by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 28.
- Under Brazil’s Far Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall (Exactly what was feared. Ugh.)
- Oceans Are Melting Glaciers from Below Much Faster than Predicted, Study Finds (“Tidewater glaciers are being ‘eaten away on both ends’ as global warming worsens, suggesting faster sea level rise and ice melt that can alter ocean ecosystems.”)
- Get Ready for the World Economy’s Biggest Week of 2019 (“U.S. jobs report, China-U.S. trade talks jostle for attention”)
- Expectations Modest as U.S.-China Trade Negotiators Resume Talks in Shanghai
- Boris Johnson forms “war cabinet” to prepare for no-deal Brexit
- Assuming EU will not budge, Britain ramps up preparations for no-deal Brexit
- No-deal Brexit now ‘assumed’ by government, says Gove (Crazy.)
- More than 1,000 arrested at Moscow election protest: “Russia will be free!”
- Extreme weather has damaged nearly half Australia’s marine ecosystems since 2011 (“CSIRO says dramatic climate events are compounding the effects of underlying global heating”)
- Anti-Gay Brutality in a Polish Town Blamed on Poisonous Propaganda
- Trump’s Economy Is in Dangerous Territory (“New numbers suggest that the president’s trade war is weighing down growth.”)
- Environmental groups vow to fight on after Supreme Court okays Trump’s border wall (“Activists and scientists say the wall would be an ecological catastrophe.”)
- Trump launches another racist attack on a lawmaker of color (“Trump accused Rep. Elijah Cummings of corruption and called his district a ‘rodent infested mess.'”)
- Trump’s Twitter attack on Cummings and Baltimore: undiluted racism and hate
- Cummings fires back at Trump: ‘It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight’
- Better to have a few rats than to be one (“Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.”)
- Why Trump Spent His Summer Vacation Sending Racist Tweets (“…these impulsive thumb-rants amount to some of the most important and revealing communications of Trump’s presidency. For one thing, they convey the beliefs that have undergirded his career. As Victor Blackwell points out, Trump reserves terms like “infest” and “infestation” — which most people use only to describe diseases or vermin — exclusively for nonwhites. As much hate as he might generate for a target like, say, the mainstream media or transnational institutions, he would never describe the New York Times as an infestation.”)
- Trump campaign sees political advantage in a divisive appeal to working-class white voters
- Dave Bautista calls Trump a ‘disgrace to everything this country is’ after his ‘infested’ Baltimore district remarks
- Barack Obama shares op-ed criticizing President Trump’s ‘poisoning of our democracy.’
- We are African Americans, we are patriots, and we refuse to sit idly by (“This op-ed is co-signed by 149 African Americans who served in the Obama administration.”)
- David Axelrod slams Trump attack on Cummings: If he ‘loses in 2020, this will be why’
- Democrats wrestle with ‘tough on crime’ histories
- Trump has displayed galling hypocrisy in the A$AP Rocky case
- Why Cities Suing Over Climate Change Want the Fight in State Court, Not Federal (“Oil companies think they’ll win in federal court, and they’ve been trying to get each city, county and state climate lawsuit moved there.”)
- Spare Me the Purity Racket (“The argument about whether Trump is impeachable is the wrong argument. Mueller settled that. We know Trump did things worthy of impeachment. That is not the question we should be asking. The question is: Should he be impeached?…You can argue that impeachment, morally and constitutionally, is the right thing to do. But you also have to recognize that, historically and politically, it is not the right thing to do because it will lead to disaster.”
- Trump’s Inhumanity Before a Victim of Rape (“In his boundless self-absorption, this president is capable of anything.”)
- Why a Strong Economy Will Actually Help Democrats in 2020 (“Rebounding parts of the Rust Belt are moving away from Trump as the still-suffering areas double down.”)
- With the Arctic on Fire and Greenland’s Glaciers Melting, Here’s Some Good News for a Change: EIA Reports on Rapid Retirement of Coal-Fired Power Plants
- Nerves on display as Dems face do-or-die moment in Detroit
- Buttigieg momentum slows after swift rise
- Democratic governors sound alarm on Trump reelection
- The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight (What happens when you roll back regulation, aka protection.)
- Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century (“A corrupt bailout for dinosaur power plants that screws renewable energy in the process.”)
- Kentucky Teen’s $250 Million Lawsuit Against The Washington Post Dismissed
- You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln. (“The two men were friendly and influenced each other”)
- Photos: Sen. Tim Kaine Visits U.S.-Mexico Border, Urges America to Not “Lose Sight of Our Values”
- Abdul-Mbacke: Virginia’s Medicaid expansion saves lives
- Warner demands that VA step up plans to build clinics in Fredericksburg, Hampton Roads
- David White: Pursue offshore wind potential with urgency (“Virginia cannot afford to sit on its hands watching its two turbines spin before moving forward on full development of Virginia’s wind energy area. Amongst this competition, if Virginia stands still then we will fall behind.”)
- Rob Wittman column: Results even in a dysfunctional Congress (By far the main reason Congress is “dysfunctional” is that Wittman’s Republican Party has been blocking some great legislation.)
- How Vulnerable are Northam-won GOP Districts? (This is what I’m worried about: “In other words, if lower turnout in 2019 provides even just half the advantage it provided Republicans from 2013 to 2015, then Republicans increase their advantage in the House.”)
- Editorial: 400 years of representative government in Virginia (Except for the fact that 400 years ago, that government was almost completely unrepresentative)
- Four hundred years ago, a nation began to bloom in Jamestown (“It’s overly optimistic to hope [Trump] will rise to the occasion; the overwhelming evidence during his time in office indicates he will not.”)
- Editorial: Jamestown event is a celebration of the commonwealth
- Rally defamation suit targets fake news and those who shared it
- Gilbert: A proven way to reduce gun violence (Gilbert is not serious.)
- Karenne Wood remembered for lifetime of work advocating for indigenous Virginians
- Virginia Beach pays $500,000 to clean mass shooting site. Experts say that indicates scope of tragedy.
- Mostly sunny on Sunday, with rising heat and humidity
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