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Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

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Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

Wait, you think that having a Secretary of Health and Human Services who is anti-science and anti-vaccine, and spreads death and disease because of his embrace of Internet quackery, is a BAD thing?

The Ranked-Choice-Voting bill introduced by @katrinacallsen.com has now passed the House and needs to be merged with its Senate version!

https://ivn.us/posts/virginia-house-of-delegates-passes-ranked-choice-voting-expansion-2026-02-17

We’ve been raising the alarm for weeks about Trump’s attacks on our elections — now we’re getting details about how they might be planning to do it.

Let’s be clear: there’s no national emergency. This is a plot to interfere with the will of voters.

Breaking news graphic of President Trump with a sly smile. Below, white and yellow text reads, "Breaking: Trump admin to withhold $259 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota."

Cruelty is the point

Wanna do something quick and low cost for our community and the Commonwealth?

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Albemarle Dems Redistricting Amendment TEACH-IN. Saturday, Feb 28, 10:30-11:30 AM, Northside Library, 707 Rio Rd West. RSVP Appreciated but Drop-ins welcome. https://tinyurl.com/22urf2ne

THIS SATURDAY - Learn about redistricting from the Albemarle Dems. Northside Library, 10:30 - 11:30 AM. RSVP appreciated: tinyurl.com/22urf2ne

Heh, well, regardless, thank you very much for doing this! It really is a great public service.

An abomination in Kansas. Probably unconstitutional.

This is the sort of thing that Winsome Earle-Sears would have loved. And she is right in the mainstream of the VA Republican Party.

Vive la végétalization!

This is an awesome public service, and we’re lucky to have it.

Wow, thanks for pointing this out. Who does this? There's no "about" button on the site. What is the ownership of the site? Anyone know?

Virginia senators secure funding for ReadyKids RICHMOND, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Charlottesville nonprofit ReadyKids will be receiving $200K to expand access to youth mental health counseling thanks to the efforts of Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and

Virginia senators secure funding for ReadyKids

😄 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Charlottesvillians making a positive difference. Kudos!

It's gonna take the "thumbs up" gesture, like, 40 years to be socially acceptable again.

This is really, really disturbing, dangerous sh** that everyone should be following. Thanks to @tomperriello.bsky.social for highlighting it! bluevirginia.us/2026/02/wedn...

Right to Be. Bystander Training to Support the Immigrant Community. Virtual, FREE, and open to all. Sponsored by Westminster Presbyterian Church. This 60 min training will give you actionable skills to understand and safely address bias and harassment when directed at our immigrant neighbors. Sunday, March 15, 4-5 PM. VIRTUAL. Register at: https://tinyurl.com/j5n87jje

VIRTUAL Bystander training to support the immigrant community. Sponsored by Westminster Presbyterian Church. Sunday, March 15, 4-5 pm. Register: tinyurl.com/j5n87jje

Pretty embarrassing.

A picture is worth 1000 words.

Actually kind of piteous. The last of its kind.

This stuff is a crisis. Thank goodness people like our own @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social are speaking up.

Yes, that’s important. I’m not worried about this crap for my classes. I have small classes, I interact with the students a lot, I get them to do presentations in class, they write exams in blue books in person.

But for so many community colleges and night schools this will be murder.

What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework? The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

sometimes the founder of a company says something that simply stops you in your tracks and haunts you. There's one those in here from the creator of Einstein, an edtech AI that will go to school for you

Oooof.

It’s tough for a speech to be this fascist and this boring at the same time

#SOTU2026