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Richmond reporter @axios . Past: @RTDNEWS . Siempre pensando en arepas 🇻🇪 sabrina.moreno @axios .com
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I’ve had people ask me why I didn’t report as aggressively during the H1N1 pandemic. I’d like everyone to hear the truth from me first:
I was 12
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In Richmond, Virginia tonight, musicians came together and played “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in honor of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was killed by police last summer.
He loved the violin and taught himself to play
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When I was covering protests 23 days ago, I lost my press pass at Monroe Park when the wind somehow flew it off my neck
Someone sent me a letter saying they found it. “You go girl!” they wrote. “Keep print journalism alive.”
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A Venezuelan immigrant won Virginia’s young journalist of the year today and I’m currently emotional at how it was me.
So many Latinas carved a path for us to get here. I hope to make them proud
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I am so in love with this man that it hurts
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The New York Times has named the Lee Statue the most influential work of American protest art since World War II
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There are women reporters who’ve been banned from covering sexual assault bc they were survivors but Chris Cuomo can advise one of the most powerful men in the U.S. on how to dodge allegations from 11 women without discipline.
ok.
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Virginia has reported nearly 10,000 new COVID cases today.
Health department officials have said that it’s not a data error and is likely due to exposures during the holidays
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This is in Richmond, Virginia, where five miles away, a crane was setting up to remove a Confederate monument
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Gov. Youngkin is announcing that Lego will invest $1 billion to construct its first US-based manufacturing plant in Chesterfield County that will include a solar park.
“This is the future of manufacturing,” Youngkin said
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Thinking of Chrystul Kizer today, who at 17, was accused in Kenosha County of fatally shooting the man who trafficked her.
She continues to face life in prison bc prosecutors claim it was not self defense
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Within an hour of unconfirmed reports that shots were fired at the Marcus-David Peters Circle, more than 20 cars have formed a perimeter around to protect it and the people inside
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In the former capital of the Confederacy on the Fourth of July, a projection on the Robert E. Lee Monument reads “No America Without Black America”
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VCU now has 58 confirmed and active positive cases among students
On Thursday, it was 25. Class started Monday
Official, recently-updated COVID-19 numbers for the VCU community - including positive cases, numbers related to testing, numbers of those in quarantine and in isolation - are available at
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The entire section on diversity, equity and inclusion on the Virginia governor’s site no longer exists, along with links to dashboards on the social determinants of health and ONE Virginia plan codified into law in 2021
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The Virginia Department of Health is on Tik Tok to reach unvaccinated people, a smart move considering the majority of the app’s users are under 34 and those are the least vaxxed residents statewide
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Hype to announce that I’ll be a local reporter again covering Richmond for
@Axios
starting next week.
I love this city and I hope to make you all proud (or scared depending on who you are)
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In just three days, Richmond has seen the statues of Williams Wickham, Christopher Columbus and Jefferson Davis torn down
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COVID has killed another child under the age of 10 in Virginia, marking the 10th virus death in kids statewide who will never celebrate their twentieth birthday.
Nine happened in 2021. Six were in the past three months. The most recent lived in Richmond
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Today marks 60 days since the Daughters of the Confederacy building was set on fire in Richmond
The headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond was set on fire tonight. Appears there is extensive damage.
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My journalism love language is “that’s a great question”
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Virginia has released racial and ethnic disparities adjusted by age and population. Results show Hispanics are infected, hospitalized and dying faster than every group and at more than double the rate of whites.
Among 35-44 year olds, Hispanic death rates are 11x higher
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Journalists are often told not to show emotions, but nine months into covering this pandemic, I don’t know how.
A doctor today told me about the loss, how the thousands of deaths meant permanently empty seats at thousands of tables. When we hung up, I just sat there and cried
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Tonight marks three weeks since the night police first threw tear gas and 23 days since the first protest in Richmond following the killing of George Floyd.
The city keeps showing up
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Nine months ago, Audrey Roberson was one of the first in Richmond to treat a COVID patient. Today, she became the first to be vaccinated at VCU
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It is horrifying how some of the best help and up-to-date info for people trapped on I-95 is coming from Twitter and the people themselves
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Today was my last day at
@RTDNEWS
and I’m leaving feeling so grateful for this city and the community it allowed me to build.
If younger me could see this and how I spent the past 2 1/2 years writing about Latinos, she’d be so proud.
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As of next Wednesday, RTD no longer has a full-time COVID reporter and no one covering health in Virginia in the middle of a pandemic.
