by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, April 4.
- Jesse Jackson: How Dr. King Lived Is Why He Died (“We owe it to Dr. King to commemorate the man in full: a radical, ecumenical, antiwar, pro-immigrant and scholarly champion of the poor.”)
- An ‘Exhausted’ Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final 31 Hours
- Martin Luther King: his life and legacy – in pictures
- Progressive Judge Wins Big in Wisconsin Special Election
- Liberals just won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a huge margin (“Another defeat for Republicans in state elections during the Trump era.”)
- Rebecca Dallet beats Michael Screnock in race for Wisconsin Supreme Court (“It marked the first time in 23 years that a liberal candidate who wasn’t an incumbent won a seat on the high court…With 88% of wards reporting, Dallet led Screnock 56% to 44%, according to unofficial returns.”)
- Mueller May Be Baiting Trump, Eyeing Early Summer Release on Obstruction
- Mattis Had a Nearly Impossible Task. Now Trump Is Making It Even Harder.
- Trump is finally making investors nervous (“Investors spent most of last year ignoring the president’s antics. They’re not anymore.”)
- Walker warns of Dem wave in Wisconsin after liberal wins state judicial race
- Expanding map creates tough choices for GOP (“There are nearly two dozen Republicans running in races that are currently rated as toss-ups, including Reps. Leonard Lance (N.J.), Claudia Tenney (N.Y.), Rod Blum (Iowa), Carlos Curbelo (Fla.), John Culberson (Texas), Jeff Denham (Calif.), Barbara Comstock (Va.), Erik Paulsen (Minn.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.).”)
- White House lets Pruitt dangle (“‘I hope he’s going to be great,’ the president said of his EPA chief. But vocal Pruitt allies were hard to find.”)
- Trump’s chaotic Cabinet shuffle tries GOP patience (“The White House is mobilizing ahead of a series of tough confirmation fights, as Senate Republicans grow weary of Trump’s mercurial management.”)
- China fires back at Trump’s move, vows to impose tariffs on 106 U.S. products (Trade wars are a horrible idea.)
- Trump not currently a criminal target, Mueller tells president’s lawyers (“The special counsel informed President Trump’s attorneys last month that he is continuing to investigate the president but does not consider him a criminal target at this point, according to three people familiar with the discussions. Some Trump advisers fear the president is not in the clear and could be baited into an interview that could put him in legal jeopardy.”)
- Trump’s immigration tweetstorm is a lesson in fact-free fearmongering (Trump is an utter disgrace; simply astonishing that he was nominated, let alone elected.)
- It’s Mueller time, and the lying Dutchman is the first to fall
- Job No. 1 for a Democratic Congress: Investigate ICE (“It’s become the most brutal kind of national police force.”)
- President Trump’s Perversion of Leadership
- Trump: “We are preparing for the military to secure our border” (“The president claims he is gearing up to order the U.S. military to police parts of the Mexican-American border”)
- Jeff Sessions’ new “quotas” for immigration judges: Pathway to mass deportation?
- Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online
- Scott Pruitt Is the Symptom. Modern Conservatism Is the Disease. (“The last fews days have seen an avalanche of grift coming from the EPA director.”)
- 2 Florida Republicans Now Joining Calls For Scott Pruitt To Resign (“Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen say Pruitt should leave the agency amid growing controversy over his spending and ties to lobbyists.” The guy’s a criminal, basically.)
- The all-consuming tribalism of Trump’s Republican Party, in one 30-second ad (“In 30 seconds, the Republican congressman from Indiana discusses no policy issues and says basically nothing besides ‘I will support Trump the most,’ before throwing on a Make America Great Again hat for emphasis.”)
- The top 6 tricks Scott Pruitt uses to outfox the media (“Pruitt goes to right-wing news outlets to push his messages out…Pruitt gives interviews to generalists instead of environmental reporters…Pruitt’s EPA sends reporters articles by climate deniers instead of useful information.” This guy is evil and dangerous.)
- Trump appointee resigns for promoting conspiracy theory Trump popularized (“The most famous ‘birther’ remains in the White House.”)
- Atlantic hires right-wing troll, promptly runs phony climate smear on Democrats (“Guy who said women should be hanged for having an abortion claims Democrats are an ‘authoritarian’ party.”)
- What Mueller’s Most Conspicuous Silence Suggests (“The theft of emails from Democratic officials seems like the most likely avenue for proving collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign—but the special counsel never mentions it.”)
- Facebook removes more than 100 accounts linked to Russian troll factory (“Company says the Internet Research Agency, which is among those charged by a US grand jury with conspiracy to defraud, has abused the platform”)
- YouTube shooting: police identify woman who opened fire at HQ (“Nasim Najafi Aghdam’s online profile shows she was a vegan activist who ran a website called NasimeSabz.com, meaning ‘Green Breeze’ in Persian, where she posted about Persian culture and veganism, as well as long passages critical of YouTube.”)
- GOP Official Alleges Dunbar Campaign Violated Party Rules
- Gov. Northam evaluating a bill that would give Virginia nurse practitioners more autonomy
- Kaine Kicks off Senate Re-Election Campaign with ‘Crisp’ Economic Message
- Virginia schools will teach how to recognize child abuse
- Virginia Democrats organize task force to probe gun violence, school safety
- NFL Hall of Famer Smith offended by Virginia Beach officials’ texts about racial equality rally
- “A giant goofball at heart”: Steve Yetiv, ODU professor and national security expert, dies at 53 (“A public memorial for Yetiv will be held on Tuesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. in the Chandler Recital Hall inside the Diehn Center for the Performing Arts, located at 1339 W. 49th St. in Norfolk.”)
- Loudoun County supervisors sign off on $2.6 billion budget
- Norfolk proposes $18.5M tax hike to fund schools, vehicles, employee raises and more
- Stoney taps new interim deputy chief administrative officer for human services
- Spring tease today with a few showers and gusty winds; legit chance of wet snow this weekend
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