Wife, mom; love political history, Senate history; live inside the Beltway; love to read, hate to exercise, should do more of both; opinions are my own
State Champions! Congratulations to the team, coaching staff, families, fans & everyone who helped contribute to this great accomplishment. Very proud of these young men who fought and never gave up, now returning to Falls Church w/ another state championship trophy. Go Mustangs!
If guns made us safer, America would be the safest place in the world.
But the opposite is true. Nowhere else do students, concertgoers and bank patrons get slaughtered on a daily basis.
Because as it turns out, it's all the guns that make us so unsafe.
New Blog post! The Power of a Single Voice: Carol Moseley Braun Persuades the Senate to Reject a Confederate Symbol https://t.co/0aSAs4E1F9 #SenateStories#BlackHistoryMonth
New on the Blog! In 1943 five U.S. senators set out on a unique and controversial journey: to inspect American military installations engaged across the globe in the Second World War https://t.co/EUMguaJpZi #SenateStories
When a Fascist leader speaks, whether in Europe or America, never brush aside what you are hearing as meaningless rhetoric. Do not fail to learn from the history of the 1930s.
This is what it actually means to criminalize abortion.
I am not sure America is prepared for the level of invasive policing that women are about to endure.
https://t.co/MqCsOX7YjL
via @jiatolentino
This heartbreaking decision repealing Roe takes our nation backwards-& puts other rights at risk incl. the right to contraception & same-sex marriage.
Virginia is still an abortion rights sanctuary. TOGETHER-we must do all we can to ensure it remains one.
#EveryElectionMatters
My husband reminds me to consider long road thinking, noting that Dred Scott and limits of citizenship for the enslaved was settled law until overturned by the 14th Amendment. This country doesn’t always get it right unless its people collectively bend the arc toward justice
Falls Church, Virginia's Meridian High School, where students held a die-in protest against gun violence in the middle of their athletic field. Reminds me of the walkouts that preceded the (first) March for Our Lives. That was four years ago. Video: WJLA.