by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 25.
- Erdogan’s Win Gives Him Vastly Expanded Powers in Turkey (“Turkish voters gave President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a decisive election victory, lengthening his 15-year grip on power. It was the first vote to be held since Turkey approved a referendum giving the president sweeping executive authority.” Huge mistake.)
- Victory propels Erdoğan into elite club of strongman leaders (“Unchecked dominance may mark beginning of new dark age for Turkish democracy” Yep, this is huge trouble.)
- Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric Roils Political Outlook for GOP
- Trump Wants to Take Away Due Process Rights for People Arriving at the Border
- Blow: White Extinction Anxiety (“Strip all the other rationales away from this draconian immigration policy. This is at the core: White extinction anxiety, white displacement anxiety, white minority anxiety. This is the fear and anxiety Trump is playing to. Politico Magazine dubbed Trump ‘Pat Buchanan With Better Timing.'”)
- Pruitt faces another probe for employee retaliation allegations
- Trump: ‘We cannot allow all of these people to invade our country’ (Ugly, ignorant language about people who – like most of our ancestors – were fleeing persecution and/or seeking a better life for themselves and their families in this country.)
- Skip Due Process for Those Who Enter Illegally, Trump Says (“In an aggressive attack, President Trump said that those who cross into the U.S. illegally should be sent back immediately without due process or an appearance before a judge.” No. No. No. No. No.)
- Flake: Trump’s attacks on Democrats ‘bothersome,’ unhelpful in immigration debate
- Don’t forget Trump’s cruelty is routine (“The attacks aren’t on only those crossing the border but also on American families in need.”)
- Blinded by darkness: Here is why evangelicals are choosing Donald Trump over Jesus
- Overheard at the DSCC retreat on Martha’s Vineyard (“SEN. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) hosted a dinner Friday night for more than 100 guests at his house on Martha’s Vineyard as part of the DSCC’S annual Majority Trust retreat. OVERHEARD: Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joking to the crowd: ‘If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.'”)
- Separated immigrant children are all over the U.S. now, far from parents who don’t know where they are
- Top Intel Dem offers up Mueller’s ‘secrets’ at swanky dinner: ‘Buckle up — it’s going to be a wild couple of months’
- ‘You f*cking monster’: John Oliver nails Fox News’ Stewart Varney for surprisingly frank opinion on children in cages
- Evangelical Fear Elected Trump
- Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (“In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.”)
- Where Is Barack Obama? (“The most popular American, whose legacy is the primary target of Donald Trump, has, for now, virtually disappeared from public life.”)
- The big picture: 2018’s stormiest clouds for the GOP
- Mitt Romney: Where I stand on the Trump agenda (To date, Romney has given us no serious reason to think he’ll really stand up to Orange Mussolini. We’ll see if that changes, but I’m not holding my breath.)
- Why We Are Leaving the G.O.P. (“The Republican Party once opposed government intervention in the bedroom and the doctor’s office. No longer.”)
- Activists confront Florida attorney general at Mr. Rogers movie, ask what he’d think of her values
- White woman who threatened to call cops on 8-year-old Black girl says she’s ‘discriminated against’
- Opinion/Commentary: Border crisis may be hurting Brat (“The controversy over forced family separations has threatened to do the same this year, demanding Brat and two other congressional Republicans in competitive, diverse suburban districts — Scott Taylor in Hampton Roads and Barbara Comstock in Northern Virginia — put some distance between themselves and Trump.”)
- Va. delegate apologizes to Sarah Huckabee Sanders for rudeness of ‘Meryl Streep’s cousin’ (What a bizarre comment by Cline.)
- Rep. Goodlatte on what he wants to ask Peter Strzok, next steps for immigration (Typo: should be BADlatte. LOL)
- Editorial: Do we need another party?(“Stewart’s nomination is not a fluke. There’s a large and restive contingent that wants to remake the Republican Party in its own hard-edged image. In the 6th Congressional District, 39 percent of convention delegates supported Cynthia Dunbar, a candidate who believes that public schools are unconstitutional. In the 5th District, the Republican committee came within just one vote of making that same candidate the nominee there. Now, 45 percent of Virginia Republicans have voted to make Stewart their Senate candidate. All these things are connected.”)
- In speech at Trump-related event, Corey Stewart says he disavows racism, bigotry (His career is based heavily on stoking those things, but alrighty…)
- People angry over Sanders slam the wrong Red Hen
- Albemarle GOP leader resigns over Stewart nomination
- What will Portsmouth jury hear about the Mark Whitaker case? Attorneys face off in court this week. (“The Portsmouth councilman faces 20 felony charges, but has blasted the case as a political witch hunt.”)
- 5 Chesapeake candidates fined after sample ballot failed to list sponsorship (“The State Board of Elections found the candidates violated Virginia’s stand-by-your ad print media disclosure requirements because they failed to list their names as sponsors of the sample ballot.”)
- Hampton Jazz Festival comes to a close, draws nearly 20,000
- Gorgeous weather through Tuesday, then a little stormy and then hot
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