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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, November 13.
- North Korea is still working on its ballistic missile program, say U.S. officials (“Recent intel and satellite photos of work on undeclared missile sites underscore that regardless of Trump’s statements, North Korean nukes remain a threat.”)
- Trump Completes a Shameful Trip to Paris, Just as He Needs the Global Stage
- In California, Climate Change Has Turned Rainy Season Into Fire Season
- California’s wildfires are hardly “natural” — humans made them worse at every step (“We fuel them. We build next to them. We ignite them.”)
- ‘Tell Your Boss’: Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince More Strongly to Khashoggi Killing
- Dow plunges by more than 600 points in massive market sell-off
- Truth and Virtue in the Age of Trump (“You’re a hero if and only if you serve The Leader’s interests.”)
- Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say (She’s not harsh/hard-line enough for the evil, vile Trump? Not enough kids in cages for him?)
- Brexit deal possible in 24-48 hours, May’s deputy says
- Armistice Day Celebrated Peace. That Peace Is Fraying. (“The United States is slipping the bonds that have tied it to its allies for seven decades.”)
- Sinema wins in Arizona as Democrats capture a longtime GOP Senate seat
- Donald Trump knows the true meaning of sacrifice (“On Veterans Day, Americans recall the sacrifices of those who served our country. We think of the bayonet charge of Maine’s 20th Regiment on Little Round Top, the young men battling through rain and poison gas in the Argonne, the soldiers in the frozen Ardennes Forest in the Battle of the Bulge. And we think of President Trump, battling rain for not one but two days in France this weekend.” Exactly!)
- Trump is cracking (Conservative Jennifer Rubin: “In sum, we should continue to tally Trump’s constitutional offenses just as we keep a running count of his lies. However, these offenses are part of a bigger picture of a failing president and a party incapable of breaking with him. Trump is cracking up, as is the GOP.”)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith Refuses to Apologize for “Public Hanging” Comment
- Turkey’s Erdogan says Khashoggi recordings ‘appalling’, shocked Saudi intelligence
- Michelle Obama reveals dread of Trump and how news cycle ‘turns her stomach’ (“In her new memoir, Becoming, the former first lady sometimes wonders ‘where the bottom might be’ as her husband’s legacy is aggressively unravelled”)
- Inside the Republican Strategy to Discredit the Florida Recount (Other than being evil, this is stupid, because if Rick Scott wins, that will be discredited too.)
- Why the 2018 Midterms May Have Been Bluer Than You Think (“The wave looks like it was real, even in places where the candidates didn’t win.”)
- What’s Happening in Florida Is a Nightmare. 2020 Could Be So Much Worse. (“There’s no mincing words: We are entering into a dangerous new phase in the voting wars. Last week, various election calamities were fueled by incendiary and unsupported claims by Trump and others of fraud, by pockets of incompetence of election administration, by partisanship in election administration, and by continued fundamental defects in how our elections are conducted.”)
- House Republicans set to elect similar team of leaders despite midterm thumping
- Why Can’t Democrats Win in Ohio? (“They’ve lost the Buckeye State—but maybe they never had it at all.”)
- Steve King dared a conservative magazine to release audio of him calling immigrants ‘dirt.’ It did. (Republican Steve King is a vicious racist and all-around scumbag. And his district’s voters keep electing him. Kinda tells you all you need to know about King’s voters.)
- A not-so-fond farewell to Dana Rohrabacher, Putin’s best friend in Congress
- Trump celebrates Veterans Day by pushing to disenfranchise overseas military voters (“According to Florida law, ballots from military personnel overseas must be counted if they arrive by November 16.”)
- Republicans used redistricting to build a wall around the House. Trump just tore it down. (“GOP gerrymandering did not envision the upending of the Republican coalition.”)
- How Democrats Won Over Older Voters—And Flipped the House (“Democrats were victorious because they fought Republicans to a draw among Americans age 50 and up. How they did that is the story of the 2018 election.”)
- Conservatives have gone fully fact-free: So how the heck do we even talk to them? (“The ‘debate’ over the Jim Acosta video shows the right has no use for facts. Is there any way to talk to them?”)
- Comics pioneer Stan Lee has died. His legacy is already immortal
- Congress returns: Can lawmakers avoid a government shutdown?
- Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York (“The choice of Crystal City in Arlington County as one of the winners could cement Northern Virginia’s reputation as a magnet for business and potentially reshape the Washington region into an eastern outpost of Silicon Valley over the next decade.”)
- School Responds After Photo of Teens Making Nazi Salute Goes Viral (“In the photo, most of the 60 boys from Baraboo High School, where students of color make up 12 percent of the nearly 1,000 students, in Baraboo, Wisconsin doing the Nazi salute and laughing. The photo was taken last spring. According to one user, the salute was done at the suggestion of the photographer, Peter Gust.”)
- Judge Delays Georgia Election Results To Protect Provisional Ballots (“Election results — including those of the gubernatorial battle between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp — can’t be certified until at least Friday.”)
- U.S. Bishops Had a Plan to Curb Sex Abuse. Rome Ordered Them to Wait. (Seriously?)
- Pelosi warns against ousting a woman
- Whitaker’s Appointment as Acting Attorney General Faces Court Challenge
- We’re Suing the Florida Governor. He Should Not Oversee His Own Election. (“A growing number of government officials are misusing their office in egregious ways to try to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor.”)
- After historic Virginia win, a former CIA case officer goes to Washington (Her name is Abigail Spanberger!)
- These Virginia congresswomen-elect made history. Just don’t call it a pink wave. (No doubt that since Trump was elected, there’s been a massive, 100% justified backlash to the misogynist-in-chief by women – stepping up, becoming activists, running for office, WINNING office, etc. Go women!)
- Mark J. Rozell: State GOP in denial about Election Day (VA GOP Chair Jack Wilson doesn’t know jack about how to fix his disastrously broken party.)
- Special Election SD33: Candidate Interview #3 Sharafat Hussein
- Special Election SD33: Candidate Interview #2 Jennifer Boysko
- Special Election SD33: Candidate Interview #1 Charlotte McConnell
- Leech: Dominion wants to fleece its customers for an unneeded pipeline (It’s completely unneeded by Virginia/Virginians. So why’s it being built? It’s profitable for DOMINION to do so. And they’re greedy AF. And they have bought off our elected officials. The end.)
- VPAP Jumps the Shark Again…Falsely Claims Most Densely Populated, Bluest Parts of Virginia Play “Outsized Role…in Electoral Map” (No, VPAP, That Is NOT How Elections Work.)
- CASEY: A push for Virginia to approve the Equal Rights Amendment (“Could Virginia become the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? A band of progressive lawmakers in the General Assembly hopes so. They’ve launched a statewide bus tour in favor of the ERA, which failed to pass in the legislature earlier this year.”)
- Virginia Politics Episode 27: The life of a freshman legislator (Part III)
- Washington won its piece of Amazon’s HQ2. Now comes the hard part.
- Meet Linda Sperling, Running to Represent the Springfield District on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
- Alicia Plerhoples Announces Candidacy for Fairfax County School Board, Dranesville District
- Voter registration through the DMV can be an imperfect process, one voter learns
- Bird scooters need to take a flight out of town
- Wilhelm and McCormick: Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains now have a silver lining
- Rain ends early today but clouds persist. Cold Wednesday before possible Thursday wintry mix.
