by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, September 5.
- Cabinet Backlash Against Boris Johnson Grows (“The U.K. prime minister is set to appeal directly to the public in his quest for a general election.”)
- Voters May Be Last Chance to Resolve Brexit Crisis (“A looming election seems to offer the last political mechanism left to end the brawl over leaving the European Union.”)
- UK government gives up trying to stop Brexit delay bill in parliament
- Lords agree to push through bill preventing no-deal Brexit by end of Friday
- British PM Boris Johnson is gambling everything on a ‘no-deal’ Brexit. Will it work? (“If the U.K. leaves the E.U. without an agreement and it goes badly, it could be a career-terminating event for the politicians responsible.”)
- UK Parliament gives Boris Johnson his third defeat in 2 days (“Parliament has voted to block a no-deal Brexit — and the prime minister’s plan to call new elections.”)
- His Brexit plans in crisis, Johnson pushes for new elections
- China, U.S. to Hold Trade Talks in October as Mistrust Remains
- Two of our most important allies are fighting. Trump is nowhere to be seen.
- Matteo Salvini replaced by migration specialist in new Italy coalition
- Mike Pence’s stay at Trump’s Doonbeg resort reeks of corruption
- Massive rescue, relief effort underway in Bahamas as Dorian heads for Carolinas (“Bahamas death toll reaches 20 but is expected to rise”)
- After incorrectly tweeting that Alabama was at risk, Trump displays doctored chart (Trump is a seriously disturbed individual who shouldn’t be elected to the lowest-level post in America, let alone president. What the *hell* are/were his supporters thinking???)
- Trump’s war on reality enters bizarre new terrain
- Even By Donald Trump’s Standards for Cheap Lies, This Is Off the Charts (“A freaking Sharpie?”)
- It’s time to rethink our ‘democracies’ (“It’s not just that the Senate is a wildly undemocratic institution — 41 senators representing about one-fifth of the country’s population can block action through the filibuster. It’s also that organizations with extreme views on guns hold outsize sway over the GOP.”)
- Pentagon pulls funds for military schools, daycare to pay for Trump’s border wall
- Full list: The 127 defense projects postponed for the border barrier
- Warren: Where Trump is right now is a nightmare
- 10 key lines from CNN’s climate crisis town hall
- What happened during CNN’s climate town hall and what it means for 2020
- Democrats Tout Similarly Bold Climate Plans to Willing Audience (“The candidates’ plans were notable for what they would and wouldn’t ask Americans to sacrifice.”)
- Kamala Harris says she’d eliminate filibuster to pass Green New Deal
- Biden and Sanders strong, but Warren was better
- Democrats’ Climate Forum Exposes Rifts On Fracking, Nuclear Power And The Filibuster
- Trump Administration Reverses Standards For Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs (The Trump administration continues to do the exact opposite of what it needs to be doing.)
- Hurricane Dorian’s nightmarishly slow pace is linked to climate change (“Like Harvey and Florence before it, Dorian’s biggest danger comes when it stalls over land.”)
- Trumpworld Anxiety Grows Over a Rising Elizabeth Warren (“They once thought they’d delivered the political kill shot. But now GOP operatives are complaining that nothing sticks to Warren.”)
- Trump is in serious danger, and his own advisers know it (“There is one aspect of Donald Trump’s presidency that continues to be under-appreciated: the extraordinary lengths to which he and his propagandists regularly go to mask his political weakness and record of profound failure. To put this a bit differently, Trump’s conduct is so outsize and crazy, and his advisers’ defenses of it are so strained and absurd, that we often end up overlooking the much more mundane explanation for all of this — that Trump is failing on many fronts, and as a result, he and his advisers fear he’ll lose reelection.”)
- Conservative activist Jacob Wohl charged with felony in California (Shocker, huh?)
- Trump Says Dow Would Be 10,000 Points Higher Without Trade War
- Mattis risks normalizing Trump (“Given that he is a general trained to be apolitical, Mattis’s attempt at evenhandedness is understandable, but inappropriate in these times.”)
- Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner won’t run for re-election in 2020 after more than 40 years in Congress
- Republicans fear drubbing in next round of redistricting
- Climate Town Hall: Several Democratic Candidates Embrace a Carbon Tax (“At a CNN forum on climate change, the first such prime-time event in a presidential campaign, candidates vowed to take aggressive action to combat global warming.”)
- Clean Energy Highlights From CNN’s 7-hour Climate Town Hall
- That Assault Weapon Ban? It Really Did Work (“Since the ban was lifted in 2004, gun massacres involving military-style weapons are way up.”)
- Stop Lying About Gun Control (“Beto O’Rourke is rare among politicians for speaking honestly of wanting aggressive limits.”)
- “Our President Is Unstable”: Sen. Jeff Merkley Makes the Case That “It’s Getting Worse” (“Senator Jeff Merkley’s blunt warning about Trump’s policies and mental stability”)
- Steve King Drinks From a Toilet to Own the Libs (Who’s more demented, Steve King or Donald Trump? Tough call.)
- Trump’s “Very Inexpensive” Golf Habit Could Cost More than $340 Million (Just imagine if Obama had done that.)
- Rep. Wexton: Walmart shouldn’t be more responsive to the American people than U.S. Congress
- The Top US Asylum Official Has Been Pushed Out By The Trump Administration (Yet again, Cuccinelli is a menace.)
- When a guy named Cuccinelli is barring the door to other immigrants, something is very wrong in America
- Luria condemns Trump plan to divert funding for border wall
- New Analysis Shows How Immigrants Are Vital Members of Legislative Districts Across Virginia
- NRA Independent Expenditures Show Gun Manufacturers Lobby Has Virginia House Republicans’ Backs [UPDATED: NRA Gives $200k to House GOP]
- Virginia is a ‘bellwether’ on gun control. Here’s how things have changed
- EDITORIAL: People keep building as water keeps rising (“If that sounds like it doesn’t make sense, maybe that’s because it doesn’t. Why does the cycle of construction/destruction/reconstruction persist despite statistics and research that clearly indicate residential construction along the coast is a bad idea?”)
- Virginia to receive $20.4 million from Trump administration to fight opioid addiction
- Trump’s border wall funding plan hits military construction projects in Hampton Roads
- VCU president’s column endorsing NH District Corp.’s coliseum plan was written by NH District Corp.
- Video: Sheila Bynum-Coleman’s New TV Ad – “Kirk Cox Sold Out to the Highest Bidder”
- ICYMI: Virginia State Sen. Glen Sturtevant (R) Opposes Rezoning to Integrate Richmond’s Whitest Schools
- Fairfax County GOP Says It’s “Had Enough” of Children Who Are Not Like Them
- Video: Rodman Campaign Releases First TV Ad, “What I See”
- Virginia Beach leased building from state senator, hoping to make it new elections office
- Amid creeping carnage, one Virginia police chief keeps spotlight on black men as crime victims – and suspects
- Editorial: ODU moves to become resilience leade
- Charlie Hill column: A wakeup call for men across Virginia (“Gov. Ralph Northam has declared September Prostate Cancer Awareness Month to help draw attention to a cancer that impacts more men than any other. This decision, as well as the governor’s public support, is very helpful in getting the word out about prostate cancer, and his actions are deeply appreciated by the thousands of prostate cancer survivors living in Virginia, myself included.”)
- Ex-supervisor allowed improper expenditures in adult services program in Roanoke, audit finds
- Hurricane warnings extended up to Virginia-North Carolina border
- Cloudy and not as hot today. A few showers from Dorian may brush area on Friday.
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