“[Ghislaine Maxwell] knows who those co-conspirators are...what Deputy AG Todd Blanche said to her when they met & she was subsequently moved to a cushy lower-security prison...Unfortunately, it sounds like she’s going to plead the 5th today” -@Rep_Walkinshaw bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

NEW: More Than Half of Governor Spanberger’s “Affordable Virginia Agenda” Passes Virginia House of Delegates or Senate; "Bills Backed by the Governor Aim to Lower Healthcare, Housing, & Energy Costs for Virginians " bluevirginia.us/2026/02/new-...

Time to Pass the Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund “to move Virginia from planning to actually building wildlife crossings”; “Virginia’s wildlife needs space in order to thrive, but their habitat is increasingly fragmented by roads and buildings..." bluevirginia.us/2026/02/time...

Video of the Buddhist monks walking for peace through Clarendon bluevirginia.us/2026/02/mond...

"Warms the soul to see Charlottesville High School students participating in a walk out and speaking out against ICE abuses today" - @tomperriello.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/02/mond...

Video: Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10), Who Was in the Room for Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition, Says She Was “robotic,” “unrepentant,” a “monster [who] should be behind bars forever”; Also: "I don't think she had the legal right to plead the Fifth Amendment." bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

Video: @Rep_Walkinshaw (D-VA11) talks about what he observed in looking at the unredacted Epstein files for 90 minutes today: "I saw a lot of redactions that I couldn't explain, at least not iIn a way that's consistent with the law " bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

"This evening, Arlington County Board Members attended a brief welcome at Marymount University for the Venerable Monks of the Dhammacetiya during their 2,300 mile Walk for Peace." bluevirginia.us/2026/02/mond...

Tuesday News: “As US Olympians call for tolerance & LGBTQ rights, some face Trump attacks & online hate”; With Epstein, “Accountability Is a Foreign Concept”; “Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation”; Liam Ramos "continues to suffer” bluevirginia.us/2026/02/tues...

Voila - the new Virginia U.S. House map bluevirginia.us/2026/02/repo... h/t @jahd.bsky.social

Past election results for the new Virginia districts: 10D-1R in 2025, 2024, 2020, 2018, 2017 bluevirginia.us/2026/02/repo...

Virginia House Democrats Pass Common-Sense Gun Safety Bills to Protect Communities and Save Lives; "Ghost guns," "assault firearms," "civil accountability." for the firearms industry, etc. bluevirginia.us/2026/02/virg...

Video: @SenLouiseLucas and @SpeakerDonScott say "these are not ordinary times," the new map is ready and it's 10D-1R, "Virginia to the rescue," "this is about leveling the playing field" against Trump/Rs trying to "rig the system" bluevirginia.us/2026/02/repo...

"House of Delegates Passes Helmer’s Assault Weapons Ban; Bill has Twice Passed the House of Delegates and Senate & Vetoed by Gov. Youngkin" - @DelDanHelmer bluevirginia.us/2026/02/virg...

Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Trump “will do anything not to suffer another defeat like he suffered in 2020”; Warns “if we don’t step up…the very future of our democracy could be at stake”; What Trump's doing "is a direct threat to free-and-fair elections." bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

Sen. Mark Warner: "I've gone from a year ago when people asked me about concerns about the ’26 or ’28 elections being interfered with...I thought it might have been a bit of a wild claim...but now...I’m concerned that this could be a very serious effort." bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

"Tomorrow...Gov. Abigail Spanberger will sign bills to set referendums on proposed amendments to the Virginia Constitution — to protect reproductive rights, marriage equality, and automatic voting rights restoration — and Virginia’s redistricting process." bluevirginia.us/2026/02/repo...

"Jeff Bezos is every bit the Bond villain we knew he could be." - @michaelemann.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/02/with...

