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My mother took a job making the minimum wage in 1985, $3.35 an hour – 2026 value: $10.17 an hour – and that was what she had to raise two kids on, because my father didn’t pay the court-ordered child support, because he was an ass.
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Man, ol’ Larry Sabato is losing his touch; that, or he was just tailoring his thinking on a recent bad Abigail Spanberger poll number to the audience, in the case of ABC7 in DC, the MAGA-adjacent Sinclair Broadcasting.
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Under the Trump administration, the language of empire has also been imbued with a religious fervor that recasts Jesus Christ — not as a peacemaker — but as a mascot for power, conquest and control.
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Donald Trump has sacked Pam Bondi as his attorney general, but don’t get too excited, because the next one is going to be just as bad, probably worse.
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Mary Washington coach Marcus Kahn has received the 2026 Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year award, which is presented annually to the top head coach in D3.
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The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats.
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Democrats are saying all the right things about the latest attempt by Donald Trump to write and then pass his own federal law, this one banning mail-in voting, but seriously, this one doesn’t even need to go to court.
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A PAC funded by the Koch Brothers and run by a MAGA who lost his bid for re-election to the House of Delegates last year is behind a mailer that outright lies about where Barack Obama stands on the April 21 redistricting referendum.
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A video on the 2022 Augusta County Courthouse referendum posted online by James Burnett, an Augusta County resident and Iraq War veteran, is drawing tons of traffic on his YouTube channel.
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Donald Trump just cast his vote in a Florida special election with a mail-in ballot, after characterizing mail-in voting, literally yesterday, during a political rally, as “mail-in cheating.”
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