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Ray Woodruff Music

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Songwriter. Guitarist. Instrumentalist. Visuals. Lost writer. Underdog Routing, Community Believing, Left Leaning (to the point of falling over). #RVA https://www.raywoodruff.com https://raywoodruff.bandcamp.com/

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Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · Dec 7

I’m mainly a singer/songwriter with the occasional divergence into improvised instrumental tone-poem-y kinds of stuff. Along the way, a lot of other interests come into play.
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Ray Woodruff

Songwriter. Guitarist. Instrumentalist. Visuals. Lost writer.

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 8h

Okay who did this

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 5h

Evidently, President Trump got all the proof he needs that vaccines are safe and effective. He voted with his arm yesterday and got the highly beneficial Covid and flu shots. Amid the sea of confusion RFKJ has generated about vaccines, all Americans should know that Trump is getting vaccinated.

Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 5h

Last month Trump said he wanted proof that COVID vaccines are effective. Yesterday, during his "semiannual" physical, Trump received a COVID vaccine as well as a flu shot.

That's because vaccines — which Trump's administration have made harder to get — work.

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Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 13h

existentially (for you)... Did y’all notice that there was a gubernatorial debate recently? Just checking. I mean, RVA white sauce is cute and all, but do you have an interest in anything else? Style mag has this shit covered AND mentioned the debate. Hoped for better, honestly.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 14h

Vaccines for me, not for thee.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 18h

#rva folk fest sunset.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 22h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 20h

I’m afraid the lack of self reflection of those involved in AI has gone beyond mindless irony into outright parody.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations reut.rs/478nrij

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations

A computer scientist on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

Poorly reasoned, poorly written, and utterly cliché. There’s no reason for @richmond.com to run this transparently intellectually dishonest schlock in the newspaper *other than* to propagandize low-information voters with a facile, shameful co-option of a civil rights icon’s legacy.

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MIKE KROPF, TIMES-DISPATCH
Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate
Winsome Earle-Sears speaks to a crowd during a campaign rally in Chesterfield County, Friday, Sept.
19,2025.
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Later, I joined Earle-Sears at several campaign
events all over Southwest Virginia. Voters flocked
to meet her! They did not care what color her skin
was, they cared about the policies she proposed.
Another aspect of the dream is a symbolic one. Dr.
King saw the successes of individual black men
and women as both inspirational and
affirmational. Like myself, MLK was a fan of Star Trek. When he found out that Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura on the show, was considering quitting, he told her "You are our image of where we're going. ... Keep doing what you're doing, you
are our inspiration".
INVESTING IN CHILD CARE IS
Investing in Virginia

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Today, Earle-Sears is campaigning to be the
governor in Richmond. Richmond is not just the capital of Virginia; it was once the capital of the confederacy. To have a black woman sit as
governor in Richmond will be a significant symbol
of the defeat of widespread racism in America.
SAGE RUSSELL, TIMES-DISPATCH
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears reaches up in prayer at Antioch Baptist on July 6 in Fairfax Station. Earle-Sears' husband, Terence Sears, stands to her right. On the campaign trail to become Virginia's next governor,
There is one more way in which Earle-Sears
represents the essence of Dr. King's dream, and it is related to her character. Specifically, her calls for non-violence. These past few weeks, as she

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

An exchange in tonight's VA Gov debate:

AS: My opponent has previously said that she does not think gay couples should be allowed to marry.

WES: That’s not discrimination!

AS: She said that she is, quote-unquote, morally opposed to same-sex marriage.

WES: That’s not discrimination! (1/2)

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Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 1d

Wow, doing some hard work to get this from that debate, RTD. You already shut down the RVA office. Maybe just think about shutting it down altogether. Really truly pathetic reporting.

Richmond Times-Dispatch @richmond.com · 1d

Democrat Abigail Spanberger does not reiterate support of Jay Jones, but does not call for him to withdraw. Republican Winsome Earle-Sears asked why the Democrat will not call for Jones

Jones' texts highlight only Virginia debate for governor

Democrat Abigail Spanberger does not reiterate support of Jay Jones, but does not call for him to withdraw. Republican Winsome Earle-Sears asked why the Democrat will not call for Jones

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Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 1d

This is an amazing quote.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 1d

The mods were awful and lost control - but what on earth is wrong with Earle-Sears? Does she have some slightly artificial and extremely rarefied form of Tourette’s? Was she drunk? Is she so convinced that God has chosen her that she deserves to stop anyone else from speaking? What the hell?

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly the worst aspect of this debate was the NexStar "moderators" allowing Earle-Sears to keep interrupting, which she did the entire debate, then to admonish BOTH CANDIDATES for talking over each other, when it was ONLY Earle-Sears doing so! Insane. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/live...

Live Blog: Abigail Spanberger and Winsome Earle-Sears Face Off in the Sole 2025 VA Governor’s Debate, with Just 26 Days Until the Election

CLOSING STATEMENTS: Spanberger says she'll always put Virginians first, especially now with the attacks on Virginia's workforce, Trump's tariffs; will work to strengthen schools, lower costs, etc. Ear...

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 3d

Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears has no policy positions, has shared no plans for what she’d do if elected, grants no interviews, and isn’t even on her own campaign bus as it tours the state. She’s a candidate in name only.

Spanberger answers questions about policy. Earle-Sears does not.

This fits a pattern where Earle-Sears has avoided taking about most issues. Her silence on issues is unprecedented in modern Virginia history.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in a 2022 interview warned supporters of reproductive rights that "one day it’s going to be your turn."

"Murder is murder. And one day it's going to be your turn."

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Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 1d

Tell me you just discovered Johnny Cash without telling me you just discovered Johnny Cash…

Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 1d

Meta is now F*?K!*G FORCING AI onto feeds. This was a suggestion, done without my request or input. This crap is what your electric bills and water bills are going up for. This. And they are going to do it for you whether you like it or not. #fuckai #fuckmeta

A screenshot of a Facebook suggestion to turn one of my photos into a highly unimaginative AI version.

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 2d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

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Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 1d

Yeah, I think they were a touch on the old side though. They didn’t roast up as well as I hoped.

Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 2d

When will they finally take grandpa’s phone away for the good of the nation and the world?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans 2026: "We took the freedom of speech away."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 3d

“Hey Siri, what is an economic bubble?”

Ray Woodruff Music @raywoodruff.com · 3d

It’s odd, innit: if you were honestly proud of the job you were doing and how you were doing it, would you need to point a gun at someone taking a video of you doing it? Hummm.

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 4d

If you didn't realize this earlier, this latest action by the Administration amply demonstrates it does not have the back of federal workers.

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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