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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, Christmas Day 2019. Have a great holiday, whether you’re celebrating Christmas, something else, or nothing at all.
- Ongoing upgrades to North Korean arms give Kim choices for ‘Christmas gift’
- Trump Downplays Threat Of ‘Gift’ From North Korea: Maybe It’s A ‘Beautiful Vase’ (Haha, get it? Trump’s so funny! LOL)
- China calls on US to take ‘concrete steps’ with North Korea
- Adm. James Stavridis: 100% Trump got played by North Korea
- The climate movement is gaining momentum in spite of Trump
- Indian Democracy Is Fighting Back (“The protesters are trying to save a liberal India—and keep bigotry from becoming the law of the country.”)
- Turkey to Keep Russian Missiles, Defying U.S. Sanctions Threat
- Killer Slime and Dead Birds: The Dirty Secrets of European Farm Subsidies
- Benjamin Netanyahu: weakened Israeli PM faces primary vote (“Party rival Gideon Saar has launched a bid to unseat Netanyahu as Likud leader”)
- ‘My moment’: the activists fighting climate crisis and winning elections
- Donald Trump spends Christmas Eve railing against impeachment
- Trump lashes out at Pelosi, Democrats after exchanging holiday greetings with troops (Yep, Trump in the spirit of the holidays…haha, not.)
- Trump says Pelosi ‘desperate’ and ‘hates all of the people that voted for me’ (Trump “projecting” again.)
- New poll shows nearly half of voters approve of Trump’s impeachment
- Murkowski ‘disturbed’ by McConnell’s vow for ‘total coordination’ with White House for impeachment trial (Right, so what are you going to DO about it?)
- Could Chief Justice John Roberts Be the Democrats’ Impeachment Savior? (“Washington’s buzzing about how Mitch McConnell will run the anticipated Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. But it is Chief Justice John Roberts, black robe and all, who will preside. If the Democrats think he’ll curb the Republicans, they’d better think again.”)
- Maybe this will impact Senate Republicans (“The map will show, according to Jennifer E. Duffy of the Cook Political Report, that ‘Democrats appear to have expanded the playing field enough to put Republicans’ majority at risk.'”)
- Michael Bloomberg says his White House campaign unknowingly used prison labor
- Why Biden’s endorsement edge matters
- ‘We’ve never seen spending like this’: Bloomberg, Steyer saturate airwaves (It doesn’t seem to be helping them much.)
- Trump campaign launches website to help supporters ‘win arguments’ with ‘snowflakes’ during holidays
- FERC appointees want 4¢/kWh clean energy tax to fund fossil fuel welfare
- DOE finalizes rejection of Obama lightbulb efficiency standards, but excludes LEDs from analysis (So f’ing stupid.)
- Reps. Donald McEachin (D-VA04), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA10) Send Letter to Gov. Ralph Northam Asking to Replace Robert E. Lee Statue in U.S. Capitol with One of African-American Leader
- Region weighs pact to cut emissions from cars and trucks
- BREAKING: Professor Vanessa Tyson, Who Has Accused Virginia LG Justin Fairfax of Sexual Assault, Announces Candidacy for California State Assembly District 57
- Graphics: In 2019, Nearly 60% of Local Virginia Elections Went Uncontested
- As White Supremacists Fight to Save Monuments to Racism, Virginia Democrats Finally Have a Plan to Topple Them (“Virginia’s Heritage Law has done over a century of heavy lifting for racist zealots. A new law would change that.”)
- Release of secret NRECA governance report supports Virginia electric co-op reform groups’ efforts to restore democracy at their utilities
- Getting Virginia to 100 (back of the envelope scratches …)
- Fauquier County latest in Virginia to pass resolution backing Second Amendment
- Calm weather for Christmas Day; continues to be seasonably mild through the weekend
