❄️ Cville SOS ❄️ Is there somewhere closer than RVA that sharpens skates now that the Main St Arena is closed?

“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.” — Miles Davis

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I once asked my late uncle what he thought ended the legal Jim Crow era. He immediately responded that the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 were the moment Jim Crow died. When I asked him why he said: “When White folks fight White folks, it changes everything. Enough was enough.”

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

My kid came home sick this afternoon, and promptly tested positive for Influenza A. My physician is going to call in a prophylactic prescription for Tamiflu, for my wife and, because we've been exposed. If you're exposed to flu this season, consider asking your doctor about the same.

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

How is this better than … a picture of their badge?

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)

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

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

“.. Her swift defiance of Mr. Trump made clear that his plans to swoop into the South American nation and run it as his own faced many more hurdles than he suggested ..” @nytimes.com 🇻🇪 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

Very important signal here. You can say it's abt oil. And part of it is. But the White House is actually being forced to strongarm the oil companies to get involved. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Before President Trump announced on Saturday that the U.S. had captured President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, the U.S. military had launched one of the largest deployments of its forces to the Caribbean region in decades. About 15,000 troops were in the region by December, the military said.

Never seen a purer piece of writing by committee.

The AOC/MTG nexus of American politics: it’s the oil not the drugs.

I would not have had the guts to take Sue up on this offer as a grad student (because 🤩🥰🫠). But I was silly and you are smart! Go hang out with Sue. Double up with a friend if you want a wing(wo)man.

Sue is truly the best. If you're at the meetings this would very much be the highlight! If you're junior it can be scary bc she is SUE DYNARSKI, sure sure but she's both amazing AND incredibly kind and generous so get over it

But for some reason the USPS is supposed to make money

Off to a good start

You absolutely love to see it!!!

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Former Republican governor of NJ posted this warning and article about the DOJ doing voter registration purges in the states stateline.org/2025/12/18/t...

The Senator from Henrico nails it. The rule of law is still alive and well in Virginia, and our new Gov will be well within her rights to remove the Board.

This is the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation of university president selections. (You can tell they know this will be well-received, popular, and accepted as legitimate by the late-Friday-afternoon-before-Christmas email announcement.)

Wahoos4UVA right on the nose

Here’s the thing: Any internal candidate who wanted to serve well would have asked to delay. Why burden yourself with that baggage? Darden students — put revealed preference to work: what did you just learn about this leader?

I think about this the way that punt coverage works in football: you don't actually want everyone making a directly line to the ball, you actually want different players occupying different lanes because *the punt returner is going to move!* and you want to have broad coverage of the field.

Brutal numbers for food in the latest inflation report: - bananas rose 6.7 percent in the past year -beef and veal rose by 15.8 percent -coffee, which rose 18.8 percent in the last year. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

See if you can spot Liberation Day. @usapolling.bsky.social

Kimchi is killer on mac & cheese, too.

Yall you gotta order your Christmas gifts by the end of the weekend.

Another reason that we need Albemarle County to be more affordable! 60% of school employees live out of the county. 🫠

a fun fact about Tom Perriello is that he is the only member of congress who reviewed and made edits to the original Indivisible Guide before we launched it

20th Century housing reformers largely banned single room rentals to make their externalities go away. But did so without fully accounting for the unintended consequences. As a result, it’s now harder to move to a new city and easier to go homeless. www.richmondfed.org/publications...

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them

If you want to tell me the plain language of the Constitution means something entirely different, you ought to have a heavy burden. But because we've allowed the public practices of folk constitutionalism to atrophy into lawyerly monopoly (see below), there's a brute appeal to authority available.

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.