by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, November 9.
- Brazil’s former president Lula walks free from prison after supreme court ruling
- How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong (“Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we’re facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.” Yep, the problem isn’t that scientists OVERestimated the climate crisis, it’s that they wildly UNDERestimated it.)
- In the future there will be batteries, lots of batteries (“The world is witnessing a global shift. A shift to clean mobility, to renewable energy. And this is where batteries come in.”)
- Wind and solar kill coal and nuclear on costs, says latest Lazard report
- Impeachment: how Trump’s hardball tactics put the constitution in peril
- As probe enters new phase, latest transcripts show senior official said he had ‘no doubt’ of quid pro quo (“Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman described what he heard on President Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president. The release of Vindman’s testimony, and that of Fiona Hill, comes ahead of public hearings next week.”)
- Vindman Says He Heard U.S. Envoy Explicitly Push For Investigation Of Bidens
- Ukraine expert who listened to Trump’s call says ‘there was no doubt’ the president was seeking investigations of political rivals
- Giuliani associates pressed past president of Ukraine to announce Biden investigation in exchange for state visit
- Republicans are throwing Giuliani under the bus. But there’s a problem.
- Giuliani Associates Urged Ukraine’s Prior President to Open Biden, Election Probes
- Vindman Burns Trump Booster John Solomon: ‘All the Key Elements’ of His Reporting ‘Were False’
- Does Bolton have a bombshell, and other impeachment news
- Trump told Gordon Sondland to extort Ukraine. Now he claims to “hardly know” him. (“Last month, Sondland was a ‘really good man’ and a ‘great American.’ Now? ‘I hardly know the gentleman'”)
- Trump intends to take tax return fight to Supreme Court (Trump clearly has a LOT to hide.)
- Trump Tax Case Should Be an Easy Supreme Court Call (“It wouldn’t be terribly surprising if the justices decline to consider it at all.”)
- Picture Emerges of Bolton-Mulvaney Rift Over Trump’s Ukraine Agenda (“John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, knows of “many relevant meetings” about the Ukraine pressure campaign, his lawyer said. The assertion came as newly public testimony showed how the campaign pitted Mr. Bolton against Mick Mulvaney, who was said to have played a central role.”)
- “The Truth Looked Bad for Donald Trump”: The Roger Stone Trial Is Delivering Much of What Mueller Didn’t (“The self-styled ‘dirty trickster’ is in the courtroom—but the president is definitely on trial. And even Steve Bannon took the stand and dropped a dime.”)
- ‘A Warning’ by ‘Anonymous’: 5 Takeaways (“The book seems to be the product of a Republican with access to the White House who grew increasingly upset by President Trump.”)
- Steve Bannon just testified for the government at Roger Stone’s trial
- How the Insufferably Woke Help Trump (“Democrats are insulting and condescending to the swing-state voters they need the most.”)
- Centrist Democrats seize on state election wins to rail against Warren’s agenda (“Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who is up for reelection next year, said the candidates who won ‘ran on more moderate issues’ and emphasized a ‘Virginia-centric’ platform…He said ‘the vast majority’ of successful candidates ‘had very much followed in the traditional Virginia Democratic model of we’re going to give you responsible government, it’s going to be fiscally responsible.'”)
- Senate president says Bevin should concede election if recanvass doesn’t alter vote totals
- McDonald’s signs ‘long term’ deals for Texan wind and solar energy
- Democrats debate presidential field on news of Michael Bloomberg’s potential candidacy
- How Seriously Should We Take Michael Bloomberg’s Potential 2020 Run?
- Elizabeth Warren Couldn’t Be Luckier (“If Michael Bloomberg enters the presidential race, he will empower the very forces that he is reportedly eager to thwart.”)
- “It Wasn’t Left-Wingers”: Bloombergworld Operatives See a Path. Are They Insane? (Or greedy?)
- Three Years Later, Trump Has Lost the Element of Surprise
- Facebook and YouTube block spread of supposed whistleblower’s name and photo. Twitter allows both.
