#richmondva — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #richmondva, aggregated by home.social.
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We had a fairly large chunk of our sweetgum tree come down during the storm. Are there any wood workers on the #RVA region that want to grab some for small projects? #RichmondVA #woodworking #FreeWood #CraftingWithWood #makerspace
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How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion #Detention Deal To hold 5,000 human beings.
by Samantha Michaels, November+December 2025 Issue
Excerpt: "When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract this summer to build and operate a new tent city #detention center in #Texas, it made headlines, and not just because the facility, located at the #FortBliss Army base, was expected to be the biggest of its kind in the country. The company that won the job, #AcquisitionLogistics, was so small it operated out of a single-family home in #RichmondVA. Almost nobody had heard of it. 'A random house…just won $1.26 billion from #ICE,' wrote the New Republic.
"Whereas many companies with ICE contracts had long histories with immigrant detention, including private prison giants such as GEO Group, Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO #KenWagner is circling retirement at 77. Over the summer, the company’s website was inaccessible to the public, with the header 'Site maintenance in progress.' Archived screenshots showed the firm specializes in supply chain management. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility?"
#USPol #CampEastMontana #ICEDetentionCenters #Immigrants #HumanRights #ICESucks #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #AbolishCBP #DetentionFacility #DetentionCenters
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#Secrecy seems to be the hallmark of both #DetentionCenters and #Datacenters! Sneaky, sneaky...!
Mystery surrounds #RichmondVA-area home tied to firm behind $1.2B Army #Texas tent-camp contract
By: The Associated Press
Posted 3:36 PM, Aug 28, 2025WASHINGTON (AP) — "When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, it didn’t turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.
Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that has no listed experience running a correction facility and had never won a federal contract worth more than $16 million. The company also lacks a functioning website and lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer."
https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/mystery-surrounds-richmond-area-home-aug-28-2025#USPol #HistoryRepeats #TrumpSucks #ICESucks #AbolishICE #AbolishCBP #AbolishDHS #Shameful #Fascism #DetentionCenters #HumanRights #WeKnowWhereYouLive #InternmentCamp #CampEastMontana #Texas #ICE #ICEDetention
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CW: Memorial; Death of a legend
I had more-or-less zero appreciation for art---as practice, as creation, as human activity---when I took his class. I do not remember what compelled me to sign up. But I had pretty much self-assigned myself from first grade as "someone who just doesn't care about art."
Mr. Slipek completely turned that around. He taught me to find the beauty in the connections, the history, and the ever-unfolding narrative that is people trying to communicate things that can be nearly impossible to convey to each other... Through every single form of art. He gave me a framework to understand it as something we do because we are human; because if we didn't, the world would just be... Harder. More boring. Worse. With no small amount of weight, I can credit him, personally, with showing me where the magic was in that entire space. He was also very patient with a kid who was more than a little bit of a screw-up in terms of self-organization and didn't always keep his calendar together: firm but fair about deadlines and the quality of work.
I am not an artist, I do not have the patience, but I have a very deep respect for the practice and the work that I learned in his classroom in the trailer behind the high school (because, hey, buildings are expensive).
Mr. Slipek, I hadn't thought about you in years; I'm crying that you're not with us anymore. Your teachings are, quietly, a tent-pole in my life. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you.
https://www.styleweekly.com/remembrance-edwin-eddie-slipek-1950-2025/
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'Toulouse La Crêpe' — top punning on this ghost sign in Richmond, Virginia, albeit long since lost. Photo: Harry Kollatz Jr.
https://richmondmagazine.com/news/richmond-history/ghost-signs/
Oh, and shout out to Richmond Magazine for having a website that doesn't batter you with cookie warnings, popups, subscribe promos, and the rest when you land. And for making it seamlessly accessible from Europe 👌
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I just went by the Richmond Airport and saw this for myself.
