by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, May 5.
- Trump thinks his North Korea strategy will work on Iran. He’s wrong on both. (“… if Trump instead approaches both countries through his maximalist ‘Art of the Deal’ mentality, expecting that bluster and threats will lead to complete capitulation by the other party, he will be sorely disappointed. And worse: He will accelerate not one but two nuclear crises — and close off peaceful, diplomatic avenues for resolving either of them.”)
- Trump Is Said to Know of Stormy Daniels Payment Months Before He Denied It
- Trump to Meet Moon May 22 Before Planned North Korea Summit
- Trump tells 57,000 Hondurans who’ve lived in the US for 20 years to get out (“It’s yet another move that will turn people who are in the US legally into unauthorized immigrants.” Evil incarnate.)
- The Jobless Rate Is So Low. Why Aren’t Wages Keeping Up?
- Don and Rudy, Disaster Twins
- Giuliani falls back in line (“The former New York City mayor went from advertising his newfound closeness with the president to apologizing for causing a furor, all in less than 48 hours.”)
- In Hawaii, Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Spewing Lava and Gases Near Homes
- Trump: Ignore Rudy’s Shocking Confession About Stormy Daniels, He Just Started
- The simplest, most important question the Trump administration can’t answer (“Why did the president fire James Comey?”)
- Trump and His Aides Have No Idea What They’re Talking About (“A procession of contradictory statements leaves the public no closer to understanding the president’s deal with Stormy Daniels, but clearly shows the White House’s dishonesty.” Why would this be ok with any American???)
- At the N.R.A. Convention, Donald Trump Talks About Knives in London and Support from Kanye West (Ugh.)
- Trump Very Maturely Taunts John Kerry for Getting in Bike Accident (Trump is completely unhinged.)
- Don Blankenship Is Testing the Limits of Trumpism
- Judge challenges Mueller’s actions in Manafort case (“‘I don’t see what relation this indictment has with what the special counsel is authorized to investigate,’ the judge says.”)
- Trump’s relationship with Giuliani gets rocky
- Donald Trump brags of achievements and promises NRA: I’ll defend gun rights (Absolutely nonsensical and batshit crazy.)
- What Do Alex Jones, Russian Bots, and the Governor of Texas Have in Common? (“They all pushed the same moronic conspiracy theory.”)
- 2 F.B.I. Officials, Once Key Advisers to Comey, Leave the Bureau
- Donald Trump’s NRA speech, fact-checked (Lies, lies and more lies.)
- As a willing warrior for Trump, Sarah Sanders struggles to maintain credibility (What a stupid headline; in fact, Sanders isn’t “struggling” to be credible, she’s outright LYING and doesn’t give a crap.)
- The NRA hosted professional sexist Tucker Carlson as the featured speaker at its Women’s Leadership Forum Luncheon
- Giant Hog Farms Are Fighting for the Right to Keep Polluting. The Trump Administration Is on Their Side. (Industrial agriculture is a pox on America, both because of its horrendous treatment of animals and also its nasty pollution. Oh, and don’t forget its terrible treatment of workers either. Triple evil, basically. And by the way, if you buy meat from industrial farms, you are 100% part of the problem here.)
- Giuliani tries to fix disastrous interview tour, continues to make things worse (“It was a challenge for Giuliani to make things even less clear, but he managed to do it.”)
- The Iowa governor just signed the nation’s most extreme abortion ban into law (“The law’s advocates hope it will draw court challenges that go all the way to SCOTUS.”)
- The 40 most breathtaking lines from Donald Trump’s NRA speech (“Your Second Amendment rights are under siege, but they will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president.” So, Trump claims Second Amendment rights are a) “under siege” and b) that they will “never, ever be under siege” as long as he’s president, which of course means they are NOT under siege right now. Massive illogic and idiocy.)
- Marsha Mercer column: Primary campaigns battle over guns – pro and con
- Cockburn likely to become 5th District Democratic nominee at Saturday’s convention (Not “likely” – 100% chance.)
- Warner pushing for special designation to allow more drone experiments in Virginia
- Virginia’s sleeper race (Virginia’s 5th Congressional District)
- Do pipelines pose any political risk for Northam? (“Northam’s political future, whatever it may be, would be helped rather than hurt by an aggressive stand in favor of environmental activists and property rights activists.”)
- Sen. Tim Kaine Tours Apex Clean Energy’s Charlottesville Office
- Bond holder, government groups raise concerns about Virginia’s budget uncertainty amid finger-pointing
- 2 Virginia insurers ask for large premium hikes for 2019
- Hits and misses: Facebook’s toll in Virginia
- Judge finds ‘Red’ Terry and her daughter in contempt for tree-sit protests of pipeline
- Mountain Valley Pipeline seeks the removal of the fourth set of tree-sitting protesters (Just remember, this is an out-of-state pipeline consortium building an unneeded, self-dealing fracked-gas pipeline. Corrupt and destructive, for absolutely no good reason.)
- Hileman: Northam should revoke MVP permits (“Until our environmental laws are responsibly and wisely enforced, pay-to-play mitigation schemes such as the agreement with MVP will be the de facto law of the land. If you are not willing to do your job, Secretary Strickler, please step aside to make way for someone who will.” I agree; Strickler should do his job or resign right now. Also, Strickler needs to stop writing about stuff he knows absolutely nothing about.)
- Sen. Mark Warner talks jobs, education with local business leaders
- Study finds ‘stunning’ justice gap in Virginia civil cases
- Greene commissioner of revenue facing four felonies
- Editorial: Charlottesville, the day after (Uhhh…alrighty.)
- Newport News School Board appoints Caroline County leader as next superintendent
- Occasional rain this weekend, then turning beautiful into the workweek
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