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Rae Pickett
@raeroca.bsky.social
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She/her/hers/ella 🌟Blue Ridge Abortion Fund Board member 🌟 Repro comms, full-spectrum doula, mom, partner, other stuff 🇵🇷🌱🏳️‍🌈
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Rae Pickett @raeroca.bsky.social · Jan 22
30 yrs ago Kobby and her friends put a pickle jar out at the Albermarle County fair to collect money for their friend who needed an abortion. They had money left over. So they helped someone else. Today, Blue Ridge Abortion Fund helps 30-80 callers /wk. Fund our work blueridgeabortionfund.org
BRAF board chair and BRAF founder pose for a selfie in the richmond Virginia capitol rotunda!
raeroca.bsky.social
Actual comment on my TikTok about taking my son to see Nuremberg. We’re so cooked, friends. 😬
An alt right supremacist comment on a TikTok about taking a 12 year old boy to see the movie Nuremberg. “One of the hills I will most definitely die on is that we fought on the wrong side during the 2nd world war.” Insignia of the alt right. Eagle with SPQR inside, misused from roman times by idiots.
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
raeroca.bsky.social
500 people came out in this small town. Is this girl giving a seig heil out of the car?!
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
raeroca.bsky.social
Spotted in Fremont, Ohio at the Turning Point USA rally
A white car with the words TRUMP / VANCE on the side sits outside of a church
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Breaking….
November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
raeroca.bsky.social
Del Torro’s Frankenstein is a masterpiece. So visually stunning. Watched with my husband and kids. My 12 year old asks, “is this horror? It just felt sad.”

Welcome to critical theory, my guy.
a man wearing headphones and a rvca shirt is standing in front of a microphone and flexing his arm .
ALT: a man wearing headphones and a rvca shirt is standing in front of a microphone and flexing his arm .
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
raeroca.bsky.social
Go vote, Virginia. 🗳️
A woman with sunglasses smiles wearing an Abigail Spanberger for Governor t shirt and holding up campaign literature for Leslie Mehta for Delegate
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Reminder: In Virginia, you can register to vote on Election Day through same-day voter registration. This lets you register in person and cast a provisional ballot if you missed the regular registration deadline. Your vote will be counted once eligibility is confirmed, so don’t sit this one out!
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
raeroca.bsky.social
Today is a great day to CALL (not text or Signal chat) your friends to discuss 👀 the Dick Cheney news.
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.
Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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leximcmenamin.com
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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bluevirginia.bsky.social
"If you haven’t already voted, get to the polls tomorrow and vote...If you don't vote...then you got no right to bitch." - Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/11/mond...
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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bluevirginia.bsky.social
As @BarackObama comes to campaign for @SpanbergerForVA this afternoon in Norfolk, note that he has the highest net approval rating (+8) among major political figures in Virginia bluevirginia.us/2025/11/new-...
Screenshot of AtlasIntel graphic of positive/negative images for major political figures in Virginia
November 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
Watching some GOP outrage at Virginia Democrats starting a ruthless off-year gerrymander
October 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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bluevirginia.bsky.social
Goodbye Reps. Rob Wittman (R-VA01), Jen Kiggans (R-VA02), and John McGuire (R-VA05)? Yes, please!

bluevirginia.us/2025/10/ny-t... h/t @zacharydonnini.bsky.social
Zachary Donnini tweets about the possibility of Virginia redistricting leading to a 9-2 Democratic majority in the US House delegation, up from 6-5 now
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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andrewkostrub.bsky.social
Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
raeroca.bsky.social
A great No Kings rally in Richmond, Virginia today. Eggplantifa
A woman dressed in a giant inflatable eggplant costume posed outside of the richmond Virginia Capitol building An eggplant smiles with a giant crowd at the No Kings March.
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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libradunn1.bsky.social
I don't hate America, I just hate him. 🤷🏽‍♂️
Happy No Kings Day!
October 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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subletteweather.com
Quick look at the data this Friday morning:

All remains on track for RVA tomorrow.
#nokings

Not in RVA? Find a rally at:
nokings.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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jonesjay.bsky.social
My opponent won't help protect Virginians who are victims of housing discrimination and unsafe living conditions, because he's spent years taking millions from corporate landlords and slumlords.

Jason Miyares will always put profits over people.

americanjournalnews.com/miyares-reco...
Miyares’ record shows a long history of siding with landlords over renters
Miyares and his wife made $2.5 million from a family rental company accused of slumlord practices.
americanjournalnews.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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subletteweather.com
Richmond, VA
Capitol Square
1 p.m.
October 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
raeroca.bsky.social
Full page ad in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio (pop: 58k) today. “On October 18th, we will peacefully protest our FALSE KING.”

#NoKings is going to be massive.
October 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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atrupar.com
Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM