Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️

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[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

@ReidRevolution We see you're still shilling for the party that wouldn't vote for you

[Amy C. Wentz @amycwentz]

If every state does this we level the playing field again. Virginia next! 😊

[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

@HQNewsNow Wear it like a badge of honor!

[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

Didn't he run away?

[James Abrenio @JamesAbrenio]

What Nick is saying is, if a MAGA rep even dares think for him or herself, they need to be replaced with a complete MAGA loyalist. When the public feels frustration over a non-functioning Congress, this is the mentality why it doesn't work.

[Donhammed Trumpistan @TheRealDon85]

If you think California is taking a long time to count votes... wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein Files

[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

@VA_GOP Trump gas too expensive? We think so, too. Maybe if that dotard hadn't started a war that nobody here wants, we wouldn't be in this situation

[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

@MarkMeadows Same ole tired BS as this clown...

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

The FBI had boxes full of serial killer confessions they couldn’t actually use.

Hours of interviews.
Detailed admissions.
Direct conversations with some of the most violent men in America.

And none of it was scientifically useful.

Then a 42-year-old psychiatric nurse walked into Quantico and changed criminal investigation forever.

Her name was Ann Burgess.

1975.

FBI agents Robert Ressler and John Douglas had spent months traveling across the country interviewing imprisoned serial killers. They believed understanding offenders could help solve future crimes.

But when Ann Burgess listened to the tapes, she immediately saw the problem.

“This isn’t research,” she told them.
“These are just stories.”

The room went silent.

“You’re asking them to talk about themselves,” she said. “But every interview is different. There’s no structure. No methodology. You can’t compare one offender to another.”

Then she asked a question nobody else in the room had thought to ask:

“Tell me about the women they killed.”

Not the killers.

The victims.

Who were they?
How old were they?
Where were they approached?
What made them vulnerable?
How did the offender gain control?

The agents were confused.

Ann Burgess explained something revolutionary:

“If you truly study the victims, you’ll understand the offender.”

At the time, Burgess was already a groundbreaking trauma researcher. In 1974, she had co-authored one of the first major studies proving rape caused lasting psychological trauma — at a time when courts barely acknowledged it.

She helped create the term “rape trauma syndrome.”

Now she brought that same scientific rigor to the FBI.

She redesigned the interviews.
Created structured questionnaires.
Introduced victimology as the foundation of profiling.
Distinguished between a killer’s “MO” and their “signature.”
Mapped escalation patterns.
Explained that sexual violence was about power and control — not desire.

Suddenly, the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit had something it had never truly possessed before:

Methodology.

And it worked.

In 1983, young boys began disappearing in Nebraska.

Using Burgess’s framework, investigators built a profile:
A young white male.
Slight build.
Someone trusted around children.
Likely connected to scouting or youth activities.
A person who kept souvenirs and detective magazines.

Police arrested John Joubert.

The profile was astonishingly accurate.

Almost overnight, criminal profiling became legitimate law enforcement science.

And yet most of the credit went elsewhere.

The public celebrated the FBI agents.
Books were written.
Movies and television series followed.

Ann Burgess became a footnote.

When Netflix released Mindhunter, they based a character on her — but changed nearly everything.

They made her a psychologist instead of a nurse.
Changed her personal life entirely.
Most viewers never even realized she was based on a real person.

Meanwhile, the real Ann Burgess kept working.

Teaching.
Publishing.
Consulting.
Testifying in court.
Training professionals around the world.

More than 150 academic publications.
Multiple landmark books.
Decades of pioneering work.

And through all of it, one truth remained:

Modern criminal profiling exists in large part because a psychiatric nurse walked into a room full of FBI agents and told them they were asking the wrong questions.

Not:
“Why did the killer do this?”

But:

“Who were the victims?”

That shift changed criminal investigation forever.

Ann Burgess is 88 years old now.

Still teaching.
Still working.
Still brilliant.

And finally receiving recognition not as a side character in someone else’s story —

But as herself.

The woman who taught the FBI how to truly understand predators by first understanding the people they harmed.

[Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA]

I have made my priorities clear — including raises for teachers and other public employees, funding to address rising Medicaid costs and the impacts of the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ and working to make Virginia more affordable.

I have also been clear that data centers in Virginia need to pay their fair share for the energy they use. https://t.co/PHryXrmBdZ

[Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner2]

Trump Lawyers To Be Indicted ... AGAIN!
https://t.co/upk6uYPFOg

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

💔💔💔 I'm gonna post this everyday so MAGA never forgets what Trump did on Jan 6 🇺🇸

[Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA]

Welcome back! These sailors and marines have been off on a ten month mission, but this weekend we’re welcoming them to harbor in Norfolk. Thank you for your service!

https://t.co/lfBJTHaK8a

[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

@LynleeGThorne @GovernorVA The same thing is happening in Shenandoah County, Strasburg, in particular.

[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

Holy moly! @SenLouiseLucas should stick to her proverbial guns!

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

In 2009, Virginia projected its data center tax break would cost about $1.5 million a year.

Last year it cost $1.6 billion.

It’s now the largest business subsidy in the Commonwealth, bigger than every other incentive combined, automatic, and flowing to trillion-dollar companies that don’t need it.

That’s the money Richmond says it can’t find for teachers.

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

In 2009, Virginia projected its data center tax break would cost about $1.5 million a year.

Last year it cost $1.6 billion.

It’s now the largest business subsidy in the Commonwealth, bigger than every other incentive combined, automatic, and flowing to trillion-dollar companies that don’t need it.

That’s the money Richmond says it can’t find for teachers.

[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

@magachrchpastr Surely Jesus would smite thee for such blasphemy.

[L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas]

Why would anyone want to spend 1.6 billion dollars subsidizing Big Tech companies when that money could go to public education, health care or tax relief for our constituents? This issue is uniting Democrats, Republicans and Independents and I am proud to be your advocate!

[Rep. James Walkinshaw @Rep_Walkinshaw]

Fixed this for you @FBIDirectorKash.

You missed one.

[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

We also celebrate Antifa today... too bad you don't.

[Congressman Ben Cline @RepBenCline]

Today, 82 years ago, America's heroes landed in France and liberated Europe.
Our Nation honors their bravery, sacrifice, and will forever remember their heroism.

[Shenandoah VA Democrats 🥊4⚖️ @va_dems]

@lyndseyfifield @ifudontlike2bad Don't forget the lying part, or being a rightwing political operative.