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Sad but true.
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Yep, that's Jason Miyares...the second-worst Virginia AG (the only one worse was Ken Cuccinelli) in modern history bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund... h/t @scvanvalkenburg.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (11/23/25) open.substack.com/pub/bluevirg...
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Video: Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07) Says Trump’s Trying to Silence Him re: Transcript of Call with MBS About Khashoggi Murder, “and it’s not going to work”; Also predicts "additional defections over the coming weeks if [Trump] does not back off" on Ukraine, Venezuela bluevirginia.us/2025/11/vide...
Video: Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07) Says Trump’s Trying to Silence Him re: Transcript of Call with MBS About Khashoggi Murder, “and it’s not going to work”
See below for video of Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07), in which he discussed the "2019 phone call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, made in the aftermath of the murder of journal...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Q: Is there going to be another government shutdown in January?
Sen. Mark Warner: "God willing, no." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/vide...
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
On Venezuela, Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social says Maduro a "bad guy," but "the legal opinion about the drug running doesn’t touch Venezuela at all" and "America ONLY, without any of our other allies in South [or Central] America...seems not the right approach to me” bluevirginia.us/2025/11/vide...
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Trump’s Ukraine-Russia Proposal Is “Awful,” “would make Neville Chamberlain’s giving in to Hitler…look strong in comparison” ("I think the president is seeing this one-sided plan kind of blow up in his face") bluevirginia.us/2025/11/vide...
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Pretty much all bad numbers for Trump, even in this poll by Trump-friendly CBS "News" bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Who feeds Trump these phony poll numbers? Or perhaps he just invents them. He’s at a low point for his 2nd term—upper 30s, low 40s." - @larrysabato.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07): "Trump and Pete Hegseth just launched a sham investigation into me for telling the truth about Trump’s 2019 call with the Saudi Crown Prince...His intimidation campaign didn’t stop me then, and it certainly won’t stop me now." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
First of all, what's wrong (let alone "corrupt" or "outrageous political abuse") about a governor appointing people and wanting to see them confirmed? Second, what's a "crass northern state" and what does that have to do with anything? bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
VA State Sen. @lashrecseaird says legislation to expand automatic license plate readers to state highways is "DOA" bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Sunday News: “Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End”; “Lawmakers say Rubio distanced US from peace plan”; “Trump’s Proposed Ukraine ‘Deal’ Is a Disgrace”; Trump Back to Insane Ranting About How “TRAITORS…SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW” bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
Sunday News: COP30 – “Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End”; “Lawmakers say Rubio distanced US from peace plan”; “Trump’s Proposed Ukraine ‘Deal’ Is a Disgrace”; Tru...
by Lowell Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 23. U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord ("Nearly 200 c...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you live in Braddock District (Fairfax County, VA), don't forget to vote for @rachnash.bsky.social on or before 12/9 (in the special election to fill the seat vacated following the election of fmr. Braddock Supervisor @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social to the US House)! bluevirginia.us/2025/11/satu...
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
*Youngkin in February 2022: we must take "Decisive Action in Support of Ukraine"
*Youngkin now, as Trump disgracefully abandons Ukraine to Putin, etc.: SILENCE

That really says it all - nothing good! - about Youngkin.

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November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
One of the worst things fmr. VA LG Bill Bolling (R/Trump voter) has written. In fact, the absolute LAST THING America should even THINK of doing is walk away from Ukraine and capitulate to Russia; that would be disastrous on multiple levels. bluevirginia.us/2025/11/satu...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reclassifying swastikas, nooses and the Confederate Flag as not being considered hateful speech is bats*** crazy behavior even by the Trump administration's rock-bottom "standards" bluevirginia.us/2025/11/satu...
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"The long and short is the allegations are false, they’re half truths, they’re innuendos, and they’re just not true. It’s an attempt to intimidate and silence me about work that I did in support of Ukraine." - @repvindman.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/11/vide... h/t @dccc
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Rep. @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social (D-VA11): "Well look, I think if Donald Trump wants to be the mayor of the District of Columbia, he should resign the presidency and run for mayor. I think @tomsherwood would beat him handily." LOL bluevirginia.us/2025/11/satu...
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Bezos Post is such a clown show... bluevirginia.us/2025/11/satu... h/t @darjeelingltd.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Two-Day Virginia Budget Summit Highlights: “Risks are Skewed to the Downside,” “Job Growth is Expected to be Flat,” “Mandatory budget pressures outpace revenue growth”; etc. (Bottom line: "The Trump administration is hurting the Virginia economy") bluevirginia.us/2025/11/two-...
Two-Day Virginia Budget Summit Highlights: “Risks are Skewed to the Downside,” “Job Growth is Expected to be Flat,” “Mandatory budget pressures outpace revenue growth”; etc.
On Thursday and Friday (11/20-11/21) in Radford, the Senate Finance & Appropriations Committee held its annual meeting, focused on "Fiscal Issues Facing the Commonwealth. There was a TON of informatio...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Saturday News: Trump's "Recipe for War & Corruption, Not Peace”; Trump/Mamdani "Lovefest Leaves Trump Allies ‘Shocked'”; MTG Announces Resignation, “expects the MAGAs to lose the midterms...Trump…impeached”; Thanks to Trump, “[VA’s] fiscal situation is not healthy” bluevirginia.us/2025/11/satu...
Saturday News: “Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace”; “Trump and Mamdani’s White House Lovefest Leaves Trump Allies ‘Shocked'”; MTG Announces Resignation, “expects the MAGAs to lose t...
by Lowell Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, November 22. ‘It’s like arguing with robots’: negotiators on the state of Cop30 tal...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Dems will almost certainly win TX18 and NJ11, so...yeah, as @LisaDNews points out, the TN07 special election (in an R+10 district) is even more important. bluevirginia.us/2025/11/frid...
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"MTG turns on Trump and resigns. Mamdani and Trump are new best friends. I am so confused." - UVA Prof. @larrysabato.bsky.social nails it; we're living in the "Upside Down" world in many ways, and it's super confusing! bluevirginia.us/2025/11/frid...
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM