by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, November 24.
- The GOP Tax Plan Is Entering Its Make-or-Break Week (“Senate leaders plan to hold a floor vote as early as Thursday”)
- Sit-ins, protests, rallies: activists’ mammoth push to thwart Republican tax bill (“GOP bill would disproportionately favor wealthy Americans, data suggests”)
- Krugman: On Feeling Thankful but Fearful
- A Split From Trump Indicates That Flynn Is Moving to Cooperate With Mueller (Ruh roh. LOL)
- Trump replies ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’ to tweet about his attacks on African Americans (Racist.)
- Flynn’s lawyer stops working with Trump’s team, a sign Flynn may be cooperating with Mueller probe
- Congress must investigate Trump’s alleged sexual misconduct (“A kind of Judgment Day has arrived for men who thought they had gotten away with their misdeeds.”)
- How Donald Trump Ruined Thanksgiving (“A new study finds that after last year’s scorched-earth presidential campaign, Americans could barely stand to look each other in the eye.”)
- Trump’s Thanksgiving Day Message to Troops: We’re “Really Winning” Everywhere Now Thanks to Me (Hahahahahahaha.)
- Scary, judgmental old men (“In the outcry against sexual harassment sweeping the nation, religious conservatives have largely been bystanders or obstacles.”)
- Committees looking into Russian meddling not done yet
- How Dem insiders rank the 2020 contenders (1. Bernie Sanders; 2. Joe Biden; 3. Elizabeth Warren; 4. Kamala Harris; 5. Sherrod Brown; 6. Deval Patrick)
- Oscar Pistorius jail term for killing Reeva Steenkamp more than doubled (He should be in jail for life.)
- Surge in ObamaCare signups surprises experts (“Through the first 18 days, nearly 2.3 million people have signed up for insurance coverage through ObamaCare exchanges, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a number that has outpaced the same period under former President Barack Obama.”)
- Trump vows to repeal and replace ObamaCare ‘disaster’ (This guy is absolutely incorrigible.)
- American intelligence official warned Israelis Russia had ‘leverage’ on Trump: report
- Franken pledges to regain trust in Thanksgiving apology
- Ret. Lieutenant General hammers Trump’s ‘off-kilter’ and ‘insulting’ Thanksgiving address to the troops
- Trump hails ‘invisible’ plane in remarks to coast guard: ‘The enemy cannot see it’ (“Discussing the air force when speaking to a different service, president again praises F-35, which is not invisible and has faced a costly development process”)
- Iran’s supreme leader ‘the new Hitler’, says Saudi crown prince (“Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has called Iran’s supreme leader ‘the new Hitler of the Middle East’, amid heightened tensions between the two countries.” Uhhhh…)
- What Ralph Northam promised during his campaign (“The Virginia’s Democratic governor-elect ran on one of the most progressive campaign platforms in the state’s history. Here’s a look at his agenda on minimum wage, single-payer health care, Confederate monuments and immigration issues.”)
- Could Virginia progressives get their legislative way? (There are still at least two big problems: 1) Republicans; 2) conservative and/or slimeball “Democrats” like Dick Saslaw.)
- Editorial: Should Virginia join the carbon-trading club? (“Either way, Virginia ought to join RGGI. In the absence of a national carbon tax, it represents the most efficient way to go about the necessary business of cutting carbon emissions.” Wow, even the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial board thinks that we need to take strong action against global climate chaos. Now what about Dominion Energy? Virginia Republicans?)
- Saving a Virginia Treasure: Tangier Island
- A string of mainly sunny and tranquil days ahead
