It's obvious what happened at the University of #Virginia on May 4th. The police were rioting. If the authorities had just left the students alone, the pro-Palestinian encampments would have been dissolved on their own accord. The fact that the police give greater priority to peaceful protests on campuses than they do to investigating and solving real crimes explains why there is so much crime in the cities. https://www.c-ville.com/conflicting-accounts
Peaks of Otter, Sharp Top Mountain, the Blue Ridge Parkway during a G5 solar storm creating colors I have only imagined this far south in Virginia, available here:
School board members in #Virginia’s Shenandoah County voted early Friday to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – four years after those names had been removed.
@GottaLaff That's more white nationalism. The evil part of it is, that their kids grow up and are educated in a society that generally fucks them up for life. The ones with a brain might eventually emerge while the remainder join the 30%.
#Virginia school board restores #Confederate leaders’ names to 2 #schools
The change comes 4 years after the schools had removed the names during the national racial reckoning sparked by #GeorgeFloyd’s killing.
Like other #SchoolDistricts across the #South, the county had decided to remove the #Confederate leaders’ names during the national reckoning about race sparked by the 2020 killing of #GeorgeFloyd.
Private donations will fund the implementation of the name change, according to the school board’s meeting agenda.
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two schools.
CNN reports from Shenandoah County, where the schools were renamed four years ago. "That 2020 move was part of a resolution condemning racism and affirming the district’s 'commitment to an inclusive school environment.'" None of the 2020 board members still serve.
There is a boat that goes around installing wind turbines here and there and everywhere.
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"The DP3 installation vessel Orion, owned and operated by the Belgian offshore construction specialist DEME, has sailed out of Invergordon in Scotland and is now en route to the United States, where it will be installing monopile foundations at the Coastal #Virginia Offshore Wind (#CVOW) project site."
"Issued on April 9 following a 30-day public comment period, the permit authorizes the construction and operation of the largest offshore wind project in the U.S. and will feature up to 176 wind turbines located 26 to 38 nautical miles from the coast."