believe this meeting will explain current homestay & short-term rental regulations & explain upcoming enforcement.. 1/2

I once asked a Russian what the feeling was in Russia about her government. Her answer wasn't anger; it was apathy.

I've been watching and waiting for this... www.themassblackout.com

everything is political.

More than Amazon, Target, and Home Depot... boycott all corporations run by billionaires. And even after this special holiday weekend action, keep your money local.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

What about the House members who didn’t come to work during the shutdown?

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What the proponents of Pollingism simply cannot understand is that the purpose of politics is to enact an agenda, not simply to win for the sake of doing so. contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...

As Illinois’ Death with Dignity bill nears the finish line, voices like Kimberly Shoemaker’s matter more than ever. After losing both parents without this option, she shared her story in the Chicago Tribune. Read her powerful piece: https://tinyurl.com/4eweds3d

There are now more Democratic women in Virginia’s House than Republicans — total. VA has come a longgg way!