Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

This war is dumb and illegal

TODAY, Sunday, March 1.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

You know what DID age well?

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Amazing. This will not be popular even in the reddist parts of the district.

“Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”

"Trump...launched a war that is illegal, ideological, and likely to cost American lives...he said less than a year ago that he had obliterated the very threat he now says justifies the war. He was either lying then, now, or both times." - @tomperriello.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/02/sen-...

Tulsi literally sold shirts

TODAY, 2/28/26!

I have seen no indication there was any immediate threat to Americans. So why did we put troops in harms way and potentially ignite another forever war?

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

Big crowd, lots of voices at yesterday's Sing Out! on the DTM.

"President Trump's attack on Iran is a colossal, dangerous blunder that threatens global security, underscores his own ineptitude as a self-proclaimed dealmaker and intends to distract us from his incompetence and corruption." - @papergirlmacy bluevirginia.us/2026/02/sen-...

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Kaine vows to block potential U.S. war with Iran

This was a hell of a thing to look at first thing today. Probably shouldn't be surprising that this administration is so mad at girls learning things.

"President Trump's decision to bomb Iran is indefensible. This was not about preempting an imminent threa - it was a strategically misguided power play, with no discernible endgame." Jon Hoffman Research Fellow in Defense and Foreign Policy Cato Institute

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/cancel-chatgpt-movement-goes-mainstream-after-openai-closes-deal-with-u-s-department-of-war-as-anthropic-refuses-to-surveil-american-citizens “There are no moral leaders in this space” #cancelchatgpt #aibubble #ethics

Would enjoy seeing this. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

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Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

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Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

Wait, you think that having a Secretary of Health and Human Services who is anti-science and anti-vaccine, and spreads death and disease because of his embrace of Internet quackery, is a BAD thing?

The Ranked-Choice-Voting bill introduced by @katrinacallsen.com has now passed the House and needs to be merged with its Senate version! https://ivn.us/posts/virginia-house-of-delegates-passes-ranked-choice-voting-expansion-2026-02-17

We’ve been raising the alarm for weeks about Trump’s attacks on our elections — now we’re getting details about how they might be planning to do it. Let’s be clear: there’s no national emergency. This is a plot to interfere with the will of voters.

Cruelty is the point

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An abomination in Kansas. Probably unconstitutional. This is the sort of thing that Winsome Earle-Sears would have loved. And she is right in the mainstream of the VA Republican Party.

This is an awesome public service, and we’re lucky to have it.

Virginia senators secure funding for ReadyKids

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Charlottesvillians making a positive difference. Kudos!

It's gonna take the "thumbs up" gesture, like, 40 years to be socially acceptable again.

This is really, really disturbing, dangerous sh** that everyone should be following. Thanks to @tomperriello.bsky.social for highlighting it! bluevirginia.us/2026/02/wedn...

VIRTUAL Bystander training to support the immigrant community. Sponsored by Westminster Presbyterian Church. Sunday, March 15, 4-5 pm. Register: tinyurl.com/j5n87jje

Pretty embarrassing.

A picture is worth 1000 words.

This stuff is a crisis. Thank goodness people like our own @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social are speaking up.

sometimes the founder of a company says something that simply stops you in your tracks and haunts you. There's one those in here from the creator of Einstein, an edtech AI that will go to school for you

Oooof.

It’s tough for a speech to be this fascist and this boring at the same time #SOTU2026

Listening to this speech you would hardly know that Trump has kicked 22 million Americans off their health insurance

If I were asked to deliver the State of the Union response last night: "I ain't listening to all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened."