by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, September 20.
- Protesters Rally Around the World for Action on Climate Change (“Rallies start in Australia, with more set for U.S. and Europe; Google makes biggest clean energy purchase ever by a company”)
- The climate crisis explained in 10 charts (“From the rise and rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to possible solutions”)
- Climate emergency poses major threat to future global health, say top medics
- ‘Do your jobs’: Striking students demand leaders act on climate
- From Sydney To San Francisco, Millions To Strike For Global Climate Action (“The day of protest precedes the United Nations summit on how to rein in the worst effects of climate change.”)
- With Israel’s Election Results, Netanyahu Is Reminded That Trump Hates Losers
- Israel’s Election Results Prove the Center Has Won and Ideology Is Dead
- The escalating crisis with Iran is Trump’s self-inflicted wound
- Few Americans Want U.S. Forces To Defend Saudi Arabia
- The End of Saudi Arabia’s Illusion (“Time to face reality: The United States doesn’t want to go to war with Iran to protect its Arab allies.”)
- ‘This thing is a wildfire’: Racist makeup pictures rock Trudeau campaign
- Can Justin Trudeau survive the blackface scandal? Canadian political experts weigh in
- New revelations deepen scandal over Trump whistleblower complaint
- Trump Whistleblower Saga Threatens to Blow Up 2020 Campaign (“Two reports on Thursday night say the conversation in the complaint involved Ukraine, the country that the president’s close lawyer has turned to looking for dirt on Joe Biden.”)
- As the whistleblower story gets worse for Trump, his corruption keeps spreading
- Whistleblower complaint about Trump involves Ukraine, say people familiar with the matter
- Trump’s purported ‘promise’ to foreign leader came after White House scaled back readouts
- What Recourse Does the Republic Have in a Situation Like This? (“The Trump administration* tells Congress to pound sand on the matter of the president*’s ‘promise’ to a foreign leader.”)
- Donald Trump’s ‘Promise’ to a Foreign Leader Is More Than Just Troubling
- We’re losing birds at an alarming rate. We can do something about it. (“In the past 50 years, North America has lost 3 billion birds.Luckily, we know how to reverse the decline.” We need to conserve a lot more land. Also, “It’s time to ban neonics until we can be sure that these poisons are not permanently damaging American nature.” And, of course, keep cats INDOORS and “[add] decals or other bird deterrents to glass windows”)
- The Quiet Disappearance of Birds in North America
- ‘Of course I did’: Giuliani acknowledges asking Ukraine to investigate Biden
- Rudy Giuliani denies asking Ukraine to investigate Biden — before admitting it
- Watch Rudy Giuliani melt down on CNN after being asked about whistleblower complaint against Trump
- Fox News barely covers whistleblower complaint about Trump’s reported promise to a foreign leader
- For border wall, officials consider diverting billions more in military funds (“Internal projections show that the president’s goal of completing nearly 500 miles of new barriers by the 2020 election will require $18.4 billion, far more than the administration has publicly disclosed.” That’s completely insane.)
- “It Won’t End Well”: Trump and His Obscure New National-Security Chief
- California’s Fighting for Clean Air. Who’s Trump Fighting For? (“The White House’s latest attack on the environment hurts everybody — including the automakers it’s supposed to help.” Trump is a sadist and a nihilist who LIKES hurting everybody.)
- Trump is the smear artist — not the New York Times
- Did Brett Kavanaugh ask New York Times reporters to lie in their book? Yeah, pretty much.
- Attorney General Barr once lauded ‘masterful’ book that criticizes campus sexual assault investigations
- Carson spoke dismissively of transgender people at meeting, according to staff (Anyone surprised?)
- Trump Lawyers Argue He Cannot Be Criminally Investigated (Banana Republic stuff.)
- The Senate surrenders legislating on guns to Trump (How hard would it be to say in the headline, “Senate REPUBLICANS surrender legislating on guns to Trump?”)
- Calling out the GOP’s hypocrisy and corruption (“The next president must bring about a complete change of culture. Trump-style corruption is representative of a failed dictatorship, not a great democracy.”)
- Federal judge blocks California law to force disclosure of Trump’s tax returns
- How to Make Tech Companies Actually Fight Climate Change (“Do more of what Amazon workers are doing”)
- House Democrats held the first hearing on DC statehood in 25 years (“Republicans are unified in their opposition.” As usual, Republicans want to deny people their rights.)
