NEW: For the first time in nearly five years, Georgia hasn’t enacted any new anti-voting laws. Instead, Republicans spent the year laying the groundwork to pass an avalanche of voter suppression laws next year that would radically alter elections in the Peach State. ✍️ @mattdcohen.bsky.social

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

New WaPo/ABC poll: 45% of Americans blame Trump and congressional Republicans for the shutdown. 33% blame Democrats. By a 2-to-1 margin, Independents blame Trump and Republicans over Democrats: 46% to 23%.

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I have honestly never seen so many Americans smiling and enjoying each other as I have in this No Kings footage. It’s so nice to see you all smile again 😊

Roanoke VA!

“The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.” —Mehdi Hasan

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

We stayed on the outskirts of the No Kings protest in Roanoke, enjoying good company among the like-minded and the honks and cheers of passersby. #NoKingsDay

This is an awesome ‘Ted Talk’ by AOC on our current situation… 💙

Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries. Never before has access to so many stories been stolen from so many children. We are not OK with this. @penamerica.bsky.social

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The Christiansburg Institute Digital Archives (CIDA) is the largest community-based digital repository documenting African American history and culture in the New River Valley. 📲 Free to the public #genealogy #history 🔎 Visit CIDA: hub.catalogit.app/christiansbu...

New book by local author Forest Jones available at the Salem Museum. #SampleSalem #Roanoke

A founding document of African American Studies, reissued for today’s students and scholars. Available now!

We can, but we must UNIFY. That's how the minority GOP wins: by getting their voters to march in lockstep, while keeping everyone else at each other's throats. Accept: there will NEVER be a perfect candidate. But whoever is chosen by the Dems will be infinitely better. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Every authoritarian movement starts with the same promise, (the same lie): We'll protect you from them. They make you afraid of "them" so they can control you. While your attention stays fixed on the threat they've invented, they quietly take your rights, your resources, your ability to fight back.

Trump has let polluters off the hook for destroying Virginia's clean air and water - and @jasonmiyaresva.bsky.social has allowed it. As a fellow son of Hampton Roads, Miyares knows how harmful polluters are to our coastal communities. Why hasn't he said anything? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...

Finally, a united nation.

Class, let's review. Project 2025 is ...

Texas—listen up! Your state **is** redistricting as part of the GOP’s effort to rig the national election. Join me with @repcasar.bsky.social to understand why they are trying to gerrymander Texas, what you can do, and its implications for everyone across the country. #Episode3

“I believe in protecting reproductive freedom, ensuring access to healthcare—including Medicaid and Medicare—and ensuring every family has the opportunity to thrive.” www.littlepage4va.com

💯 days until Election Day!

VA House District 40–all of Salem, small part of Roanoke City, and Hollins, Glenvar, Cave Spring parts of Roanoke Co. Vote Donna Littlepage! #VoteBlue

“Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migration in the Global South”, edited by Gerda Heck, Eda Sevinin, Elena Habersky and Carlos Sandoval-García (AUC Press, 2024). tinyurl.com/Publishingpe... #aucpress #books #news #Immigration #middleast

72% of people swept up in Trump’s immigration raids have no criminal record. That includes at least 250 people detained in deplorable conditions in his “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida. This was never about targeting criminals. It was always about terrorizing immigrants.

Join us Thursday, 7/17 at 6pm in River's Edge to honor John Lewis's lifelong commitment to committed nonviolent resistance. His call to "release bitterness, hold only love" challenges us to love our fellow humans enough to fight for change, the most meaningful struggle we can imagine. Join us!

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

Notably, the House version of the One Big Brutal Bill Act only killed Secs. 40001 and 40002. It was the Senate version that killed the money for weather forecasts - under the direction of Senate Commerce chair Ted Cruz (R-Cancun-Parthenon).

NEW from me — I wrote about FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson, who has been completely silent and out of view since deadly floods devastated Texas last week, and spoke to staffers about what it's like to respond to a disaster with no leader. Read here:

Amazon dieback: top concern - carbon release, food security, biodiversity. Coral reef collapse: likely passed, major ecological/coastal impact. AMOC slowdown: may disrupt weather, monsoons, UK farming. Permafrost, ice melt: big emissions, 3 m+ sea rise.

Consultants are the private equity of the Democratic party. They can help you out of a jam if you're underwater, but their reason for helping you is diametrically opposed to what is best for the common good. They are focused on strategy, not change. Read this piece. It lays out the game.

We’re launching a nationwide effort to train a million Americans to lead effective non-cooperation at every level. We can stop Trump’s tyranny, but it’ll take all of us — not just on single days of mass action, but by organizing every day in every community. Join us: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

From Visibility Brigade. #Resist

The Worst of Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Will Be Felt in Rural America www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

This text, the whole thing, still blows me away. It's profound. The prose soars and the political ambition sings. And in places it's mean and small. It's always the measure of us, what we intend to do with it. #July4th

The horrible end, where the GOP has been heading for more than a decade. Don’t think it can’t happen here.

From Facebook: go there to mark Interested, or just show up. Please share. #Roanoke

Legitimately feel sick. We are hours away from the largest cuts to low-income people in history. People’s lives will be ruined. It is so unfair. It’s unfair to be born into a system that allows this level of poverty in the first place and it’s evil to rip away aid from the needy. Hard to watch this.

It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.

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'The New American Gothic', Oil on Canvas by Criselda Vásquez