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Octopus Drummer – Rhythmikinesis
#HipHopRap #OctopusDrummer #atticboy #hiphopinstrumentals #richmondVa #Richmond
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
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Moving further south, the #Petrofuture map of the Mid-Atlantic coast—66m sea level rise on a 1956 Shell Oil road map. Higher-res images:
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/petrofuturegallery/ #climateChange #maps #cartography #climateCrisis #outsiderArt #clifi #greenWashing #washingtonDC #worldbuilding #richmondVA #midAtlantic -
Y’all know where this is going, right? I keep moving down the coast. South of NJ is the #Petrofuture of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia. #WashingtonDC, #Baltimore, are mostly flooded.
Next up after this is…?
Higher-res images:
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/PetrofutureGallery/?e-filter-e6e9f32-product_tag=east-coast#climateChange #maps #cartography #climateCrisis #chesapeake #greenWashing, #clifi, #climateart #RichmondVA
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Ready to meet some of your favorite LGBTQIA+ authors this year?
Join me at Pride LitCon 2025 in Richmond, VA, where you’ll be able to meet FIFTY authors of LGBTQIA+ stories! Including me.Website: www.pridelitcon.com
#PrideLitCon #PLC2025 #RichmondReads #RichmondVA #LGBTQIARomance #VirginiaIsForLovers #bookstagram
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My wife and I attended GalaxyCon / Nightmare Weekend in Richmond, VA yesterday and I returned home with some SciFi-geek life goals fulfilled. :-)
I met The Last Starfighter stars Lance Guest (Alex) and Catherine Mary Stewart (Maggie) with photos and autographs. Good times!
(Cathy is also in Night of the Comet, another dear favorite of mine from the eighties!)
#TheLastStarfighter #YouHaveBeenRecruited #GalaxyCon #NightmareWeekend #Richmond #RichmondVA #RVA #conference #con #movies #film #eighties #celeb #celebrities #SciFi #geek #games #tshirt #ThePrincessBride #tattoo #photo #photoop #show #galaxyconlive #GRCC
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Gustave Caillebotte
A Man Docking His Skiff 1878
(part of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon Collection at the VMFA, #richmondva
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Samurai chest armor made of flat plates. The coiled dragon is an applied alloy of gold and copper. Another incredible item in the #samurai exhibit at #VMFA #richmondva, on loan from Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller museum in Dallas, one of the largest collections in the world and the only one in U.S.
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The #samurai exhibit at #vmfa #richmondva . Glad I took blacksmith class before I saw it. Will add alt text soon, must go put bin out (waving at @psneeze )
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Don't fall for the #okiedoke . For a scam to be successful, it relies on either the greed and/or desperation of the victim/mark. We have the desperation of thousands of citizens looking for a way to better their #economicconditions in this city as well as the greed of the few who think that today is the day they will strike it rich. Neither will find what they are looking for in this venture.
Vote #nocasino
Vote #nopovertytax
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The 50 Years of #HipHop event was #AMAZING #yesterday ! Here's hoping that next #Saturday Battle for the Burg #openmic can pull the same weight...
Co-Hosted by the tremendous trio -- #PetersburgMutualAid , the Virginia chapter of the #SierraClub , and the incredible Youth #PoetLaureate of #RichmondVA , Amina Adeyola -- we have no doubt that the show will be powerful!
#Virginia
#PetersburgVA
#RVA
#poetry
#spokenword(and, yes, our flyer evolved thanks to Amina, woman of many talents)
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TWO #February events celebrating #HipHop and the #verbal #arts ? In #PetersburgVA ?!
This #Saturday (2/3), our friends at the #PetersburgResiliencyHub are hosting the '50 Years of Hip-Hop' Black Excellence Exhibition on 464 Byrne Street.
The following Saturday (2/10), #PetersburgMutualAid will be hosting the 'Battle for the Burg', an #openmic , at 1600a East Washington Street (the Finger Taste restaurant).
