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Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says He Wants to Ask Adm. Bradley “how many strikes,”“was there not the order to kill them all regardless”; etc. (On Signalgate: "[Hegseth's] actions potentially put pilots in harm's way. Don't believe me? Believe the inspector general.") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says He Wants to Ask Admiral Bradley “how many strikes,” “under what orders was he operating, “was there not the order to kill them all regardless”; etc.
See below for video and highlights/a partial transcript from Sen. Mark Warner's press availability held earlier today (bolding added by me for emphasis of key points, things that jumped out at me, etc...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says He Wants to Ask Adm. Bradley “how many strikes,”“was there not the order to kill them all regardless”; etc. (On Signalgate: "[Hegseth's] actions potentially put pilots in harm's way. Don't believe me? Believe the inspector general.") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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New Analysis: Virginians Could Save $712/Year by 2030 by Building More Clean Energy, Requiring Large Data Centers to Supply Their Own Clean/Affordable Power ("As a new administration & General Assembly prepare to take office, Virginia has a pivotal opportunity...") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/new-...
New Analysis: Virginians Could Save $712/Year by 2030 by Building More Clean Energy, Requiring Large Data Centers to Supply Their Own Clean/Affordable Power, etc.
See below for a press release from NRDC and Evergreen Collaborative, regarding " a new independent analysis from Synapse Energy Economics finds that state leaders can take immediate steps that could c...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
New Analysis: Virginians Could Save $712/Year by 2030 by Building More Clean Energy, Requiring Large Data Centers to Supply Their Own Clean/Affordable Power ("As a new administration & General Assembly prepare to take office, Virginia has a pivotal opportunity...") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/new-...
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Exactly right by @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social - "VA must redistrict after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Texas case. The last excuse not to is gone." bluevirginia.us/2025/12/thur...
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Exactly right by @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social - "VA must redistrict after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Texas case. The last excuse not to is gone." bluevirginia.us/2025/12/thur...
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On the story about ICE arresting an Afghan national in Waynesboro, VA, great work by the Augusta Free Press/@fringemedia.bsky.social in reporting this: "He was lauded for his two decades of serving as an ally of the U.S., fighting ISIS as it beheaded innocent people." bluevirginia.us/2025/12/frid...
December 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
On the story about ICE arresting an Afghan national in Waynesboro, VA, great work by the Augusta Free Press/@fringemedia.bsky.social in reporting this: "He was lauded for his two decades of serving as an ally of the U.S., fighting ISIS as it beheaded innocent people." bluevirginia.us/2025/12/frid...
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BTW, any Virginia Republican who fails to express their opposition to what Texas is doing, as well as to this SCOTUS decision allowing Texas to do it, has ZERO standing to say anything about Virginia Dems fighting back. Ignore them. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/frid... h/t @samshirazi.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
BTW, any Virginia Republican who fails to express their opposition to what Texas is doing, as well as to this SCOTUS decision allowing Texas to do it, has ZERO standing to say anything about Virginia Dems fighting back. Ignore them. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/frid... h/t @samshirazi.bsky.social
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"Full steam ahead indeed" - VA Sen. @ScVanValkenburg (one of the strongest advocates for getting rid of gerrymandering, but also someone who correctly believes that we can't just let Trump rig the maps in their favor and that we have to fight back) bluevirginia.us/2025/12/frid...
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"Full steam ahead indeed" - VA Sen. @ScVanValkenburg (one of the strongest advocates for getting rid of gerrymandering, but also someone who correctly believes that we can't just let Trump rig the maps in their favor and that we have to fight back) bluevirginia.us/2025/12/frid...
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After Right-Wing SCOTUS Gerrymandering Decision, Virginia Dems Declare “Full steam ahead” in Virginia (e.g., Speaker Scott says “We didn’t want to have to consider drawing a 10D-1R map,” but…); "I got something waiting for Texas..." - Sen. Louise Lucas bluevirginia.us/2025/12/afte...
After Right-Wing SCOTUS Gerrymandering Decision, Virginia Dems Declare “Full steam ahead” in Virginia (e.g., Speaker Scott says “We didn’t want to have to consider drawing a 10D-1R map,” but…)
Following yesterday's atrocious Supreme Court ruling that "red" Texas' extreme, mid-decade gerrymander is a-ok with them (despite lower court rulings that it definitely was NOT a-ok), Virginia General...
bluevirginia.us
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
After Right-Wing SCOTUS Gerrymandering Decision, Virginia Dems Declare “Full steam ahead” in Virginia (e.g., Speaker Scott says “We didn’t want to have to consider drawing a 10D-1R map,” but…); "I got something waiting for Texas..." - Sen. Louise Lucas bluevirginia.us/2025/12/afte...
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On Reddit “Ask Me Anything,” Sen. Mark Warner Says "It’s become obvious…in order to have a sustainable system, we have to have universal health care” (On running for reelection at age 70, Sen. Warner says it's "about whether you can get shit done...") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/on-r...
On Reddit “Ask Me Anything,” Sen. Mark Warner Says It’s become obvious…in order to have a sustainable system, we have to have universal health care”
See below for some highlights from Sen. Mark Warner's Reddit "Ask Me Anything" yesterday: "You have previously voiced your opposition to single-payer healthcare and were reluctant to even endorse a pu...
bluevirginia.us
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
On Reddit “Ask Me Anything,” Sen. Mark Warner Says "It’s become obvious…in order to have a sustainable system, we have to have universal health care” (On running for reelection at age 70, Sen. Warner says it's "about whether you can get shit done...") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/on-r...
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Sen. Mark Warner says he “didn’t vote for Kristi Noem” & is “damn glad I didn’t, because her ICE policies are violating rights left & right...they’re frankly anti-American.” Also says he's “voted against more than 80% of Trump’s executive branch nominees bluevirginia.us/2025/12/on-r...
On Reddit “Ask Me Anything,” Sen. Mark Warner Says It’s become obvious…in order to have a sustainable system, we have to have universal health care”
See below for some highlights from Sen. Mark Warner's Reddit "Ask Me Anything" yesterday: "You have previously voiced your opposition to single-payer healthcare and were reluctant to even endorse a pu...
bluevirginia.us
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sen. Mark Warner says he “didn’t vote for Kristi Noem” & is “damn glad I didn’t, because her ICE policies are violating rights left & right...they’re frankly anti-American.” Also says he's “voted against more than 80% of Trump’s executive branch nominees bluevirginia.us/2025/12/on-r...
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Audio: Fmr. VA Gov. Jim Gilmore, a Conservative Repub. Who Served in the Military, Says What Hegseth et al Are Doing Is a “War Crime” IF It’s a War, “Straight-Up Murder” If It’s Not; Says Nazi U-Boat commanders in WW2 were "tried & executed for that kind of war crime" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/audi...
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Audio: Fmr. VA Gov. Jim Gilmore, a Conservative Repub. Who Served in the Military, Says What Hegseth et al Are Doing Is a “War Crime” IF It’s a War, “Straight-Up Murder” If It’s Not; Says Nazi U-Boat commanders in WW2 were "tried & executed for that kind of war crime" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/audi...
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Hashmi's "a key player in state government now...we had a blowout election in the House of Delegates, but the Senate wasn’t up. We still just have a one-seat majority & we cannot always count on every Democrat in the Senate to be unified on any issue." - @KevinHolst_ bluevirginia.us/2025/12/demo...
Democratic Lt. Gov. Association Executive Director on “history-making candidate” Ghazala Hashmi Overcoming the “daily, just vicious racist attacks, not just by John Reid, but by Governor Youngkin and ...
Lots of interesting interviews by Sam Shirazi over at Federal Fallout, this morning's with Kevin Holst of the Democratic Lt. Governors Association. See below for a few highlights. Why did Democrats ha...
bluevirginia.us
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Hashmi's "a key player in state government now...we had a blowout election in the House of Delegates, but the Senate wasn’t up. We still just have a one-seat majority & we cannot always count on every Democrat in the Senate to be unified on any issue." - @KevinHolst_ bluevirginia.us/2025/12/demo...
