I’ve given to this! Help if you can. It’s rough out there, we keep us safe.
Elizabeth Stark@elizabethstark.bsky.social · 2d agoI’m fundraising for a beloved community organizer who has ALWAYS had our backs, and now, needs a little help recovering from health crisis. Please share and give generously if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-el...
Friends you are incredible! We exceeded our mutual aid ask and I deleted the post. All the funds will go to the person who needed the boost. Who keeps us safe?
We want more housing of all types in the Charlottesville area because want a community that is safe for everyone. Any pro-housing effort that compromises on trans right is no friend of ours.
d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇾@justupthepike.bsky.social · 6d agosometimes i feel like i’m screaming into the void: helping people, especially trans people, move to safety and opportunity is what the yimby/pro-homes movement is all about. but the movement, as it grows and seeks legitimacy, feels quite indifferent to us
(I don’t have any gender or sex-related parts (if a construct has those you’re a sexbot in a brothel, not a murderbot) so maybe that’s why I find sex scenes boring. Though I think that even if I did have sex-related parts I would find them boring.)
Gardening friends (you’re probably in your gardens!): while I’m eating lunch, help me. I ordered 40 sedge plugs and a dozen other plants that I thought would arrive early October but they’re here.
Biking down 14th street is back to being a real life video game. What direction will the next threat come from?
So ICE said they stopped their traffic stops, and waited for people to stop paying attention, and now they’re kidnapping drivers again. This morning in Middle Tennessee.
Abolish ICE and salt the earth where it was allowed to grow
DHS taunts detained Padres coach in fiery social media post
"NOBODY is above the law, and he will remain in ICE custody pending removal."
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Charlottesville folks, this is a great opportunity to hear straight from (and ask questions of) our community leaders about the plans to support unhoused neighbors.
Livable Cville@livablecville.bsky.social · 2w agoStill time to sign up! This event has generated a lot of interest - we hope you find it beneficial and that it’s a small step towards pushing our community to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in the Charlottesville area.
Our new poll confirms it- the people of VA-05 demand a change in Washington. More at tomperriello.com/news
Today marks one year of Trump's occupation of DC. Contrary to Trump’s lies, this occupation not making DC safer or more beautiful. It is hurting families, children, workers here, and more. Yet every time this regime has attacked DC, we have grown stronger. This morning we will tell that story.
The worst thing Royal Gurley has done as superintendent is put cops back in schools. The second-worst is move the first day of school to the ass crack of August when we should all be at the beach because that’s how they did it wherever he used to live.
Or, we continue working to reframe public safety as housing and health care and sidewalks and buses and health care instead of giving up. People make policies, people can change them. A better world is possible
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · last mo.Another thing and I’ll let it go, one common refrain you hear about local budget issues is “Well if we just took some money from the cops…” And look, I agree! They cannibalize local budgets. But also: Police accountability activists have shown zero ability whatsoever to make this a possibility!
Our community’s future is decided by those who show up. Tomorrow is the primary election, and your ballot is your voice! Before you go to bed, check your polling place and hours: www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ba... Let's make sure our voices are heard loud and clear tomorrow.
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Search for your polling place in Virginia, and find out what's on the ballot for the next upcoming election.
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I’d just add that housing is a HUMAN RIGHT as well as foundational for health
Livable Cville@livablecville.bsky.social · last mo.“Housing is preventative medicine”
If you’re a senior or low-income, don't forget: John McGuire and Republicans pushed through the largest healthcare cuts in American history. They slashed nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and stripped coverage from 10 million people—all to fund tax breaks for wealthy donors.
This is a good time to learn about how the state uses grand juries to collect information with which to attack social movements and dissent in general. Here, you can read about how three people successfully stood up to grand jury indictments. crimethinc.com/resistgrandj...
Surviving a Grand Jury
Narratives from three people who successfully stood up to grand jury indictments: one who served jail time for resisting, one who went on the run, and one who supported a grand jury resister.
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How they all should be treated everywhere
𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷@jastuart68.bsky.social · 2mo agoWatching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.
We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke
We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.
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You've probably heard about the encampment near Free Bridge. As many folks have noted (including @livablecville.bsky.social), part of what is behind the headlines is a growing affordable housing crisis. Let's talk about what we can do. Links in thread. #unhousedneighborsstillourneighobors
How to Help Our Unhoused Neighbors
YouTube video by Indivisible Charlottesville
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Oh no! Our outage area had someone working so my fingers were crossed. Now that large outage is fixed but there remain 14 house without power — my street. No estimate for fixing it 😭😭😭
I don’t watch soccer and don’t care about the World Cup but lall I need to do is log on to BlueSky. Clearly penalty kicks aren’t going well!
What dystopian hell has “custom AI chatbots” for teaching 😱
Derek Bruff@derekbruff.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe send out a monthly email with news about the UVA Teaching Hub, spotlighting some of our newest resource collections. Here's last month's email: mailchi.mp/virginia/thn.... Hit the subscribe button there to get on the mailing list and receive this month's email.
*6/25/2026 noncooperation thread* People across the country—in big cities & tiny towns, in my town & yes, in yours—have been finding all kinds of ways to be there for their immigrant neighbors. The regime wants us distrustful & afraid, & folks have been responding with love & courage. 4/
Indivisible Charlottesville@indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin us after the People's Activist session on Monday, June 29 - for an online community forum on Food Insecurity among local immigrant families. On-the-ground service providers will share stories and perspectives on the real life consequences of this regime's policies.
