by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, May 6.
- UN report: “One million species threatened with extinction because of humans” (So infuriating and depressing.)
- Shocking New Report On Loss Of Nature Paints A Terrifying Picture For The Future Of Humanity (We need to stop increasing the human population, reduce our consumption levels – such as meat, of course – drastically, and set aside half of the planet for nature, as EO Wilson has proposed.)
- Israel and Gaza militants agree to cease-fire after weekend of violence
- Trump massively raises tariffs against China at the expense of the U.S. consumer (“Trump will raise tariffs from 10% to 25% on some Chinese goods. Americans can expect to see prices to go up.”)
- Navy strike group deployed to send ‘message’ to Iran (“John Bolton said the maneuver is meant as a warning to Tehran.”)
- U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier And Bombers To Send ‘Unmistakable Message’ To Iran
- Trump’s ‘foolish’ plan for dealing with Kim Jong-un looks set to ‘blow up in his face’: North Korea expert
- Trump Makes Wild, Improbable Tariff Threat to China Ahead of Trade Talks
- Stocks Slump as Trump’s Threat of New Tariffs Scares Investors (“The president injected fear into global markets that had been reassured by growth in China and the United States and by prospects of a trade pact.”)
- Trump’s Tariff Threat Leaves Beijing Stalling on Next Talks
- The Real Trump Foreign Policy: Stoking the G.O.P. Base (“Why else would he pursue so many policies in Latin America that do not serve the national interest?”)
- Trump Scared to Let Robert Mueller Testify, Despite ‘Exoneration’ (Can we say “guilty as sin?”)
- Trump Objects to Mueller Testifying Before Congress (Which, of course, means that Mueller absolutely SHOULD testify before Congress.)
- Trump warns presidency is being stolen amid Mueller angst
- Trump: 2 years of my term were ‘stollen’
- Moscow airport plane fire: more than 40 die in Aeroflot emergency landing (“The Russian Sukhoi Superjet with 78 passengers on board bounced along tarmac before bursting in to flame”)
- The Trailer: Why the world is missing from the Democratic primary
- Pelosi said Trump might not leave office if he loses in 2020. He once said himself he might not.(“In 2016, the president said he might not accept the election results if he didn’t like them.”)
- Defending the Free Press (“Expression, and the right to publish it, is a human right. And yet, President Trump continues to disregard this.”)
- Boeing Knew About 737 Max Sensor Problem Before Plane Crash In Indonesia (Anyone going to jail over this?)
- Michael Cohen, by Turns Lawyer and Witness, Becomes an Inmate
- Anatomy of a smear: How far-right websites spread a fake story about Pete Buttigieg
- How Americans — And Democratic Candidates — Feel About Letting Felons Vote (“The farthest-left position — Sanders’s — is to follow in the footsteps of Maine and Vermont by never stripping felons of their voting rights to begin with…In a March 2018 poll for HuffPost, YouGov found that 24 percent of U.S. adults supported restoring felons’ voting rights while they are in prison and 58 percent opposed it, including 41 percent who were ‘strongly’ opposed.”)
- Bernie 2.0: Sanders Decides to Play Rough This Time (I thought he played pretty rough the last time. No, thank you.)
- Trump Says Kentucky Derby Upset Happened Because of Political Correctness (Trump is completely unhinged.)
- With Renewables so Competitive, Big Plans for Oil and Gas Investments Look Risky (Hello Dominion?)
- Warner talks federal tariffs, brewers talk local distribution challenges
- Dominion keeps trying to pull the wool over our eyes (“…almost none of the solar Dominion is developing is for ordinary residents, in spite of what the ad implies. Almost all of it is for data centers and other large customers.”)
- Property owners protest pipeline procurement process
- Editorial: Virginia’s looming doctor shortage (“Real and significant”)
- Video: At Start of Debate, Sen. Barbara Favola Apologizes to Nicole Merlene; Says “I respect you and I respect your campaign”
- Fairfax Co. Program Aims to Put Mentally Ill People in Treatment Instead of Jail (“Jail is one of the worst places for someone in the midst of a mental health crisis, yet it’s often where mentally ill people wind up. Fairfax County has a new effort to swap jail for treatment” Excellent job by Fairfax County’s Commonwealth Attorney Ray Morrogh!)
- Local health districts tackle rising STD rates
- Tuck, Rowell, Hunt, and LaBarbera: A team approach to the opioid epidemic
- Virginia Pipeline Resistance Produces “To the River,” a Video and Song Anthem for the Movement – Made Entirely With Solar Power
- Kenny Boddye Responds to Prince William Republican Nomination of John Gray (“John Gray represents the xenophobic views of Corey Stewart, and the transphobic views of Bob Marshall”)
- How a music star helped Virginia’s largest city solve a beach weekend headache
- A very nice start to the week. The second half is a little less settled but mostly mild.
