Virginians need to hear our message NOW

""In 2025, all eyes will be on Virginia’s elections--the first statewide opportunity to stop #Republicans from wrecking our #healthcare, #economy, and shared American values.

Millions of Americans—in #Virginia and in every corner of the nation—are either on our side or can be persuaded to join us. But we must get our message out months before Election Day to make our case!"
#uspol #RuralGroundGame #Democrats #HandsOff #elections
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I’ll be traveling to my home state #Virginia in June to present at the Women Working with Clay Symposium at Hollins University in #Roanoake alongside ceramicists Andrèa Keys Connell, Shikha Joshi and Crystal Morey. Registration is open now.

Showing my process to a live audience can be nerve racking, but I do enjoy these smaller, more intimate ceramic conferences and hope to bring home #clay samples from my birthplace.

https://www.hollins.edu/academics/continuing-education-camps/wwwc/

terrifying video

#ICE (#homelandSecurity investigations) rolling up to kidnap a young woman, interrupted by her lawyer (she probably called him)

racial profiling of the lawyer's colleague- assuming she's their target

performing a "welfare check"

bullshit

that's local police's job

a plain clothed goon squad of 5 federal employees?

that's for abducting people

video is from james rivera an attorney in northern #virginia

https://www.tiktok.com/@7jimmie77

this country is fucked

BY VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS, WE MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER!

Democrats in Virginia successfully passed a bill, that is now a law, to establish the Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program.

The legislation allocates $500,000 to support food pantries at eligible public and nonprofit private colleges. #Virginia #Democrats #vapol #vapolitics https://virginiamercury.com/2025/03/26/governor-lawmakers-establish-state-food-pantry-program-for-eligible-va-colleges/

A lull in the rain for now for most of #virginia (except far southern and southeastern area) but more showers will stream into central and eastern VA this evening and overnight (including #RVA). Rain will end for everybody by 7am tomorrow morning.

#Virginia picks of the day:

@VirginiaMercury - Independent non-profit news organisation covering state of Virginia

@maprva - OpenStreetMap group in Richmond, Virginia

@rvaweather - Weather forecasts & alerts for Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC

Weather accounts for Virginia, follow a town or city to see its forecasts in your timeline:
@alexandria__virginia
@blacksburg__virginia
@bristol__virginia
@chesapeake__virginia
@culpeper__virginia
@danville__virginia

1/3

@Remittancegirl Christiansburg, VA, population 22,000, about 200 people marched. #Christiansburg #Virginia

@Remittancegirl thank for this From #handsoffculpeper #virginia. About 300!

From @michellekaycamp on Dead:

A few people at the #50501 rally in #Norfolk, #Virginia today
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Hashtags mine

Today in Labor History April 2, 1863: Bread riots occurred in Richmond, Virginia, as a result of a drought the previous year, combined with a blockade by the Union Army and overall Civil War-related shortages. Food riots occurred throughout the South around this time, led primarily by women. During the Richmond riot, women broke into storehouses and shops, stealing food, clothing and jewelry before the militia was able to restore order.

Keep ‘em coming

Via Kyle Griffin:

NBC News: A federal judge in #Virginia has blocked the #Trump admin from firing dozens of intelligence officers who were slated for removal from their jobs because they had been temporarily assigned to diversity initiatives.

#surveillance #Virginia

"The research for State of Surveillance showed that you can’t drive anywhere without going through a town, city or county that’s using public surveillance of some kind, mostly license plate reading cameras. I wondered how often I might be captured on camera just driving around to meet my reporters. Would the data over time display patterns that would make my behavior predictable to anyone looking at it?

So I took a daylong drive across Cardinal Country and asked 15 law enforcement agencies, using Freedom of Information Act requests, to provide me with the Flock LPR footage of my vehicle. My journey took me over 300 miles through slices of the communities those agencies serve, including the nearly 50 cameras they employ. And this journey may take me to one more place: an April Fool’s Day hearing in a courtroom in Roanoke. There, a judge will be asked to rule on a motion to declare the footage of the public to be beyond the reach of the public.

But while Roanoke and Botetourt and two other police agencies denied my request for that footage, nine agencies complied and searched their data for signs of me passing through.

Here’s what I found."

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned/

In Richmond, #Virginia, fascist #GOP governor Glenn Youngkin performatively attended a 250th anniversary reenactment of Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.

Then, outside the venue, protesters demonstrated the spirit of that speech.

#protests #fascism #50501movement

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHlp75cRcFo/

.@Blue__America knows that Jessica Anderson's campaign is considered one of the most competitive in #Virginia. The numbers are there. Let's help make this happen.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/blue-america-endorsement-alert-jessica?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=100407

December 2023: US District Attorney Jessica Aber indicts 4 Russians for war crimes in #Ukraine

September 2024: US District Attorney Jessica Aber indicts Russian cryptocurrency money launderer / cybercriminal #SergeyIvanov

November 2024: Aber accuses Virginia based companies of running "three different schemes to illegally transship sensitive American technology to Russia," including sending equipment to a Russian telecommunications company linked to the #Kremlin and Russia's notorious #FSB security agency.

March 2025: Former US District Attorney Jessica Aber found dead at age 43

More: https://www.newsweek.com/jessica-aber-death-2049234

The Eastern District of #Virginia is where most national security cases are tried. Jessica Alber would have been a target, for having secured convictions against a money-laundering Russian national and other cases.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jessica-aber-death-us-attorney-b2720115.html

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead at hampton colisuem in #virginia. spring ’85, show #6.
oade bros. audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd85-03-22.oade-schoeps.sacks.23144.sbeok.flacf
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-wqBHc7IWU [1/4]

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead open their east coast spring tour, the 1st of 2 shows at the hampton coliseum mothership in #virginia. trouble ahead, jerry in red, etc., & a grand deadiversary to @mrcompletely. spring ’85, show #5.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1985-03-21.sbd.unknown.82311.sbeok.flac16
rob eaton audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd1985-03-21.163330.akg451.neumann.u87.blend.eaton.miller.clugston.flac2496 [1/5]

#virginia resident They can come for anyone, and will.

Georgetown University researcher detained by immigration authorities, lawyer says https://wapo.st/4hnCJCV