by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, April 11.
- E.U. leaders offer to extend Brexit until October, avoiding chaotic exit on Friday
- Brexit Delayed to End of October as Macron Plays Hardball
- Israeli democracy is rotting from the inside (“Tuesday’s election results exposed two major threats to Israeli democracy.”)
- What Netanyahu’s Win Says About Israel’s Future (“…if Israel’s democratic forces in Labor and Meretz have something to learn from this new setback, it is that the center left will never win another election without the votes of the fifth of the population (and growing) that is not Jewish. Their bloc will need, in addition to more people like Gantz, not another Zionist Union but a big-tent democratic party of Jews and Arabs committed to a state of citizens. If Arabs continue to stay home, more and more accomplished Israelis are likely to leave home. That would be an election that Likud cannot control.”)
- Polls Open In The World’s Largest Democracy: Fun Facts On India’s Election
- President of Sudan resigns and is under house arrest, sources say
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested by British police after being evicted from Ecuador’s embassy in London (Finally!)
- Pelosi: Barr is ‘off the rails’
- Pelosi: Barr Is So Far Up Trump’s Ass I Can’t Tell Where He Ends and Trump Begins
- William Barr Accidentally Concedes His Reason for Withholding the Mueller Report Is Baloney
- Barr says spying on Trump campaign ‘did occur,’ but provides no evidence
- AP Interview: Pelosi: ‘I don’t trust Barr; I trust Mueller’ (Yep, I agree…Barr is a complete hack.)
- Adam Schiff just issued a stark warning about William Barr
- William Barr Is Shooting Squid Ink for Republicans to Hide Behind (“Here’s a preview of the next two years of American governance.”)
- Bill Barr Is Trying Hard to Be President Trump’s Roy Cohn
- Retiring as a Judge, Trump’s Sister Ends Court Inquiry Into Her Role in Tax Dodges
- Trump’s Other Base (“It is worth remembering that in 2016, after years of the racist birtherism attack against President Barack Obama, after calling Mexicans rapists and murderers and after promising over and over to build the wall, Trump still won 28 percent of the Hispanic vote, 27 percent of the Asian vote and 8 percent of the black vote” Astounding and depressing.)
- Gregory Craig, ex-Obama White House counsel, expects to be charged in relation to Ukrainian work with Manafort, his lawyers say
- It’s Trump vs. Trump as immigration divides White House
- Top aides appear to contradict Trump on family separation
- “It Looks Bad. It Smells Bad. It Is Bad”: Democrats Are Digging into Kushner’s Cozy Relationship with M.B.S.
- The Department of Homeland Security is in shambles
- Texas Bill Would Make Abortion Punishable by the Death Penalty
- When conservatives claim censorship, they’re often just showcasing their tech ignorance (“These claims are just another iteration of the long-term right-wing effort to brand most of the mainstream press as biased against conservatives in an attempt to ‘work the refs’ and get favorable treatment, this time applied to tech giants.”)
- Facebook Is Changing News Feed (Again) to Stop Fake News (“Click-Gap, which Facebook is launching globally today, is the company’s attempt to limit the spread of websites that are disproportionately popular on Facebook compared with the rest of the web. If Facebook finds that a ton of links to a certain website are appearing on Facebook, but few websites on the broader web are linking to that site, Facebook will use that signal, among others, to limit the website’s reach.”)
- Trump brushes aside environmental concerns, signs 2 executive orders to speed up gas, oil projects (Trump needs to be sued on this crap by state Attorneys General, ASAP.)
- National Enquirer expected to be sold imminently as parent company faces pressure
- Mike Pence answers Pete Buttigieg’s criticism: ‘He knows better. He knows me’ (Hahahaha, riiiight Mike.)
- Trump Fed pick Herman Cain promoted anti-vaxxer and medical conspiracy theories through email list (Cain is completely unhinged.)
- Right-wing media amplify absurd interpretation of something Rep. Ilhan Omar said about 9/11 (“A majority of criticisms against Omar are being made in bad faith”)
- Republicans Prove Ilhan Omar Is Right About Anti-Muslim Bigotry
- Why Ralph Northam has held on as governor of Virginia (“Fellow Democrats who called for him to resign appear to have changed their minds”)
- Legislators express regret for jumping in on Northam, Fairfax scandals
- Former Virginia Attorney General rumored for multiple White House positions (Of course, this lunatic shouldn’t be hired for any White House position.)
- Andres Jimenez: Why Virginia Needs More Bold Progressive Leaders
- McEachin recovering from blood clot (Get better!)
- Huffstetler says he’ll try again for Democratic Nomination in Fifth District
- Gov. Ralph Northam column: Working with the General Assembly to make Virginia a better and more equitable place (Not one mention in this column about the fact that Republicans killed almost every piece of progressive, clean energy and environmental legislation, or that we need Democrats to take control of the General Assembly this November. Pathetic.)
- Northam back on the campaign circuit after blackface controversy
- Gastañaga: Time to make sense, not war
- Fairfax County may help low-income people fight deportation (“The proposal to create a legal defense fund that uses taxpayer dollars is part of a controversial effort by local governments to counter the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.”)
- Trump wondered why Mount Vernon isn’t named after George Washington. Here’s why. (Because he’s an absolute ignoramus and idiot.)
- Stevens: The real cost of anti-pipeline activism (Ee gads, this is demented and wildly dishonest.)
- Where Do Democratic Virginia House of Delegates Candidates in Primaries Stand on the Issues? Part 3: Defending Women’s Reproductive Choice/Access
- Slimy, Extreme Virginia Del. Tim Hugo (R) Strikes Again – on Tax Preparation and Personal Gifts. This November, Let’s Replace Him with Dan Helmer (D).
- New Poll Looks at Voter Attitudes on Immigration, Other Issues in Fairfax County (Fairfax County voters are overwhelmingly pro-immigrant, although massive partisan differences exist. Overall, Fairfax County Dems are VERY happy with the direction the county is headed in.)
- Warner, Kaine announce more than $1.4M to University of Lynchburg for STEM teacher prep
- Hampton city manager offers peek at budget that includes new jobs, salary increase for city employees
- Chesterfield supervisors approve 3% higher budget that fully covers funding gap for schools
- Residents criticized Portsmouth council. Now it won’t air their comments.
- Man charged in brutal slayings of 2 women in Virginia Beach nearly 46 years ago (“A New York area man has been charged with murder in the killings of Janice Pietropola and Lynn Seethaler, both 19, who were strangled and shot multiple times in the head in June of 1973.”)
- Partly sunny today before showers chances return tomorrow
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