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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, March 12.
- May Gets Late-Night Deal, Focus Turns to Key Vote: Brexit Update
- UK might never leave EU if Prime Minister’s Tuesday’s Brexit vote fails (“If lawmakers don’t take their final chance to vote for British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal on Tuesday, then — in the words of European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker — the United Kingdom might never leave the European Union.”)
- Brexit Vote Looming, Theresa May Secures E.U. Help
- Ethiopian Airlines Crash Updates: Australia and Singapore Ban Boeing 737 Max Jets
- New York Attorney General Opens Investigation of Trump Projects
- Mueller May Drop Second Report That Can’t Be Buried (“The special counsel isn’t only looking for crimes: he continues the counterintelligence investigation that started with suspicious Trump-Russia contacts in 2016.”)
- Medicare-for-all v. Medicare-for-less: Trump’s proposed cuts put health care at center of 2020 race (“Trump’s 10-year budget unveiled Monday calls for more than $845 billion in reductions for Medicare” That alone should be enough to motivate everyone to vote Trump out of office in November 2020.)
- Winners, losers and 8 other key takeaways from Trump’s plan (“President Trump’s budget would keep $1 trillion deficits coming for years, even after making significant cuts to non-military programs, including Medicare.” I never want to hear again how Republicans are anything but 100% fiscally IRresponsible.)
- The President’s Budget Is a Blueprint for Another Government Shutdown (“Would Trump really let this happen? Yes, he would.”)
- Trump’s Budget Proposal Is Exactly What We Expected. It’ll Also Be Dead on Arrival. (“The optimism flows like molasses.”)
- Trump’s 2020 budget proposal seriously cuts the nation’s safety net (“Ahead of 2020, Trump is going after Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and more.”)
- The White House’s New Budget Exposes Donald Trump’s Lies About Protecting Medicare and Medicaid
- Trump’s Fantasy Budget Is a Next-Level Horror Show for Everyone but the Wall
- Sarah Sanders Denies Knowledge of Porn Payoff, Flees Press Briefing
- Vitriol and deflection: The return of the White House press briefing
- Sarah Sanders won’t say if Trump believes Dems hate Jews
- Trump’s Epic History of Coddling, Promoting and Refusing to Denounce Anti-Semitism (“President Trump is the most successful, prominent promoter of anti-Semitism in American history. Certainly he is the only president who has ever compiled such a record.”)
- LePage: Democratic Party’s ‘Money’ Comes From Jews ‘For The Most Part’ (Another bigoted, anti-Semitic Republican…this time the former governor of Maine.)
- Former vice president Cheney challenges Pence at private retreat, compares Trump’s foreign policy to Obama’s approach (That’s a moronic comparison, of course. In fact, Trump’s foreign policy is a toxic combo of corrupt, incompetent, isolationist and friendly towards dictatorial thugs.)
- Unearthed audio shows Tucker Carlson using white nationalist rhetoric and making racist remarks (“Carlson credited ‘white men’ for ‘creating civilization’ and made numerous racist remarks about the Obamas, including agreeing that Michelle Obama would ‘be a problem’ because she ‘turns into a sister’ and asking of Barack Obama, ‘How is he Black, for one thing? He has one white parent, one Black parent.’ Carlson called Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys” and said Afghanistan is ‘never going to be a civilized country because the people aren’t civilized.’ He also said he had ‘zero sympathy’ for Iraqis because they ‘don’t use toilet paper or forks’ and that the war could turn around ‘if, somehow, the Iraqis decided to behave like human beings.'”)
- Fox News host Tucker Carlson uses racist, homophobic language in second wave of damaging audio
- That Time Tucker Carlson Called Me the C-Word (“For Fox News, Carlson’s history of foul sexist comments is a plus, not a liability.”)
- Donald Trump at risk for alleged role in hush payments, Stormy Daniels’ former lawyer believes
- Trump’s China scandal: An entire new wave of sleaze and corruption surfaces in Florida (“Behind the Robert Kraft arrest lies a tangled web of sex, money and corruption, with Trump once again at the center”)
- The Old, White Giant (“Joe Biden’s age, race, and controversial record present loads of vulnerabilities in 2020. Here’s why he’s still the obvious favorite to be the Democratic nominee.”)
- The Power of Petty Personal Rage (“Straw police, hamburger paranoia and the state of the right.”)
- Iconic Forests Reaching Climate Tipping Points in American West, Study Finds (“Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forests are struggling to regrow after wildfires in parts of the West as temperatures rise and the air and soil become drier.”)
- We need to talk about the ethics of having children in a warming world (It’s not just climate chaos, it’s also environmental destruction in general.)
- Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It’ (“In a wide-ranging interview, the country’s most powerful Democrat says Trump is unfit to be president — ‘ethically,’ ‘intellectually’ and ‘curiosity-wise’ — but impeachment would be too divisive.”)
- Progressives Say Impeachment an Option Despite Pelosi Comments (“Some Democrats say they don’t want to take option off table”)
- If Nancy Pelosi Believes Trump Is a Threat Then She Must Impeach Him (“Saying our country can withstand Trump is a fatuous cop out.”)
- Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup (Facebook inadvertently provides evidence as to why is *should* be broken up.)
- Kirsten Gillibrand Gets Her Own #MeToo Scandal
- Touting clean coal, Wheeler calls climate activists ‘oblivious’ (“Our fossil fuels are extracted and produced in a more environmentally conscious manner than anywhere else in the world.” This guy is completely corrupt. And demented.)
- Beto O’Rourke heading to Iowa, fueling speculation about White House bid
- Labor unions wield increased clout in crowded Democratic 2020 race
- Warner calls military housing ‘atrocious,’ vows action for families
- Virginia’s Elected Democratic Officials Continue to Disappoint on the Pipeline Issue
- Va. prisons will begin reporting solitary confinement data, but some worry new law was ‘watered down’
- Bridging our digital divides
- Gov. Northam: Virginia’s Unemployment Rate Remains Steady at 2.8%
- BREAKING: Del. Debra Rodman (D-HD73) Announces to Take on Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant (R-SD12)
- Del. Debra Rodman joins Democratic primary for Dunnavant’s state Senate seat
- Secret Polls & Primary Favoritism: Revelations from SD 12
- Majority of Richmond City Council members oppose Stoney’s proposed property tax increase
- Editorial: Ocasio-Cortez should accept Liberty’s invitation (I wouldn’t legitimize “Liberty” “University,” any more than I’d legitimize Fox.)
- The Bank of Virginia Act Launches!
- Editorial: Beach must sort through election turmoil
- Ashley McLeod Not Running for 7th Senate District
- Fairfax Dems: “What you need to know for the School Board Endorsement Meeting”
- Virginia Beach City Council will likely hold public interviews to replace councilman
- Virginia Beach School Board member who lost seat is challenging his removal (“Joel McDonald’s spot became vacant Thursday when he said that six months ago, he moved out of the Rose Hall District he was elected to represent. A board attorney told him that meant he could no longer be a member. But McDonald, 34, who began serving in 2013, thinks state law does not necessarily prevent him from continuing to serve.”)
- Virginia EMT who made racist remarks on a white supremacist podcast loses his job
- Dry but cool into Wednesday. Then quite mild Thursday and Friday.
