I’m heartbroken to see another act of violence targeting a religious community – this time at a mosque in San Diego. Muslim communities should be free to worship without fear. We need to speak out tirelessly against Islamophobia and the relentless scourge of gun violence.

A start.

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Trump has purged federal agencies of black workers, the military of high-ranking black officers, supports GOP efforts to purge Southern states of black representation and wants elite universities to discriminate against black applicants, lest they admit too many (who obviously don’t deserve it.)

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This coming Saturday @ Visible Records:

THANK YOU, House Judiciary Democrats!!

🧵It's official: Trump is moving to make the Jan. 6 cop-beaters, rioters and insurrectionists MILLIONAIRES with our tax dollars.   But there are two glaring constitutional defects in this scheme:   (1/4)

Monstrous, unprecedented corruption.

The Cville Dems respect people of all religions and people of no religion. We have members of many creeds and members with no religion. But the US government has no religion and *must* have no religion. That’s clearly specified in our constitution. No excuses.

Safe prediction. As bad as Dominion has been for Virginians, in so many ways, things will get worse for us.

A great way to spend some time on Monday evening!

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

You will NOT be able to convey to your grandchildren how dumb this era was.

UPDATE: This meeting has been moved to Monday, June 1. All other info is unchanged.

Precisely how does Mr. McGuire think the Iran war helps his constituents? 

Cville Dems will have its bimonthly Full Committee Meeting on Monday, May 18, in Forest Hills Park Pavilion from 6:30 PM to 8 PM. We will discuss organizational matters following the referendum decision and how to prepare for the upcoming primaries and the midterms. The whole community is welcome!

It has indeed got bad fast. We Cville Dems always stand up for our trans members, friends and neighbors — with joy. (Don’t forget that the other side’s nominee for governor in the last election spent her whole campaign going on about trans kids as some kind of threat. And she lost by 13 points.)

The end of a political career.

A better world actually is possible.

My most John-Brown’s-body position is that private prison contractors are an abomination. No one should ever be allowed to have a financial interest in incarcerating and mistreating their fellow man. It reeks of slavery.

Kaine responds to ruling on Virginia congressional maps

I highly recommend trying to come out to one of our socials. You may be lucky enough to hear @griesar.bsky.social give a speech on how how big tech is messing up restaurants and why going to back to cash will actually benefit consumers.

Please make sure that everyone you know is aware of this enormous scandal.

Absolutely!!

Jeffries: "We're gonna win back the House ... the ghost of the Confederacy has afflicted the Supreme Court majority, & is invading & haunting the nation right now, & we take that seriously. Which is why Democrats are committed to launching a decisive and overwhelming response in advance of 2028."

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Not going to be a fun day.

After Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed twin bills on Monday, Virginia is now on track to establish a paid family and medical leave program by 2028. via @virginiamercury.com

Yes.

Yikes.

Thank you, @sgillikin.bsky.social, for your service to our community!

Great day at the signing of a number of solar related bills - including plug-in 🔌 balcony solar! (HB395). Yes, you can buy a solar unit online, plug it in, on 1/1/27 ⏳ generate up to 1200W of power to lower your electricity bill. The units are portable and can move with you if you are a renter!

In a normal country, this would be a plot line in a satirical comic operetta, not an actual news story. Heaven help us.

Thank you for all you do, Marc.

Savor small victories.

Exactly. Dr. Andrea Douglas of @jsaahccville.bsky.social and I and many others in Charlottesville ensured that our city’s statues would not become what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve” and be re-installed. *This* is why the Swords Into Plowshares project exists.

The hypocrisy is truly and deeply maddening.

The first honest thing he’s said

"We’re just miles from Mar a Lago, the place where the close friendship between Epstein and Donald Trump grew, where Virginia Giuffre was trafficked and later raped by Jeffrey Epstein." - @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social (D-VA11) bluevirginia.us/2026/05/vide...

And from the president who promised to bring prices down “on day one”… Another big jump in inflation and gas prices at $4.50.

Two Democratic leaders speak out against the horrors of what our government is doing to the civilian population of Cuba. It’s murder. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/cuba-us-blockade.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h1A.bl4E.pPlgFT1MRAMH&smid=nytcore-ios-share

🌟Local mutual aid opportunity!🌟 A student at WAHS was accepted into a prestigious, highly-competitive summer program (details withheld to protect anonymity). Even after receiving a financial aid package, the cost to participate is $2700, well out of reach for this student’s family.

Great news!! We’ve been worried about that guy!! We’re even more worried about Winsome Earl-Sears, who seems even more unemployable!

this is why, when we win, we gotta win all the way.

Rob Tracinski confirms that he will be a candidate for Fifth District Democratic nomination augustafreepress.com/news/rob-tra...

Here’s where the race for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District stands >>> https://www.29news.com/2026/05/12/heres-where-race-virginias-5th-congressional-district-stands/

We absolutely stand with these women. We demand the justice they have been denied.

It was absolutely beautiful to spend the afternoon with the Monacan nation, a pillar of our community. Grateful for the opportunity to tour their heritage center in Amherst!