I’ll now be covering Chesterfield County government and schools. Tips are welcome
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Someone made the Richmond Gun Hole a historical landmark on Google
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My dad lived through multiple attempts to overthrow the Venezuelan government in the 90s. He just called me after seeing videos of DC and said “Esto es un golpe de estado.”
“This is a coup”
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Adam Toledo was a 13-year-old Latino kid from a predominantly Latino neighborhood who still played with Hot Wheels and Legos.
Children like him are three times more likely than whites to be killed by police
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Someone created a makeshift basketball court at the Marcus-David Peters Circle, where for more than 80 days, pickup games have taken place
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I read this baffled at how New Zealand has had 26 total COVID deaths throughout the entire pandemic.
Virginia reported 26 in just the past four days and we have one of the lowest death rates in the country
New Zealand’s first coronavirus case in six months sends country into lockdown
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Today marks 58 days since Richmond’s first protest, two months since the killing of George Floyd and the birthday of Emmett Till.
This drum circle came to the monument to honor what would’ve been his 79th birthday
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Googling to find a PCR test is confusing. It gives me options for pharmacies with no appts + numbers for call centers that are so busy, I can’t get through.
And I’m a COVID reporter in my twenties who has a smartphone, a car, insurance and knows what resources are available
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Stoney left to boos after he marched bc he wouldn’t break his own curfew. He later elected a police chief who killed a Black man in Richmond. The monuments were removed after protesters took most of them down, and the tear gas continued
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Virginia reported almost 6,000 new COVID cases today. That never happened once in 2020
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I’m beyond excited to join such an incredibly talented team at Axios next month. I can’t wait to be a full-time health care reporter again 🥹
Today I'm thrilled to share our first ever Axios Fellows:
@KeldyOrtiz
,
@sabrinaamorenoo
,
@ayurellahm
&
@HarryChen93
. Welcome to the team!
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Imagine someone telling you that in 2020, Trey Songz would tweet at the Richmond mayor for appointing a police chief who killed a man in 2002 as the city is in its third week of protests against police brutality
Aye
@LevarStoney
I see you appointed William V Blackwell as the new Chief of Police KNOWING he shot Jeramy Gilliam IN HIS BACK murdering him in July 2002. Says a gun was pulled on him and he feared for his life although the gun was found 35 ft away (the next day) no prints.
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Every side of North Allen and Monument Avenue around the circle is currently blocked off. Trump flags are being burned.
It’s two days until the election
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Richmond had 233 arrests the first night of an 8 p.m. curfew over the summer
About 30 curfew-violation arrests made as of 9:30p by Metropolitan Police Department
@DCPoliceDept
. DC curfew began at 6p due to Trump supporters' attack on US Capitol.
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I’m compiling a list of resources for Asian communities in Virginia and the Richmond-area to access support. I know incredible organizations have been doing this work for decades.
If you have a recommendation, feel free to comment below or DM me
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An hour before this, Chief Smith said in a statement that in homocide investigations, “very few people give us anything to work with. What can we do differently?”
BREAKING—these are the moments pandemonium breaks out in Richmond, outside the city jail where a protest was staged. After an advance by police, protestors took to the street. A bicyclist was almost hit by an unmarked police cruiser, then tackled to the ground.
@8NEWS
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One Richmond police officer at the end smiles after people are pushed to the ground by cops. Ironically, she’s not wearing a mask at a bar that requires them
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Over a century after a Confederate founded
@RTDNEWS
, the paper’s first Black columnist and its Latino reporters wrote the front page stories on how Monument Avenue’s last Confederate statue fell
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.
@VDHgov
has linked at least 1,803 cases to an outbreak in progress at Liberty University, which is among the few Virginia colleges to have neither a mask or vaccine mandate in place for students
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Every CVS and Walgreens from Richmond to Newport News is booked a week out for testing and libraries and local health districts are running out within an hour of opening.
And that’s with less than 1% of Virginia’s population being tested every day
One for Politifact: Northam claims "PCR tests are widely available." No one I know can find one.
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I lost my bff Taco to cancer today. He was the best person I’ve ever met, and had more love in his lil body than most experience in a lifetime. I’m so lucky he chose us to share it with.
If you have any puppy pics, it’d be really great to see them rn
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So you’re telling me the city IS able to fix sidewalks within a few days
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Reminder that there are no Latino moderators lined up for debates in a presidential election where Latinos are the second largest voting bloc in the country
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When you call Virginia’s rent relief help line and press the number for Spanish, you still get someone who only speaks English. Then they ask, in English, if you need a translator and you hope they guess the right language.
