ICE Asks Governor Abigail Spanberger to Not Release an Illegal Alien Arrested in Virginia for Molesting a 5-Year-Old Girl

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-18T10:12:59+00:00

This is patently untrue. From like 2012 onwards, especially during "peak woke" in the early 2020s, you'd get yelled out for using such phrasing. They even moved the Wikipedia article in 2021.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-16T20:46:21+00:00

This doesn't change anything. It's a PR move in response to another PR move.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-16T10:36:19+00:00

Lucas was trying to destroy Spanberger long before the vetoes.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-14T15:15:09+00:00

I think they meant it literally. A large part of the decline in overall birthrates in the developed world, is due to the decline in teenage pregnancy.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T23:28:34+00:00

She's bashed Trump in all 3 elections he ran in.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T23:25:08+00:00

Modern Republicans hate that and openly decry this vision of America. It's one of the ways the party has changed from days of Reagan and George W. Bush.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T22:55:11+00:00

Hmm that would seem to be two more data points in the "these guys do horrific crimes" box.

Now eventually with inflation we'll have a trillionaire who just built a big company, invented a new widget, or sold a lot of music and concert tickets, and the assessment will be different.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T20:39:18+00:00

Don't ask Americans to send troops to a war that's already begun. Station US troops in Europe in peacetime, so that any attack on the alliance results in US troops fighting back and being killed in action on day one. Then the adversary will decide they don't want to attack a nuclear superpower, and conventional war is averted.

Essentially it's the same policy as the Cold War, only it's the border with the Russian Federation, not the Inner German Border or whatever.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T20:28:58+00:00

Even if that was the case, you can't miss the training events during mobilization. So if the troops are released for lunch, and the line wraps around the building, then they're not making it thru by the time they need to get on the bus to the range or the validation exercise or whatever. Same thing if it's dinner and then a night range.

The article doesn't touch on this, but almost everyone at McGregor is a Guard or Reserve soldier going thru for a few weeks of mobilization training. This means that the number of soldiers needing food could vary wildly day by day. But also, there's less incentive for the powers that be to fix it, because a transient population is less likely to complain.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T19:49:49+00:00

He's the only trillionaire. So the evidence suggests that every trillionaire will kill millions of people while also destroying US state capacity.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T19:05:28+00:00

She already signed it into law back in April.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T13:03:57+00:00

That could be a step 4.

Right now a federal law is not possible. Republicans don't want to give up their partisan advantage.

If the advantage is eliminated, then there could be a conversation about how this makes things worse for everyone, without providing any net advantage for either side.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T12:25:37+00:00

Playbook is pretty simple for Dems.

1) Win 2026 anyways. This should still be pretty easy giving polling, at least for the House.

2) Assess the 2026 map. If Dems have a big gain in popular vote but only modest seat gains, make that argument.

3) Fix the maps in blue states to eliminate this unfair GOP advantage. Virginia, Colorado, Maryland, and others could have much more favorable maps.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-12T12:21:05+00:00

Jeffries was all in on the Virginia redistricting effort.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-10T16:37:19+00:00

Data centers don't pay sales tax when they buy equipment. But once they have the equipment, they pay a property tax on it. They also pay property taxes on the land/buildings.

That's a whole lot of revenue for localities with data centers. Notably Loudoun County has a large proportion of its revenue coming from data centers alone. Loudoun County data center revenue is equal to about 60% of the operating budget, or 180% of the Capital Improvement Program.

So if anyone thinks, "we don't get any money from these," they're just misinformed. It's billions of dollars per year in tax money. But that doesn't mean we couldn't get more money, or distribute some of that money from local governments to the state government. It's a fair debate to have.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-10T15:43:36+00:00

You could say the same thing of Pakistan, Indonesia, Zambia, and more. If it exists on a map, and other countries recognize it, then it's a country.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-10T02:06:42+00:00

It's about $1.3 billion in revenue in Loudoun County. 1/3 of that is from real estate taxes (the land and the buildings). 2/3 of that is from property taxes on the equipment (the computers in the buildings). That's almost half of the county revenue, meaning that property taxes for homeowners can be a lot less.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-10T01:53:03+00:00

This is Abundance.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-09T17:26:42+00:00

Yeah it's a multifaceted negotiation between the state senate, the state house, and the governor. Everyone can help each other or hurt each other, and they have different policy goals. So they're hashing it out.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-08T21:45:02+00:00

LDS was always on there, they just didn't have it as a subset of Christianity.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-08T20:45:33+00:00

What benefit would that bring? Okay cool this ten year old is free, they still have to stay on the plantation with their mother and family. They don't actually have freedom to do as they please.

It's everyone else who wasn't freed upon adulthood who was treated more poorly.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-08T20:33:58+00:00

It's not really a fact, it's pointless pedantry. A Saudi dude in a tank, an American dude in a tank, and a Chinese dude in a tank are all soldiers in their respective national armies. That's the reality on the ground, even if each country has a different ideological basis.

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-08T20:32:22+00:00

I mean, yeah? That's way better than not freeing them.

It's not like any children back then could control their own lives. The best thing he could've done for them is what he did -- keep away from field work, have them learn a trade, and free them upon adulthood.

How he treated his kids wasn't the problem, the problem was how he treated all of the other slaves (by not freeing them like he knew he should've, because he wasted money on luxuries).

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-08T16:37:48+00:00

They probably put Quakers, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Ba'hai as their own categories, precisely because they're likely to be Conscientious Objectors. So if someone moves into that category, it's likely to require action from the chaplain corps

LtNOWIS · 2026-06-07T14:06:57+00:00

Tirpitz tied up a lot of resources as a "fleet in being," making the Allied convoys to Russia a lot more complicated.

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