Sunday News: Millions March Against Trump; “Baghdad Sean” Denies Reality; Trump CIA Debacle; Putin “Cold Open” on SNL

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, January 22. Also see SNL, as “Russian President Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) and Olya Povlatsky (Kate McKinnon) assure Americans that everything will be fine under President Donald Trump.”

• Women’s marches: More than one million protesters vow to resist President Trump (“Historic rebuke includes D.C.’s largest rally in years”)
• ‘We’re Not Going Away’: Huge Crowds for Women’s Marches Against Trump
• Trump Falsely Hits Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift (Good for the NY Times and other media outlets who are FINALLY starting to put words like “falsely” right in the headlines about Trump’s lies. More of this, please — call him out EVERY SINGLE TIME HE LIES.)
• Trump attacks media for coverage of inauguration crowds
• The Women’s March was a stand against complacency (“Every objective indication is that far more people showed up to register dissent over Trump’s rise to power than to celebrate it.”)
• Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a news conference. He didn’t take questions — or tell the whole truth.
• Hundreds of thousands protested outside. The new president said nothing. (“The Women’s March was an outpouring of emotion. But for the Trump team, it might as well have been in another Zip code.” Yeah, another zip code called “reality.”)
• Crowd Scientists Say Women’s March
  in Washington Had 3 Times as Many
  People as Trump’s Inauguration
• Mass media missed the marches that social media turned into a phenomenon (“Mainstream news outlets gave the run-up to the women’s marches relatively scant coverage. But taken collectively, the events were perhaps the largest demonstration of social media’s power to mobilize groups.”)
• President Trump at the CIA was appalling (“Instead of making a much-needed goodwill gesture, he talked about his own sacrifices.” Trump is demented.)
• Ex-CIA Boss Brennan, Others Rip Trump Speech in Front of Memorial
• With ‘Pussyhats,’ Liberals Get Their Own Version Of The Red Trucker Hat
• Trump Administration Goes To War With The Media Over Inauguration Crowd Size (Sean Spicer=”Baghdad Bob”)
• White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds (Another excellent headline, this time shockingly by CNN, aka the “Corey Non-News Network”)
• Pictures From Women’s
  Marches on Every Continent
• “My Shirts Aren’t Going To Iron Themselves”: Conservatives Launch Attacks On Women’s March
• The Best, Nastiest Protest Signs From the Women’s March on Washington
• Trump Ramps Up the Narcissism in an Appalling Speech (“His visit to the CIA was supposed to reassure the intelligence community. Boy did that backfire.” Yep, I’d be MUCH more alarmed after Trump’s CIA speech than before…)
• Trump press secretary declares war on the press and reality itself
• Trump said he wrote his bleak inaugural speech. It was actually co-authored by a white nationalist. (And it sure sounded like it was co-authored by a white nationalist.)
• At CIA headquarters, Trump boasts about himself, denies feud (“The president lashes out at critics, boasts of his magazine covers and exaggerates the size of the crowd at his inauguration.”)
• Will the women’s march be another Occupy, or a Democratic Tea Party? (“Organizers and participants want it to be a movement that can do what Trump did in his presidential campaign—only in reverse.”)
• Women’s March Protestors Fear Trump Will Worsen Economic Inequality (“I think all indications are that people are going to get poorer under the Trump administration.”)
• How Unconscious Sexism Could Help Explain Trump’s Win
• Congratulations, America — you did it! An actual fascist is now your official president
• What Pundits At Trump’s Inauguration Called Populism Is Bigotry, Misogyny, And A Love Of Big Money
• Metro Inauguration Day trips top 500,000, but still lowest since 2005
• A Trump book riddled with falsehoods will no longer be sold by the National History Museum (Absolutely disgraceful that this crap was ever sold at the Smithsonian.)
• At the Women’s March, it’s the men who mattered most. Here’s why. (“What’s standing in the way of true equality? Men. Men’s hearts. We need you, men. And many of you already embrace our cause.”)
• Schapiro: Trump-era opportunities – and perils – for Va. economy (“Thirteen of the state’s top 20 employers — the Defense Department is No. 1 — either are public sector enterprises or contractors overwhelmingly reliant on the public sector, federal, state and local, a McAuliffe administration study shows.”)
• Environmentalists say Fairfax lacks focus on climate-change effort it championed (“A decade after Va.’s largest jurisdiction spearheaded national campaign to cut greenhouse gases, its own results are murky, critics say” Lame.)
• Richmonders among hundreds of thousands who participate in Women’s March on Washington
• Roanoke protest marchers vow ‘not one step back’
• Fredericksburg-area residents take part in Women’s March
• State Senator, utilities square off
• Editorial: A shady practice needs to end (Agreed that “civil asset forfeiture” needs to go; the Republican General Assembly and Congress should get rid of it ASAP! Meanwhile, the Republican Times-Disgrace should stop taking cheap shots…)
• Expanding HRBT may mean $300M for Midtown Tunnel operator
• Editorial: The latest attack on Virginia’s colleges (“Fifteen state lawmakers gathered at the state Capitol on Tuesday morning to denounce Virginia’s system of colleges and universities, suggesting that the managers of these institutions — the board members and the administrators — have forgotten that they are operating state-supported schools.”)
• Editorial: How Roanoke tops Fairfax County (“Demography is destiny, the saying goes. It’s also drives policy. Many of the localities around Roanoke are gaining population – but it’s mostly older couples without children at home. In many localities outside Roanoke, deaths outnumber births”)
• Earth to Beach council: Get a clue that a $62 million bike path isn’t needed
• Showery today. Steady, wind-swept rain tonight into tomorrow.