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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The Virginian-Pilot @pilotonline.com · 18h

Looking for a job? Hampton Roads workers wanted for seasonal Amazon, Target positions trib.al/iQIVa0C

Looking for a job? Hampton Roads workers wanted for seasonal Amazon, Target positions

Amazon and Target are both looking to hire seasonal employees in Hampton Roads to help with the holiday shopping rush.

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 19h

RIP to one of Richmond VA's greatest

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 19h

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 19h

Heartbreaking: Neo-soul legends Angie Stone and D’Angelo both passed away in 2025, just 7 months apart. Stone died in March at 63. D’Angelo died today at 51. They shared a son together. An entire generation’s soundtrack, gone. Rest in power to both 🕊️💔

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 19h

RIP--ah, what a loss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCL...

D'Angelo, The Vanguard - The Charade (Live on SNL)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19h

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 20h

The goal is getting more digital subs, not print. But I've lived in the kind of neighborhoods where people got WP delivery and... you def don't see much of it anymore

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 21h

when i don’t remember my password and go through the reset password process and get told i can’t reuse the same password

Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in One Battle After Another. Close-up. He's on a phone and gritting his teeth in frustration.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h

The understood solution for the decline of print revenue, particularly for a paper with limited geographic footprint, was to build a national digital audience. The issue is less that the print number dropped than that the paper upended its national audience on a looooongshot bet.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 1d

Many are saying this. The two best games of the year cost $20 (Silksong) and $30 (Hades 2) at launch.

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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 3d

"about 12% of residents living below the poverty line,"

This is directly adjacent to the neighborhood where I lived for more than two decades.

Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 4d

This two-story home on a residential street near Lafayette Boulevard in Norfolk is central to a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department brought at President Donald Trump’s urging against a prosecutor who sued him dozens of times. www.pilotonline.com/2025/10/10/n...

Here’s the Norfolk house at center of mortgage fraud case DOJ brought against Letitia James

An unassuming house in Norfolk’s Fairmount Park neighborhood is at the center of a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department brought against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3d

I feel like this theory also explains why the “Trump is weird” approach that Walz hit on last year was so effective and why everything fell apart once the consultants got involved and told him to act normal.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 4d

Charlotte York is such a facinating character because she's got the whole tradwife thing going on at first but then she gets a b plot where she makes out with a handsome artist while in a drag king costume

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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 4d

This two-story home on a residential street near Lafayette Boulevard in Norfolk is central to a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department brought at President Donald Trump’s urging against a prosecutor who sued him dozens of times. www.pilotonline.com/2025/10/10/n...

Here’s the Norfolk house at center of mortgage fraud case DOJ brought against Letitia James

An unassuming house in Norfolk’s Fairmount Park neighborhood is at the center of a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department brought against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

www.pilotonline.com

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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a source I talked to outside a national story with a Norfolk connection I'm covering today:

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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 4d

If Virginia let me print court docs from home I would be unstoppable

Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 4d

Huh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Friday Night @fridayyakuza.bsky.social · 4d

Friday at last…

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to head up the Office of Special Counsel, cancelled a female colleague’s hotel reservation on a work trip so he could stay with her, and they ended up sharing a room after she learned she didn't have a hotel room. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment

Paul Ingrassia has been investigated for allegedly harassing a lower-ranking colleague, according to administration officials. Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint, and Ingrassia ...

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Norfölkology @norfolkology.bsky.social · 5d

Neon District

Multiple murals on the back of multiple buildings in Norfolk Virginia’s Neon District

A mural of a lizard thing on the back of a building and some crates and a drum of something on the ground in Norfolk Virginia’s Neon District

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5d

The indictment may relate to mortgage documents James co-signed to help her niece secure a loan for a property in Virginia.

This @mollyroberts.bsky.social piece explains why it appears to be a pathetically weak case.

(Fixed the link, sorry!) ⬇️

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Courts & Litigation Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law
Next Up: Letitia James
Molly Roberts
Monday, October 6, 2025, 9:59 AM
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It's hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey-until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

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Sean Kennedy @seandkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, @richmonder.bsky.social, are we arguing that white sauce is not from Hampton Roads? Those are fighting words. www.richmonder.org/at-richmonds...

At Richmond’s Mexican restaurants, ‘White sauce’ joins salsa as a tableside staple

Norfolk-area restaurants use Miracle Whip, instead of sour cream, to make the regional dish.

www.richmonder.org

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