#virginia campaign

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

Original November 1977 caption: "Charles S. 'Chuck' Robb and his wife, Lynda, leave a polling place early Tuesday after casting their votes in Virginia's general election. Robb, son-in-law of former President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, is the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia."

#governor #1970s #VA #Virginia #Governor Robb #Lynda Robb #election #campaign #politics #political

[aiiaiiiyo]

#John F. Kennedy campaigning door-to-door in West Virginia in 1960. #FranceDonovan #oldschool

[retrocgads]

USA 1990

#USA1990 #WARTIME SIMULATIONS #STRATEGY #WARGAME #MACINTOSH #BARBARIAN #EAGLES IN THE SAND #NORWEGIAN SEA #WESTERN CAMPAIGNS #ARMY OF NORTH VIRGINIA #RED STARS #IRON FIST #CONG! #EAGLE & CRESCENT

[avoyagetoarcturus]

“It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier’s mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

- Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)

🜃 Clémence, Maura, & Virginia from 1899 🜁

#1899 #Clémence #maura franklin #virginia #save 1899 #save1899 #1899 fanart #1899 netflix #1899 fan art #colored pencils #artists on tumblr #mailed in as a postcard to netflix as part of the save1899 letter writing campaign <3

[gwydionmisha]

#Maryland #LGBTQIA+ Rights Group #Terrorism #Adam Michael Nettina #Hates Crimes #News #The Human Rights Campaign #Virginia

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Toby and Josh have once again made me INCREDIBLY emotional, so remember when Josh is shot and Toby is the one to find him? I don’t think there is enough emphasis on the fact that Toby gets the news that his brother is safely landed from the Columbia space shuttle mere MINUTES before Josh is shot. Toby has a few minutes to feel complete and utter relief that he didn’t lose his brother and joke with the President about it before he’s hit with the terror that is finding his other brother, not blood, but no less his family, bleeding on the ground, dying. Toby gets one brother back, and it’s framed as being at the expense of his other brother.

#yes yes i know #Sam is Toby’s found family brother it’s in the text and all that #but hear me out #josh and Toby go through HELL together #they work together through so many crises and traumas but in the end they are still brothers #for god’s sake #they have a FIST FIGHT in Toby’s office and don’t speak to each other for so long afterward #up until Toby is indicted for the shuttle leak he and Josh don’t interact once #then we see Josh in the final legs of the santos campaign visiting his surrogate brother’s place and first fighting #but then admitting that josh himself messed up too #and then the next time we hear from the pair of them Toby is being called Bob and Josh is relying on him to help him win the campaign #they fought it out like real siblings do and then they drank together and came out the other end brothers once more #absolutely wild to me #josh and Toby’s brotherly relationship is not something that I ever expected to make me this emotional but it’s so SPECIAL #all of the senior staff + Charlie and Donna have the sweetest relationships and are often sibling-like #but Josh and Toby’s fistfight and Josh being shot after Toby JUST got his brother back just emphasizing how much they truly are brothers #also bartlet telling toby to go visit his brother at Edwards before the town hall meeting😭and then Josh is SHOR #*SHOT #you just know Toby never left DC let alone the east coast before he KNEW that Josh was gonna be fine #Toby telling Bartlet that he needs a break when he’s calling for the FBI to investigate West Virginia white pride #that man NEVER took a break once after Josh was shot :(( #toby ziegler #josh lyman #jed bartlet #west wing #the west wing #in the shadow of two gunmen #what kind of day has it been #tww #ww

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Democrat Aaron Rouse appeared to clinch the special election for Virginia’s 7th state Senate district on Tuesday in yet another victory for his party, which was already riding high from a better-than-expected midterm election.

The race was a nail-biter, with Rouse scraping by over Republican opponent Kevin Adams with less than 1% of the vote, according to unofficial election results. Still, the flip will be seen as a major win by the party and will expand its majority in the commonwealth’s state Senate. The split in the chamber will now stand at 22-18.

Rouse declared victory shortly after the unofficial vote tallies were counted.

“THANK YOU!” he tweeted Tuesday night. “With your support, and the support of voters from across Virginia Beach and Norfolk, we have won this Special Election. No rest for the weary – tomorrow, we head to Richmond to get to work for Virginia families.”

His party also hailed the victory, with the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee tweeting Tuesday night that it “will help Dems defend our majority in the VA Senate this fall!”

Rouse, a Virginia Beach city council member and former NFL player, will replace Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) in the seat that she vacated after she defeated former Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) in the November U.S. congressional elections.

