Tavarris Spinks

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

When spooky season collides with the collapse of the free world; errybody feels it. Good morning. 🎃🔪

Sound Check | Turnstile, Lucy Dacus, The Barons and more! Richmond is stacked with shows this week. Turnstile, Blood Orange, Speed, and Jane Remover bring a genre-spanning bill to Brown’s Island. Lucy Dacus returns home with Slow Pulp at the Altria. The Broa...

Nothing but crazy bangers this week. These are all pretty big shows but it’s some of the best of the best in their respective genres, all in Richmond this week.

Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? I am your guy at griffin@rvamag.com.

wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money!

tough!!

Got this question from an audience member at a speech a few months ago since I said their relationship would fracture spectacularly, as I have since the start. Let me answer now and make another prediction: Today it ends. All of it.

elon musk returning from the k hole: "what did I miss?"

Lobster fight meme, but it's all The Worst Person You Know

Twitter right now

A knight sits at a bus stop.

A knight shovels on a sidewalk.

In this strained economy, many are being forced to take knight jobs to make ends meet.

Every few months someone rediscovers the humanities and goes “wait… this has politics in it??”

Yes honey, we study power, meaning, culture, resistance… not rocks.

Jamie Dimon says the *best case* scenario for the US is now a recession.

Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months.

Gotta be some kind of record.

Trump complained to Bezos before Amazon said it scrapped idea to display tariff cost Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has cozied up to President Donald Trump since the Republican won a second White House term.

Jeff Bezos is a decidedly unfit owner for the Washington Post if this is all it takes to get him to fold. Profile in non courage. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/w...

"It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. . . . If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."

- Pope Francis

Whiskileaks part 2

‘An amateur person’: GOP Rep. Bacon says Hegseth should go The Nebraska lawmaker is the first House Republican to recommend the president fire the secretary of Defense.

New: Rep. Don Bacon is the first GOP lawmaker to publicly suggest Pete Hegseth should be fired.

"He’s acting like he’s above the law — and that shows an amateur person," Bacon said.

a man in a cowboy hat says you can do it in front of a crowd of people ALT: a man in a cowboy hat says you can do it in front of a crowd of people

Richmond, have you voted for your top projects in participatory budgeting yet? If not, get on it! Time is running out. rvapb.org

That participation takes the form of starting a business or going into career where you think you'll have a shot at getting a job without nepotism.

Last year's bel Nobel prize for economics* was awarded to a group of economists that proved the key to thriving economy are institutions that people trust to be fair. People need to believe in the system at a certain level to participate fully.

People who actually have to do work the entire time they’re at work…I’m praying for you.

GRTC Will Extend Zero Fare Through June of 2026 The popular program that allows free rides on all Greater Richmond Transportation Company buses will be funded in the pending GRTC FY2026 budget.

Free bus fare in Richmond through June 2026, you simply love to see it folks.

I heart @brooke — telling a suicide bomber who blew up the economy due for no reason that he is brilliant is peak beta chode for Ackman.

Application:
Why are you interested in this job?

Me:

Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning.

This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

fuckin amazing

So they are doing this because billionaires don't have much money invested in the stock market and what they really want is to bring billions overseas home tax free. This is why we need a wealth tax.

YouTube video by SenatorScottSurovell Sen. Surovell supporting Federal Workers on Senate Floor

While debating permanent tax cuts yesterday, my GOP colleagues made light of the coming economic carnage from Trump/Musk's attacks on federal workers - I told the story of my constituent who was RIFed on Monday so they could have a taste of what I hear every day & why we need to budget carefully

Let's get this money I guess

Sometimes the best strategy in social media is to stop soiling yourself in public

I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.