by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, March 4.
- Despite early denials, a growing list of Trump campaign contacts with Russians haunts White House
- White House seeks deep cuts for NOAA, a leading climate science agency (To the contrary, we need major INCREASES. My god, this administration is evil.)
- Slew of Russia Contacts Puts Trump Team on the Defensive
- Sessions Controversy Leaves President Feeling Besieged
- Is Jared Kushner Next to Be Sucked Into the Russia Scandal? (“Trump’s son-in-law and adviser has been concealing a Flynn-Russia meeting for months.”)
- Right-Wing Media Latch On To “Shadow Government” Conspiracy To Absolve Trump From Russia Controversy
- Conservatives Are Losing the Health Care Fight (“And Paul Ryan is fine with that.”)
- U.S. Is Expected to Roll Back Obama’s Auto Pollution Rules (Insane and evil.)
- Trump’s cuts would cripple the country’s diplomats when we need them most
- Federal prosecutors have brought charges in cases far less serious than Sessions’s
- White House fails to fend off Russia questions
- Trump’s second-rate Reagan impression: Supply-side economics will work — for the ultra-rich (“Trump has revived the undead dogma of supply-side economics, which will make the rich richer and hurt everyone else”)
- President Trump’s budget would slash protections for the Great Lakes by 97 percent (Evil.)
- A timeline of Jeff Sessions and Michael Flynn’s talks with the Russian ambassador (“Donald Trump’s changing tune on Russia casts old talks in a new light.”)
- Pence attacked Clinton for email while conducting public business using AOL account that was hacked (“The fact that these emails are stored in a private AOL account is crazy to me.”)
- Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda (“Our own study of over 1.25 million stories published online between April 1, 2015 and Election Day shows that a right-wing media network anchored around Breitbart developed as a distinct and insulated media system, using social media as a backbone to transmit a hyper-partisan perspective to the world. This pro-Trump media sphere appears to have not only successfully set the agenda for the conservative media sphere, but also strongly influenced the broader media agenda, in particular coverage of Hillary Clinton.” Some of us didn’t need a study to know that this was happening. It was glaringly obvious.)
- Exclusive: Trump administration considering separating women, children at Mexico border (Evil.)
- Scientists say Trump’s border wall would devastate wildlife habitat (“At the U.S.-Mexico border, scientists say existing fencing is hurting endangered wildlife and warn that a continuous wall could devastate many species.” Grrrrrr.)
- Sen. Tim Kaine says AG Sessions still too close to Russian-influence investigation
- TrumpBeat: Follow The Money If You Want To Know What Trump Will Do
- Ousted state inspector general gets new administration job (“Gov. Terry McAuliffe appointed June Jennings Friday to fill a vacant position as deputy secretary of finance.”)
- Second Democrat wants to challenge Del. LaRock in 33rd House District (“A Waterford resident and long-time investment banker, Democrat Mavis Taintor, has announced her intent to challenge incumbent state Del. Dave LaRock (R) in the House of Delegates 33rd District. Taintor’s run makes her the second Democrat in less than a month to announce plans to challenge Del. LaRock. In February, Round Hill resident Tia Walbridge, a small business owner and farmer, said she plans to seek the Democratic nomination.”)
- Another redistricting blow for Virginia GOP: Judges award $1.3 million in attorneys fees (Hahahaha.)
- Rep. Bobby Scott didn’t boycott Trump’s visit to his congressional district. He wasn’t invited. (“Trump asked 2 Virginia Republican congressmen to hear his speech at Newport News Shipbuilding Thursday, but he didn’t invite the Democrat who represents Newport News in Congress.” Trump is horrible, part infinity.)
- Love it or hate it: Obamacare divides the country and Hampton Roads as people watch for change from the White House
- Military families: Health care issues need immediate attention (I hope none of these folks voted for Trump, because he certainly won’t help them.)
- McAuliffe vetoes Marshall bill on undocumented immigrants (If the bill’s by “Sideshow Bob,” just vote “no” and/or veto.)
- Tickets for Tom Garrett town hall to be distributed through lottery (Coward.)
- Candidate opposing Chris Hurst for Democratic nomination drops out
- It’s the coldest weekend since January, but at least it will be filled with sun