The seventh state Senate district includes much of the Virginia Beach area and parts of Norfolk. Rouse’s victory is significant due to the district’s Republican lean. Kiggans won the seat by just less than a point in 2019, while Biden won the district by 10 points in 2020. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) won the seat during the state’s 2021 gubernatorial campaign. And in 2022, Kiggans trailed Luria by four points in precincts within the state Senate district, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.

Rouse’s victory is also significant because it provides Democrats with an extra vote against any measure that could restrict abortion access in the commonwealth. The issue featured heavily in the race and underscored its viability for Democrats as they look toward the November general elections and the 2024 presidential election.

#us politics #news #2023 #special election #Virgina #the hill #sen. Aaron Rouse #Kevin Adams #Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee #Democrats #Rep. Jen Kiggans #Rep. Elaine Luria #Virginia Public Access Project #state government

[i-am-aprl]

Yesterday, Palestinian and solidarity organizers disrupted a Biden campaign event 14 times during his speech on the protection of women's rights. These activists called out hypocrisy because Biden and his administration are actively causing a reproductive care catastrophe in Gaza.

50,000 pregnant women do not have access to healthcare in Gaza, and C-sections are being performed without anesthesia. Women and children in Gaza are being killed by U.S.-made and supplied bombs.

described by @winged-wolf-s-collection-of-arts

[ID: Transcription of what the protesters are saying, while security personnel try to get them out:

Israel kills two mothers every hour in Gaza. Ceasefire now! End the genocide! Ceasefire!

Women in Gaza are being murdered. Killing people in Gaza is a war crime. You are a war criminal.

Stop funding genocide! Ceasefire now!

50,000 pregnant women don't have healthcare. Their blood is on your hands. Ceasefire!

Ceasefire now! Stop funding genocide! Gaza is a reproductive issue.

Free, free Palestine!

The end of the video shows article headlines with photos of the protesters or of Joe Biden, from various news organizations:

POLITICO: Biden's abortion rights rally repeatedly interrupted by protesters

ALJAZEERA: Biden speech interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters

CNN politics: Biden's abortion rights rally in Virginia beset by repeated protests over his handling of Gaza

abcNEWS: Biden campaign speech on abortion rights disrupted 14 times by protesters

yahoo!news: Biden abortion rally in Virginia interrupted by multiple protesters: 'Genocide Joe'

NEW YORK POST: Biden claims Gaza heckler is 'MAGA Republican' as he's interrupted at least 10 times at rally

Forbes: Protesters Interrupt Biden's Abortion Rights Speech More Than A Dozen Times

NBC NEWS: Biden interrupted by protesters more than a dozen times at campaign rally

USA TODAY: President Biden's abortion rally disrupted by repeated protests over Gaza

Reuters: Biden's abortion rights rally in Virginia interrupted by Gaza protests

/End ID]

#palestine #فلسطين #gaza #free gaza #free palestine #israel #jerusalem #i stand with palestine #israel is a terrorist state

[robpegoraro]

Progress in Virginia still demands some patience

Decades of practice as a Virginia voter have tempered my expectations of progress in any one General Assembly session. And yet...

The Virginia General Assembly is now past the halfway mark of its first session under Democratic control since the 2021 session, and I have to admit that I expected a little more out of my state’s legislature now that Republicans can’t quietly sink decent bills in committees as they did in the House of Delegates in the previous two-year session. It’s not that the Western Hemisphere’s oldest…

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#anti-SLAPP #campaign finance #crossover day #direct tax prep #Glenn Youngkin #House of Delegates #leaf blowers #Richmond #Virginia Democrats #Virginia General Assembly #Virginia iFile #Virginia Senate

[totallyhussein-blog]

By confronting conflict, the ICF are building a solid future

In Baghdad, the Iraqi Children Foundation run mobile schools called the Hope Buses. These deliver tutoring, healthcare and social support to orphans, street kids and displaced children living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

The need is great as the ICF explains; more than '800,000 children were orphaned as a result of the 2003 Iraq War'. The 2014 ISIS occupation then 'displaced more than 1.3 million children' and '1 in 5 Iraqi children currently work to support their families or themselves'.

Among ICF supporters are the PepsiCo Foundation, who have partnered with the ICF to support the Hope Bus projects. "The PepsiCo Foundation is a proud partner of Iraqi Children Foundation, which will provide countless benefits to Iraqi children living in extreme poverty."

#manchester #iraq #iraqi #london #uk #baghdad #liverpool #scotland #hussein al-alak #usa #iraqi children foundation #virginia #mosul #child welfare #pepsico inc. #pepsico foundation #activism #activist #campaign #editorial #youtube #social media #social networks #artists on tumblr #tumblr milestone #writers on tumblr #Youtube

[froody]

The Italian restaurant in my mom’s hometown WAS definitely a mob front. The owner briefly served in the Italian military, immigrated to America in his twenties back in the early 70s, mysteriously had enough money to open a chain of Italian restaurants and was convicted for trafficking cocaine across the Virginia/West Virginia area and spent 15 years in prison.

