by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, January 16.
- Putin’s New Plan to Hold Power Forever (“The Russian leader has come up with a constitutional reform that gives him three paths to indefinite rule.”)
- This Is Your Life on Climate Change (“2019 was the hottest year on record, with one exception.” We need urgent action, including here in Virginia.)
- BlackRock has faced criticism for not taking a tougher line on its climate-related investments.
BlackRock Sends Huge Warning Shot at Companies Ignoring Climate Risk - The $95 Billion Centerpiece of the Trade Deal Is Already In Doubt (“Markets waiting for actual evidence of increased shipments”)
- ‘Regret and unhappiness’: China offers muted response to US trade deal
- Trump Hopes Trade Deals Will Bolster Growth. Experts Don’t Agree.
- Senate gets ready to open impeachment trial against Donald Trump
- Nancy Pelosi Savaged House Republicans While Sending Off the Articles of Impeachment
- Lev Parnas: Mike Pence Canceled Ukraine Trip Over Biden Probe
- Trump’s Senate Trial Kicks Off With GOP Moderates Under Pressure
- Trump impeachment case heads to Senate (“Democrats relinquish control over process with walk across Capitol”)
- A Disturbing Ukraine Scheme (“Trump’s hired thugs were seemingly surveilling U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and planning God knows what else.”)
- Parnas used access to Trump’s world to help push shadow Ukraine effort, documents show
- How Will the Senate Get Away With Its Sham Trial Now? (“As more evidence pours out, Mitch McConnell’s position becomes increasingly untenable.”)
- Giuliani associate Parnas says Trump ‘knew exactly what was going on’
- Key Player in Ukraine Shakedown Says Trump “Knew Exactly What Was Going on”
- Lev Parnas, Key Player in Ukraine Affair, Completes Break With Trump and Giuliani
- New evidence of impeachable conduct: Could it get worse for Trump? (“Trump’s bag men were out to smear Biden.”)
- Democrats release more Parnas evidence, including voicemails with Trump associates
- Five takeaways from Parnas’s Maddow interview
- GOP figure who said he tracked U.S. ambassador was previously involuntarily committed, records show
- Devin Nunes Now Remembers Call With Lev Parnas
- Trump shows that impeachment will not moderate him
- Pelosi impeachment manager is calling for McConnell’s recusal from Trump Senate trial
- Eyeing swift impeachment trial, Trump’s legal team aims to block witnesses and cast doubt on charges
- Rand Paul threatens fellow Republicans with explosive witness votes
- Here is why Senate Republicans dare not exclude witnesses
- After explosive evidence from Giuliani associate Lev Parnas is released, Fox News scrambles to downplay its impact (Actually, should be “Fox Propaganda” or “Fox State Media”)
- A stunning rebuke: A majority of the Senate doesn’t trust the commander in chief
- Trump’s Stealth Plan to Preserve White Electoral Power (“The next front in the Republican war on voting rights: excluding millions from political representation”)
- Debating in the shadow of impeachment
- In this fight, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are both losers
- Warren Told Sanders After Debate, ‘I Think You Called Me a Liar on National TV’
- Exclusive: Warren accused Sanders in tense post-debate exchange of calling her a ‘liar’ on national TV (“Sanders responded that it was Warren who called him a liar and said they should not talk about it right then.”)
- Doomsday scenario on the left: Warren, Sanders destroy each other while Biden skates in
- Warren-Sanders rift has progressives nervous about fallout
- Why #NeverWarren should make you nervous about 2020
- Tom Steyer Lifts Ceiling on Spending After Bump in State Polls (“The billionaire has blown past the $100 million he committed to his Democratic campaign.”)
- To Beat Trump, Put Ideals Before Ideas (“Voters in this presidential election are more concerned with the candidates’ values than their proposals.” Agreed. Also, we need to beat Trump.)
- Sanders-Warren dispute jolts Bernie’s base into action (“This is not what Sanders and his campaign want to be talking about”)
- NPR’s sanitizing of Trump’s Milwaukee rally shows how he’s broken the media
- This media failure really could help Trump politically (“…there’s a third way in which Trump challenges the media that generates far less attention than either of those: the ways in which the conventions of political reporting often constrain reporters from conveying just how crazy, depraved and saturated in malice and hate some of his rally performances are. Vox’s Aaron Rupar has a fascinating but deeply dispiriting look at one such example. After Trump’s rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, an NPR segment basically sanitized away all of the wretchedness and insanity.”)
- The January Democratic Debate In 6 Charts (Klobuchar +5.8, Steyer +5.0, Buttigieg +4.7, Warren +3.9, Biden -1.6, Sanders -3.6)
- Elizabeth Warren Campaign Announces 15 Virginia Endorsements – Elected Officials, Former Candidates, Activists
- Virginia Approves the E.R.A., Becoming the 38th State to Back It (“Virginia’s move is symbolic, and crosses the threshold of three-quarters of states needed for ratification. Yet the fate of the E.R.A. is far from decided.”)
- Photos, Video: Virginia House of Delegates Prepares to Ratify the ERA (UPDATE: ERA Passes House 59-41 and Senate 28-12)
- ‘A long time to wait’: Virginia passes Equal Rights Amendment in historic vote
- ‘At last, at last’: Women who fought for ERA for decades exult at Virginia vote
- Did Virginia Just Amend the Constitution? (“The Democratic-led legislature voted to become the 38th and final state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. But a court battle is already under way.”)
- Video: Far-Right Virginia State Senator Rails Against ERA Supporters as “Blindly Naïve and Uneducated”; Says ERA Is “Nefarious” Effort to Eliminate Gender Pronouns
- Video: Governor Northam Declares State of Emergency in Advance of Capitol Square Demonstration
- Gov. Ralph Northam declares state of emergency, temporarily bans weapons from Capitol grounds
- Northam declares emergency, temporarily bans weapons on Capitol grounds
- Virginia Governor Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Gun Rights Rally
- Virginia Gov. Declares State of Emergency for Pro-Gun Rally in Richmond, Fearing Far-Right Agitators
- VERIFY: No, the Virginia governor did not propose sending the National Guard to confiscate guns
- As Virginia gun rally approaches, Alex Jones and his Infowars outlet hype prospect of violence
- Death Threats Are Sending the South’s Only Socialist Lawmaker Into Hiding
- The Powerful Heritage and Growing Clout of Virginia’s Legislative Black Caucus
- Business Groups Are Lining Up Against Democratic Efforts to Help Virginia Workers (Democrats need to act anyway.)
- Advocates voice support for marijuana reform bill at Virginia Civil Rights Memorial
- Editorial: Amazon deal rippling across the commonwealth (“Amazon’s land purchase in Suffolk represents the type of investment and employment potential Virginia communities should expect from the commonwealth landing the company’s HQ2.”)
- Fairfax County ‘swatting’ suspect with neo-Nazi ties to remain in jail
- Stafford School Board releases legal opinions on policies that protect sexual orientation, gender identity
- EDITORIAL: A river runs through it?
- Arlington County Ready to Hit the Gas on Lee Highway Transformation Plan
- Editorial: Southwest Virginia gets the shaft in the state Senate (The reason is that Southwest Virginia votes “overwhelmingly Republican,” and Republicans lost power in November.)
- Strong winds today bring in cold air tonight. Wintry mix expected Saturday.
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