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Yet another MASSIVE failure by the "mainstream media" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @juddlegum.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yet another MASSIVE failure by the "mainstream media" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @juddlegum.bsky.social
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Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social Speaks at UVA (w/@larrysabato.bsky.social)About the “Drunk Driver in DC” (Trump), Dems Focusing on Real Issues and “Stay[ing] Away from the Cray-Cray,” a Possible 10D-1R US House Map, VA Rs Needing to Stand Up to Trump, etc. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
Video: VA Speaker Don Scott Speaks at UVA About the “Drunk Driver in DC” (Trump), Dems Focusing on Real Issues and “Stay[ing] Away from the Cray-Cray,” a Possible 10D-1R US House Map, VA Rs Needing to...
See below for video and highlights from an interesting conversation between UVA Professor Larry Sabato (founder/director of UVA's Center for Politics) and VA Speaker Don Scott. Speaker Scott said he f...
bluevirginia.us
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social Speaks at UVA (w/@larrysabato.bsky.social)About the “Drunk Driver in DC” (Trump), Dems Focusing on Real Issues and “Stay[ing] Away from the Cray-Cray,” a Possible 10D-1R US House Map, VA Rs Needing to Stand Up to Trump, etc. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social says w/63 House Dems, "I got some votes to burn...I don’t need to kiss some people’s asses that I used to kiss." "My whole thing is winning…when you win, you become real good friends – my jokes got funnier, I got cuter..." bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
Video: VA Speaker Don Scott Speaks at UVA About the “Drunk Driver in DC” (Trump), Dems Focusing on Real Issues and “Stay[ing] Away from the Cray-Cray,” a Possible 10D-1R US House Map, VA Rs Needing to...
See below for video and highlights from an interesting conversation between UVA Professor Larry Sabato (founder/director of UVA's Center for Politics) and VA Speaker Don Scott. Speaker Scott said he f...
bluevirginia.us
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social says w/63 House Dems, "I got some votes to burn...I don’t need to kiss some people’s asses that I used to kiss." "My whole thing is winning…when you win, you become real good friends – my jokes got funnier, I got cuter..." bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social - "We won 64 seats...I’ve got like another 10 seats that I want to try to compete in next cycle…the Trump Terrified 10…I’m trying to get 74 seats next cycle, and I think it’s doable because they won’t stand up [to Trump]" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
Video: VA Speaker Don Scott Speaks at UVA About the “Drunk Driver in DC” (Trump), Dems Focusing on Real Issues and “Stay[ing] Away from the Cray-Cray,” a Possible 10D-1R US House Map, VA Rs Needing to...
See below for video and highlights from an interesting conversation between UVA Professor Larry Sabato (founder/director of UVA's Center for Politics) and VA Speaker Don Scott. Speaker Scott said he f...
bluevirginia.us
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social - "We won 64 seats...I’ve got like another 10 seats that I want to try to compete in next cycle…the Trump Terrified 10…I’m trying to get 74 seats next cycle, and I think it’s doable because they won’t stand up [to Trump]" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social - it's important Dems tell voters what new US House maps might look like; right now “we’re working with some map drawers." Also says "there will be a lot of community engagement” after General Assembly passage in January." bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
Video: VA Speaker Don Scott Speaks at UVA About the “Drunk Driver in DC” (Trump), Dems Focusing on Real Issues and “Stay[ing] Away from the Cray-Cray,” a Possible 10D-1R US House Map, VA Rs Needing to...
See below for video and highlights from an interesting conversation between UVA Professor Larry Sabato (founder/director of UVA's Center for Politics) and VA Speaker Don Scott. Speaker Scott said he f...
bluevirginia.us
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social - it's important Dems tell voters what new US House maps might look like; right now “we’re working with some map drawers." Also says "there will be a lot of community engagement” after General Assembly passage in January." bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social - Dems can “do more…once Youngkin checks out…he was an impediment to our progress here in VA.” That includes a “reset with higher education” from the “chaos” at UVA and other schools due to Trump and Youngkin. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
Video: VA Speaker Don Scott Speaks at UVA About the “Drunk Driver in DC” (Trump), Dems Focusing on Real Issues and “Stay[ing] Away from the Cray-Cray,” a Possible 10D-1R US House Map, VA Rs Needing to...
