Tuesday News: “Trump’s trade war triggers recession fears”; “The media’s ‘civility’ game helps Trump”; “Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners”; Trump Claims Warner Was “In Near-Drunken State”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, June 26.

• Erdogan gets another lease on authoritarianism
• Turkey takes a big step toward nationalist fascism
• Erdogan’s Complete Control (“The president’s re-election means the end of Turkey as we’ve known it.”)
• Feud over civility in politics escalates amid Trump insults
• Trump’s trade war triggers recession fears (“After seeing a boost from taxes and deregulation, businesses and investors are getting spooked by the president’s trade and immigration moves.”)
• ‘Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention (“The bond market’s so-called yield curve is perilously close to predicting a recession — something it has done with surprising accuracy — and it’s become a big topic on Wall Street.”)
• Republicans brace for immigration failure (“House GOP leaders are already considering action on a bill to address the family separation crisis if a broader measure is defeated.”)
• Every June 26 primary election you should know about, briefly explained (“Voters head to the polls in New York, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Maryland.”)
• You can smell Trump’s fear (“It is hard to whip up punitive anger toward crying children.”)
• Trump sends us down a rabbit hole of white supremacy (“A website that claims a ‘genocide’ against white Americans is lauded at an event hosted by the president.”)
• Loyalty to Trump demands a lack of character (“His followers are not asked to follow an ideology. They’re asked to embrace his impulses and instincts moving toward stoking racial and ethnic divisions.” Agreed.)
• Trump Adviser Talks Down Trade Policy Threat to Calm Markets
• ‘Dumb, stupid’ family separations harm children, says detention camp manager (“Manager at camp close to US-Mexico border speaks out to decry Donald Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy”)
• Donald Trump Is Still Not Popular (“There’s also little evidence to support the idea that liberals are alienating moderate and independent voters by expressing outrage at Trump and his administration.”)
• Democrats Divided Over How Activists Confront Trump Team (“In recent days, deliberations over how to confront President Trump have been swamped by activists’ public shaming, worrying Democratic officials.”)
• Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations
• U.S. Retreats on ‘Zero Tolerance’ at Border to Stop Separations (“The announcement by the nation’s top border security official effectively revives the Obama administration’s ‘catch and release’ policy that has so angered President Trump.”)
• Bolton’s Top Aide Has Cozied Up to Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theorists (“Now Fred Fleitz is trying to distance himself from his own collaborators.”)
• Harley-Davidson to Shift Work Out of U.S. to Avoid Tariffs (“The American motorcycle manufacturer said that it would shift production to avoid retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union in response to President Trump’s trade moves.”)
• Sarah Sanders and the failure of “civility” (“A little impoliteness could be what America really needs.”)
• NOAA’s Research Just Shifted from Climate Change to “Empowering the Economy” and “National Security” (Except that national security and the economy are inextricably linked with climate change.)
• The Memo: Trump suffers early damage on separations
• Supreme Court just wrote a presumption of white racial innocence into the Constitution (“Congratulations, guys! Racism is fixed!”)
• We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners (“Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi. This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance, perhaps because most people tacitly agree that it’s O.K. to shun professional racists. It’s a little more complicated when the professional racist is the president of the United States. “)
• The Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Lives in Happy Gumdrop Land (“Their decision on Texas’s voting maps is delusional on multiple levels.”)
• The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity (“We got here around the time Newt Gingrich called for more civil discourse.”)
• This Is What You Signed Up For, Mad Dog (“Defense Secretary James Mattis gets roped into the Trump administration*’s border atrocities.”)
• Waters defends remarks about confronting Trump officials: ‘Protest is the democratic way’
• The media’s “civility” game helps Trump (“The Red Hen reaction shows how Trump benefits from backward media accountability…The idea is that the president and his cronies deserve respect and deference no matter what they say or do simply because of the offices they hold.”)
• Trump blasts Warner joke about Mueller probe
• Trump: Was Warner in ‘near drunken state’ when he made Mueller joke? (“On Monday, Warner said: ‘It was a bad joke. You know how seriously I take this investigation.'”)
• Trump attacks ‘filthy’ Red Hen, the Virginia restaurant that asked Sarah Sanders to leave (“According to its most recent state health inspection in February, the Red Hen restaurant had zero violations.”)
• Virginia GOP calls for boycott of restaurant that refused to serve Sanders (I’d take this somewhat seriously if and when the Virginia GOP denounced the Trump administration.)
• Trump’s Roach-Infested Restaurants Are Vile Compared to the Red Hen (“Seriously, some of the health-code violations in these places are disgusting.”)
• Seth Meyers: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Isn’t the ‘Victim,’ the Child Hostages Are (“I’m not saying I want everyone who works for Trump to be kicked out every time they go to a restaurant. I just want them to worry that they will be for the entire meal.”)
• Trump Responds To Maxine Waters’ Call To Action: ‘Be Careful What You Wish For’ (“The president’s tweet misrepresented the congresswoman’s comments about harassing Cabinet members.”)
• WATCH: CNN’s Chris Cuomo call BS on Rick Santorum demanding ‘civility’ while refusing to require it of Trump (Exactly; there is NOTHING civil about Trump – or many of his supporters, who chant “lock her up,” wear “Trump That B*tch” tshirts, etc.)
• Rachel Maddow obtains video of inside New York detention facility from woman who quit her job
• GOP Senate candidate says Civil War wasn’t about slavery
• Editorial: Allow recordings of prisoner interviews (“JOURNALISTS WHO want to interview inmates in Virginia prisons should be allowed to use audio and video recording devices.”)
• Old growth forest in Bath to become encampment in pipeline fight
• Virginia GOP committee votes to spend up to $30,000 in party funds to defend allies of losing congressional candidate (“On Saturday, members of the Sixth District Republican Committee voted 20-12 to hire a Republican attorney from Indiana to defend Scott Sayre, a former committee chairman and Dunbar supporter, as well as a handful of other party officials implicated in three federal campaign finance complaints.” Hahahaha.)
• Lobbying firm to Va. lawmakers: If you refuse Apco money, you won’t get any from us (Well, at least Apco is honest about its legalized corrupting of our state lawmakers.)
• Williams: Sarah Huckabee Sanders should have been served her meal. Here’s why.
• Northam visit tied to hiring at Newport News shipyard
• UPDATED: New Zealand man shot while breaking into Goochland home had met teenage girl online, carefully planned his trip to U.S.
• Metro must outfit all new trains with protective barriers by Dec. 31, regulators say
• Pleasant summer weather today; humidity and rain return tomorrow