Interested in learning more about how immigration policy affects local folks? Want to better understand why immigrants in our community have chosen to make a home here? Care to support bond payments for VAians held in ICE detention? You can do all three on Nov. 19! www.tixtree.com/e/freedom-fr...

Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.

leave trans people alone, don’t fuck with universities, and stop arresting our immigrant neighbors.

Lisa is awesome. Listen to Lisa!

Interested in trying out an e-bike? The next E-Bike Demo is Wednesday October 29th from noon-2pm at Ting Pavilion.

Down with daylight savings time!

Reminder that if Virginia poceeds with redistricting whoever is our Attorney General will defend us (or not) against the inevitable legal challenges. Not to mention defend (or not) our right to an abortion. Please VOTE for JAY JONES. We need him and he's gonna need every vote.

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I just saw an ad where Jason “I do whatever Trump wants” Miyares expressed his support for SRO’s. The majority of the Cville City and Albemarle County school boards align with Miyares on this issue, a strong indicator they are wrong. This is why I’m voting for Lisa Torres and Zyahna Bryant!

Today was joyful, defiant, and fun. Multigenerational. Uplifting. Locally, generous folks raised over $3k to bond VA immigrants out of ICE detention. An amazing use of 2hrs for thousands of people!

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

Every last word of this. Was honked and leered at just this morning. Often it happens while walking my kid to school / the bus stop. Mostly by men in cars.

hi charlottesville! if you're voting in the city school board election this november, there are four candidates running for three seats. here's where they stand on the return of police to our schools:

I still stand by this plan and am frustrated it's currently held up even though the City is trying to move it forward. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/im8p0...

It’s easy to feel powerless right now, but showing up for this will feel SO damn good. ACPS School Board meeting, 10/9, 6:30pm, Alb County office building at Preston & Mcintire

I never want to see another human trot across a crosswalk, hurry their stroller/kids/mobility device or rush a senior resident through an intersection or any road. It’s ridiculous, like we’ve been gifted some incredible act of patience and kindness from our auto overlords.

**Action for Albemarle Residents** Turning Point USA (a "hard right extremist group" per the SPLC) has invited an explicitly anti-trans presentation to be given to the kids at WAHS. Email [email protected] Tell them to support trans & LGBTQ+ students & keep kids safe in school!

Y’all you never know what might happen to you between now and Nov 4. You could be abducted by aliens, the rapture, etc. Get your vote in!

ACTION FOR CVILLE RESIDENTS: email [email protected] & [email protected] Tell them you oppose the City paying a significant amount for police in schools while school support staff earn $20K-$30K LESS per year than a living wage. *Prioritize paying a living wage*

Improving bike/ped infrastructure takes longer and is more expensive than I want. And we have a LOT of catching up to do. But after decades of ignoring it, we do finally have the support to prioritize bike lanes, sidewalks, and traffic calming at the City. Keep riding, walking, and pushing for more!

TFW you will absolutely cancel your Disney+ subscription but you have to finish watching Andor first 😆

i will also be voting for Lisa Torres and Dashad Cooper! I will NOT be voting for Emily Dooley, whose time as chair was spent shoving through an expensive & dangerous policy (SROs) without genuine community input or meaningful guardrails.

Louder for the voters in the back! Lisa Larson-Torres and @zysaidso.bsky.social are the only ones up for election who are serious about alternatives to armed police in our schools. Please vote accordingly!

Cville- Lisa Torres is unequivocally the School Board member who has one of my three votes. It’s not even close. Lisa listens, deeply cares, asks questions on all sides of an issue, & ensures well-rounded policy. She works for our community, not her own aggrandizement.

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

Read this and immediately felt better

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The GOP's education playbook. Step 1: Make public schooling as shitty and stressful as possible for kids and parents and teachers. Step 2: Sell private schooling as the antidote to the stress and shittiness. Step 3: Funnel public education money into private hands.

What if Democrats had defended immigration over the last few years instead of running from it?

May these be wildly effective at keeping our youngest road users safe 🙏🏻

#charlottesville #cville #poetry

If there were a “Department of War” it would obviously be very very small when we aren’t at war, right?

ACTION ALERT: Tell city council to reject the ordinance to ban camping on city property! On Tuesday, September 2nd (tomorrow!), City Council will be considering an ordinance that would make it illegal to sleep on city property or to leave personal property unattended on city land. 🧵

This proposed ordinance is abjectly terrible for many reasons, but as someone who cares a whole awful lot about bike and ped safety, I call BULLSHIT on the police chief saying we need to criminalize homelessness “to ensure accessibility for pedestrians.”

I looked back @cvilleschools.bsky.social timeline on deciding to place police back in schools despite evidence that this move actively harms kids and found that it seems to be based on an analysis conducted by a firm called Navigate360. charlottesvillepublic.ic-board.com/attachments/...

Aside from Amazon web services Amazon is prob the easiest one for us to cut out of our lives. Takes you to some neat alternatives or second hand options too. #BoycottAmazon

This tracks with what I experienced as a Zoom participant last night, and fills in the gaps of what was actually happening in the audience—there was no video or audio for what was going on in the room, so in addition to being canned this event was also not fully accessible.

The Charlottesville School board has voted to put armed police back in schools. The agreement they’ve proposed cedes too much authority to police. Concerned parents are demanding revisions to the MOU with police that will better protect students. Please consider singing on! chng.it/MPx94YGjWm

What he said!

The Revolving Door Project has been critiquing the Abundance agenda for some time. Regulatory "red tape" is not the main reason why we're not building enough affordable housing and clean energy. Concentrated economic and political power (i.e., oligarchy) is the biggest culprit.

This street should be forever closed

Reposting for the folks who think the City doesn’t care about safe streets. Is this a done deal? No. Will it cost a lot and take a long time? Yes. Has the City ever done more to prioritize traffic calming? No! Huge opp here, folks. Let’s not waste our energy making the City out to be the bad guys.

Paging Charlottesville

We can celebrate that these people who have been unlawfully detained by our country are no longer in CECOT (or maybe just exhale?), but their return to Venezuela does not by any stretch mean they are free.

So grateful for the commitment of @nat4cville.bsky.social and @jenfleisher.bsky.social to improving city bike + ped infrastructure. (On matching bikes no less!)

These incredible kids, who should be at home playing, doing kid things, are instead begging their elected reps to recognize their humanity. Grateful for their bravery and steadfastness, and just wish they didn’t have to do this.

#MAGAMurderBill is the only apt descriptor for this evil monstrosity that will empower the regime to do away with whomever they deem undesirable.

What’s never measured are the costs associated with fams opting out of public schools. There’s the fed $ lost, alongside the “costs” of perpetuating segregation, opting out of community, lack of advocacy for public school needs, reduced public school volunteering + PTO participation… I could go on

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

MAGA MURDER BILL MAGA MURDER BILL MAGA MURDER BILL Begging people to stop using the name that MAGA has given this deadly bill. Scare quotes will not cut it.