by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, December 2.
- With Brutal Crackdown, Iran Is Convulsed by Worst Unrest in 40 Years
- COP25: youth ‘leadership’ contrasts with government inaction, says UN chief
- No one should want their children to live in this ‘bleak’ future
- Boris Johnson urged to challenge Trump on climate denial (“350 experts call on PM to address president’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’ claims”)
- U.N. Chief Warns “Point of No Return” on Climate Change “Is in Sight”
- NATO allies spooked by Trump despite White House soothing
- Trump heads to NATO summit, and Britain braces for impact (Pathetic.)
- China to Sanction U.S. Nonprofits, Halt Navy Visits Over Support for Hong Kong Protesters
- Trump Says U.S. Will Reinstate Metal Tariffs on Brazil and Argentina
- Climate Change Is Finally Having a Political Moment. That’s No Accident. (“The Sunrise Movement is sick of waiting.”)
- A Mexican cartel gun battle near the Texas border leaves 21 dead
- Impeachment inquiry enters critical new phase
- Judiciary Takes Up Impeachment As House Intelligence Panel Prepares To Release Report
- Trump’s counsel says president won’t take part in impeachment hearing Wednesday (Top-rated comment on the WaPo story: “Of course. Attack the process when you can’t defend against the facts. It’s as plain as egg on your face. Trump will never mount an effective defense because he’s guilty. That’s GUILTY. GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY.”
- U.S. Democrats set the stage for impeaching Trump with key hearing
- 1st Supreme Court Gun-Rights Battle In 10 Years May Transform Legal Landscape (“With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, there now are five conservative justices who may be willing to shut down many attempts at regulation, just as the NRA’s lock on state legislatures may be waning.”)
- ‘I’m done being quiet’: Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page slams Trump’s ‘sickening’ attacks in first interview
- Answers to these five questions will determine the path forward on impeachment
- Trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, and hardly a voice of caution to be heard
- Trump won’t lose his job – but the impeachment inquiry is still essential (“The process is required by the constitution, seems to be shifting voters’ opinions, and will render the president unpardonable”)
- 300+ Trump ads taken down by Google, YouTube
- Chuck Todd to GOP Senator: You’re Selling the Same Argument as Putin!
- Sen. John Kennedy doubles down on claims of Ukrainian interference (Batshit.)
- The Trailer: The electorate that Biden and Buttigieg see
- Polls From Previous Cycles Reminds Us It’s Still Very Early in the Democratic Presidential Primaries
- Will Warren Persist All the Way to the White House?
- The 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary Will Be the Most Significant in More Than a Century
- Democrats call BS on malarkey (“Voters don’t love or hate Biden’s campaign slogan — but they do find it confusing.”)
- How Black Voters Could Help Biden Win the Democratic Nomination (“To win the Democratic presidential nomination, a candidate needs to secure 1,990 pledged delegates. A significant number of delegates are at stake in states with large shares of black Democratic voters.”)
- Biden Aims to Rejuvenate Iowa Campaign, Insisting He Can Win
- Montana Gov. Steve Bullock drops out of presidential race (“While he plans to work hard to elect Democrats in the state and across the country in 2020, it will be in his capacity as a governor and a senior voice in the Democratic Party — not as a candidate for U.S. Senate”)
- Democrat Joe Sestak drops out of 2020 presidential race
- Senator Warner: Let Users Freely Move Their Data From One Social Media Platform to Another
- Two Northern Virginia Democratic Incumbents Draw Challengers
- Del. Nick Freitas, the “Charlie Kirk of Virginia,” Running for VA-07 GOP Nomination; If He Wins, VA07 “would be a Lean to Likely D race”
- Freitas to challenge Spanberger for congressional seat (This guy is godawful.)
- What’s not to like about biomass? Deforestation, pollution and overpriced power. (Agreed, most biomass is terrible.)
- 2020 census in Virginia: Some groups are likely to be undercounted. Here’s what advocates plan to do about it.
- Virginia targets historic push on equal rights amendment for women
- On redistricting reform, Democrats must not yield to temptation (Agree that Democrats should do redistricting reform, but they need to get it right, not just do anything for the sake of doing something.)
- Virginia looks to UVA and VCU for help as prison health care costs soar
- Editorial: When hurricane season ends (Gotta love this paper; they talk about the impacts of the climate crisis, but then they also allow a climate science DENIER to publish on their editorial page. Totally f’ed up.)
- Editorial: What will we do with the statues once they’re taken down?
- Editorial: Could hemp be savior of state’s farms?
- Elliott Fullmer column: More early voting days are good, but more sites would better
- Addressing this Rebellion Against Anticipated Virginia Gun Laws
- A Closer Look at Virginia’s Unemployment Rate
- Five people shot, one fatally, over 24-hour period in Richmond
- Isolation, paranoia and a $3,027 mistake: A Virginia Beach engineer’s path to mass murder
- Hanover planning commissioners holding out on whether to endorse changes to rural conservation code
- Rain and snow showers today introduce a chilly, wintry first week of December
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