We had a fairly small space to discuss a lot of bills, but you’ll find more info on at least some of what local legislators are proposing this year in tomorrow’s @cvilleweekly.bsky.social!

Sounds right!

This administration’s rampant Islamophobic rhetoric and actions are dangerous and unconscionable.

AOC is on point.

Honored to have our next Governor, Abigail Spanberger, endorsing our campaign! thehill.com/homenews/cam...

A lower fed rate helps big tech companies make more money and drives up inflation, jacking up costs for people who work for a living. Trump targeting Jerome Powell is intimidation style politics with the goal of helping the rich get richer while working folks foot the bill at the supermarket.

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

Second, and probably most importantly, it's tactically wrong. "No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won't be elections anyway" cedes victory to your enemies. It's defeatism and nihilism.

The Fed was designed to operate independently, insulated from political pressure, so that it can make tough decisions based on data and the long-term health of the economy, not the whims of any one president.

WARNER: It used to take 5 to 6 months to get trained. They've now lowered the training period to 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump's the 47th president. Tell me that's a rational approach KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts

Some of us find these images therapeutic, and we will not apologize for savoring them.

But I have to admit that he does have a point. Some White people *were* treated badly as a result of Civil Rights law. Specifically, White people who banned Black people from renting their apartments. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html

Become uncontainable

This is very dark and also very funny. This is not a scene from a Paul Thomas Anderson movie??

Representatives were elected for every voting precinct in the city. The Cville Dems are here for everyone! Sign up for our newsletter at cvilledems.org, or contact the Chair at [email protected].

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.

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.

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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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

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