Thursday News: “Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to an End Amid a Global Rush for New Weapons”; “Two-thirds of Americans say ICE has ‘gone too far'”; WaPo “Dies in Daylight”; “Spanberger ends Virginia’s agreements with ICE”; SCOVA to Hear Redistricting Case bluevirginia.us/2026/02/thur...

A touching moment between worst-president-by-far-in-American-history Donald Trump and far-right Rep. Ben Cline (who's hopefully in the final year of his pathetic political career) bluevirginia.us/2026/02/thur... cc: @augustafreepress.bsky.social

Also loathsome people = anyone who supports JD Vance, like Glenn Youngkin for example bluevirginia.us/2026/02/thur... h/t @BarbaraComstock

Remember how VA Repubiclans went apesh** over the requirement that 100% of new passenger vehicle sales in VA be electric by 2035? Well, guess what: it's happening anyway! (the lesson: as always, don't EVER listen to Republicans) bluevirginia.us/2026/02/thur... h/t @evcurvefuturist.com

"General Assembly Democrats have reached an agreement on a 10-1 map. “We are proud to deliver a map that delivers for democracy”" - @jaaavis.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/02/wher...

Report by @jaaavis.bsky.social: VA “General Assembly [Dems] have reached agreement on a 10-1 map”; “Sen. Lucas says the maps are competitive”; "The proposed map should be out within next 24 hours...could result in a net pick up of 4 House seats during the midterms" bluevirginia.us/2026/02/repo...

Wednesday News: “Not a Single Republican Shows Up to Hear Renee Good’s Brothers Testify”; “Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units”; Immigrants Generate More in Taxes Than They Receive in Benefits; Sen. Louise Lucas “thinking within 48 hours we’ll see a marriaged map” bluevirginia.us/2026/02/wedn...

U.S. House Dems From VA Send Letter to DHS Secretary Noem, ICE Acting Director Lyons Opposing Proposed ICE Facilities in Stafford and Hanover ("...these facilities...place a federal agency indifferent to constitutional liberties near our schools.") bluevirginia.us/2026/02/u-s-...

Video: Gov. Abigail Spanberger, Mayor Danny Avula Welcome Buddhist Monks to Richmond on Day 100 of Their Walk for Peace ("Therefore I, Abigail Spanberger, Governor, do hereby recognize February 2, 2026 as Walk for Peace Day in the Commonwealth of Virginia.") bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

Just hit 12,000 followers on @bsky.app - thanks to all our followers, as we work to turn (and keep) Virginia blue!

"It was a profound honor to welcome the Venerable Monks of the Dhammacetiya on their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace to Richmond City Hall today. Led by Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, their journey is a living testament to peace and moral courage." - @ltgovhashmi.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

Also, just a *godawful* job by @pbsnews.org on this: 1) they say "recently renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center" w/out noting that's TOTALLY ILLEGAL; 2) they cite Richard Grenell as a credible source; 3) they act like the Board is independent; etc. bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

Tuesday News: “When Trump makes election threats, it’s best to believe him”; “The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks”; “Chaos in Minneapolis Exposes an Internet at War With Truth”; “Bezos stays silent as [WaPo] employees brace for cuts” bluevirginia.us/2026/02/tues...

Video: VA Del. @jess4va.com Pushes Back on Right-Wing “Ragebait,” “Wild Assumption[s],” Distortions & Hyperbole, etc. Against Random Bills; Trump, for instance, falsely claimed that Spanberger "came in & in one swoop...raised everything up higher than it ever was" bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

So Trump completely broke the Kennedy Center, now has absolutely no idea how to fix it. Kinda like the country and the world...ugh. bluevirginia.us/2026/02/sund...

"Trump puts his name on it and kills the Kennedy Center. Instead of allowing the Center to return to its arts mission, he’d rather close it than admit his vanity project was rejected by the American people." - Fmr. Rep. @BarbaraComstock (R-VA10) bluevirginia.us/2026/02/sund...

