by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, August 20.
- Russian opposition leader ill after suspected poisoning (Thug-ocracy.)
- Trump Administration Pushes Arms Sale to U.A.E. Despite Israeli Worries
- The Trump Campaign Accepted Russian Help to Win in 2016. Case Closed. (“‘Cooperation’ or ‘collusion’ or whatever. It was a plot against American democracy.”)
- The Senate’s findings on Russian interference are explosive. They shouldn’t be ignored. (“There’s a danger the report on the 2016 election may have come too late to head off problems in 2020.”)
- Solar, Wind, and Batteries Are All Grown Up
- Trump’s Attack on Goodyear Makes America Worse
- Climate Change May Lead To More Record Heat And Fires In California, Experts Warn
- Trump, While Attacking Mail Voting, Casts Mail Ballot Again (Beyond parody.)
- Obama issues a dire warning about American democracy in stunning rebuke of Trump
- Another Four Years of Trump Could Be the Death of Democracy, Obama Warns
- The Memo: Obama enters battle, enraging Trump
- Obama’s Convention Speech Is the First Time I Have Seen Him Scared (“Don’t let them take away your democracy”)
- Barack Obama Is Scared (“His warning to America during the Democratic convention’s third night was existential.”)
- Green-Energy Shares Rise Along With Joe Biden’s Polling
- Obama delivers searing attack on Trump and warns of grave threat to democracy
- Barack Obama Tells America Its Democracy Is At Stake (“It was a conspicuously dark speech by America’s most famously optimistic politician”)
- Transcript: Barack Obama’s DNC speech
- ‘Our worst impulses unleashed’: Obama assails Trump as a threat to democracy
- Trump attacks Obama and Harris speeches in real-time, all-caps tweets (Nutjob.)
- Democrats seize the urgency of our moment
- 4 takeaways from the third night of the Democratic National Convention
- Kamala Harris makes history as first woman of color to accept a major party nomination for vice president
- Democrats Nominate Harris for Vice President, as Obama Lashes Trump
- Democratic Convention: Best and Worst Moments of Night 3
- Kamala Harris defines her role: A prosecutor who will take the fight to Trump ‘for the people’
- Hillary Clinton Rose to a Painful Occasion
- Hillary Clinton urges voters to prevent Trump from ‘stealing way to victory’ (“Former presidential nominee tells Democratic national convention viewers to ‘vote like our lives are on the line’”)
- Dems’ Stark Message: Vote or Die—Literally (“The third night of the Democratic National Convention was raw with pain and painted a bleak picture of the road ahead—unless, Democratic leaders said, Americans vote for change.”)
- The warning from Kamala Harris and the convention’s third night: Our house is on fire
- Kamala Harris makes history — and offers a Democratic strategy of unity
- The Democrats remind us they’re a party of strong and ambitious women
- Joe Biden’s Moment to Take On Trump Arrives With Prime-Time Speech
- 4 Takeaways From Night 3 Of The Democratic National Convention (“Presidents’ Club rules went out the window as Barack Obama unloaded on his successor”)
- Democratic convention sharpens, as Harris, Obama take fight to Trump: ANALYSIS
- Michelle Lujan Grisham says the convention is less important than what comes after for Democrats’ Latino outreach
- Gun control takes center stage at Democratic convention
- 5 winners and 2 losers from night 3 of the Democratic convention
- Kamala Harris Accepts Vice Presidential Nomination With Call for Change
- The Speech Joe Biden Has Been Preparing For His Entire Life (“Some of it is familiar, after almost 50 years in politics. Some of it, like delivering such a momentous address to a virtual crowd, will be new.”)
- AG Barr announces nearly 1500 arrests so far under ‘Operation Legend’
- Trump embraces QAnon conspiracy because ‘they like me’ (Trump is a malignant narcissist, among his many, many other fatal flaws.)
- QAnon groups hit by Facebook crack down
- Hysteria and dismay: Fox hosts spend evening fear-mongering over Kamala Harris
- Right-wing media defend and deflect from Trump’s endorsement of QAnon
- Trump’s Republican Party now has a ballot full of nutters
- Why Warren Buffett is betting on energy pipelines even as climate fears, and renewables, are rising
- Kemp lashes out at coverage of White House COVID report critical of Georgia
- The Republican Party of Florida is backing Laura Loomer, a “proud Islamophobe” who said she’s in favor of “more” migrant deaths
- She Called Muslims ‘Savages’ And Islam A ‘Cancer.’ Now She’s A GOP Nominee.
- Bigoted, Trump-Approved Candidate Laura Loomer Shows Where the GOP Is Headed
- Tim Kaine speaks about Kamala Harris ahead of vice presidential acceptance speech
- Tim Kaine predicts Senate breakthrough in Covid relief after RNC
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Discusses Volume 5 of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report with Rachel Maddow
- Opinion/Editorial: 5th District voters deserve to hear debate
- Political Opportunist and Dark Money Enthusiast Nick Freitas Hosts Podcast on Transparency and Government Reform But His Own Record Is Shady
- ICYMI: Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Confirms Scott Taylor and His Campaign Are Still Under Investigation For Election Fraud
- Rep. Spanberger: Mail delays could be ‘life-threatening’
- AG Mark Herring Moves for Summary Judgment in Landmark ERA Lawsuit
- Senate panel supports bill to clarify the public disclosure of outbreaks in facilities
- Northam pushes for ballot drop-off boxes, other steps to ease absentee voting in Va.
- As Appalachian Power seeks a rate hike, does a new consumer protection law apply?
- Senate committee advances bill to limit emergency decisions by Virginia health commissioner
- Virginia House attempts first-ever online floor session; Senate advances police overhaul (“House Republicans criticize technological glitches at virtual meeting, but Democrats argue it’s safer to meet virtually during pandemic.”)
- Wednesday (8/19) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +737 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 109,019), +76 Hospitalizations (to 8,925), +14 Deaths (to 2,410) From Yesterday
- Virginia applying to participate in Trump’s $300-a-week unemployment supplement
- Video: Virginia Senate Minority Leader Tommy Norment (R) Mansplains to First Female Speaker in Virginia History How to Do Her Job
- Video: Virginia Senate Dems Push Back *Hard* on Senate R’s Demagoguery, Fearmongering on Criminal Justice Reform
- BREAKING: Virginia Senate Committee Votes 12-3 to Kill Mandatory Pandemic Paid Sick Leave
- Several Criminal Justice Reform Bills Quickly Pass Through Senate Panel
- General Assembly Committee Approves Bill Banning No-Knock Warrants
- Senate committee kills paid sick leave bill by wide bipartisan margin
- Republicans on Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee All Reject Police Reform
- Claire Guthrie Gastañaga and Hassan Aden column: Bringing accountability to Virginia policing
- “We ask that all Democratic legislators align with the DPVA decision to reject the redistricting amendment with public statements, public action and on social media.”
- Editorial, August 20, 2020: The economic contact tracers rural Virginia needs
- After a surge in coronavirus cases, Hampton Roads sees some hopeful trends
- Queen of Va. says its skill games produced almost $7 million for state in first month
- Hanover school system confirms 2 students test positive for COVID-19; County still plans for in-person learning
- Richmond Mayor responds to calls for monument removal contract investigation
- Charlottesville officials seek to dismiss ‘red flag’ lawsuit
- REC builds an energy storage facility in Spotsylvania
- Newport News School Board will consider renaming up to 10 schools
- Virginia Tech, Radford University unveil COVID-19 data dashboards
- A pause in the mugginess today, but it slinks back over the weekend, fueling late-day storm chances (“Today is likely to be the nicest day of the next several, at least.”)
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