When I came out to my dad, he told me he loved me but that he didn't want me to be public about my identity because it would embarrass him. Needless to say, this caused significant interpersonal conflict and stress.
Glenn Youngkin thinks my dad was right and wants to make it law
@LarrySabato
I’m starting to think that having a one term governorship, where the sitting Governor largely doesn’t have to concern himself with the political considerations that running for re-election may entail, is not giving Virginia the kind of governance we probably hoped for
This is no accident. It’s intentional bigotry meant to rile people up while giving Sears the plausible deniability of being able to say she made a simple mistake.
Don’t buy it. Roem has been serving in the GA longer than all of Sears’ collective years in public service.
NEW: hearing
@WinsomeSears
referred to
@pwcdanica
on the
@VASenate
floor as "sir."
Chamber has gone into recess twice after reportedly "Sears refused to apologize."
"I'm not here to upset anyone, I'm here to do the job the ppl of VA have called me to do."
#VALeg
Let me be exceptionally clear. If you live in Virginia, the land that invented American slavery, the capital of the Confederacy, the harbinger of Massive Resistance—you have a responsibility to call out bigotry loudly and frequently all the day long. That is our real heritage.
@dianelyssa
Liberal white people yelling at other liberal white people about racial justice in a formerly majority Hispanic neighborhood within a formerly majority African American city really says everything you need to know about what's happened to Washington, DC.
Not only is it incredibly relevant for us now that Virginia is honoring Barbara Johns as a teenage student activist who fought against entrenched and oppressive power with a spot in the U.S. Capitol but, of all people, she’s replacing ROBERT E. LEE
Some context on Barbara Johns in the link here.
In 1950s Virginia, at just 16, she planned a secret anti-segregation rally in her own school, kickstarting part of the Brown v. Board of Education case—and with it, the entire Civil Rights Movement.
I’m bisexual, I’ve been out for eight years, and I’ve never been happier.
To anyone still unsure of themselves—take your time. And when you choose to open up that door, you’ve got many folks out there who will welcome you with open arms. ❤️
Happy
#NationalComingOutDay
!
@jonfavs
Honestly from my perspective in VA it looks as though the Dems have done just about everything they possibly could to run up the score here. Feeling pretty good about Biden's chances—more concerned about how Trump acts if he loses.
This is just a violently cruel position to take on the health and wellbeing of queer youth.
And knowing that
@GlennYoungkin
is doing this to try and become a national Republican figure makes it all the more distressing. Just frustrating to the point of making you want to cry.
In unsurprising news, Trump endorses Bolsonaro, who many fear is priming Brazil for a full-blown constitutional crisis should he lose in upcoming elections (via
@FinchelsteinF
)
This guy apparently once went on a date set up for him by the Washington Post and... it did not go well (the Washington Post has since removed their version of the story):
It’s official! I’m honored to have been elected Chair of the
@arlingtondems
Latino Caucus for 2022!
So excited to take on this role and get to work organizing our underserved and underrepresented Latino community.
#RepresentationMatters
@_celia_bedelia_
Men get really uncomfortable when you discuss messed up power dynamics in technically legal relationships because men have been engaging in those power dynamics against women since time immemorial and don't wanna stop now
Getting a bit emotional this
#NationalComingOutDay
.
I first came out to myself when I was 15. Now I’m 30, so I’ve been out longer than I was ever in the closet.
To the little boy who once thought he’d have to hide his whole life: I’m still here, I’m Queer, and I love myself 🏳️🌈
@DCCityGuy2
@DCPoliceDept
I can’t even imagine the kind of evil curdling up in the heart of someone like you posting this crap on a missing kids poster. You hate her name because you know there’s no chance in this universe you’re ending up there after you die! Enjoy your sad life.
@lowkell
@washingtonpost
It's like they go out of their way to avoid reckoning with the fact that a *child* is dead here.
And to know that this kid was in the foster care system... it breaks your heart wondering if this kid ever felt like he had the support he needed. Now we'll never know.
Dozens of tiktok creators are visiting the Capitol today to push against a ban on the app
Some mixed approaches from content posted. Some are stopping by member offices, talking about impacts of tiktok on income/small biz
Others much less serious (example)
Parents like this are huge red flags for child abuse, particularly child sexual abuse.
The vast majority of abuse occurs in the home. If children have *no* adults they can speak privately to without parents present, they’re simply consigning children living with abuse to silence
I took my daughter to her yearly physical today (she’s still a minor) and the cheery nurse told her she will need a urine sample and oh since she’s over 15 they will need to get her cell phone number so they can call with any results and handed her the laptop to type it in. I…
I love Arlington. At Bob & Ediths for lunch, one of the oldest diners in the county, and all the music playing is Mexican music.
And why wouldn’t it be? All the staff is Latino! This is the county so many residents either choose or pretend not to see: Árlington.
ground support for the growing protest outside the police perimeter has arrived. love, support, and community care. these students have it covered & it’s really beautiful to see.
Glenn Youngkin and Virginia Republicans are successfully banning LGBTQ+ safe spaces in Virginia schools.
For many queer kids, school is the only safe space they have.
Virginia Republicans would prefer to force queer kids to shut up and stay closeted, consequences be damned.
I was very disappointed to hear that "safe space" stickers have now been prohibited in classrooms in Hanover County Public Schools in Virginia just as they have been in various school districts in Pennsylvania.
1/
Cops tackled one of the parents for trying to rush in and save his kids… while some other cops ran in to save their own kids and left the rest to die.
“Good guys with a gun” are a ****ing myth.
Some exciting news!
