by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, March 31.
- Three White House officials linked to files shared with House intelligence chair (“The White House role in the matter contradicts assertions by the committee chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and adds to mounting concerns that the Trump administration is collaborating with the leader of the House investigation of Russian meddling in the election.” Nunes needs to go immediately, and the White House officials need to be investigated/fired.)
- Flynn offers to cooperate with probe in exchange for immunity
- Michael Flynn in 2016: Immunity ‘means you probably committed a crime’
- Cohen: Donald Trump’s Parrot (“We are not yet worrying about what our parrots might blurt out in Donald Trump’s America. But there are disturbing signs. This presidency is about the fear-driven closing of borders and minds.”)
- Krugman: Coal Country Is a State of Mind (“But when it comes to energy and environmental policy, we’re not talking about mere cultural affectations. Going backward on the environment will sicken and kill thousands in the near future; over the longer term, failing to act on climate change could, all too plausibly, lead to civilizational collapse.”)
- The House just passed two bills that would stifle science at the EPA (Evil.)
- Climate Progress, With or Without Trump
- Republicans are so hopeless, Trump may have to work with Democrats
- Trump’s failing presidency has the GOP in a free fall (“Republicans are realizing what they have done to themselves.”)
- The networks all but ignored climate change last year. That’s bad news for science. (“Media coverage is critical right now as Congress and the White House actively seek to limit the role of science in policymaking.” Wildly irresponsible, disgraceful, etc. by the corporate media.)
- Rex Tillerson is walled off from an increasingly uneasy corps of diplomats
- Congress voted to repeal Web privacy rules. Now, Congress should replace them. (“Legislators must craft protections they find more reasonable, or give the FTC permission to do so.”)
- Cyber expert drops Senate intel bombshell: Russia targets Trump with fake news because he’ll repeat it
- 5 important revelations from the Senate Intel hearing on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 elections
- CNN’s Larry Noble: We May Be Seeing, “In Real-Time,” The “Collapse Of What Looks Like A Cover-Up”
- Zombie Trumpcare Isn’t Going Anywhere (“The president and Congressional Republicans are trying to guilt trip the Freedom Caucus into reviving the AHCA. It won’t work.”)
- How Mike Pence’s Marriage Became Fodder for the Culture Wars (Pence is a bizarre dude in so many ways.)
- Mike Flynn Reportedly Asked for Immunity to Testify on Russia Like Any Other Totally Not Guilty Person
- White House shuffles West Wing staff after health bill collapse
- Pence breaks tie in Senate vote targeting Planned Parenthood funding
- GOP scrambles to head off special election disaster (“In Georgia, Democratic energy is surging in one of the first congressional elections of the Trump era.”)
- Trump is poised to gut online privacy, and his most devoted trolls are very unhappy (Now THOSE folks richly deserve to have their privacy strippe
- Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner Calls Russian Election Interference “Propaganda on Steroids.”
- Rep. Dave Brat responds to Trump threat against House Freedom Caucus
- Here’s how Virginia gubernatorial candidates make their money (“Northam previously disclosed these investments and said in 2015 he wouldn’t cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate on legislation affecting Dominion because of his financial stake in the company…A spokesman for Northam says he plans to put his investments in a blind trust if elected governor.”)
- Virginia Republicans’ position on Medicaid expansion is indefensible (It always has been indefensible, but they don’t care.)
- Tim Kaine’s claim about whether Judge Neil Gorsuch views contraception as a ‘wrongdoing of others’
- Sanders, Obama and Virginia (Yeah, I mean there are SOME parallels to Sanders vs. Clinton, but let’s not overdo this…)
- McAuliffe: Fears of “chilling effect” from suicide FOIA bill
- ‘This is our last shot.’ GOP operatives promise energy as candidates for governor hit Newport News
- Rep. Scott Taylor’s vote on internet privacy sparks Democratic robocalls to his constituents
- Already in clerk’s race, Miller launches House re-election campaign (Hot-buttered popcorn time here! LOL)
- Editorial: What Democrats can learn at their ‘rural retreat’
- Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Campaigns at UVA
- Virginia Tech bands together after string of sexual violence reports
- Editorial: Development breathes new life into Norfolk
- How can Norfolk search for a city manager in secret? Blame Virginia’s weak open-records law.
- Rain dominates today, with clouds and breezes lasting into tomorrow
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