The Board ignored our staff, faculty, students, and alumni ….everyone whose day-to-day life makes the University what it is. They also ignored the Governor-Elect and the General Assembly.

If you are among the faculty, staff, or students are UVA who are as incensed about this as I am, come join the UCWVA so and be part of the organized effort to build worker power and push back against this takeover. We can win this fight, but only if we stand united www.cbs19news.com/news/report-...

Cville folx, come join us in telling the Board what we think of their... actions... of late. We'll have signs, but feel free to bring your own!

I recommended @tjenkinsreid.bsky.social's ATMOSPHERE and there are a ton of other great picks here!

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@ucwva.bsky.social @aaup.org Come out to UVA on Friday Dec 5th! We are marching on the Board of Visitors!

Welcome back @emily.gorcen.ski www.cvilletomorrow.org/shes-been-ar...

Charlottesville friends, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center @jsaahccville.bsky.social has released a great new app--History in the Palm of Your Hand. It explores the story of the school & our city through audio, photos, documents & maps. It's very cool. mailchi.mp/jeffschoolhr...

My state senator, @creighdeeds.bsky.social, could not get answers from the University of Virginia (which he represents) about the ousting of President Jim Ryan, so he FOIAed them, for which they charged him $4,500 and took one month and four days to respond (five days are allowed by law).

come work with me! @uvalibrary.bsky.social is hiring an Educational Technologies Librarian to (among other things) teach students how to make cool audio/visual projects. details: apply.interfolio.com/176554

can confirm that the only time I've been rejected by the UVA Library or JMRL is when they can't find the title to buy or already own the book, and I've requested a LOT of books

Aperio, UVA’s library-led open access press, is actively seeking book proposals from the UVA community to publish high-quality books that are available to a worldwide audience free of charge. Learn more about our book program at aperio.press/proposal-boo... #OA #OpenAccess

"every year we get one year closer to dying so every year we have to eat more candy" - my girlfriend, this morning, with her full chest

Diversity is at the heart of union power 💪🏼

by some miracle (organizing), UVA did the right thing this time

I think UVA HR may be missing the point of a "holiday break" in this email advertising a session to "transform your holiday break into a powerful period of career advancement"

SPREAD THE WORD!!

the hoos are hoopin

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

luv 2 receive emails titled "Continuing to Preserve our Financial Stability in a Shifting Economic Climate" from our interim president who's interim because our other president was forced to resign 🙃🙃🙃🙃

Excellent coverage of yesterday's Labor Day rally from nbc29: www.29news.com/2025/09/02/c...

I was talking to one of our legislators at a Labor Day rally today and as I was trying to make a Serious Point a dog came up behind me and stuck his nose in the back of my knee, therefore ruining my composure AND denying me an opportunity to pet it because I had to go back to my Serious Point 😭

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I just sent my email even though I am an Albemarle County resident!

Members of the UVA and Charlottesville community will hold a “Labor Day teach-in." Here's more information. www.cvilletomorrow.org/attend-a-lab...

Stop by the UVA Library tent today and chat with librarians and learn about the Library. (& grab some swag). They'll be there until about 2 pm. Happy Wahoo Welcome!

The Faculty Committee of UCWVA at UVA has released its call for the reconstitution of the Presidential search committee. They call for 75% of the committee to be from workers, students, and Cville community members, elected by their communities. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

UVA LABOR DAY TEACH-IN! Noon - 1 pm!

Reminder to my Cville friends: the start of public schools and return of UVA students inevitably results in an upturn in COVID (and other respiratory illnesses). This is a good time to start wearing a mask indoors again.

UVA's wall-to wall union, UCWVA at UVA has joined the Faculty Senate, Student Council, Wahoos4UVA, Emeritus faculty, and others in expressing No Confidence in the Board of Visitors. ucwva.org/who-we-are/u...

It is so hard, with all the fascism, to decide what kind of activism to put your efforts into; there are countless phone calls I could be making or protests I could be attending everyday. But I think you really have to pick a topic/approach and specialize in it. 1/

Retired professors now “no confidence” in current #UVA board of visitors! Including former University Professors (our highest academic achievement) & many from the putative glory days that President Ryan was ostensibly abandoning: www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...? @scvanvalkenburg.bsky.social

Health insurance should cover the little treat I need to buy myself after every doctor's appointment. I was brave! I deserve it!

“Once certified, Norfolk workers will join IAM Local 10 based in Richmond. It’s the same branch Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden workers in Henrico County joined after unionizing in 2024.”

At today’s union rally to keep the “Kroger in the hole” open. Indivisible Charlottesville representin’. Also there, Council member Michael Payne, and a number of longtime local activists, showing up to say Union Yes!

Wednesday July 16, 5pm: Rally to Keep Our Krogers Open, Kroger #239, 1904 Emmett Street. Kroger workers are members of UFCW Local 400 and need support from their community--that's us-- to keep this store open! More info and RSVP here: www.ufcw400.org/2025/07/07/r...

If you think a group of workere should strike (or not strike) it’s very simple. 1. Get a job doing that work 2. Organize your workplace 3. Convince your coworkers to do that thing 4. Do it your self (together) Until you do all that, don’t tell other workers they should strike

this is exactly right. the goal of youngkin and his board of visitors is to rewind the clock back to when UVA was a school for unexceptional children of the state’s conservative elites. even expanding UVA to serve all of the state’s talented students, regardless of background, is too much.

it’s actually a genuinely insane feeling to sit on the patio listening to the military helicopter over my neighborhood because the genocide man is getting a private tour of our local plantation

The union that represents Kroger workers is planning a protest to fight to keep the Charlottesville store on Emmett Street open.

The demand for “viewpoint diversity” does not extend to the Board of Visitors at UVA. As usual THE CAVALIER DAILY is a very fine newspaper. Perhaps we should get some of its journalists appointed to the NYTimes. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

UVA’s chapter of United Campus Workers (UCW), a union for public higher education workers, condemned President Ryan’s ouster as “federal authoritarianism and interference” and “politically motivated attacks” in a statement. www.cvilletomorrow.org/this-is-our-...

i know fireworks are so fun but have you considered that you’re making my dogs so sad

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"By forcing out a university president who has spent his term ... ordering violent police attacks on peaceful student protesters, and dismantling programs that enhance diversity and equity, the Trump administration has made it clear that no capitulation will be sufficient."

if you get a paycheck from UVa there’s really no better time than right now to join our union: ucwva.org/get-involved...

truly don’t understand why he thinks they aren’t going to do all of this anyway. funding cuts, firings, visa terminations, and much worse. could have at least forced their hand and made some kind of public show of defending us.

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The Albemarle County School Board just voted to raise their own salaries from $7,915 to $16,249.00. 👀 In a year where we lost 45 FTEs because of budget cuts, and the rest of us are getting a raise of 3%. Don’t tell me they can’t find money for things when they really want to.

I got to recommend some queer and trans books for Pride month again this year!