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the flag and seal of Virginia, showing Virtue triumphant over Tyranny with the text “sic semper tyrannis”

that’s my flag 🫡

Where to find emergency food resources and how to donate " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/cardinalnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/145456_Malinak_20250904_ParkViewCommunityMission-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C224&quality=89&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/cardinalnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/145456_Malinak_20250904_ParkViewCommunityMission-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C581&quality=89&ssl=1" /> On Monday, Virginia will become the first state to fund food assistance while the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is paused due to the federal government shutdown. In the absence of federal SNAP funding, the commonwealth will roll out a separate, temporary emergency food program called Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance, or VENA, to all […] The post Where to find emergency food resources and how to donate appeared first on Cardinal News.

Where to find emergency food resources and how to donate

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

What Do You Say to a Roanoke Truther? Trolls told Chris Hurst his grief over losing his girlfriend in the murders was a lie. But I’ve known him for years. Maybe, I thought, I could get them to listen.

Ten years ago yesterday, I wrote a story that changed the next decade of my life.

I hate that it matters more today — I mean specifically, today — than it ever has before. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

But here it is.

www.thedailybeast.com/what-do-you-...

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.

But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.

D.C. statehood now.

Please help boost this video by commenting liking or sharing! It’s an important one and I want to make sure people know what’s going on.

This is critical reporting from ProPublica and I’ll have more context at my newsletter, Abortion, Every Day.

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

No, Trump is NOT defending mifepristone

Who Does the SAVE Act Impact? 1 in 3 American Women lack proof of citizenship documents with their current legal name. Institute for Responsive Government

69M married women could lose their voting rights if the SAVE Act is passed. Transgender individuals too.

Why? Absent a valid passport, you must present a birth certificate *with the same name as your registration* to be registered.

This is insane!

Hands Off Her Vote

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.

Opinion | Tim Kaine: Why I’m forcing a vote on Trump’s Canada tariffs Trump has created a fake “emergency” to impose tariffs whose cost will be borne by American families.

President Trump is abusing emergency powers to impose tariffs on Canada that will raise prices for American families and alienate one of our closest allies — so I’m forcing a vote to challenge him.

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RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

Abortion fight won, conservative Christians mimic Dobbs tactics to go after same-sex marriage (RNS) — A multistate effort is spitting out legislation and lawsuits aimed at testing the Supreme Court justices’ commitment to Obergefell v. Hodges.

NEW: At the National Religious Broadcasters conference, an evangelical Christian gathering, activists openly debated plans to overturn same-sex marriage.

Experts say the threat isn’t individual efforts but a broad campaign — which is how Roe v. Wade was overturned. religionnews.com/2025/03/26/s...

The ACA was cool because before the ACA you could hit your lifetime maximum before you were a month old and be denied insurance for the rest of your life and after the ACA that’s illegal.

YouTube video by BraverMountain Quince Mountain on the Iditarod Trail

Y'all.

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Cup of Coffee Extra: The Department of Defense erases Jackie Robinson The Department of Defense labeled a webpage about Jackie Robinson as "DEI" and deleted it

I've asked Major League Baseball's Vice President of Communications if Major League Baseball has any comment on the DoD erasing Jackie Robinson's page from the site and changing the URL to "DEI Sports." I'll update this story if and when the league weighs in. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard

If you breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 7, and exhale for 8, it tells your body you’re safe. This slows your heart rate, relaxes your nervous system, and helps shift you out of fight-or-flight mode. Now do it.

Text of the Virginia Human Rights Act that includes protections on account of gender identity.

Code of Virginia defining medically necessary transition-related care.

Just as a reminder, separate from the executive orders being blocked in federal court, the Code of Virginia explicitly prohibits discrimination on account of gender identity.

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now

Meanwhile...

Repeating "executive orders are not laws" really loudly and over and over seems like a useful endeavor

Department of Education rescinds Title IX guidance that NIL payments must be proportionate How Title IX would factor into schools' revenue-sharing decisions has been a lingering question.

From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre.

Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

How *you* can protect democracy 29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect our system of government

Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org

open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

Note that anyone can email the snitch line, DEIAtruth@opm.gov. So if you’ve got any, uh, thoughts or information you’d like to share about this initiative, fire off that email today!

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