- What Tuesday’s election results tell us about 2020
- Here’s how Democrats take back the Senate (“Republicans Gardner, Susan Collins (Maine), Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Martha McSally (Ariz.) may be the targets of the main offensive, but Democrats — whose only vulnerable incumbent is Sen. Doug Jones (Ala.) — also have their sights on two open Georgia seats, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and even Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who possesses the worst home-state approval rating in the Senate. If Republicans nominate anti-immigrant gadfly Kris Kobach in Kansas, or if Steve Bullock, the Democratic governor of Montana, finally agrees to make a Senate run, Democrats can add two more seats to their wish list.”)
- One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle Class
- Referee says he complained to Jim Jordan about sexual misconduct by Ohio State athletics department doctor, lawsuit alleges (Typo: should be spelled “Gym” Jordan. LOL)
- Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan Just Debuted the Trump Circus Defense
- Washington Post Union Report Cites Pay Disparities Across Gender And Race
- Elaine Luria says she’s now heard enough to vote to impeach President Trump
- “Flipped-the-General Assembly Friday”
- New Lazard Report on “Levelized Cost of Energy” Highlights Why Virginia Should Ditch Fossil Fuels, Go All-Out for Clean Energy
- Dominion Energy executive: ‘We will … get to a 100% carbon-free grid’ (Sure, just believe the nice Dominion executive…LOL)
- Surprise delay, financing of Atlantic Coast Pipeline slams Duke shares (“Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) closed -2.8% in today’s trade to its lowest in nearly three months after saying it would delay operations on the stalled Atlantic Coast Pipeline to 2022 and offer $2.5B in new shares to cover costs.”)
- Del. David Toscano: Blue Waves and Creation of a Democratic Majority
- As Democrats Prepare To Take Power In Virginia, Gov. Northam Focuses On Gun Control
- Guy claims victory, Stolle says recount ‘highly likely’ in Virginia Beach race
- Will Virginia Democrats Create a Blue Gerrymander? (“After a historic win, Democrats have a choice to make—and they have to make it soon.”)
- In Virginia Politics, ‘It Costs A Lot Of Money Now Just To Lose’
- What Democrats Should Do Now That They Have Turned Virginia Blue (“The state can become a laboratory for democracy.” Agreed. Which means reforms in how we conduct elections, how people vote, campaign finance, ethics, professionalizing the legislature, etc, etc.)
- Virginia Republicans cancel commission meeting that was to review gun control bills, deferring to next year (Of course they do, as the entire thing was always a sham.)
- How Voters Turned Virginia from Deep Red to Solid Blue (“A new kind of suburbanization is sweeping through politics, from Richmond to Atlanta, Houston, Denver and elsewhere, and Democrats are starting to breach Republicans’ firewalls in elections.”)
- Black lawmakers in Virginia set to be key powerbrokers
- Ghazala Hashmi on becoming Virginia’s first female Muslim state Senator: “People see it as a sign of hope”
- Filler-Corn will recuse herself on certain lobbying firm matters if elected speaker, spokeswoman says
- How Much is Too Much for Virginia’s New Democratic Majority? (You know what’s “too much?” Constant articles in the media concern trolling about Democrats supposedly doing “too much.” Just stop.)
- Top political adviser to Gov. Northam backs Tulsi Gabbard for president (That’s appalling.)
- ‘I don’t regret it’: how Juli Briskman went from giving Trump the finger to winning an election
- Record Number Of Women Elected To The Virginia Legislature (“They now hold 41 out of 140 seats.” Mostly on the Democratic side, of course.)
- Opinion/Editorial: Transportation funding needs new approach
- Did Newly Elected Virginia Democrat Joe Morrissey in the Past Have Sex with His Teenage Receptionist? (“Mostly True”)
- A Strong House Speaker Is Undemocratic
- Black Friday Deals for Energy Companies via The Nature Conservancy
- Henrico Board of Supervisors majority eludes Democrats after consecutive electoral loses in Brookland
- Robinson claims victory in Chesterfield House race; Barnett will not seek recount
- Arlington County Board chair Christian Dorsey filed bankruptcy petition in Oct.
- Boil-water advisory remains for parts of Arlington and D.C.
- Chilly today, then a slow warming trend through Monday before another Arctic blast
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