Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
This is where I grew up. This is where I went to law school. This is my home. RVA, we ride at dawn. By the way, not joking, dude totally looks like the monopoly man. Graphics by @50501virginia.bsky.social
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Literally every front-page story in the Roanoke Times this morning is sports. Apparently, there's nothing non-sports-related worth reporting in the country or in Virginia. LOL bluevirginia.us/2025/09/mond...
As Republicans wage war on American workers, unions, etc (while enriching the rich)...Virginia Democrats like @senatorhashmi.bsky.social stand with labor bluevirginia.us/2025/09/mond...
www.postandcourier.com/health/mrna-... As the US backs away from supporting these cancer trials China will be stepping in and advancing these technologies without us. RFK and trump are going to allow us to die when many could have been saved. 🫤
Have a good Labor Day - all who keep faith in the workers of America! #laborDay #celebration #laborunion #bluesky
Thanks to @SenTimKaine for standing up against the Trump administration and far-right Israeli government, both of which apparently want to ethnically cleanse Gaza (Trump wants to turn it into some sort of luxury resort - warped/sick) bluevirginia.us/2025/09/mond...
"Trump 2.0 is a disaster for workers: Don't be gaslit when he says 'Happy Labor Day!'" - @paulwaldman.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/09/mond...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Happy Labor Day, Virginia! Today and every day, we stand with our workers who have spent years working toward fair wages, better hours, and safer working conditions.
wow
Classic false dilemma fallacy. A common disinformation and populist tactic.
Trump did this
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
Talking to journalist Pete Rothpletz about his piece on one of the biggest scandals and news stories of the Trump Administration. Why aren't Dems and corporate media focusing on this? Live 1 pm et. Thelefthook.substack.com. No paywalls. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
78 children!!!
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
Hey Sen. James Lankford, stop your Orwellian doublespeak. We're not "jumping to conclusions" – RFKjr is a dark tetrad. He knows nothing about human healthcare. He's systematically trying to cull the American public. Remove him from office. Immediately.
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Weakling.
- 18 Congressional Districts - Dozens of college campuses - Tens of thousands of student voters We can turn them out and flip Congress blue, but we need your help. We're still $1192 away from our August goal. Can you chip in before midnight to help us get there? secure.actblue.com/donate/votho...
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
He likely voted the way his party and the NRA lobbyists demanded he vote, and the reasons weren't important to him. So now he doesn't have an easy excuse.
Trump, of course, is doing (arguably) more "socialist" things BY FAR than Mamdani ever proposed. So why don't "journalists" ask Winsome Earle-Sears whether she's the "anti-Trump?" They only do this crap with Democrats? bluevirginia.us/2025/08/deco...
John McGuire presumably supports this enthusiastically. Same thing with Jen Kiggans, Rob Wittman, Morgan Griffith and Ben Cline. Every Virginia Dem (and national Dem?) presumably OPPOSES it strongly. But sure, the parties are the same, lol. bluevirginia.us/2025/08/sund... h/t @cvilledems.bsky.social
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
This is the way
When she's done reading select quotes from the plaintiff's declarations, Judge Sooknanan sums it up as follows: "And so this doesn't quite line up with what I'm hearing from the government.
Horrible framing for this article.
U.S. attempts to deport some Guatemalan children are on hold until at least Sunday afternoon. Their attorneys are trying to block the removals.
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
We're back. The judge asks if Ensign has an update for her. Ensign: I have confirmed that the plan is to deplane the children and to return them to the custody of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Sooknanan asks him to file status report when that's complete
Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
During my 2023 campaign, I had tremendous support from donors in district, across the commonwealth and across the country. That led to the Rs to cry “out of state money!” … all while the Governor flooded downballot races with major money he raised from out of state donors. ⬇️ Nothing’s changed.
"Six rural hospitals in Virginia, including one in Tazewell, have been identified as at risk of closure once the Medicaid cuts go into effect. Many others are at risk of cutting services." (this is what @RobWittman @RepBenCline @JohnMcGuire4VA etc. did) bluevirginia.us/2025/08/vide...
As the DoJ tells the court that it will not remove unaccompanied minors to Guatemala, we can only hope they’re telling the truth.
A U.S. judge blocked the government Sunday from deporting a group of Guatemalan children who had crossed the border without their families.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
www.financialexpress.com/sports/meet-...
CNN platforming Seb Gorka Martha Raddatz at ABC Interviewing Gov Wes Moore & being unhinged. Wes Moore needs to ask why she’s defending a rapist. Ask if her questions were written by Stephen Miller. Wes needs to pushback on a bought off press. I don’t get the constant defense mode. Offense only.
Just a reminder - h/t to fmr. Rep. @denverr.bsky.social (R-VA05) - that the "mainstream" political media is completely, disastrously broken. Also, Dems should NOT play their games. bluevirginia.us/2025/08/sund...
