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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think I've accomplished my life's mission now. 20 years in the making.

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rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Did they steal FROM the NIH or just steal WITH the NIH?

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Guinevere Higgins @guineverehh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Y'all, some of those detained by the Greene County Sheriff's office back in June are now receiving bond. There's not enough money to fund them. Can we help bring some families home to central VA? Give here: secure.actblue.com/donate/ccfre...

secure.actblue.com

I just supported my immigrant neighbors and you can too!

What will you remember doing during this time in history? Together with local immigrant advocates, Congregate Charlottesville is raising life-saving funds to pay for immigration bond and legal repre...

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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"“A masked agent in an unmarked car killed Lorenzo in his own neighborhood where he lived for 35 years working and raising a family...This is what unaccountable, unrepentant, unconstitutional enforcement looks like.”

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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Our statement on ICE actions in Greene County today. Links to take action in comments. We stand with our immigrant neighbors. #AbolishICE. If you are looking for something to do, here are three concrete ways to take action to support our immigrant neighbors:

We are filled with grief and rage over the ICE activity in Greene County today, June 23. Cville ICE Watch reported, “Approximately 20 Greene County sheriff’s deputies and ICE officers have been actively detaining people in the area of the intersection of Route 29/Route 33.”

Our love, resources, and solidarity go out to all individuals taken today, and to their families, friends, and neighbors. You deserve better. You deserve to be free, without fear, and home with the ones you love tonight and every night. And, our love, resources, and solidarity go out to all those stopped today, going about your lives, which you deserve to live free and without fear.

The time is now for our community to come together to take care of each other. Here are three concrete ways to take action to support our immigrant neighbors:

Put grocery gift cards into the hands of local food-insecure immigrant families by donating to the Grocery Card Campaign, hosted by Sin Barreras and co-sponsored by Indivisible Charlottesville and several other trusted community organizations.
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=QFX5QZSKBYAF8

Cover bond payments for Virginians held in ICE detention by donating to the Central Virginia Community Support Fund, fiscally sponsored by Congregate Charlottesville.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ccfreedomfund

Raise funds to pay the legal fees of our immigrant neighbors by participating in the Cville Latine Art Fundraiser, an evening of art, music, and food, hosted by Fuerza Latina this Saturday, June 27, 6-9 pm at Sojourners United Church, 1017 Elliott Ave.

Indivisible Charlottesville demands that our local, state, and national elected officials stop being complicit with this corrupt authoritarian regime, and do everything in their power to stand up for our communities. We demand a public commitment to abolish ICE and that they use all legal powers and authorities to refuse cooperation with federal immigration agencies.

ICE must get out of our communities NOW.

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Clearly this regime is doing far worse, but willfully strangling research and knowledge-sharing is destructive, despicable, and disheartening.

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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A degree conferred by an assemblage of politically connected lawyers and CEOs is worth nothing. Faculty control of the curriculum and requirements is what makes the degree meaningful.

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Kurt Weldon @kurtweldon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Indeed. Just about all of our problems could be solved if our goal was for them to be solvable, rather than profitable.

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 05/05/2026

Please join me in supporting our neighbors in need

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Action is always better than inaction, and this action can be done from the comfort of your couch if you're able to give.

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

You cannot post something like this on the Internet and expect the universe not to respond.

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Streetwise, Cville Safety Cat: Interested Female Vocalists Write @averysafecat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Again, this was a foregone conclusion, so schools like UVA that were tripping over themselves to sign up for the Trump gold-colored Star of approval really just wanted to collaborate.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

this saturday! bring your kids-- we'll have crafts and activities and at least one pokemon encyclopedia 🙏

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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The concept of communicable disease is incompatible with conservative ideology

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

If your feed has gotten quiet about MN, this is a good reminder to keep finding ways to help/donate/amplify.

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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

There is no fixing this. There is no training nor reform that will mitigate this. #AbolishICE. No funding for DHS. Call/email/contact @markwarner.bsky.social and @kaine.senate.gov (if you can get through bc Kaine seems to make it as difficult as possible). #ICEoutForGood.

