You cannot post something like this on the Internet and expect the universe not to respond.

Again, this was a foregone conclusion, so schools like UVA that were tripping over themselves to sign up for the Trump gold-colored Star of approval really just wanted to collaborate.

this saturday! bring your kids-- we'll have crafts and activities and at least one pokemon encyclopedia 🙏

The concept of communicable disease is incompatible with conservative ideology

Hark upon the gale

If your feed has gotten quiet about MN, this is a good reminder to keep finding ways to help/donate/amplify.

There is no fixing this. There is no training nor reform that will mitigate this. #AbolishICE. No funding for DHS. Call/email/contact @markwarner.bsky.social and @kaine.senate.gov (if you can get through bc Kaine seems to make it as difficult as possible). #ICEoutForGood.

I'll take that glimmer of positivity. Way to go, Cville!

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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

the children are protesting from inside the camps. i hope they know that we hear them.

Unless they are stopped, all the worst things that Trump and the Republican Party are going to do are in the future, not the past.

This makes stopping them the highest priority for the future of human life on the planet.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

UVA Today daily propaganda report, headline 'First Coffee' launches Scott Beardsley's first full week as UVA's 10th president Lede Drawing on a tradition from his years as dean of the Darden School of Business, Beardsley hrought "First Coffee" in the Office of the… [image cuts off] There is an image of president manqué Beardsley talking to notably few others outside the office of the president. All the people in the image appear to be extremely white

know there’s a lot going on but don’t want to lose sight of UVA trying to pass off as legitimate the president that an illegally constituted board appointed with unseemly haste in a farcical process that shut out the entire rest of the community & even in their propaganda they can’t include a POC

We Are the Bad Guys The swaggering threat to global stability is us.

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

This graphic says hands off Venezuela, Raleigh organized by Charlottesville DSA, January 4, one P.M., Charlottesville Federal, Courthouse, 255 West Main St.

Yes, contact your elected representatives ; then join your fellow community members this afternoon, organized by @cvilledsa.bsky.social . #HandsOffVenezuela.

Took my kids' admonitions to heart and severely limited my doom scrolling to start 2026. I see the world did not similarly limit their doom output, however.

Tom is right person for this moment - someone who cares deeply about his constituents and is willing to fight for them

This guy got a PhD to become a university president.He got a PhD in "Higher Ed Admin" & wrote a diss./book about "non traditional presidents" aka consultant class experts who believe that faculty and students have too much say. Fullest expression of the BOV contempt for UVA &especially faculty.

To my mind, the speed of this search is the definition of *malfeasance.*

It was politics over the health and integrity of the university from beginning to end--from firing President Ryan to now.

The appointees have consistently put the desires of Trump and Youngkin over UVA.

Spanberger should remove the whole board on day 1.

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.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

U-Va. board likely to name president Friday amid calls to pause search A vote by the University of Virginia’s board would come after Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) and others urged members to halt the search until she takes office.

The dean of the University of Virginia’s business school has emerged as the top candidate in the search for the flagship’s next president ahead of a board meeting Friday.

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media

my latest for @newrepublic.com

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This should be a crime

Just say no!

Based on the number of locals who seemed shocked that there was snow in the forecast today, I feel obligated to report that my 2 for 2 weather app is predicting more wintery stuff in Cville on Friday...

We also got Jimmy Carters! And I'm so mad that all the Christmas cards got snowflakes without my review.