by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 18.
- California wildfires: Nearly 1,300 unaccounted for in Camp Fire
- Pence’s Sharp China Attacks Fuel Fears of New Cold War
- APEC fails to reach consensus as U.S.-China divide deepens
- UK leader warns ousting her won’t make Brexit talks easier
- Trump tours California wildfire devastation, blames everything but climate change (Trump is an imbecile. Also evil.)
- National broadcast TV news mentioned climate change in less than 4 percent of California wildfire coverage (“While ABC, CBS, and NBC again dropped the ball, local TV news programs in California brought up climate change numerous times during wildfire reporting” The corporate media strikes again. Worse than worthless.)
- Trump calls Saudi Arabia ‘spectacular ally,’ denies he is plotting to kidnap Turkish dissident (Did I mention that Trump is an imbecile and also evil? Oh yeah, I guess I did.)
- Trump Is Beginning to Lose His Grip (“It isn’t just white suburban women who switched to Democrats. Parts of rural and white working class America peeled off too.”)
- Fight for House speaker explodes into national political campaign
- Trump’s Mexico-Canada deal hits trouble in Congress
- How Voting Rights Fared in the Midterms (“There is cause for hope, and not just in the results from Election Day.”)
- Ocasio-Cortez backs campaign to primary fellow Democrats
- Top White House Official Involved in Saudi Sanctions Resigns (“A top White House official responsible for American policy toward Saudi Arabia resigned on Friday evening, a move that may suggest fractures inside the Trump administration over the response to the brutal killing of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi.”)
- Gillum Concedes Defeat Again After Recount in Close Fought Florida Gubernatorial Election
- New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica’s Role in Brexit (“For two years, observers have speculated that the June, 2016, Brexit campaign in the U.K. served as a petri dish for Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign in the United States. Now there is new evidence that it did.”)
- Nearly 3,000 Votes Disappeared From Florida’s Recount. That’s Not Supposed to Happen
- #TeamGillum, our fight continues.
- Saudis Deny Reported CIA Conclusion That Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Assassination (The Saudis have zero credibility, of course.)
- Mueller could turn easy Trump answers into difficult situation
- ‘S.N.L.’ Takes Aim at the Midterm Elections and Jeff Bezos
- ‘Saturday Night Live’ parodies Fox News trying to explain away blue midterm wave (“‘You can’t dismiss that idea simply because it isn’t true and sounds insane,’ Kate McKinnon as Laura Ingraham said of voter-fraud claims.”)
- Rise of big cities push Texas to swing-state territory — maybe by 2020 (“Texas’s evolution illustrates two of the defining inflection points in American politics today: A growing divide between liberal urban cores and conservative rural bastions; and a shift in attitudes of suburban voters turned off by President Trump and his Republican Party.”)
- Donald Trump’s fascist politics and the language of disappearance (“Trump’s language seems buffoonish, but he’s no clown. His rhetoric is meant to destroy thought and democracy”)
- A Democratic Rout in Orange County: Cisneros’s Win Makes It Four
- Democrat Gil Cisneros defeats Republican Young Kim, flipping last GOP House seat in Orange County
- Barack Obama makes surprise appearance at Michelle’s DC event
- If Assange Is a Villain, What About Zuckerberg?
- Trump pledges help for Californians, but again blames poor forest management for fires (“The president also criticized forest-management decisions that he suggested are at least partly to blame for the disaster, even though the fires are considered to be more related to a record drought, high winds and a changing climate.”)
- In Mississippi, GOP concern rises over a Senate runoff that should have been a romp (“Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has faltered over remarks seen as racially insensitive. Mike Espy, a black Democrat and former congressman, appears poised to take advantage.”)
- Cookie ethics: Congresswoman-elect asks if she’s still allowed to sell Girl Scout cookies (“Now that she’s a Congresswoman-elect, Abigail Spanberger is in a Trefoil over Girl Scout cookie season. She’s one of her daughter’s troop leaders, and as she prepares for her new job representing Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, she wonders if she has a conflict of interest.”)
- Virginia could become last state needed to ratify Equal Rights Amendment
- Gibson: Trump helps paint Virginia blue
- Editorial: A victory, of sorts, for Virginia’s economy
- Who Are Ralph Northam’s New Appointees to the State Water and Air Pollution Control Boards?
- Flawed testimony helped send people to Virginia prisons. But the state doesn’t know how many.
- Jennifer Boysko Overwhelmingly Wins Democratic Nomination for SD-33 Special Election
- Del. Boysko wins Democratic nomination for 33rd Senate District special election
- Firehouse Primary for 24th HOD Seat – UPDATE: Ronnie Campbell Wins
- Ronnie Campbell, Christian Worth secure nominations in race for Del. Ben Cline’s seat (“Worth, 49, a political activist in Lexington, defeated Nicholas Betts and Kenneth Bumgarner. Worth won 373 votes, Bumgarner got 101 while Betts received 20. Worth moved to Lexington a few years ago from Kentucky, where she was an attorney for more than 20 years. She said she wants to prioritize getting rural areas caught up with the rest of the state by improving infrastructure such as broadband. She also wants to work toward improving access to healthcare and quality education, including better funding and workforce development.”)
- Editorial: Cox starts an important conversation
- Gordon C. Morse: Hampton Roads can benefit from Amazon deal, too
- EDITORIAL: Virginia is getting a good deal with HQ2
- Amazon’s ‘National Landing’ leads to confusion and jokes
- Cool and cloudier today, with cooperative weather for much of Thanksgiving week (“We’re mostly dry this week, with some light showers possible Monday night. Thanksgiving Day looks rather chilly!”)
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