Blue Virginia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqT_u6VoTHA Senate of Virginia: CEUR: Solar and Storage Deployment on 2025-12-02 ("Distributed Generation - Shared Solar" graphic)

Also sounds good. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/tues...

Graphic: "Distributed Generation - Portable Solar EnergyBalcony Solar" - presented to the Virginia Senate this morning as possible legislation

Excellent, let's do it! bluevirginia.us/2025/12/tues...

Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger Endorses Prosecutor Shannon Taylor for Congress in VA-01 See below for a big endorsement, by Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger of VA01 Democratic candidate Shannon Taylor (the Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney who narrowly lost the Democratic AG primar...

Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger Endorses Prosecutor Shannon Taylor for Congress in VA-01 ("I've known Shannon for years, I've seen her work up close, and I know she will fight tirelessly for the hardworking families of Virginia's 1st District.") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/gove...

VA Dept. of Elections tweets that "Votes for the November election have been certified"

Final results: Spanberger won by more than 500k votes; Hashmi by around 400k votes; Jones by 230k votes; 13 Dem pickups in the House of Delegates. Blue tsunami! bluevirginia.us/2025/12/tues...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/02/white-house-media-bias-tracker-gimmick?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764675407 "The White House’s new media ‘bias’ tracker is a desperate gimmick; The site isn’t exposing misleading reporting – it’s revealing the bubble Trump increasingly inhabits"

"The White House’s new media ‘bias’ tracker is a desperate gimmick; The site isn’t exposing misleading reporting – it’s revealing the bubble Trump increasingly inhabits" - @sulliview.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/12/tues...

Tweets by former Rep. Elaine Luria on Hegseth "throwing Admiral Bradley under the bus to save himself" re: Hegseth's "kill everyone on board" order.

Former Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02), now running for her old seat against the horrendous Rep. Jen Kiggans (R), correctly calls Pete Hegseth a coward and says "IMPEACH HEGSETH" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/tues...

"New reporting confirms it: the Ukraine “deal” is more about making money for Trump’s cronies than it is about a lasting peace in Europe. Is there ANYTHING that this administration won’t exploit for their own personal gain?" - Sen. Mark Warner

"Is there ANYTHING that this administration won’t exploit for their own personal gain?" - Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social (short answer: no) bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...

Tuesday News: “That 2nd strike was a violation of the laws of war”; Hegseth’s “Boasting About Caribbean Drone Strikes Is Everything Wrong with the U.S. Right Now”; “Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-pre... by Lowell Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, December 2. Erasing a Home’s Risks on Zillow Doesn’t Make Them Go Away Zillow delete...

Tuesday News: “That 2nd strike was a violation of the laws of war”; Hegseth’s “Boasting About Caribbean Drone Strikes Is Everything Wrong with the U.S. Right Now”; “Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’” bluevirginia.us/2025/12/tues...

Video: Sen. Mark Warner Launches Reelection Campaign “to continue his fight to lower costs and prepare Virginia for the economy of the future” (“America has never been afraid of the future, and we don’t need to start now.") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...

Shannon Watts tweets "Them: Don't call us Nazis. Megyn Kelly: " [Megyn Kelly talks about alleged war crimes, says "I'd really like to see them suffer...lose a limb and bleed out." Sick, warped, psycopathic individual.

Reminder: Megyn Kelly "was paid reportedly between $15 million and $20 million a year at NBC" - that is, until she defended blackface as not being racist for Halloween costumes... bluevirginia.us/2025/12/sen-... h/t @shannonrwatts.bsky.social

Sen. Tim Kaine responds to DHS tweet urging "Remigration now"

"A federal agency promoting far-right propaganda about ethnic cleansing is unacceptable and un-American." - Sen. Tim Kaine bluevirginia.us/2025/11/1417...

Graphic: "Spanberger overperformed in counties with larger Hispanic populations, especially compared to Harris"

Interesting bluevirginia.us/2025/12/mond... h/t Walter Tejada

Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Says Republicans’ Investigation Into Anti-Semitism in Fairfax County Public Schools – But NOT Into GOP Districts or Within GOP Ranks – “reflects a selective and politici... Good stuff from Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11): Walkinshaw Presses Chairman Walberg to Address Antisemitism Consistently Washington, D.C. – Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11) called on Congressma...

"...you did not specifically denounce the explicitly antisemitic chants, symbols, & motivations driving the 2017 Charlottesville white-supremacist riot, one of the most visible antisemitic events on American soil in recent memory"- @Rep_Walkinshaw (D-VA11) bluevirginia.us/2025/12/rep-...

