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Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢
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Antifascist professor.📚👩🏽‍🏫#Blackademic. Views expressed are (unfortunately) not those of my employer.🗣️Scholar-activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. #BLM. Public history & local🍷+🍺stan. 🏈fan. "Wiry and intense" -- The New Yorker
I think that this move by Spanberger effectively pumps the breaks on the search process. Who would take the job now, knowing that in 8 weeks, there will be a new governor (and Dem-controlled GA) who have publicly signaled that they have different priorities?
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Reposted by Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢
This race had a "Dewey defeats Truman" moment when Election Desk HQ prematurely called the race for Mayor Bruce Harrell. One Reddit user made a parody.

That proved incorrect as Wilson closed an eight-point gap from earlier results.
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Will FIRE have anything to say about this apparent lapse in UVA's status as a supposed haven free speech? 🤨
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM