Joe Calhoun

It was so disappointing

Oh Jesus it really is giving middle passage vibes 🥲 We have to destroy this movement.

Good

From yesterday's action. To Representative McGuire (and his supporters): It’s okay to change your mind / Show us your courage / Leave this behind, It’s okay to change your mind / And you can join us / Join us here anytime. #itsoktochangeyourmind #voicesrising

February Dine to Donate — Indivisible Charlottesville Good food. Good friends. Good Cause!

Monday (we know, Monday is NOT the weekend, BUT we have a great reason for you to get out!) - Beer Run is donating 20% of all food proceeds to Food Sharing is Caring (Virginia Organizing) when you come in to eat and mention Dine to Donate.

How to do Media Interviews Feb 2026 — Indivisible Charlottesville Getting our message out is a great way to build collective power and grow our momentum against fascism, for social justice. If you’re willing to talk with reporters, or even a little curious about som...

Sunday afternoon: join us to build collective power by learning effective strategies for telling our stories. Do you want to improve your ability to express your views on issues you care deeply about? This is for you.

Charlottesville's a Union Town: Collective Bargaining For All Town Hall Public Sector Collective Bargaining builds stronger connections between public service workers and the communities we serve. Right now, our university presidents and legislators are trying to divide u...

We know it's only Wednesday, but... #CVille folks, we have your weekend all lined up for you...Sat. afternoon: Join a community panel and town hall to discuss what we want the future of Cville to look like, and how collective bargaining will help us get there! #UnionStrong #UVA

Would if I could!

You sowing: Haha fuck yeah! Yes!
You reaping: Haha fuck yeah! Yes!

Just a thought

Maybe tax the rich?

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

“If your (Signal) group has more than 50 people in it, it's not a private space for communication,” EFF’s @evacide told @WIRED. Keep truly sensitive information to the smallest possible groups, or to one-on-one communications. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

She's running to replace Dick Durbin and, uh, to say this is a welcome change in tone and attitude would be a hell of an understatement.

The US news media is failing the public in its coverage of a possible war against Iran | Press Watch Reporters should be asking Trump officials some essential questions, and calling attention to the lack of answers.

The US news media is failing the public in its coverage of a possible war against Iran presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-... NEW from me.

Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - Bolts Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of ten states with similar prohibitions.

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.

Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program. 

That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!

And New Mexico did the same last week:

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

And it’s not even true! Trump got re-elected because of anti-incumbent low-information voters, and there’s an enormous amount of evidence that shows that!

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Exactly this.

Stacy Bradley voted for President Trump because of his border policies, and she likes that he has restored “law and order.” But she is unsettled by one aspect of his immigration agenda. Last month, the federal government bought a warehouse next to her cheerleading gym in Surprise, Ariz., which the administration plans to convert into a detention center for up to 1,500 immigrants. Ms. Bradley, the co-owner of Woodlands Elite Cheer, said she worried that a detainee could escape, or that protests could break out. The children who train at her gym are as young as 3 and could see “people in shackles” next door, she said.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Screenshot of a tweet from Aaron Blake that reads: Trump announces he's transferring $10 billion from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which critics have likened to a giant slush fund Trump will control.

Now look, I get that I’m not a high powered Dem consultant, but is there a reason we can’t run on seizing the FUCKING SLUSH FUND Trump is setting up and sending every criminal in this administration, including but not limited to those in DHS/CBP/ICE to fucking jail? Is that not a thing we can do?

Well...that's bad.

Another item on the to-do list: we need to fire all the “immigration judges”’and make sure they never work again in this area.

Pennsylvania man cleared after 43 years in prison for murder denied bail during deportation fight Subramanyam Vedam's attorney argued that he would have most likely been spared deportation and become a citizen if not for the murder case, given immigration laws at the time.

This story is in PA, but this is exactly what the 287(g) collaboration agreement between the Massachusetts DOC and ICE does.

@massgovernor.bsky.social needs to terminate it and stop doing ICE's bidding.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Non-Violent Legal Actions to Protect Our Neighbors — Indivisible Charlottesville This training will focus on non-violent legal actions we can take to protect our neighbors when ICE arrives. As a community, we need to know what to do when ICE shows up here. There is no such thing ...

One week from today! Join us Wednesday, February 25 - & BRING A FRIEND. What are you going to do when ICE shows up? Learn more about non-violent legal actions we can take to protect our neighbors.

it’s been a year of trump regime attorneys lying to and deceiving judges on basic facts. not *a single one* has been held accountable. this is a simply massive failure of our judiciary. and it is having very serious consequences for everyone else in and outside the courtrooms. no more excuses

@markwarner.bsky.social What the fuck? You corrupt son of a weasel?

Article: The political effects of X’s feed algorithm Abstract: Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

Figure 2. ITT estimates of feed-setting changes on engagement and political attitudes. ITT effect estimates of switching the algorithm on and off (in s.d.). Left, effect of moving from the chronological to the algorithmic feed for users initially on the chronological feed. Right, effect of moving in the opposite direction for users initially on the algorithmic feed. For each outcome, the results of two specifications are reported. Blue, unconditional estimates with robust s.e., controlling only for the initial feed setting and, where applicable, pre-treatment outcome levels. Orange: conditional estimates, controlling for pre-treatment covariates using GRFs; 90% and 95% CIs are reported. Numerical effect sizes and P values correspond to the conditional estimates (all tests are two-sided). The unit of observation is respondent. From top to bottom, sample sizes are n = 4,965, n = 3,337, n = 4,965, n = 4,965, n = 4,596, n = 4,596 and n = 4,850. Tests are described in Methods. Supplementary Information Table 2.16 reports the exact numerical point estimates, s.e., CIs and sample sizes for every specification. All outcomes are standardized. Additional results are presented in Supplementary Information section 2. PCA, first principal component from principal component analysis.

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ed—it’s sarcasm. Clearly.