Screenshot from PBS NewsHour interview this evening of retired Maj. Gen. Steven Lepper, who "served as the Air Force's Deputy Judge Advocate General, and as such, was the service's second-highest-ranking uniformed lawyer." https://youtu.be/wOVeGswVx-k

"If the surveillance video showed two survivors clinging to wreckage...there is no question that this was an unlawful order to target those survivors. There is nothing in international or...US [to] justify a 2nd strike intended to kill those two survivors" bluevirginia.us/2025/12/mond...

Former VA Del. David Ramadan (R) says it was a "great afternoon in Richmond for Governor-elect Spanberger's transition team meetings. Her Excellency is hitting the ground running..."

Good to see. Just a few more weeks and Virginia will have a MASSIVE upgrade in the Governor's Mansion, from Youngkin to Spanberger. Can't wait! bluevirginia.us/2025/12/mond... h/t @DavidIRamadan

Vindman Demands Hegseth Release Unredacted Radio Communications & Strike Footage Following Reports of Illegal Orders Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Eugene Vindman (Va.-07) released the following statement following reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized a strike to kill all survivors of one of the Trump administration’s attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in international waters. “Secretary Signalgate, Pete Hegseth, owes the American people answers, and I demand a full Congressional investigation to get them. Congress needs immediate access to the unredacted video of the strike as well as the radio communications tied to the orders that were given. “When I last spoke with Secretary Hegseth, he couldn’t answer basic questions about our military. Now, he is directing unauthorized and likely illegal military operations against Venezuela without the consent of Congress. “Unqualified, incompetent Secretary Hegseth will be held accountable for issuing illegal orders. Congress will get to the bottom of this.”

“Secretary Signalgate, Pete Hegseth, owes the American people answers...Congress needs immediate access to the unredacted video of the strike as well as the radio communications tied to the orders that were given." - @repvindman.bsky.social (D-VA07) bluevirginia.us/2025/12/sen-...

Attorney General-Elect Jay Jones Moves to Protect Virginia’s Background Check Law AG-Elect Jones Files Motion to Extend Appeal Deadline After Attorney General Miyares Fails to Act Richmond, VA – Attorney General–Elect Jay Jones today announced that he has filed a motion with the Virginia Court of Appeals seeking an extension of the Commonwealth’s deadline to file a notice of appeal in Wilson v. Hanley. The request comes in response to the outgoing Attorney General’s failure to file an appeal to defend Virginia’s background check law after a Lynchburg Circuit Court judge struck it down, which effectively eliminated the Commonwealth’s background check requirement on private firearm sales. Under Virginia law, the Commonwealth must file a notice of appeal within 30 days unless the Court of Appeals grants an extension. Without swift action, the right to appeal and the Commonwealth’s ability to defend the constitutionality of its own laws would expire today, December 1, 2025. Despite defending the law in the trial court, Attorney General Jason Miyares has taken no action to protect the Commonwealth’s appeal rights and has not responded to multiple inquiries from Attorney General–Elect Jones’s office. “Virginians demanded an Attorney General who will stand up for their safety, and that’s exactly what I’m doing,” said Attorney General–Elect Jay Jones. “Background checks save lives and are essential to keeping guns out of dangerous hands. This motion protects Virginia’s ability to appeal this ruling, defend our laws, and keep our communities safe from gun violence.” If granted, the motion will extend the deadline to file a notice of appeal from December 1, 2025 to January 30, 2026, giving the Attorney General-elect time to evaluate the ruling, coordinate with the Governor and the General Assembly, and determine the Commonwealth’s best course of action.

Attorney General-Elect Jay Jones Moves to Protect Virginia’s Background Check Law; Jones Files Motion to Extend Appeal Deadline After Attorney General Miyares Fails to Act bluevirginia.us/2025/12/mond...

Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Says Republicans’ Investigation Into Anti-Semitism in Fairfax County Public Schools – But NOT Into GOP Districts or Within GOP Ranks – “reflects a selective and politici... Good stuff from Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11): Walkinshaw Presses Chairman Walberg to Address Antisemitism Consistently Washington, D.C. – Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11) called on Congressma...

Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Says GOP Investigation Into Anti-Semitism in Fairfax Schools "reflects a selective & politicized response to a nationwide crisis”; Why not investigate Trump, who "invited the neo-nazi, Holocaust denier Fuentes to Mar-a-Lago for dinner"? bluevirginia.us/2025/12/rep-...

