by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, August 6.
- China Acts to Limit Yuan Plunge, Bringing Some Relief to Markets
- Once Again, China Is Showing Trump That Trade Wars Are Not “Good, and Easy to Win”
- Bolsonaro’s wish to chop away at the Amazon is everyone’s problem (Evil incarnate; must be stopped.)
- Jair Bolsonaro says criminals will ‘die like cockroaches’ under proposed new laws (“Brazil’s president calls for security forces and citizens who shoot alleged offenders to be shielded from prosecution”)
- China Calls on Hong Kong People to Oppose Violent Protesters
- China accuses US of ‘deliberately destroying’ world order (Trump is, no doubt.)
- Lawmakers Redouble Push to Stop Trump From Going to War With Iran
- Treasury Dept. designates China a ‘currency manipulator,’ a major escalation of the trade war (So much for the strong Obama economy that Trump inherited?)
- US stocks suffer worst day of year as trade fears spook markets (“Concerns over full-scale currency war as Trump renews attack on China”)
- Boris Johnson has no intention of renegotiating Brexit deal, EU told (“No-deal Brexit is British PM’s ‘central scenario’, chief Brussels envoy reportedly says” Crazy.)
- ‘We will make them pay’: North Korea launches missiles, condemns U.S.-South Korea drills
- Texas faces turbulent political moment (“Now, the mounting tensions of racially-motivated rhetoric, a polarizing president and Republican infighting have rocked Texas’s political leadership to its core. And the state may soon face a tipping point brought on by shifting coalitions of voters who want change, in Austin and Washington.”)
- The single most ludicrous thing Trump just said about guns (“Guns kill people, period.”)
- Trump, Tax Cuts and Terrorism (“Why do Republicans enable right-wing extremism?”)
- Trump Blames Shootings on Mental Illness. But He’s Spent the Past 2 Years Trying to Cut Access to Health Coverage.
- White Terrorism Shows ‘Stunning’ Parallels to Islamic State’s Rise
- Rise of far-right violence spurs calls to revise post-9/11 security priorities
- Trump Is a White Nationalist Who Inspires Terrorism (“Don’t pretend his teleprompter speech changes anything.”)
- Teleprompter Trump meets Twitter Trump as the president responds to mass slayings (“That unifying message stood in stark contrast to more than 2½ years of name-calling, demonizing minorities and inflaming racial animus, much of it carried out on Twitter. Just two hours before his White House speech, Trump tweeted an attack on the ‘Fake News’ media for contributing to a culture of “anger and rage.” And in another set of tweets, the president suggested pairing ‘strong background checks’ with ‘desperately needed immigration reform’ — then dropped the matter entirely during his speech.”)
- In Trump’s Hands, the Second Amendment Is a Threat to Our Civil Liberties
- “Trump the Accomplice” (“El Paso residents blame the President for a hate-fuelled mass shooting.”)
- Politics Changed the Reading of the Second Amendment—and Can Change It Again
- No, Mr. Trump. Guns are the reason for mass shootings.
- Trump should vow never again to spew his loathing from the bully pulpit (“The president’s words have wide and deep consequences.”)
- Will: Trump doesn’t just pollute the social environment with hate. He is the environment.
- You wouldn’t think it’d be so hard for Trump to look in a mirror (“He has glorified intolerance, even made it sound like a form of patriotism.”)
- The GOP has plunged us into a modern Dark Age (“The Republican Party is the modern-day equivalent of the medieval church. It fights science. It protects ignorance. Above all, it embraces a lunatic reading of the Second Amendment so that any nut can buy a weapon that can kill a maximum number of people in a minimum amount of time…a GOP that, like some medieval church that blames sickness on witchcraft, praises myth and ignorance and repudiates science. This is the Republican platform: passivity about climate change and inaction about gun violence. It is a dark age indeed.”)
- ‘Hispanic invasion’: A white nationalist version of Texas that never existed (“The alleged El Paso gunman’s apparent ‘manifesto’ has the history all wrong.”)
- It’s time to debate gun control on its merits (“Nothing in the Constitution prevents moderate gun-control legislation.”)
- To get sensible gun control, Democrats must take the Senate
- Trump’s speech was like a hostage video
- Republicans’ thoughts and prayers have become a cruel joke
- How the Trump Campaign Used Facebook Ads to Amplify His ‘Invasion’ Claim (“Some of President Trump’s re-election ads have repeated his inflammatory claims about an ‘invasion’ on the southern border — language that is under scrutiny after the El Paso shooting.”)
