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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Yasss! 804 born and raised, too. I’m in 434 now though, but let’s not talk about that. 🫣🤫

Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Yep. The birthplace of so many legends - Ella Fitzgerald, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Pharrell, and @karena.blacksky.app 🤣

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Therapeutic doses of vitamin D really help some people - sharing in case you haven’t tried that before. 🫶🏽

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026

And someone looked me dead in my eye a few weeks ago and told me the pressure on university employees to use AI was over. 🙄

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 15/07/2026

Robbing people of their autonomy, time, opportunity, livelihoods… simply to “solve” a case. And it will just go on and on… innocenceproject.org/news/life-li...

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - Innocence Project

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026

Filling out a survey in my herbalism class yesterday: ( ) I prefer cold weather. ( ) I prefer hot weather. Me: I prefer no weather. I actually don’t like weather at all.

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 11/07/2026

Virginia is a nice shade of… muted digested bile. 🤮

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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Our statement on ICE's fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; and some local actions you can take to stand alongside our community members.

On Tuesday morning, July 7th, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston's East End. He is at least the 10th person shot and killed by ICE in the last 18 months, a number that keeps growing.

At a press conference, his son Ronaldo Salgado said, "He did not deserve to die." He didn't. No one deserves to die or be incarcerated for seeking a better life, for going to work, for trying to support their family.

We are yet again deeply saddened by and angry about the ongoing assault on immigrants by our federal government, whether in our backyard or across the nation.

We join Araujo's family in demanding a full, independent, and transparent investigation into his death. All evidence must be preserved and released to the public.

We demand our local, state, and national elected officials do everything in their power to end their complicity with this corrupt and authoritarian administration. That starts with a public commitment to vote to abolish ICE, to prosecute all agents who commit criminal acts, and to use all legal powers and authority to refuse cooperation with federal immigration agencies.

As we grieve and process our anger, we are determined not to become inured to these losses, nor paralyzed by rage. So we pause and recommit to doing what we can. Below are a few things you can do.
If you have the means:
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 other trusted community organizations.

Contribute to bond payments for Virginians held in ICE detention through the Central Virginia Community Support Fund, fiscally sponsored by Congregate Charlottesville.
Help pay the legal fees of our immigrant neighbors by donating to the fundraiser by Fuerza Latina, also fiscally sponsored by Congregate Charlottesville.

If you have the time:
Learn how to mount a “safe, hyper-local, immigrant-aligned response” to ICE. Join Indivisible National's online Immigrant Justice Summer training series. The first session is tonight at 8 PM EST. The next one is on July 23.
Stay tuned for a local in-person ICE-watch training coming up soon.
Start a neighborhood pod, come to the People’s Activist Series at 6pm Mondays, and keep growing our shared power to fight fascism and take care of our communities.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

hold on, about to chat with mcconnell

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026

All the emotions from this article. I’m SO lucky to have friends from 3rd grade on up in my life. 🫶🏼 “Despite impossible schedules and emotional fatigue, some friends continue returning…because somewhere, beneath all the exhaustion adulthood imposes, they still consider your inner life important.“

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026

Hey Charlottesville, Albemarle, Nelson, Fluvanna, Orange, and anyone else close by, join us THIS Friday, May 1, as we practice getting strike ready and take a day to put workers over billionaires! 🪧

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Trillespie @trillespie.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026

Don’t play with my food. I’m gonna get real cantankerous. And now it’s V for Vendetta on you. For life.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 25/03/2026

NO KINGS 3 ACCESSIBLE RALLY organized by Stand Up for Science! An inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere. March 28th, 12:30 - 2pm CT followed by live stream of the national flagship event from the Twin Cities (MN). Sign up here: standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3 #NoKings #NoKings3 #NK3AR #Rally

Graphic with text that reads “No Kings 3 Accessible Rally organized by Stand Up for Science. Online March 28th, 12:30 - 2PM CT” The graphic also includes logos for No Kings3 and Stand up for Science, and this link: standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3

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Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫🧊🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇻🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢✝️🌹 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This Sunday, join Charlottesville community members to learn about the tactics and strategies of the Civil Rights Movement, and their relevance for collective action today. 2:00-3:30pm, Sunday, March 15, at Trinity Episcopal Church —which has a history as an organizing hub for civil rights activists

Civil rights movement and nonviolent direct action workshop, 2:00-3:30pm Sunday, March 15, 2026, at Trinity Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, Virginia

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 11/03/2026

But honestly, that quote captures how so many of us feel. 😭🫠

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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

ATTN HIGHER ED WORKERS! @aaup.org @aaupmason.bsky.social Out of hundreds of thousands of VA workers, grad students/faculty are likely the ONLY gp excluded from historic Collective Bargaining bill. Last week of the session -- make your voices heard! RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/forms/vigil-...

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026

I feel that in my bones, friend. Hate and love that we know what that feels like. May we always celebrate the magic of being alive and always remember the magic in us that allows us to come together and keep each other safe. 🖤

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026

The group restored my humanity all those years ago. I sometimes wonder who/where I’d be without cow spotted ribbons, hand written letters, and an outpouring of love. WE keep is sane.

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026

Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms. Trauma degrades the victim; the group exalts her. Trauma dehumanizes the victim; the group restores her humanity.’’

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026

In her book Trauma and Recovery, the psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman explains: “The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against terror and despair, and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience…

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026

I can smell this memory. 😂

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026

For a while now, Target has been on the shit list for many of us. Home Depot, too. Make sure you add Delta, Hilton, and Enterprise. Comrades in MN are asking for our solidarity. ✊🏽 www.iceoutnowmn.com

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ICE OUT OF MN

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Matt Peters @mrmightyink.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Alright, Bad Bunny. You did it. #Superbowl

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 08/02/2026

Yes, I’m reading “Only God Can Judge Me”.

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 08/02/2026

Also, Brenda and her baby were reunited. 😭

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 08/02/2026

…but did y’all know Tupac is buried in Lumberton, NC? Because this was news to me! Sadly, with his mom gone, his grave is just kind of there alone. www.robesonian.com/news/336536/... #tupac

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How Tupac came to rest in Lumberton | Robesonian

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Walty @waltometry.blacksky.app · 07/02/2026

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026

I’ve never hated an animal more in my life… We’ve had enough, Punxsutawney Phil!! My hands are still sore from breaking up a driveway full of ice.

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

And become a regular with an organizing group! “Become a regular. Start showing up to spaces you love, like parks, gyms or bookstores, with people who share your interests. Once you become a regular, other folks will remember you and you can make friends.”

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 29/01/2026

The best note from @chaninicholas.bsky.social that I’ve ever gotten. ❤️✊🏽🖤

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026

Every airport should have rocking chairs.

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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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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026

Does this mean that Walz sent Bondi the Medicaid and voter records? 🤔

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Karena 🧠🫀 @karena.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026

Thank you for your service! 🫡

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