I thought “Born to Run” was the most beyond-parody song (complimentary) on the neighborhood party playlist today, and then (for the first time?) I heard Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue,” which sounds like an outtake from MR. SHOW.

I still remember stumbling across this place while on a high school trip to DC, back when they let teenagers roam parts of the Capitol unsupervised. It was amazing.

The ideal of America has always been greater and more powerful than the reality. The dream of what we could be is always worth working and striving for.

The water temperature at the neighborhood pool today was 88 degrees, and it STILL felt cooler than the air.

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

Finished watching THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, and I must have a wool allergy, because my eyes got real real watery toward the end there.

When you’re definitely very secure and have nothing to compensate for.

If it turns out I have celiac disease, I’m going to live a lot longer because of all the awesome stuff I won’t be able to eat, and I will die mad about it.

Lighting up the @lschmeiser.bsky.social signal

My @cvilleweekly.bsky.social colleague Catie Ratliff and I have a brand-new update on the Ruckersville ICE raids, including interviews with one detainee and others whose family members were either stopped or taken by the sheriff's department and ICE.

This was every listing I saw while I was hunting for jobs last year.

Imagining the Pope suavely declaring “excommunicado” like Winston in JOHN WICK.

Enjoying a lively Wednesday evening: Just me, a spreadsheet, and some FBI crime statistics.

I'm simply saying that soccer would be better if two games were played simultaneously on two overlapping fields, arrayed in a + shape.

Got PERFECT DAYS on Blu-ray from the B&N 50% off Criterion sale, and friends, I have never been so excited to watch a man methodically clean public toilets. Again. (But seriously, this film lives up to its title, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.)

@kaine.senate.gov out here covering himself in — oh. Oh dear. That’s not glory. That’s definitely not glory. Senator, THAT’S NOT GLORY—

Someone asked me to explain the cultural significance of "Wonderwall" to the English I said maybe

Charlottesville’s E-Bike Voucher drawing is now accepting new applicants through the end of July! Sign up today if you are a city resident and you’d like a chance to get up to $1500 towards a new e-bike. connect.charlottesville.gov/charlottesvi...

Pitching a reimagining of the Akira Kurosawa classic, in which a wandering deadlifter pits two crooked small-town fitness centers against each other to bring them both down. I'm calling it YO, GYM BRO.

Happy @cvilleweekly.bsky.social day to all who celebrate! Here's a quick look at some highlights from this week's issue, starting with an update to last week's big breaking news... 🧵

Been reading and enjoying this project on WEBTOON. Schweizer does incredible worldbuilding with a very short runway, and his villain in particular is just outstandingly despicable. www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ou...

In 2020 I FOIA’d Charlottesville’s police department in search of their budget documents. They responded by pointing to a few lines in the city budget. I finally stumbled upon a more detailed document by accident 6 months later. The intentional disregard for transparency is anti-democratic.

CITY OF GOD feels like letting yourself get lost in a great novel. This story that unfurls around you and pulls you along with it, inviting you to watch it unfold. I need to watch it again sometime soonish.

Virginia is actually ahead of the game in this respect. Most states require full-blown litigation. In Va., you fill out a form, pay a filing fee and get a hearing in 7 days. Check our our Enforcement Center: opengovva.org/foiaenforcem...

My growing experience with Virginia FOIA laws is that exemptions for law enforcement are so broad that agencies can deny your request for basically any reason. With loopholes that big, the public's supposed ability to see public documents might as well not even exist.

Crozet folks, if you haven’t gone to pick blackberries at Chiles Peach Orchard, you’re missing out. We filled a basket with enormous berries, some of the sweetest I’ve ever had, for $20. The frost hit Chiles’ other orchards hard, so they could use your patronage.

There’s a reason FARSCAPE star Ben Browder has a fun little cameo in GUARDIANS VOL. 2…

Ahhhhhh dangit. Brad Bird has made two of my favorite movies. And RAY GUNN sounds right up my alley. But this is a bad, bad, self-serving answer about working with (at best) a sex pest funded by a fascist.

Since I’m here and taking notes helps me…. Here is the low down on the listening tour…..

Oh my gosh. OK. Rolling up the ol' sleeves here. A non-comprehensive list of old comedies I've seen, just off the top of my head that still hold up. (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is great. First saw it in my 20s, loved it then, love it now.)

They might’ve been their last giants.

@kaine.senate.gov is surprisingly and wildly inaccurate here. As of July 1, cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE will effectively be banned in Virginia in nearly all circumstances. (That said, electing officials who abide by that law is indeed up to us.)

As I took my kids into the Crozet Library, I was surprised to see a group of local Republicans coming out. I didn't think they'd be comfortable around that many books without a bonfire of some sort being involved.

This powerful, haunting essay by @emilyhughes.bsky.social helped me see the issues it explores in a way I never had before, and I truly appreciate that. defector.com/diabolical-m...

SPIDER-NOIR changes this up, pleasingly, by having both goons be lumpy and obtuse.

I hate it when a curiously gregarious pair of thugs, one large and one wiry, surprise me and beat the hell out of me in an attempt to ward me off of a mystery but who instead only confirm to me that I'm onto something.

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@creighdeeds.bsky.social and Sen. L. Louise Lucas are holding a Data Center Listening Tour in Charlottesville this Sunday from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. You can RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Why thank you, I’m told I have the eyebrows of a young Peter Gallagher.

"there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" ok well what if i eat a rice cake while looking at a picture of che guevara what then bitch

Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great #FilmSky

Question: What do you support that these folks don't, and vice versa? What are you willing to fight for that they aren't, and vice versa? And what message do you think appeals more to people: "Join us and accomplish things that make your life better," or "shut up and do what we tell you"?

NO NO BARBECUE FOR BIGOTS THE BRISKET DENIES YOU THE RIBS REJECT YOU YOU GO TO ARBY’S! TO ARBY’S!

Get this on my bookshelf ASAP, please and thank you. I've already preordered my copy from my local comic shop, and I urge you to do likewise. LAVENDER JACK is one of the best, smartest, most consistently well-executed superhero comics of the past decade. If you haven't read it, you're missing out.

Nice to see Sprocket enjoying a good life after his FRAGGLE ROCK fame.

Happy @cvilleweekly.bsky.social day to all who celebrate! Here's a rundown of some of this week's highlights, starting with CM Turner's cover story exploring how art and artists shaped the landscape of the Downtown Mall from its inception 50 years ago:

"The President refuses to make it easier for you to buy a house because he wants to make it harder for you to cast a ballot" is ... quite a message.

Nothing like calling an immigration detention center and hearing men in the office laughing and joking in the background, talking about a "hot date" and the little pants pocket where "we put our rubbers in."

Now we know how the Waynes got all their money.