by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, November 28.
- It’s Not Just America: Climate Policies Are Stumbling Worldwide (“According to the UN, most major polluters are not on track to meet their Paris goals. But critics say that accounting may be too pessimistic.” It had better be too pessimistic…)
- President Trump Says He’s Too Intelligent To Believe In Climate Change (“The government’s own climate report predicts the planet will warm dramatically by 2100 without urgent efforts to rein in emissions. Trump responds, ‘I don’t see it.'” Apparently, Trump actually WANTS to kill us all.)
- Russia to deploy new missiles to Crimea as Ukraine tensions rise
- Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting in wide-ranging interview with The Post (Questioning climate change is heinous, slamming the Fed chair for doing his job is totally wrong, etc. This guy has absolutely ZERO business being “president.”)
- Manafort’s Lawyer Said to Brief Trump Attorneys on What He Told Mueller
- Manafort allegations throw new uncertainty into Russia probe
- ‘If I could ask a follow-up’: Acosta, Sanders make polite return to White House briefing room (“No one mentioned CNN’s legal fight with the White House or new rules governing reporters’ behavior.”)
- Pelosi faces down her enemies in first key vote for speaker (“House Democrats are expected to overwhelmingly endorse Pelosi as their nominee for speaker during a closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday, despite opposition from a band of vocal critics.”)
- Trump threatens to cut subsidies for GM after layoff, plant closure announcement
- Exclusive: Ivanka Trump defends use of private email, brushes aside Mueller probe
- Obamacare Sign-Ups Lag As Trump Slashes Funds For Enrollment Help (Trump is clearly trying to sabotage this law.)
- Paul Manafort May Have Something Much Worse Than Prison to Be Afraid Of (“Or, perhaps, he’s banking on a pardon. Why else would he cross Robert Mueller again?”)
- The ‘Problem Solvers Caucus’ Would Solve a Lot of Problems By Sitting Down and Shutting Up (“Nancy Pelosi is under no obligation to ‘reach across the aisle.’ And who are these people, anyway?” Hard to decide who’s worse, the “Problem Solvers Caucus” or “No Labels”)
- Trump Could Seek a China Trade Truce at G-20, Despite Tough Talk
- Bombshell Report: Paul Manafort Met Secretly With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- Mississippi runoff: Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith wins racially charged election over Democrat Mike Espy (Yep, white people in Mississippi are still white people in Mississippi.)
- Black Mississippi Deserves Better
- CNN and NBC betray Sunday viewers seeking analysis on damning climate change report (Chuck Todd/NBC and CNN are both disgraces.)
- Senate Set to Vote on Lifetime Judgeship for Defender of Voter Suppression Laws (That’s bonkers; how is this guy even up for a vote???)
- CNN keeps letting guests and paid commentators lie about climate scientists (“It’s not true that scientists do climate research to get rich, and CNN knows it”)
- Supreme Court poised to drastically reverse LGBTQ equality (“It could be a disastrous year for LGBTQ rights.”)
- New Sinclair ‘must-run’ segment defends use of tear gas on migrant children (Don’t watch any TV “news” owned by Sinclair.)
- MSNBC declines to allow Sarah Sanders to dictate its programming
- With McCain’s replacement likely to leave, GOP is split over appointing this year’s loser in Senate race
- Obama World lovefest for O’Rourke is growing (“Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) is inspiring aides and allies of former President Obama, who say they could support him if he decides to run for president in 2020.”)
- Paul Manafort’s reported meeting with Assange is the clearest example of collusion yet
- ‘Working papers’ exemption claimed to shield governor’s calendar amid pipeline permit uproar (Coverup.)
- Sen. Tim Kaine looking forward to the future
- ‘Ugly episode:’ Northam allies slam his decision to alter board before Dominion vote (“Governor’s office denied charges of favoritism and said the vote is not a big concern.” No, Walton Shepherd, the “only explanation” is NOT “bad advice and bad judgment.” There are other explanations, including that Northam is totally under Dominion Energy’s sway, that he actually believes in these idiotic fracked-gas pipelines, etc. As for the Post article, it mostly rehashes what we’ve already written on Blue Virginia, without of course any link or credit.)
- What a gas! Dominion, Smithfield team to turn methane from hog waste into fuel for homes and businesses (Two awful companies.)
- Smithfield and Dominion team up to produce power from hog gas
- Will Scott Taylor try to get his seat back in 2020? He’s leaving the door open.
- Air board member with conflict of interest won’t vote on compressor station
- ‘We’re really living in a time of broken government,’ former Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling says in Danville visit (No, we’re really not. What we’re living in is a time of Republicans working as hard as they can to break government, our system of democracy, etc.)
- Norfolk firefighter says city forced him out after learning he was gay (“Scott Phillips-Gartner is suing, saying the city’s fire department stripped him of his rank and required him to spend months at a temporary facility ‘with little to no job duties.'”)
- Brian K. Payne: Hampton Roads will share in Amazon’s success
- Blustery and cold today with a wind advisory; warmer this weekend with rain chance
