Gov. Abigail Spanberger vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed Virginia to (finally) start legal recreational cannabis sales in 2027. The veto is another setback for state Democrats who were banking on her support after years of Republican vetoes — and her pledge to support the measure.

I love when Bluesky crashes because it reminds me of when I didn't mind seeing the Fail Whale on a weird new site we all hated but to which we couldn't stop posting although we didn't know what we were doing and did not care that we didn't.

EVERYBODY DANCE ON THE FUNK. EVERYBODY DANCE ON THE FUNK. EVERYBODY SHAKE YOUR BOOTY DOWN. EVERYBODY SHAKE YOUR BOOTY DOWN.

My 2017 car is in the shop for a reboot of the computer that decided I like hard downshifts (I do not). If I have to get another car at some point, it's going to be a 1989 Toyota Camry.

RIP Clarence Carter. Seeing him perform in a Hampton bingo hall still is one of the best concerts I've ever attended.

Email from storage unit: "How was your visit?" Me: "I'm paying you to keep a pile of things I should have thrown away seven years ago and added to said pile. Fine."

This was filed by @ssurovell.bsky.social, @donscott757.bsky.social and Louise Lucas to SCOTUS.

The request for stay does not make clear what constitutional grounds the appeal will be based on, only that they plan to file one.

Social media is a very important tool that exposes me to people dedicated to making themselves miserable 24/7 and reminds me not to do that

I love the Miami Grand Prix because it's a highfallutin car show in a football field's parking lot down by a Florida highway.

Public media belongs to everyone, and it moves forward because people like us believe in it. Be part of the momentum this Public Media Giving Days and support @vpm.org (and get this sweet shirt) by donating at VPM.org/PMGD!

I can't wait for my wife and I to be the oldest people at a vaporwave festival in August.

Thursday! What a concept!

I did a compare and contrast of the film adaptation of Humberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. I first saw it as a child, and it got me into his œuvre. Baudolino is all I have left to read. I trashed the paper after I saw that I passed because I didn't want to know whether I was way off base.

If you thought Tuesday night's Yes vote was the end of the process...nope! There are at least FIVE (5!) lawsuits against Virginia Democrats' redistricting effort that are now working their way through the courts. Explainer from @dawnthea.bsky.social, @whittneye.bsky.social and me for @vpm.org:

I have a friend who is a biologist and eats shrimp shells because they're edible and it freaks people out when you do it. So now I do it.

Yes: Virginia votes to redraw congressional maps, favoring Democrats by @deanmirshahi.bsky.social and I www.vpm.org/elections/20...

I'll always remember the first time I saw this performance: Wait. Is that Prince in the corner? That IS Prince. PRINCE. ROGERS. NELSON.

According to a group of ICE watchers and residents of the Southwood Apartments, federal agents have become daily visitors at the complex, which is home to a significant chunk of Richmond's Latino population. Residents at Southwood said they are witnessing the increase firsthand.

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I just got yelled at in Downtown Richmond for not waiting for the walk signal. Dude, I'm going when the cross street is clear because I don't trust you to yield to me when we both have the green.

“When my food and housing and those base level things aren’t being met, I can’t even begin to work on healing the trauma to move forward." https://bit.ly/3Q5MH3Z

FUNK. BEYOND. THE. CALL. OF. DUTY.

I'll forever love that my dad brought this gold shirt with him when he was stationed in Germany in the '70s. And that my mom's favorite photo of herself is in the background.

Public Media Days is coming up May 1 & 2. Giving to @vpm.org on those days comes with the ability to snag a shirt like this! www.vpm.org/2023-04-04/w...

I got passed by a Street View car when I was walking to the post office. If I ever remember when it's updated, I'll share my likely blurred image.

@vpm.org’s @jahd.bsky.social is digging into the arguments for and against gerrymandering Virginia's Congressional districts. (That’s when political districts are drawn to favor one political group over another.) Check it out in the first part of our series, Amending Virginia!

As someone who grew up in the shadow of NASA Langley, today is pretty rad.

A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive ordering the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment. n.pr/3PUBm6t

I need a new washer and dryer. The appliance people came today, took one look at our steep stairs, asked how someone managed to get our current unit up there and said they'd have to come back Monday with another guy or guys. The joys of a 115-year-old building.

About a decade after Zyahna Bryant, then a 15-year-old, led the push to remove Confederate imagery from Charlottesville, the JSAAHC presented 3 proposals for Swords into Plowshares, a project created to repurpose the bronze from the melted-down statue of Robert E. Lee. www.vpm.org/news/2026-03...

Before you pick a hill on which to die, ask yourself why. Our cultures abhor it, but give yourself time for self examination. Don't let others tell you what you need to do. Sit with yourself. It's hard, but you have to do it. If you are in a bad situation, do not stop hoping for freedom.

It's always insulting when something built in the '80s is called "aging" because I was built in the '80s.

I love this for me.

I took my car in for service, and my ride to work immediately followed Dirty Diana with Darling Nikki so it's gonna be a good day.

A fight over a tax break for data centers has pushed VA budget negotiations to the last possible minute, with a resolution by Saturday unlikely. New from the @vpm.org Capitol Correspondents Gruesome Twosome (reporter extraordinaire @jahd.bsky.social & photo god/master of secrets @theshabomb.com):

On March 12, 2006, I moved to Petersburg and started my career the day after. Cracks were starting to show in the industry then. The internet somehow caught many owners off guard. The ad sales that nearly made what the newsrooms produced an afterthought were drying up.

Q: Elliott, how have you handled [gestures to everything] over the past 20 years? A: "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

I hope this inspires him to spit some bars.

Tonight, I got to tell Tim Reid that I did a horrible job of interviewing him when I was a young reporter. He graciously told me he didn't remember.

It's the first day of early voting. I got the possum sticker, so today's a good day.

Even when one of your grandfathers dies 29 years before you're born, the A1 story about the car crash in is a tough read.

INBOX: Virginia to Join Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

I, for one, completely forgot that Richmond's DPW conveys information on Blogspot.

Seven. Five. Seven.

20 years ago yesterday (on my grandmother's 96th birthday), I got the call that started my non-collegiate journalism career. I was supposed to start March 6 but pushed my start date at the Progress-Index a week to go on a road trip to Florida with a friend from high school.

Dollar General Absorbs Into Your Skin Quickly

Wife (with a sprained ankle): We didn't get the blizzard, but I still slipped on ice Me: ... It's like ra-i-aaaaain I don't understand why she is mad at me.

We have a vendor whose name in the payment system is truncated to "National Ass." I'm waiting for the new CFO to ask me precisely what in the hell it is.

This album of some of the bangers of the early 1980s takes me back to my parents cranking the radio up while I tagged along for a grocery run.