by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 23.
Donald Trump’s sister is all of us. pic.twitter.com/5gALpe8KC1
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 23, 2020
- Belarus: Nato denies foreign troops are on border
- TikTok will challenge Trump order banning U.S. transactions, company confirms
- California seeks help as wildfires threaten communities
- How to Reverse Course on Trump’s Environmental Damage (“The next president can undo some of the recent efforts to weaken environmental protections. But it’ll take work.”)
- In secretly recorded audio, President Trump’s sister says he has ‘no principles’ and ‘you can’t trust him’ (I mean, tell us something else we haven’t know for years!)
- President’s Sister Describes Trump as Liar With ‘No Principles’ in Recordings
- Trump’s sister bitterly criticizes him in conversations secretly recorded by her niece Mary Trump (“His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God…I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”)
- Why Biden Needs a Landslide Just to Win (“Only a lopsided show of force would overcome undelivered mail, closed polling sites and Trump’s schemes.”)
- Trump v American democracy: the real battle on the ballot this November
- The Republican National Convention Starts Monday. Here’s What You Need To Know (It’s going to be a dystopian nightmare, also a constant stream of lies and nasty attacks.)
- An Apprentice producer and a TV-obsessed president: Inside the GOP’s convention scramble (“After Donald Trump blew up the GOP’s convention for the second time, aides sat before a blank whiteboard and started over — with only four weeks to go.”)
- House Democrats Pass Broad Legislation To Protect U.S. Postal Service [UPDATED]
- House passes bill to put $25 billion into USPS and reverse changes amid uproar
- ‘They keep me alive’: Prescription drugs delayed by Postal Service put thousands at risk
- Inside the Democratic Party’s plan to prevent vote-by-mail disaster (“The party is reworking its voter contact programs and launching lawsuits to make sure as many mail votes get counted as possible.”)
- More Than 550,000 Primary Absentee Ballots Rejected In 2020, Far Outpacing 2016 (“Election experts said first-time absentee voters are much more likely to make the kinds of mistakes that lead to rejected ballots. Studies also show that voters of color and young voters are more likely than others to have their ballots not count.”)
- Biden Gets No Immediate Convention Bounce, but Still Leads Trump (“Democratic nominee earns best favorability ratings yet in post-DNC poll…51% of likely voters said they had a favorable view of Biden on Friday, a single-day record in Morning Consult tracking of the race.”)
- Trump spreads false claim Democrats dropped God from Pledge of Allegiance (“Pledge was recited in entirety on three nights of DNC”)
- ‘White supremacy’ was behind child separations — and Trump officials went along, critics say (Again with the bullshit, cop-out “critics say” formulation. Hey NBC, do you have – ya know – actual REPORTERS in your outfit? Like, people who could actually investigate what the “critics” say to find out if it’s true or not? Then, ya know, report THAT?)
- Melania Trump’s changes to the White House Rose Garden, explained (“She dug up trees and put in paved walkways.” Disgusting.)
- How Donald Trump canceled the Republican party (“The convention will be a ghastly reminder of what happened to the party of Lincoln – even as it desperately grabs for his mantle”)
- Barr Reportedly Told Rupert Murdoch to “Muzzle” Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano (Classic authoritarian behavior.)
- Two tropical storms developing into hurricanes as they aim for U.S.
- The election forecast wars are here. Here’s how to navigate them.
- Trump Falsely Claims the “Deep State” Is Sabotaging Vaccine Research (How do you know someone’s an authoritarian and/or a nutjob? One tipoff: they talk about a supposed “deep state”)
- Trump Accuses FDA Of ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Against Him Over COVID-19 Vaccine Testing (“Nancy Pelosi says accusation goes ‘beyond the pale,’ even for Trump, ‘in terms of how he would jeopardize’ Americans’ health to serve his reelection.”)
- Stakes high for Supreme Court as Trump battles for reelection
- This Post by Virginia Del. Danica Roem About Joe Biden Should Be Shared as Widely as Possible Before Election Day 2020!
- Video: Extremist Amanda Chase (R) Campaigns with VA GOP U.S. Senate Nominee Daniel Gade (Chase had previously proclaimed that she’s “helping Daniel Gade run right now for U.S. Senate [against Sen. Mark Warner] and coaching him”)
- Photos: #SaveThePostOffice Events Take Place in Virginia (and Across the Country)
- Del. Mark Levine (D-Alexandria/Arlington): “Say No to Gerrymandering and No to Amendment 1”
- Major reform to Virginia’s criminal justice system could take sentencing out of jury’s hands
- How long will the General Assembly’s special session last? No one knows.
- Saturday (8/22) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,212 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 112,072), +68 Hospitalizations (to 9,139), +7 Deaths (to 2,443) From Yesterday
- Opinion: Legislature must honor rules, even in extraordinary times (Did Gordon Morse ever write something like this when Republicans were in charge?)
- Editorial: Accessing health care without broadband during a pandemic
- Alvin J. Schexnider column: Race and higher education in Virginia
- Why I am fighting for prosecutorial discretion in Arlington
- Felony charges over Confederate monument feed political intrigue in Portsmouth
- A powerful Black leader. White opposition. Criminal charges. An old pattern continues in Portsmouth. (“Portsmouth has had Black mayors and a majority-Black council as recently as 2016, and the city government’s day-to-day manager is a Black woman. But other Black officials and advocates say Portsmouth has a deeply entrenched white power structure.”)
- Roanoke County Public Schools accelerates plan for full-time virtual academy amid pandemic
- Confederate monuments face new scrutiny across Fredericksburg area
- Charlottesville officials seek to dismiss ‘red flag’ lawsuit
- UVa outlines consequences for students who don’t comply with COVID-19 requirements
- Feeling more like August through midweek, with a storm here and there
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