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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, October 3.
- Putin jokes that Russia will meddle in 2020 US elections (Oh Vlad, you are hilarious, should have been a stand-up comic! Har har har.)
- U.S. to Put Tariffs on Europe Planes, Whiskey After WTO Ruling
- Johnson’s Brexit Plan Faces Doubters in Brussels and Westminster
- Hong Kong to Invoke Emergency Powers to Ban Masks at Protests (“Move to ban masks first time emergency law has been used in more than half a century”)
- Trump rides a roller coaster of grievance, victimhood and braggadocio as Finland’s leader looks on (Psychotic meltdown. Trump needs help, badly.)
- #TrumpMeltdown Trends as Americans Mock Trump’s Combative Press Conference with Finnish President
- Democrats are preparing to subpoena the White House in the next phase of their impeachment inquiry
- U.S. Jobs Outlook Is So Weak It Echoes Months When Disasters Hit (“It’s starting to roll into one big ball of negativity”)
- Trump involved Pence in attempts to pressure Ukraine’s leader, officials say
- Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff Just Provided a Preemptive Autopsy of Trump’s Presidency* (“Obstructing the impeachment inquiry will be added to the articles of impeachment.”)
- Unfit for Office (“Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.”)
- Schiff Got Early Account of Accusations as Whistle-Blower’s Concerns Grew
- GOP leaders falsely claim Democrats got caught ‘orchestrating’ whistleblower complaint
- This Is ‘Bullsh*t,’ and It Will Continue to Be Bullsh*t No Matter How Many Wingnuts Repeat It (“The president* is already saying, in a blatant fabrication, that Adam Schiff wrote the whistleblower complaint.”)
- Trump’s Impeachment Fury Escalates as Panels Line Up Witnesses
- Here’s why Democrats are winning (“If the House can either obtain the information it seeks or certify that the administration is refusing to comply, there is no reason impeachment cannot reach the floor for a vote within a month.”)
- Giuliani has consulted on Ukraine with imprisoned Paul Manafort via a lawyer
- State Department inspector general gives Congress documents that Giuliani provided
- Beneath the impeachment spin: Growing GOP concern
- Perilous times for Trump: By 45%-38%, Americans support impeaching him over Ukraine allegations, poll finds (“By a similar margin, 44%-35%, those surveyed say the Senate, which would then be charged with holding a trial of the president, should convict Trump and remove him from office.”)
- The next fake scandal that Trump thinks will save him (“…there’s nothing in the story that says anything about Schiff having any substantive input into the whistleblower’s complaint. It says Schiff’s aide reported to him some of what the whistleblower said, and that the aide told the whistleblower to get a lawyer and go to the inspector general.”)
- Trump’s foul mood leads him deeper into darkness (“CNN’s Dana Bash and Jamie Gangel reported that there is concern in the Republican Party both about the kind of behavior that Trump exhibited Wednesday and about what could happen next.” Trump is completely unhinged and unfit to be president. Get him the hell outta there.)
- Trump Is Going to Burn Down Everything and Everyone, and Republicans, That Means You (“That press conference was terrifying. And congressional Republicans should be more afraid than anyone. Trump’s going down and taking them with him.”)
- Impeachment War Room? Trump Does It All Himself, and That Worries Republicans
- The Ukraine scandal exposes the Trump crony Pompeo really is (“‘I’ve run out of words to appropriately convey how horrified, dispirited, and disgusted we all are,’ a State Department official told me.”)
- Pompeo is enabling the destruction of U.S. diplomacy (“His obstruction of Congress cannot continue.”)
- Donald Is Desperate (“He will do and say whatever he can to avoid impeachment.”)
- Trump’s Assault on the State Department Must Be Stopped(“Congress needs to repair the damage the president has caused to the effectiveness and morale of the nation’s diplomats.”)
- Andrew Johnson’s Violent Language — and Trump’s (“The House should consider the president’s incendiary rhetoric as a separate offense, worthy of its own article of impeachment, as it was in 1868.” Agreed.)
