by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 21.
- A Global Heat Wave Has Set the Arctic Circle on Fire (We need to GET OFF OF FOSSIL FUELS NOW.)
- Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model
- Cohen recording revelation catches Trump in a lie about McDougal payment (“We have no knowledge of any of this.”)
- Currency War Erupts, Threatening to Ripple Across Global Markets
- Trump Opens a Dangerous New Trade-War Front (“Competitive currency devaluation probably won’t end well.”)
- What we learned from Trump’s worst foreign policy week ever (“The five main takeaways from Trump’s disastrous Russia week.”)
- New Mattis Statement Stops Juuuuust Short of Saying Everything Trump Did This Week Was a Bad Idea
- Neo-Confederates reach out to their ‘Russian friends’ in new project (How about our own neo-Confederate Corey Stewart?)
- This Would Be Delicious If It Weren’t So Poisonous (“The Vlad and Donnie Show got renewed for the fall.”)
- Trump Doubles Down on Russia. The Spies Shake Their Heads in Disbelief. (Trump is the ultimate “useful idiot.”)
- President Says Fed, China and Europe Hurt U.S. Economy (Trump is too stupid for words.)
- Climate Change and the Giant Iceberg Off Greenland’s Shore
- Trump is reviving the policies that once darkened the world (“Europe has gone 73 years without a war, the longest stretch in two millennia.”)
- Did Putin share stolen election data with Trump? (“The Russian hackers appear to be the modern equivalents of the Watergate burglars.” This scandal is far worse than Watergate on many levels, starting with the involvement of a hostile foreign power.)
- Dan Coats and Rod Rosenstein Defy Trump
- Trump’s new midterm threat: A trade war smacking voters (“Market analysts, industry experts and economists warn the economic fallout of the president’s tariffs could peak around election time.”)
- Coats faces greater scrutiny as fallout from Russia summit spreads (“Trump is said to be exasperated with his national intelligence director, but a direct challenge could lead to a congressional firestorm.” Trump the authoritarian is “exasperated” that someone stood up to him.)
- Experts explain why Trump loyalists refuse to accept that their idol is compromised
- Baltimore sues Big Oil over climate change, is undeterred by NYC ruling (“Similar efforts in NYC and California have been so far unsuccessful, but that isn’t stopping the movement.”)
- ‘I Couldn’t Stop Laughing. It’s So Ridiculous.’ A Surreal Week of Excuse-Making at the White House.
- GOP to White House: End summit mystery
- Barack Obama Still Doesn’t Understand Donald Trump (“White supremacy does not exist in good faith, and its opponents aren’t to blame for failing to change those who end up seduced by it. A lack of power among those opponents is the problem. Trump seems to have a better grasp on the primacy of power than Obama and his Democratic allies.”)
- Trump floats season suspension for NFL players protesting anthem (The one who should be suspended, preferably for life, is Trump himself.)
- If Michael Cohen Is Smart, There’s More Than One Tape (“And if I’m on the President*’s legal team, I’m telling Rudy to stop helping right about now.”)
- Steve Bannon Launches Right-Wing Foundation to Hijack Europe
- Purging Minority Voters Is a Republication Tradition Three Generations in the Making (“Who needs Russia’s help when you’ve got the Supreme Court doing your dirty work?”)
- White House sources say Trump is ‘frustrated’ and lashing out at allies for not defending him after Putin fiasco: report
- Trump Digs In Against Criticism on Multiple Fronts
- Study: NY Times, Wash. Post quote more than twice as many Republicans as Democrats in political coverage (So much for these papers being “liberal media.”)
- Democrats Should Ignore Mitch McConnell’s Ultimatum on Kavanaugh
- Trump embarrassed our country: Sen. Warner
- Trump’s adult sons are costing taxpayers a fortune as they gallivant around the world doing private business deals (Can you imagine if this were President Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea?)
- Sen. Warner Slams GOP for Apparent ZTE ‘Cave’
- WATCH LIVE: Tim Kaine and Corey Stewart meet for first U.S. Senate debate in Virginia (“The debate, moderated by PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff, will take place Saturday at a Virginia Bar Association forum in Hot Springs, Va.”)
- We know eviction rates are high in Virginia. New research effort aims to tell us why.
- Virginia Anti-Corruption Movement Faces Down Corporate Backlash (Virginia, appallingly, is “one of only six states that don’t limit political contibutions from corporations.”
- 5th District Hopeful Leslie Cockburn Hears from Community at Meet-And-Greet
- Schapiro: As a foil to Trump, Warner gets his mojo back
- At the General Assembly, the chase for money never pauses
- UVA’s hire of departing Trump official draws ire of professors and students (“The university should not serve as a waystation for high-level members of an administration that has directly harmed our community and to this day attacks the institutions vital to a free society” Correct.)
- ‘Crying Nazi’ barred from Virginia after pleading guilty to assault during Charlottesville rally (“Christopher Cantwell is free from jail but must leave the state and cannot return for five years, prosecutors said.”)
- VaNews, the New Power Broker in the Virginia Media Landscape (VPAP does a lot of good things, but its director, David Poole, is wayyyy off base in his decisions regarding which publications to include – and more to the point, EXCLUDE – from its morning news roundup. For instance, Poole includes crazy, far-right editorials from the Republican Times-Disgrace, but does NOT include straight news reporting or unique analysis from Virginia political blogs, right or left, including this one. Why not? I’ve had this discussion with him and with others at VPAP, and the responses are simply not serious. In short, of course VPAP should be including the Virginia Mercury, as well as whatever Google News includes from Virginia political blogs, unless it’s hate speech or something crazy. This really isn’t that hard.)
- Southern Environmental Law Center founder to hand over reins
- Senators vow to fight stripping federal funds to enforce Chesapeake Bay cleanup
- Get ready for more sweltering summers in Fairfax County (“Arlington County has a staff of nine and a dedicated budget of close to $2 million a year. Fairfax County has a coordinator. Other counties and cities regionally and nationwide have demonstrated that a dedicated office with budget, authority and accountability leads to results. But Bulova insists there is no need.” Pathetic excuse for “leadership” in Fairfax County.)
- Mockumentary exposes gullibility, excesses of Virginia gun rights leader
- Artwork from inmates at Virginia jails goes on display at Torpedo Factory
- With Job Done, Buona to Bow Out of 2019 Race
- Editorial: When will Roanoke honor Oliver Hill? (“Perhaps no other name stands out more than that of Oliver Hill, one of the nation’s most important civil rights lawyers. Hill wasn’t born in Roanoke but he did grow up here and practiced law here for the first three years of his legal career (1933-1936) before the Depression made it tough to find clients.”)
- Waves of rain today, then staying wet at times into next week
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