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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, August 10.
- KNarendra Modi tells India that “a new era has begun” after Kashmir power grab
- China Ex-Central Bankers Warn of Long Currency War With U.S.
- Russia’s Burning! Climate Change Is to Blame (“Summer wildfires are nothing new in Siberia, but bigger environmental changes are afoot.”)
- Stocks Cap a Turbulent Week With Modest Declines (Trump’s trying as hard as he can to kill the Obama economy and stock bull market.)
- Trump threatens to retaliate against countries like Japan, Canada, Uruguay that issued travel warnings
- Police: El Paso shooting suspect said he targeted Mexicans
- Trump’s El Paso Photo Is Obscene (“The president’s callousness has reached a new low: smiling, flashing a thumbs-up next to an orphaned infant.”)
- Trump Hurt, Confused Over Insufficient Praise for El Paso Trip (“The president apparently thought he should’ve been nominated for sainthood for his response to the mass shooting, and reportedly threw a fit on Air Force One over not getting more ‘credit.'”)
- Trump’s Photo-Op With the Orphaned El Paso Baby Was the Smallest Moment of His Presidency
- Armed Trump supporter detained and released at El Paso immigrant center
- FBI arrests Las Vegas man who allegedly wanted to shoot Jews, LGBTQ bar patrons (“Conor Climo, 23, communicated with organized white supremacists through encrypted messages, federal authorities said.”)
- Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Will—or the Intelligence—to Control What He’s Let Loose (“A Trump voter showed up armed to a migrant center in El Paso.”)
- Ohio man charged with allegedly threatening AOC on Facebook
- Mitch McConnell, the ‘do nothing’ Senate leader
- Top intel official interrupted meeting to urge his deputy to resign
- Democrats pounce on Trump in bid for rural voters
- Biden Knows How to Make the Moral Case Against Trump
- Whether Biden’s gaffe is an old problem or a new one, he needs a fix (“Analysis: The former vice president, and current Democratic front-runner, can’t afford for voters to see him as an unpredictable risk.”)
- Biden Has the Right Strategy (“Even if the former vice president is the wrong candidate, voters like his centrist approach.”)
- Joe Biden Rambles Through Iowa (“The Democratic front-runner started his weekend by tripping over his own feet.”)
- Biden mangles his words — and undercuts his message (“More unstructured time on the trail brings more verbal miscues for the gaffe-prone ex-veep.” Sigh.)
- Trump says Democrats will call ‘anybody’ racist. Here’s a list of times he’s used that label.
- Biden and Harris make a big play for Iowa, but Warren is months ahead (“Grassroots armies are reshaping the Iowa contest.”)
- Senior Voters, Some Wavering on Trump, Figure to Shape 2020 Election (“Polling shows the president’s 2016 advantage fading as Democrats sharpen policy proposals’)
- Nadler hits gas on impeachment
- ICE raids target workers, but few firms are charged (“Prosecuting corporations, as opposed to workers or managers, for immigration-related offenses has slowed under the Trump administration, records show.” Of course.)
- Jeffrey Epstein Sent Girl to Governor and Senator for Sex, She Testified (“Bill Richardson, George Mitchell, Glenn Dubin deny allegations”)
- Huge cache of records details how Jeffrey Epstein and madam lured girls into depraved world
- The Trump Boycotts Pose a Grave Danger to the Equinox and SoulCycle Businesses
- Misinformation about the 2020 election has already been spread — by Republicans
- Walmart, under increasing pressure to stop gun sales, removes violent video game displays instead (“Walmart responds to mass shootings by removing violent video game displays but keeps selling guns”)
- GOP politicians are using video games as a scapegoat for mass shootings, and it’s working (“ESPN and ABC have canceled an eSports broadcast, and Walmart has taken down violent video game displays.”)
- Walmart Removes Violent Video Game Displays After Shootings, Still Sells Guns (“The company, which is one of the nation’s largest retailers of guns and ammunition, is turning its focus to video games — a popular GOP talking point after mass shootings.”)
- Tucker Carlson loses advertisers after remarks about “hoax” of white supremacy (“This comes on the heels of a damning earnings report this week showing a decline in ad revenue for Fox”)
- DNC Chair Tom Perez Introduced a Resolution That Could Kill a Climate Debate (“The DNC membership has been split on this, and activists are angry.”)
- An armed man who caused panic at a Walmart in Missouri says it was a ‘social experiment’ (Crazy country we live in.)
- For five years, Facebook has let a white supremacist dog whistle thrive (“Since 2014, right-wing Facebook pages have used the word ‘invasion’ to push hateful rhetoric targeting Muslim and Latinx immigrants.”)
- ‘No Pretty Way’ to Do Arrests, ICE Raids, Says Cuccinelli (Screw you Cooch.)
- Guns, Maps and Suburbs: How Virginia Republicans Will Lose The General Assembly
- “Common sense” gun control laws: Trump and Dems agree, but Virginia GOP is not yet on board (My god, this headline is just total bulls***. Trump absolutely does *not* agree with Virginia Dems on gun control laws, where did the ComPost get this???)
- Prominent economist wrote an op-ed welcoming Amazon to Virginia. Now his credibility is under scrutiny. (“Emails show Stephen Fuller invited Amazon staff to suggest changes to his opinion piece, which he wrote at the suggestion of a company official.” Appalling, but it’s Koch Brothers University, aka GMU, so maybe not surprising?)
- Flip-A-District Friday: Christian Worth (HD24), Elizabeth Alcorn (HD58), Jess Foster (HD88), Francis Edwards (HD99)
- EDITORIAL: Is Atlantic Coast Pipeline still a viable project? (“…with the rising costs, the courtroom setbacks and still-growing grassroots opposition to the project, you have to wonder if, at some point, the project simply becomes politically and financially unviable. That tipping point may be closer than you think.”)
- Va. school that barred transgender student from boys’ restroom violated his rights, judge rules
- Judge sides with Gavin Grimm in Gloucester transgender case
- Danica Roem, Trans History Maker, Fights Another Anti-LGBT Candidate—and Their Donors—in Virginia (“In a 2011 letter about adoption, McGinn said that instituting proposed non-discrimination policies for potential adoptive parents in Virginia, including around sexual orientation, was ‘absurd,’ claiming that LGBTQ parents did not count as ‘forever families.’ ‘Discrimination is an inevitable part of finding the right family for the particular child in question,’ McGinn wrote. ‘Similarly, although redefining family, marriage, and parenthood has become a national obsession, one man and one woman joined in marriage remain the most successful paradigmatic family in which to place a child.'”)
- Pence: Samirah’s interrruption was undemocratic (My god, the Roanoke Times is OBSESSED. Now they’re publishing an op-ed by “a senior advisor to the Trump 2020 campaign.” ‘Nuff said.)
- Jury sides with Va. school board on harassment in case of alleged sexual assault on band trip (“The panel found that the student was sexually harassed but that Fairfax County Public schools did not have ‘actual knowledge’ and was not liable.”)
- Charlottesville judge allows rally lawsuit to move forward without harsh sanctions
- When Truth Doesn’t Matter: Republicans’ Dishonest Campaigns for Fairfax County School Board
- Black Parents of Arlington Compile Data Showing “substantial and persistent disparities between white and black students”
- Fredericksburg board to hold public hearing on moving controversial slave auction block to museum
- Richmond police investigating after NAACP receives threatening message
- Low-humidity warmth this weekend before hot and muggy conditions return early week