I have just been appointed by
@GovernorVA
Northam to serve as the first Latino member of the Va Board for Contractors.
Especially looking forward to using this opportunity to advocate for immigrant small business owners like my dad 😊
#RepresentationMatters
LOVE this photo from Gov. McAuliffe’s final address tonight. Del. Danica Roem in her rainbow bandana and Del. Kathy Tran breastfeeding her child on the House Floor (first time it’s been done?). Both were sworn in just hours ago.
No doubt about it: it’s a new era in Richmond.
NEW:
@DCPoliceDept
says there was “no intelligence that suggested there would be a breach of the Capitol” building. Stopped short of sharing what they did know beforehand
@LarrySabato
I would simply take a face-value reading of the 14th Amendment at this point.
Complete disenfranchisement for any participant or material supporter of the coup, and a ban on holding office for all those who violated their oath to defend the Constitution.
These men were immigrants, they were Marylanders, and they were Americans. They represented the backbone of what makes this country work—hardworking men and women who fill the potholes and keep the trains running for everyone else. They and their families deserve our respect.
They were fathers, husbands and "hard-working" men. Here's what we know so far about the construction workers presumed dead in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore.
Thrilled to share that today is my very first day at
@WeAreUnidosUS
, the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.
I’ll be joining their Latino Vote Initiative, working to expand voter participation and access to millions across the nation! 🗳️🇺🇸
Of course it was a violent insurrection. Shame on every Republican, especially Members of Congress, who haven’t declared as much. Next: Admit Trump plotted a coup to steal a 2nd term. Then invoke 14th Amendment, Section 3 to ban Trump and coconspirators from future public office.
As a Latino and a queer man, I'm proud to endorse
@ewarren
for President. She's the candidate who speaks for me!
Virginians: go out and
#ChooseWarren
at the polls today! If you need to know where your polling place is, you can find it here: .
#VA4Warren
News:
@TuckerCarlson
's top writer has resigned after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks under a pseudonym on an online forum. Here's our story:
Joe Biden seems to be running a fascinating experiment called “what happens when an unpopular president goes out of his way to infuriate his base right before an election against an authoritarian figure who does everything possible to please his base” let’s see how this turns out
hearing through the grapevine that UVA president jim ryan is refusing to speak to anyone about the riot cops surrounding students in the shadow of the rotunda.
Forgot to post about this last week but I am SO EXCITED to have been elected Treasurer for the Democratic Latino Organization of Virginia!
@vademlatinos
is the statewide Latino Caucus for Virginia’s Democratic Party. Here’s to another two years of expanding Latino power in VA!
Yes. The point of conservatism is to give people a legitimate political pathway to take out your worst impulses on people your in-group considers outsiders worth shunning.
Here is Glenn Beck's media outlet openly apparently trying to bully a government employee, for no real reason, who is one of the friendliest, most helpful people I've worked with over the last few years.
8M views.
Why. Why do this. Just to be mean to someone?
We see this happening in Virginia in real time. Bob Good was sent to Congress only because he primaried a Republican who officiated a same-sex wedding.
Now the Virginia GOP is using all of their power to systematically target trans and queer students and teachers.
It seems to me that casual mockery of gay people and their families is on the rise among the conservative media figures whose job is to restore a cultural environment in which anti-gay legislation is deemed acceptable. We are backsliding on gay rights with truly shocking speed.
Today I'm thinking of Donald Zarda and Aimee Stephens, two Americans whose court cases against anti-gay and anti-trans workplace discrimination (respectively) were part of the Supreme Court's decision this morning. Both passed before they could see justice done. Rest in PRIDE.
@mjs_DC
@ParkerMolloy
The "you are transphobic" vs. "you've done something transphobic" distinction is too much of a distraction here. It should not matter whether or not Chappelle is a card-carrying transphobe when he's a vastly wealthy and influential person out there pushing transphobic ideas.
@mjs_DC
@ParkerMolloy
Otherwise it's a good piece and I appreciate her commentary. But let's not pretend that "he's not transphobic because he thinks bathroom bills are bad" is anywhere near an adequate analysis of his position on the trans community
Prince William Co has the highest concentration of Latinos anywhere in Virginia.
It just boggles the mind how badly Virginia Dems have failed to develop a bench of Latino activists ready to run for office.
Fastest growing ethnicity in Va and we’re completely dropping the ball.
This is an interesting development in one of the few GOP opportunity seats in NOVA located in middle PWC
Republican Ian Lovejoy was running for State Senate, but now will run in HD-22
There is currently no Dem candidate in a seat that went 51-48 for Hung Cao in 2022
@JanuaryDoNoHarm
@afruitsnacker
@endofanerajc
Unfortunately, the majority of abuse occurs in the home. Either parent can be the perpetrator, or both parents could be, or it could be that one parent is just as much a victim of abuse as the child. Either way, there are extremely legitimate reasons these policies exist.
Wait. Hold on.
This is actual jackboot paramilitary shit. This is being aired live without any condemnation?
This is going to result in mob violence. Real people are going to be killed by stuff like this.
@cameron_kasky
Nothing about your tweet negates anything that Rogan has said. You have an incredible platform to lift up marginalized and underrepresented voices. Please take some time to understand how trans folks feel about this issue without turning it into an anti-Warren thing.
Thanks.
@jbarro
There is a part of the right that thinks it's immoral to ruin another person's good time even if that good time is predicated on lies and genocide
@LarrySabato
I’m glad he may be impeached a second time but this crisis won’t be over until we address the elephant in the room that is the fascist, militant element within the Republican Party and its ability to act with impunity.