- Trump’s Habit of Contradicting Himself After a Tragedy (“What should the country believe: his speech or his tweets?” Definitely not the speech.)
- He’s Getting Worse (“Trump is turning the American presidency into a platform for the wholesale demonization of minorities.”)
- Obama Still Sounds Like a President (“The former consoler in chief issued a statement on El Paso and Dayton that contrasted sharply with Trump’s rhetoric.”)
- Republicans Fear ‘Extinction in the Suburbs’ Over Gun Control (“Suburban and college-educated voters favor new gun limits”)
- You don’t need to read the El Paso killer’s manifesto. Just turn on Fox News.
- How Fox News pushed the white supremacist “great replacement” theory (“Fox News figures have repeatedly warned of an immigrant ‘invasion'”)
- Stephen Colbert Tears Into Mitch McConnell for Inaction on Guns: ‘Power’ More Important Than ‘Saving Lives’ (“You can’t put a price on human life, but it doesn’t stop Mitch from trying”)
- Hey, New York Times: There Are No ‘Moderate’ White Nationalists (“If you sympathize with white nationalism, you back racism and violence. Full stop.”)
- Trump’s Condemnation of White Supremacy Will Only Last Until His Next Rally (“Let the president tell his next audience, without the usual nudge-nudge-wink-wink, that public displays of racist anger will not be tolerated”)
- NYT’s Trump Headline Is So Outrageous That People Are Canceling Subscriptions (“Twitter users are shredding The New York Times for its newspaper headline about Trump’s comments on mass shootings.”)
- Senate Republicans Are Quietly Advancing a Radical Gun Plan (“They’re confirming judges who want to render us powerless to stop mass shootings.”)
- Mike Huckabee suggests ‘lack of thought and prayers’ behind mass shootings
- MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough calls out Trump donors for funding a “white supremacist campaign”
- Poll: Dems say Warren reigned in second primary debates (“Three out of 10 respondents dubbed Warren the winner for her debate performance last week, a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of registered Democratic primary voters found. Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden rounded out the top three with 18 percent and 14 percent of respondents dubbing them the top performers, respectively.”)
- Is The Field Too Big For Kamala Harris?
- Smiling ‘Team Mitch’ Supporters Pose While Choking Cutout Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Sociopaths.)
- Judge questions Barr’s handling of Mueller findings
- Va. Dems to Mitch McConnell: Pass languishing gun control bill
- Two more mass shootings shake the country; here’s where gun laws stand in Virginia
- Evan Feinman and Courtney Dozier column: Connecting the commonwealth (“Gov. Ralph Northam took office in 2018 with a clear vision: universal broadband access for all Virginians within a decade.”)
- NRA Money: Which VA, MD politicians have gotten support from the gun lobbying group?
- Virginia Republicans Continue to Spew Out Idiocy, Illogic, Internal Inconsistency on Gun Violence (Two of the craziest – Senators Amanda Chase (R) and Bill DeSteph (R) – chime in, and even the Trumpster radio host has had enough.)
- Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox Cowardly On Gun Violence
- Protesters flock to NRA headquarters to demand stronger gun laws
- Northam calls on leaders to stand up to gun violence, bigotry
- Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy: Why I Wrote a Public Letter to the Virginia Board of Health on TRAP
- Loudoun, Fairfax Dems Call for DNC to Hold Debate Dedicated to the Climate Crisis
- Amazon bringing its seventh solar farm to Virginia
- By the numbers: The cost of higher education in Virginia
- After They’ve Alienated Everyone Else, Who Will Be Left to Vote for the Republicans for School Board in Fairfax County?
- Charlottesville: Hoping for the Best from Neo-Nazis? (“Reading Terry McAuliffe’s new book”)
- UPDATED: VCU Arts dean who was sued is stepping down; professor who filed suit will be on leave for several semesters
- First potential opening date set for Silver Line into Loudoun County
- In ‘extraordinary’ ruling, SCC rejects small part of Dominion recovery claim
- After back-to-back mass shootings, Virginia gun debate remains at standstill (The headline should continue, “thanks to Republicans”)
- CBD is everywhere but is it legal? Here’s what you need to know.
- Richmond School Board member: Eliminate neighborhood schools, use open enrollment for entire city
- Richmond area schools have significant racial disparities in school discipline, report finds
- Roanoke County School Board extends Nicely’s contract
- American Legion post overhaul in Arlington gets $1.5 million boost (“The Terwilliger Family Foundation donation will go toward new apartments set aside for military veterans.”)
- Muggy heat with scattered thunderstorms; then weekend improvement
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