by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, December 6. Also check out Samantha Bee on “Fake News, Real Consequences” and our insane next National Security Advisor.
- Why Does Donald Trump Lie About Voter Fraud? (Not just Trump, lots of other Republicans lie about this as well — the point being voter suppression, particularly of African-American and other minority votes. It’s totally un-American.)
- Carson Pick Is New Sign of Plan to Govern From the Right (Also someone who has zero experience in housing or urban development.)
- Trump’s Meeting With Al Gore Gives Environmental Activists Hope (Call me a “Trump skeptic” or even a “Trump denier.” Heh.)
- In Trump’s America, ‘pizzagate’ could be the new normal (“More and worse violence will inevitably follow.” Not a country any of us should want to live in.)
- Conservatives Downplayed Fake News. Yesterday It Almost Had A Body Count.
- Trump is the Old Faithful of fake news, and that can cause real damage (“As Sunday’s bizarre incident at a D.C. pizzeria shows, spreading lies can have serious consequences” Same thing with climate science deniers, also VERY dangerous and malicious.)
- Alleged gunman tells police he wanted to rescue children at D.C. pizza shop after hearing fictional Internet accounts (Trumpsters like the soon-to-be National Security Advisor and his son are responsible for spreading this dangerous, malicious, false crap.)
- Flynn under fire for fake news (“A shooting at a D.C. pizza restaurant is stoking criticism of the conspiracy theories being spread by Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser.” This guy needs to go.)
- A Utah Republican Is Challenging Trump More Effectively Than 99 Percent of Democrats (I don’t agree with him on policy, but I’m very impressed with Evan McMullin’s leadership against Trump since the election.)
- Trump isn’t Hitler. But the United States could be another Germany. (“Americans should not tolerate a power grab by a president-elect who is dauntingly ignorant of constitutional limits.”)
- Trump’s pick of Ben Carson is beyond baffling (“Ben Carson is a puzzling choice for the crucial HUD position.”)
- Joe Biden Says He’s Considering 2020 Presidential Run (I find it VERY hard to believe that Biden would actually do that.)
- Kaine: Trump’s Taiwan Call Is ‘Amateur Hourish’ But Hiring Bannon Is Worse (“You know having somebody as a key adviser who has connections to white nationalists and anti-Semites is a much bigger order of concern…Putting somebody in who wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act as HHS secretary much bigger order of concern.”)
- The clock is ticking on a global shift to the far-right (“A new study draws a recurring timeline between financial crises and the rise of populism.”)
- Supreme Court Considers Race, Politics And Redistricting In 2 Cases (“In the Supreme Court chamber, lawyer Paul Clement, representing the Legislature, portrayed the Virginia line-drawing as a ‘bipartisan success story’ and noted that only two members of the black caucus voted against it. But Marc Elias, representing the other side, said the Legislature had created a ‘one size fits all’ redistricting that places voters in or out of districts ‘based solely on the color of their skin.'”)
- U.S. Supreme Court seems concerned over race in Virginia redistricting
- Op-Ed: Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Trump (Need a bunch more of these…)
- Trump transition official is active on white nationalist social media platform (“Michael Flynn Jr. hopes to get his father, Trump’s pick for national security adviser, to switch to Gab.”)
- Trump marginalizes D.C. transition staff (“The president-elect’s advisers in New York are laser-focused on picking his Cabinet, largely ignoring the policy plans being produced in D.C.”)
- Rogue electors brief Clinton camp on anti-Trump plan
- FAIR’s big play: Onetime fringe group hopes to drive Donald Trump’s immigration policy (“FAIR cloaks its racialized anti-immigrant policy proposals in bland wonkery — and it has Donald Trump’s ear”)
- Trump’s Worst Enablers Are Establishment Republicans (“His conspiracy-mongering will be fine by them so long as he signs their legislation.”)
- Actually, Paul Ryan, the President’s Words Do Matter (Paul Ryan is a pathological liar and extremist himself, why should he care?)
- After 3-year review, panel studying open records law in Virginia proposes no major reforms (In “legally-corrupt”-to-the-core Virginia, that’s no surprise.)
- Congress’s budget strife puts Va. shipyard jobs in danger, senators say
- GO Virginia moves ahead on creating regional councils for economic development
- Critics say Freedom of Information Advisory Council’s omnibus proposal lacks teeth
- Rolling Stone asks judge to ditch jury’s $3 million verdict in U-Va. defamation case
- Fairfax County could go from wrong to right on police reform (“A vote on a proposal for a civilian review panel of police abuse would mark a major turning point.”)
- McAuliffe wrongly links vetoed Virginia bill to North Carolina’s bathroom law
- Va. crime commission backs measures to curb cigarette trafficking
- Editorial: It’s a matter of priorities (“Virginia state troopers are leaving their cruisers in numbers that alarm Virginia State Police Superintendent Steven Flaherty, who has called on the legislature to move urgently to boost the officers’ pay. “)
- Terrill: McAuliffe wrong to close environmental education office
- Casey: Why no curbside recycling in Roanoke County & Salem?
- Sleet could mix with rain today; Arctic outbreak aims for late week into weekend
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