by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, April 9.
- Israel election: voters go to polls as Netanyahu seeks fifth term (“Main rival Benny Gantz tells voters the prime minister is ‘not an irreplaceable legend’”)
- Netanyahu has descended into new depths of demagoguery
- Netanyahu vs. Gantz: Six Scenarios for How the Israeli Election Will Play Out (“Whatever happens on Tuesday, Gantz and Netanyahu might be secretly planning for a national-unity government”)
- Why Trump’s decision to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist group is so dangerous (“The move could give Iran an excuse to ‘target American forces,’ one expert said.”)
- Trump Had No Problem with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard When He Was Doing Business With Its Associates (“According to an exhaustive report, the group the president just labeled a terrorist organization reportedly had financial ties to the Trump family business.”)
- Trump designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as foreign terrorist organization
- Trump Threatens New Tariffs on $11 Billion of EU Goods for Airbus Subsidies
- Last time CO2 levels were this high, sea levels were 60 feet higher and Antarctica had trees (“Study finds the Earth’s climate is highly sensitive to ‘relatively small variations in atmospheric CO2.'”)
- Trump Just Purged DHS Because Its Leaders Weren’t Breaking the Law Enough
- Trump removes Secret Service director as purge of DHS leadership widens
- Kirstjen Nielsen’s attempt to suck up to Trump ended badly. It always does.
- Kirstjen Nielsen’s season of cruelty and futility
- Lou Dobbs and Fox News: Trump’s immigration lunatic fringe
- Trump takes an honor of a lifetime and turns it into a black hole
- With Nielsen Out, Stephen Miller Is Poised to Remake D.H.S. In His Image (Stephen Miller is the devil.)
- Ilhan Omar: Stephen Miller is a ‘White Nationalist’ Who Should be Nowhere Near Government
- Herman Cain and Stephen Moore follow Trump’s lazy conspiracy theorizing (“When facts and data get in the way for Herman Cain and Stephen Moore, they revert to spreading economic conspiracy theories.” They are both disgraces and should absolutely NOT BE ALLOWED on the Federal Reserve.)
- Grassley warns White House not to oust any more top immigration officials
- U.S. judge halts Trump policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico
- Trump pushed to close El Paso border, told admin officials to resume family separations and agents not to admit migrants
- Trump’s DHS purge floors Republicans (“Even GOP allies of the president are distressed by the chaos unleashed on federal immigration policy.”)
- Trump Signals Even Fiercer Immigration Agenda, With a Possible Return of Family Separations
- Who Is Left to Say No to Trump? (“Kirstjen Nielsen is the latest one out of the president’s spiraling cabinet who expressed his cruelty but wouldn’t go as far as he wanted.”)
- Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress (“Revealed: federal support to research centers cut off as scientists fear years of successful work will go ‘down the drain’” WTF???)
- Trump’s Fed threats meet a firewall: GOP lawmakers
- Push to Obtain Trump’s N.Y. Tax Returns Wins Cuomo’s Support
- Trump’s tax return scam has taken yet another turn (“The second outcome, and the more likely one, is that even if Trump loses in court, he will succeed in delaying the release of his returns until after the 2020 election. Should he win, no matter what they reveal, he’ll then be able to say to the public: You knew I was a crook when you elected me. It’s your own fault for being so stupid. Now get lost, suckers.”)
- Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago Had a Hidden Camera Detector, Prosecutors Say
- Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes (Nunes is demented.)
- Our Rapidly Blossoming Authoritarian State Is Headed to Another Level (“President* Donald Trump has been busy.”)
- Mitt Romney Is Now Running Interference on Trump’s Tax Returns, Because Of Course He Is (“One of the few Republicans alive who could credibly challenge this president* will instead do nothing.”)
- Poll: Biden tops Democratic field after rough week (“In a survey from Morning Consult, Biden was still at the top of the list of candidates with the support of 32 percent of voters who say they intend to participate in a Democratic primary or caucus next year. He is 9 points ahead of the next closest contender: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), at 23 percent.” In other words, normal voters aren’t like activists on Facebook and Twitter.)
- Biden support stays solid in early states (“Party leaders don’t expect lasting damage from the controversy over physical touching. But they want the former veep to stop joking about it.”)
- An Acting Government For The Trump Administration (“Replacing Cabinet secretaries has become a feature, not a bug, of this White House.”)
- Thwarted on Immigration, Trump Is Firing Everyone
- Kirstjen Nielsen Shows Why It’s Impossible to Restrain Trump (“If anyone was going to moderate the president’s worst impulses, it was an expert and a bureaucrat like the former DHS secretary. Instead, all she did was sacrifice her own reputation.”)
- CBS’ pro-Kirstjen Nielsen national security analyst has extensive DHS conflicts of interest
- Right-wing media can’t stop mis-citing a 2013 abortion study — and other outlets are repeating the error
- Former Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli for Homeland Security Secretary? Let’s Review This Guy’s (Horrendous, Extreme, Crazy, Corrupt, Bigoted) Record
- New Poll Finds Virginia Dems Hold Small (43%-39%) Lead Heading Towards November Elections; Most Dems Don’t Want Northam, Fairfax or Herring to Resign (Only 9% believe abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.)
- Where Do Democratic Virginia House of Delegates Candidates in Primaries Stand on the Issues? Part 2: Preventing Gun Violence.
- Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) Endorses “17 candidates who will help us #FlipVirginia this fall”
- Like similar boards, new African-American Advisory Board will be limited in what it can do
- Editorial: Region joins rush to embrace wind energy
- Editorial: Who’s the bravest Republican? And other thoughts on the I-81 vote
- Virginia is for lovers, and zombies: ‘Walking Dead’ spinoff coming to Va.
- Editorial: Does Alleghany County really need an armored vehicle?
- Another sign of the Peninsula General Assembly delegation’s rising profile
- Fairfax County Should Do More to Protect Immigrant Communities
- Richmond School Board kills Young’s resolution on Stoney’s tax increase proposal
- Cavalier fans rock the town on historic night
- It took winning a national championship, but Virginia finally rewrites the narrative
- Surging toward 80 degrees again today; mostly sunny and cooler tomorrow and Thursday
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