So far no watches and warnings for #Virginia or #Maryland, with storms staying under severe limits for now, as a jagged line approaches the more populated areas of north-central VA and central MD

Keep ‘em coming

Via Kyle Griffin:

NBC News: A federal judge in #Virginia has blocked the #Trump admin from firing dozens of intelligence officers who were slated for removal from their jobs because they had been temporarily assigned to diversity initiatives.

My first opinion piece for GGWash just went live #Transit #Virginia https://ggwash.org/view/98948/consider-a-purple-line-south-for-northern-virginia

Western areas of central #Virginia will see two rounds of showers/storms today…the first one this morning, which models show will weaken as they move east of the Shenandoah Valley; the second line coming through later this afternoon, and it’s this one that will bring a threat for severe weather with it to the 95 corridor and areas east, including #RVA and Fredericksburg. #VAWx

It seems Dan Quinn only has one non-football related shirt https://www.rawchili.com/4153702/ #Ashburn #commanders #Football #NationalFootballConference #NationalFootballConferenceEastDivision #NationalFootballLeague #NFL #Virginia #Washington #WashingtonCommanders

In Baghdad, the Iraqi Children Foundation run three mobile schools called the Hope Buses.

These deliver tutoring, healthcare and social support to orphans, street kids and displaced children living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods across Baghdad.

Check out their work and the support that https://www.iraqichildren.org have been receiving from the PepsiCo Foundation.

#iraq #books #EidMubarak #eid #usa #news #virginia #europe #manchester #london

#surveillance #Virginia

"The research for State of Surveillance showed that you can’t drive anywhere without going through a town, city or county that’s using public surveillance of some kind, mostly license plate reading cameras. I wondered how often I might be captured on camera just driving around to meet my reporters. Would the data over time display patterns that would make my behavior predictable to anyone looking at it?

So I took a daylong drive across Cardinal Country and asked 15 law enforcement agencies, using Freedom of Information Act requests, to provide me with the Flock LPR footage of my vehicle. My journey took me over 300 miles through slices of the communities those agencies serve, including the nearly 50 cameras they employ. And this journey may take me to one more place: an April Fool’s Day hearing in a courtroom in Roanoke. There, a judge will be asked to rule on a motion to declare the footage of the public to be beyond the reach of the public.

But while Roanoke and Botetourt and two other police agencies denied my request for that footage, nine agencies complied and searched their data for signs of me passing through.

Here’s what I found."

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned/

In Richmond, #Virginia, fascist #GOP governor Glenn Youngkin performatively attended a 250th anniversary reenactment of Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.

Then, outside the venue, protesters demonstrated the spirit of that speech.

#protests #fascism #50501movement

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHlp75cRcFo/

In recent years a lot of smaller, economically depressed areas of Virginia have been opening up casinos that utilizing loopholes don't TECHNICALLY count as casinos, usually called "gaming emporiums" and I see commercials for them all the time whenever I'm using free-with-ads #streaming services like Roku, Tubi, and Plex.

Areas of #Virginia south of D.C. were upgraded to a moderate risk of severe thunderstorms for Monday evening; abundant low level wind shear will be sufficient for damaging straight line winds, tornadoes, and hail, primarily between 5pm and 9pm and from #RVA to Virginia Beach to Tappahannock (for the strongest storms, as indicated by models as of this morning). #VAwx #MDwx

#house #cool #Virginia

Our place? Just drive all the way down to the end of the road and you'll see our light

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/0-Smith-Point-Rd-Reedville-VA-22539/2105733490_zpid/

The mill
A #poem for a special day
in three parts

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i.

Far away from here
is a faded wooden place
where I left my youth
in its waters’ rapid pace.

Stuck to the wood
of this abandoned water mill,
a yellowed paper calendar
clung with sticky will

to a time when it was new,
to the wall of weathered pine,
with a circle ’round the date
that was especially mine.

The Virgina Native Plant Society has chosen the native Mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum, as the Wildflower of the year for 2025!

This is a link to purchase a shirt with the wildflower of the year on it. A portion of proceeds go directly to the non-profit :]

https://www.bonfire.com/mayapple-light-font/?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=thanks_page_share_modal&utm_campaign=mayapple-light-font&utm_content=default

#walking #running #environment #Virginia
5K for the Planet in Bryan Park, Richmond, April 27.
Register:
https://us-p2p.engagingnetworks.app/10006/fortheplanet5k

https://www.europesays.com/1951662/ Technology helps Richmond police in latest homicide investigation #america #Richmond #science #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #Virginia