by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, September 8.
- World must be better prepared for next pandemic, WHO says (We also need to protect forests and halt any animal trafficking, immediately, as both of those things lead to pandemics.)
- Top Belarusian opposition figure disappears
- Trump Emerges as Inspiration for Germany’s Far Right (Well, at least Trump’s inspiring *someone*, the only problem is it’s German neo-Nazis.)
- The Pandemic Was Supposed to Be Great for Strongmen. What Happened? (“From Trump to Lukashenko, authoritarians are discovering that this isn’t their kind of crisis.”)
- John Kerry on Biden’s foreign policy: ‘He’d never lavish praise on dictators’
- FBI agent who helped launch Russia investigation says Trump was ‘compromised’
- Gross Domestic Misery Is Rising (“The recovery is bypassing those who need it most.”)
- California wildfires have burned more than 2 million acres and prompted power outages for more than 170,000 (THIS is the climate crisis.)
- California’s Climate Crisis Is Deepening With 500,000 Going Dark
- Nasdaq 100 Futures Tumble as U.S. Tech Selloff Set to Resume
- Discord over state and local funds plagues coronavirus talks
- Trump launches unprecedented attack on military leadership he appointed
- Trump says Pentagon chiefs are accommodating weapons makers
- Everyone Knows It’s True (“As Trump vehemently disputes reports that he has disparaged veterans, some silences speak loudly.”)
- Four more years of Trump’s contempt for competence would be devastating
- House Oversight Committee will investigate Louis DeJoy following claims he pressured employees to make campaign donations
- Pressure mounts on Louis DeJoy after exposé suggests he broke campaign-finance laws (“Postmaster general faces calls to resign, possible investigation, after Washington Post report on GOP donations”)
- Fact check: Trump repeats numerous false claims in campaign-style press briefing from White House
- Trump Gets Annoyed When Reporter Refuses to Remove Mask to Ask a Question
- Trump huffs and puffs, but his campaign is built of strawmen
- Trump is shouting his racism. He must be stopped.
- How Biden is pressing a two-front war against Trump (“Biden may be a bridge between the Democrats’ present and future on the electoral map”)
- How Trump’s Billion-Dollar Campaign Lost Its Cash Advantage (“Of the $1.1 billon his campaign and the party raised from the beginning of 2019 through July, more than $800 million has already been spent. Now some people inside the campaign are forecasting what was once unthinkable: a cash crunch with less than 60 days until the election, according to Republican officials briefed on the matter.”)
- Trump doubles down on crime message as polls suggest it’s a risky gamble
- At home on Labor Day, Trump wages rambling attack on Biden (Pathetic.)
- Trump Weighs Putting Up to $100 Million of His Cash Into Race
- Wisconsin: Kamala Harris meets Jacob Blake family in battleground state visit
- Pence and Harris Vie for Wisconsin as Trump Vents From the White House
- Kamala Harris has been training her whole life for this (“In a tough interview Sunday, we got a closer look at the skills she brings to the ticket.”)
- The 8 states where 2020 will be won or lost: A POLITICO deep dive
- What do the polls tell us? (“Trump’s antics do not work.”)
- In battlegrounds, absentee ballot rejections could triple
- Right-wing activists gather near Portland for pro-Trump ‘cruise rally’(“More than 1,000 supporters of President Trump, including some aligned with white nationalist extremist groups, gathered in a show of force against left-wing protesters.”)
- NCAA rules allow White students and coaches to profit off labor of Black ones, study finds
- Emboldened Democrats haggle over 2021 agenda (My god, one thing at a time…first win the damn election!)
- Fox undermines Fox
- Workers Reveal Disney Is Covering Up Its COVID Cases
- No, The Government Did Not Break Up A Child Sex Trafficking Ring In Georgia
- How Maine Turned on Susan Collins (“Inside the movement to topple the Republican senator.”)
- Virginia Sen. Mark Warner and Republican challenger Daniel Gade launch first major ad buys (Classic media false equivalence. In fact, Warner really *did* launch a major ad buy, at 7 figures, all across Virginia. In contrast, Gade is spending just “$260,000 per week in the Norfolk and Richmond broadcast markets and on Washington cable.”)
- W. Tayloe Murphy Jr. and L. Preston Bryant Jr. column: Mark Warner’s diligence led to the Great American Outdoors Act
- What’s Going On in the 7th Congressional District?
- Virginia GOP Took Money From Corrupt Trump Fundraiser Louis DeJoy
- Labor Day (9/7) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +645 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 127,571), +21 Hospitalizations (to 9,902), +6 Deaths (to 2,684) From Yesterday
- Photos, Video, Tweets: Virginia Democrats Celebrate Labor Day 2020
- Labor Day 2020 Open Letter to Virginia General Assembly Members: Please Repeal “Right-to-Work” Laws
- Virginia AFL-CIO: Happy Labor Day; Workers First, Vote Union!
- Editorial: A consumer’s guide to polls (Yet another moronic Roanoke Times editorial. In fact, contrary to what they argue, models such as FiveThirtyEight.com and The Economist pay attention to BOTH national polls – which tend to be very accurate – AND state polls, which tend to be less so, but which obviously measure what’s happening in specific states, which is important. Also, it’s just flat-out false to cherry pick polls, instead of taking a polling average, such as when the Roanoke Times writes, “The final poll in each state showed Trump ahead.” Regardless, the “final polls” for Michigan – not counting “Trafalgar Group,” which isn’t a serious poll – all had Clinton up by a few points. In Wisconsin, all the “final polls” had Clinton up. Same thing in Pennsylvania, with the lone exception again of the “Trafalgar Group.” In sum, the Roanoke Times is just flat-out wrong, and in at least two big ways.)
- Absent a comprehensive national strategy, Virginia considers tightening data privacy and security laws
- Glen Sturtevant column: Cover COVID-19 vaccination recipients with adverse reactions
- Lake Frederick Democrats and Independents Work to Turn Traditionally Red Frederick County Blue
- ‘Significant pain’: Metro begins planning possible cuts
- Editorial: Support for arts essential to their survival (“Arts and cultural organizations throughout Hampton Roads need public support in order to survive the pandemic.”)
- Virginia’s vanishing bee: State works to save rusty patched bumblebee
- A Challenging Summer for Virginia’s Farmers
- Could I-64 prove VDOT’s highway management is on the road to reform?
- Arrest Made in Aggressive Cyclist Case
- Could pandemic result in more teleworking in Fredericksburg area’s future?
- Photos: Buena Vista’s Labor Day parade through the years
- Liberty Middle School in Hanover delays reopening after 3 faculty members test positive for COVID-19
- Humidity increases today, with scattered showers and storms by tomorrow
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