https://www.binnews.com/content/2025-12-16-black-teen-who-fought-segregation-replaces-robert-e-lee-in-us-capitol/ #Virginia “Are we going to just accept these conditions, or are we going to do something about it?” #desegregation

https://www.binnews.com/content/2025-12-16-black-teen-who-fought-segregation-replaces-robert-e-lee-in-us-capitol/ #Virginia “Are we going to just accept these conditions, or are we going to do something about it?” #desegregation

I've had these #Meindl hiking boots for over 50 years. Bought them with money I made as a kid drawing editorial cartoons for my hometown newspaper. They got me started #hiking the #Appalachian #Trail in #Virginia and #Pennsylvania, and later in the #Sierra #Nevada. It was past time to get them re-soled and some TLC. Meindl-approved cobbler in Seattle worked wonders. I went nuts with 72-inch laces. #craftsmanship #reuse #repair

I've had these #Meindl hiking boots for over 50 years. Bought them with money I made as a kid drawing editorial cartoons for my hometown newspaper. They got me started #hiking the #Appalachian #Trail in #Virginia and #Pennsylvania, and later in the #Sierra #Nevada. It was past time to get them re-soled and some TLC. Meindl-approved cobbler in Seattle worked wonders. I went nuts with 72-inch laces. #craftsmanship #reuse #repair

Around the US, residents have blocked nearly $100 billion in #AISlop data centers in 2025. Resistance to such projects is especially strong in places like #Georgia and #Virginia. (Our Revolution)

#GiftArticle

Centuries-old documents told of #NativeAmerican settlements in the Fones Cliffs area of the #Rappahannock River in #Virginia’s Northern Neck.
In the 1600s, English explorer #JohnSmith wrote of how he & his men were attacked by #NativeAmericans along the river. A document from the 1660s detailed how the Rappahannock Tribe was promised 30 blankets in exchange for more than 25,000 acres of their land.

#archeology #genocide #NationalDayOfMourning
https://wapo.st/48Dnft9

Around the US, residents have blocked nearly $100 billion in #AISlop data centers in 2025. Resistance to such projects is especially strong in places like #Georgia and #Virginia. (Our Revolution)

#GiftArticle

Centuries-old documents told of #NativeAmerican settlements in the Fones Cliffs area of the #Rappahannock River in #Virginia’s Northern Neck.
In the 1600s, English explorer #JohnSmith wrote of how he & his men were attacked by #NativeAmericans along the river. A document from the 1660s detailed how the Rappahannock Tribe was promised 30 blankets in exchange for more than 25,000 acres of their land.

#archeology #genocide #NationalDayOfMourning
https://wapo.st/48Dnft9

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/politics/rural-virginia-elections-electric-bills-democrats “incentivizes utility overspending, inflates utility profits, and puts disproportionate costs on residential customers” #Virginia #VAPol #inflation #energy #monopoly #SWVA #inequality

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/politics/rural-virginia-elections-electric-bills-democrats “incentivizes utility overspending, inflates utility profits, and puts disproportionate costs on residential customers” #Virginia #VAPol #inflation #energy #monopoly #SWVA #inequality

@heidilifeldman states who managed just fine on less than 2 weeks notice include #virginia, with a republican gov

@dramypsyd #virginia started with weekly monies onto #snap cards last Monday. Think they continued today. It was not hard to do. Gov (and legisl?) decided and about a week maybe two later boom card filled. So how could #usda “forget” how to do this but every state can who wants to?

$38.5 m a week from #va rainy day fund budget surplus.

“Despite Donald’s pathetic protestations to the contrary, these results were in part very much about him—his unpopularity, his unfitness, and his failures.”

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #election #NewJersey #Virginia #California #ZohranMamdani
/16

https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/it-is-our-time

"The sheer magnitude of these wins, and the massive surge in (Democratic) turnout that produced them, shows that people are furious about what Trump and MAGA are doing. And it shows just how badly we were misled by poll-driven takes declaring that Americans supported Trump’s cruel mass deportation plans."

~ Michael Podhorzer

#Trump #election #NewJersey #Virginia #California #ZohranMamdani
/20

https://www.weekendreading.net/p/why-democrats-dominated

"When I walked outside on this beautiful fall morning, I heard birds singing — even the mourning doves sounded a little less doleful. And then I heard it: neighbors laughing as they walked their dog.

Neighbors laughing. I realized I hadn’t heard that on our street in a long time. Maybe for a year — or thereabouts.

As the leaves fall here in the Virginia suburbs, hopes rise again for American democracy."

~ Diana Butler Bass

#Trump #election #Virginia
/19

https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia

"Bret Baier—on Fox News, to Fox & Friends—had to explain to his audience how bad it was. 'It’s a big loss,' he said. Not just the results, but 'the spreads are surprising.' …

When the votes came in, Fox News had to explain to its own audience that Republicans lost. Badly. Not in spite of Trump’s power, but because of what Trump’s power is doing to people."

~ Mike Brock

#Trump #election #NewJersey #Virginia #California #ZohranMamdani
/18

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-simulation-is-collapsing

"The election was a rebuke of Trump and not only because he has failed to deliver economic relief. … The margins matter as an indication of where things are heading, namely, voters do not want Trumpism to reign unchecked."

~ Andy Craig

#Trump #election #NewJersey #Virginia #California #ZohranMamdani
/17

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-election-was-a-rebuke-of-trump

“Despite Donald’s pathetic protestations to the contrary, these results were in part very much about him—his unpopularity, his unfitness, and his failures.”

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #election #NewJersey #Virginia #California #ZohranMamdani
/16

https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/it-is-our-time

"Elections are the one opportunity we have to see what the people think. And what they think is clear: Trump sucks. We saw the poll that came out the day before Election Day. His disapproval rating was a record 63 percent. People are deeply sour about nearly everything (reduced border crossings being the sole exception), and they blame him for every single bit of it."

~ Michael Tomasky

#Trump #election #NewJersey #California #Virginia #ZohranMamdani #Democrats
/15

https://newrepublic.com/article/202710/2025-election-verdict-america-remorse-trump

"Trumpism was never about governing. It’s about grievance. And you can’t build a movement on grievance forever; eventually, the people notice the smell."

~ Michael Cohen

#Trump #election #NewJersey #California #Virginia #ZohranMamdani #Democrats
/14

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-sweet-smell-of-gop-failure

"So yesterday showed us what a wave election looks like. And what was the best predictor of the vote, and the probable source of the wave? Donald Trump. …

2025’s off-year elections were, to a remarkable degree, a referendum on Trump."

~ William Kristol

#Trump #election #NewJersey #California #Virginia #ZohranMamdani #Democrats
/13

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/vive-la-resistance-blue-wave-elections-spanberger-sherrill-mamdani