who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Move over, Richmond REAL! The new Richmond Civilian Review Board logo is the worst branding attempt ever made.

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

$75mil spent on TV ads this cycle for one person to get a job: Gov. Of Virginia. It's easy to lose sight of how big these numbers are. The median income in VA is $45k/y. If a working life is 50 years, a median Virginian would need to work over 33 lifetimes (1650 working yrs) to make $75mil gross.

This is SO ridiculous. Wanna see 💰 💰 💰 go 💨 for Dems in swing districts who worked for years to make it possible to win only to have leadership throw gasoline on the fire of their opponents’ campaigns the week before the election? 👇🏻 this is how you know they don’t care about winning

The city that once defined postwar prosperity — where wide streets, endless subdivisions, and freeways to the horizon promised a future of limitless growth — has been dealing with a $1 billion budget shortfall. But the story here isn’t about a bad year. It’s about a bad model.

I’ll be there with the trash trailer!

Sitting in an Airport Commission meeting and listening to Members pat themselves on the back about enormous growth in airport traffic. Not a single 🍆 word about impacts to the community from noise or pollution. I’m sorry, Varina.

The most important thing I’ve learned today @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

ICYMI ✅ These things exist! ✅ Tons of Europeans have them. ✅ Folks in VT and NH could be next @canarymedia.com’s Sarah Shemkus has the story 👇

"YOUR CITY TAX DOLLARS AT WORK" If they could only see us now... #rva

This is what’s so stupid about “battleground” theory. If the party invested in candidates strategically and early, they could spend a fraction of the resources to get winners. Instead, they wait for “proven” candidates where R’s see it coming and spend bags of 💰 to likely lose by 1-3 points.

oldinsurancemaps.net/viewer/richm... You can help georeference some of the Sanborn maps. Interesting way to tour through old Richmond (and see the changing streets/names).

Systemic r*cism is affirming decisions made by people who expressly considered race when they made them. If you can’t prove somebody didn’t say in 1956 “hey, let’s put a landfill here because it’s a Black community” or a “poor community”… maybe don’t burden that community more.

A tale of disparity: Springfield Landfill, western Henrico: closed, solar panels installed on top, *because there are (rich) neighborhoods here now* Gillies Industrial Landfill, eastern Henrico: Closed. Now to be an asphalt plant. Tough 🍪, neighbors that prayed for a better day.

“…dark clothing, low lighting and not crossing at a crosswalk/intersection are believed to have contributed to this crash.” This is 😱— let’s look at the infrastructure 👇🏻 Woman struck and killed while crossing Patterson Avenue @12onyourside.com

Worked for me too. HWORK! *yeet*

Welcome to Virginia, where you can go get a gun from your car, shoot into a crowd, likely kill someone, and no charges even filed because “defense of others”. @richmonder.bsky.social

I’m so confused by a spectator sport that expects absolute silence. Also, I’m so sorry to that poor parent who just wanted a day out and a delicate 🌺 said “not here”. Emma Raducanu wants crying baby removed during epic 23-minute game - @yahoosports.bsky.social

The working group will be hosting a joint trash clean-up event with Sunrise next Saturday at Gillies Creek Park at 9am! Whoever picks up the most trash will win a prize! #RVA

We found one of these in our backyard! They’re awesome bags, someone in RVA please make them again. Big wide strap, deep pocket, cute aesthetic. I’d buy.

Anyone who likes the work the Montrose Observer is doing, thank Cardinal News. We had no one here doing this kind of simple fact check. Now we do. 🙇‍♀️ Do income tax rates cause people to move out of state? Youngkin says yes, new study says no. @cardinalnews.org cardinalnews.org/2025/08/06/d...

If we can’t see it, it doesn’t exist! Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures carbon dioxide and crops : @npr.org

Wtf is going on with @axios.com RVA? First last week’s unmarked advertising for Taco Bell, now Pizza Hut. Who, oh that’s right, happen to both be Yum! brands… @karripeifer.bsky.social yall are losing credibility.

This is how we incentivize absentee landlords and create a new housing crisis! Everyone registering their “primary dwelling” in VA while living elsewhere to claim that $50k. 🙄 At least treat it like state retirement accounts, you keep what you earned. virginiamercury.com/briefs/va-de...

👇🏻 This is also how DEQ works: The New Corner Store: How Vape Shops Took Over Richmond - @rvamag.bsky.social rvamag.com/news-headlin...

Ahem, Varina

What the heck @axios.com @karripeifer.bsky.social We have such an amazing food culture in #RVA and all you want to talk about is Taco Bell? There’s a damn reason we don’t have more fast food chains in the city and please go away with your unmarked sponsored content.

“Cowards” and “You just voted for money” were among the chants of a few dozen crowd members after Monday night’s four-plus-hour public hearing.” And yet they’re charging Henrico 🥜 for that big reservoir. Cumberland County approves landfill project over community opposition - @cardinalnews.org

“McGuire said he will continue to push for an increase on the city’s parks and rec department budget, and a “robust” action plan to get back to 40% tree canopy coverage.” Roanoke put a number on it. Henrico? 🙉 ‘Microclimates' make some parts of your cities hotter. - @cardinalnews.org

“Del. Jones’s church… bought and renovated an old movie theatre located at 11000 Hull Street as a second property 16 years ago. There are 8 acres behind the church and a strip mall with storefronts that pay rent.” Why do churches get to be landlords? Del. Jones’s plan hits a hurdle @wric.com

Some days the world is a lot and then I go outside and my rooster is snuggling with his girl while she lays an egg. Nora and Flora having a solidarity snugg. Ok. We can do this.

“Who in the world needs corporate Democrats when you have a Republican Party that is pretty good at representing big corporations, even though it now has a facade of populism?” 🛎️ 🛎️ 🛎️ Robert Reich Thinks the Baby Boomers Blew It @nytimes.com

“Developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline are considering a plan to increase the amount of natural gas the existing pipeline can carry by further compressing its gas, an idea that could include building a compressor station near the border of Montgomery and Roanoke counties”

“Once certified, Norfolk workers will join IAM Local 10 based in Richmond. It’s the same branch Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden workers in Henrico County joined after unionizing in 2024.”

I can’t think of something that sums up the state of the country right now more than Florida Man’s answer to American Gothic. Police handcuffing Chuck E Cheese…in costume…in front of kids…next to a sign that says “Where a Kid Can Be a Kid”… in the state capital. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Fair point, well made

It has always seemed 😵‍💫 that you can spend tens of thousands of dollars and years of your life in pursuit of a degree that can be taken away at any point. No “substantial performance” for college, apparently By withholding degree, VCU is on the wrong side of history @richmond.com

The obstreperousness multiplied…

To the 243 people in Henrico who made a different choice, let’s talk about how this 💩 does not happen with one Graham Sojourner Montrose as your Henrico Circuit Court Clerk. “Masks? No sir. No ID? Also no. Disrupting proceedings? Get 🌈 “

The DLCC plan “begins by picking up state legislative districts in “Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin in 2026,” “Four-year state senate terms beginning in 2027 are key, the memo points out, as are state house and assembly races in 2028, 2029 and 2030.” Democratic memo - @politico.com

“The “average” provision written into the grant agreements is critical, said Ebert, because it lets developers include a mix of units as high as 80% AMI with those that are lower. “ The average. Not the median. Richmond’s biggest push to create affordable housing. @richmonder.bsky.social

“The county needs the economic revenue that this will bring in because we’re running out of areas to get that revenue,” Ding ding ding 🚨 Why, guys? Let’s ask why. Former Tysons plant area to transform into Hanover gateway @richmond.com

Christ and his mother on a floating raft.

Whoop! Go 757 Virginia Capital Trail plans extension to Colonial Williamsburg @pilotonline.com

Don't know if this is true or not, but it's funny no matter what.

“State officials are also banking on some losing their slots, making way for other families currently stuck on a long waitlist… [estimating] about 1,000 slots will open up because of this new rule change.” That’s dark. VA parents seeking subsidized child care have 90 days to get a job @vpm.org

“We had a number of complaints from constituents sending photos of the black smoke from Tier 2 generators going up into the sky and saying, ‘These guys are running 24/7 for days at a time,’” Turner said. Heat Wave Prompts Increased Data Center Generator Use; Pushes for Upgrades @loudounnow.org

Dem Rep. Gonzalez says “Dems are already recruiting candidates who could flip marginal districts: “We’re talking to some veterans, we’re talking to some former law enforcement.” Military and LEO, not the kind of blue we meant, guys… Texas Republicans aim to redraw House districts – NBC5 DFW