Jury awards $10M in damages to Abby Zwerner in Richneck shooting case trib.al/hMHtljI

Norfolk’s long-awaited temporary casino expected to open Friday trib.al/XaDeTCw

BREAKING: A judge will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against protesters and media.

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. It's ushered in an era of “brain rot.”

Dominion Energy proposes massive solar projects to meet renewable energy goals trib.al/y9IS8jG

I keep laughing at the headline "The mayor-elect has opened a portal" because it sounds like sounds like something you would see in an mmo chat log

But beyond the political headlines, there’s a Richmond connection worth celebrating. Mamdani is married to Rama Duwaji, who will now serve as New York’s First Lady, and, as it turns out, is also one of our own.

If it's true that RealClearPolitics removed their polling average of the VA Attorney General race because it was wrong, that should really be the nail in the coffin for them. It's GOP polling propaganda that hasn't been rigorous or transparent in a long time (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-pollin...)

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The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

I will be touring this later! Stay tuned.

Virginia is for election lovers There will be a special election to replace Ghazala Hashmi in the State Senate Del. Mike Jones announces he’s running as expected There will be party run process to pick Dem nominee This is safe blue seat so nominee very likely to win election

Jay Jones, the former state delegate from Norfolk and the son of a hugely influential politician and judge, will become the state’s first Black Attorney General. Read more here: tinyurl.com/vyertvdt

Breaking news: In oral arguments, the Supreme Court justices sharply questioned attorneys in the most significant case over President Trump’s policies to date — and the first in which the justices could be called on to render a final decision.

Big VA-2 news as former Rep. Elaine Luria might jump in Imagine last night’s results and possible Redistricting influences decision Luria was first elected during the first Trump midterm in 2018 The party that has won VA-2 has been in House majority every election since 2008

A federal judge scolded prosecutors pursuing charges against former FBI director James B. Comey for what he described as an “indict first and investigate second” approach to the case that has put an unfair burden on Comey’s defense.

On the eve of the state election, President Trump held a GOP tele-rally for Virginia that included outgoing Gov. Youngkin — but notably left out the party’s three statewide nominees. #VAGov virginiamercury.com/2025/11/04/v...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The workers at Rivers Casino in Portsmouth have secured a union contract. The labor agreement will give casino workers guaranteed raises, employer-paid health care coverage and additional time off.

An industrial menhaden fishery out of Virginia is the last of its kind on the Atlantic seaboard. Some say it's decimating a keystone Chesapeake fish with big fallout for other bay species. But, perhaps thanks to industry political donations, no one can prove it: www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

Me when I work very hard on a story for several weeks

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

For my last story for a week, I spoke with the people painting rainbows all over Houston to protest the rainbow crosswalk removal the other week: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

How are there seven Black Ops games. That can't be real

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The Senate on Thursday voted 51-47 to eliminate the national emergency underpinning President Trump’s global tariffs — its third rebuke of his trade policy this week, after bipartisan votes to roll back duties on goods from Canada and Brazil.

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Gift link! WSJ: Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Quick-Reaction Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots By Vera Bergengruen, Lara Seligman and Dan Lyon “There is no need for this. No mission requires this.” – Retired Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner, former senior Guard commander

We’ve all assumed shutdown hasn’t really changed dynamics for this year’s elections But one month point is a bit of an important marker with no end in sight Would be historic to have shutdown on Election Day Might influence “the vibes” even if not defining issue

BREAKING: King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles and evict him from royal residence, Buckingham Palace says.

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

Back in 2020, I profiled a random Long Island dad named Bill DeBlasio, who constantly received vicious hate mail intended for Bill de Blasio. This is the same guy who just pranked The Times of London into publishing anti-Zohran quotes from Mayor de Blasio. God, I miss MEL Magazine.

BREAKING: The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. to 7,500 and they will be mostly white South Africans.

Calley Means, an influential adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the brother of President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, quietly departed his federal role about a month ago, he said.

How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

News Analysis: By withholding soybean purchases and rare-earth exports, China extracted relief from U.S. tariffs and delayed export controls, without conceding much in return.

NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases. Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Breaking news: Up to 23,500 National Guard troops are being trained for civil unrest missions in cities, an indication that the Trump administration’s effort to send military forces into urban centers could become the norm.

We spoke to dozens of survivors, read thousands of pages of court and police records, identified 200 alleged church abusers across decades. Our investigation reveals a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence, complacency & cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. Read it here:

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

A former adviser to President Biden told investigators he was set to receive a $4 million bonus if Biden had won reelection — a payment House Republicans say incentivized him to downplay what they described as the president’s declining mental fitness.

The Zohran "aunt" thing is the funniest hatchetjob of all time. There was a prominent person in my childhood named Uncle Bonehead who was just a friend of my uncle. To this day I have no idea what his actual name was. This nomenclature is not unusual in my culture (recovered alcoholic Masshole).

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Hi there, Discord here. You may have noticed we changed your notification sound without telling you. This is because it's Halloween themed, but it does not sound different enough to communicate that, so instead it just sounds like your computer might be broken. Have fun!

This doesn't apply to everyone on here obviously and this isn't a dunk on the poster below but there are a lot of people invested in keeping this place a bubble and are happy keeping it a bubble. It's not all that surprising that people do not stay

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “forceful” strikes on Gaza late Tuesday following a dispute over hostage bodies, his office said, in what could be a serious test of the ceasefire brokered earlier this month by President Trump.