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Jason Vandever was re-elected as Treasurer (4/5).

Ruth Goldeen was re-elected as Secretary (3/5).

Bellamy Brown was elected as Vice Chair (2/5).

This weekend (1/10/26) the Cville Dems had our bi-annual re-organization meeting and election of members and officers for the next two years. Josh Throneburg was re-elected as Chair (following a term as Co-Chair with Nancy Damon) (1/5).

This got me tearing up a bit. It’s been an emotional day. Indivisible Charlottesville had our ICE Out for Good vigil today in Market Street Park, where the Unite the Right Riot was in 2017, and the emotions were heavy.

Amazing.

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."

Massive crowd in Market Street Park on a cold Sunday afternoon to protest against ICE. Organized by Indivisible Charlottesville and partner organizations, 1-11-2026.

Renée Good’s murder is a line in the sand. It’s also a clarifying moment, watching so many on the right double down - excusing and endorsing state-sponsored terror. So we organize. Build our movement. All in the best tradition of American democracy.

Video: Regarding Trump’s Threats to Greenland, Sen. Tim Kaine Vows “Congress will stop him, both Democrats and Republicans…We’re not going to do it the ‘hard way’ and we’re not going to do it the ‘easy way’ either.” bluevirginia.us/2026/01/vide... h/t @atrupar.com

As if we didn’t already have enough damming knowledge of the process that led to this disappointment.

The sheer indignity of citing a dictionary to a judge and then him taking a look at it and saying “ok but did you read the second line.” I would move to Mars.

Honor the lives lost. Make visible the human cost of this regime’s actions. Demand accountability. ICE Out For Good: A Vigil for Those Killed by ICE. Today, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM. Market Street Park. See you later Cville.

This is *always* how it works with metals tariffs. We saw this with the Bush steel tariffs and the Trump I tariffs. You get a few jobs in steel and you lose a lot of jobs in every industry that *uses* steel. It kills manufacturing. There’s been a lot of work on this. #econsky

A Turning Point for Trump’s Marauding Secret Police talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-tur...

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

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Thanks for coming by!

Renee Good should still be here. She was a beloved child of God, with inherent value and infinite worth. She was murdered by her own government in broad daylight in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on the planet.

Local crooner comments. He is not wrong.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Frey: "I think the initial impetus to come to MN was to arrest & deport a bunch of Somali people. They got here & realized the Somali people that would be deported are all citizens. Then they turned their ire toward our Latino community & others. These are communities that make Mpls a better place."

This one isn't as sharp as I would like but I still love this shot I got two years ago today! The vibrant reflection on the Puyallup River in Tacoma was caused by different colored shipping containers and I watched as this Common Merganser paddled right into the shot. #Birds #Nature #Photography

🧵 1/4 First daily quarters is a heavy one. As someone who’s worked to protect his community, but in uniformed service and as a local elected leader, the killing of Renee Good by a federal ICE agent in Minneapolis weighs on my heart.

ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good during an operation in Minneapolis needs to be a galvanizing moment for every American to join the activists who’ve been fighting this brutality day in and day out for years in saying: ENOUGH.

For Renee Nicole Good Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman.

Uhhhhhhhhhh…..

Every bit is shocking as one might have imagined.

ICE Out For Good: Vigil for those murdered by ICE. Sunday 2-3 pm at Market Street Park, Charlottesville. Updates coming soon. #AbolishICE

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

At this point it's just a frog skeleton in a dry scorched pot

Take lessons from this woman substack.com/@thecycle/no...

That’s beautiful. Thank you, whoever did that. 

TOMORROW, Saturday, January 10.

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

Amazing.

OK, so this is something I want to talk about, as a candidate. A LOT of Dems are really convinced that people only vote on economics, that affordability is the only issue, and you can't talk about anything else. But...

We are the plan. We keep us safe. We will not shut up or back down. We will do EVERYTHING in our power to work towards building the sort of representative democracy we all deserve; free from state violence and terrorism. CALL YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM TO DO THE SAME.

**** IMPORTANT: Anyone who wishes to be involved in the caucus must arrive to sign in before 6pm. Hope to see you there!!

Mark your calendar for Jan. 10! Everyone who supports the Democratic Party can join our important Charlottesville Dems meeting and bring some like-minded pals! Represent your precinct in the local party, be involved in party decision making, be a voice and broaden the representation in the Party.

Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles. Absolutely vile.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

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Wow