Tuesday News: “What’s the Matter With Trumpland?”; “Sinclair’s Propaganda Bomb”; Kaine Kicks Off Senate Reelection Bid

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, April 3.

• What’s the Matter With Trumpland? (“Trumpland is in effect voting for its own impoverishment. New Deal programs and public investment played a significant role in the great postwar convergence; conservative efforts to downsize government will hurt people all across America, but it will disproportionately hurt the very regions that put the G.O.P. in power.”)
• Industry Giants Push Back on Looming China Trade Action (“As the United States prepares stiff trade measures and China retaliates, stock markets have plummeted and some of America’s biggest companies have lodged objections.”)
• Stocks broke key level in sell-off that signals potential for bigger correction (“The S&P 500 closed below its 200-day moving average for the first time since June 2016.”)
• In lopsided election win, Egypt’s president tightens grip and stirs tensions (The “lopsided” part was a foregone conclusion, but turnout was low and lots of “spoiled ballots,” plus the entire thing was a farce.)
• Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Anti-apartheid campaigner dies at 81 (“She and her former husband Nelson Mandela, who were both jailed, were a symbol of the country’s anti-apartheid struggle for three decades. However, in later years her reputation became tainted legally and politically.”)
• Clouds form over Iran deal as Trump deadline nears (“Dark clouds are forming over the Iran nuclear deal as the calendar marches toward a May 12 deadline set by President Trump to improve the accord or see the United States effectively withdraw from it”)
• Fox News, not advertisers, are hurting the most from the Laura Ingraham boycott (“New data shows the network has taken the biggest hit in the public’s eye.”)
• Antarctica’s Mighty Glaciers Are Melting Way Faster Than We Realized (I’ve said this a million times, and I’ll keep saying it: the science is absolutely clear that we need to get off of fossil fuels, including natural gas by the way Ralph Northam, ASAP!)
• Trump said Sinclair ‘is far superior to CNN.’ What we know about the conservative media giant. (As always, take the opposite of anything Trump says.)
• A swamp monster is running the EPA
• Trump is hoping you’re too stupid to notice
• Jill McCabe: The president attacked my reputation. It’s time to set the record straight.
• Trump again criticizes Justice Dept., calls response to congressional requests ‘embarrassment to our country!’ (Trump is, of course, the embarrassment to our country.”)
• The Head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Asks Congress to Gut His Own Agency (“He calls the bureau ‘the very definition of tyranny.'” Bonkers.)
• ‘Stormy Effect’: Trump’s support falls with women, rises with men in new poll (There’s something wrong with these men.)
• Sinclair’s Propaganda Bomb Is What Media Critics Have Warned About Since Reagan
• Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’ (Look in the mirror, dude.)
• John Oliver rips Sinclair media bias message: Anchors ‘like members of a brainwashed cult’
• Teachers flex political muscle in red-state strikes
• Saudi Crown Prince: Iran’s Supreme Leader ‘Makes Hitler Look Good’ (“In a wide-ranging conversation, Prince Mohammed bin Salman also recognized the Jewish peoples’ right to ‘their own land.'” Uh, dude…not saying Iran’s Supreme Leader is a good guy in any way, but he’s no threat to conquer the world.)
• Here are 66 local news stations airing Sinclair’s brainwashing anti-media promo
• Rep. Elizabeth Esty won’t seek reelection after staffer harassment controversy (Good.)
• The Supreme Court Voted to Stiff the American Worker, Again (“It’s always 5-4, and it’s never in workers’ favor.”)
• I’m Not Sure America Can Survive the Attack of the Moron Pundits (“Lou Dobbs is reportedly advising the president.”)
• Sinclair affiliate issues ominous warning to staffers: ‘Giving statements to the media can have huge implications’
• Ralph Northam pushes for Medicaid expansion in Virginia (“The governor’s plan may yet be scuppered by warring Republicans”)
• Virginia’s Tim Kaine jumps back into campaign mode to defend Senate seat
• Sen. Tim Kaine (D) kicks off campaign for reelection, with a message (“He says it’s not enough to be anti-Trump and that Democrats need to be pro-investment.”)
• Tim Kaine kicks off Senate re-election bid, says he plans to win ‘the economic argument’
• As Virginia pipeline battles continue, Northam reappoints head of state environmental agency (Basically, Northam just declared war.)
• A tree-sit protest of the Mountain Valley Pipeline has spread to Roanoke County
• Public hearings set for proposed Spotsylvania solar farm project
• Editorial: How Bath County became a wind powerhouse
• Responsibility for your rights (“State FOIA Council and legislators need to get organized to define and defend access to information The main thing on the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council’s agenda when it meets for the first time this year on Wednesday is organization.”)
• ‘Race-baiting’ kerfuffle derails Richmond City Council debate on residency requirement for City Hall administrators (“A Richmond City Council debate over whether top administrators should be required to live within city limits ended abruptly Monday when one council member accused another of race-baiting.”)
• Loudoun supervisors to vote Tuesday on fiscal 2019 budget
• Editorial: Norfolk pipeline vote was realistic
• Gov. Northam OKs paying “‘Norfolk Four” $3.5M for wrongful rape, murder convictions
• Cloudy and cool with showers today, thunder possible Wednesday