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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 7h

Have said the same exact thing to many White Democratic politicians...nothing to do with their skin color, 100% to do with the fact that Trump/MAGA Republicans are NOT OUR FRIENDS!

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 8h

Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (10/12/15) open.substack.com/pub/bluevirg...

Graphic for Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (10/12/15) https://open.substack.com/pub/bluevirginia/p/blue-virginia-weekly-news-roundup-e48?r=f5hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 8h

Democrats (and small-d democrats) should definitely support independent media and ditch corporate media (also PBS and NPR, which are "both sides"/false equivalence media). But will they?

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 8h

Fmr. VA LG Bolling (R/Trump voter): "Several people wrote to me yesterday asking about a new poll from The Trafalgor [sic] Group that...Sears was trailing...Spanberger by only 2%......'Is this poll to be believed?', they asked. The short answer is 'No'" bluevirginia.us/2025/10/vide...

Fmr. VA LG Bill Bolling (R/Trump supporter): "Several people wrote to me yesterday asking about a new poll from The Trafalgor Group that Winsome Sears was trailing Abigail Spanberger by only 2% in the Virginia race for Governor. 'Is this poll to be believed?', they asked. The short answer is 'No', but it does provide us with a lesson for learning about different kinds of political polls."

https://www.facebook.com/bollingva/posts/pfbid0tswzUnKxq4a4Zktwry2AnULZHHmzY4qeGJLnAdiHjrWue4KvYTDa4foXsX9shdHLl

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 8h

Agreed, overwhelmingly America's political journalists have been a disaster for many years, certainly since the rise of Trump in 2015/2016. Unfortunately, there seems to be zero accountability, and these people have no shame, so...here we are.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 8h

WTF???? This isn't some sort of parody?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 12h

Video: On Fox “News,” Winsome Earle-Sears Praises Trump & Pleads for His Endorsement; Spews Out Falsehoods & Ignorance on Jobs (Fox “News” Fact Checks Her), Healthcare, etc. (Why on earth would anyone in their right mind vote for this person to be governor of VA???) bluevirginia.us/2025/10/vide...

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 13h

For the record, Youngkin/Earle-Sears inherited a Virginia economy with 2.7% unemployment in January 2022; today, it's up to 3.6% and rising...on their watch. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund...

Screenshot from Fox "News"' interview this morning with Winsome Earle-Sears, fact checking her lies about Virginia's unemployment rate (which has risen from 2.7% in January 2022 to 3.6% in August 2025)...

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 13h

It's VERY telling when even right-wing-propaganda Fox "News" has to fact check Winsome Earle-Sears' lies and ignorance, in this case that VA's unemployment has gone UP (from 2.7% then, 3.6% now!) since she took office in January 2022. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund... h/t @vademocrats.bsky.social

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 13h

Also see @samshirazi.bsky.social's super-helpful early voting spreadsheet! bluevirginia.us/2025/10/just...

Sam Shirazi tweet about his VA early voting spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1WUabDk5dYYlTiCm6VHGQJzZMHRw0dq4Vk3y8gieyZJM/mobilebasic

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 14h

Just 23 Days Until Virginia’s Crucial 2025 Elections: Here Are Some Early/In-Person Voting Locations, Hours in Key “Blue” and “Purple” Jurisdictions (The final two weeks will see most jurisdictions with satellite voting locations and expanded hours...) bluevirginia.us/2025/10/just...

Just 23 Days Until Virginia’s Crucial 2025 Elections: Here Are Some Early/In-Person Voting Locations, Hours in Key “Blue” and “Purple” Jurisdictions

With just 23 days until election day on November 4, early voting is going strong, with over 500,000 early votes cast so far (according to this model, we're currently at Democratic 56.5% / Republican 3...

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 14h

Voter suppression by Republicans.

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 14h

So, since TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT on 1/6/21, he apparently believes that *his* FBI "placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6." Dementia? Alzheimer's? Pathological liar? Stupid? All of the above? bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund... h/t @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social @denverr.bsky.social

Fmr. Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05) points out hos "only the stupid believe January 6 was an inside job coordinated by the FBI," while Republicans Against Trump point out that Trump's claim about the "Biden FBI" on 1/6/21 is wrong b/c Trump was president then, not Biden!

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 15h

Yep, calling authoritarians, extremists, etc. your "friends" is just bizarre and false.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 15h

Early voting info for a few big, blue Virginia counties...expansion to satellite voting locations really gets going on 10/19, 10/20, etc. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund...

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 15h

They're not your "friends," @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social - stop saying that, please!

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 15h

Yep, been following @reneweconomy.com.au - great site! - and linking/sharing its content for years!

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 15h

SOOOO bad on multiple levels; CNN is a hot mess for sure bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund... h/t @gelliottmorris.com

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/is-trump-doing-what-he-promised-weekly

G. Elliott Morris: "CNN's head data reporter distorts polling about Trump"

"From my short experience with television news, I can say there is a broader tendency in the industry to sensationalize findings to keep viewers engaged. And that’s just baked into the business model. TV is funded by ads, and you only sell ads if people are watching your program. You really have to sell the numbers to all the grandmas watching cable news, or they’re going to change the channel."

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 17h

"My Senator is cooler than your Senator! @timkaine and @tommy_stinson playing This Land Is Your Land at a canvass launch for @JoshuaCole. 24 days until Election Day, Virginia. Let’s go!" - @Broder512 bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund...

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 17h

The Virginian-Pilot today: lead story is on Jay Jones, lead editorial is on Jay Jones, nothing on the government shutdown or decimation of CDC or a million other important stories. Your "liberal media" at work! bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund...

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 17h

In Australia, "Wind and solar energy smashed their market share records on Saturday, even after heavy curtailment that dragged back their potential output from meeting more than 113% of grid demand to just below 80%." Hello Winsome Earle-Sears? bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund...

From RenewEconomy: "The Australian Energy Market Operator has said that it is preparing for the day when it is able to manage the grid with up to 100 per cent instantaneous penetration of renewables."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-solar-smash-grid-market-share-records-even-after-heavy-curtailment-coal-at-new-low/

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 17h

Sunday News: “Pressure growing on Johnson to call House back amid shutdown fight”; Trump, RFK Jr. Trash the CDC ; “‘SNL’ Skewers Bondi’s Wild Senate Hearing”; “Trump Compact...a bad deal for UVa”; Fmr. VA Sen. Dunnavant (R) Says Abigail Spanberger “Will Hang for That” bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund...

Sunday News: “Pressure growing on Johnson to call House back amid shutdown fight”; Trump, RFK Jr. Trash the CDC ; “‘SNL’ Skewers Bondi’s Wild Senate Hearing in Cold Open”; “The Trump Compact is a bad ...

by Lowell Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, October 12. Ukraine war briefing: Latest refinery strike shows ‘no safe places in Rus...

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 18h

Australia's doing it right now: "Wind and solar energy smashed their market share records on Saturday, even after heavy curtailment that dragged back their potential output from meeting more than 113 per cent of grid demand to just below 80 per cent." reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol...

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