Rob Monroe

2 with Virginia Beach, VA's Mark Reynolds (UVa).

“As James Madison put it: ‘In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. ... [T]he trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.’”

Nick Anderson, Dallas Morning News

Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch investigation.

Former New Mexico Attorney General Balderas details how the FBI forcefully shut down New Mexico's criminal probe into what was up at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe Co. The feds insisted that they were running their own criminal probe and that NM's involvement would not be tolerated. It was a lie.

2 with Clifton Forge, Virginia's Johnny Humphries.

Tulsi Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled "Trump's Path To War With Iran"

"We've gotta stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran."

6 with EKU alum Earle Combs. There's a building on campus named after him.

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

Ahem

This Christiansburg, Virginia native became one of Hollywood's best directors.

Something that's being overlooked: The Saudi government—yes, the same gov't that butchered a Washington Post journalist a few years ago—is set to be a part owner of CNN.

Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: youtu.be/nWEG5jUrP2Q?...

The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already.

Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.

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Longest active win streaks in men's college basketball:

Miami (OH): 28
Navy: 12
High Point: 10
Virginia: 9

Number of games vs top 100 teams in those streaks:

Miami (OH): 1
Navy: 0
High Point: 0
Virginia: 6

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

An 1897 #Melies film, thought lost for a century, has been rediscovered and restored by the @librarycongress.bsky.social. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

Elections should be decided by Virginians — not Trump and his MAGA allies rigging the system.

Vote YES by April 21.

A few weeks ago, Congress approved half a billion dollars more for USAGM than Kari Lake requested. She said she was "disappointed." So now, it seems, she is trying to impose controversial conditions on the funding. NYT has all the details here: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

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The party that gets aggressively on the right side of this issue is going to win a lot of elections in a lot of places over the next decade. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

The GOP damn well knows it.

It is voter suppression polished and sold as security.

Scaring you into giving up your rights to fix a problem that doesn't exist.

Happy Ron Santo's Birthday to all who celebrate.

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

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FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union Address Summary In the first State of the Union address of his second term, President Donald Trump proclaimed that “our nation is back, bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before.” “What a difference a president makes,” Trump said. “A short time ago, we were a dead country. Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world.” But a review of his speech by…

FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union Address

My Governor!

Sen. John Kennedy tweets: “Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has never been accused of being a policy maven. She’s like Kamala Harris with more bartending experience.

I’ll never understand how Republicans get away with accusing other people of being “elitists” when they pal around with oligarchs, take government jets to the Olympics and dump on people like AOC who worked service industry jobs.

On the 4th anniversary of Russia's failed full-scale invasion, we need to thank Ukraine's military for saving both Ukraine and Europe.

Every single person who helped in any way deserves to be remembered

California mother with legal permission to live in US deported in under 24 hours The Sacramento resident had spent 27 years in the state and was deported despite the government granting her legal permission multiple times

Mother with legal permission to live in US was deported less than 24 hours after her green card hearing, despite chronicling 27 years in California—her high school diploma, years of tax filings, vaccine records and paperwork showing she had repeatedly obtained federal permission to remain in the US.

Here's a clue for you all...

It's going to be at Monroe Park!

#RVA_Indivisible #Freedom_Rally #No_Kings_3

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.