Glen Besa

#ActonClimate. Likes to hike. Married to Tyla, my best friend.

[Glen Besa @glenbesa]

1984 revisionist history. Court Lets National Parks Keep Removing Signs on Slavery, Climate https://t.co/IXiEw9S8ga via @NYTimes

[Glen Besa @glenbesa]

How Virginia became the world’s data center capital and how it’s going https://t.co/vszC0EPKd8

[Glen Besa @glenbesa]

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[Tom Perriello @tomperriello]

Of the many expensive wars that McGuire had supported, the easiest to end is his war on contraception #FireMcGuire

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Bye-bye coal — solar tops coal in U.S., and more to come. Clean costs less.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The European Union’s climate commissioner has told the 27-country bloc that the only way out of energy crises fueled by the wars in Iran and Ukraine is homegrown energy, and that the EU must accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels.

One country leading the charge towards green energy is Denmark. https://t.co/Ut8xz0QKzv

[Michael Jones @thedrmikejones]

Virginia faces a major decision: should data centers keep receiving ~$2 billion a year in tax exemptions while families shoulder the costs?

Join @SenLouiseLucas and me on Tuesday. It's our duty to protect Virginians & we want to hear from you.

https://t.co/NzxwYeQbT1

[L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas]

Virginia faces a major decision: should data centers keep receiving ~$2 billion a year in tax exemptions while families shoulder the costs?

Join @thedrmikejones and me on Tuesday. It's our duty to protect Virginians & we want to hear from you.

https://t.co/2tqHpU80Fl

[Lt. Governor Ghazala Hashmi @ltgovhashmi]

I had a wonderful time celebrating Pride Night with the @GoSquirrels at CarMax Park. Thank you to @VA_Pride & the Flying Squirrels for bringing our community together for such a joyful evening. It was especially exciting to be part of CarMax Park’s first-ever Pride event.

[Tom Perriello @tomperriello]

Hell yeah, USA! A passionate and patriotic crowd is putting the 🔥 in Firefly tonight for the US World Cup opener!

[Senator Tim Kaine @SenTimKaine]

Virginia families are already feeling the impact of Republicans’ cuts to Medicaid that were part of their tax giveaway bill for the uber-wealthy. A string of hospital closures and new work requirements will make it harder than ever to access care. Here’s what that means:

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

💔💔💔 I'm gonna post this everyday so MAGA never forgets what Trump did on Jan 6 🇺🇸

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[Tom Perriello @tomperriello]

I brought economic relief to Southside in my first 4 weeks- for every family, police force, and public school. McGuire has only provided soul-crushing inflation and shuttered medical services. We cannot afford 2 more years of McGuire sticking it to Southside and rural communities

[Tom Perriello @tomperriello]

John McGuire admits to voting 100% with the dark money groups that funded his election, even when it has 100% harmed our most vulnerable neighbors

[Glen Besa @glenbesa]

Virginia Reproductive Freedom Campaign Launch
https://t.co/9NEiOYe5Nr

[Glen Besa @glenbesa]

Heading down to the VMI Environment Virginia Symposium with this message for @GovernorVA Abigail Spanberger. Please #ActonClimate

[Glen Besa @glenbesa]

Speaking Truth to Dirty Power - https://t.co/nSeBKnJphB

[Glen Besa @glenbesa]

Is the commander in chief aiding and abetting the enemy? Providing material assistance to the enemy? Does that constitute treason? https://t.co/DZtTvddF4z

[ABC News @ABC]

A widespread transition to renewable energy could mitigate a major cause of international conflict in a future that moves away from fossil fuels, energy and climate change experts told ABC News.

Read more: https://t.co/ASZdlyrUuH