Sunday News: “Hallelujah”/”I’m not giving up and neither should you.”; “Hillary Clinton’s Popular Vote Victory Keeps Growing”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 13. Also check out Kate McKinnon, as Hillary Clinton, singing Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah.” “Clinton-McKinnon ended the song by saying, ‘I’m not giving up and neither should you.’”

• Hillary Clinton’s Popular Vote Victory Keeps Growing (“She is up by 1.8 million votes, with millions still being counted in California.” Can you imagine if this situation were reversed? Trump supporters would be going NUTS!)
• Trump Is Already Analyzing How to Quickly Withdraw From Global Climate Deal (Trump’s anti-environmental agenda will, in and of itself, make his presidency a disaster, even if everything else goes well – which of course it won’t!)
• Trump’s win upends climate fight (“Once-ascendant greens prepare for battle, while oil, gas and coal expect a bright future.”)
• Paul Krugman: Trump’s election will damage America for generations (Yep.)
• The winners (“Thanks to your votes, Mr. and Mrs. White Working Class, all those rich people will soon get a massive tax cut and relief from the environmental regulations that have kept them from polluting your air and water and from the financial oversight that has restrained them from milking every last penny from their employees and the victims of their big-money schemes. Yes, congratulations…” Must read.)
• Lies in the Guise of News in the Trump Era (“The landscape ahead looks grim to me. While the business model for mainstream journalism is in crisis, these alt-right websites expand as they monetize false ‘news’ that promotes racism and undermines democracy. Worse, they have the imprimatur of the soon-to-be most powerful person in the world.” And Facebook is a major part of this problem.)
• Britain’s UKIP Leader Nigel Farage Meets Donald Trump In New York (Trump and the European extremist/racist right, perfect together!)
• Modeling virtue (“In the days since the election, President Obama has led the country with magnificent dignity.” Barack Obama has always been a man of magnificent dignity. Trump is the polar opposite.)
• A respectful but firm message to Mr. Trump (“Germany’s leader makes clear she will call him out if he violates liberal democratic norms.”)
• Can Trump broaden his government beyond loyalists — and does he want to?
• Trump is about to learn the ‘deep secrets’ that terrified Obama in ’08 (Can Trump be trusted with any of this? Nope.)
• Stay angry. That’s the only way to uphold principles in Trump’s America. (“Having run a campaign of division, he implores us to put an end to our divisions. No.”)
• Donald Trump’s celebrity won him the White House. It could destroy his presidency. (And the country. And the planet.)
• What’s next for Democrats? For starters, a battle for the soul of their party.
• Kerry says he’ll continue with anti-global warming efforts (“He said he thinks his administration is on the right track because the majority of Americans believe climate change is happening and want action.”)
• Inside Donald Trump’s shady transition team: Domestic policy chair Ken Blackwell pushed voter suppression, anti-LGBTQ measures (“Blackwell, a former Ohio secretary of state, thinks that being gay is a ‘choice,’ and gay people can be ‘changed'”)
• Inside Donald Trump’s shady transition team: Sheriff Joe Arpaio, David Clarke may be leading Department of Homeland Security
• White flight from reality: Inside the racist panic that fueled Donald Trump’s victory
• “Heartbroken” Hillary Clinton Blames One Person For Defeat: FBI Chief James Comey (No doubt Comey played a big role, as did the almost criminally incompetent and negligent corporate media, but the Clinton campaign also made some serious mistakes and should acknowledge those.)
• CNN’s Final Humiliation: Corey Lewandowski Quits To Work For Trump (“The Network Should Have Fired Him Months Ago” CNN is an utterly unethical, trash “news” network.)
• Possible Homeland Security pick wants National Guard to stomp out anti-Trump protests (“Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. wants to shut down ‘goon anarchists.’”)
• The Black Swan President (“Donald Trump is the biggest unknown ever to take control of the White House. What’s the worst-case scenario? The best? As the country waits to find out, Politico Magazine asked 17 experts to game out a Trump presidency.”)
• Bernie’s empire strikes back (“In state after state, supporters of the Vermont senator’s presidential bid are challenging the Democratic establishment for party control.”)
• Editorial: Memo to the next governor (“Make no mistake: The governor’s race is already well underway, even if many Virginians can’t yet name the candidates.”)
• Mark J. Rozell column: Tim Kaine: What Now?: A Lot (“Kaine now is positioned to be a credible and leading institutional defender in the Trump era.”)
• Schapiro: Virginia votes to secede – from the South
• Editorial – Mayor-elect Levar Stoney’s to-do list
• In election’s wake, racist incidents at area schools put administrators on edge
• Deep in Virginia’s craggy coal country, they saw Trump as their only hope (And they were wildly wrong; Trump will NOT help them, in fact he will hurt them badly.)
• Poverty shouldn’t be a crime (“In Virginia and some other states, license suspension is used to collect debt.”)
• As Metro struggles, Capital Bikeshare plays larger role in transit network (“The bike service has seen a surge in ridership during the SafeTrack maintenance program.”)
• Editorial: Is fracking here worth the risks? (Nope, the answer is energy efficiency and solar.)
• Donald Trump’s military expansion plans could be massive boost to Hampton Roads
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: End of the line for Beach’s rail hopes
• Anti-Trump protesters march through streets of downtown Norfolk
• Levar Stoney’s Richmond: How the city’s next mayor has promised to govern
• Authentically autumnal as weekend ends; shower chance later tomorrow