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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, August 21.
- Trump Scraps Trip to Denmark, as Greenland Is Not for Sale (Beyond parody. Can anyone imagine any other president acting like this lunatic?)
- Trump postpones Denmark trip after prime minister declines to sell him Greenland
- China Confirms U.K. Consulate Staffer in Hong Kong Detained (“Protesters plan rally for Simon Cheng outside U.K. consulate”)
- Xi’s choice: Destroy Trump, or save him and weaken America (That says it all, huh?)
- Wildfires are burning around the world. The most alarming is in the Amazon rainforest. (“Record heat, drought, and deforestation are contributing to wildfire risk.” Totally unacceptable.)
- Climate strike organizers pledge to “turn up the heat” and demand global action (“One year after Greta Thunberg began her protest in Sweden, millions of climate strikers will join her on Sept. 20”)
- Italy’s prime minister just resigned. What the heck comes next? (“Italy’s prime minister resigned on Tuesday, throwing a twist in far-right, anti-immigrant leader Matteo Salvini’s power play to get early elections.”)
- Trump Retreats, Again, on Guns (“Where is the president’s vaunted independence?”)
- Trump team braces GOP donors for a potential ‘moderate and short’ recession
- Trump’s Phone Calls With Wayne LaPierre Reveal NRA’s Influence (“Days after considering the implementation of universal background checks, President Donald Trump has sidelined the issue.”)
- The NRA Doesn’t Scare Anyone Right Now—Except the President* (“Even a NASCAR bigwig has had enough of the gun lobby’s behavior.”)
- Of course Trump backtracks on gun reform. He lacks the courage. (“Even bare-minimum reforms seem, once again, out of reach.” Trump completely caved to the NRA, now is spewing out NRA propaganda.)
- Trump’s ‘disloyalty’ comment about American Jews who vote Democrat was disgusting and worrisome
- Trump accuses Jewish Americans of ‘disloyalty’ for voting Democratic, in antisemitic trope (“President’s remarks seemed to refer to a perception that Jewish Americans have a dual loyalty to both America and Israel”)
- Jewish groups react to Trump’s latest comments on American Jewish voters
- Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Great Disloyalty’
- Trump says any Jewish people who vote for Democrats are showing ‘great disloyalty’ or ‘lack of knowledge’
- Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews (“Ever the narcissist, Trump couldn’t even leave it at the normal anti-Semitic trope.”)
- Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Disloyalty,’ Inciting Fierce Backlash (“Mr. Trump inflamed a debate over religion and politics as he echoed a longstanding anti-Semitic trope.”)
- Republicans Sabotaged Obama’s Economy and Assume Democrats Are Doing It to Them (“This is a classic case of projection”)
- Want to Prevent a Recession, Mr. Trump? Stop Hurting the Economy (“As the administration tries to keep growth going, its trade war weakens it.”)
- Slowing Share Buybacks Remove a Pillar of Stock Market (“U.S. corporations repurchase their shares at slowest pace in 18 months”)
- Corporate panic about capitalism could be a turning point (“The billionaire guardians of capitalism fear the system is failing.”)
- A Sweeping New Lawsuit Blasts ICE Over “Horrific, Inhumane” Conditions in Immigration Detention (Trump Republicans are responsible.)
- Stephen Miller’s Plan Is Coming to Fruition (“The plan is for people to die in cages.”)
- Trump administration to roll out plan for longer-term detention of migrant families (Crazy.)
- The US won’t provide flu vaccines to migrant families at border detention camps (Totally unacceptable and inhumane.)
- Man Arrested With 17 Guns, Grenade Launcher and Nazi Paraphernalia (Trump’s America)
- CNN Poll: Public’s view on the economy dips for the first time in Trump’s presidency
- 1619 and the cult of American innocence (“What the conservative critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project miss.”)
- Biden and Bernie the only Democrats to beat Trump in new poll (“A new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey buttresses an argument Biden is taking to new lengths: That he’s the most promising option to oust the president.”)
- The Memo: Polls flash warning signs for Trump (“Recent national polls — most notably one from Fox News that incurred the president’s ire — have shown Trump slipping even among groups that have long been perceived as pillars of his support.”)
- Polls suggest Sanders may be underestimated
- Revealed: emails raise ethical questions over Trump official’s role in gas project (“Documents obtained by the Guardian suggest interior secretary is promoting effort tied to his former firm”)
- Video: On “The Last Word,” CNU Professor Rachel Bitecofer Argues That “It’s All About the Base.” (Bitecofer’s analysis is persuasive, but does differ significantly from Catalist, which found that it’s a combo of Dem turnout and Trump defectors)
- Northam touts Virginia economy but says downturn could be looming
- Video: Governor Northam Addresses Joint Money Committees of the General Assembly
- GOP Virginia Del. Tim Hugo “should know better” than to “[sign] off on the use of “anti-Semitic trope to target the grandson of Holocaust survivors”
- After Opposing Medicaid Expansion for Years, Del. Chris Jones (R) Flip Flops in New TV Ad
- Video: CEO of Fracked-Gas EQT Has No Serious Response to Serious Questions About His Company’s Mountain Valley Pipeline Boondoggle (CEO says, “I am proud of what we do”)
- In a statehouse that’s debated guns for decades, testimony treads familiar ground
- Crime Commission Meetings Show Public and Expert Support for Gun Violence Prevention (“Despite Republican inaction, House Democrats remain motivated to pass common-sense gun violence prevention legislation”)
- Gun rights and gun control advocates descend on Richmond again as lawmakers pitch bills
- 12 years and many mass shootings later, Virginia Tech families once again plea for gun control
- Reserve funds to top $1.6 billion as Virginia starts budget work, returns windfall to taxpayers
- Sheila Bynum-Coleman takes on her next candidate: Majority Leader Kirk Cox (“If she can best one of Virginia’s most notorious incumbents, this working mom would be the first female and the first black person to represent the 66th House district”)
- 7 controversial things Virginia politicians have said
- Virginia Lottery raises concern over ‘aggressive’ growth of unregulated gaming machines
- Cramer: Let’s fix Virginia’s broadband map
- Roads alone aren’t the answer to future congestion (“…attempting to fix the issue by building massive numbers of roads will drain every available transportation dollar from every corner of the commonwealth.” Also, building roads encourages environmentally destructive sprawl, fossil fuel consumption, etc. Bad, bad idea.)
- Electrifying Momentum Toward Electric Buses in Fairfax County (Meeting Tonight)
- National NAACP ousts president of its Virginia organization; new leader is from Hanover
- Editorial: Regional jail’s negilgence (Yep, the RTD misspelled its headline as “negilgence” instead of “negligence.” Copy editors, anyone?)
- Editorial: Slavery was born in Virginia 400 years ago (Slavery definitely was NOT born in Virginia, it existed in many – most? – other parts of the world, including the Americas, at the time.)
- Missing dog found dead; cat still missing after Charlottesville kennel fire
- Hot, humid and unsettled weather continues with a reprieve coming over the weekend
