by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, March 19.
- Putin claims victory in presidential vote (What a farce.)
- Trump: The Un-American President (“Rather than preserving the nobility of the presidency, he is debasing it. Rather than burnishing the image of America, he is tarnishing it. It is an awful fact that the most powerful man in America may also represent the worst of America. In a way, Trump is the un-American president.”)
- Trump Takes Aim at Mueller, Prompting Some G.O.P. Rebukes
- Trump Made White House Staff Sign NDAs in Futile Effort to Stop Leaks: Report
- Trump rails against Russia probe, dismisses McCabe’s notes as ‘Fake Memos’ in tweet salvo (Unhinged.)
- Facebook Under Fire on Two Continents Over Data Misuse (Facebook is a disaster, basically.)
- Facebook is facing its biggest test ever — and its lack of leadership could sink the company (I’d say good riddance if it sinks.)
- Facebook investigating employee’s links to Cambridge Analytica
- Team Trump: Expect Trump to Attack Mueller More Directly
- What Hope Hicks Knows
- Will Trump let Assad get away with using chemical weapons in Syria? (Trump will do whatever Putin tells him to do, apparently.)
- The principle behind anti-Trump pragmatism (“What price is worth paying to prevail in November? That’s the crucial question the president’s opponents must ask themselves.”)
- ‘I Thought There Would Be More Jeff Flakes, More John McCains, More Bob Corkers’ (“Adam Schiff says Republicans are doing Trump’s dirty work on the Russia investigation.”)
- Congress races to finish $1.2 trillion funding bill
- Jeff Sessions may have just been caught committing perjury for the second time
- Republicans bet their Senate majority on Trump (“Candidates in the most competitive races insist they’ll welcome the president to their states with open arms, despite his unpopularity nationally.”)
- What Took Facebook So Long? (“Scholars have been sounding the alarm about data-harvesting firms for nearly a decade. The latest Cambridge Analytica scandal shows it may be too late to stop them.”)
- Fact-checking Trump’s error-filled tweetstorm about the Mueller probe
- Firing McCabe Is Just the Start (“Congressional Republicans and conservative pundits had the chance to signal Trump his attacks on law enforcement are unacceptable—but they sent the opposite message.” They fundamentally don’t respect rule of law.)
- How Russia Meddled in its Own Elections (“Putin’s real victory is the culmination of his domestic disinformation machine.”)
- Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica (“Chancellor was a director of GSR along with Aleksandr Kogan, a more senior Cambridge University psychologist who is said to have devised the scheme to harvest Facebook data from people who used a personality app that was ostensibly acquiring data for academic research.”)
- Data scandal is huge blow for Facebook – and efforts to study its impact on society
- Trump will pull out of Iran nuclear deal, leading senator predicts (“Trump faces 12 May deadline to recertify the multilateral accord”)
- Trip wire may have set off bomb in Austin, wounding two men: police (What the hell is going on with this?)
- AP Exclusive: Kushner Cos. filed false NYC housing paperwork
- D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’ (Yep, DC has a raving conspiracy theorist and anti-Semite on its council. Ugh.)
- Most Republicans Stay Silent as Trump Attacks Mueller’s Probe (Yep, Republicans are complicit in the destruction of our democracy and system of rule of law, checks and balances, etc. If you vote Republican, that’s what you’re agreeing with.)
- 45 U.S. Trade Groups Beg Trump: Don’t Impose Tariffs On China (“The organizations say such tariffs would be ‘particularly harmful’ to the U.S. economy and consumers.” Correct.)
- The top 10 House races of 2018 (#6 is Barbara Comstock: “Democrats think even smart campaigning won’t save Comstock in a region of the state that is rapidly turning blue.”)
- Commentary Open Forum: Concealed weapons reciprocity: Comstock sponsors a dangerous gun bill
- Fifth Congressional District Democratic candidates meet in public debate
- Editorial: Finally, region to get much-needed road money
- New citizen monitoring group to watch for violations during pipeline construction
- Pipeline law violations cause more backlash from opponents
- Lohmann: New legislator reconnects with his roots of growing up in the Virginia Methodist Children’s Home
- Gun buybacks yielded guns, but not change, Newport News police say
- Editorial: Is Richmond getting its money’s worth from diversity contract?
- Editorial: What we learned at the first big Roanoke city council candidate forum
- Brace yourself for a wintry mess early Tuesday through Wednesday with rain, sleet, and snow
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