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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 33m

Ah, the moment when it sounds like something may have shattered in the dishwasher and all you can do is wait

ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 2h

Sometimes, I'm minding my own business and suddenly think, "Insurance man for the funk. Take some insurance out on the rump."

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 4h

Any day where I can make a reference to Insurance Man for the Funk is a good day. Body collision, baby.

Insurance Man for the Funk

YouTube video by Bernie Worrell - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 23h

Predator: Badlands
Predator: Adam Raised a Cain
Predator: Something in the Night
Predator: Candy’s Room
Predator: Racing in the Street
Predator: The Promised Land
Predator: Factory
Predator: Streets of Fire
Predator: Prove It All Night
Predator: Darkness on the Edge of Town

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 3d

Why don't we have jewel thieves with cool nicknames like Murph the Surf anymore?

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Meghin Moore @meghin.bsky.social · 3d

City of Charlottesville voters! I have seen a few posts online today about the polling place mixup and am sharing this over here for folks.

A screenshot from the Cvillevotes account on twitter that reads: PSA: Buford is back up and running (in the Gym) after a temporary relocation to Tonsler Rec Center in June. If you have questions about where to vote, please verify your polling place with our office at 434-970-3250.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 3d

Agenda for tomorrow

Wooden pen and notepad that says "Election Night Pizza"

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 6d

Happy Halloween

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 6d

“The statement that was made by the North Carolina GOP spokesperson is not the kind of statement that should be made in a democracy,” Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College, said.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6d

A spokesman for the North Carolina Republican Party appeared to threaten ProPublica, urging President Trump to “feed” the news outlet to the “USAID wood chipper,” over a story it published on a prominent conservative state Supreme Court judge.

N.C. GOP spokesman urges reporter to drop news story, citing Trump ties

Communications director Matt Mercer later said in a social media post that Trump should “feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper.”

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Jahd Khalil @jahd.bsky.social · 7d

Virginia Senate votes to propose redistricting amendment www.vpm.org/generalassem...

Virginia Senate votes to propose redistricting amendment

"We are taking a truly proportional response to an extreme situation."

www.vpm.org

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 8d

The 51–42 partisan vote means Virginia is well on its way to joining the contagious redistricting back-and-forth between states that began when President Donald Trump requested that Texas Republicans gerrymander its electoral maps to give the GOP five more seats in the US House of Representatives.

House of Delegates passes redistricting amendment

The vote puts Virginia one step closer to drawing new congressional maps.

www.vpm.org

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 9d

This week's *2024* General Assembly session is being debated on the floor of the Virginia Capitol and also nearly five hours away from Richmond in Tazewell County.

Tazewell judge blocks injunction against GA redistricting effort

A group of Republican lawmakers led the lawsuit against the special session.

www.vpm.org

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VPM News @vpm.org · 10d

DEVELOPING: Virginia delegates file 2026 redistricting amendment draft
by @jahd.bsky.social

#VApol #generalassembly

Virginia delegates file 2026 redistricting amendment draft

Four Democrats filed the resolution Tuesday afternoon.

www.vpm.org

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 11d

Nicole Wray's Make It Hot + I Can't See Prelude + I Can't See is one of the greatest sequences of songs from the 757.

ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 13d

My mom has a ham in the deep freezer; she buys them post-Easter. More than a decade ago, she told me to secret family recipe. After making incidental hams, and one a Thanksgiving years ago, I've been tasked with cooking THE Thanksgiving ham this year.

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Hannah Davis-Reid @hannahdavisreid.bsky.social · 13d

Happy howl-oween from VPM!! The doggie howl-oween on the downtown mall today was the cutest 🥹

A woman smiles and holds a dachshund wearing a gnome costume

The VPM sign on the downtown mall, which reads ‘happy howl-oween’

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 15d

For perhaps the first time in my life, I saw the word "unstop." As in a synonym for (re)start. I did not enjoy it.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 15d

Jill Scott sampled "Days Gone By (Egyptology)" youtu.be/jZzBTsNiLhQ?... on "Slowly Surely" youtu.be/gu_zgEKCC1Q?... from her first album.

ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 15d

I got these for $10 (plus shipping) from a record store in San Francisco. Museum Pieces had been sitting there unopened since it came out in 1978. It's getting its first play tonight.

A compilation of Tampa Red pieces called "The Guitar Wizard: 1935-1953" and "Museum Pieces" by Moe Koffman

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NPR @npr.org · 18d

With its fusion of funk, jazz, Afrobeats and R&B, the British band conveys a radical mission to choose joy. n.pr/4hfnhtW

Kokoroko: Tiny Desk Concert

With its fusion of funk, jazz, Afrobeats and R&B, the British band conveys a radical mission to choose joy.

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VPM News @vpm.org · 20d

UVA became the first public university and the fifth school overall to reject the compact.

At a press conference prior to Friday's protest, education professor Walt Heinecke called the compact the most significant threat to the mission of higher education since the McCarthy era.

'We reject the compact': UVA community speaks out at National Day of Action

The school in Charlottesville is the first public university to say no.

www.vpm.org

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Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · 20d

Charlottesville’s monuments, transformed, are on display in major LA exhibition. From @loisbeckett.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments

The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May

www.theguardian.com

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 21d

The University of Virginia announced on Friday that it was rejecting a proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration that would require the university to adhere to a set of standards laid out by the White House in order to receive federal funding.

UVA rejects Trump administration’s ‘Compact for Academic Excellence'

Mahoney: "We will continue to work to strengthen free expression and free inquiry in an increasingly polarized world.

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Meghin Moore @meghin.bsky.social · 21d

The University of Virginia has become the fifth school to reject the compact.

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 21d

UVA says no to the compact

To the University of Virginia community:

On Monday of last week, Rector Rachel Sheridan and I shared a message with the community regarding the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. We were asked to provide comments on the proposal no later than October 20.

Today, I sent the letter below to the Secretary of Education and to White House officials. The letter confirms our core values and commitments while expressing our view that federal research funding should be based on merit.

I want to thank personally the Faculty Senate, Staff Senate, Student Council, and many other members of our community who expressed their opinions on the proposed Compact, through the online form we provided and other means. Your thoughtful feedback shows a profound care for the University and a strong commitment to its future.

We will continue to work to strengthen free expression and free inquiry, protect academic freedom, ensure affordability , promote intellectual pluralism, and maintain institutional neutrality in an increasingly polarized world. I am grateful for your continued dedication to the University and I look forward to working with you on these vital projects.

Paul Mahoney
Interim President
University of Virginia

October 17, 2025

The United States Department of Education
Washington, DC 20202

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley,

Thank you for your letter inviting comment on the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. We wholeheartedly agree that “American higher education is the envy of the world.” We also agree with many of the principles outlined in the Compact, including a fair and unbiased admissions process, an affordable and academically rigorous education, a thriving marketplace of ideas, institutional neutrality, and equal treatment of students, faculty, and staff in all aspects of university operations. Indeed, the University of Virginia leads in several of these areas and is committed to continuous improvement in all of them.

We seek no special treatment in exchange for our pursuit of those foundational goals. The integrity of science and other academic work requires merit-based assessment of research and scholarship. A contractual arrangement predicating assessment on anything other than merit will undermine the integrity of vital, sometimes lifesaving, research and further erode confidence in American higher education.

Higher education faces significant challenges and has not always lived up to its highest ideals. We believe that the best path toward real and durable progress lies in an open and collaborative conversation. We look forward to working together to develop alternative, lasting approaches to improving higher education.

Sincerely yours,

Paul Mahoney
Interim President
University of Virginia

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 22d

I saw this album today, and there was no hesitation, especially at six bucks.

Album cover for Dr. C.C. by Clarence Carter

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