Ali Faruk
Public School Dad, Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, 3rd District #RVA school board member. www.alifarukrva.com.
- Taking this #BlackHistoryMonth to learn and re-learn that our government has always denied basic rights and due process to certain people. Our government has always visited arbitrary and senseless violence, including family separations, on certain people.
- The next witness, U.S. citizen and CA resident Martin Rascon, chokes up as he recounts an experience from August when four men in face masks, sunglasses, & baseball caps tried to force into his car, guns pointed at him and his family, ignoring requests to ID themselves before shooting multiple times
- Tax the billionaires and give families universal child care, paid leave, and Medicare for all. theconversation.com/denmarks-gen...
- Tax the billionaires and do this bsky.app/profile/bria...
- Hang in there my fellow #rva public school parents. We are finally opening today on a two hour delay!
- "The US didn’t ratify the agreement until 1975, under President Gerald Ford. When it did, it reserved the right to use riot control agents to control “rioting prisoners of war,” among other exceptions." www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/u...
- “We can advocate on a city and state level, but also look at our cushions and find ways to trim the fat,” Fernandez said www.12onyourside.com/2026/02/03/r...
- The #RVA School Board is meeting again tonight! Up now is our student representative Zion Terry from the pride of northside John Marshall HS! go.boarddocs.com/vsba/richmon... watch live - www.youtube.com/live/betSafo...
- Zion Terry: John Marshall HS has become a second family for me. Many students are working hard in school but also out of school to support their family. I've benefited from the many resources and supports at John Marshall. I was brave enough to ask for help with anxiety.
- During public comment, Thomas Jefferson HS football coach says their football field needs practice lights. The lack of lights means the team can only practice for 45 mins a day because it gets dark so soon. Thomas Jefferson HS has sent 30+ kids to college on football scholarships in the past 3 years
- We have difficult budget decisions to make for FY 27 however I'm proud of our work to improve teacher/staff salaries over the past several years. www.richmonder.org/data-richmon...
- Several Virginia Democrats voted with GOP to kill rent stabilization bills at the 2026 Va General Assembly www.richmonder.org/rent-stabili... vote tally here - lis.virginia.gov/vote-details...
- Virginia Dems Voting with the GOP to kill rent stabilization are from mostly strong D districts such as State Sen @jeremymcpike.bsky.social, State Sen Angela Williams Graves (D-Norfolk), State sen Stella Pekarsky (D-Fairfax), State sen Kannan Srinivasan (D-Loudoun) .
- Our immigration system has been broken and families have been suffering for too long. Using immigrants as political pawns and accepting the lesser evil had delivered us into fascism. Reject it. A better world is possible if we demand it and fight for it.
