C'ville folks! Local luminary and lender of e-bikes Josh Carp created this very cool site, which combines videos of public meetings with searchable, linkable transcripts. meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings

Were I part of an administration daily committing crimes from top to bottom, I might think twice before building out a series of vast prisons. You never know who might end up in them!

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Me watching Bad Bunny’s halftime show: What a fascinating and lovely performance, rich in semiotics Me reading Bad Bunny’s translated lyrics, chortling in amazement: whooooooa this man is FILTHY

A relatively active week for Crozet local government coming up: - Planning Commission meets tomorrow to talk Windy Knoll (and riparian buffers! Everyone's favorite kind of buffer!) - Crozet CAC meets on Wednesday to talk 2026 topics...and Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing!

Me watching Bad Bunny's halftime show, smacking into the hard limits of my Spanish:

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Fantastic thread for folks like me curious about all the political and cultural references that sailed over our heads.

Bunnies gotta stick together.

So the halftime show that some people were all mad at was about how … Puerto Rico exists, and seems like a fun cool interesting place? … yeah, that tracks.

If someone is mad about who's playing at the Super Bowl halftime show, have they tried, you know, not watching it? Always works for me. Also, I have just now discovered this guy, who is playing at the pregame "tailgate concert," and he is GREAT:

@sailorrooscout.bsky.social, consider this a thank-you for all the cool vaccine info.

I only know Bad Bunny from his small role in the movie Bullet Train (2022) but he was pretty charming in that. I understand he makes music too

I'm getting out of the hospital today and I could use some help, if you're able. Even taking the time to check it out or share means more than I can say. gofund.me/1c96e422c

In the grocery store listening to the music they’re playing, wondering — not for the first time — how exactly one is supposed to Wang Chung.

“If we’re in a computer simulation, how could we watch TV shows?” — my youngest, suitably skeptical.

I feel like if someone just bought JD Vance a proper doner kebab, if he thus saw the face of God, maybe we could still save his soul.

There's a fundraiser in this thread to help pay the medical bills of a man beaten nearly to death, unprovoked, by ICE. I feel like it shouldn't be political to say "law enforcement shouldn't fracture a man's skull for funsies."

If you’ve never seen this video, you need to see this video.

At the state level, our very blue county used to be divided into three different Republican fiefdoms by a GOP-made gerrymander. Ahem. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

If you're sincerely concerned about election fraud, I recommend you check out the Heritage Foundation's database. Here in Virginia, there are occasional exceptions for filing falsified paperwork or setting up fake sites, but the database mostly tends to document three basic kinds of fraud...

that thing where your child won't pick out their sweater so you pick out their sweater but that sweater, upon review, does not align with their vision, so now, .05 seconds before the bus arrives, they WILL go pick out their own sweater, actually-- love that. best way to start the day

I think the government shouldn’t be able to ruin your life and your child’s life just because it made itself look bad the last time it tried to ruin your life and your child’s life.

Hydraulic fracking but for getting the last bit of Nutella out of the container

Spent the morning and early afternoon writing 4200 words and then cutting 1200 of them, sorry, cannot word now, all outta words

Posting this in the interest of fairness, because it could honestly be a lot worse. It’s not enough, but it’s not what I was led to expect.

[Chuck Schumer is playing poker] CHUCK: Oho, what's this in my hand? A full house! CHUCK'S OPPONENT: [Has all his cards facing toward Chuck. Some of them are Uno cards. One is a rare Snorglax. Also he's eating the cards.] CHUCK [pushing all his chips to the center of the table, beaming]: I fold!

"I Don't Believe in the Polls" is my least favorite cover of The Magnetic Fields' "I Don't Believe In the Sun."

Boom goes the proverbial dynamite: Gov. Spanberger has ordered state law enforcement agencies to terminate the 287(g) agreements Gov. Youngkin insisted they sign. www.governor.virginia.gov/media/govern...

Been working on this story, about the lovely folks at the Blue Ridge Disc Golf Club and their annual efforts to raise money for food banks, since last summer! Great photos from @ezeamosp.bsky.social, too. c-ville.com/local-disc-g...

I've got two fun/uplifting stories in @cvilleweekly.bsky.social this week, starting with this one: c-ville.com/a-uva-health...

It makes a grim sort of sense that a broad movement apparently dedicated to avenging the application of consequences of Richard Nixon would include destroying the newspaper that brought him down.

I’ve heard “the Devil can quote scripture for his own purposes” before, but I’ve never actually seen it happen in real time.

"My Humps," a song written in Hell by the Devil himself. Also, literally anything by Steely Dan.

Looks like Virginia Democrats have another potential option for the Senate this year. Never seen a political site that featured a parody of Clippy before: www.runwithmoran.com#blog

Keep circulating the tapes. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...

... so the official position of the United States government is that it's bad that a five-year-old child is not imprisoned? www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Aw, geez, who let Herbert West practice medicine again?

BRIDGERTON hot takes: 1. The best season of BRIDGERTON is season 1. The second best season of BRIDGERTON is QUEEN CHARLOTTE. 2. Casting Rege Jean-Page was wise in isolation but a tactical error; you have started at 11 and can only retreat from there.

Alan Ritchson writes an entire doctoral thesis in this movie in the field of Ruining Nazis' Entire Existences, peer-reviewed, footnoted citations, the works, and it is beautiful to behold.

He must have experienced so much unkindness from strangers in the past two weeks. The way folks are working hard to show him that strangers can be kind, too, and give him some good memories to balance out the scary ones just ... it's real dusty in here.

This absolutely peerless run of pure superhero joy — a hero who “defeats” villains through kindness, empathy, and inspiration — is now free to read. Run, don’t walk.

@kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social As a constituent, I very much appreciate your vote this evening. Thank you.

I see this passed around a lot and 1) When I tried the link it worked; looks like they added age verification, sloppily 2) These look like calls to a telephone tip line. Many seem dubiously substantiated at best. Some come from people w/ histories of mental illness.

This is, appropriately, exactly what Spider-Man would say.

Perhaps, and just hear me out on this, we could build houses instead of prisons.

I may be biased, being a reporter now and all*, but I kinda think journalism as politics is the future. (*I also think journalists should not be arrested for journalist-ing, fwiw.)

Between yesterday's refusal to actually record a phone call, and the constant errors in Screen Time that lead to howls of protest from my children, it would be nice if literally any software or service provided by Apple worked as advertised, or at all.

WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON: That's ridiculous. The President has very clearly said he does not and will not eat entire balls of yarn. THE PRESIDENT, 1 HOUR LATER: *string hanging out of the corner of his mouth, which is full* I will never stop eating entire balls of yarn

Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing