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serving Charlottesville & Albemarle in the Virginia House 🏛️ // economist 📈 // @uva prof
Dec 14, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
President Biden just signed the Respect for Marriage Act. If you live in Virginia, here’s what it does — and doesn’t — mean for you… 🌈🧵 RFMA require the federal govt and *all* states to recognize same-sex & interracial marriages *if* they…

- were legally performed in the past
- are legally performed in the future
Sep 16, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
The Inflation Reduction Act has load of ways to save money on energy. Check ‘em out in this spiffy new @WhiteHouse website!⚡️whitehouse.gov/cleanenergy/?u… Want to put solar panels on your roof? ☀️
Jul 1, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
New laws in Virginia take effect in July, so I do a new laws thread on the great bills that pass every year. 🥳

This year, it also felt important to do a run down on the dumb & dangerous stuff that didn't. Buckle up. You can still teach history in Virginia. All of it. wjla.com/news/local/vir…
Jul 1, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
July 1 is the day that new laws in Virginia take effect. Here are a few that may matter for you... 🧵 Charlottesville & Richmond had long-running problems with aggressive medical debt collection. That's why @SenatorHashmi & I teamed up w/ @KathyKLTran & @BarbaraFavola to ban the practice in Virginia. virginiamercury.com/blog-va/study-…
Jun 25, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read
How can you help protect abortion rights in Virginia? Here goes… 🧵 (1) Know the calendar.

- Our legislature meets in the spring, so we won’t vote on abortion laws again until January 2023. (That means our current laws are safe for now.)

- We also elect state legislators in odd-numbered years. That means we’re back on the ballot in 2023. Image
Jun 25, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
Been getting questions about what *exactly* we mean when we say abortion is still legal in Virginia.

Great question -- you deserve to know your rights... 🧵 Here's the section of Virginia state law that governs most abortion rights, and here's a quick thread on what it says...
law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodefull/tit…
Mar 15, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
Been getting lots of ?s about what Virginia will do with our budget "surplus". Before we call it that, let's remember how far behind we are on basic needs. Here's just a slice from health care... 🧵 10 years ago, the US DOJ found Virginia in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act for failing to provide adequate services to Virginians with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

10 years later, we still have 13,000 residents waiting. godanriver.com/news/local/adv…
Aug 8, 2017 9 tweets 6 min read
No denying it. August is here. That means we’re onboarding new RAs and spreading the #Git joy once again. Here’s what I give them... 1/ @michaelstepner’s blog post gives a pithy intro to why researchers should ditch Dropbox code and get with #Git. 2/ michaelstepner.com/blog/git-vs-dr…