by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 11.
- Trump: Forget North Korea’s Missile Threats, Have You Seen Kim Jong Un’s Penmanship?
- Greta Thunberg takes climate fight to Germany’s threatened Hambach Forest (She’s amazing.)
- The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism (“Fueled by an immigration backlash, right-wing populism has taken hold in Sweden, long seen as a progressive utopia. Beneath the surface of what is happening, though, is the work of an international disinformation machine that amplifies far-right, anti-immigrant passions.”)
- North Korea says no talks with South due to drills, Kim oversaw test of ‘new weapon’: KCNA
- Political leaders demand answers in Epstein death
- Epstein death brings birth of mainstream conspiracy theories (“Once at the margins of American politics, his case has been thrust to the center of it.”)
- Jeffrey Epstein Is Dead. His Victims Still Deserve Justice.
- Questions mount over Epstein’s apparent suicide (“Politically connected financier Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender, was found dead in the detention center where he was awaiting trial on allegations of sexually abusing girls in the early 2000s. His death sparked outrage among alleged victims and triggered inquiries by the FBI and Justice Department into how he could have died in federal custody.”)
- Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide is unfathomable (“It seems certain that when the facts are known, this will stand as one of the biggest black eyes in the history of the Bureau of Prisons.”)
- Trump retweets Epstein conspiracy theory, claiming Clinton connection (“The president retweeted a conspiracy theory Saturday that suggested a connection between former President Bill Clinton and the death of the wealthy financier and accused sex trafficker.” Demented as always.)
- Prison experts are stunned and angry that Jeffrey Epstein was taken off suicide watch (“‘For them to pull him off suicide watch is shocking,’ one former federal prison warden told NBC News.”)
- Why Wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein on Suicide Watch When He Died? (“Prison officials took the disgraced financier off a suicide watch 12 days before he hanged himself in his cell.”)
- The Death of Jeffrey Epstein: What’s Known and What Comes Next
- With Jeffrey Epstein Dead, Trump Stirs Crazy Clinton Conspiracy Pot (“The president is adding to the real fear that the facts of Epstein’s death may be lost in the raging hellscape that is Twitter even before they are found.”)
- White Supremacy Has Never Been Fringe
- 8chan, Trump, voter suppression: how white supremacy went mainstream in the US
- The Shame and Disgrace Will Linger (“On Saturday, President Trump spread a conspiracy theory accusing the Clintons of murdering Jeffrey Epstein.”)
- Trump’s Pile of Rubble (“Devoid of empathy and humanity, Trump is mugging with an infant who will never know his parents. They were shot by a psychopath whose views echoed Trump’s dangerous and vile rants painting people with darker skin — like the baby’s father — as the enemy, an infestation and invasion aiming to take something away from real Americans. It is the same slimy chum thrown out by other Republicans, only more brutally direct and not limited to campaign season.”)
- Hate Is So Much Bigger Than Trump (“Just look at history. Or at my inbox.”)
- Democrats descend on Iowa — with renewed anxiety (“Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is rising in the polls and has a high-quality campaign organization, but doubts linger in some quarters about the appeal of her left-leaning policies in a general election. Sens. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are struggling to maintain momentum, while pressure is growing from frustrated voters for many of the weaker candidates to drop out.”)
- Elizabeth Warren’s New Plan On Guns Has A Goal: Reduce Gun Deaths By 80%
- Elizabeth Warren outlines sweeping new gun control plans (“Sen. Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a comprehensive plan to reduce gun violence by enacting a suite of new restrictions on buyers, cracking down on sellers and breaking “the (National Rifle Association’s) stranglehold on Congress” with anti-corruption legislation.”)
- Fact check: Bernie Sanders has made the same false claim about health spending for 10 years (“The US does spend the highest amount on health care per capita of any Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development country, but not double every single one.”)
- In a Pivot, Harris Makes Her Play for Iowa (“Senator Kamala Harris of California has stepped up her presence in Iowa after months of putting the state on the back-burner. Strategists for Ms. Harris say her newfound focus is a result of the surprising degree to which the race in Iowa remains wide open.”)
- Universal Scraps ‘The Hunt’ Release Following Gun Violence Uproar
- EPA Plans to Rewrite Clean Water Act Rules to Fast-Track Pipelines (“The proposed rule change would limit the ability of states and tribes to block pipeline plans over concerns for water safety.” The exact opposite of the direction we need to go.)
- McEachin: Gun laws should reflect ‘common sense’
- Editorial: Lawmakers should do the people’s business in public
- Virginia population projections show the growth is in Democratic strongholds
- Right-Wing Radio Host Mischaracterizes Rep. Spanberger’s Words Re: Trump Being a Racist; Spanberger Responds (Spanberger says Trump “espouses bigotry and racist rhetoric,” is “normalizing hatred”)
- The Virginia Way, Part 3 – Living Faith in Virginia (“Once one sees the reality behind the myth of the faith, it cannot be unseen.”)
- Gordon C. Morse: The ever-changing definition of the ‘Virginia way’ (“But here’s the thing: Thomas and Samirah could carry the day in the long run, because who will stand up to challenge it? Youth has its advantages.” Uhhhhh, what?)
- Michael Signer column: “Beyond Charlottesville:” There’s More to the Story (Signer really seems to be pulling his punches here, for whatever reason.)
- Editorial: Six insights on the region’s talent attraction problem
- Jane Bray: Cooperation helping address Va. teacher shortage
- U-Va.: ‘Prospect’ of gifts to school appeared to drive recruitment of student-athletes
- Stan Scott: Sen. Ryan McDougle Won’t Stand Up To Trump Or the NRA, But I Will
- Toll proposal must make sense
- Editorial: Port expansion critical to regional, state economies
- Colette McEachin wins Democratic nomination for Richmond commonwealth’s attorney
- Who are Richmond public schools named for? At least 3 Confederates, 5 slave owners and 5 Chesterfield educators
- And they’re off! Horse racing returns to Colonial Downs after 6-year drought (Gack.)
- Sunday sparkles but heat and humidity loom
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