by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, January 9.
- With Salvador decision, Trump’s immigration policy veers into white nationalism (“Trump moves toward deporting 200,000 longtime immigrants from El Salvador — and, no, they’re not ‘illegal'”)
- North Korea Agrees to Send Athletes to Winter Olympics
- The Trump Administration Will End Protected Status for 200,000 Salvadorans (Sadistic, stupid, you name it.)
- Mueller indicates he is likely to seek interview with Trump
- Krugman: The Worst and the Dumbest (“We spent more than two centuries building a great nation, and even a very stable genius probably needs a couple of years to complete its ruin.”)
- From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm
- Watch Trump struggle with the words to the national anthem before the college football championship (“Does Trump even know the words? Decide for yourself.”)
- Stable genius Seb Gorka is at it again, accidentally confirms White House cooperated with Wolff book
- Trump-appointed regulators reject plan to rescue coal and nuclear plants (“In a binding ruling, the independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a proposal by Energy Secretary Rick Perry that would have boosted coal and nuclear energy over natural gas and renewables in competitive electricity markets.” As usual, Rick Perry is an idiot and a failure.)
- Trump thinks rising stock prices mean his presidency is awesome. He’s wrong. (“We’re in a bull market that long predates this administration.”)
- Trump has already authored his own tell-all (“The intimacy of Twitter encourages us to ask: Is the president reaching some kind of breaking point?”)
- Don’t underestimate the possibility of Oprah 2020 (I want someone with governing experience, like Kamala Harris for instance, not a celebrity.)
- Get a grip, people. Oprah should not run for president. (“It’s possible Oprah could prove herself worthy of the attention being put on the idea of her running for president. But she certainly hasn’t done it yet, and we should all be extremely skeptical unless and until she shows us why, beyond just being rich and famous, she’d actually make a good president.”)
- The White House struggles to silence talk of Trump’s mental fitness
- What the Oprah Boomlet Means for Democrats (“Pleas for the entertainer to run for president point to a split over whether to treat Donald Trump as a dangerous anomaly or a particularly extreme Republican.”)
- Fox News host retweets prominent neo-Nazi (“Mark Collett previously spoke of his admiration for Adolf Hitler.” Yep, that’s Fox.)
- Blue states eye ‘political gift’ in tax workaround fight with Trump (“Democratic leaders in New York, California and New Jersey aim to protect voters from changes related to state and local taxes.” How about Virginia?)
- GOP anxious with Trump on trade
- Trump’s border wall becomes flashpoint in shutdown fight
- How “Fox & Friends” Rewrites Trump’s Reality
- Why Cliven Bundy Is Free (“So, if you’re going to defy lawful authority and gather some folks to draw down on federal officials, apparently, it helps to be old and white. It also helps when the prosecution botches the rules of evidence beyond all recall.” So f’ed up.)
- Republicans scrutinize FBI’s media contacts in Russia case (“Critics say GOP questions about alleged Justice Department leaks are a diversion that could have a chilling effect on reporters.” I love that classic media formulation, “critics say,” when it’s actually EVERYONE ELSE but Trump and his lackeys say!)
- Alabama player yells ‘f— Trump’ ahead of college football title game (Bo Scarbrough speaks for all of us.)
- California Republican Rep. Ed Royce won’t seek reelection, creating bigger opening for Democrats
- Kansas lawmaker makes racist comments about African Americans, marijuana (Yep, he’s old, white and Republican.)
- Sinclair airs anti-survivor “must-run” segment on local news stations weeks after being named in a sexual harassment lawsuit (Reminder: if you live in northern Virginia, watch any other local news outlet EXCEPT for Sinclair-owned WJLA-7.)
- This might be the best map of the 2016 election you ever see (Love this map.)
- Do Republicans Really Have A Big Turnout Advantage In Midterms? (“Overall, in the 10 midterm elections since 1978, the average Republican turnout advantage has been about 3 percentage points. In other words, the GOP does about 3 points better, on average, among midterm voters compared with whatever their margin is vs. Democrats among all registered voters. In short, Republicans have a midterm turnout advantage.”)
- Why Do Republicans Keep Defending Donald Trump? (“As the president gets more unhinged, the party rallies to his defense.”)
- Tim Kaine on Oprah 2020: ‘She would add a lot to the field’
- Rep. Scott Taylor of Virginia Beach comes out against offshore drilling (Interesting, he must be worried about Democrats beating him in November.)
- Democratic hope for ending GOP majority in Virginia House hangs on a thread
- McAuliffe, Northam announce rebranding of Virginia’s workforce development
- How Letting Felons Vote Is Changing Virginia (“In Virginia, somewhere over 40,000 of the newly enfranchised citizens registered to vote. If they voted in the 2017 gubernatorial and state legislative races at comparable rates to the population, that would add 19,000 new voters, or somewhere just under 1 percent of the electorate.”)
- Virginia receives brief relief for children’s health insurance, but end still looms
- Virginia bills filed so far cover topics ranging from beer at bed and breakfasts to Jet Skis on lakes (Yep, we’ve been on top of interesting bills filed for weeks now…)
- ACP support isn’t a good part of McAuliffe’s legacy (“Far from a courageous decision to stand up to an unruly base, McAuliffe’s support for the ACP stems from an uncritical acceptance of the idea that what’s good for Dominion is good for Virginia. Impartial examination of evidence and science show that building more fracked-gas pipelines will push the planet ever closer to climate disaster, while causing irreparable harm to Virginia’s land and water…As the incoming governor implements his own vision for Virginia’s environmental future, he would do well to keep his own legacy in mind. Now is the time to act and stop these unnecessary pipelines.”)
- Virginia regulators want utility ratepayers to get benefits of federal tax cut
- Virginia regulators want utility ratepayers to get benefits of federal tax cut
- As Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe passes the torch, his technology Cabinet looks back
- Bursting pipes sent water gushing onto Richmond roadways Monday
- Editorial: A new era in tolling for region’s highways (“IN THE never-ending quest to move folks more efficiently across Hampton Roads, the Virginia Department of Transportation will on Wednesday open high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes on part of Interstate 64 in Norfolk.”)
- ‘This seat is mine’: Can a Democrat newly famous for losing turn defeat into political gold? (“Shelly Simonds lost a tied Virginia House election when election officials pulled her opponent’s name from what may now be the country’s most photographed ceramic bowl. She still could demand a second recount, but in the meantime, she’s preparing to run again.”)
- The sun comes back today with big warmth later this week
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