Graphic for GRAD Act.
HBCUs and PBIs serve as crucial support for Black students and help advance innovation in STEM. Yet they continue to face systemic underfunding.
That's why I introduced the GRAD Act alongside Rep. Adams and Rep. Clarke to address these disparities and bolster STEM research at HBCUs and PBIs.
04.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Take Action - End Contracts with ICE - Legal Aid Justice Center
🚨ATTENTION VIRGINIA 🚨
Would you all PLEASEEEEE click this link NOW so it will send an email to your Delegate asking them to VOTE YES on HB1438 which ends ICE contracts ON THE LOCAL LEVEL🚨🚨🚨
“Only the people can save the people”
“Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo”
www.justice4all.org/take-action-...
04.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
“We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.
I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
25.01.2026 00:43 — 👍 24949 🔁 12878 💬 200 📌 448
Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
ICE caused his death.
They didn’t get to say goodbye.
24.01.2026 03:01 — 👍 20753 🔁 11062 💬 892 📌 963
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
21.01.2026 23:39 — 👍 8132 🔁 3114 💬 200 📌 160
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
21.01.2026 22:48 — 👍 3652 🔁 1871 💬 216 📌 732
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
21.01.2026 22:09 — 👍 5971 🔁 2939 💬 204 📌 253
12 Days Through Christmas Online Estate Sale
CTBids | Online Estate Sale Auctions
🚨Mama’s #EstateSale🚨
Please help me by bidding, sharing this post and contacting the company with any questions 😊
**There’s a California King bedframe and mattress with a starting price at $2.
**A Roku Tv starting price $2
**A 50 inch flat screen starting price…see where I’m going with this 😂
29.12.2025 22:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I stand in solidarity with my Union Siblings!! #NoUnionBusting
23.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣
20.04.2025 00:31 — 👍 33646 🔁 5285 💬 401 📌 194
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
19.04.2025 21:59 — 👍 13262 🔁 6404 💬 949 📌 629
Get into this entire thread yall!!! The Governor of Virginia showed up and was greeted with the welcome he deserves!
#VaLeg #Virginia #Richmond #RVA
24.03.2025 01:29 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you! I have been going back and forth with staying a part of this party but I realize LOCAL, local is important.
I’ll let you know when I decide to say eff this I’m out lol!
13.02.2025 23:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
It’s gotta be from the bottom and the left if it is to be a successful liberation for all and folks like @bossrva.bsky.social, @thebkc.bsky.social and others are out there talking to their fellow citizens and advocating accordingly
20.01.2025 22:41 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Hey y’all!! Thanks for following and I promise to make it a point to post up here!!
I’m a Gen X neurodivergent Virgo.
Change is hard 😂
20.01.2025 00:28 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Richmond Mayor Danny Avula says results of the first round of water testing should be in around 3 p.m. Friday. A second round of tests is already underway. Full coverage: https://www.12onyourside.com/watercrisis
10.01.2025 15:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Richmond Virginia is in day 5 of a water crisis, and our governor Glenn Youngkin is at Mar-a-Lago. Isn’t THAT special?
10.01.2025 14:53 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Richmond Free Water Distribution Sites
Updated: 13 Locations, Water Tankers
Day: Friday 01/10/25
Time: 10:30 AM - 5:00PM
Locations:
Annie Giles Community Center; 400 Oliver Hill Way; Richmond
Water Bottles Only
No Water Tanker
Anne Hardy Plaza; 3300 First Ave., Richmond
No Water Bottles
2,000-gallon Water Tanker (Bring container/s to fill/carry)
Broad Rock Library; 4820 Old Warwick Road, Richmond
Water Bottles Only
No Water Tanker
Richmond Public Library; West End Branch;
5420 Patterson Ave.,; Richmond
Water Bottles Only
2,000-Gallon Water Tanker (Bring container/s to fill/carry)
Hickory Hill Community Center; 3000 Belt
Blvd., Richmond
Water Bottles
6,000-gallon Water Tanker (Bringcontainer/s to fill/carry)
Bellemeade Community Center; 1800 Lynhaven Ave., Richmond
Water Bottles
2,000-gallon Water Tanker (Bring containers to fill/carry)
(Note: Water Tank will be at Oak Grove Elementary School)
Richmond Midtown Green; 2401 W Leigh Street, Richmond
Water Bottles
2,000-gallon Water Tanker (Bring containers to fill/carry)
Richmond Pine Camp Community Center; 901 Old Brook Rd., Richmond Water Bottles
6,000-gallon Water Tanker (Bring containers to fill/carry)
Randolph Community Center; 1415 Grayland Avenue. Richmond
Water Bottles Only
No Water Tanker
Westover Hills Community Center; 1301
Jahnke Road. Richmond
Water Bottles
Water Tanker (Bring containers to fill/carry)
East End District Initiative (EDI); 701 North 25th Street, Richmond
Water Bottles Only
No Water Tanker
Southside Plaza; 4100 Hull Street Road,
Richmond
Water Bottles
6,000-gallon Water Tanker Only (Bring containers to fill/carry)
Powhatan Community Center; 5051 North
Hampton St. Richmond
No Water bottles
Tanker (bring containers to fill/carry)
RICHMOND, VA FREE WATER DISTRIBUTION SITES FOR FRIDAY 01/10/125! 10:30AM TO 5PM
10.01.2025 15:20 — 👍 12 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
"She said the theft compounded her financial stress as she scrambled to figure out how to feed the 10-year-old child she has custody of."
12.12.2024 04:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
⚠️CALL TO ACTION #RVA:
➡️SUPPORT PRISONERS AT RED ONION SUPERMAX PRISON
🚨TODAY🚨
December 7th, 2:00pm
1720 Mechanicsville Tpk.
#Richmond
#RedOnion
First-hand accounts from prisoners of Red Onion.
YOU can help here ⬇️
www.instagram.com/share/_dL4Rh...
07.12.2024 08:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a man with long hair and a beard is saying " thank you eternally "
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is saying " thank you eternally "
Before I lay me down to sleep I wanna give a shout out to @bryanrva.dev for putting in the WORK to make sure #RVA Twitter has a place on this app!!
Thank you Bryan!!!
#RVA #Richmond
07.12.2024 06:05 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Don’t let billionaires set the terms of how we talk about efficiency and less government spending. We all want that. But don’t fall down their little rich boy rabbit hole
07.12.2024 05:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sheriff says there is night and day difference between Trump, Biden administrations
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to "back the blue" at state and local levels while transforming federal law enforcement.
“To have a president back in office that is going to back the blue, that’s going to look out for us and really take care of us, is just remarkable,” said Loudoun Country, Virginia, Sheriff Mike Chapman”
Bring back the #GreenBook ASAP!!
07.12.2024 00:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
#MarijuanaJustice
#AddToBlackSky
#RepealRepairReparations
06.12.2024 04:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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