by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, August 11.
- U.S. Feud With Turkey Rattles Global Economies (“Political unrest in Turkey and the country’s escalating dispute with the Trump administration spilled into global financial markets.”)
- Turkey’s Downward Spiral (“As Presidents Trump and Erdogan feud, the alliance between the United States and Turkey grows ever more frayed.”)
- Trump puts Turkey alliance on the line with standoff over pastor (“Tensions could threaten U.S. military base in Incirlik”)
- California’s Holy Fire burns 18,000 acres south of Los Angeles
- Omarosa says Trump is a racist who uses N-word – and claims there is tape to prove it (“Former Apprentice contestant and ex-White House adviser writes in new memoir that she witnessed ‘truly appalling things’”)
- Trump pivots to border wall, China and ‘Manafort this, Manafort that’ (Can we please ditch the word “pivots?”)
- An Economic Upturn Begun Under Obama Is Now Trump’s to Tout (Basically, anyone who claims Trump is responsible for the Obama economy immediately loses all credibility to comment on anything.)
- The Demography of the Alt-Right (“It turns out that economic variables are some of the stronger determinants of white attitudes on racial questions. Higher incomes are associated with lower levels of white racial identity, racial solidarity, and feelings of discrimination. A college degree is a statistically significant and substantively important variable. This suggests increased education is one of the more effective tools for combatting dangerous ideologies.” I’d note that higher-educated Americans tend NOT to vote for Trump.)
- Study: 11 million white Americans think like the alt-right
- Alaska Airlines plane stolen from SeaTac airport: What we know so far (“This is not a terrorist incident.”)
- SeaTac stolen plane: Airline employee steals plane, takes off, then crashes
- NASA delays launch of first ever solar probe
- The Memo: Charlottesville anniversary puts Trump and race under microscope
- Hell hath no fury like Omarosa scorned (“With her new book, ‘The Apprentice’ star and former White House official is finally and completely burning her bridges with Trump.”)
- NAACP slams Trump as ‘racist’ (There’s not even the slightest doubt about that; in fact, racism has been about the most consistent them, along with corruption, cruelty and lies, in Trump’s adult life.)
- Trump and Sessions Never Had a Plan—Except Cruelty (“The United States’ current policies towards asylum-seekers are morally repugnant.”)
- The Manafort scramble: Raising millions for himself even as he ran Trump’s campaign
- Opposition groups organize to counter Sunday’s planned white-supremacist rally (“Protesters said their emphasis will be on telling white supremacists that their message is not welcome in Washington.”)
- Omarosa Manigault Newman says she refused hush money, pens White House memoir calling Trump racist
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Slams Conservative Commentator: ‘I Don’t Owe’ You A Response (“Ben Shapiro challenged Ocasio-Cortez to a debate and offered her campaign $10,000 if she participated.” F*** Ben Shapiro.)
- Twitter Bans Proud Boys’ Accounts Before Unite The Right 2 Rally
- Twitter admits InfoWars violated its rules, but says it will remain on the platform (WTF???)
- Trump’s approval hits 50 percent — in a doctored poll graphic shared by his son (Don Jr. is sociopathic scum.)
- Your everyday Republican has some galling views (“First they came for the free press…”)
- Are you still sure there’s no need to worry? (“The rule of law in the United States is in dismal shape.”)
- Trump’s résumé is rife with mob connections (“Are they a coincidence? Fuhgeddaboudit.” How on earth is Trump not in prison?)
- Jury awards $289M to man who blames Roundup for cancer (“A jury’s $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said Monsanto’s Roundup left him dying of cancer will bolster thousands of pending cases and open the door for countless people who blame their suffering on the weed killer, the man’s lawyers said.” Why is a product like this legal?)
- Kavanaugh hearing for Supreme Court seat to be held in September
- Democratic National Committee Backtracks On Its Ban Of Fossil Fuel Donations (Hell no.)
- Very Fine People (Tom Perriello: “The true legacy of the Unite the Right rally will be the unity forged by those on the other side.”)
- NPR adopted white supremacist Jason Kessler’s false equivalence frame (“On its August 10 edition, NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed Jason Kessler, the white supremacist organizer of the upcoming second edition of the Unite the Right rally — the gathering of racists that, on its first edition last year in Charlottesville, VA, resulted in the death of counterprotester Heather Heyer after a white supremacist drove a car into a crowd. While NPR’s Noel King effectively highlighted the bigotry of Kessler’s views and pushed back on his baseless claims of censorship and underrepresentation, the show adopted Kessler’s absurd frame as it immediately followed up his interview by bringing on Hank Newsome, the president of Black Lives Matter New York, to comment on the rally.”)
