by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 27.
- Hong Kong Protests: Police Fire Tear Gas as Tens of Thousands Demonstrate Where Mob Rampaged
- ‘Unprecedented’: more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season (“Huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska are producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from space”)
- Europe’s heat wave is about to bake the Arctic
- Trump Just Strong-Armed Guatemala Into a “Safe Third Country” Agreement. Now What? (“Asylum seekers passing through Guatemala must apply for protection there—not in the US.”)
- After Tariff Threat, Trump Says Guatemala Has Agreed to New Asylum Rules (“Guatemala will require migrants traveling through it to seek asylum there instead of in the U.S.”)
- Scientists want to make it a war crime to damage the environment in a conflict (“They’re calling for a new Geneva Convention.”)
- Donald Trump’s Entire Story About the Economy Fell Apart This Week
- Trump struggles to achieve 3 percent economic goal as growth slows
- Supreme Court Lets Trump Border Wall Move Forward, But Legal Fight Still Looms (“Following the Supreme Court’s stay on Friday, the ACLU said it will now try to expedite the hearing before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over the legality of Trump’s actions.”)
- Supreme Court Lets Trump Proceed on Border Wall (Totally illegitimate decision by a totally illegitimate Supreme Court.)
- Trump’s Wall Gets America Nowhere on Border Security (“Immigration reform is long overdue, but it must be based on inclusion and humanity, not on cruel posturing.”)
- The Supreme Court’s Republicans just told Trump to build his wall (“Trump’s fellow partisans come through for him again.” Including at least one stolen seat.)
- Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset
- Raising Prospect of Impeaching Trump, House Seeks Mueller’s Grand Jury Secrets (“In a court filing, House Democrats said they need access to secret grand jury evidence because they are weighing whether to recommend impeaching President Trump.”)
- Why We’re Moving Forward With Impeachment (“Our Constitution requires it. Our democracy depends on it.”)
- The Democratic divide over impeaching Trump, explained (“…party leaders like Speaker Nancy Pelosi remain firmly opposed to an impeachment push. Calculating that there’s zero chance the Senate will remove Trump from office, they fear a controversial impeachment vote would harm Democrats representing districts that voted for Trump — something that could put the House majority at risk.”)
- Rand Paul Fights Sanctions on Russian Pipeline (“The Trump ally has quietly moved to postpone efforts to hit the Russian project, and is lobbying his colleagues against a new sanctions bill.”)
- Koch-funded group wants you to believe it’s scandalous to support clean energy policies
- Pelosi says she’s ‘not trying to run out the clock’ on Trump impeachment
- Unless Democrats wake up, history could repeat itself (“…voices for job creation, tightening stitches in the safety net, sticking to bread-and-butter issues and making Trump’s first term his last are drowned by the sounds of wannabe political celebrities and rookie gurus tooting their own horns.”)
- You probably missed it, but Facebook just had a very bad week (“Endless debate over the Mueller report allowed the company to avoid publicity over a record-breaking fine.”)
- A $5 billion fine won’t change anything at Facebook. And there’s a bigger problem.
- McConnell under fire for burying election bills in ‘legislative graveyard’
- Washington Post columnist accuses McConnell of doing ‘Putin’s bidding’
- Impeachment Calls and a Booker-Biden Fight: This Week in the 2020 Race (“The 2020 Democrats reacted to the Mueller testimony, candidates tried out attacks before next week’s debates and Joe Biden received some good news.”)
- CNN needs to make the climate crisis a focus at its upcoming debate — even though it will host a climate town hall this fall (“And we still need a dedicated climate debate too”)
- Mayor Pete Doesn’t Have a Climate Plan Yet. This Answer Gives a Major Hint at What It Will Look Like (“The time has come to treat climate disruption as the threat that it is.”)
- Congress Should Not Go on Vacation for Six Goddamn Weeks (“In that time, the president* will be the whole entire government.”)
- Lies, damn lies, and media: Right-wing repetition of debunked narratives reshapes reality (“The conservative press stays untethered from the truth by design”)
- Tiger Beat on the Potomac Returns With a Bizarro Take on Trump’s ‘Good Week’ (“The old ways die hard over at Politico.”)
- US Senators Tim Kaine and Mazie Hirono visit Border Patrol facilities holding migrant children in El Paso area
- Virginia’s November Elections May Finally Cement Its Status As A Blue State (“And Democrats controlling the Virginia state legislature in 2020 would have long-lasting effects for the party nationwide.
- The Best Thing You Can Do to Defeat Trump in 2020 is to Help Virginia Win in 2019
- Trump will speak at Jamestown event marking 400 years of representative government (” President Trump will speak before the General Assembly at Jamestown on Tuesday to help commemorate the 400th anniversary of representative government in the United States, a White House official confirmed Friday. Several Democratic lawmakers vowed to boycott any event attended by Trump when news broke last week that he had been invited to the ceremonies.”)
- Judge Halts Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s Land-Grab Attempt
- Flip-A-District Friday: Martha Mugler (HD91), Kevin Washington (HD97), Phil Hernandez (HD100) and Darlene Lewis (HD8)
- Schapiro: Mueller testimony as a tale of two Virginians
- BREAKING: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Deals Another Crushing Blow to Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- Federal court strikes down Fish and Wildlife permit for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- Missing paperwork could force Va. Republican to run as write-in
- On the Politics Hour, Del. Lee Carter Discusses Socialism, Jamestown, Unionized Campaigns, Amazon, Guns, etc.
- Virginia ACLU asks judge to toss defamation suit connected to Confederate statue debate
- Students at a Virginia school set out to fight segregation. Would they succeed? (“Stonewall Jackson High School in Prince William County, Virginia. Students and others protested a school boundary plan they said resulted in segregation.”)
- Virginian-Pilot alums launch statewide investigative reporting center
- Sen. Norment, once the highest-paid adjunct professor at William & Mary, no longer teaches there
- Nearly 650 Virginia bridges are ‘structurally deficient’
- A Hanover County veterans group plays war games in wooded wetlands. Neighbors want them to stop.
- Fort Monroe officials recommend removing letters off Jefferson Davis arch
- ‘Guns down, prayers up’: Roanoke leaders implore peace after violence
- Former educator gets prison time for filming girls in Loudoun Co. high schools
- Near and above 90 this weekend into early week, with few if any rain risks
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