by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thanksgiving Day, 2018. Best wishes for a peaceful, pleasant holiday.
- Trump hits back at Chief Justice Roberts, escalating an extraordinary exchange (“The president had originally attacked a District Court judge who ruled against his asylum policy as an ‘Obama judge.'”)
- EU, Britain agree draft deal on post-Brexit ties, await summit approval
- Why Did Chief Justice John Roberts Decide to Speak Out Against Trump? (“The President’s comment about an ‘Obama judge’ prompted a rare public statement by Roberts, who has kept mum through all of Trump’s previous derogatory remarks about the judiciary.”)
- In Race for Global Power, U.S. and China Push Nations to Pick a Side
- Northern California’s Camp Fire death toll hits 83 as area prepares for heavy rain, possible mudslides
- We need an attorney general vetted by the Senate — not Matthew Whitaker (“Senators should be outraged that the president has handed the Justice Department to someone they have had no say in evaluating.”)
- John Kelly Authorizing Troops to Use Lethal Force at the Border Is Unlawful and Alarming
- US agency opens case file on potential Whitaker Hatch Act violations
- Trump’s dangerous message to tyrants: Flash money and get away with murder
- John Kelly Ought to Be Shamed Out of Public Life for This (“His use-of-force order for troops at the border is a crock and a disgrace.”)
- Obama: ‘I don’t buy’ that a woman or person of color can’t win in 2020
- James H. Billington, long-reigning librarian of Congress, dies at 89
- Democrats won House popular vote by largest midterm margin since Watergate (“Nationally, Democrats have 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans took 45.2 percent.”)
- What Trump Has Done Is Already Impeachable By Any Reasonable Standard (“If we’re following the constitution, as soon as the president* asked the question, he was guilty of a high crime.” There’s no doubt Trump SHOULD be impeached/convicted, the problem is that Republicans won’t stand up for the rule of law, our constitution, etc., and Democrats alone don’t have the votes in the Senate.)
- Inside Trump’s refusal to testify in the Mueller probe
- Ocasio-Cortez: Pelosi has my support
- Opposition to Pelosi slowly collapsing (“Rep. Brian Higgins’ support deals a setback to the group looking to oust the California Democrat.” Good!)
- Mattis: New White House directive doesn’t change border mission (“We are not doing law enforcement. We do not have arrest authority.” No, you’re doing political theater…)
- Neo-Nazis Are Organizing Secretive Paramilitary Training Across America (“The creation of a new social networking platform called ‘The Base’ appears to be an effort to shift Naziism from a divided digital space to physical, violent insurgency.”)
- The Military Has Become Trump’s Favorite Prop (“President Trump sent troops to the border even though they’re prohibited by law from stopping immigrants. He still hasn’t visited U.S. troops in a combat zone.”)
- Trump plan would force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as cases are processed
- How Facebook’s P.R. Firm Brought Political Trickery to Tech
- Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg says she saw materials from PR firm (“Sandberg, who last week said she hadn’t known about the work of Definers Public Affairs, said that emails referencing the firm had crossed her desk”)
- Killing of Khashoggi tests U.S. defense industry as backlash builds on Capitol Hill
- Race Call Retraction in CA-21
- Generation Climate: Can Young Evangelicals Change the Climate Debate?
- Celebrate Indigenous History This Thanksgiving
- How to Be an Indigenous Ally for Thanksgiving (And Beyond) (“From acknowledging the tribal land you’re on to stopping big banks from financing oil pipelines, there’s plenty we can do.”)
- Thanksgiving narrative whitewashes history, erases plight of Native Americans
- How Native Americans spend Thanksgiving: “This is a time that is a funeral for a lot of us”
- Cindy Hyde-Smith touts work with imaginary GOP senator, mixes up election date in disastrous debate (“The Mississippi Republican couldn’t stop looking at her notes, either.”)
- Anger over Farrakhan ties prompts calls for Women’s March leaders to resign (“Teresa Shook, a retired lawyer who launched the Women’s March two years ago with a single Facebook post, went a step further and called for the removal of national co-chairs Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour…Mallory and Sarsour have condemned anti-Semitism, homophobia and other forms of hatred but have not renounced Farrakhan himself.” Why would it be difficult to renounce/denounce a bigot like Farrakhan?)
- Steve Bannon’s far-right Europe operation undermined by election laws (“Exclusive: ambitious plan to campaign in EU elections would fall foul of laws in nine of 13 targeted states”)
- Thanksgiving is not just about gratitude. It’s about setting a moral example.
- Mark Warner says President Trump’s ‘words matter’ on Khashoggi killing
- After the midterms, Fox previews its strategy for covering economic downturns: Blame Democrats (So, here’s the deal: Trump and the Republicans have falsely has taken credit for the economy he inherited from President Obama/the Democrats, then if there’s an economic downturn while they’re in charge, they will turn right around and blame…President Obama/the Democrats.)
- The Indians were right, the English were wrong: A Virginia tribe reclaims its past (“The emerging story undercuts what Western historians have asserted for 400 years about the shape of native culture when the Europeans arrived in America, and it restores the place of the Rappahannocks, who had nearly been erased from the record.”)
- Virginia’s first ‘thanksgiving’ was more fast than feast
- ‘Corn was our other mother’: How a humble native grain saved and defined Virginia
- Sands: Amazon is an inflection point for Virginia
- SCC staff say Dominion customers bear risks of solar projects for Facebook
- Video: As Air Pollution Control Board Scandal Grows, Gov. Northam Refuses to Answer Very Basic Question
- Former Virginia pollution board member questions logic of replacing her before key pipeline vote (“Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam removes two board members on eve of key pipeline vote.”)
- BREAKING: Enviro Group “Wild Virginia” Files FOIAs on Northam Firing of Air Pollution Control Board Members, Meeting with Dominion CEO Tom Farrell
- VIDEO: Last Night’s Prince William County Board Meeting Shows How NOT to Present a Pro-ERA Resolution
- In Amazon’s new neighborhood, Arlington’s poor line up for turkeys
- A shivery cold on this Thanksgiving Day, but noticeably milder by Sunday
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