Trevor Metcalfe
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Norfolk reporter. tips@pilotonline.com.
North Carolina began sending mail ballots to voters early on Friday, the first state to forge ahead with its standard vote-by-mail program as the Trump administration escalates its efforts to restrict the practice.
North Carolina Set to Mail The Fall’s First Ballots As Trump Tries to Restrict Them
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Postal Service rule that could impede millions of mail voters. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in.
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wow 2007 Boston Mooninite panic almost 20 years young...
2007 Boston Mooninite panic - Wikipedia
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A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.
Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.
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New: Axon says cops are asking it to change its license plate readers to make them look less like Flock cameras. This is because people keep vandalizing Flock ones. Axon said it is looking to change the design. CEO said this in a now deleted webinar, but we got a copy www.404media.co/cops-are-ask...
Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don't Destroy Them
“Is there any talk to redesign the Outpost to not look exactly like the Flock camera — I think it will help agencies with the optics while we batten down the hatches,” one apparent cop asked during a ...
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This (from Tom Wood) suggests more than just the typical thermostatic backlash is happening right now. In sixteen months, Trump and Republicans have turned the GOP’s largest party ID advantage this century into a tie for its biggest deficit
The world has failed in its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times, the UN said on Wednesday, in a sober assessment that laid out a new goal for fighting climate change that would set the world on an uncertain path.
U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
It proposed a new goal of limiting the “overshoot” of rising temperatures and eventually figuring out how to undo the temperature gains, a highly uncertain path.
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“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...
Apple's Map Acquiescence
In Cupertino, “not a soul” supports Donald Trump’s “Lake America” decree, Status is told—but, at the same time, the company is resigned to conceding such points to the White House to avoid triggering ...
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The main issue with Tiktok is the algorithm loves to serve up reaction videos of some other video that happened and then I have to go find the original video to understand anything. Like, why do I have to do homework for funny videos.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked most of Virginia’s new restrictions on local cooperation with ICE, allowing existing 287(g) agreements to continue. New participants remain barred, and AG Jay Jones says he’ll seek a stay and appeal. virginiamercury.com/2026/09/01/f...
Federal judge effectively blocks new state law limiting Virginia’s cooperation with ICE • Virginia Mercury
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Virginia from enforcing most provisions of a new law restricting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, allowing existin...
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microsoft shoving copilot into places it doesn't belong (and google being probably as bad about this but in kinda different ways you might not see if you don't have a pixel) probably did at least as much reputational damage to the tech industry as the data center stuff
Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's OK at doing code for you? Great. What does that have to do with how it keeps popping up to demand to rewrite a paragraph that's already written and edited?
“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status, family says
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants.
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I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
Salieri's Intense Reaction to Mozart
ALT: Salieri's Intense Reaction to Mozart
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IGN@ign.com · 5d agoA bunch of angry spouses on social media believe that Grand Theft Auto 6's in-depth relationship mechanic is equivalent to cheating on your real life partner and worth breaking up over. https://bit.ly/4qLlUbp
One thing about the hullabaloo over rockstar not printing a disc for gta 6 is that gamers are finally learning about digital licenses and that they don’t actually own any of their games. but they also think this is a uniquely evil thing rockstar just invented. Brother this war was lost a decade ago
Today 3 statues came down in the Virginia Capitol Square including one of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Other statues include Hunter Holmes McGuire and former Governor William Smith.
Goad (Legal Expert)@goad.bsky.social · last wk.I'm at the Virginia Capitol Square to see another Confederate statue come down.
What you hope to see at King Tide vice what you actually see at King Tide.
‘This year in Hampton Roads, a King Tide is expected the weekend of Oct. 9-11. That’s when the Catch the King volunteers will set out, with necessary training and equipment, to record data that will help scientists know more about what’s happening with those regularly occurring astronomical tides.’🎁
Editorial: Volunteer to help better understand flooding in Hampton Roads
The Catch the King survey is vitally important as Hampton Roads officials, businesses and residents plan a future of sea-level rise and more frequent, powerful rainstorms.
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More than half of all the people ICE arrested in July did not have a criminal record, the highest single-month total since January 2025, newly released government data shows.
ICE is arresting soaring numbers of immigrants with no criminal record
Federal immigration officers are shifting their targets and tactics to increase arrests. More than half of those detained last month did not have a criminal record.
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My boyfriend witnessed someone get rather dramatically kicked out of a bar last night for going up to the person singing a Dolly song, telling him he was doing it wrong, and confiscating the mic to do it badly herself
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · last wk.Lotta people this weekend are gonna have a karaoke mic in their hand when they find out that Dolly was a SINGER singer and even the songs she made sound easy are very hard. Keep your head on a swivel.
Tuesdays used to be quiet evenings, said Jerry Edwards, the owner of the Eagles' Nest bar. But not anymore. Line dancing has gone viral. “It started with just a handful of people, and then all of a sudden, you’ve seen what’s happened to it all over the world,” Edwards said. “It’s everywhere.”
From boot scootin’ to trail ride, younger fans flock to line dancing in Hampton Roads
Line dancing classes are filling up across Hampton Roads at a growing rate thanks the viral popularity of the choreographed dance routines on social media.
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in Springfield Ohio right now. I’m told by multiple activists and religious leaders here that ICE took a second Haitian pastor
