1/3 of US GDP growth since 2000 is disaster recovery — and data centers drive nearly all our GDP growth this year. What a baffling, brutal cycle.

I was not aware of this story, and I'm guessing that the University of Virginia wanted it that way augustafreepress.com/news/shame-o...

My daughter told us tonight that "I AM SPEAKING!" in the Winsome Sears voice has become a popular joke heard everywhere in the halls of her high school.

Every commercial break on TV in Virginia is flooded with Governor campaign commercials from one candidate about a certain issue, that most Virginians don't see as an issue at all.

Did you know that 18.6% of #Charlottesville workers were working from home?

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Why wait until November? #vote now

There's a name for it

Charlottesville-Albemarle you know what to do. The Cooch wants to tell you how to Democracy.

ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.

You know when I loved college sports? When I was a kid and actually playing those sports myself. When I was in college, and that's it. Less and less every year since graduating. It's so inferior to pro sports that I have a hard time watching it.

Finally, a united nation.

"we're drilling at levels nobody as ever seen before" lowest active oil rigs in years if you can't fact check nonsense get the fuck out from in front of a camera

“ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows” “The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”

I spent the last 4 days in Calgary Canada, which is a beautiful modern city that is ridiculously multicultural (and never bothered to think that was a big deal). There is no underlying tension or negative stereotype that people are predisposed with. They don't care, they just live and let live.

Not sure how I got this without a paywall, but yes, my suspicions about Trump administration coordination and association with the Jefferson council are only stronger now. Next step will be going after staff tied to former DEI positions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...

Disabled veteran who is a U.S. citizen taken during Camarillo immigration raid

It's very easy to read this and imagine Bert Ellis dictating what should go into the DOJs letters to Jim Ryan. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

@katrinacallsen.com Here is the legislation that I want. Let's mandate both energy usage and water usage reporting for all Data centers in Virginia (Quarterly). We need to know environmental impact & grid impact www.wired.com/story/ai-car...

What's new. Quite a bit actually.

I admit, I was swayed to vote for Shannon Taylor for Virginia AG because @jonesjay.bsky.social had never "prosecuted" a case. But, "prosecuting" criminals isn't everything for an AG. He didn't take an obscene amount of $ from Dominion & he's been an attorney in the AGs office. I voted for Jay Jones.

What I've been listening to lately

Sheriff Jenkins took bribes to make businessmen his fake deputies. Pardoning him is a deep betrayal to Virginia and should be condemned across the Commonwealth.

My old office building just sold for the price of a "McMansion" and it's going to be turned into an apartment building. My mind is blown.

“Virginia is projected to lose up to 32,000 jobs in 2025” virginiabusiness.com/virginia-job...

A ban on state and local regulation of Artificial Intelligence? That's absolute lunacy.

@maddow.msnbc.com love to see some sunshine on this for Monday. He's taking his revenge on Charlottesville bsky.app/profile/jsta...

The President doesn't have much of a memory, but he remembers the people of #Charlotteville vehemently disagreed "Very Fine People on Both Sides" and that they melted down Robert E. Lee into into ingots. www.cbs19news.com/news/ccs-say...

It's stock manipulation to buy your own stock. Also, it should be illegal to layoff your employees if you are buying back your own stock at such huge levels.

10% of adult Americans that want full-time jobs are either unemployed or underemployed in part-time jobs right now. 1.7 million people are long-term unemployed. www.bls.gov/news.release...

Mornings like this you realize how hard it is to be an East Coast Denver Nuggets fan during the NBA playoffs. That 1 AM bedtime wasn't all that long ago.

Worker confidence? What's that?

Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, AP reports

Trump signs education orders, including overhaul of college accreditations | #ksed via Shauneen Miranda kansasreflector.com/2025/04/23/r...

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

What the hell is going on with the weatherman? www.29news.com/2025/04/23/f...

Are tax returns a myth in today's world? Is there anyone left at the IRS to process those?

Regrets? Or just posturing in the face of resistance? You can't vote for something and say your against it in the next breath www.wric.com/news/virgini...

My life is tree pollen and Google Chrome updates...

ICE spotted conducting "welfare checks" in c'ville. See at U heights. Black Dodge SUV TKR-8945

“McGuire just voted to cut Medicaid for 160,000 constituents.” A punchy, fact-filled post by watchmanVA5 on what our Congressman just did. (In general, subscribing to watchmanVA5 is a good idea if you want to keep up on what our Congressman is up to.) www.watchmanva5.com/p/mcguire-ju...

Dog Park = Strokes tribute band with new lyrics

5 interviews last week, 5 interviews this week. I'm blessed to have them, but impatient with how long it takes and how many rounds the process takes. Given the current state of chaos in this country I'm lucky to have opportunities. Now I just have to sink the hook...

Going to pass on this one.

Since Trump’s inauguration, Treasury yields jumped 45 basis points—not due to the Fed, but fear. His erratic tariffs spook markets, driving up borrowing costs for the U.S. That means pricier mortgages, slower growth, and rising economic risk.

In the proximity of 2 preachers lamenting that Trump cuts are really going to hurt tithing, especially the people on Medicaid...

I dreamed I was tiny and drowning in a yellow-green puddle of mud and tree pollen...and woke up to the sound of the rain falling and Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff" in my head. Happy Monday everybody!

Beautiful. SNEEZE!

Finding a job is hard enough right now. Finding a job that is going to survive whatever it seems we are destined to experience economically...I'm trying to ignore it this morning as I apply for jobs that suddenly seem questionable to last.