by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, June 23.
- Trump Tariff Threat on European Cars Escalates Global Trade War
- Pentagon indefinitely suspends some training exercises with South Korea
- OPEC Meets Allies for Approval of Oil-Supply Hike (“Group will add about 700,000 b/d of crude to the market”)
- Trump Highlights Immigrant Crime Despite Statistics (“Trump has embraced the stories of Americans killed by undocumented immigrants, though studies show immigration has little effect on crime.”)
- Trump the European Nationalist Puts America Last
- Family Separation Is Trump Distilled (“The president sees cruelty as the ultimate deterrent.”)
- The dark history behind Trump’s inflammatory language (“The president’s dehumanizing words draw on a long and destructive tradition.”)
- I lost because I wasn’t Trump enough. All Republicans should worry. (“The Republican Party is facing an identity crisis.”)
- Trump is a baldfaced liar (“There are no other words for it.” There really aren’t, yet the cowardly, sniveling corporate media manages to come up with weasel words every day to use instead of “lie” or “false.”)
- I don’t like cheap shots. But I really don’t care, do u? (“The first lady’s now-famous wording on her jacket could serve as the unofficial motto of the Trump administration.”)
- Democrats Are Going to Make Family Separation a Big Issue in the Midterms
- Trump Reaffirms North Korean Nuclear Threat After Saying It Was Gone (Imbecile.)
- Vote against the GOP this November (I hate linking to right wingnut George Will, but it’s hard to disagree with this column!)
- Conservative Columnist George Will: Vote Against GOP In Midterms (“In a column for The Washington Post, the political commentator lamented ‘Republican misrule’ and called out House Speaker Paul Ryan.”)
- The original source for Trump’s claim of 63,000 immigrant murders? Bad data from Steve King in 2005. (Steve King is evil incarnate; anything he says can be assumed FALSE.)
- Conservatives try to defend Trump’s family separation policy by being super racist
- Arguments, confusion, second-guessing: Inside Trump’s reversal on separating migrant families
- The GOP’s Racist Rot Began Long Before Trump (“The party’s rot didn’t begin with this president, but it’s collapsing beneath him.” Yet people like John Whitbeck stick with it. Amazing.)
- This Nation Is Beginning to Realize the Full Extent of What It Did to Itself in November 2016 (“The country’s head is clearing. The spell of the reality show presidency* is wearing off.”)
- Republicans Are Willing to Take Children Hostage in More Ways Than One (“Paul Ryan and the House Republicans go after the safety net.”)
- ‘These aren’t our kids’: Fox News dehumanizes immigrants to defend Trump’s family separation policy (“These are people from another country.” And the people on Fox are from another moral universe. A very, very sick one.)
- HUD poised to allow insurance companies to set discriminatory housing policies (Heading back to the pre-Civil Rights Movement under the racist Trump administration…)
- Hasty immigration order gives way to West Wing tensions (“The president, who often asks officials to give him executive orders, got his way amid an escalating crisis this week – but now faces new headaches as a result.”)
- Trump tweet may doom House GOP effort on immigration
- Republicans’ Fixation on Work Requirements Is Fueled by White Racial Resentment (“And everyone, including white families, will lose.”)
- Republican congressman failed to pay taxes because he ‘got busy’ (“Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) demanded another ‘tax cheat’ step down from Congressional chairmanship in 2010.”)
- Human Rights Campaign Endorses Jennifer Wexton for U.S. Congress
- Primary election winners encourage voters to ‘ride the blue wave’ (“Vangie Williams and Elaine Luria, winners of the Democratic Congressional primary election in the 1st and 2nd districts, joined area representatives and Williamsburg-James City County Democrats at a Post-Primary Pep Rally & Call to Action Thursday evening.”)
- Sen. Tim Kaine tours Virginia shelter housing about 15 separated migrant children
- Virginia Dems want answers on alleged detention center abuse
- Protesters Outside Kirstjen Nielsen’s House Play Audio Of Detained Migrant Children
- Barbara Comstock is no moderate
- Schapiro: Retreat notwithstanding, opportunities for Va. Republicans? (Curious, how many of you can read Jeff Schapiro’s columns anymore, since the RTD put up a much more restrictive firewall?)
- Gov. Northam visits Newport News to sign bill aiding student loan borrowers
- Gov. Northam authorizes early childhood initiative
- Gov. Ralph Northam signs bills expanding DNA, fingerprint databases in wake of Hannah Graham case
- Police, prosecutors should double-check videos and photos before locking up suspects
- Gov. Northam signs bill to provide funding to Portsmouth’s Mount Calvary cemetery
- Mountain Valley Pipeline delay feared after US court ruling on water permit for gas project (“EQT Midstream Partners said Friday that a federal appeals court ruling affecting a water permit for a portion of its 301-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline was a setback that could delay the 2 Bcf/d natural gas project’s construction timeline”)
- Construction of Mountain Valley Pipeline enters a new stage with highway crossings
- The MS-13 gang violence problem in Fairfax County
- Heavy rainfall in Virginia causes rescues, closures
- Late-day storm risks this weekend, but it’s more dry than not
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