Carrie Brown

We don’t need vague promises about fighting Trump—we need leaders with a clear VISION and concrete PLAN for defending democracy & the well-being of vulnerable Virginians.

That’s exactly what Jay brings to the table, as was evident yesterday. Learn more about him and I bet he’ll earn your vote, too.

What Do We Know Now, About the Airline Crash in DC? We're in a veil of ignorance. But that's nothing compared with the blindness and bigotry of the commander-in-chief.

Media friends: As you rev up for stories on possible light staffing at DCA tower on night of crash, pls also mention latest info that:

-Controllers twice cautioned helo crew about possible converging traffic.

-Helo crew twice replied, "traffic in sight."

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He didn’t. That’s why people are frustrated. It was a half measure.

Good question! I was listening to a podcast a few weeks ago where they said the Biden White House thought the deadline was an issue. I don’t have that in writing to share. But get caught trying, even if you might lose in court!

There was a deadline to get all states to ratify the ERA that was missed by decades. Some legal scholars feel the deadline was unconstitutional and shouldn’t apply. So it never got published and made a part of the constitution. Once it is it, there will be a lawsuit. But we need to publish to argue.

Clearly it’s complicated. But telling the archivist to publish it would have been a stronger statement. And maybe that’s a law suit too? But just making a statement and not asking anyone to do anything seems less helpful.

Screen shot from npr saying Biden White House will not order archivist to publish the ERA

I’m just reading the news.

I think that’s what people were anticipating he would do. And when he declared his support initial assumption was that is what happened. But it didn’t mention publishing, unfortunately.

I don’t believe that he did. He didn’t in his official statement. And people in his office are saying off the record that he won’t. The archivist said she won’t publish it. Can you share a source where that has changed?

Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment is law. What happens next is unclear To come into effect, the constitutional amendment would need to be formally published or certified by the National Archivist who has declined to do so in the past. What happens now is unclear.

It’s not official until the archivist publishes it. The archivist has said she will not. www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...

He needs to tell the archivist to publish it. Otherwise this is meaningless.

I heard a talk when I was in college from a representative from the Carter center about their work to eradicate Guinea worm. It was still a work in progress at that time. It’s what inspired me to study public health.

So is the death penalty wrong or not? Glad democrats in Virginia held strong and didn’t allow for exceptions that almost derailed the repeal.

@marcussimon.com is someone looking into this?

Cervical cancer mortality in US women younger than 25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination.

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1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️

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Thank you for this list. We need a lot more people over here though! Build the followers before session starts :)

Remember: fascism thrives on apathy.

The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up.

Don’t give them want they want.

Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building.

Total score is typical of a winning score at uva too!

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Spanberger: If she’s willing to work against U.S. interests by legitimizing Kremlin propaganda, what kind of untold damage could she do as the Director of National Intelligence? Is she going to put Russian propaganda in the president’s daily brief?

These nominations are the flood the zone strategy for authoritarian HR: if you nominate a ton of crazy unqualified zealots, the Senate will confirm all but a few. Hegseth likely gets confirmed because of Gaetz and RFK drawing fire.

"Only the best people."

Graph with list of wealthy families and their political contributions to different political parties with the vast majority going to Republicans.

150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October.

It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth.

It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash.

We must get big money out of our politics.

This discusses some of the frustrations I had with my experience volunteering in Virginia. Not much direction or education on the issues. Not really feeling a part of something bigger. Just hoping that asking strangers to vote will have an impact.