"It's the last week for Braddock District residents to vote in the Dec. 9 Special Election for the Board of Supervisors. Join nearly 6000 voters who have cast a ballot." - Fairfax County Government

If you live in Braddock District (Fairfax County, VA), make sure you vote for Rachna Sizemore-Heizer for Supervisor on or before 12/9! bluevirginia.us/2025/12/mond...

Screenshot of Scott Pio's reaction to Mark Peake's announcement that he'll be stepping down at the end of 2025

Another reaction to VA GOP Chair Mark Peake's announcement that he'll be stepping down at the end of the year: Loudoun GOP Chair Scott Pio says "Thank you for resigning Mark, but your resignation needs to happen quickly and this week."
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Screenshot: Former Del. Tim Anderson (R)'s reaction to VA GOP Chair Mark Peake announcing he'll be stepping down at the end of the year

Reaction to VA GOP Chair Mark Peake's announcement that he'll be stepping down at the end of the year: former Del. Tim Anderson (R) says "Whatever happens - it needs to be quick and we need to be on the ground running by January 1"
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Sam Shirazi comments on Brandon Jarvis' post about VA GOP Chair Mark Peake announcing he'll be stepping down at the end of the year...

Peake's Senate work hasn't changed, so that's clearly not why he's stepping down. More likely, he's doing so b/c the VA GOP getting annihilated in Nov., also b/c it's an internally divided, crazy, toxic dumpster fire. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/mond... h/t @samshirazi.bsky.social @jaaavis.bsky.social

Sen. Mark Warner Says the Fact That Pete Hegseth’s “still there is an embarassment”; Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07) Says Hegseth Exemplifies Trump Administration’s “two overwhelming characteristics…mali... See below for reactions by Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07) to the latest lunacy by Pete Hegseth et al. First, Sen. Warner says: "While were gathering with family and friends...we sti...

Sen. Mark Warner Says the Fact That Pete Hegseth’s “still there is an embarassment”; Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07) Says Hegseth Exemplifies Trump Administration’s “two overwhelming characteristics…malice and incompetence” bluevirginia.us/2025/12/sen-...

Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Says If Hegseth Issued a “Kill Everyone” Order, It “rises to the level of a war crime” Sen. Tim Kaine on Face the Nation this morning (h/t to The Bulwark for capturing video clips): "We think the escalating pace and some of the recent revelations - so, for example, the recent revelation...

"Whether it’s a Hegseth order to kill them all or an order to send Guardsmen & women in a political stunt deployment...these two individuals should have been celebrating Thanksgiving with their families...I just mourn for them & all who suffer as a result"- Sen. Kaine bluevirginia.us/2025/11/1417...

Sen. Tim Kaine: "Don’t say that all Afghans in the [US], those who served with our military & who lost their lives...health...families in many ways by doing so, don’t say that they’re all bad...it’s wrong to target them all for the bad actions of an individual” bluevirginia.us/2025/11/1417...

Screenshot of UVA interim president speaking this morning

UVA interim president says DoJ could still come back and accuse UVA of violations not specifically covered in agreement that was signed. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...

Screenshot of VA Sen. Mamie Locke

Sen. Locke says UVA Rector & Vice Rector chose not to appear today b/c they say they weren't notified in time; says she finds it "disappointing" that universities have "capitulat[ed]" to DoJ (& that the word "justice" is oxymoronic in this administration) bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...

Screenshot of VA Sen. Mark Obenshain (far-right Republican) this morning

Screenshot of Timothy Heaphy's letter to Glenn Youngkin, correcting Youngkin's mischaracterization of what Heaphy said regarding UVA following the law (or not)

Very dishonest line of questioning by far-right-Republican VA Sen. Mark Obenshain, omitting (just as Glenn Youngkin did) the key word "HISTORICALLY" in his false characterization of what Timothy Heaphy actually said bluevirginia.us/2025/11/in-r...

Screenshot of UVA interim president Mahoney speaking to VA Senate subcommittee

UVA interim president says there was a "surge of very high applications" to be UVA's next president soon after the agreement with DoJ was signed. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...

Screenshot of Virginia LG-elect/Sen. Ghazala Hashmi asking UVA interim president a question

Virginia LG-elect/@SenatorHashmi also asks UVA interim president about whether UVA should move forward at this point to select a new president. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...