by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 20.
- Anti-racism protesters totally eclipsed Boston’s right-wing Free Speech rally
- Trump Describes Boston Protesters as “Anti-Police Agitators,” Misspells Heal Four Times (Our “president” is both a bigot and an illiterate imbecile. Great job, Trump voters!)
- Trump rushes to Twitter to slam peaceful anti-racist protesters in Boston (Trump is wildly wrong, as usual, also yet again siding with the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, etc.)
- White supremacist rally fizzles, overtaken by massive anti-racism march (White supremacists=losers.)
- After Charlottesville, Republicans remain stymied over what to do about Trump
- Bannon’s departure is unlikely to calm the turmoil in Trump’s White House
- Dowd: Trump, Neo-Nazis and the Klan (“For all the things he thinks make him a tough guy — his macho posturing, his Twitter bullying, his swaggering and leering talk, his vulgar references to his anatomy — he’s no tough guy if he can’t stand up to the scum of the earth. He followed the roar of the crowd to dark, violent places, becoming ever more crazed and isolated and self-destructive, egged on by the egotist and erstwhile White House strategist Steve Bannon but really led by his own puerile and insatiable ego.”)
- Donald Trump’s True Allegiances(“Who could have predicted the President’s latest outrage? Barack Obama and anyone, really.”)
- Will Bannon’s White House Agenda Survive Without Him? (“His departure could tip the balance on some fiercely contested issues toward a more mainstream approach.” I love how far-right policies are described as “mainstream.”)
- Charlottesville Was Not a Surprise (“Growing up in a notorious all-white county, I learned that things never change unless white people do.”)
- Senate Republicans getting fed up with Trump
- The Memo: GOP fears damage done by Trump (Making the GOP…Lose Again?)
- Mnuchin defends Trump’s comments on Charlottesville, rebuffs calls to resign
- Organizer of Charlottesville white supremacist rally calls slain protester’s death ‘payback time’ (“The Twitter account of Jason Kessler, the alt-right activist and organizer of last weekend’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, tweeted that the woman who died protesting his event ‘was a fat, disgusting Communist’ and that her death was ‘payback time’ — then walked back the remark and blamed it on drugs and alcohol.” Seriously f’ed up.)
- Charlottesville and Trump Reshape Virginia Election (“Each, though, hails from the establishment wing of their party. And the specter of an election shifting from a hard-fought but aboveboard clash over taxes, health care and the economy to an explosive debate about race and identity makes officials in both campaigns uneasy.”)
- Ed Gillespie: Charlottesville ralliers aren’t on right-left spectrum (WTF???)
- Tim Kaine column: Virginians must respond to this pain by accelerating progress
- Editorial: A sea-change in Southwest Virginia (“Here we have coal country legislators — conservative Republican legislators, at that — endorsing a project that uses renewable energy.”)
- Virginia coal is rebounding, but is Donald Trump to thank? (“This spring, Cyclone Debbie rocked Australia, damaging the world’s largest metallurgical coal mining region. The storm and severe flooding damaged rail lines used to transport coal, bringing production and transportation to a standstill. As a result, coal prices are up.”)
- Pressure mounting on Virginia environmental agency to slow down pipeline water certifications (Virginia needs to employ the full authority of the Clean Water Act’s Section 401 and slow these fracked gas monstrosities wayyyyy down – or stop them altogether.)
- Gillespie condemns white supremacy at Americans for Prosperity summit in Richmond (First of all, condemning white supremacy should be a given. Second, “Americans for Prosperity” is the Koch brothers’ organization, which kind of says it all about corporate tool “Enron Ed” Gillespie.)
- Schapiro: Northam’s new stance on statues a monumental blunder? (“Gillespie was, as all three Democrats were — and say they remain — local-option guys. Denied their cover, Gillespie has to deal with a different, thornier issue: Trump, whose widely condemned remarks on the Charlottesville melee were magnified by his defense of Confederate imagery. For Gillespie, that could be a lost cause.”)
- A stark contrast inside and outside a Charlottesville church during the torch march
- Virginia governor eulogizes trooper killed in Charlottesville helicopter crash
- Journalist alleges she was punched in the face in Charlottesville (“Taylor Lorenz, who works for The Hill, was live-streaming the unrest Aug. 12 when a man attacked her, she said in a criminal complaint. He was charged with assault.”)
- Inmate at Fairfax detention center dead after being found unresponsive (“This is at least the third in-custody death at the Fairfax Adult Detention Center this year.”)
- How the disaster in Charlottesville unfolded, as told by the people who were there
- Charlottesville violence prompts black U-Va. athletes to reflect on their experience
- At least 1,200 attend funeral for state police pilot Jay Cullen, who died in Charlottesville helicopter crash
- Portsmouth public housing tenants have been fighting mold for years – with little help from PRHA
- Editorial: Jail death leading to changes (“TWO YEARS have passed since officers at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail removed the lifeless body of 24-year-old Jamycheal Mitchell from his cell, and the questions surrounding the case continue to haunt the commonwealth.”)
- Warm and dry today; partly cloudy for eclipse day
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