Tuesday News: Trump Causing “Fall of the American Empire”; “The Real Trump Hotel”; “Really an evil policy”; “The Political Price of Cruelty”; “I wanted to stop her crying”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, June 19. Another day that Trump, the Trump administration, and anyone who supports Trump is bringing eternal shame on the United States of America.

• Trump defiant as crisis grows over family separation at the border (Heinous.)
• Trump escalates China trade war, threatens tariffs on $200 billion in products (Stupid.)
• China Vows to Retaliate as Trump Targets $200 Billion in Tariffs
• Krugman: Fall of the American Empire (“So Trump isn’t making America great again; he’s trashing the things that made us great, turning us into just another bully — one whose bullying will be far less effective than he imagines.”)
• Yet another Russia contact with the Trump campaign team. What are they hiding?
• The Bible in the hands of a bigot
• Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ border policy is immoral, un-American — and ineffective
• Paul Ryan has been living in a cave (“Incuriosity is a perfect excuse for the House speaker.”)
• We’ll be cleaning up Trump’s mess for generations
• The Trump administration created this awful border policy. It doesn’t need Congress to fix it. (“The president could easily call off the cruel, inhumane treatment of children at America’s southern border.”)
• What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’
• Migrant parents torn from children: ‘We came because we didn’t want to be killed’ (“Parents tell a Texas court their reasons for coming to the US as families are divided at the US border”)
• Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border (“ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, ‘We have an orchestra here.'”)
• ‘I wanted to stop her crying’: The image of a migrant child that broke a photographer’s heart (This shit absolutely should NOT – NEVER – be happening in the United States of America. The fact that it IS happening is a permanent stain on anyone who voted for Trump or still supports that sociopath.)
• Nielsen becomes face of Trump’s border separations (The face of evil.)
• ‘Really an evil policy’: Dems seize offensive in migrant fight (“The family separation spectacle has galvanized the party across the ideological spectrum.”)
• DHS secretary rolls out preposterous new claim about child separation policy (“Kirstjen Nielsen’s Twitter rant directly contradicts other Trump administration officials, as well as her own past comments.”)
• The Political Price of Cruelty (“Stephen Miller thought separating migrant families would provoke Democrats and bolster Trump. The backlash will be painful for his boss and his party.”)
• ‘The Republicans’ new Katrina’: GOP fears backlash to splitting families (“Trump’s immigration crackdown is upending Republicans’ midterm campaign strategy.”)
• Sessions responds to Nazi comparisons: ‘They were keeping the Jews from leaving’ (Uhhhhh…)
• The Hard-Liners Whose Fringe Views Became U.S. Policy (“Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller, the president’s top policy adviser, once shouted from the sidelines. Now they’re the driving force behind the policy separating immigrant children from parents.” These people needed to stay “fringe”)
• Senate votes to block Trump’s ZTE deal
• DHS Secretary Says Children Who Are Detained In Cages Are Not Being Treated Inhumanely (F.U.)
• Inside the Disastrous White House Briefing on Trump’s Child Separation Policy (“The Homeland Security secretary defended Trump’s child separation policy, and wound up making the uproar worse.”)
• TL;DR This Is Completely Crazy (“Sure, let’s just give prison counselors guns and call them guards.”)
• The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart
• Why the Supreme Court Keeps Dodging the Question of Partisan Gerrymandering
• Military brass aren’t sold on Trump’s Space Force (“The idea for the sixth branch of the armed forces, a ‘Space Force,’ came to Trump in an incoherent rant”)
• Seth Meyers blasts White House aide Stephen Miller for being ‘evil’: He actually wants ‘credit for a policy so cruel’ (Yep.)
• Kellyanne Conway erupts after CNN’s Chris Cuomo plays gut-wrenching audio of immigrant kids taken from parents
• Immigrant Children Cry Out in Detention Center Recording
• Shocking to No One, Trump’s Commerce Secretary Isn’t Telling the Whole Truth (“Wilbur Ross stays grifting.” Scumbag.)
• Laura Ingraham: Migrant child detention centers ‘essentially summer camps’ (She is, of course, batshit crazy. And evil.)
• Kaine shares photos of child detention facility: ‘The real Trump Hotel’
• Cook Political Report shifts two House race projections toward Dems (“In the 10th District of Virginia represented by Rep. Barbara Comstock, Cook shifted its projection from ‘toss-up’ to leaning in favor of state Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D). “)
• Tim Kaine: D.C. area’s morning commute may be Achilles heel in Amazon HQ2 bid
• Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte Weighs In On Proposed Immigration Legislation (BADlatte!)
• Virginia Senate Candidate Stewart Says He’s Not a Racist
• Local representatives react to Trump’s immigration poliices
• Juneteenth is a day to celebrate (“Tuesday marks the annual recognition of Juneteenth. It represents the anniversary of the date — June 19, 1865 — that word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas, officially freeing the last slaves held in the United States.”)
• Virginia National Guard Lakota helicopter and crew depart for Southwest Border support (100% unacceptable and infuriating. Ralph Northam should reverse this immediately!)
• Report card: Healthy fisheries and aquatic grasses fuel Chesapeake Bay recovery
• At conference, Northam talks SOLs, early childhood education
• UPDATED: Richmond’s new school proposals funded through meals tax increase won’t be made public until after company is chosen
• Fairfax students to learn about HIV prevention pill in health classes (Good!)
• Pentagon research agency to get security upgrade in Virginia
• EDITORIAL: What’s for dinner? Frankenfish!
• Teen says Va. school failed to keep her safe from alleged attacker
• Barry Trotz steps down as head coach of Washington Capitals despite Stanley Cup win
• Nationals bolster bullpen in trade for Kelvin Herrera: ‘We have an all-star closer right now’
• Maybe a storm this soupy evening, with a better rain chance of tomorrow as a cold front passes