Alrighty... bluevirginia.us/2026/02/sund... cc: @ElaineLuria @EliCousin

The far-right, loony-tunes Washington Times gives us an instant classic in the Spanberger Derangement Syndrome genre. It's beyond laughable, obviously, but it's also 100% predictable from this rag. bluevirginia.us/2026/01/not-...

Monday News: “Bad Bunny Slams Trump’s Agenda In Grammys Speech: ‘We Are Not Aliens'”; “Is Jeff Bezos going to destroy the Washington Post? It sure looks like it”; Trump Kills Kennedy Center; Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) Checks Out “Empty,” “Foul” “Melania” Movie bluevirginia.us/2026/02/mond...

Sunday News: In “Scathing Opinion,” “Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos & his father be released from immigration detention”; “The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism”; “Texas Stunner”; “An immigration detention warehouse has no place in [VA]” bluevirginia.us/2026/02/sund...

4Q25 Fundraising Reports: Massive $$$ Lead for Sen. Mark Warner; Republican Reps. Rob Wittman, Jen Kiggans, John McGuire, Ben Cline All Outraised By Their Leading Dem Challengers bluevirginia.us/2026/02/4q25...

"Spanberger Derangement Syndrome is real, y'all. She must've learned how to break your adversaries' brain at CIA." bluevirginia.us/2026/01/not-...

It’s Not Likely, But What IF We Were to See 30-Point (or Even Half That) Democratic “Overperformances” This November in Virginia?; In that case, Dems could get to 9D-2R even WITHOUT redistricting bluevirginia.us/2026/02/its-... h/t @votehub.com

"We are seeing the consequences of that over and over again in American communities, with officers engaging in violence, violations of rights, and even murder. We don’t do secret police in America — the masks must come off." - Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08) bluevirginia.us/2026/02/sund...

Every time Trump gets his ass kicked, he claims it's "fake news," "fraud," "cheating," that he "had nothing to do with it," etc, etc. In short, Trump never takes responsibility or owns up to ANYTHING. bluevirginia.us/2026/02/its-... h/t @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Powerful rendition of "Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen and Tommy Morello in Minneapolis. Also, the message on the back of Morrello's guitar ("ARREST THE PRESIDENT") says it all. bluevirginia.us/2026/01/frid...

VA Senate Majority Leader @ssurovell.bsky.social - "voters are going to have their chance to say whether VA ought to do something about...[FL, TX] & NC & MO telling them that they don't get to have a say in who controls Congress. That's what that amendment is about." bluevirginia.us/2026/01/anal...

Saturday News: “Trump’s second term: Jan. 6 on a grand scale”; “Latest Epstein files release: Allegations of rape, murder, worse, involving Donald Trump”; “Melania” a “preening, scowling void of pure nothingness”; Blizzard Forecast for Southeastern Virginia bluevirginia.us/2026/01/satu...

Friday News: “Trump looks ready to bomb Iran again. Why?”; “...federal agents escalated Alex Pretti encounter”; “MAGA’s War on Empathy”; “Trump’s Plans to Interfere in the Midterms Are Becoming More Dangerous”; Trump Approval at Just 37%; Candlelight Vigil in Reston bluevirginia.us/2026/01/frid...

Great point by @notlarrysabato.bsky.social. Also, note that Glenn Youngkin did NOT issue a statement of opposition every time a far-right-extremist/crazy bill was filed - and there were hundreds of them over his four years as governor! But that's ok, apparently. bluevirginia.us/2026/01/frid...

The right-wing hysteria about Spanberger is really something to behold. She has them totally freaked out, apparently. bluevirginia.us/2026/01/frid... h/t @drewsav.bsky.social @daveweigel.bsky.social

Has Kiggans even ONCE expressed any anger or opposition to Trump pushing the red states to gerrymander Democrats into oblivion? (nope) Or is she only angry because this time it would impact HER - adversely? (yep) bluevirginia.us/2026/01/frid... h/t @ericmgarcia.bsky.social