- Michael Avenatti Urges Democrats to Reject Michelle Obama’s Advice on Trump
- GOP Operative Made “Suspicious” Cash Withdrawals During Pursuit Of Clinton Emails
- Sen. Tim Kaine: Trump didn’t create America’s racial divisions – but he’s “stoking” them (Yep, big time.)
- Suspect behind massive California wildfire was steeped in conspiracies (“From 9/11 to QAnon, there appears no conspiracy theory too strange for Forrest Clark.”)
- The Lesson of Omarosa’s New Trump Book (“In her forthcoming memoir, Manigault frames her tenure in the White House as a period of gradual awakening to the President’s bigoted outlook.”)
- Trump Invites For-Profit Colleges to Exploit Students
- Trump Supporters Aren’t Budging (It’s a deranged cult.)
- Corey Stewart blames ‘ass hurt’ Republicans for negative press coverage (Seriously? “Ass hurt?” Can you even imagine Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, Don Beyer, Gerry Connolly, Bobby Scott, Donald McEachin, Ralph Northam, etc, etc. speaking like this???)
- Dave Brat’s Former Communications Manager Endorses Spanberger, Rejects Brat’s Divisiveness
- Corey Stewart is ready to drag down every Virginia Republican on the ticket (“In short, thanks to Trump and Stewart, Virginia looks more like Maryland politically speaking than at any point in recent memory. So maybe Republicans in Virginia would be wise to take a look over the Potomac.”)
- Court gives Virginia House GOP an Aug. 24 deadline for plans on legislative map (“Virginia Republican lawmakers have a two-week deadline to declare whether they plan to comply with a court order to redraw the state’s legislative map.”)
- The Long Shadow of Racism at the University of Virginia: From 1817 to the Charlottesville Riots (“A year after white-supremacist violence broke out in the university town, UVA grapples with a centuries-old legacy of slavery and racial discrimination.”)
- There’s Blood on the Streets of Mr. Jefferson’s Town (“The white supremacist terror in Charlottesville was a reminder that the American experiment contains the mechanism of its own destruction.”)
- Students: UVa trying to ‘shut us down’ (“Security around a University of Virginia protest planned for Saturday evening tightened Friday, causing students to cry foul. On Friday afternoon, UVa President Jim Ryan sent a mass email saying the university had decided to add metal detectors, a single access point and a limited perimeter to a planned UVA Students United protest.”)
- Charlottesville enacts security measures in Downtown Mall area
- The Man Who Sued His Trolls (“After sharing video of the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Brennan Gilmore had his life upended by online tormentors. Now he’s testing whether you can bring them to justice.” Get ’em!)
- Before Charlottesville, a young man walked away. But links with the alt-right are hard to shake. (“Isaac Smith’s past flirtation with the alt-right has become political fodder in Virginia.”)
- A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath (“University of Virginia faculty examine the history and legacy of white supremacy on and around UVA’s campus”)
- Charlottesville: One year later — what’s changed and what hasn’t?
- ‘My only regret is that she’s not here’: Heather Heyer’s mother tries to ‘make her death count’ as anniversary of Unite the Right rally arrives
- Heather Heyer’s mom says she ‘got me to understand white privilege’
- Northam says he wants to use $250M from federal tax cuts on refunds for low-income families
- Gov. Ralph Northam: Make earned income tax credit fully refundable
- The country’s most advanced drone package delivery yet just took place in Virginia
- William & Mary revokes Bill Cosby’s honorary degree for engaging ‘in abhorrent conduct antithetical to our university’s core values’
- FERC orders temporary halt to construction on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- Editorial: Can Democrats flip the Habeeb seat? Here are the numbers. (Very good point: “Democrats, though, would be better off if Republicans had chosen a different candidate for this seat. McNamara is well-known, having first been elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1997 and serving almost consistently since then (he was off the board for one term when he lost a primary). He’s not a blank slate that the Democrats can paint as they wish. He’s certainly no Trump acolyte and definitely not a Stewart clone. Even if he were, it’s unclear whether that would hurt him much in this district.”)
- Periodic showers and storms through the weekend, some likely heavy
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