by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, July 5.
- Poland’s Supreme Court Is in Disarray as Judges Defy Purge (“Lech Walesa, the Solidarity leader and former president, warned of ‘civil war’ if the right-wing governing party did not cease efforts to erode the independence of Poland’s judiciary.”)
- ‘Fire and Fury’ No More: Trump’s Softer Tone on North Korea
- How Trump Is Undermining Industries He Pledged to Help
- UK calls on Russia to give details of nerve attack after two more people struck down
- Amesbury Novichok poisoning: Couple exposed to nerve agent (“A man and woman found unconscious in Wiltshire were exposed to Novichok – the same nerve agent that poisoned ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, police say.”)
- U.S. ‘opening fire’ on world with tariff threats, China says
- Woman Scales Lady Liberty After ‘Abolish ICE’ Banner Unfurled at Statue of Liberty (“ESU officers were able to capture the woman on the base of the statue hours after they initially responded”)
- The White House tries to extend its cruel crusade against migrant families (“The Trump administration seeks to reunify families — in indefinite detention.”)
- Progressives poised to shape agenda if Dems take back House
- Congress’s latest farm bill sets a new standard of ugliness (“While continuing price supports for sugar producers, the House makes it tougher for the poor to get food aid.”)
- The Trump Supreme Court pick who’d pose the biggest danger to abortion rights (“There’s no knowing for sure how Amy Coney Barrett would vote. But it’s a pretty sure bet.”)
- Conservative columnist pens scathing July 4th column calling for destruction of ‘white-nationalist’ GOP (“In a blistering opinion piece in the Washington Post, long-time conservative commentator Max Boot called out the Republican Party for becoming the ‘white-nationalist party with a conservative fringe’ under President Donald Trump and advocated for the complete destruction of the GOP as it now stands.”)
- I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over. (“I can’t respect head-in-the-sand conservatives who continue to support the GOP by pretending that nothing has changed.”)
- The centrist heavenly chorus is off-key (“The share of Democrats in the ideological middle is nearly twice that of Republicans.”)
- Trump is destroying what July 4th stands for (“America was founded on unity, truth, and even sustainability–all of which Trump opposes”)
- Trump’s Supreme Court search unleashes fierce politicking (“Much of the oppo effort has focused on D.C. Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh.”)
- Climate Change Is Making It Harder to Revive Damaged Land
- Almost Half The Country Thinks Donald Trump Is A Racist (There’s actually half the country that does NOT think Trump’s a racist? Alrighty.)
- Editorial: The issue that unites Kaine and Trump (“What has brought about this rare harmonic convergence? The precise subject at hand is career and technical education, which used to be something of an afterthought for many people but in recent years has started to become trendy.”)
- Virginia sees high honeybee losses over winter (“Virginia lost 59.5 percent of its honeybee colonies last winter, nearly double the average rate for the past decade, according to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services…A healthy honeybee colony typically loses about 15 to 20 percent of its bees each winter, according to Yale University researchers.”)
- President Trump, Sen. Kaine in Loudoun County for Independence Day (Trump was, of course, golfing.)
- Port of Virginia Capacity Expansion Project Passes Half-Way Point
- Fairfax system rejects former student’s assault claim, calls it ‘sexual encounter’
- Virginia Regulators OK Plan to Fix Alexandria Sewers
- Newport News business finds delay before expanded rainwater harvesting is allowed
- Heat won’t budge today, but a nice break expected for the weekend
