by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, March (for Our Lives) 24.
- Trump signs massive spending bill, but not before a little drama
- Analysis: Bad bill is Congress’s fault, says the dealmaking swamp-drainer (What a joke.)
- Trump Heads South, Leaving Washington Reeling (“Mr. Trump appeared heedless of his staff and determined to set the agenda himself, even if that agenda looked like a White House in disarray.”)
- Trump aides are ‘at their wits’ end’(“The president’s unpredictable behavior has West Wing staffers worried about their own credibility.” Why would anyone work for this madman?)
- March for our Lives protests planned for 800 places across the world
- A Horror Week for the Dow Has Investors Begging for Trump Respite (“S&P 500 posts third dip of at least 5% in the past two months” #WINNING #MAGA #SNARK)
- The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram
- 4 winners and 4 losers from Congress’s massive $1.3 trillion spending package (“Loser: Trump’s immigration agenda…Loser: conservatives”)
- In his second year, Donald Trump is building a more extreme, confrontational presidency (“The Trump administration gets worse from here.”)
- Student activists are also registering voters at the March for Our Lives (“Marchers are working with organizations to encourage voter registration at their marches.” Excellent.)
- House Republican offers completely incoherent rationale for ending Russia investigation (“Anything to protect Trump.” Yep, including betraying our country.)
- I watched NRATV for an entire day. Here’s what they said about the March for Our Lives. (“The march is a front for socialist efforts to destroy the constitution and organized by people who are violent, anti-American, and pro-cop killing.” Ee gads, these NRA people are completely loco.)
- Editorial: Yes, John Bolton Really Is That Dangerous
- Bolton Expected to ‘Clean House’ (“The incoming national security advisor aims to ax dozens of White House officials as he dismantles McMaster’s NSC.” This is going to be a disaster.)
- Andrew McCabe: Not in my worst nightmares did I dream my FBI career would end this way
- Trump tries to implement new ban on transgender people serving in the military
- Franken emerges — to slam Sessions
- March for gun control takes over Washington
- Fox Business guest criticizes Parkland students for acting “like they’re bulletproof” (Fox is basically an extremist, insurrectionist, far-right propaganda channel.)
- Cambridge Analytica and a Moral Reckoning in Silicon Valley
- Team Bolton: John Never Promised Trump He ‘Wouldn’t Start Any Wars’
- America Takes the Next Step Toward Tyranny
- Report: Roy Moore Supporters Wanted Accuser’s Lawyer to Disavow Her
- Meet Trump’s New, Homophobic Public Health Quack (“The Centers for Disease Control will soon be run by a military doctor with a long history of pushing discriminatory AIDS policies.”)
- Pelosi condemns Trump’s ‘cowardly, disgusting’ ban on transgender troops
- Wisconsin GOP will tinker with election laws rather than follow court order (That’s today’s GOP, no respect for rule of law, democracy, etc.)
- How a March Becomes a Landslide (“For the Parkland teens to win, their moms need to vote.” And their dads need to stop voting Republican!)
- Racial Blindness (“Violent murders in Texas and Maryland show how white killers receive more sympathy than black victims.” It’s insidious, pervasive and appalling.)
- Uber’s Collision, Facebook’s Disgrace (“In just 36 hours, two nightmares unfolded for American tech companies. Here’s what they have in common.”)
- Law enforcement raids Cambridge Analytica London HQ
- Trump moves to ban most transgender troops (“The decision follows a Pentagon review but the Justice Department will still have to make the case in federal court.”)
- John Bolton Can Convince Trump of Anything. Get Ready. (“You know how this will play out.”)
- Sen. Mark Warner: Trump’s Inaction on Russia Is an ‘Embarassment’
- Governor Northam announces Virginia’s unemployment rate drops to 3.5 percent
- Va. takes a big step forward on Metro — but there’s a catch (“…residents can blame Del. Tim Hugo, a Fairfax lawmaker who is one of the last remaining Republicans representing Northern Virginia. Mr. Hugo, an anti-tax hard-liner and his party’s caucus chairman in the House of Delegates, opposed Democratic efforts to generate more new revenue, from slightly higher taxes on hotel and motel bills and on real estate sales in Northern Virginia. Downstate House Republicans, who had no dog in the fight — the new taxes wouldn’t have affected their constituents — deferred to him.”)
- Man accused of threatening to kill Virginia congressman over marijuana policy
- Records Show House Candidate Cynthia Dunbar on Payroll of Party Chairman’s Company (“The financial disclosure report, required of all House candidates under federal ethics rules, shows Dunbar on the payroll of Sayre Enterprises in Natural Bridge, Virginia. Sayre Enterprises is the company of Sixth District Chairman Scott Sayre.” Wow.)
- As a tree-sit protest of the Mountain Valley Pipeline continues, a crowd is gathering
- Virginia elections board tweaks ballot design, creates new complaint process for political ads
- 2 Democratic Virginia congressional campaigns question whether party officials showed favoritism
- Thomas Cullen confirmed as new U.S. attorney for the Western District
- Records: State police spent nearly $50K on pipeline hearings
- Dominion agrees to bury power lines in Prince William, ending legal standoff (“After more than three years of community opposition, the utility company agreed to bury power lines that threatened African American enclave near Haymarket.”)
- Virginia Beach city manager texted about punching state official in face (“Last spring, Dave Hansen sent text messages saying he wanted to punch the then-state transportation secretary in the face. This was after Aubrey Layne denied the city and developer Bruce Thompson’s request for $2 million to realign Atlantic Avenue in front of The Cavalier Hotel.”)
- Henrico schools paying new diversity leader $99K; position created in wake of racially charged Short Pump Middle video
- Briefly milder today before we cool back down Sunday (“Today: Mostly to partly sunny. Highs: Near 50 to mid-50s.”)
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