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Just for the record, Trump can’t do this. The constitution is very clear that the times, places, and manners of elections for federal office are up to each state, but can be altered by Congress. The president has no role here, except to sign into law or veto a bill that congress passes to do this.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
But it was too late. To understand what happened, you *must* read @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's @jodemocracy.bsky.social article ▼▼ In fact, just drop what you're doing and read it now.
Remove RFK Jr for dereliction of duties. Immediately.
It's just unthinkable to allow this person to be the next governor of Virginia. bluevirginia.us/2025/08/wins...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it
"Another picture emerged: that of small businesses being harmed by a president who was elected because of his purported business acumen; of a man whose obsession with appearing tough on crime now threatens to sabotage urban economies across the country."
One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead. They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
The Republican Regime is paying to keep the kidnapped people in the Venezula prisons. See Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen's comments when asking why Garcia was being kept. It was because American government is paying for them to be kept in those prisons.
Release the Epstein files.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Belly laughing!! LOL!😂
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Russia is attempting to destabilize Germany, including targeting its infrastructure, and therefore Berlin is in direct conflict with Moscow.
BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee in DC, blocks Trump expansion of expedited removal deportation to interior of US. Judge says risk of deporting foreigners not eligible is too great. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
The executive order bans the burning of the American flag. There are other flags….
“It’s absolutely appalling”: former CIA Director John Brennan on President Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard firing a top CIA Russia expert just days after Trump’s Alaska Summit with Vladimir Putin.
"3,000 CDC staffers have left since January, with thousands more gone from the FDA and NIH. The expertise drain also hits cyber defense, nuclear safety, weather forecasting and disaster response."😱 Enabled by a complicit GOP Congress that will live in infamy. www.axios.com/2025/08/30/t...
If you continue using the techno-fascist platforms, use them to resist.
Switch to decentralized, privacy forward platforms. Other great platforms to try: - Flashes instead of Instagram. - Skylight Social instead of TikTok.
Meta is an unethical company run by Peter Thiel’s techno-fascist billionaire protégé—Mark Zuckerberg—and is part of the Trump regime’s surveillance state. It’s time to leave Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—and while you’re at it, drop Amazon, Google, and OpenAI as well. Learn how in this thread:
1. I need your help. Donald Trump and the Republicans have repealed the federal subsidies that made health insurance affordable to me here in Connecticut. As a consequence, I face a dire choice in the coming months: pay unsustainable monthly premiums or go without.
Who needs health care?! I get a war, you get a war, wars for everyone!
It's the best there is. There aren't enough billionaires in the US to win a state assembly race by one-person-one-vote, can you blame them? www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/m...
62% of US GDP is in counties that voted for Kamala Harris. Owners of capital just need red states as a bludgeon. bsky.app/profile/city...
Virginia: You missed the meeting. What gives?
Two Ltrs to Editor in today's RTD by Robert Freed & Seth Bailey calling out Rob Wittman's harmful vote/gaslighting about the Big BS Bill. #VA01 deserves better! @wittmanwatch.bsky.social @henricodems.bsky.social @hanovervadems.bsky.social @newkentvadems.bsky.social @rva-indivisible.bsky.social
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
It’s not just that every accusation is a confession; every accusation is also a rationalization. Trump constantly pretended Biden was personally directing prosecutions of Trump & allies, when of course DOJ norms would have made it unthinkable for the White House to have any direct contact.
Malcolm Nance has BRILLIANT advice about how we can oppose the federal occupation of American cities! Please watch and PASS IT ON!!!
New in PN: Alert the media — the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions."
Acquisition Logistics LLC, which has a Henrico home listed as its address, has no experience running correction facilities and had never won a federal contract for more than $16 million.
The cost of Western inaction russia has been waging its criminal war for 11 years now, we have all the tools and every reason to make this stop, but we we’re choosing not to
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Friday at Ukraine’s request to discuss Russia’s recent large-scale airstrikes on Kyiv and other cities. Ukraine’s delegation will brief the international community on the damage and call for an immediate ceasefire and protection of civilians.
"Understand what she is saying. Sears opposed workplace protections for gay people. The hell does that even mean??? They can be harrassed? Abused? Not promoted? Not given equal pay? Virginia, this is NOT who we are!" - Loudoun Chair Phyllis Randall bluevirginia.us/2025/08/frid...
The President of Portugal said that Trump is a Russian asset “He functions as an asset,” Rebelo de Sousa calmly explained his reasoning.
Meiselas: I saw a headline, “Trump Stamps Dictator Chic on Washington.” And they don't even see the problem with that. I feel like one of the last survivors sometimes in a zombie movie, where the zombie hasn’t gotten me yet.
Thank you, Mayor Frey 💔