My mom had worked as a waitress at the place while she was a teenager and throughout her 20s and she realized that when she was sent to the restaurant’s sister location in West Virginia in a mysteriously packed car by her mysteriously nice boss, it probably wasn’t pizza ingredients she was hauling. It was the 80s. She was a tiny, very naive, conventionally attractive church girl with no criminal record so she was the perfect unwitting drug mule.

The thing was, this restaurant and the man who operated it were locally loved. Beyond large scale organized cocaine trafficking, food was his other passion. Everyone waited anxiously for him to get out of prison and when he did this guy started a crusade against the corrupt local sheriff’s office. He started doing anti-police brutality advocacy work WHOLEHEARTEDLY. Donating to local families who had been victims and participating in local drives and awareness campaigns.

Made men usually do local charity work but the balls on this guy to take up sword and spear against shitty corrupt ineffectual law enforcement. Incredible. One thing about Appalachians is that we hate the cops and we love social agitators. This guy lived a long eventful life and died recently of natural causes and the overwhelming outpouring of love for him on Facebook was incredible, a uniting force that the town had not seen in decades, everybody was sharing their favorite stories about him and I’m sure local law enforcement was fuming.

#the history of the mafia in Appalachia is really interesting #how Italian organized crime thrived from the 60s to the 90s in Appalachia and still exists there today #swooped right in after the coal boom

[aiiaiiiyo]

#John F. Kennedy campaigning door-to-door in West Virginia in 1960. #LeslieWarnerKI #oldschool

[russianreader]

This American Life

Pacific Grove, California, 10 June 2023. Photo by the Russian Reader Jose Martinez has lived and worked in the United States since he was 14 years old. Now 67, he drives around the Yakima Valley in Washington state checking on fellow workers. “When it’s hot, do you have a place to protect yourself from the sun and heat?” he calls out to some workers on the side of an apple orchard on a sunny…

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#Barbie #farmworkers in US #Redneck Army #Starbucks #Starbucks Workers United #Tanya Tuzova #union busting #unionization campaigns in US #United Farm Workers #United Mine Workers of America #West Virginia mine wars

[playitagin]

1864–Battle of Ware Bottom Church

The Battle of Ware Bottom Church was fought on May 20, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The Union troops were led by Benjamin Butler, while the Confederates were led by P.G.T. Beauregard.

The Confederates were victorious, and Butler's forces remained in their Bermuda Hundred defenses.[1] Following the battle, the Confederates began digging a critical set of defensive earthworks that became known as the Howlett Line.

#May.20.1864 #Bermuda Hundred campaign #American Civil War #Howlett Line #Virginia #history today

[ralfmaximus]

Two things — check that, three things — appear to have gone off the rails at the paper we used to call the Gray Lady. First, whoever is in charge of the paper’s polls is not doing their job. Second, whoever is choosing what to emphasize in Times coverage of the campaign for the presidency is showing bias. Third, the Times is obsessed with Joe Biden’s age at the same time they’re leaving evidence of Donald Trump’s mental and verbal stumbles completely out of the news. Let’s start right there. At a rally on Saturday night in Virginia, Trump confused Barack Obama, who left office seven years ago, with President Biden for the third time over the last six months. “Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,” Trump said, as his crowd of rabid supporters suddenly fell silent. “You heard that. Nuclear. He’s starting to talk nuclear weapons today.” You won’t find that verbal stumble and the crowd’s stunned reaction in the Times coverage of the campaign over the weekend. You’ll have to read other publications — for example, Salon or maybe the Guardian — if you want to learn how often Trump is losing his way mid-sentence at rallies and just mumbling incoherently.

The article also explores a recent Times poll favoring Trump that is so insanely, obviously inaccurate that it reads like parody.

The NYT is definitely in the bag for Trump, same as 2016.

#new york times #2024

[reportwire]

The Surreal Oscar Campaign for ‘The Hours,’ 20 Years Later

Julianne Moore as Laura Brown.PARAMOUNT/EVERETT COLLECTION. Weinstein and Rudin had feuded across several previous projects, so some headbutting was to be expected on The Hours. Rudin developed the script with Hare for about a year, though, and had final cut. He toyed with the mercurial Weinstein by showing off the film’s bold creative decisions—prosthetic included. “Scott won most of the…

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#awards #Harvey Weinstein #Julianne Moore #Meryl Streep #miramax #Nicole Kidman #oscar campaign #oscars #scott rudin #Virginia Woolf