If you haven't seen the pathetic Jake Lang video 🤡 it's worth a watch. He got arrested and charged with a felony.

Gov. Spanberger orders (Virginia) state law enforcement to exit federal immigration agreements

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive directive Wednesday instructing the state's law enforcement agencies to terminate agreements that allowed them to be deputized to conduct federal immigration enforcement activities.

A statement from Spanberger's office reads in part: "Governor Spanberger today directed Virginia's state law enforcement agencies and divisions — Virginia State Police, Virginia Department of Corrections, Virginia Conservation Police, and Virginia Marine Police — to terminate all existing 287(g) agreements with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE). These agreements placed Virginia law enforcement officers under federal control and supervision to conduct civil immigration enforcement."

Spanberger's Republican predecessor, Glenn Youngkin, ordered state law enforcement agencies to enter 287(g) agreements roughly a year ago as part of a nationwide immigration crackdown desired by President Donald Trump.

On her first day in office last month, Spanberger, a Democrat, signed 10 executive orders — one of which rescinded Youngkin's order that also encouraged local law enforcement bodies to enter similar agreements. But that order merely eliminated Youngkin's directive, rather than dissolving the agreements themselves.

https://www.vpm.org/news/2026-02-04/abigail-spanberger-executive-order-immigration-287g-ice-youngkin-trump

Florida driver's license tests will be in English only starting Friday

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFOX) — Starting Friday, people in Florida will only be able to take a driver’s license exam in English.

The deadline has some people rushing to take the exam before their native language is no longer an option.

Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said in a press release that the state takes a leading role in highway safety by requiring all driver’s license exams to be taken in English and without an interpreter.

Before the change, exams could be taken in Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and other languages for noncommercial licenses.

https://www.12onyourside.com/2026/02/04/this-state-will-now-only-offer-drivers-license-exams-english/#4gk73c1pzg7f65srp92wdb0qcglnskto

Great protest in Minneapolis. I'm guessing this outside of a hotel used by ICE.

Tennis, eh?

Margaritas to go? 😳 🍸🫗

Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994

Today, the Cato Institute published “Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023,” a study on the fiscal effects of immigrants—legal and illegal—that builds upon the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) fiscal effects model. The paper, which I coauthored with Michael Howard and Julián Salazar, is the first to analyze three decades of federal, state, and local government budgets to determine how immigrants affected the total US government debt and deficit.

Immigrants Have Reduced the Deficit Every Year
Every year since 1994, when data collection began, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they received in benefits from the federal, state, and local governments. The fiscal benefits have continued to rise, reaching their highest level ever in 2023.


Immigrants cost less as retirees

Immigrants cost schools less:

Immigrants aren’t big welfare users.


Concluding Thoughts

Overall, the main conclusion of our paper is that there is nothing systematically wrong with US immigration policy regarding the fiscal effects of immigrants. There is nothing unsustainable about the US immigration system. We could have scaled immigration as it existed without burdening government budgets. For years, nativists in Congress and the administration have wrongly claimed that immigrants are behind the growth in debt and that the US immigration system allows foreigners to take advantage of Americans’ generosity. Our data completely repudiates this view. Immigrants are subsidizing the US government.






https://www.cato.org/blog/cato-study-immigrants-reduced-deficits-145-trillion-1994

Walk for Peace day 100 Richmond Va. Yesterday. holy smokes look at the turn out

Coming across the Route 1 Lee Bridge























Many more photos here
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Abs3cAkB8/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Sen. Kaine on Trump and the Kennedy Center "joke" "pathetic" (X with audio and text)

Tim Kaine on the Kennedy Center: This president is a joke. The guy is so insecure that he has to put his name on the center, and then when audiences and artists revolt, he closes it. How pathetic.

https://x.com/acyn/status/2018467231165006300?s=46&t=3VBm1LJ8j8qLp6JTs_8J2A

Walk for Peace today in Chester Va. ☮️ just south of Richmond. ❤️

I don’t know how to post a video here so pics and screenshots from a video.

My daughter and I went. Big crowd. So inspiring in this time.
Cold as…. One of the cops joked over his PA “It’s really hot in here”.
You name it they were there. Truly truly inspiring.

Driving down Route 1 in Chesterfield about 2 miles from where we ended up.



The 288 interchange - 288 is the sate bypass to the south of Richmond. All on/off ramp shoulders were parking lots.





This crowded for miles.