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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 25.
- The Amazon Fires Are More Dangerous Than WMDs (“One person shouldn’t have the power to set policies that doom the rest of humanity’s shot at mitigating rising temperatures.” The Amazon should all be set aside as a world trust. Pay Brazil to do so. Same thing, by the way, for the Indonesian rain forests.)
- Trump’s Trade War Could be Fueling Amazon Fires (“China is substituting Brazilian soybeans for barred imports from America. The rainforest may become a victim.”)
- Bolsonaro Sends Army To Fight Amazon Fires Amid Mounting International Pressure (Need a long-term solution to this problem, once and for all.)
- Why the Amazon rainforest could be at risk of “collapsing” (Appalling.)
- The Ravaging of Amazonia (“A global treasure lies at the mercy of the smallest, dullest, pettiest of men.”)
- Let Yourself Feel How Bad This Is (“The case for climate grief.”)
- China’s Hong Kong Dilemma (“The mass demonstrations are in bold defiance of Chinese authority—but a crackdown could be incalculably costly.”)
- Trump Says He’s Had Second Thoughts on China Trade War Moves
- Trump Aides Slam French for Focusing on ‘Niche Issues’ at G7
- As disputes boil at G7, Trump softens on trade war
- Johnson wins Trump’s approval for tough approach to Brexit (Morons.)
- Israel says air strike in Syria sent ‘no immunity’ message to Iran
- Six polls and more than 6,000 interviews show Trump’s approval dropping
- Democrats can’t just unwind Trump’s foreign policy (“Thanks to Trump, current and former officials say, Palestinians may never get a state of their own, Iran may shun diplomacy with Washington for the foreseeable future and U.S. allies may forever be reluctant to trust their American counterparts. Relations with China, the effects of climate change and ending nuclear proliferation are among other challenges a future president may find harder to tackle in a post-Trump world.” Permanent damage, in other words.)
- The Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress, taking the US government up on a promise it made nearly 200 years ago
- Biden struggles to hit it off with millennials
- Democratic candidates face hard choices as 2020 field winnows
- Republicans suffer whiplash from Trump’s erratic week
- The great crackup: Trump is coming even more undone
- Democratic National Committee votes against allowing 2020 candidates to participate in climate change debate (I’m so done with the DNC.)
- The DNC Voted Against Holding A Climate Debate, Despite Top Candidates Supporting The Idea (Dumber than dirt.)
- Haley-Pence rivalry heats up as GOP weighs post-Trump future (“Interviews with top Republicans reveal they’re watching each other warily ahead of a potential 2024 showdown.”)
- Nixon Converted Jews to His Cause. Trump Is Blowing It. (“When it came to America’s Jews, Donald Trump’s expectation of instant gratification and ‘Jexodus’ didn’t happen.”)
- Mazel Tov, Trump. You’ve Revived the Jewish Left. (“‘Only one political party is quite literally inciting white nationalists to shoot up our synagogues.’”)
- Donald Trump and the Jews: He’s exactly why most of us vote for Democrats (“Why do American Jews overwhelmingly vote Democratic? That’s easy: Consider the other party’s hateful history”)
- Warner and Kaine like the defense spending blueprint. China trade war? Not so much
- 1619 commemoration brings thousands seeking to learn true history of first Africans in Virginia
- Virginia marks the start of American slavery in 1619 with speeches, songs (“The commemoration of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans 400 years ago began at dawn at Fort Monroe with the rhythm of drums and a cleansing ritual.”)
- Editorial: The history we weren’t taught about the first Africans in Virginia
- Gordon C. Morse: Democrats push for power missing a familiar ingredient (This is silly and wrong.)
- Slimy “Virginia Way” Epitomized: Dominion CEO Tom Farrell Named to the Shadowy, Taxpayer-Funded-Corporate-Welfare “GO Virginia” Board (Jeff Thomas: GO Virginia “an extra-legislative fund set up by ‘the business community’ to give tens of millions of dollars to their own pet projects without any oversight whatsoever. “)
- Gibson: The right to a free press should belong to students, too (“Del. Danica Roem, a fellow journalist from Northern Virginia, and 10 other state legislators have signed on to help push the bill to passage in six months to give student journalists true First Amendment rights and responsibilities.”)
- Video: “Legitimitized” Cannabis Grows in Virginia
- Report outlines improvements for an underfunded, struggling DEQ
- Rasoul: Celebrate Women’s Equality Day by ratifying the ERA
- Republican John Whitbeck Claims He Wants to Preserve Western Loudoun’s Rural Character While Hiding Donations from Big Developers
- Voters Petition to Have Loudoun Republican Commonwealth’s Attorney Candidate Nicole Wittmann Disqualified (“Wittmann allegedly gave false information about her place of domicile when registering to vote”)
- “Fire Hansen”: Residents and some Virginia Beach council members want top manager gone
- Eileen Woll: Offshore wind project shows power, potential
- Ridgeway wants to improve quality of life for 30th District residents (“The Democratic nominee for the House of Delegates’ 30th District hopes that her message will break through the drama surrounding the reelection campaign of Republican Del. Nick Freitas.”)
- Still splendid on Sunday but warmer and more humid into the workweek
