We are proud to share that the University of Virginia has named Yael Grushka-Cockayne as the 10th dean of the Darden School of Business!
The first woman permanently appointed to lead Darden in its 70-year-history, Grushka-Cockayne brings her vast experience as an award-winning teacher, scholar and academic leader at UVA and beyond to begin her term as dean on 1 August.
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Good morning #valeg, I’m down at @VASenate finance where @SenLouiseLucas is expected for her first committee meeting since ☠️ of 10-1, a raid of her weed 🏪.
The room is packed with union folks 🙌 as Lucas demands an end to billions in tax breaks for data centers they build.
Virginia,
Y'all— last night, I was reading Dylan Thomas’ poem to his dying father, and he said, “Do not go gentle into that good night."
I came to a conclusion I can’t keep to myself.
He was writing about death. About his father slipping away.
But this, this is about our democracy.
“Do not go gentle into that good night,” he said.
Virginia, we will not.
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
And we are.
Because here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud:
When Texas’ white leadership gerrymanders the hell out of their state, it was framed as “bold.”
It’s “savvy.”
It’s “playing the long game.”
But when Black leaders in a Southern state fight to protect representation and political power, suddenly it’s “unfair.”
Suddenly it’s “dangerous.” Suddenly it’s a crisis.
The hypocrisy is not subtle.
Because how dare we fight partisan gerrymandering and beat them at their own game, right?
How dare our leaders stand up for us?
For centuries, Black and brown communities were expected to fade quietly. To accept diluted districts. To accept being carved out of influence. To accept leadership that never reflected us.
Decisions being made about us, but without us.
That era is over.
This is about our ailing and dying democracy. This is about refusing to disappear politely. This is about holding onto our light with intensity and grit.
Virginia is not ceding even a scintillas worth of ground.
We will organize. We will compete. We will build power in plain sight and not in the shadows.
And we will not go gentle.
#TenOne
@4_Ben_Media They’d probably have to stop calling us Abed’s though. Seems like they have a long way to go since I’ve seen Pro Palestinians call all kinds of Black people House Negros in the last several days. Good luck to them 🙏🏾
@4_Ben_Media No discussion on the Freedom Riders? folks who didn’t just sit idly by while we were being brutalized in our own county. They actually laid their lives on the line. I encourage these folks to hop on a plane and put their money where their mouth is. They might get more support.
@TylerEnglander@GovernorVA There should be a bill in the next General Assembly that explicitly bans the use of bots and botted accounts to further political propaganda. This is ridiculous and unsustainable. online discourse is nearly impossible with the amount of bots that have infested Twitter/X.
@FrankLuntz@4_Ben_Media This application is completely useless. The first twenty comments on this are all Elon bots. Every comment, like, and engagement is a bot. Complete and utter propaganda slop.