That is what unequal access to services can look like
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Here for the night, where as always, there’s food, music and pickup basketball games
This is Day 44 of Richmond showing up
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This doesn’t sound like a record investment into education
Virginia Lt. Gov.
@WinsomeSears
says
@GlennYoungkin
may withold state education money from school districts that defy his Executive Order making masking optional. So far, Fairfax, Arlington and Richmond have said their mask mandates will stay in place.
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VDH’s use of Google Translate led to its site saying “the vaccine is not necessary” in Spanish for almost a month.
Advocates called it a failure and lack of investment in populations already facing rampant misinformation and language barriers
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In Virginia’s COVID briefing, a nurse working in an ICU COVID unit talked about not being prepared to put people in body bags
The comments on FB are saying she’s a liberal who’s lying to fear monger. How are people like this
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VDH reported more than 12,000 new COVID cases today. The number is so high that it doesn't fit on the graph
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Richmond and its surrounding health districts — Henrico, Chesterfield and Chickahominy — have begun Phase 2 of vaccinations, making every person aged 16 and up eligible for a dose
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A week ago, VDH reported the COVID death of a 3-year-old in Richmond.
Tonight, the health agency announced a fourth child under 10 has died from the virus
COVID has killed another child under the age of 10 in Virginia, marking the 10th virus death in kids statewide who will never celebrate their twentieth birthday.
Nine happened in 2021. Six were in the past three months. The most recent lived in Richmond
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A century or so from now, people are going to open the time capsule inside Lee Monument and find MPW’s columns about dismantling the legacy of the Confederacy in not only its former capital, but his hometown. Wow.
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The same cops were making jokes about how they almost arrested members of the press and told us to go home
Not sure how pushing someone against a wall is funny but ...
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Say Her Name is a campaign started by a Black woman in the painful aftermath of Black women being overlooked in the fight against police brutality while being killed by police at higher rates than white women
None of them broke into the Capitol to overthrow the govt
More Chase: "I want you to say her name. Ashley Babbitt. Say her name."
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An offended reader left me a 4-minute voicemail saying immigrants should speak only English bc “this is America.”
The word “America” includes South America and the U.S. has no official language but ok
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Virginia has reported close to 9,000 new COVID cases on Christmas Eve. The only other time the state has recorded more in a single-day was January 2021, when we almost hit 10,000
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VDH has announced the state’s first COVID-19 death among a child under the age of 10.
They’re not disclosing locality for privacy reasons, but indicated that the death occurred in the Central Virginia region. This is devastating
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Virginia reported more than 17,000 cases yesterday. COVID infection and hospitalization rates in children under 18 are the highest they’ve ever been. And unvaxxed people are still the most likely to die from the virus
BREAKING:
@GlennYoungkin
is signing 11 executive actions on his first day in office. They include banning critical race theory, ending the statewide school mask mandate & rescinding the vax mandate for state employees
@8NEWS
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Everything moved quickly. Tear gas and flash bangs landed in the middle of the crowd. I ran with
@edace2936
and when I was pouring milk into his eyes in a private parking lot, more than five cops surrounded us and threw us against the wall as we shouted “I’m press”
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Furloughed
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Hi
@CityRichmondVA
. This is extremely unsafe and puts pedestrians at risk, especially on a main road where drivers rarely go the speed limit
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My dad stacked produce at Publix when I was a kid. He was so proud to do it. He’d practice his English with customers and tell them stories of Venezuela — the beaches, the music, the food.
I cried when he left. I thought it was the coolest job
Recently, I asked: what jobs did your parents work to get u to where u are?
Your response was powerful. Now, more than ever, immigrants do the toughest work. Clean, cook, toil in fields, factories
This is my tribute to all our parents who helped us rise
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Next time people downplay the power of TikTok, remember that her daughter broke the news on the app almost an hour before this tweet
Tonight I tested positive for COVID-19. My symptoms are mild (light cough) and I’m feeling fine. I have begun a quarantine process in consultation with physicians.
