WATCH: In our latest VPM News Short, Dean Mirshahi spoke to Quadaire Patterson, a criminal justice reform advocate who was formerly incarcerated, about the moment he learned his rights were restored by Gov. Abigail Spanberger.

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It's Primary Day in Virginia, so I'm bringing this out of retirement. When it's time to cast your vote, what do you say? "One little vote won't make much difference anyway." Yet you sit and wonder how did he get in You put him in By staying home You know you put him in by staying home

Sanity

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Every time something from the '80s is called "aging" or "decayed" or "outdated," I feel personally attacked.

Sticker: Shoegaze from Sweden Me: Shut up and take my money

Agnes Chisman, one of three Black nurses in Hampton, Virginia, who challenged segregation at what was called Dixie Hospital at the time died today. My family has called her neighbor since 1973. A story about a historical marker honoring the Dixie Three is linked here.

Hampton honors three Black nurses who challenged hospital segregation

”Just like the men and women at lunch counters all around the South, these three ladies made a profound statement with a simple act of sitting down to eat,” said Hampton’s Mayor Jimmy Gray.

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Since taking office in January, Gov. Abigail Spanberger has restored the voting rights of more than 66,000 Virginians who lost them due to felony convictions, her office announced today. “The right to vote is foundational to who we are as Americans,” Spanberger said in a statement.

Spanberger has restored voting rights to more than 66,000 Virginians

The governor’s office said it had to overhaul a system former Gov. Glenn Youngkin “gutted.”

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Me, blasting drum n bass while doing laundry, cooking and cleaning after warning my wife who's unexpectedly WFH: WELCOME TO FRIDAYS AT THE CONFECTIONERY, THE HOTTEST DAY CLUB IN RVA. THIS IS YOUR HOST, DJ EL ROB, ON THE W&D AND STEWING SOMETHING UP IN THE KITCHEN. Her: ... O ... K ...

If you're sad and soaked at the Death Cab concert, you sometimes get a free upgrade to covered seating

I had forgotten that Hopewell, Virginia, opted to burn down a shopping center for blight abatement.

Virginia Supreme Court rules Hopewell can burn dangerous blight

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Hopewell's controlled burn of a shopping center was a legal safety measure.

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At a journalism training that ran out of coffee before 10:30 a.m. If you see reports of a convention center burning down, that's why.

For the first time in my life, I said yeet so that's officially over.

Kurupt FM's œuvre, after Eddie Murphy's, is the highest form of musical comedy.

Kurupt FM - Heart Monitor Riddim (Grime Allstars Remix)

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My mom has been telling me the full versions of past and current family stories lately, and I do not like that I do not know whether it's because I'm finally old enough to know Grown Folk's Business or she's actually telling me something else.

I'm quickly learning who did not grow up next to a swamp in Hampton. Try 100+ heat index before 11 a.m. with a cloud of mosquitos even after the city/air base used a prop plane to drop pesticides while you're playing outside. I might sit on the deck today.

If everyone is making cassettes again, it should come with normalizing walking down the street shouldering a boombox with eight D batteries in it again.

I'm sure @walruspaulus.bsky.social can beat this record easily

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Guinness World Records has recognized Joseph McGrail-Bateup, a 58-year-old professional air conditioner cleaner, as the world's loudest person. He was recorded yelling the word “now” at 122.4 decibels.

I'm somehow 43 now.

June 23 (feat. Jovan Quallo, Matt Endahl & Jacob Jezioro)

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As I have said before, when @theshabomb.com offers to take your photo, you let Shaban take your photo.

My mother, who once forced the City of Hampton to spend more than $150,000 because she was correct, successfully fought her homeowners insurance after she got shoddy repairs after a pipe burst and they said she was mistaken. I hope I get a tiny bit of her persistence when I grow up.

I guess I remember some Canadian wildlife every other summer. And, seriously, even an '80s children's cartoon should not have had bangers like Run With Us, Stop the Clock and All Life Long.

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When I was a kid, I was the only person in my friend group who watched The Raccoons (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rac...), so everyone thought I was making it up. Every time I listen to this soundtrack album, I feel vindicated.

Pouring one out for the traffic cone that was in front of my place since before I moved in.

Boo: FedEx making me wait after hours for a package to arrive at work Yay: The mirror at the bar a block away from work will give me a view of the oncoming truck

Just when you thought it was safe, millennials are now killing the SUV

For Pride Month, I'm going to sit bisexually to the point that standing awkwardly in the general vicinity of an empty chair counts as sitting.

As someone who now has a 45-minute walking commute instead of a 40-minute driving commute, it throws me for a loop when drivers — especially during rush hour — see me at the corner and yield. That said, keep up the good work.

Congratulations to our HBCU Science Journalism Fellow Davis Dailey, who took a germ of an idea and developed it into this fascinating story for @vpm.org on invasive plant monitoring in Henrico county, Virginia: www.vpm.org/news/2026-05...

A growing invasion: Henrico’s effort to track and contain invasive plants

Local groups are planting native trees and mapping invasive species in the county.

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It's always fun when you're hanging fresh laundry almost literally from the rafters then learn of a surprise mother-in-law visit.

It still blows my mind when places that in 2006 or 2016 would not blast uncensored Wu-Tang blast uncensored Wu-Tang. Unresolved issues are now just background music.

It was the first day of work for the vpm news team at the brand new downtown Richmond building and…it was so nice actually being around people in a full newsroom like this for the first time in six (!) years.

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