by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, May 19. And no, I’m not watching the royal wedding. LOL
- Texas School Shooting: 10 Dead, 10 Hurt, and Many Not Surprised It Happened
- The Tragic Awareness of a Santa Fe High School Shooting Survivor
- How to Reduce Shootings (“Gun enthusiasts often protest: Cars kill about as many people as guns, and we don’t ban them! No, but automobiles are actually a model for the public health approach I’m suggesting. We don’t ban cars, but we work hard to regulate them – and limit access to them – so as to reduce the death toll they cause. This has been spectacularly successful, reducing the death rate per 100 million miles driven by 95 percent since 1921.”)
- I’ve covered gun violence for years. The solutions aren’t a big mystery. (“The US is unique in two key — and related — ways when it comes to guns: It has way more gun deaths than other developed nations, and it has far higher levels of gun ownership than any other country in the world… The problem is guns, not mental illness…The research shows that gun control works…State and local actions are not enough…America probably needs to go further than anyone wants to admit”)
- Background checks can’t prevent gun violence — because the NRA designed them to fail (“Institute a national licensing and registration system…Redraw the prohibited categories for gun buyers…Reinstate a federal waiting period for gun sales.”)
- It’s the Guns (“The outrage after Parkland set off a moral reckoning and awakening—there’s a simple explanation for school shootings.” It really is very simple; we are the only country where this happens, and the difference is guns.)
- Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Texas Shooting Suspect, Posted Neo-Nazi Imagery Online (Anyone surprised?)
- North Korean Pushback Undercuts U.S. Exuberance Over Kim Meeting
- The FBI didn’t use an informant to go after Trump. They used one to protect him. (“What the president doesn’t get about counterintelligence.”)
- F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims
- A Blue Wave of Moral Restoration
- A House revolt over immigration just killed the farm bill — for now
- A House Republican Rebellion on Two Front (“As House moderates near success in forcing votes on DACA, Speaker Paul Ryan is facing another uprising from the conservatives who tanked the farm bill on Friday.”)
- The Moral Rot That Threatens America (“What eats at America — and so its place in the world — is moral rot: unrelenting blight that emanates from on high. When it comes to rottenness, Denmark is passé. Try the White House.”)
- Can the Republic Recover from Donald Trump? (“There will be a lot of pieces to put back together, all at once, when he is gone.”)
- The GOP’s campaign against the FBI makes the nation less safe
- Virginia Senator Mark Warner warns against outing FBI sources, calls it ‘potentially illegal’ (“Mark Warner blasted reports that Trump allies may attempt to expose a confidential FBI source”)
- Trump’s New Russia Scandal Theory: The FBI Set Him Up. There’s One Small Flaw.
- Pro-Trump media are already accusing Santa Fe shooting survivors of being crisis actors (There’s really a sickness among a segment of the U.S. population. How does a human mind even come up with something as batshit crazy as “crisis actor?”)
- The Supreme Court Made It Easier For More People To Place Bad Sports Bets
- Royal wedding: Meghan Markle, Prince Harry to marry in Windsor (Do you care about this? I don’t really get why people would, but whatever…)
- GOP revolts multiply against retiring Ryan (“Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) appears to be losing his grip on power over a restive House Republican conference just a month after announcing he would retire from Congress.”)
- Paul Ryan Is an Almost Comically Inept Speaker of the House (“Our latest exhibit is the Farm Bill fiasco.”)
- GOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress
- Republicans claw at each other over farm bill implosion (“While the Freedom Caucus sank the vote, some GOP lawmakers are blaming Paul Ryan’s quest for legacy-making wins.”)
- Trump’s plan to cut Planned Parenthood funding will do a lot more than target abortion (“The ‘global gag rule’ comes to the United States — and it’ll undermine reproductive care for low-income people.”)
- On CNN, Giuliani shouts over tape of 1998 interview exposing his hypocrisy (“President Trump’s lawyer said it was ‘really unfair’ to be debunked by himself”)
- Warner and Kaine Join Bipartisan Letter in Support of Rural Broadband Improvements
- Virginia’s jobless rate declined to 3.3 percent in April, lowest since December 2007
- Governor vetoes insurance legislation, terming it counterproductive
- Governor Northam Vetoes GOP Healthcare Bills
- Republican convention set to begin with another controversy surrounding it
- Democrat running for Congress has personal connection to Texas school shooting (“Lindsey Davis Stover’s relatives at Santa Fe High School are safe, but she is taking a brief break from campaigning.”)
- Low-spending GOP Senate primary may help Corey Stewart, who has a built-in base
- Hampton Roads sewage project fights bay pollution — and sea level rise?
- Mudslide destroys home near Vinton; no one injured
- Residents worry about erosion along the pipeline path
- Police used a fitness app to find a man accused of knocking a bicyclist to the ground in Virginia (“They found the suspect using the app Strava, and he was charged with malicious wounding.”)
- Editorial: Police killing of naked man deserves thorough transparency
- “Offensive poster” at Virginia Beach high school draws social media attention (“An English class assignment that led high school students to write racial slurs and stereotypes on a poster ‘should not have happened,’ the school’s administration said Friday.”)
- Hits and misses: An insider to lead Chesapeake schools
- Expert: Man set for trial in killing of Muslim teen may be too impaired to face death penalty (“A neuropsychologist found Nabra Hassanen’s alleged killer is ‘likely intellectually disabled,’ according to a defense motion.”)
- Flash floods leave Richmond-area drivers stranded and school canceled, with more rain projected to fall
- Soggy Saturday, with a chance of sun on Sunday
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