Thank you so much, @subletteweather.com! We are so glad to have you on our team!

📻📡Thursday from 6-8amEDT, tune to WRIR.org for a femme-heavy halfway-to-Halloween playlist! And my dear friend @onehitwanda.bsky.social will join me to 💵fundraise💵 for Richmond’s Independent community radio station, @wrir973fm.bsky.social ! 🤞But first, antihistamines & a good night’s sleep!

2022: "The Supreme Court would NEVER overturn Roe v. Wade!" 2025: "The administration would NEVER take away Social Security!"

of course VCU folded

"In effect, Richmond now has the same early spring climate as 20th century Raleigh, and both cities are ranked among the 10 worst areas in the country for allergies by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America."

Keep your eyes peeled...you may find some of these around town soon! 👀💬

For your consideration: sad girl summer by @tymeach.bsky.social is a poignant pop navigation of grief & loss that captures the bittersweet weight of change through penetrating narratives & stirring melodies. tylermeacham.bandcamp.com/album/sad-gi... Newlin Music Prize voting closes on 3/20.

For your consideration: Thursdays At Six by The Wayward Leaves is an exuberant Americana expression of the complicated emotions and decisions that paint our days in universally resonant hues. open.spotify.com/album/5KF5ie... Voting is still open for the Newlin Music Prize until March 20th.

At a grass roots town hall in western Henrico County this morning. People continue to file in. Real Americans are here sending a message to their tone deaf congressman — Rob Wittman (VA-01) — who has cut and run from the people he claims to represent.

Would tap that hero any day.

If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

🚨URGENT ACTION ( Tues, 2/18/2025). 📣Tell yr Senators to oppose conspiracy theorist Kash Patel as FBI Director. I made a letter through RESISTBOT. You can email, text, or even FAX that way. ☺️ 📜 text SIGN PZICFS to 50409 or use this link: resist.bot/petitions/PZ...

8:30am Monday for RVA. James River rises about another foot before cresting late tomorrow. Snow remains on track for Wednesday. Beware of wildly varying amounts (on weather apps), as raw data has become less consistent overnight. Nudging now to a 4-8" idea, but full writeup later today.

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

Good morning legal experts. I know the government has gone more mad than usual but I am back at the Virginia Assembly Building for the Senate Courts of Justice. Final meeting before crossover.

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

🎉OMG I’m totally digging the Cafe Tacvba song DJ Enzo just played on #PopGoesTheWorld. 📻🦄 @onehitwanda.bsky.social & DJ Rasputina are filling in for PhilD on Friday Clock Out at 5! WRIR.org for INDEPENDENT community radio goodness from RVA!

Tune in 5–7 PM EST for the smackdown of the year! ⚔️ DJ Rasputina & @onehitwanda.bsky.social hijack Friday Clock Out from Phil for a no-holds-barred showdown. Who will reign supreme? Who will crack under segue pressure? Who will pretend a mistake was intentional? wrir.org 🤺

It’s also ALWAYS a good day to resist fascism.

Excellent post

bringing this up again today cuz i’m serious

More post-mortem on the RVA water crisis from Sarah Volgelsong and Graham Moomaw at @richmonder.bsky.social Side note: This is also kinda why we need a strong EPA, which issued a 2022 report (i.e. warnings) about the water plant.

"It's 13 degrees outside. Now. That's my lucky number. I love thirteen. But not in degree form! This is Virginia." - @onehitwanda.bsky.social, in a voice note just now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

i wrote a letter last year addressing the city’s lack of investment in the arts. you can read it here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

For the next two Fridays from 5-7pm, we will be DJing at #plan9music in Carytown! Alane will be taking the helm this Friday and I will be doing a Krautrock/electronic music set on the 31st!

physical media + third spaces/creative venues. smaller indie venues can take more risks with artists (music AND visual) and those artists that had been finding their footing online are gonna need the same support IRL as these apps fall deeper into the bullshit

Cold weather goes on in RVA for the next two days before we begin to edge out of the freezer. Some snow showers or lighter flurries are possible late this afternoon or evening, as we will be on the far northern fringes of the headline-making winter storm hitting the Gulf Coast today.

Lots of #volunteer power goes into keeping independent #CommunityRadio running! 📻📡Today we saw @wayoutinthe.bsky.social & @seancinneide.bsky.social curating the airwaves 🚀💻💻🦄 While @onehitwanda.bsky.social & @dementedcalliope.bsky.social pored over budget spreadsheets for wrircampaign.org!

Oh you know just thinking about how it’s acceptable for a city’s water infrastructure to have an “aging problem” while their police department keeps getting shiny new toys

RVA took Dry January way too far.

Another day of working many #volunteer hours to make #CommunityRadio happen in RVA. 📡2 hours on the air. 💻4+ hours creating the station log for 2025. ☕️🌦️And a productive collaboration with @onehitwanda.bsky.social & @subletteweather.com to put some weather in your ears via @wrir973fm.bsky.social

I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at age 100. What a life. What a legacy. Thank you, Mr. President.

In case you missed it, #NorthOfTheJames wrote a great article featuring our president Melissa Vaughn talking about our big plans for the new WRIR in Shockoe Bottom. Check it out! 📰 northofthejames.com/melissa-vaughn

IDK who needs to hear this, but you're allowed to like one part of a band's discography and not the other. You don't have to know the whole history of a band to be a fan. You can just simply LIKE the music. You don't need to know names of every album or song or band member. You can just LIKE music.

Well this is extremely good at least: Biden commuted the sentences of 1500 people and pardoned 39 others, so far. Now do Leonard Peltier, everyone still in jail for drug charges, and everyone on death row. www.npr.org/2024/12/12/n...

Just throwing it out there. You know. Just in case you’d like to donate to support independent media. Less than $2 million is cool too. Like if two people wanted to donate $1 million each we would not scoff at that. One million people each donating $2 would also be helpful.

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Podcast for The Other Black Music radio show Nov. 24, 2024. www.wrir.org/2024/11/24/t...

Acclaimed Sub Rosa Bakery closed for 'foreseeable future' after fire causes 'significant damage'

On air today, Saturday, November 23rd!

Richmond that’s WRIR 97.3FM online at wrir.org! We just completed our fall funddrive however you can support us anytime throughout the year! News music and opinions from your neighbors and we are always looking for volunteers