Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

A lot of coverage is framing the gerrymandering referendum as a check on Trump's "agenda" or "policies" which is true, of course, but the basic issue is that Democrats are trying to limit the power of an authoritarian and his party. When it's framed that way "hardball" seems quite appropriate.

Well this isn’t confusing at all… 🤨

Ok Cville, so what is the DripBar and why would the FDA have a search warrant?? I’m starting to think I missed out on something good here in town…. 😄

brb, gotta go plan my funeral music now…

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

wut

Cville peeps - heads up on 20 towards town, police pursuit currently happening.

Samuel L. Jackson delivered it better… and at least he knew it was fiction. Even MAGA clocked Pete Hegseth’s bullshit. Next time, he should read this: “They claim to know God, but by their actions, they deny him.” — Epistle to Titus 1:16

Holding a "STATE" fair in Washington, DC a cruel, tasteless joke

Imagine the fatigue of having to treat Trump’s ramblings like profound wisdom every single day.

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Imagine having the audacity to lecture the Pope about matters of theology.

tonight we’re gonna post like it’s 1889

1st day post vacation: Woke up this morning and was expected to start my normal routine without Cuban coffee. Zero stars, do not recommend.

Just got home from a spring break trip and had to reset all my regular week alarms…kind of kills the vacation buzz. 😩

Rural Virginia sure has a lot of the “vote no on April 21” and “stop the steal on April 21” signs.

my god, this administration always finds a way to be cruel.

Not sad that I will be out of town…

I hope all the Trump supporters who love their “Christian” President felt blessed by his Easter post.

I think today is setting the record for most cowboy boots in Charlottesville.

In other news, gas on 5th street went from 3.99 to 4.19 yesterday, so that is fun.

Luke Combs bringing 60+k of his friends to Charlottesville on Easter weekend is a choice I could have lived without. 😩

Why is the sky turning pink at 12:45 in the morning?

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Finding my allergy medicine sitting next to my almost full cup of coffee explains so much about my day so far.

Kids bus has a current ETA of 2AM…I guess I will drink some coffee… 😴 How many of these kids will be going to school in the morning…

This sounds bad.

Iran is winning the trolling war!

The decision of who "deserves" to be a citizen and who doesn't comes down to this one man? Is that really the MAGA position now?

It is sounding like World Strides really dropped the ball on the CHS Chicago trip…😬

CHS parents, we have one teacher that is insisting that my kid complete work while on a school trip. Is this the norm? It would require my kid to take their Chromebook on the trip, which feels unnecessary.

One of the teen boys on our team said “the parents low key cook at these tournaments” , after running that through our 2026 slang filter it was determined that we had been complimented. 😂

I don't know these folks, but they're still my neighbors. I pitched in. Hope you can, too.

💔 happening over and over again. Please help if you can.

Y’all have given over 18k so far, this is wonderful! Please continue sharing so we can meet their goal! 🙏

Boosting this. It’s not just cruel and inhumane to be targeted by ICE, it’s also incredibly expensive, and this fam is really close to meeting their goal!

Charlottesville friends, this is for a beloved family in our community. They have been ordered to leave the country in a few weeks and this money will go to the appeal they are filing. If you know this family, you know what a loss this will be for all of us. Please share and donate as able.

Settled in at the hotel, ready to crash after a long day of watching the kid play Ultimate. We went 0-3 today but lost to a great team from Denver, then lost to the #1 team in the country and 3rd loss was to a PA team. They played hard and are back at it at dawn. 💤

At the 5th street Wawa…

My favorite coffee mug is now 25 years old and has been used on an almost daily basis since March 2001. Hopefully I get a few more years out of it!

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The Exxon on 5th street went from 3.25 - 3.69 within a few hours yesterday. All these travel tournaments coming up are going to be painful.

Hello Friday the 13th…

Welp, I guess summer is over…

This is bizarre.

Trump: "They're walking around with no legs"

Me: I don’t think the time change affected me that much… Also me: makes coffee incorrectly three times in a row this morning

CNN's Dana Bash reports on a conversation she just had with Trump: "He quickly turned to Cuba. He said without being asked, 'Cuba is going to fall pretty soon.'"

Lindsey Graham: "If we get in a fight, I want to win it quick. I'm in Miami. You see this hat? 'Free Cuba.' Stay tuned. The liberation of Cuba is upon us. We're marching through the world. We're clearing out the bad guys. Cuba is next."