by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, August 13.
- Hong Kong protests unleash ‘panic and chaos’, leader says as airport reopens
- Protesters reoccupy Hong Kong airport, disrupting flights
- Fears of Argentina Default Loom Large as Traders Dump Everything (“Peso drops to record, stocks plunge on Macri’s primary debacle”)
- Trump’s top negotiator at Taliban peace talks is coming home empty-handed
- Trump Administration Weakens Endangered Species Act Amid Global Extinction Crisis (“Environmentalists see the rule as another handout to industry amid rising alarm that the ecosystems on which humans rely are collapsing.” As always, this is the exact OPPOSITE of the direction we need to be going.)
- The Endangered Species Act is incredibly popular and effective. Trump is weakening it anyway. (“A million species are threatened worldwide. This is how Trump responds.”)
- The Trump Administration Just Gutted One of the Most Powerful Environmental Laws on the Books (Just a reminder: if you support Trump, you are supporting evil.)
- Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to ‘more crime, more victims’ (Note that Barr is wrong about everything.)
- How a recession could doom Trump’s 2020 reelection (“Economic forecasts are increasingly pointing in that direction. Here’s what history tells us.”)
- Wall Street sees risk of recession rising (“Stocks are slipping and fears of a slowdown are mounting as Trump ramps up his reelection efforts.”)
- Trump’s State-by-State Approval Ratings Should Scare the MAGA Out of Him (“He’s underwater by 12 points in Pennsylvania, 11 in Michigan, and nine in Arizona, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. And there’s virtually no indication that states that narrowly went for Clinton in 2016 are trending in Trump’s direction: His approval ratios are minus 18 in Colorado, minus 15 in Minnesota, minus 12 in Nevada, and minus 27 in New Hampshire. These are, by the way, polls of registered voters, not just ‘adults,’ so they should be a relatively sound reflection of the views of the electorate.”)
- The Second Amendment Now Means a Right to Terrorize
- Why the Trump administration is going after low-income immigrants, explained by an expert (“The ‘public charge’ rule change is about generating ‘fear, cruelty, and chaos,’ Marielena Hincapié tells us.”)
- Trump’s new crackdown on legal immigration: His base loves the cruelty (“Stephen Miller keeps tightening the screws on legal immigration. It’s inhumane and damaging — but that’s the point”)
- Trump’s ‘public charge’ rule proves he doesn’t actually support legal immigration
- Most Americans have rejected Trump’s xenophobia
- Useful Idiots and Trumpist Billionaires (“Greed, ego and willful blindness at the top.”)
- From race to plastic straws, Trump dials up culture wars in divisive play for votes
- Conservative media dismiss NY Times report showing the El Paso shooter echoed their anti-immigrant rhetoric (Because…of course they do!)
- The Memo: Suburbs spell trouble for Trump (“An NBC News analysis Monday noted that Trump has been ‘underwater’ with suburban voters in five out of six NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls conducted this year.”)
- Trump Is Too Thin-Skinned to Protect the United States (“The president’s aides are reluctant even to broach the dangers of white racist violence in his presence.”)
- “We’re Not Gonna Be a Part of the Resistance”: How Trump Aggravates the Times’s Long-Running Identity Crisis
- Who’s who of Jeffrey Epstein’s powerful friends, associates and possible co-conspirators
- In Short-Staffed Jail, Epstein Was Left Alone for Hours; Guard Was Substitute
- The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People
- “They’re Nothing, These Girls”: Unraveling the Mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s Enabler
- Fourth board member resigns from NRA in a sign of further upheaval
- The Filibuster Is Suffocating the Will of the American People
- Beto O’Rourke’s Finest Hour Came Off the Presidential Campaign Trail, in El Paso (“In the absence of a fully functioning president, he filled a void and, in the process, reminded people of the man who caught the imagination of his state.”)
- Republicans Stay With Trump Because He’s the President* They’ve Been Waiting Their Whole Lives For —
- Republicans embrace Don Jr.’s ‘trolling’ on the campaign trail (“Trump Jr.’s ties to MAGA world makes him a sought-after substitute for his father.”)
- NYT Top Editor: Trump Racism Headline Was a ‘F*cking Mess’ (“In a lengthy town-hall meeting on Monday, the paper’s top brass addressed a bevy of recent controversies centering around the Times’ coverage of Trump, race, and politics.”)
- CNN’s Chris Cuomo threatened to throw a man down stairs for calling him ‘Fredo,’ comparing it to the n-word
- Fox News has no comment on its venomous rhetoric
- In Virginia, 2 Churches Feel The Aftermath Of Trump’s Racist Rhetoric
- Mother whose child was killed at Charlottesville rally speaks out about hate crimes in the US (“Heather Heyer was killed at the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally”)
- ‘Community makes us stronger’: Charlottesville reflects on two years since violence
- Video: Cuccinelli Clearly Demonstrates that For the Right, It Is NOT About the “Legal” Part, It’s About the Immigrant Part (Note: Cooch is the same guy who compared immigrant families to “rats”)
- AG Mark Herring Defends U.S. Census Against Discriminatory Challenge
- Newspaper controlled by Pittsburgh Pirates owner runs anti-LGBTQ editorial (“The Winchester Star claims it has ‘a long history of supporting and advocating for LGBTQ rights.'”)
- New Lawsuit Launched Against Mountain Valley Pipeline [UPDATED with Legal Complaint] (“Citizen Groups File Endangered Species Act Lawsuit on MVP”)
- Mountain Valley Pipeline faces new legal challenge, this one over endangered species
- Dishonest Dominion Energy Polling Shows Company “On the Defensive Against…Groundswell of Public Support for the Right to Buy Cleaner and Less Expensive Energy”
- New VHHA Poll: 71% of Virginia Strongly Support Medicaid Expansion, 55% Support Maintaining Certificate of Public Need Program
- Graphics: Virginia Dems Massively Outpacing Republicans in Small-Dollar Donations
- Small donations in the General Assembly races
- House Speaker Kirk Cox launches early TV ad as he defends redrawn Virginia district (“The 30-second spot features minority constituents in a district that’s now more than a third black.” The problem, of course, is that Cox is horrible for his constituents, including minority constituents.)
- In blue Northern Va., top officials push back against proposed shelter for migrant youths
- To stem killings, GOP lawmaker wants to boost violence intervention programs in Virginia (Gilbert definitely isn’t serious…except about doing the gun lobby’s bidding.)
- The Freitas Gambit (“If Freitas doesn’t pull through, it will a disaster scenario for the House caucus. We could lose the majority and there is no way in hell you can spin a loss into a run for Governor or Congressman. All hopes of a Freitas run for statewide office will be lost.” Good – make it so!)
- Newly-Formed People Power Virginia Announces Board Leadership and First Endorsements
- Region must fly in the same direction
- Former astronaut Leland Melvin lauds Roanoke schools’ effort to be ‘trauma-informed’
- EDITORIAL: Area trail development an impressive effort
- Clouds and storms today into Wednesday; warm and muggy weather carries into weekend
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