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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 29/09/2026

Since at least 2010, my ringtone has been the fanfare at the beginning of På Det Sidste by JBeats. It slowly disappeared from the Internet until this summer.

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Jbeats - På Det Sidste (The VUF Compilation 2007 / VUF Records - 2007)

YouTube video by The Lost MP3 Archive

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 26/09/2026

R.I.P. Mr. Ukrop. www.vpm.org/news/2026-09... www.styleweekly.com/james-jim-uk...

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VPM News @vpm.org · 25/09/2026

Virginia ELECT said mailers were sent out to 234,852 people after a landmark federal court ruling mostly struck down Virginia’s automatic felony disenfranchisement rule. The department also said it identified 998 people whose registrations had been incorrectly denied or canceled.

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Nearly 235K Virginians should never have been disenfranchised, state says - VPM

Those residents are eligible to vote, following a federal court ruling.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 20/09/2026

WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME CHAKA KHAN HAS A NEW ALBUM?

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 19/09/2026

I leaned against the windowsill, staring at my sliver of skyline, listening to the soundtrack of when my life's possessions fit in an Altima, Cap City was not quite yet RVA and I knew this was the place.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 18/09/2026

Be a good possum and do your civic duty!

RVA Votes sticker with an opossum filling out a ballot

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 17/09/2026

My phone fell down a full flight of stairs. I dropped it off for repairs two hours ago, and I've never felt so free. If I could figure out how to do two-factors without a smartphone, I'd get a landline and answering machine.

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VPM News @vpm.org · 15/09/2026

Virginia has implemented a landmark federal court order and now no longer strips someone’s voting rights away over any felony conviction except three: murder, voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter.

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Virginia shrinks list of disenfranchising crimes, complying with federal ruling - VPM

Only three felony convictions can now be used to strip someone's voting rights.

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VPM News @vpm.org · 15/09/2026

On Sept. 17, we'll be co-moderating the 6th District Richmond School Board debate with @richmonder.org, featuring candidates Anne Holton and Jackie McDonnough. Both candidates bring decades of experience in education, public service and community advocacy to the school board race.

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Holton, McDonnough vie for 6th District Richmond School Board seat - VPM

VPM News and The Richmonder will co-moderate a debate between the candidates on Thursday, Sept. 17.

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Thursday! What a concept! @thursaconcept.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thursday! What a concept!

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 09/09/2026

My mom sends me memes and Reels all hours of the day and night, and now my uncle is bombarding me with AI-generated images. I'm about to drive to the Blue Ridge Parkway to throw my phone off a mountain.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 06/09/2026

Person: How old are you? Me: 43 P: Oh, you're young. M: Some mornings, I don't feel young. I took a day trip yesterday and was asleep before 11. P: How cute. Just wait.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 06/09/2026

To the boomer couple toking up on an undisclosed park bench and giggling like when you first met: I salute you.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 01/09/2026

94 degrees, heat index 104. An overwhelming urge for strawberry milk. Regrets? Probably.

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Will Ferrell Milk

ALT: Will Ferrell Milk

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 29/08/2026

I would get a Huddle for the Chiefs only because the team is named for Richmond native H. Roe Bartle

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 25/08/2026

It's always a good day when you meet Lonnie Liston Smith and he signs a family copy of his record.

A newly signed copy of Song for the Children by Lonnie Liston Smith

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VPM News @vpm.org · 19/08/2026

Virginia's Department of Social Services spent $52 million on a failed IT project to overhaul the state's outdated child support enforcement system, Gov. Abigail Spanberger said Wednesday.

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Virginia lost $52M on failed child support system project, Spanberger says

“Virginia paid serious money, and all we got were tools that barely worked.”

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 19/08/2026

It's very rare at this point for me to put my reporter hat on, but I recently sat down with director Stacey L. Holman and producer Maya Tepler about the @vpm.org documentary Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War.

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VPM's 'Declarations' explores Black experiences during American Revolution

The documentary features four Black Americans who had roles in the Revolutionary War.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 18/08/2026

I am now my arm hairs are turning grey years old, and my barber threw in trimming my eyebrows today because "they're getting wild." Thanks. I hate it.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 16/08/2026

Whenever I go home, I make a stop at Fort Monroe, where slavery in the United States had its beginning and the beginning of its end.

African Landing Memorial sign, Hampton, VA

A sign explaining how the first enslaved Africans arrived in what would become the United States.

A sign explaining the components of the memorial. Stones in the plaza came from Angola, which is where the enslaved departed.

The memorial is unfinished. Over the next few years other components will be added.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 13/08/2026

I'm going to my 25-year class reunion. We haven't gotten one fully off the ground before, and one attempt turned into a Facebook fight. Will we fortysomethings awkwardly move on, or will this be a weekend full of drama? Either way, I'll be entertained.

