Christine

Yup. This all feels like a specific and calculated choice.
Why didn't anyone ask why they didn't just interview Crockett to avoid all of this?😒

Antibiotics are one of the greatest discoveries of the modern medical age (along with vaccines)

Antibiotics, vaccines, therapeutics, statins, insulin, basic hygiene measures for healthcare environments, public health measures! Modern medicine is a marvel!

A lot...A LOT more people would be dead right now if we didn't have antibiotics. When I stop to think of all of the times I or someone that I know absolutely needed antibiotics...post op surgery, tooth infections, tick borne illnesses, malaria (an etymology professor), staph infections, etc.

Can we focus on the problems right in front of us and not make up new hypothetical ones to fight about? I'm so tired, please. This is a stupid thing to fight over right now.

I dunno, the Trump regime is still interning kids in interment camps, kidnapping and killing both Americans and random fishermen, most rich white men are apparently pedophiles and traffickers, and the GOP is trying to abolish the 19th amendment.

I do not care about a Newsom '28 primary run rn.

You all thought Dems were just politically correct Republicans and they're out here not taxing billionaires, but MILLIONAIRES.

How about this, let African Americans call racist white women Karens and y'all do whatever else, because you don't share our experience, you don't experience racism. Say her name isn't about you either, fyi.

If coal country Trump voters want to go down with the ship, I'm not standing in their way anymore. If their communities are dying, they're dying painfully of poisoned air and water, of opiates, and they absolutely refuse any help? Ok,that's their choice. I'm not their mom. No malice, truly.

Who said that they cannot be expected to care more about people than they even care about themselves? Pretty sure it was a Black woman. She was right. I cannot be bothered to keep these people off of the ledge constantly at the cost of marginalized people or my own communities.

No discussion of class consciousness will work for people who are absolute zealots for white supremacy. They hate Black & brown people more than they love their own children, than themselves even. They will proudly be martyrs to their religion of whiteness.

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Happy Fat Tuesday and Mardis Gras! Lent begins tomorrow and while I am not a practicing Catholic, fasting or giving something up is a good idea every now and then. So barring anything extreme like someone ahem kicking it, I'll see you all later!

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Happy Year of the Horse All!

Right. There's a reason that their most serious play is making it impossible for women to vote via the SAVE act. I don't think this ICE threat is fake per se, but I don't want it to distract from the more likely voter suppression efforts already happening.

I don't doubt these monsters want to do this, but there aren't event enough ICE agents to put just one agent at about 1/3 of all polling sites. I'm not naive, I know these shitheads will try SOMETHING, but it's better to be prepared for reality and not let them win by intimidation in advance.

Jesse Jackson

Even as Rev. Jesse Jackson has died, his afterlife has begun through us. Through our undying struggle against racism. Through our eternal organizing of rainbow coalitions against resurgent ethnostates. Through our everlasting striving to “Keep Hope Alive!” Rest peacefully, Rev. Jackson. 🕊️💔

"When all is said and done, here’s the best argument to support Virginia’s mid-decade redistricting effort. It’s time for Virginians to protect their own economic interests in Congress. The Trump administration has harmed Virginia’s economy through its DOGE led job cuts and its tariff policy. Virginians lost well paying jobs while their cost of living went up, according to a report from ODU’s Dragas Center for Economic and Policy Analysis. To add insult to injury, its five Republican representatives in Congress voted in lock step with Republicans for all these harmful policies, choosing loyalty to Trump and party over the well being of their own constituents. Those same representatives never uttered a word of protest when Texas, Ohio, North Carolina, and Missouri announced plans to expand their own Republican congressional districts through heavily gerrymandered mid-decade redistricting efforts. They consistently put the interests of Republican power over the economic interests of Virginia. It’s time to let Virginians decide their future. "

It's highly debatable whether it's the "best argument," but it's a strong argument for sure bluevirginia.us/2026/02/tues... h/t @karenfduncan.bsky.social

⚫ Veteran US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family said in a statement.
"His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by," Jackson's family said

Yes! It's such a comfort show. I'll probably rewatch it at some point. Everyone is a crazy endearing weirdo and that makes it much more entertaining.

YouTube video by VanValkenburg for Virginia Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg's 02-09-26 Senate Floor speech re SB 322 (National Popular Vote Compact)

I voted in favor of SB 322 on the Senate floor, the bill to enter Virginia into the interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.

Here's why:
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#Okay

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April 21st in Virginia we have a chance to fight back against the MAGA fascist takeover of Congress.

Rewatching The Mummy for the millionth time. My feel good movie.

However bad we think chattel slavery is, it was worse.

I wouldn't believe that nonsense because I have met enough people who grew up behind the iron curtain or in Cuba. The US didn't jail my friend's uncle as a political prisoner for decades, Castro's regime did.

It's fascinating that Cubans have very open opinions for who and what is responsible for the oppression of the country they fled from and somehow this weird position from lefties persists. Lived experience only counts if it aligns with their preexisting beliefs.

For people who talk about the evils of neoliberal capitalism, they really embrace it as a model for voting.