Heather Massey

New book! Weirdo: Tales of a Geek Adoptee This memoir chronicles my journey as a Baby Scoop Era adoptee and the only science fiction & fantasy geek in my adoptive family. #Adoptee #AdopteeVoices #Adoption #BookSky #Memoir Full description and buy links: www.heathermassey.com/weirdo-tales...

Hundreds of people showed up to Saturday’s march for a data center moratorium. Enough is enough. No more excuses. Virginia needs a pause now.

Wittman says Medicaid changes only hit able-bodied adults. VA work requirement starts Jan 1: 80 hrs/month, rechecked every 6 months. Some state officials told KFF the rushed timeline risks unnecessary coverage losses. CBO: 5.3M more uninsured from this alone. Able-bodied ≠ good at paperwork. Vote.

That’s also why Vivek isn’t exactly lying when he says he didn’t mean to say Acton lied about being raped as a child. He doesn’t think she lied; he thinks that being raped disqualifies her from office, because she belongs to the class of people power is wielded against, not the class that wields it.

I don’t think this is exactly what’s going on, or all that’s going on. It’s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. It’s that they like that he’s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Meta recently updated their terms of service to require any businesses that use their products to turn over their intellectual property in exchange for access to their platforms. I’m urging Meta to reverse this decision and compensate creators and publishers for their work.

HTDems are hosting an Election Night Party, and you can RSVP right here. It could well be an historic night in the Historic Triangle. It's where America's independence, freedom from tyranny, and the grand experiment of human self-determination began. And we're doing it again!

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

We LOVE these signs from HTDems! They need help to buy more of 'em -- click the link and donate a few $$ to get these signs everywhere in #VA01. secure.actblue.com/donate/willi...

Sounds like an oversight job that my rep, Congressman Rob Wittman, should do as Vice Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, but he likely won’t. Has he abdicated his duty to his district, America, and Ukraine? 😡 #VA-01, vote for @shannontaylorva.com! www.wittmanwatch.com/p/seniority-...

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

@shannontaylorva.com has prosecuted racist violence and won: she has a 90% homicide conviction rate over 15 years of service to our state. Wittman has been "standing back and standing by," calling for order while working to foment unrest with cynical votes and dishonest politics. #VoteTaylorVA01

Going to talk with @niedermeyer.online LIVE in an hour here: stream.place/niedermeyer.... Come join us!

scott galloway and jessica tarlov held an event here in town yesterday where “don’t impeach or waste time on investigations because ‘28” was the consensus position of the panel. so yeah, this is something to anticipate.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

The shackling of 66yo Marva Cook, an intercountry adoptee, whose offense was not having her status adjusted by those responsible for her adoption in the USA, all to advance Tr*mp's ethnic cleansing and voter suppression efforts, is the definition of injustice. 🥚 centralcurrent.org/shes-lived-h...

Ultimately, if you only have time to know one thing about all of this, just know that not a single solitary tech oligarch, tech company, or tech-backed politician has a single solitary serious commitment to the existence of Black political power or economic security in their plans for the future.

Right, so, male influencers are being sent out to tell Black people that resisting data centers is wrong actually because people don't understand how to really measure their water use. It’s an appeal to scientific expertise intended to intimidate Black people.

Exactly. And the folks at @wittmanwatch.bsky.social have ALL the receipts proving every single one of these assertions. Wittman has had 19 years of comfortable underperformance and under-delivery. No more!

Listen to our full conversation. You’ll be amazed. substack.com/@salaambhatt...

Why isn’t there a revolution in America? According to two sociologists in their book “Normalizing Inequality”, it’s because we normalize inequality. There’s three patterns of behavior they found that prevents us from building community to create structural change.

Americans are poorer and sicker because of Trump & Wittman. They cut $911+ BILLION from Medicaid alone, and cut the ACA credits. Where's Trump's new plan? Nowhere. You're left paying the consequences. Taylor will restore ACA credits and work to roll back cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. #VoteTaylorVA01

Rob Wittman must be shook about Shannon Taylor accusing him of getting rich off Congress because these ads with him saying he's not rich and the only reason he has money is because his parents died keep running and running.

Still feeling salty about this campaign ad. Rep. Rob Wittman of #VA-01 cosplaying as a working-class guy/man-of-the-people isn't fooling anyone.

Horror Anthology Vol. 1 (2022; Tubi) is decent. For some reason half of them feature a maternal theme. The short I liked the most was “Polaroid.” Pretty spooky. Even though I'm a longtime horror fan who's familiar with the trope in it, I still had to partially cover my eyes.🫣

#VA01 Another example of cowardly Rob Wittman doing nothing to protect his district. Rob will ALWAYS support Trump’s agenda even though he promotes himself as an environmentalist. #VA01 deserves better. Vote @shannontaylorva.com

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

"Virginia is not for sale"

Prepping for the March For A Moratorium in Richmond.

i wrote about the GORP

Oil is now almost $117/barrel and rising. Wittman voted for this - multiple times. He won’t stop supporting Trump’s insane decisions that make everything worse for normal people. No matter what you once believed, it’s clear we literally cannot afford Rob Wittman. #VoteTaylorVA01

This morning the New York Times warns that administration attacks on voting are raising fears it will try to challenge midterms results. That’s why we are urging you to vote early. Questions? Call the multi-lingual Election Protection Hotline. 866ourvote.org @lwv.org @brennancenter.org @aclu.org

In Williamsburg today, hitting the doors for @shannontaylorva.com in VA-01. Knocked 77 doors- yes, they were apartments, so no need to suspect any performance enhancing drugs on my part. Shannon Taylor is such a great candidate that it doesn't take much to win over voters.

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The Wittman Times @wittmanwatch.bsky.social @bluevirginia.bsky.social @hanovervadems.bsky.social @chesterfielddemsva.bsky.social Vote EARLY for @shannontaylorva.com

@shannontaylorva.com has met with #VA01 faith leaders to understand what our communities need from their rep in DC. One leader said, "[Rob Wittman] has failed to lower costs and instead supported policies that further hurt our community. I stand with Shannon Taylor..." AGREED! #VoteTaylorVA01

Oh, okay, C&T Fenn Farms is “about an hour’s drive south from Salt Lake City,” which doesn’t have a huge population or anything. 😟

Thousands of Virginians with felony convictions can vote this fall. Advocates say many don’t know it.

New project for you all: I produced “Musk,” Alex Gibney’s extraordinary documentary, rolling out now.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I’ve been watching Doll Factory (2014; Tubi) in parts. S far, it’s not great but it’s not terrible, either. Can’t recommend unless you’re a hardcore fan of haunted doll films, low-budget horror films, and cheap special effects. It doesn’t have different types of dolls, either. 😩