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VPM News @vpm.org · 10/08/2026

Virginia is the only state in the American South that hasn't banned or restricted access to abortion since the US Supreme Court undid Roe v. Wade in 2022. This fall, voters will decide what's next. "Amending Virginia: Reproductive Rights" is available to watch now.

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Watch Amending Virginia: Voters will decide reproductive rights' future four years after Roe

The second episode of our limited series on constitutional amendments is out now.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 10/08/2026

I meant to say "obituary" and absolutely did not. I guess I need more coffee.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 09/08/2026

I don't know why I got this ad. I prefer my loveseats on the bone.

An ad (that likely was untouched by human hands) peddling a 75.6" BONELESS Loveseat

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 08/08/2026

1) Content like this is why I subscribe to Defector. (Yes, we live in serious times, but it's not all bad. Live a little!) 2) Now I want to learn how to win a fight in my Mazda.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 04/08/2026

It's Primary Day in Virginia, so I'm bringing this out of retirement. When it's time to cast your vote, what do you say? "One little vote won't make much difference anyway." Yet you sit and wonder how did he get in You put him in By staying home You know you put him in by staying home

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Sanity

YouTube video by New York City - Topic

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 04/08/2026

Every time something from the '80s is called "aging" or "decayed" or "outdated," I feel personally attacked.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 01/08/2026

Sticker: Shoegaze from Sweden Me: Shut up and take my money

About to find out what Chiaroscuro by I Break Horses is all about.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 31/07/2026

Agnes Chisman, one of three Black nurses in Hampton, Virginia, who challenged segregation at what was called Dixie Hospital at the time died today. My family has called her neighbor since 1973. A story about a historical marker honoring the Dixie Three is linked here.

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Hampton honors three Black nurses who challenged hospital segregation

”Just like the men and women at lunch counters all around the South, these three ladies made a profound statement with a simple act of sitting down to eat,” said Hampton’s Mayor Jimmy Gray.

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VPM News @vpm.org · 31/07/2026

Since taking office in January, Gov. Abigail Spanberger has restored the voting rights of more than 66,000 Virginians who lost them due to felony convictions, her office announced today. “The right to vote is foundational to who we are as Americans,” Spanberger said in a statement.

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Spanberger has restored voting rights to more than 66,000 Virginians

The governor’s office said it had to overhaul a system former Gov. Glenn Youngkin “gutted.”

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 24/07/2026

Me, blasting drum n bass while doing laundry, cooking and cleaning after warning my wife who's unexpectedly WFH: WELCOME TO FRIDAYS AT THE CONFECTIONERY, THE HOTTEST DAY CLUB IN RVA. THIS IS YOUR HOST, DJ EL ROB, ON THE W&D AND STEWING SOMETHING UP IN THE KITCHEN. Her: ... O ... K ...

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 21/07/2026

If you're sad and soaked at the Death Cab concert, you sometimes get a free upgrade to covered seating

My view of the stage at Merriweather Post Pavilion

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 18/07/2026

At a journalism training that ran out of coffee before 10:30 a.m. If you see reports of a convention center burning down, that's why.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 13/07/2026

For the first time in my life, I said yeet so that's officially over.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 05/07/2026

My mom has been telling me the full versions of past and current family stories lately, and I do not like that I do not know whether it's because I'm finally old enough to know Grown Folk's Business or she's actually telling me something else.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 03/07/2026

I'm quickly learning who did not grow up next to a swamp in Hampton. Try 100+ heat index before 11 a.m. with a cloud of mosquitos even after the city/air base used a prop plane to drop pesticides while you're playing outside. I might sit on the deck today.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 30/06/2026

If everyone is making cassettes again, it should come with normalizing walking down the street shouldering a boombox with eight D batteries in it again.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 22/06/2026

As I have said before, when @theshabomb.com offers to take your photo, you let Shaban take your photo.

Elliott Robinson's new ID badge photo, facing forward with a diffuse background.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 19/06/2026

My mother, who once forced the City of Hampton to spend more than $150,000 because she was correct, successfully fought her homeowners insurance after she got shoddy repairs after a pipe burst and they said she was mistaken. I hope I get a tiny bit of her persistence when I grow up.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 18/06/2026

I guess I remember some Canadian wildlife every other summer. And, seriously, even an '80s children's cartoon should not have had bangers like Run With Us, Stop the Clock and All Life Long.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 12/06/2026

Pouring one out for the traffic cone that was in front of my place since before I moved in.

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ELLIOTTrobinson @exit265c.com · 03/06/2026

Boo: FedEx making me wait after hours for a package to arrive at work Yay: The mirror at the bar a block away from work will give me a view of the oncoming truck

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