The U.S. financial services industry is on heightened alert for potential cyberattacks amid the unfolding U.S. war in Iran, with firms stepping up monitoring for threats that often rise during periods of geopolitical conflict, said executives and analysts.

Pretty sure the oath I took was to the US constitution, not to random christian death cultists.

As the Virginia Supreme Court remains silent, early voting is set to start everywhere in Virginia on Friday except for one county… cardinalnews.org/2026/03/03/e...

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Guns aren’t toys. Parents who make lethal weapons available to their children must be held accountable when lives are lost as a result.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Federal judge agreed to temporarily suspend the latest version of a Trump administration policy that requires members of Congress to provide a week's notice before they can visit immigration detention facilities.

Average price per gallon of gasoline jumped overnight:

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Looking for a way to support a local nonprofit in the greater Richmond area? Check out this community event! We’ll be collecting items to benefit Safe Harbor, an organization that supports to survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking.

great thread on how we got here i'll add that a lot of this was primed by the rise and mainstreaming of pentecostalism in the interwar period—they were jonesing for another world war in the 1930s, and were awfully disappointed when WWII failed to deliver armageddon and the second coming

Red Crescent aid organization says the death toll in Iran is 787:

While #rva public schools has to cut staff, the richest people in America have gotten way richer. bsky.app/profile/briz...

Of the two, the House’s is the best, coming in at +$20 million for RPS. Next up is a “conference committee” that will hash out the differences between the House and Senate budgets. We’re pushing for the House’s version, combined with a couple of the high points of the Senate version.

I'm very excited to see that both the Virginia House of Delegates and the State Senate passed budgets that are far more advantageous to #rva public schools than Governor Youngkin’s originally proposed budget.

Patel "targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran" days before the US attacked Iran. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Near Richmond? Join us at the Bell Tower on Capitol Square — corner of 9th and Franklin. This Saturday at noon. Great speaker lineup, including @mcclellan.house.gov and @philplait.bsky.social

Farmers are the lifeblood of rural Virginia. Rob Wittman claims they're central to his votes - but that can only be true if punishing VA's agricultural industries is his goal! In our new Myth of the Week, we ask, "Are farmers better off with Wittman?"

Women making history at the start of Women's History Month! Cleo E. Powell becomes the first African American woman to be Chief Justice of the VA Supreme Court! 👏👏👏👏👏

The NCO said that Pres. Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” It was not well received. Who could have foreseen that telling troops they're fighting a brutal, bloody war to bring about the End Times would be bad for morale?

Instead of solving the things that plague #VA01 - healthcare costs, inflation, unnecessary war, tariffs, ICE overreach, and on and on - Wittman is eagerly supporting voter ID laws that will solve NOTHING and create ever more chaos. An excellent @pilotonline.com letter. Bravo! 👏👏👏

BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks New York state court redistricting order, over the strong dissent of the Democratic appointees.

Over on X, Wittman is "saddened" to sacrifice servicemembers for whatever-the-hell agenda Trump decides he's pursuing in the next 5 seconds. "We owe it to them to remember and honor their sacrifice," he says. But are you, Rob Wittman? ARE YOU REALLY? 1/2

The College of Family Physicians of Canada is hosting a long covid webinar for practitioners on March 26! Tell the family docs in your life to register! :)

The key to getting mainstream media on board with an illegal war is making them feel like an important part of it.

It's as deliberate as the gerontocracy in Congress. It's the propaganda branch. They will keep secrets together, lie to the public, and profit. New and younger people are unpredictable and interrupt plans in the works for decades.

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'The conditions rhyme with gaming.' is a beautiful turn of phrase. People want to own their culture, not rent it from a sociopath who jacks the prices every year because they think that'll appease the rabid ghost of Ayn Rand. kotaku.com/dvds-zoomers...

One of the 1/4 page illustrations I painted for MCDM's DRAWSTEEL Adventures. A few more are on the way! AD: Nick DeSpain

God, thank you! It is not designers who decide how the world looks. We aren’t less talented, passionate, or inventive than creatives past…we just literally aren’t allowed to do anything that requires talent, passion or inventiveness. Designers are angrier than anyone, it’s soul destroying work.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

⚠️ CENTCOM: THREE US SERVICE MEMBERS KILLED

‘The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works.’ www.ft.com/content/e4b7...

Canadian-led team uncovers ‘ghost galaxy’ made almost entirely of dark matter

The cheapest way to increase energy supply is to modernize and maximize the grid we already have. Really excited about getting this bill, the FAST Act, over the line with @philforvirginia.bsky.social!

Looking forward to watching The Richmond 34: The Silent Victory. www.12onyourside.com/2026/02/26/w...

#VA01 deserves a representative that will stand up for the Constitution & protect their constituents from an out of control president starting an illegal & unauthorized war. Rob Wittman has proven he will never be that representative.

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

What "it's a distraction" people fundamentally need to understand about fascism is that fascism's entire mode of operation is diverting popular anger/anxiety/despair into channels of violence against the Other (both internal and external). It's not flailing, it's the whole strategy.

War and mass casualties are never a "distraction". They are an abomination. But saying the war on Iran is a distraction from Epstein is especially ridiculous:

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85 little girls, massacred.

Trump’s self-serving made-for-TV war with Iran. Taking a page from Netanyahu’s war-crimes playbook. A THREAD.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

Another forever war because people can’t bring themselves to vote for women…

Of course. See the problem is with having these kinds of far right politics when you’re in a position of power is you let your decision making be guided by grievances and anti-woke nonsense and unfortunately the scumbags you want to hire because of this are usually also really shit at everything.

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The Founders placed the War Powers in Congress for a reason. Congress must stand up to the President and repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force. May God have mercy on all of us.

Now, a new generation of Americans will wake up this morning to yet another war. Yet another power and cash grab, yet another national debt increase, yet another generation of atrocities and trauma.

We have been here before. America invaded Iraq almost exactly 23 years ago. When the dust settled, we had spent trillions, traumatized generations on both sides, and committed untold atrocities. All for what? To enrich military contractors and oil barons.