by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, June 6. One week to go until the Virginia primaries — make sure you vote!
- As Trump lashes out, Republicans worry it could put their agenda at risk
- With Every Tweet, Trump Turns His DOJ Into More of a Mockery
- Contractor Is Charged in the First Leak Case Under Trump
- Senior U.S. diplomat in Beijing embassy resigns over Trump’s climate change decision
- Trump is out of control (“The president’s tweets reveal an angry, dangerously overwhelmed person.” Yep, the same as he’s always been. So why did anyone vote for this lunatic?)
- Our president is simply unpresidented (“Trump isn’t even an eighth of the way through his term, and he has managed to isolate even some of his most ardent supporters.”)
- Leonhardt: The Lawless Presidency
- U.S. Diplomats Stage Quiet Revolt Against President’s Policies
- Trump Grows Discontented With Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Wait, even Sessions isn’t crazy and far right enough for Trump or what?)
- London mayor calls for cancellation of Trump visit to UK (Good idea; how about every country do the same?)
- Post-ABC poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose Trump scrapping Paris agreement
- Denial by another name: The Trump administration’s climate rhetoric is just weasel words (The key phrase that should alert everyone that they’re completely full of crap is “the climate is ALWAYS changing.” As soon as a journalist here’s that, they should stop the person and ask remind them that HUMANS are causing disastrous global warming, demanding to know what they are going to do about it.)
- Associated Press lays out a scathing case on Trump’s untrustworthiness (The media needs to: a) assume every word Trump and his administration says is a lie; b) call them out on those lies, using the word “lies”)
- How Trump is stalling his own nominees (“The White House has taken weeks to formally submit nominations to the Senate, even after announcing the picks.” Complete incompetence.)
- The Real ‘Resistance’ to Trump? The GOP Congress. (“Republicans may control Washington, but they’re squabbling over turf—just as the Founders intended.”)
- Kaine: ‘We need to keep the country safe’ in wake of terror across globe
- Why Trump Criticized a London Under Attack (“The president believes that globalism costs jobs and lives—and that what makes America exceptional is its resistance to global integration”)
- The British election is in 3 days — and the polls are getting a lot closer
- Kellyanne Conway’s husband tears into Trump
- House Republican calls for mass killing of ‘radicalized Islamic’ suspects (“For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all.”)
- Trump blatantly lies while smearing London’s mayor for second straight day (“Stay classy.”)
- NSA Director Mike Rogers poised to ‘drop a bomb’ on Trump admin during Wednesday testimony: MSNBC
- Nothing Right Now Is Normal (“Another career diplomat resigns in order to break with the president.”)
- Scott Pruitt’s Bold Strategy to Create Coal Jobs: Just Make Them Up (“Math is hard.” Pruitt can probably do math, the problem is he’s dishonest and evil.)
- Kaine: Leakers must ‘suffer the consequences’ of the law
- Kaine votes absentee for Northam but says he’s ‘a big Tom Perriello fan’
- Can He Bridge the Bernie-Hillary Divide? (“Tom Perriello is offering himself as a ‘pragmatic populist,’ pitching the adjective toward the Clinton wing and the noun toward the Sanders wing.”)
- Meet the new Democrats (“An ex-Goldman Sachs executive and a fiscal conservative who voted for Bush could be nominated for governor in New Jersey and Virginia.”)
- Northam has cash edge over Perriello in last stretch of Va. gubernatorial primary (“With Democratic primary on June 13, Northam had $1.3m while Perriello had $734k”)
- D.C. and Virginia, bucking Trump, pledge to honor Paris climate pact
- Two House Republicans favor a ban on LGBT discrimination. One is from Virginia.
- Race for Virginia governor 2017: Primary preview
- Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate calls Confederate statues “our identity”
- Absentee ballot requests for Va. Democratic primary twice as high as for GOP
- Perriello: ‘Virginia way’ has left areas like Valley behind (The “Virginia Way” is all about corporate power/influence and government corruption. It needs to die.)
- Metro hails SafeTrack as a success, but it has yet to translate into better service for riders (“The percentage of defective rail ties decreased from 22 to 2 percent. Smoke and fires are down. But on-time performance and customer satisfaction remain well below targets.”)
- Gov. McAuliffe uses TCC visit to make case for rejection of Trump, embrace of cleaner energy (Uh, Terry? Fracked natural gas is not clean!)
- Virginia mosque embattled after imam said female genital mutilation prevents ‘hypersexuality’ (Ee gads, that is totally unacceptable.)
- The Loyal White Knights of the KKK plans July 8 rally in Charlottesville (Time for a massive counter-protest?)
- Williams: Crowley, affordable housing advocate, seeks home in House of Delegates
- Editorial: An innovative approach to affordable housing takes root in Richmond
- Party chairs endorse Roanoke County Democrat after pay-to-go-away controversy
- At 3 a.m., Richmond School Board selects Tommy Kranz as interim superintendent
- 60-year-old died in Hampton Roads Regional Jail because staff ignored him, family’s suit says
- Charlottesville City Council selects new names for Lee and Jackson parks: Emancipation and Justice
- Partly sunny and pleasant today, showers tomorrow into Thursday
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