Bob Marshall has been running anti-trans TV ads against her and sending out transphobic mailers (content warning: misgendering, transphobia.)
I know Danica Roem winning is a long shot but it would mean a great deal to me if she even came remotely close, as a bi/trans Virginian who’s dealt with Bob Marshall’s homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic shit for years.
She’s a seasoned investigative journalist for the local newspaper, who’s spent the last decade on the beat getting to know the problems of the district shes running for. Danica Roem is the most uniquely qualified person for Bob Marshall’s legislative seat because she knows, almost academically, exactly what’s wrong and how to fix it for the district.
During the last nine months, She’s focused her campaign on local issues: -fixing Route 28 by replacing traffic lights with overpasses throughout Centreville and replacing the traffic light at Orchard Bridge Drive with a flyover in Yorkshire; -bringing high-paying jobs to Innovation Park by finding a cost-effective way to extend the VRE westward from Broad Run to Gainesville with a stop at Innovation to make the area more marketable; -raising teacher pay in Prince William County and Manassas Park so it’s not the lowest in Northern Virginia; -expanding Medicaid to 3,700 uninsured residents of the 13th District who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line; and -making Virginia a more inclusive commonwealth, so welcome everyone no matter what they look like, where they come from, how they worship or who they love.
She was also born in the district, Bob Marshall is from maryland and made his way down to virginia to set up his demented operation.
But please please please if you are in manassas park or prince william county in Virginia do not forget to vote on November 7th, and bring a valid photo ID!
PS: she’s also in a metal band called Cab Ride Home
REMINDER: AGAINST SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE ODDS, DANICA ROEM WON!
Think of this next time someone tells you your vote ‘doesn’t matter’.
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Visualize a low-density suburb, with requests scattered over a wide area. How many people’s doors can a driver get to in an hour, including the minute or two that the customer spends grabbing their things and boarding? The intuitively obvious answer is the right one: not very many. An Eno Foundation reportpromoting microtransit could not cite a case study doing better than four boardings an hour of service. John Urgo, the planner of demand-responsive service for AC Transit in Oakland, California, has said that seven boardings an hour is “the best we hope to achieve.” Few fixed-route buses perform that poorly. Across sprawling Silicon Valley, for example, fixed-route buses carried 12 to 45 people an hour in 2015. In a dense city such as Philadelphia, the number can exceed 80. I’ve found similar figures in all of the 50 or so transit agencies that I’ve studied over the years.
Even so, it seems like small vans would be cheaper to run than big buses to the casual observer. But until it becomes fully automated, the operating cost of all passenger transport is at least 70 percent labor. The driver’s time is far more expensive than maintenance, fuel, and all the other costs involved.
In almost every public meeting I attend, citizens complain about seeing buses with empty seats, lecturing me about how smaller vehicles would be less wasteful. But that’s not the case. Because the cost is in the driver, a wise transit agency runs the largest bus it will ever need during the course of a shift. In an outer suburb, that empty big bus makes perfect sense if it will be mobbed by schoolchildren or commuters twice a day.
Cost efficiency only comes from shrinking drivers—that is, paying them less. But an agency can cut pay and benefits only so much while maintaining quality. The transit system in my hometown of Portland, Oregon, is full of friendly drivers who’ve been selected and trained to be graceful under stress. You cannot expect that skill at minimum wage—a Portland bus operator can make more than $60,000 per year.
Superficially, it might seem that offering riders a more convenient service—especially one that comes directly to their door—would increase ridership. And for individual riders who don’t use buses or rail for whatever reason, it might. But for a municipality with a fixed budget for service, shifting resources from fixed routes to microtransit is a way of lowering ridership overall, not increasing it. To put it another way, the “to your door” convenience offered by microtransit is so expensive per rider that it cannot possibly scale to the volumes of people traveling in a city. It can only be a special service for a small number of people.
Things I wish I knew before I started having casual sex:
If you’re only really having sex when you’re drunk, this is a problem, especially when you barely remember how and why and sometimes who
Don’t let men make you think that you’re clingy for wanting to be more than a plaything, and walk away when you realize you’re not going to get what you want. You cannot fuck someone into loving you. Being the cool girl who’s down for whatever is great and all, but you often feel very lonely especially when it seems they never choose you for anything but a fuck but seriously date other people
Just because you can tell they expect sex, it doesn’t mean you have to do it.
Losing someone who doesn’t respect your boundaries is not the end of the world. There are a lot of people on this planet, you’re worth more than that.
It might seem like everyone is ~liberated nowadays, but if you’re a girl who has sex with men, people will have shit to say. It’s not fair, and it’s not right, but it’s reality. It’s fun to go on Twitter and shit to make being a ‘ho’ your thing, but in real life it can really fucking suck. Discretion is helpful more often than not.
Educate yourself properly on safe sex, as well as how different illnesses are spread. You might think you know, but most high schools do not cover enough.
Get tested. There’s no shame in it. The doctor doesn’t care like that, and they are there to help. Knowing can be scary but not knowing is worse.
Sex feels best when you both give a shit about the other person and their satisfaction.
Girls, don’t let men be selfish. We worry about looking like models, fucking like porn stars, if we should wax or shave even if our skin is sensitive. I spent a lot of years more concerned about if I gave good head rather than even knowing what I liked done to me. It doesn’t have to be like that. Sex should also be about you.
Not having sex is really no one’s business but yours. You’re not missing out on all that much though it can be great. If and when you’re ready it’ll happen.
Ultimately, it’s up to you if no strings attached life is for you. I don’t advise going into it thinking it’s the way to a relationship although that does happen, but when it doesn’t you will feel used and disappointed and it’s a hard cycle to break.
You are not vanilla or a prude or whatever just because you don’t want to be on the receiving end of rough sex.
Listen to yourself always 💕
Go to a sex shop and BUY SOME TOYS. know how to get yourself off before you have more sex with people who might not even care to figure it out.
Consulting Witch 