by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 1.
- Justice Gorsuch Delivers (“After a couple months of Justice Neil Gorsuch, it’s clear Mitch McConnell’s theft of a Supreme Court seat is paying off in spades.” That seat is 100% illegitimate.)
- Obama plays behind-the-scenes role in rebuilding Democratic Party
- Trump and Pruitt are the biggest threat to the EPA in its 47 years of existence (“The Trump administration is on track to damage the agency even more than the Reagan administration.”)
- GOP’s latest worry: White House turmoil dividing Trump, Pence staffs
- Donald Trump’s Washington is paralysed (“And the man in the Oval Office is making a bad situation worse”)
- Obama Rues Loss of ‘American Leadership’ on Climate Change (“The challenges of our times, whether it’s economic inequality, changing climate, terrorism, mass migration — these are real challenges, and we’re going to have to confront them together”)
- EPA chief pushing governmentwide effort to question climate change science (This guy is evil incarnate.)
- Trump’s wounded, distracted presidency has created a leadership void in Washington
- Cruella de Trump (“The 71-year-old president’s pathological inability to let go of slights; his strongman reflex to be the aggressor and bite back like a cornered animal, without regard for societal norms; his lack of self-awareness about the power he commands and the proportionality of his responses; his grotesque hunger for flattery and taste for Tony Soprano tactics; his Pravda partnership with David Pecker, the head honcho at The National Enquirer, which has been giving Trump the Il Duce treatment while sliming his political opponents, the “Morning Joe” anchors and Megyn Kelly — these are all matters that should alarm men and women equally.”)
- Report: Tillerson Clashes With Second Top White House Aide On Immigration
- Trump Rails Against States Rejecting His Shady Election Commission’s Requests
- ‘Crazy and dumb as a rock’: Mark Hamill rails against Donald Trump for latest ‘Morning Joe’ Twitterstorm
- Now We Have a Road Map to the Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Russia
- Barack Obama warns against nationalism, says the “world is at a crossroads” in Indonesian speech
- Dem senator: Trump doesn’t understand that his words matter (“Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) blasted President Trump’s Twitter habits in an interview on CNN set to air Sunday, saying the president doesn’t seem to understand that his words have repercussions.”)
- Senator on Russia Intervention Probe: ‘Never Seen So Much Smoke’
- Schapiro: The state – ‘er, staid – of the race (“Stewart apparently has decided that his job, post-primary, is to continue doing a job on Gillespie. Rather than bind wounds from the primary, Stewart pours salt on them, making it more difficult for Gillespie to do — with an eye toward November — what he refused to do in the run-up to June: publicly embrace Trump and the disaffected voters from whom the president and Stewart draw their support.”)
- With fireworks, Ed Gillespie tries to light a fire under his bid for Virginia governor (“Calling Virginia’s fireworks ‘rinky-dink,’ the Republican candidate vows to work to legalize the higher-grade fireworks already allowed in some neighboring states.” Gillespie is “rinky-dink.”)
- John Adams, the political opposite of Attorney General Mark Herring, wants his job (Hell no.)
- Special education families, school leaders concerned about future of Medicaid reimbursements
- Two previous Virginia death row sentences commuted because of mental illness
- VCU Health System buys Museum of the Confederacy building
- Gordon C. Morse: Democrats must explain why they should be elected (Here’s an idea: Democrats can be the party of turning Virginia into the clean energy capital of America. Yeah, I know, we’d have to tell Dominion Power and other fossil fuel interests, and with it their preccccioussss money, to f*** off. Heh.)
- Editorial: Who owns our public record? (“The state Supreme Court ruled against us this week. Not against us, the Daily Press — against us, the citizens of Virginia. Including you, gentle reader.”)
- Left isn’t right. Slowpokes need to stay in the proper lane
- Dominion eyeing coalfields for hydroelectric facility
- Staying hot but a little less humid today; a few storms possible for the Fourth
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