by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, November 4. Virginia polls open in under 72 hours; today is the last day for in-person absentee voting.
- Trump breaches boundaries by saying law enforcement should be ‘going after’ Democrats
- Trump’s latest impeachable actions (Conservative Jennifer Rubin: “Trump’s latest call — following “lock her up” chants at rallies that continued after his election — is not an isolated event, but, as noted before, part of an ongoing pattern of trying to lean on the Justice Department either to pursue or not to pursue criminal proceedings against specific individuals. This certainly clears the bar of abuse of power established in the impeachment of Richard Nixon”)
- Trump administration releases report finding ‘no convincing alternative explanation’ for climate change (“The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a key international climate accord, champion fossil fuels and reverse Obama-era climate policies.”)
- US report finds climate change 90% manmade, contradicting Trump officials (“Major report by government agencies goes against senior members of Trump administration and finds evidence of global warming stronger than ever”)
- A Major New U.S. Report Affirms: Climate Change Is Getting Worse
- President Trump Committed Another Impeachable Offense on Friday (“He’s racking them up.”)
- Four reasons Trump’s Asia trip is so important
- Trump: I’ll be proven innocent if Mueller treats ‘everything fairly’
- Protected status no longer justified for Central Americans and Haitians in U.S., State Dept. says (This is unacceptable.)
- This might be the most egregious tax proposal of them all (“The GOP plan takes money from dying old people.”)
- The Memo: Trump tries to deepen Dem divisions
- Five things to watch as Trump heads to Asia
- Trump Campaign Adviser Met With Russian Officials in 2016
- Papadopoulos Repeatedly Represented Trump Campaign, Record Shows
- “Angry, Scared, Armed People” (“The Nov. 4 conspiracy theory about antifa has some scary historical echoes.”)
- Corker knocks Trump over ‘totally inappropriate’ Justice Department remarks (I love how the one Republican who condemns Trump’s outrageous, authoritarian comments is retiring.)
- Bush 41 and Bush 43 Worry Trump Is Blowing Up the G.O.P.
- The Democratic Party Is Finding a Way to F*ck This Up (“The clock is ticking on the only vehicle capable of resisting Trumpism.”)
- This Tax Bill Isn’t Just Bad Economics. It’s Got a Backdoor Anti-Abortion Measure, Too.
- This Right-Wing Sugar Daddy Doesn’t Get Nearly Enough Attention (“Introducing Joe Ricketts.” Barf.)
- A Billionaire Destroyed His Newsrooms Out of Spite (“One might think that such flexibility would allow Mr. Ricketts to bend but not break when faced with every plutocrat’s worst nightmare: a few dozen modestly paid employees who collectively bargain for better working conditions. Alas, no.”)
- Cast aside for laundering racism and defending pedophilia, Milo gets new column at The Daily Caller (The Daily Caller is heinous.)
- The DNC’s emails weren’t only hacked, they were edited: report (“Russian hackers have tampered with emails before and a new report reveals they did with at least one Clinton email”)
- Bowe Bergdahl Avoids Prison for Desertion; Trump Calls Sentence a ‘Disgrace’
- Experts warn about security after Donald Trump’s Twitter account briefly deleted (“The deactivation of @realDonaldTrump – apparently by a rogue employee – prompted much online mirth but raised concern about more sinister possibilities”)
- Gang Stats Aren’t Remotely Reliable, But Voters Keep Hearing About Them Anyway
- The Virginia governor’s race is proof Trump has made our politics worse (“Republican Ed Gillespie has been going to the depths of race-baiting to get Trump voters to turn out for him”)
- How the Democrats Are Failing the Resistance (“Even now, it appears, the Democrats have no practiced response to a GOP attack on this question. They don’t want to offend Latinos, and they don’t want to alienate whites. So they twist in the populist wind. Are they capable of focusing on economic populism and a defense of the working classes against GOP plutocracy? At this point, the answer is no.”)
- U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine says tax reform bill would hurt small businesses, increase deficit
- What Will Virginia And New Jersey Tell Us About Trump? (“If Northam loses, it will be hard to know whether that says something about Northam and about Virginia — or instead about the national political environment. But either way, it won’t be a great sign for Democrats.”)
- The Manafort factor in the Virginia election (“Anti-Trump Democrats who needed a last-minute push of adrenalin received it in the name of Paul Manafort.” I’m skeptical.)
- Bots stoke racial strife in Virginia governor’s race (“Latino Victory Fund retracted a controversial ad. But the reaction has been amplified on Twitter by automated accounts.”)
- Gillespie stokes culture wars with NFL mailer in campaign’s closing days (Gillespie’s campaign continues to appeal to the worst in us; on Tuesday, Virginians need to soundly reject this.)
- A bromance gone south: Once ‘frenemies,’ Gillespie and McAuliffe in Va. duel (“Gov. McAuliffe isn’t on ballot, but he and Gillespie are clashing in gubernatorial race.”)
- Here’s who’s donating to Virginia’s most expensive attorney general’s race ever
- Virginia’s uneven recovery mirrors its growing political divide (“Urban areas of the state have mostly recovered all the jobs lost in recession — and then some. But the southern half of Virginia is still waiting.”)
- With quiet sturdiness and a doctor’s touch, Democrat Ralph Northam tries to hold off upset in Virginia governor’s race
- Editorial: Seven questions that voters will answer Tuesday
- Republican Ed Gillespie: A Reagan conservative tries to appeal and prevail in the age of Trump (Typo: Should read, “A FORMER Reagan conservative, now a Trumpster through and through”)
- GOP delegate Miller’s mailer compares Democratic opponent to Stalin, communists (Yep, that’s crazy, far-right Jackson Miller for ya.)
- Metro areas are getting more walkable, one foot at a time
- ‘Trump Wall’ costume causes a stir at VMI Halloween party
- D.C.-area forecast: Rain odds are up today and into tonight, with somewhat better weather for Sunday
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