NEW from me: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community cleans up Richmond as part of local convention (It was nice to cover some good news after the last few weeks, s/o to Deiony for reminding us of what's important today) wvtf.org/news/2025-07-0…

Former Chesterfield Commonwealth Attorney Scott Miles worries that murderers will not be convicted because of witnesses being afraid of ICE detaining them at the courthouse. The story he links to found that 10/15 detainments at the courthouse were for traffic offenses

VA-01 represented by Rep. Rob Wittman and VA-02 represented by Congresswoman Jen Kiggans are on this list

NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.

Took the weekend off from Twitter and it was so nice.

Mr. Secretary: Eric Garcia, an #ActuallyAutistic journalist. I have an explanation. Initially, I couldn't get an autism diagnosis in 1994, when Asperger's Syndrome entered the DSM. It took around 4 years for me to get a diagnosis. Science got better. harpercollins.com/products/were-…

VA, we’re in 8th place but the race isn’t over — Louisiana is closing in at 9th! Let’s put that horsepower to work ! 🐎 🗳️ Voting ends Fri, July 11 at 5 PM. One vote per device. 👉 Vote now: surveymonkey.com/r/BestLookingC… #VoteVSP #BestLookingCruiser #MustangStyle

NEW: A federal judge in Colorado has issued fines against a pair of lawyers who defended Mike Lindell at trial in Colorado this Spring in a defamation case brought by a former official with Dominion Voting Systems.   The judge found the lawyers used an artificial intelligence

Nicholas Hoult says it felt “warm inside to be held” by David Corenswet: “I was chatting to my wife and she was like ‘It's so nice to be held by someone bigger than you. You don't really get that, do you? David could hold you.’ And I did [ask him].” (via: Armchair Expert Podcast)

This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW. Absolutely outrageous.

Today's the day! We're thrilled to welcome veteran journalist Dina Weinstein to our team as our full-time community vitality reporter, covering housing, health and transportation. Reach out to Dina if you have ideas or tips for articles about these topics. henricocitizen.com/an-introductio…

INBOX: VCU says online reports (left) of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeping through their dental building are not true. I’ve asked a number of follow up questions and I’ll update when I learn more. #valeg

NEW from me: #valeg closed 4 prisons last summer. Should they be turned into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers? Glenn Youngkin says take the 💰, get them to work. Otto Wachsmann wants to hear from locals Senator Lashrecse Aird was ‘deeply troubled’ by the idea. wvtf.org/news/2025-07-0…

A quick 🧵: For the next 90 days D.C. has an expanded juvenile curfew. It's 11 p.m. for kids under the age of 18 (it was midnight before, and for kids under 17), and D.C. can create designated zones where curfew starts at 8 p.m. (Those zones only last for four days at a time.)

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Judge Mehta says DOJ decision to cut grants for human trafficking prevention / violence intervention were "shameful," "arbitrary" and likely to damage vulnerable communities. But he says there's nothing, legally, the court can do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

NEW TONIGHT: @IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit, carving out an exemption to a decades-old ban on politicking by tax-exempt nonprofits. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/…

In a statement release just now, Sean Parnell suggests that the Department of Defense 🇺🇸 was responsible for the halt in weapons. Parnell confirms that the Pentagon had to be ordered to send the “additional defensive weapons.”