by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, January 2.
- A Bigger Foreign-Policy Mess Than Anyone Predicted (“In the 2010s, global affairs turned out far worse than the most pessimistic scenario foretold by U.S. intelligence experts.”)
- Trump Bet He Could Isolate Iran and Charm North Korea. It’s Not That Easy. (Nope, massive #FAIL for the “art of the deal” dude.)
- Iran not heading to war but not afraid of conflict: military commander
- The Embassy Attack Revealed Trump’s Weakness
- Militiamen withdraw from US Embassy but Iraq tensions linger
- Pompeo Cancels Ukraine Trip Amid Protests at Embassy in Iraq
- Austria’s conservatives, Greens agree to form government
- Netanyahu Seeks Immunity From Israeli Corruption Charges
- Australian bushfire crisis: global figures and media react to ‘climate emergency’ (“Hillary Clinton, Greta Thunberg and Bernie Sanders among those responding to Australia’s unprecedented fires” Trump is worthless, or worse than worthless, as usual.)
- Deadly Flash Floods in Indonesia’s Capital Leave Thousands Homeless
- Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Is The Far-Right Authoritarian He Promised He’d Be (“Bolsonaro used the first year of his presidency to undermine Brazil’s democracy. But he was only getting started.”)
- Nearly Half A Billion Animals Feared Dead In Australian Wildfires (My god.)
- Why The U.S. Embassy In Iraq Became A Target Of Anger Again
- Turkey Detains Pilots, Probes Carlos Ghosn Flight After Istanbul Stop
- Emerging from the shadows: the U.S. chief justice who will preside over Trump’s trial
- Giuliani says he’d testify at Trump Senate trial
- Pelosi has McConnell over a a barrel as she delays impeachment trial: ‘This is working beautifully for her’
- How Long Can Nancy Pelosi Can Hold Back These Articles of Impeachment? Longer Than You Think
- 90,000 Jews Gather to Pray and Defy a Wave of Hate
- Family of anti-Semitic machete attack victim shares
- Pelosi and McConnell Begin 2020 in Standoff Over Trump Impeachment Trial
- Wake up, Republicans. Your party stands for all the wrong things now.
- Climate coverage is improving, but challenges abound heading into 2020 (That’s fine, but why was it so bad for so long, and why is it STILL not great?)
- The Trump tax cut has amounted to nothing but broken promises for the middle class
- Trump Throws Fresh Fuel on Dangerous QAnon Conspiracy Theory (Trump is a menace in every way.)
- Video of Joe Biden Suggesting White Nationalist Idea Is Deceptively Edited (This video is appalling; really highlights the dangers of social media in this day and age. Hint: you need to be VERY careful with shared content on Twitter, Facebook, etc. – always check the source, and if a video is a short clip, GET THE FULL CONTEXT. In this case, Biden was saying the *exact opposite* of what the Twitter troll was claiming he said.)
- Democratic Party Activists May Be Cooling On Warren And Warming To Biden
- Bernie Sanders raises more than $34.5 million in 4th quarter
- Andrew Yang’s campaign says it raised $16.5 million in Q4
- Trump campaign rakes in $46 million in fourth quarter
- Elizabeth Warren Isn’t Talking Much About ‘Medicare for All’ Anymore
- David Stern, Transformative N.B.A. Commissioner, Dies at 77
- 2019 Was a Busy Year for Virginia’s Congressional Delegation
- These New Laws Are Now in Effect in Maryland and Virginia
- Sam Wang column: Virginia was home to the first gerrymander. It should also be the home of its solution. (The same guy who had Hillary Clinton in 2016 with a 98%-99% chance of winning the presidency, with 323 electoral votes, is totally wrong again. And, of course, it’s published by the Republican Times-Disgrace.)
- The best chance we’ve had in a very long time’: Opponents push to abolish death penalty in Virginia
- Virginia Legislation on College Student-Athletes’ “Names, Images and Likenesses” Rights Would Join Push By Two Dozen Other States, Congress
- Non-Partisan Redistricting Resolution Submitted to Fairfax Democrats for Approval; Should Be a Model for Other Democratic Committees Across Virginia
- On Va. Democrats’ 2020 to-do list, voting rights seem to top campaign finance reform (We badly need both.)
- “Middle Housing”: Equal Access or a War on Suburbs? (This is a classic corporate media headline, with “both sides” presented, even though they are not in the least bit equally valid.)
- Under Trump, voter turnout surges in Virginia’s off-year elections (The WaPo just figured this out? LOL)
- New Virginia law set up to help tenants facing eviction is being disregarded, records show
- Foutz-Vega: Don’t discriminate against LGBT Virginians
- Gruggs: Dominion and Smithfield unite for renewable energy (This crap was actually published? Reality: both Dominion and Smithfield are horrendous in many ways, including on the environment.)
- EDITORIAL: Regulatory agency protects consumers (Hmmmm…)
- White nationalist who was a featured speaker at Unite the Right rally is arrested in Florida
- Editorial: Navy’s impact continue to grow (“Editorial: The Navy’s presence in Hampton Roads continues to grow to nearly $16 billion in 2019.”)
- Five D.C.-Area Transportation Projects To Watch For In 2020
- Southwest Virginia river the star of new state park
- Sheriff: Driver takes off after striking Loudoun County deputy at attempted traffic stop
- Lime is leaving Charlottesville scooter program, citing costs of recently imposed regulations
- Mild and dry today but showers at times Friday through Saturday night
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