Bluesky watching scaffolding together

Ever see Jamelle Bouie's animation of the trans-Atlantic slave trade? It's amazing and horrifying. He had his doubts later that maybe it tends to reduce the horrors to an abstraction (www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/o...), but I think it is helpful in shocking the conscience. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A great event this coming Sunday, June 14! @indivisiblecville.bsky.social

I'm working on it. secure.actblue.com/donate/senat...

“He owns 11 homes” cannot be repeated enough

Sometimes, “the people” are kind of like a cat.

This is the work of our congressional representative, John McGuire. 4.3 million households with hungry kids. Thank you very much.

Can we all get together and push this wonderful woman over the finish line?

Putting Virginia first means putting the interests of the majority of Virginians first. The majority of Virginia voters want to tax millionaires, billionaires, and trillionaires at higher rates, AND we want to end massive tax breaks for the data center industry. Let’s get it done!

I authored the amendment adopted by the Senate of Virginia in our version of the budget to end the data center sales tax exemption. That’s money we need to fix roads and feed kids, not subsidize the greed of a multi-trillion-dollar industry clearcutting the woods and endangering the Potomac River.

This will be as much fun as watching the Robert E. Lee monument being hauled away on the back of a truck!

There once was a murderous Swede Who to Ireland he went for the deed With guns he was deft But with driving bereft And with that his life he did cede

🔥 SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov: “This war in Iran is the worst foreign policy blunder since Iraq. And just like the Iraq war, it’s a war built on lies. The ‘America first’ President who said he would end foreign wars, now he says all we can afford is war.”

“.. Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense,” she wrote in her comment, according to Reuters. @variety.com variety.com/2026/music/n...

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Training for my return to session….

Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

Amazing stuff.

An accurate and very telling observation.

I don't know how Keir Starmer can wake up in the morning, see that pogroms have been taking place under his watch, that they are being fuelled by literal illegal activity on social media, and not make it his entire purpose to stop it. We know you're no politician, but are you not a lawyer?

Hear, hear.

We hope that everyone is paying attention to this primary! This is a great opportunity to get to know two of the candidates.

Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth

It’s good to know that the Secretary of Defense has added to his portfolio of responsibilities the task of deciding who is and is not really a Christian.

A new state report found 13 of Virginia’s 36 rural hospitals are at risk of closure, including five considered at “immediate risk,” raising concerns about health care access in rural communities already facing staffing shortages and financial strain. virginiamercury.com/2026/06/10/s...

Important local journalism on the devastation John McGuire’s vote has caused to rural people in our Congressional District.

Hey cville people, my friend recently had her bike stolen in Southwood, if you see this orange e-cells bike around please let me know!

Local blowhards have been making these claims against the SPLC on Nextdoor and Facebook. We in Charlottesville take these matters deadly seriously. Thank you, Representative Raskin, for setting the record straight.

An atrocity. Where is the government?

Just voted HELL NO on the Republican scheme to rip healthcare away from the American people in order to fund ICE brutality.

Becerra FTW!

This is comedy gold, as is so much we get from Rob Wittman.

Ouch: "The AFL-CIO condemns, in the strongest possible terms, Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s veto of collective bargaining legislation that she had pledged to support & had helped to shape. Her betrayal is an affront...to the entire labor movement & all working people." bluevirginia.us/2026/05/4-mo...

The New York Knicks have released a commemorative $250 note

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer…. Ah, screw it. Let’s just forget Nancy Mace ever happened.

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Come work with me! This is a new position within UVA English, centered on the academic mission. Might be particularly attractive to an excellent student of someone in my feeds: universityofvirginiamigration.phenompeople.net/us/en/job/UO...

Are we still “testing the ceasefire?”

It can’t be emphasized enough how problematic it is that a self-proclaimed Marxist, living in Germany is trying to influence an American election with antisemitic propaganda. The optics of this are absolutely insane. Corey Archibald is the cofounder of Track AIPAC.

STEPHEN A. SMITH: “The Knicks lost. Obviously, I’m blaming Trump. He disrupted our mojo… I’d put my I.Q. up against his any day of the week.”

The Monacan Nation is a pillar of our region, and their powwow is an annual highlight. Much thanks to Chief Diane Shields and all who invited us to share in this incredible event.

Video: Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA04) Delivers Powerful Speech About Juneteenth, Republicans’ Assault on Voting Rights; Declares "We're going to fight back as the Congressional Black Caucus; we will not let our voices be silenced!" bluevirginia.us/2026/06/vide...

Governor Spanberger and the Democratic legislature in Virginia are standing firm for Virginia women against all of these outrages.

Seems VERY important for voters to know about this.