Dear Chris, I can start by telling you who my audience is not. It is NOT you. It is NOT the pundit class that rarely leaves the safety of its Georgetown cocktail parties. It is NOT the chattering class who gets paid to pretend it knows the mind of the American people. It is NOT for anyone who looks at everything through the lens of politics. The people I am talking to are tired of the bullshit. The people I want to speak with are the 50 million Americans still sick and suffering. The families fighting for the lives of the those they love. Whether they are people living in the shame and fear of being canceled, or consumed by grief after the loss of someone they love, they are just looking for a slight glimmer of hope that they too can get back up again. My audience is the people who feel unheard, unseen, and uninvited, just like me. My audience also includes my perceived enemies, those pitted against me by you and your colleagues in the media. I want to meet them where they are and help build a bridge. A bridge built of that which connects all of us. That’s where we begin to actually heal. And it’s not as if my intent is difficult to understand or discern. Just read and listen to what I have said on this platform, and the 18 hours of unscripted pod casts I have done. I think your shock as to why anyone would care says far more about you than it does about me. Take a look at the comments to your post. And I also know this: people are tired of the bullshit. They’re tired of you and the chattering classes’ obsession with my family as Rome burns. So instead of wondering why people care about what I have to say, Chris, maybe you should concern yourself with why no one cares anymore about what you and everyone you represent has to say.

The Virginia Education Association supports the Senate budget proposal released today because it offers a stronger, more responsible path for educator pay, student support, and long-term public school investment. Read our full statement here ⬇️ veanea.org/virginia-educatio…

De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more. I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class. I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families. I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant. And let me just say it: I can’t love a country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.

UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather setup on the White House South Lawn, with a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitos and gnats that fighters will have to battle inside the cage. While the venue’s massive 92-foot overhang will keep the octagon dry, a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the entire event.

I’m just going to post this every few days rather than arguing with faceless, nameless trolls in the comments.

🚨 The location has changed to the Best Western Battlefield Inn in Manassas. Still 6-8pm on Monday 6/15. We are also excited to welcome @Kannanforva to join us! 🚨 datacentertourgainesville.ev…

Virginia faces a major decision: should data centers keep receiving ~$2 billion a year in tax exemptions while families shoulder the costs? Join @RussetPerry & @pwcdanica, and me on Monday, June 15. It's our duty to protect Virginians & we want to hear from you. eventbrite.com/e/senator-l-l…

So let me get this straight… We’re now being told JD Vance used the Situation Room to lead “war room” meetings about the Epstein fallout. Allegations of Trump sexually abusing minors? I thought the Situation Room was for actual wars. Trump keeps telling everyone to move on while the Epstein story keeps getting bigger and closer to home. Then BOOM. We’re in a war with Iran. A war nobody voted for, nobody wanted, and few can clearly explain. Straits of Hormuz closed. Gas prices skyrocket. The entire news cycle changed overnight. Funny how quickly Epstein disappeared from the headlines. You can outrun a news cycle. The print and legacy news media is a joke. You can’t outrun Epstein forever. WE are watching. WE are not stupid. WE are united in the Tired of the Bullshit party.

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis: Show us your laptop. Show us your iCloud. Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation. You won’t. You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out. That is not who we are. My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count. For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame. I no longer believe that. Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us. And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts. That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena. Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next. Life does not determine our character. It reveals it. Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next? We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day. So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop. You won’t. The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing. That is the only definition that matters.

Michael Naccarelli is throwing the first pitch Friday at PNC Park. He has cancer. It's incurable. The disease also killed his mother and both of his brothers. His story is tragic, but also inspiring. You can read it here: post-gazette.com/sports/pira…

I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Stop the PWCS resolution Changes . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/st…

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$267M would’ve gone directly to public schools. With data center tax breaks, the school funding bucket never gets filled because tax revenue is being redirected. #VEAVotes #KidsOverCorporations app.sosha.ai/s/qwkliQVn

That’s the budget hold up!! Once again, the Governor is wrong on the policy and knows Virginians will cook her if there is a government shutdown. Also still waiting on your reforecast?

Regular people (you I), pay Virginia's 4.3% sales tax on all purchases. We buy a laptop, we pay sales tax. Amazon buys warehouse-sized computer systems that power their entire operation, and pays $0 sales tax. #KidsOverCorporations #VEAVotes app.sosha.ai/s/p5KAXtHQ

Regular people (you I), pay Virginia's 4.3% sales tax on all purchases. We buy a laptop, we pay sales tax. Amazon buys warehouse-sized computer systems that power their entire operation, and pays $0 sales tax. #KidsOverCorporations #VEAVotes app.sosha.ai/s/y8KsmdTF

You were president that day, Moronica.

$15M for painting the Lincoln Reflecting Pool electric-blue. $100M for a giant Arch named after Trump. $1B for Trump’s ballroom. If this administration is interested in rooting out government waste, they can take a look at Trump's taxpayer-funded vanity projects.

Labor unions on veto: "Shame. Governor Abigail Spanberger today betrayed half a million of Virginia’s public service workers by going back on her campaign promise to support collective bargaining rights for the people who keep our Commonwealth and communities running every day."

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