- As impeachment war turns hot, Trump sounds partisan rallying cry (“Analysis: With the vise tightening on the House’s impeachment inquiry, an embattled president turned to his trusted political playbook to rally his troops.”)
- Rudy Giuliani: I Provided Documents State Department Watchdog Gave To Congress
- Biden To Trump On Ukraine: ‘You’re Not Going To Destroy My Family’
- Trump’s impeachment defense is all alligators and snakes
- Mainstream media uncritically quote Trump’s false “coup” label for impeachment inquiry
- The Democratic gun violence forum turned into a substantive clash over policy (“Democrats agree on universal background checks and an assault weapons ban…There’s more division on gun licensing…Democrats sharply disagree on a mandatory buyback for assault weapons”))
- Los Angeles, a City Known for Its Freeways, Is About to Plant a Shit Ton of Trees (We need to do this in Virginia as well. Also, we need to take a LOT better care of the trees we already have.)
- Legal challenges aim to derail Trump’s ‘public charge’ rule that could limit path to citizenship for poor immigrants
- Rudy Giuliani Is a One-Man Wrecking Crew (GHOULiani)
- Trump’s video taken off Twitter after band Nickelback complains
- Amber Guyger’s 10-year sentence sparks both protests and an act of forgiveness
- Trump administration’s war on science has hit ‘crisis point’, experts warn (This alone should be impeachable.)
- Trump Administration to Obtain Detained Migrants’ DNA for Use in Criminal Database (We need to check Cooch’s DNA to figure out WTF is wrong with him.)
- Kaine: Impeachment inquiry is ‘beyond politics’ (It certainly should be, but instead many Republicans are putting party loyalty over patriotism.)
- Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time
- As Impeachment Looms, Politics Stay Local In Virginia
- The Significance of Bernie Sanders’s Heart Disease (“Coronary stenting is one of the most common procedures in the United States.”)
- California did the right thing. Don’t buy into the NCAA’s propaganda.
- Pence: I Participated in the Ukraine Plot But Only As a Patsy (Mike DENSE)
- Republicans thought calling Northam ‘Gov. Blackface’ would help them. That’s changed. (“Two Republicans involved with campaigns in Virginia said internal polling has shown attacks on Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.) over his blackface scandal were not helping them woo voters.”)
- McAuliffe and Saslaw, at Richmond home of Joe Morrissey, say Democrats need him on their team (I get the “realpolitik” needs to have Morrissey on the Democratic “team,” but: 1) vomit; 2) there’s zero excuse to have the f’ing Trump Virginia Chair as the emcee at an event with the Senate Dem Leader and Dem former Gov. Terry McAuliffe; 3) it’s beyond belief that the leader of the extremist Virginia Family Foundation, Victoria Cobb, was initially going to come to this event in support of Morrissey.)
- The REAL ID deadline in Virginia is a year away. Here’s how to get one.
- “On Life Support” – Virginia Republicans Say Their State Party Is In Shambles
- Historic Heat, Yet Republican Virginia House of Delegates Candidate Gaydonna Vandergriff Comes Out As Climate Science Denier!
- VA Democratic House Leader Eileen Filler-Corn: We Need Commonsense Solutions for a Better Commonwealth
- Virginia county GOP condemns its own candidate over monstrous slurs (Well, some of them. Sort of.)
- James River gets B- grade again after record rainfalls in 2018 dampened recent progress
- City Charter at issue as Richmond leaders convene to discuss legislative package
- UVa safety figures show uptick in reporting of sexual assault, dating violence
- Virginia doctor sentenced to 40 years in opioid case
- Former Newport News shipyard inspector pleads guilty to falsifying welding reports
- Wednesday was the hottest Oct. 2 ever recorded in Richmond — and the heat isn’t over (We need to get off of fossil fuels ASAP.)
- D.C.-area forecast: Heat abates as dry, crisp fall weather arrives Friday