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I'll take that glimmer of positivity. Way to go, Cville!

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our friends at The Haven just sent a message asking for donations to support over 80 community members who are homeless that The Haven and other partners have placed in hotels during this winter weather. They need to raise $27k. Please consider donating today. www.thehaven.org/give-online

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Give Online — The Haven

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

the children are protesting from inside the camps. i hope they know that we hear them.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Unless they are stopped, all the worst things that Trump and the Republican Party are going to do are in the future, not the past. This makes stopping them the highest priority for the future of human life on the planet.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 06/01/2026

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

know there’s a lot going on but don’t want to lose sight of UVA trying to pass off as legitimate the president that an illegally constituted board appointed with unseemly haste in a farcical process that shut out the entire rest of the community & even in their propaganda they can’t include a POC

UVA Today daily propaganda report,

headline
'First Coffee' launches Scott
Beardsley's first full week as
UVA's 10th president

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Drawing on a tradition from his years as dean of the Darden School of Business, Beardsley hrought "First Coffee" in the Office of the… [image cuts off]

There is an image of president manqué Beardsley talking to notably few others outside the office of the president. All the people in the image appear to be extremely white

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

hamiltonnolan.com

We Are the Bad Guys

The swaggering threat to global stability is us.

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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Yes, contact your elected representatives ; then join your fellow community members this afternoon, organized by @cvilledsa.bsky.social . #HandsOffVenezuela.

This graphic says hands off Venezuela, Raleigh organized by Charlottesville DSA, January 4, one P.M., Charlottesville Federal, Courthouse, 255 West Main St.

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Took my kids' admonitions to heart and severely limited my doom scrolling to start 2026. I see the world did not similarly limit their doom output, however.

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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Tom is right person for this moment - someone who cares deeply about his constituents and is willing to fight for them

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Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This guy got a PhD to become a university president.He got a PhD in "Higher Ed Admin" & wrote a diss./book about "non traditional presidents" aka consultant class experts who believe that faculty and students have too much say. Fullest expression of the BOV contempt for UVA &especially faculty.

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Schuyler VanValkenburg @scvanvalkenburg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

To my mind, the speed of this search is the definition of *malfeasance.* It was politics over the health and integrity of the university from beginning to end--from firing President Ryan to now. The appointees have consistently put the desires of Trump and Youngkin over UVA.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Spanberger should remove the whole board on day 1.

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Delegate Katrina Callsen @katrinacallsen.com · 19/12/2025

The Board ignored our staff, faculty, students, and alumni ….everyone whose day-to-day life makes the University what it is. They also ignored the Governor-Elect and the General Assembly.

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Rep. Joyce Beatty @repbeatty.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/12/2025

The dean of the University of Virginia’s business school has emerged as the top candidate in the search for the flagship’s next president ahead of a board meeting Friday.

wapo.st

U-Va. board likely to name president Friday amid calls to pause search

A vote by the University of Virginia’s board would come after Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) and others urged members to halt the search until she takes office.

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Based on the number of locals who seemed shocked that there was snow in the forecast today, I feel obligated to report that my 2 for 2 weather app is predicting more wintery stuff in Cville on Friday...

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

We also got Jimmy Carters! And I'm so mad that all the Christmas cards got snowflakes without my review.

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

We were at a children's parade, sir

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Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

What is wrong with you!? By what mechanism do you intend to have the Republican House vote on this?? A "promise" 🙄🙄🙄

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Gosh @historygosh.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Primary all of them, man. Don't know what else to say.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I briefly explored Microsoft Lists for this in the online 365 environment. It's like Access lite. But it was frustrating enough that I gave up and made an Access database anyway that my Mac colleague simply can't use, so not a ringing endorsement.

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Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

CAN NOT leave Miyares in place

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The UVA deal is linked below. I'll have more later, but it seems like this clause here (UVA agreeing to "internally" accept this really dubious DOJ guidance) as is the critical part. federalinfo.virginia.edu/sites/federa...

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