Katie Le

“I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom.” Nelson Mandela at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

There is never enough time in this museum

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A former writer for South Park had a premonition months ago and bought the domain names for trumpkennedycenter.org and it is hilarious

You maybe either 1) already knew or 2) are not a local so don’t care, but we could use as many smiles as we can get anyway so here’s one for today

Virginians, we’re all Wahoos tonight 💙🧡🏈 #Wahoowa #VirginiaFootball #GatorBowl

Threads on the satisfaction of sliding your scissors through the paper when wrapping presents #bliss #InFlow 🎁✂️

Wake Up! IT'S GAME DAY!! 💜💛🏈

This is a gorgeous photo, full of class - but it was in Vogue, not VF

Meanwhile... other photos taken by Christopher Anderson [the same photographer who took recent photos of the Trump White House] show what beauty looks like

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them" -Maya Angelou

It’s Christian nationalism parading as Christian nationalism

This is still the party of Reagan who sent the party down this path

Is it too soon to start prepping for the holiday spirit? Just kidding 😊 I love my new little hobby 💕 #StringArt

Charlottesville has amazing yarn shops in which I can spend way too much money, but this yarn was worth it 💙 #MagpieKnits #BriocheStitch

VIRGINIA!!!! 💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙

Let’s do it… bada-ba-da-badabam 🎶

SNAP’s Contingency Reserve Is Available for Regular SNAP Benefits, as USDA and OMB Have Ruled in Past The Administration must use all available options to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.

Just gonna leave this here
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Virginia to the Rescue! A surprise announcement by Democratic leaders in the state ignites hope.

If you could use a dose of political bad-assery, read this Kuo piece detailing how Virginia's coming in clutch via a route that's genius! The good stuff starts after "Blue seats, from out of the blue"

#ProudVirginian

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Remember I posted about Va’s Attorney General race earlier this morning? My friend shared this helpful brief comparison so you can consider with whom you most align

If you leave that box blank, you automatically support the republican incumbent and lose any power you have with that race

Vote ✔️💙🇺🇸

- Securing safety in by forging meaningful ties between law enforcement and the communities they serve, and providing resources for prosecutors to pursue violent criminals

Not a complete list, but it's a start

Vote Democrat all the way down the ticket!
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Jay is FOR:

- Women's bodily autonomy and freedoms
- Protecting the fundamental rights and freedom to vote legally
- Freedoms for safe gun ownership
- Cracking down on domestic violence

And....

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If you do not vote for Jay Jones, then Miyares moves closer to his (and Trump's) goals

Please make the vote #JayJones 💙🇺🇸
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Want to know what you are voting FOR with Jay Jones?

Here are a few things...

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Jay Jones will help protect us from a Christian Nationalist and fascist agenda, while Miyares bows to the Trump admin and advances it. Jay will help defend scientific research and our academic institutions while Miyares stands down for the Trump admin to have their way

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Leaving it blank or voting for a third party is a vote for the Trump-aligned republican (we learned from any number of local, state, and national elections including Harris/ Trump all the way back to Gore/ Bush)

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Morning! If you live in Fairfax County and haven't voted yet, good news! More early voting sites opened today, so it should be easier to get to one if you want to vote early! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Unsure about that Attorney General vote?

Do not leave it blank ✔️

Ps, the Va State Board of Education is appointed by the governor. So here's yet another reason to get out there and vote Spanberger post haste
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Pss, wouldja look at that - I did have some things to say. Guess you can take the girl out of the education field...

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And, oh yeah

- ONLY PUBLIC SCHOOLS answer to the lowering hammer of SOL tests

It's like the government made up of policy-makers without education backgrounds wants to burn public education to the ground for some sort of agenda or something 🤔

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- this increased emphasis on standardized tests comes at a time when the feds have slashed the Department of Education and decimated the special ed department, putting students at severe disadvantages of learning to their true potential let alone regurgitating shit for a standardized test,

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- testing cultures promote systems of control and training over educating, and they perpetuate stereotyping

- punitive testing systems dumb down education except for the wealthy (that's most of us, y'all)

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teaching to the test, flights of privileged families (you know who you are) out of schools that serve diverse populations and socio-economic backgrounds and that leads to terrible disparities in access to enriched, meaningful, and relevant learning

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- increasing the importance of standardized tests leads to horrendous trends in education such as cheating (on the parts of students AND by the school systems themselves)...

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