As always, my heart is with everyone affected by this global pandemic. ❤️
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Almost everyone has dispersed but a few people who lingered took down the Williams Wickham Statue in Monroe Park
One person started peeing on it then ran. Wickham was a Confederate general
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For three months,
@__MarkRobinson
,
@EvaRuss70827080
and I looked into conditions at Southwood — home to the largest concentration of Latinos in Richmond. We found families living with mold, mice and roaches and a landlord who says tenants are to blame
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The city of Richmond, probably: why fix broken sidewalks that are non-ADA-compliant when we can repave a perfectly fine main road the week before the marathon 😌
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In Richmond, nearly 50 people gather to protest against the Farmville Detention Center, where more than 90% of detainees have tested positive for coronavirus
Ken Newsome, a local, owns and operates the facility
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At the one-minute mark, a protester with a shield protected an
@RTDNEWS
reporter and told others to “cover press.”
This came moments after police threatened journalists with arrest and tackled people to the ground.
Police just ambushed protesters at Monroe Park. Some protesters were tackled. It happened fast, just as I arrived on scene, I got as much as I could. I heard police saying “if they’re in the park, grab them.
@RTDNEWS
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On
@KenyaTheHunter
’s last day at RTD, I’m thanking the universe for putting us in each other’s lives before we knew we needed it. Some people never find a friendship like this. I’ll miss you, I’m so unbelievably proud of you and I can’t wait to cheer you on for a lifetime
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I Googled “west coast on fire” and immediately saw stories from the Washington Post, New York Times, NY Mag, NBC, USA Today and more including local news from the last few days
I don’t get this trend of saying “the media isn’t covering this” when they are
I checked all the major news outlets and NO ONE is reporting about how the entire west coast is on fire. Please STOP reporting Trump's stupid press conferences and tell the world about this!
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I definitely misread this tweet
This weekend, VCU students and police will take unused and unwanted prescription drugs as part of National Drug Take Back Day, reports
@pw_larsen
.
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If you’d like to smile, my parents were the first people I told and within minutes, I became famous in our family WhatsApp.
They have promised me homemade tequeños. Will let you know if they follow through 👀
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PSA: pedestrians always have the right of way. If you can’t understand that, stop driving down roads where people (including kids) walk
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At Lee Monument today:
Studio Two Three is creating free prints and t-shirts that say “Defend Black Life” and “Solidarity.” The line to get one keeps growing
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At 64% fully vaxxed, Virginia is the 10th most vaccinated state in the country. Nearly everyone that’s ahead has a smaller population
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JMU’s the only college on this list that didn’t mandate student testing. Five days ago, it was reporting 33 total cases.
Now it has almost 400
Some universities in Virginia are still seeing the number of positive coronavirus cases increasing. Here are some recent totals:
JMU: 390
UVA: 115
VT: 178
VCU: 130
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Here at the Lee Monument aka Marcus-David Peters Circle for the night, where the sun is setting and near this sign, a little kid told his mom he’s going to take down the monument with a stick he found
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Latest from
@RTDMPW
: “Folks on the right love to call liberals and progressives snowflakes. But they're treating their children like fragile china, unable to absorb historical facts and literary traumas that many adolescents are actually experiencing”
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Tweeted that the DEI section of the Virginia governor’s site was taken down and now messages like these are in my inbox. I’d be more surprised if they weren’t all from anonymous emails. It’d be more fun then
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People in the US sometimes delay going to the hospital bc they fear the cost — esp. if uninsured. But what do those bills actually look like?
For me, an ER visit to check my appendix hadn’t burst was $7,469
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I filled out an online application for an apartment and when I hit submit, it gave me this message
Now I’m wondering if I’m a cake
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Virginia's 7-day case average is more than 6,300 — the highest the state has ever recorded. With more people getting tested before and after New Year's, this number is likely to rise as it did last year
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You can always rely on an American who’s never been to Venezuela and doesn’t actually care about Venezuelans to turn the trauma of millions into an “aesthetic” for no reason other than retweets
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Health officials called Trump’s rally in Norfolk a week ago “a severe public health threat.” On Tuesday, he made fun of Joe Biden for wearing masks. Today he has COVID
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A U.S-based organization not recognizing an American film as American — even though it’s about a family in Arkansas pursuing the American dream — because the people in it speak a language other than English is fitting
#GoldenGlobes
:
#Minari
will not be competing in the best picture categories, instead it will be considered in foreign language film because it is primarily in Korean
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Gov. Northam’s office yesterday: PCR tests are widely available
Richmond and Henrico’s health districts today: there’s a statewide and national shortage of COVID testing opportunities
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Virginia has reported 539 new coronavirus cases, which is the lowest daily increase since September.
Localities seeing the most decline in infections over the past two weeks currently have some of the highest vaccination rates in the state
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