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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, New Year’s Eve 2019. Let’s hope the 2020s are a *lot* better than the 2010s…
- Greta Thunberg Says She “Wouldn’t Have Wasted My Time” on Trump
- The Lost Decade: How We Awoke To Climate Change Only To Squander Every Chance To Act (“This decade was likely the hottest on record. As it comes to a close and another begins, one glaring question is: Can the world make up for this lost time?”)
- Australia bushfires: towns devastated and lives lost as blazes turn the sky red (“Thousands shelter on beaches as fires rip through Victoria and New South Wales” Flashback to the book, “On the Beach,” except this time with the climate crisis as the apocalypse?)
- Iraqis chanting ‘Death to America’ attempt to storm U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
- Pompeo to meet with Ukraine president this week to ‘reaffirm U.S. support’
- North Korea’s Kim to unveil ‘new path’ in New Year speech after U.S. misses deadline
- China persecutes a genuine people’s leader on utterly baseless charges
- With births down, U.S. had slowest growth rate in a century
- Political Power Set to Continue Shift to Southern States, Data Show
- Epic redistricting battles loom in states poised to gain, lose House seats
- This is what it is like to be attacked by the president (James Comey: “Although it gets better for the individual target over time, it gets only worse for the country.”)
- Every trial is a pursuit of truth. Will my colleagues in the Senate uphold that?
- What’s McConnell’s endgame in shaping the Senate trial to benefit Trump?
- It’s up to voters to prevent four more years of institutional vandalism
- Judge Dismisses Lawsuit by Ex-Trump Aide Subpoenaed in Impeachment Inquiry
- Peter Strzok accuses the federal government of violating his rights
- The GOP is campaigning against voting — and it’s winning in some states
- The Top Moments From A Decade That Reshaped American Politics
- Lev Parnas Pushes to Share His Info With House Intel
- ‘Game changer’: Top Democrats say bombshell report shows need for witnesses in Senate impeachment trial (“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, then-national security adviser John Bolton and Defense Secretary Mark Esper urged Trump to release the aid, with Bolton saying it was ‘in America’s interest,’ the report said.”)
- The Last Unifying Force in Congress (“With Representative John Lewis’s grim cancer diagnosis, lawmakers must confront the possible loss of a singular figure within the Capitol.”)
- This Is What the Deep State Actually Looks Like
- A grim end to a dark political year (“On the last day of 2019, President Donald Trump is fuming about acquiring the historic stain of becoming the third president to be impeached after stretching the boundaries of his office one too many times. He’s whipping up a storm of misinformation that challenged the very notion of fact itself, creating an alternative narrative for Republicans, who are trapped by his mastery of the party’s grassroots base, to adopt.”)
- Mick Mulvaney Is Getting Fed to the Wolves
- Prison guard trainees were photographed giving a Nazi salute. The entire class was fired.
- 2020’s Existential Dread (“The long-awaited reckoning with Trumpism is about to arrive”)
- Our Year of Trumpschmerz
- 3 Big Economic Trends of the 2010s
- Hanukkah attack highlights disturbing rise of anti-Semitic violence
- Hanukkah Stabbing Suspect Appears To Have Been Driven By Anti-Semitism, FBI Says
- The president and the killer: Why Donald Trump’s embrace of Eddie Gallagher is so dangerous (“Eddie Gallagher was such a toxic Navy SEAL his own men turned on him. To Donald Trump, he’s a political weapon”)
- Homeland Security official uses violent anti-Semitic attack to smear immigrants (Ken Cuccinelli is heinous, part infinity.)
- Poll: Biden edges Trump in Florida
- Joe Biden Confronts a Demagogue and a Dilemma (“There’s no sure way to counter Trump’s lie machine.”)
- Joe Biden says he would consider a Republican for his running mate (Is this serious or just a signal to “moderate” Republicans and independents?)
- Here’s how the NY Times misled readers with its headlines and tweets in 2019
- This year we learned the true cost of Fox News’ nativism
- Bret Stephens and the Perils of the Tapped-Out Column (Stephens is just a horrible writer who has no place writing for the NY Times, or any serious newspaper.)
- NYT Adds Lengthy Editors’ Note To Bret Stephens’ Latest Terrible Column (Embarrassing.)
- Some Virginia Congressional Leaders Are Beyond Ready to Shift Focus From Impeachment
- Virginia Democrats Are Pulling for Rep. John Lewis
- Biden presidential campaign appoints Virginia director, marking early push for newly blue state (“Biden has tapped Fernando Mercado to coordinate his efforts in Virginia, his campaign said.”)
- Biden is only Democrat currently outpolling Trump in Virginia (That reflects the fact that Dems are locked in a contested primary campaign right now. In the end, Dems are very, very likely to win Virginia.)
- Natural gas development is speeding up in Virginia. Legislators will have to square that with state climate goals. (Totally incompatible.)
- Redistricting Debate Likely to Take Center Stage Again Next Month in Richmond
- New Coalition Demands State Cede Control of Confederate Monuments
- A new voice: Virginia’s first female speaker prepares to gavel in the GA session
- New House of Delegates Bills Introduced on “Motor Voter”; Absentee Voting; Teacher Pay; “Virginia Offshore Wind Master Plan”; Civil Asset Forfeiture; etc.)
- Lots More Bills Introduced, Including Slew of Criminal Justice Reform Legislation
- A Virginia Clean Economy: Perspective from Stanford’s Solutions Project
- Editorial: 19 questions, and 19 answers, for 2019
- Editorial: A year of highs and lows (“Editorial: The past 12 months were a series of ups and downs that showcased the best of Hampton Roads – as well as the worst.”)
- Josh Horwitz column: The rhetoric of “Second Amendment sanctuaries” becomes increasingly dangerous
- McClellan Still Contemplating 2021 Gubernatorial Run, But Not Interested in Lower Posts
- N. Va. leaders lay out their General Assembly wish lists. Here’s where they all agree.
- 11 Peninsula stories that defined the decade
- Looking back at some of 2019’s local news stories and asking ‘What Happened To?
- Virginia Beach to hold special session to consider “Second Amendment Constitutional City” resolution (“The council is set to discuss the resolution at 4 p.m. Jan. 6 in the council’s conference room. After a short break, the council will reconvene at 6 p.m. in its chambers for a formal vote.”)
- CNU professor’s nonprofit pays it forward to assist women in need
- Colder and breezy into New Year’s holiday with rain returning Thursday night
