Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Tag: Virginia

Supreme Court upholds Virginia voter purge, risking thousands’ right to vote...

Virginia’s controversial voter roll purge raises alarms over disenfranchisement and sets a national precedent, impacting voting rights for eligible citizens.

Yet another mass shooting in US as gunman kills at least...

The Virginia shooting comes days after a gunman killed five people at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs.

Progressives on Virginia loss: Corporate Democrats have only themselves to blame

The finger-pointing started days before the polls opened in Virginia, a state that has trended blue in recent years and that President Joe Biden won by 10 percentage points in 2020.

Virginia becomes first southern state to abolish the death penalty

“With Governor Northam’s signature today, Virginia has now joined 22 other states, including Washington, D.C., that have abandoned the death penalty."

Virginia school system gives students time for protests

“I think we’re setting the stage for the rest of the nation with this.”

‘I don’t believe it’s too extreme:’ Republicans hope to pass near-total...

Lawmakers have clearly stated that their goal is to get the topic in front of the Supreme Court, currently boasting a conservative majority, to legally overturn Roe V. Wade and outlaw abortion altogether.

Gov. Northam: Don’t resign until Trump does

If Gov. Northam’s exit becomes one more potent lever against continued Trumpery, he achieves both partial atonement and participation in removing a national disgrace.

Federal court throws out controversial pipeline permit: ‘Speak for the trees’...

"We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues." 

As Jeff Bezos earns $191K per minute, why are NY &...

Many local politicians have openly criticized authorities in New York and Virginia for backing the deals, which will create a total of 50,000 jobs.

4 members of violent white supremacist group face riot charges, federal...

The charges against members of the Rise Above Movement come weeks after four other members or associates of the group were indicted on riot charges in Virginia.

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Trump defies court order, deports hundreds under 1798 wartime law in unprecedented legal overreach

Despite a federal judge’s order to halt deportations, the Trump administration expelled over 200 Venezuelans and a Brown University doctor, sparking outrage over its use of an 18th-century law and open defiance of the judiciary.

You’re wrong Elon. Social Security’s not the ‘Ponzi Scheme’–The ‘unrealized gains’– taxloophole is…

“At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one's shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains.”

ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying all along

This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.

The Trump Inversion Scam makes the world great again – except for America and abused...

Trumpism in a nutshell: batter average citizens to buttress concentrated crony capitalist power. DOGE will end up not as positive, creative destruction, simply self-destructive destruction.

Tesla paid zero federal income tax in 2024 while GOP pushes more corporate tax...

Musk’s trillion-dollar company paid nothing in federal taxes while working Americans foot the bill.