(Wyoming Co.) This is from along Indian Creek. Would you wash your dishes in it? Bathe your kids in it? Drink it? #waterforwv #water4wv @appvoices.org @reimagineappal8ia.bsky.social @appcitizenslaw.bsky.social

I shed a tear listening to a recording of the bench decision. This is my America.

If they wanted to take over the country, they only had to wait like three weeks until every technocratic nerd was unreachably distracted. They fundamentally do not understand us, and that is why they will lose.

Note to self: if you ask your favorite streaming service to play 90s British pop music as a pick me up, keep in mind Radiohead is in that category. #ThisIsWhatYouGet

Early morning love poem.

Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship. #BlackHistoryMonth

The hunt for exemptions begins. Get in line.

West Virginia’s scores held steady on an education assessment called the Nation’s Report Card, but its academic performance remained below that of most states.

If there is any doubt that tariffs are passed through to consumers, the cost of propane to heat my house just went up by the amount of the tariff

Today’s Black History lesson comes from Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black History month. (Lecture notes below)

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

I haven’t heard if we’re allowed to do Black History Month now but I’m posting this thing I drew about Robert Smalls anyway

Black Appalachian history is the most erased history. Change my mind. (Yes, Pittsburgh is #Appalachia)

Whether it’s the Minneapolis Veterans Home or the State Patrol Headquarters, our 2025 Infrastructure Plan is focused on maintaining and building facilities to better serve those who serve us.

“Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

My kids' homeschool assignment: note names missing from this release. Speculate why. What agenda is being promoted here? #homeschool

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

Not sure we entirely did this correctly but here it is, the unofficial and yet to be complete Appalachia Starter Pack go.bsky.app/QwUpFwL

More #WestVirginiaFlood photos

You've made it.

New: West Virginia foster kids' sweeping 2019 lawsuit against the state will not go to trial in March after the state successfully sought a delay ... an attorney representing the state has a scheduling conflict: his mom's 70th birthday party. westvirginiawatch.com/briefs/trial...

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

The 14-yo has an assignment where he has to write as 18th-19th Century Geologist Georges Cuvier. I'm trying to edit it, and I swear the font is throwing me off. It's too contemporary! #homeschool

And after it snows in #WestVirginia, it rains and melts . . . This is more or less normal and expected here.

really good (and important) to see organizations like @rwjf.bsky.social — who are more insulated from the federal government's recent efforts to undermine research — reaffirming their commitment to doing health policy work centered around equity and inequality www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwj...

why does this look like the behind the scenes of the trolley problem

Tell me, friends, about something you thought was lost or ruined forever that's now better than before. To increase signal-to-noise ratio, if you can't think of anything, rather than reply to say "I have no answer" please read/enjoy the replies; perhaps you'll have an answer to the next #ShellQ

If you see this post a gif from one of your comfort shows

"Does your dog bite?" "No, it's worse... she judges"

trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.

#tbt to 1923. Prescient.

I keep looking at her haircut, her purse, those glasses, that outfit. That's a woman who didn't expect a confrontation. She doesn't even have a story prepared. She's surprised to get a no.

“There shouldn’t be no question as to what the quality of the water is, there shouldn’t be no question if it’s going to be there tomorrow,” said Mingo County resident Anthony Lee Adams. #waterforwv www.wowktv.com/video/mingo-...

When I was in high school, I never fully appreciated what it meant to be taught Civics and the Constitution by a religious minority. (Jehovah's Witness, does not pledge allegiance or take oaths as a religious belief) No one knows how to read the Constitution like someone who needs it.

I just wish #yall would signal boost the Black people who are telling you this is Jim Crow more than you signal boost the non-black people who are saying it's Nazi Germany. I know why you won't though. . .

A friend in labor organizing shared this image today. It applies in a lot of situations, across a number of fields.

lol the worst thing you can call a racist is a racist. People see racism as a moral failing and thats why calling it out is so important because racism is a moral failing. You're basing your entire worldview on how the sun reacts to my skin? You're literally stupid lol

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

What cartoon characters do you think would have participated in J6?

Never mistake Episcopalians for Anglican Catholics.

Never change, CPSC.

I'm over here like, which has better tasting food?

Imagine me, a second generation college student, feeling it was presumptuous to mention my dad went to WVU in my WVU admissions essay.

#ApraxicErrors that should be actual words: instresseded.

Kids are hilarious. Avian Conservationist: Feel the back of your neck. You have bones to hold your head up. Cub Scout: THANKFULLY! #ScoutMeIn

Please please please, legal scholars, make the Jack Sparrow Rule a thing. I think I'm going to teach the Constitution to my kids like this.

Great long thread about similar strategies I've been discussing here for riding waves of uncertainty. I learned a lot the first time round and had a plan in place this time that has WORKED. 1. Focus on what you can control 2. Limit your inputs