See below for video and highlights from an interesting conversation between UVA Professor Larry Sabato (founder/director of UVA's Center for Politics) and VA Speaker Don Scott. Speaker Scott said he f...
bluevirginia.us
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Video: VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social - Dems can “do more…once Youngkin checks out…he was an impediment to our progress here in VA.” That includes a “reset with higher education” from the “chaos” at UVA and other schools due to Trump and Youngkin. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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Here's video of Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social telling @larrysabato.bsky.social & the UVA audience that a 10D-1R Virginia U.S. House map "is not out of the question"; we have an "obligation" to "punch back" against the "bully" Trump ("ultimately the voters decide") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Here's video of Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social telling @larrysabato.bsky.social & the UVA audience that a 10D-1R Virginia U.S. House map "is not out of the question"; we have an "obligation" to "punch back" against the "bully" Trump ("ultimately the voters decide") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social - UVA should "suspend the process" of a presidential search. If new UVA president were hired prior to Spanberger’s inauguration, "probably ought to keep his [or her] clothes in a suitcase” b/c "they probably won't be here very long" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
VA Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social - UVA should "suspend the process" of a presidential search. If new UVA president were hired prior to Spanberger’s inauguration, "probably ought to keep his [or her] clothes in a suitcase” b/c "they probably won't be here very long" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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If Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) and Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01) won't sign this, they are COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT when they claim (dishonestly) to care about ACA tax credits expiring. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @RepDonBeyer cc: @EliCousin
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
If Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) and Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01) won't sign this, they are COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT when they claim (dishonestly) to care about ACA tax credits expiring. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @RepDonBeyer cc: @EliCousin
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This doesn't even seem like it could possibly be real - let alone that anyone would ever desire such a thing. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This doesn't even seem like it could possibly be real - let alone that anyone would ever desire such a thing. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Hegseth never had any business being confirmed as Secretary of Defense, and anyone who voted for him should be voted out of office at the earliest possible opportunity. Also, he should be in prison for this crime, war crimes, etc. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @Rep_Walkinshaw
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hegseth never had any business being confirmed as Secretary of Defense, and anyone who voted for him should be voted out of office at the earliest possible opportunity. Also, he should be in prison for this crime, war crimes, etc. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @Rep_Walkinshaw
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After Scathing DoD Watchdog Report on “Signalgate” Issued, Virginia Democratic Members of Congress Demand Pete Hegseth Resign or Be Fired ("Hegseth is too reckless and incompetent, even for the Trump administration") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/afte...
After Scathing DoD Watchdog Report on “Signalgate” Issued, Virginia Democratic Members of Congress Demand Pete Hegseth Resign or Be Fired
I expect just about every Democrat will call for law-breaking, war-crimes-committing SecDef Pete Hegseth to be fired immediately, while almost no Republicans will say anything, because that's how they...
bluevirginia.us
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
After Scathing DoD Watchdog Report on “Signalgate” Issued, Virginia Democratic Members of Congress Demand Pete Hegseth Resign or Be Fired ("Hegseth is too reckless and incompetent, even for the Trump administration") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/afte...
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In addition to being an imbecile, sadist, corrupt, authoritarian, etc., Trump's a vicious, virulent, gutter racist, xenophobe, etc. And if you support Trump, that's what you support - all of it! bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @RepDonBeyer (D-VA08)
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
In addition to being an imbecile, sadist, corrupt, authoritarian, etc., Trump's a vicious, virulent, gutter racist, xenophobe, etc. And if you support Trump, that's what you support - all of it! bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @RepDonBeyer (D-VA08)
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Tuesday News: “That 2nd strike was a violation of the laws of war”; Hegseth’s “Boasting About Caribbean Drone Strikes Is Everything Wrong with the U.S. Right Now”; “Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’” bluevirginia.us/2025/12/tues...
Tuesday News: “That 2nd strike was a violation of the laws of war”; Hegseth’s “Boasting About Caribbean Drone Strikes Is Everything Wrong with the U.S. Right Now”; “Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-pre...
by Lowell Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, December 2. Erasing a Home’s Risks on Zillow Doesn’t Make Them Go Away Zillow delete...
bluevirginia.us
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Tuesday News: “That 2nd strike was a violation of the laws of war”; Hegseth’s “Boasting About Caribbean Drone Strikes Is Everything Wrong with the U.S. Right Now”; “Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’” bluevirginia.us/2025/12/tues...