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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 81 days ago • 87 comments

I think what makes me feel the most insane about all this is that if the democratic party had just opposed genocide from the get-go, so many things would not be as they are. A really foundational, staggering failure. Every democrat who held power in oct & nov 2023 should feel deep, lasting shame.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 6 hours ago • 176 comments

A lot of wisdom in this thread from Sally. Local housing problems will not take care of themselves.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s so so easy to become politically active in your community. Show up to a city council or school board meeting. Set a reminder in your phone to call your reps weekly. Look up mutual aid groups in your community. Feeling existentially helpless sucks, but you can help your corner of the world.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The 10 Dems who voted with Republicans to censure Al Green: Jared Moskowitz, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Tom Suozzi, Marcy Kaptur, Jim Himes, Chrissy Houlahan, Ami Bera, Ed Case, Jim Costa and Laura Gillen

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Between Chestnut Grove last night and Beaver Hill last November, I think it's been laid bare that the current Albemarle county comprehensive plan has created a de facto ban on new mobile/manufactured home parks. The draft AC44 comp plan doesn't look like it'll fix this, either (at least, not yet)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

And it was truly heartening to see a groundswell of public support for Chestnut Grove mobile home park following the budget hearing. A lot of people in Albemarle understand that affordable housing is not just hypothetical - it means saying yes to housing today.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

My future vision of government is one in which this is completely normal. Government should not go around begging and bribing companies to open grocery stores or build housing or provide people with broadband. If the market isn't working, government should just do those things itself.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Want to make a difference in a very crazy world? Come out Wednesday. You’ll get a cool sign even if you don’t want to speak!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

News you can use

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Fun fact: since 2019, about $17m has been budgeted for affordable housing in Albemarle County total. The police department budget in 2019 was over $18m. It's $32m in the proposed FY26 budget; affordable housing gets $4.2m total.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

taking some grim satisfaction that OG quake heads remember elon musk as being bad at video games youtu.be/z1ykCc588Zw

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent thread on why generative AI is not actually intelligent.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

every biden era conspiracy is now true. the president is a senile vegetable and the government is run by teenage fanatics and crooked billionaires. every company is in cahoots with the state to impose their political views. everyone is a satanic pedophile sex trafficker addicted to drugs

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

I promise the anti-taxation crowd will be there. Come out and speak up for affordable housing!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If we can make all the 🇮🇪plastic paddies🇮🇪 in america understand that rfk jr is in fact the kind of mf to cause the hated famine.......

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

in the olden days one could've easily predicted this by reading any degrowther academic's tweets

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

The BOS doesn’t prioritize affordable housing needs because they don’t hear much from constituents about it. If you live in the county and care about housing, let the BOS know! Email and attend meetings!!! It really matters! [email protected]

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The FY26 recommended budget for Albemarle is live! just looking through, sharing initial reactions re: housing: - four cent property tax increase - nice, good...and... - lion's share of increased rate goes to public safety, including a 14% bump to the police budget www.albemarle.org/government/b...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Made some artwork today...i call it "not garfield"

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Being clear-eyed and honest is really important especially now.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

My wife shared a framework with me that explains almost all American behavior: in any given situation, someone is either more afraid of being a sucker or more afraid of being an asshole. The people dominated by a fear of being a sucker in all things always end up reactionary conservatives.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

An ability to describe things in the world is a basic creative writing skill you can isolate to learn much as an artist learns by, say, sketching a bench or trees in a park. It requires sustained practice and it's easy to tell who hasn't done it.

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 16 days ago • 87 comments

They are Nazis and they are sieg heiling and I am so beyond done with everyone who is pretending like they all suffer some weird involuntary spasm that causes spontaneous Roman salutes

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

I just read a Facebook post by the sister of the shooter at the Crozet Harris Teeter yesterday and, dear God, the guns, the mental health support and the laws where the two intersect need serious reform. Three families are shattered. the shooter’s family was begging for help for a year.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments