by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, August 31.
- Harvey’s wrath moves eastward as water recedes in Houston
- Fearing explosion at chemical plant, officials evacuate Texas town (Get off of fossil fuels, move to clean energy now!)
- Reports of Explosion at Chemical Plant
- Did climate change make recent extreme storms worse? (Yep.)
- Wind and solar power are on track to exceed expectations. Again. (“New reports suggest a renewables revolution is imminent.”)
- Blow: Trump Raises an Army (“If these people should come to believe — as Trump would have them believe — that establishment systems have unfairly and conspiratorially acted to remove from office their last and only champion — another thing Trump would have them believe — what will they do? What would Trump’s army do if he were compelled to leave but refused to graciously comply?”)
- Trump Promises Fast Relief, But Harvey’s Victims Still Face a Long Recovery
- Robert Mueller Eliminates Trump’s Trump Card (“But there turns out to a flaw in Trump’s strategy. The presidential pardon only applies to federal crimes. As NBC reported last night, it is possible for state governments to press charges in some of the alleged crimes committed by Trump’s cronies.”)
- Federal Judge Blocks Texas’s Harsh Anti-Sanctuary City Law
- A hurricane of conservative hypocrisy (“One of the barriers to sensible politics is the opportunism that so often infects our debates”)
- Republicans slip into a ‘predictable spiral’
- Mueller teams up with New York attorney general in Manafort probe (“The cooperation is the latest sign that the investigation into Trump’s former campaign chairman is intensifying.”)
- Fox News Poll: Voters’ mood sours, 56 percent say Trump tearing country apart (Yep, even Fox says so.)
- The Internet of Hate (“After Charlottesville, Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right have become a lot less welcome on the web. So they’re building their own.”)
- Help to Those Who Help Themselves (“The GOP is incoherent on federal disaster relief because the party doesn’t believe in it.”)
- Donald Trump is one of the biggest threats facing humankind: 50 Nobel laureates on what keeps them up at night (“Trump is a major threat to humanity, according to some of the smartest people in the world” Yep.
- The Lawyer Defending Trump in the Russia Scandal Made His Name Representing Anti-Abortion Activists (“Jay Sekulow is an avowed crusader for religious liberty.”)
- Trump and DeVos fuel a for-profit college comeback (This must make former for-profit “college” association head Brian Moran happy – lol.)
- Voters deeply disapprove of Trump, House leaders: poll
- Trump just got terrible news about the Mueller team’s investigation (“The pardon power may not be able to save him now.”)
- Trump team politicizes superstorm Harvey by attacking scientists for doing their job (“By rejecting science, EPA and Trump ensure we’ll see many more Harveys and be unprepared for all of them.” Evil.)
- Trump calls for lower taxes on rich people while Houston drowns (“Heckofa Job, Trumpie”)
- ‘Donald Trump is afraid’: Dan Rather says Mueller probe is Trump’s ‘Hurricane Vladimir’
- Judge Tosses Sarah Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit Against ‘The New York Times’ (“U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said the suit, which alleged the newspaper’s editorial board maliciously linked the former Alaska governor to a 2011 mass shooting, failed to put forward plausible evidence of that malice.”)
- Tomi Lahren hire shows 21st Century Fox is complicit in Hannity’s cesspool
- VA Governor Terry McAuliffe pitches Redskins owner Dan Snyder on new stadium (No thanks. And more to the point, no taxpayer money of any sort to billionaire/slimeball Dan Snyder.)
- Did Ralph Northam cast the deciding vote to allow sanctuary cities in Virginia? (“Asked if he deliberately voted against the bill to force a vote from Northam, Norment walked away from reporters. Complicating matters further: Virginia technically doesn’t have sanctuary cities.”
- The Fight Over Confederate Statues May Lose Him the Virginia Governor’s Race (“Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie is accused of cozying up to Trump’s base with his comments about Confederate statues and a controversial hire.”)
- Shut Out Of Power In D.C., Democrats Try To Make Inroads In Virginia This Fall
- Virginia sending helicopters, National Guard to Texas to help with Harvey rescues
- John Adams to Mark Herring: Your running mate, Justin Fairfax, does the same kind of work as I do (This is a ridiculous debate; we should be talking about the fact that John Adams is an extremist on issues like a woman’s right to choose, guns, etc.)
- Charlottesville mayor apologizes to City Council and residents (“Michael Signer and others in Charlottesville’s leadership have come under fire as the city reeled from its handling of the white supremacist Unite the Right rally on Aug. 12 that left three dead.”)
- Signer’s role as mayor to be diminished following grilling by councilors behind closed doors
- Descendants: Remove Confederate general’s statue from Monroe Park
- Editorial: Heaphy must produce unvarnished account (“…the same kind of rally Charlottesville saw could happen anywhere in Virginia — indeed, anywhere in the country. By bringing to light exactly what did and did not happen in Charlottesville, Heaphy could do a service for every community across the United States.”)
- Surveillance video shows 2 men near vandalism of Confederate statue in Virginia
- Quick warm up today before Harvey’s rainy remnants show up
