Excellent thread by VA State Senator Danica Roem, over at Bluesky (where every Virginia Democrat should have an account and be posting at this point!). A few highlights (bolding added by me for emphasis):
- “It’s not going to be far from my mind Monday they’re still pulling bodies out of the Potomac, we just said farewell to civil rights champion Sen. Henry Marsh III by his flag-draped casket in the Old Senate Chamber, and we endured an onslaught of attacks on trans, undocumented and BIPOC Virginians.”
- “We have to be our own best advocates. We have resist the temptation to lose our cool at each other if for no other reason than we’re looking for someone to blame. We all want someone, somewhere, to effing do *something*… but, if we’re being honest, the only people coming to the rescue are us.”
- “It’s us. It’s our immediate community. It’s our truest family, friends & colleagues who’ve been there every step of the way. It’s the attorneys and paralegals from, by and for our community who got into law in the first place precisely for this moment. We have to step up and lead. It’s our moment.”
- “On a call with a constituent, we talked about how I’ve focused my 2025 bills on the very things I campaigned on in 2023 — fixing roads, feeding kids, fighting data center sprawl — representing the 30th District as expected/promised but 🤬, the other side’s just toxically obsessed with trans people.”
- “Even when it is utterly exhausting and so much is just awful, never lose your sense of purpose, even if it means redefining it. We have to meet the moment of where we’re at, figure out where each of us fits in with all of this and…. just take a minute to breathe where we can find it.”
- “We all know the worst is yet to come and it’s a scary world, even when that uncertainty isn’t lingering. But to paraphrase a GRRM quote, when we’re afraid is the only time we can be brave.”
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