At a training on Thursday, attendees will learn their rights, how to correctly identify and verify ICE agents, how to safely and legally record arrests and more. www.cvilletomorrow.org/attend-a-fre...

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Kevin Cox is asking for help paying legal fees to defend the vandalism charge of putting chalk on a road. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

“Now, with about 2 million people locked up, U.S. prison labor from all sectors has morphed into a multibillion-dollar empire” (from Jan 2024)

Under Trump's economic plan, people making between $17K and $51K could lose an average $700 in after-tax income, taking into account tax and social spending changes, according to a new study. Those make $4.3M or more would gain an average $389K. @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

keep in mind, the stocks of private prisons have soared since Nov 5

Cville memes have arrived bsky.app/profile/dank...

As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.

“In a span of just two weeks, a dozen Black men at Red Onion prison in Virginia took the same desperate measures, setting themselves ablaze. These are not acts of protest. These are human beings driven to extreme lengths, hoping for relief from torment.”

www.prisonradio.org/news-update/...

“The latest vote count shows that Donald J. Trump won the popular vote by one of the smallest margins since the 19th century.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now (Charlottesville edition)

—the Virginian restaurant 🍻
—Casella’s restaurant 🍕
—Northern Exposure 🥩
—Ben & Jerry’s 🍦
—Barnes & Noble 📚
—College Inn 🥙
—Splendora’s 🍨
—Bodos 🥯

Carl Sagan, 1994: “If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle… it’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

Asimov: “There is a cult of ignorance in the US and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”