- Trump Declares War on California (“It’s a liberal state, so it must be punished.”)
- Amazon makes largest order of electric vehicles as part of 2040 zero carbon pledge (“In a video of the announcement that was posted by the e-commerce company on its Twitter news channel, Bezos says that he wants Amazon to undertake a number of measures that would see the company reach the Paris agreement target of zero net carbon by the second half of the century a full ten years early.”)
- Buttigieg calls Warren ‘extremely evasive’ on health taxes
- Black Leaders Condemn Attacks by Sanders Supporters Amid Fallout From WFP’s Warren Endorsement
- Elizabeth Warren Keeps Climbing
- Buttigieg, Harris head to Iowa, seeking to rise into 2020 Democratic top tier
- Sanders retools campaign as Warren gains steam (“A sense of urgency has fallen over Sanders’s supporters, who worry that the liberal energy in the race has shifted behind Warren.”)
- Poll shows most Americans back Beto’s plan to buy back assault weapons (And that’s RASMUSSEN, which is basically Republican propaganda.)
- Roy Cohn Is How We Got Trump (“From McCarthyism to the mob to Trump, Cohn enabled evil. Why did elites embrace him?”)
- How the Koch Network’s ‘Social Change’ Strategy Is Built to Kill the Electric Car (Just a reminder that the Koch brothers are evil.)
- Warning signs flash for Tillis in North Carolina
- Sen. Mark Warner: I’m quite harsh with my criticism of Facebook (And for good reason.)
- WATCH: Rep. Luria highlights importance of fighting climate change
- House passes Congresswoman Wexton’s bill protecting furloughed employees
- Spanberger calls climate change a national security priority
- BREAKING: Just 48 Hours After Gov. Northam’s Executive Order on 100% Carbon-Free Power, Dominion Proposes “Largest Offshore Wind Development in the Country”
- Dominion wants to build the nation’s largest offshore wind farm near Virginia Beach
- The Mystery Mega-Donor Behind Freitas’ $500K Campaign Donation (“He could support candidates who are conservative that could probably win if they weren’t the fringe right, homophobic bomb-throwers that these people had convinced him early on to support.”)
- Justin Fairfax lawsuit aims to settle scores, but it could open new chapter in Virginia politics (No mention of the serious substance here, only the political “game”)
- Political Control in Virginia Up for Grabs in Tight Election (“Democrats seek to flip both houses of legislature, reviving gun-control efforts made after a May mass shooting”)
- Editorial: Richmond deserves greater accountability
- FWIW Virginia: The Climate Crisis; Also, Spotlight on SD 12 – Debra Rodman (D) v. Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant (R)
- Video: In HD28 Debate, Almost Everything Right-Wing Republican Candidate Says Is Demonstrably False and/or Ridiculous (Milde really, really doesn’t think we should raise the minimum wage or get all “emotional” about the ERA, gun violence prevention)
- Care in Action Makes Historic Six-Figure Investment in Virginia Elections to Mobilize Domestic Workers
- Climate Activists Plan Arts Centric “Circle of Protection: Bent Mountain”
- Sen. Glen Sturtevant’s Misleading New Ad on Healthcare Ignores His Record of Putting Partisanship Over People’s Lives
- EDITORIAL: No racial categories on marriage licenses
- Amid a surge of slots, bingo’s last gasps in Virginia
- Northam announces $8.5M firm expansion, 105 new jobs
- Too Late for Republican Nomination, Now “Independent” Fahey Instead Earns Republican Endorsement
- Norfolk sheriff ends controversial immigration detention program
- Stoney seeks to lease to a developer a Shockoe Bottom parking lot that could sit atop slavery site
- Virginia’s Democratic Party Joins Ranks of “No Dominion Money” Legislators and Candidates
- State’s first lady wades into the water for first-hand look at Hampton students’ environmental program
- Remote health clinic returns to Lee as hospital prepares to reopen
- Monument Fund to be granted access to Jackson statue following vandalism
- Henrico chief says police had to shoot woman wielding ax, drawing harsh criticism from her brother
- One last spectacular September day before some heat returns this weekend (“Rain-free conditions continue until at least Monday, as our region gets thirsty.” We need rain, badly. And yes, this drought is very consistent with a climate-changed world.)
