Republicans in the states are redistricting early at the behest of Donald Trump.
The response by Dems in Virginia, California, and elsewhere to counter-balance is being triggered only by a blatant plot to steal the midterms.
This isn’t a race to the bottom.
It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.
National Library Workers Day: Libraries Work Because We Do. April 21, 2026. ALA-APA logo
It's National Library Workers Day, our favorite day of #NationalLibraryWeek where we celebrate the hardworking, dedicated professionals who power possibility in our neighborhoods, our schools, and our places of higher learning.
Thank you, library workers - libraries work because YOU do! #NLWD26
Some of the books requested by our Guest Booksellers for Independent Bookstore Day - April 25. We have authors, community leaders, bookstagrammers, and other bookish friends coming to help us. And WOW did they choose some amazing books to share!
ONE WEEK TO GO! We can't wait to see everyone on Saturday, April 25, for Independent Bookstore Day and the kick-off to the Greater RVA Indie Bookstore Tour. Please share this widely with your fellow Richmond-area book lovers. And stay tuned to see who is going to be hanging out in the shop that day!
Join us on Saturday at 1:00!
Thanks, all who attended, for the great conversations on politics, data, and more! Trusted Source is next up in my queue.
Tomorrow evening, VPAP's David Poole talks Trusted Source with @bookpeoplerva.bsky.social. Join us for free. www.bookpeoplerichmond.com/event/2026-0...
"ICC can prosecute crimes against humanity, which are serious violations committed as part of a large-scale attack against any civilian population." www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-th...
Look, honey, The Crusades are back.
Today is #TransDayOfVisibility, & I wanted to share this great reading list that @slj.com put together last year. It features 14 books for middle grade & teen readers by trans creators or about trans characters. Add some to your list or your library! ❤️🏳️⚧️
It's already illegal to vote if you're not a citizen.
They're trying to convince us there are droves of people who are willing to risk deportation and the abuse that we are seeing from ICE to vote illegally.
It defies credulity and it's simply not true.
That is a lot of small empty shoes, RVA.
Tomorrow could be the largest protest in U.S. history, with millions expected to take to the streets against the rise of fascism in our White House.
As a human rights lawyer, I made this video with 13 rules you need to protect yourself while protesting.
Rather than help our Nation get better, House Republicans intentionally chose to extend their chaos.
Noncitizen voting is extraordinarily rare – in many audits, less than one hundreth of one percent of all votes cast.
The SAVE Act is a total sham, cracking down on a problem that isn’t real.
excited to share our first three OFFICIAL CHANNELS for Nationals.TV (with more to come soon) 👀⚾️
learn more + keep track at nationals.com/watch
Honored to receive this special donation and help carry forward Lucia’s legacy of love, light and care for others.
A heartfelt thank you to Canterbury Recreation for hosting the 5th annual food drive in her honor. www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/lucia-br...
"Calling the opposition party “the greatest enemy” of a country is exactly what wannabe dictators do to justify seizing power." - Phillips P. O'Brien
In a sane, functional country, literally EVERY Democrat, EVERY Republican, and EVERY media outlet would be condeming Trump for this language and calling for his impeachment. But...nope, we don't live in such a country. bluevirginia.us/2026/03/sund... h/t @phillipspobrien.bsky.social
Yes.
The SAVE Act isn't about securing elections or stopping fraud.
Trump has made it clear he wants it passed to protect Republican majorities in Congress in 2026 and beyond — making it harder for Americans to vote.
That's not how things are supposed to work in America.
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon are unconstitutional.
The government doesn't get to decide what news the public has access to.
31 U.S.C. § 5114 suggests he has work to do. "Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities."
On the flipside, @mlb.com & @nationals.com are making it easier for me to care (and spend) even less.
After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping.
The cruelty is endless.
Just an update that we will be closing at 5:30 today. Hope everyone stays safe & dry!
#mothernatureisdrunk #tomorrowwefreeze
It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.
Incredible catch here.
Fox used footage from December 17, 2025, where Trump was not dressed in garish campaign swag.
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As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.