by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, June 13.
- Oil Surges as Tankers in Gulf Suffer Another Suspected Attack
- Suspected Attacks on Tankers Near Iran Sends Oil Higher (“Japan says two tankers with oil bound for Asia came under a suspected attack”)
- A Tense Calm Settles Over Hong Kong In Wake Of Violence Between Police And Protesters
- Sajid Javid signs US extradition order for Julian Assange (“British home secretary says final decision on WikiLeaks founder is ‘now with the courts'”)
- Trump Goes on TV to Solicit 2020 Foreign Collusion (“He’s not hiding his intentions here”)
- ‘I think I’d take it’: In exclusive interview, Trump says he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponents
- Trump’s Astonishing Confession (“The president says he’d do it all again.”)
- Trump: If Offered Dirt By Foreign Government On 2020 Rival, ‘I Think I’d Take It’
- Every Member of Team Trump Is Now Enabling Treason (“On Wednesday, Trump confirmed he treats his oath to serve the United States faithfully with the same contempt he’s given to his wedding vows and business contracts.”)
- POLITICO Playbook: Trump gives the impeachment crowd a gift
- Trump Finally Told the Truth: He Needs Russia to Win (“What he’s saying—directly to Russia—with the Stephanopoulos interview is: Guys, I’m gonna need your help next year.”)
- Rick Santorum: Trump Was Just Using ‘Filler Words’ When He Said He’d Accept Foreign Help (Uhhhhhhhhhhhh…)
- Democrats Respond to Trump’s Claim He Would Accept Dirt on 2020 Rivals From Foreign Agents
- Trump throws open 2020 election to foreign spies (“The President made a staggering offer to every foreign spy agency and US enemy: Have at the 2020 election”)
- House Panel Recommends Holding Barr and Ross in Contempt Over Census (“The move came after President Trump claimed executive privilege to block access to documents about how a citizenship question was added to the 2020 census. Congress has been in a monthslong battle to get Attorney General William P. Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to testify on the issue.”)
- 3 Republican Former EPA Heads Rebuke Trump EPA on Climate Policy & Science
- Climate Change Will Increase Risk of Violent Conflict, Researchers Warn (“Stanford convened top experts in climate and conflict with a wide range of views to see where they agree about climate change’s impact on global security.”)
- US Renewable Energy Capacity Beats Coal for the First Time (“’Coal has no technology path,’ said Jeff McDermott, managing partner at Greentech Capital Advisors, a boutique investment bank focused on clean energy, as reported by CNN. ‘It’s got nowhere to go but extinction.'”)
- The Census: Another Brick in Trump’s White House Wall (“The president is using executive privilege to conceal information the public needs to know.”)
- Trump says he may move thousands of troops to Poland because he really likes Poland (“I just have a very warm feeling for Poland. I always have.”)
- Trump feigns ignorance on his administration’s racist census change (“His administration wants to rig the results to benefit ‘Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.'”)
- Rep. Amash stokes talk of campaign against Trump (“But if he does run, some of his GOP colleagues worry that the five-term Libertarian-leaning congressman from Grand Rapids could siphon tens of thousands of votes away from Trump in a general election, potentially moving Rust Belt states that Trump won in 2016 — such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — into the Democratic column next year.” Do it!)
- The First Democratic Debate Deadline Is Almost Here: Who’s In And Who’s Out (“On June 26 and 27, 20 candidates will gather in Miami to take part in the first Democratic presidential primary debates of the 2020 election cycle.”)
- Poll: Democrats have 6-point lead on 2020 generic congressional ballot
- Warren Passes Sanders in National Poll for First Time as Biden Tells 13-Year-Old to Watch Out for Boys Creeping On Her
- How Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren Cracked the Code of the 2020 Race (“Over the first six months of the presidential campaign, Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Warren have outfoxed the other 21 Democratic candidates, demonstrating an innate understanding of the value of viral moments and nonstop exposure that drives politics in the Trump era…Unlike many of their rivals, who built their political careers in the era of carefully chosen, less-is-more press interaction, the two have placed their fate in the hands of TV bookers and the gods of online viral content.”)
- Demand for Presidential Climate Debate Escalates after DNC Says No (“15 presidential candidates, young activists and Miami’s Democratic Party are all now pressuring the DNC to devote an entire debate to climate change policy.”)
- Not Allowed On Air Force One, Steve King Still Welcomed At GOP Fundraiser (“Just five months after he condoned white supremacy, the congressman got a warm reception at an Iowa GOP event where Donald Trump was speaking.” King’s not just a white supremacist, he’s evil in general.)
- The Nepotism Might Finally Be Too Much to Ignore
- Manchin eyes Senate exit (For everyone who’s bashed Manchin, just consider that if he leaves, Republicans will probably pick up that Senate seat, making it more likely that Mitch McConnell stays Majority Leader in 2021 and beyond.)
- The ‘wild, wild West days of Big Tech’ are over, says Sen. Mark Warner (Time to break up these monopolies?)
- What Ken Cuccinelli brings to Trump’s hardline push on immigration (“Having him be the head and face of USCIS does not give the immigrant community the welcome feel that America has historically been known for”)
- Hard-Liner Cuccinelli in as Acting Head of Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Virginia Lt. Gov. Fairfax Requests Criminal Investigations Into Sex Assault Accusations Against Him
- Let’s honor Virginia Beach with action
- Virginia House Republicans Are Pulled Further to the Right as Democrats Build Momentum
- Winners and Losers: Virginia Primaries 2019
- Yes, a low turnout in the primaries. But there were important numbers Tuesday. (“Now the key question for November — is the relative fall-off between the high energy, statewide candidate-led 2017 primaries and the off- off-year 2019 races mean we’ll see the usual drop off in November’s off- off general election? Or is the decline relatively small, pointing to a bigger than usual turnout for an off- off general election?”)
- State revenues soar in May, but officials caution against reopening budget
- How shoe-leather politics and personalized letters led Joe Morrissey to victory (“Joe Morrissey does not tweet so he was not aware that Virginia’s Democratic leadership didn’t congratulate him on Twitter on Tuesday night, as was done for other successful candidates.”)
- Joe Morrissey’s victory in Virginia could add to Democrats’ headaches (I’d argue that Democrats should completely shun Morrissey.)
- Virginia Democrats worry about ‘Fighting Joe’ Morrissey and his maverick ways (It’s not his “maverick ways” that worry me, it’s the fact that the then-56-year-old Morrissey went to jail for having sex with his 17-year-old receptionist.)
- Editorial: 5 takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries (My main takeaway from this is that the Roanoke Times editorial board really hates progressives, and completely fails to understand what “left” and “right” mean these days. In fact, on issue after issue, progressives are in the majority. Meanwhile, the Republican Party is wayyyy outside the mainstream, on issue after issue. Yet the Roanoke Times falsely equates the two. Infuriating.)
- Northern Virginia voters endorse a new mandate on criminal justice
- ‘They care about corporations:’ Landowners demonstrate pipeline project’s toll
- What’s Next? What Last Night’s Primary Election Means for Arlington (Ben Tribbett: “I think Parisa basically brought two very large groups together. One are people newer to the county who really care about criminal justice reforms. The second was a coalition of people mad about internal Arlington politics.”)
- Richmond switches to gender-neutral caps and gowns for graduation; Henrico could follow suit
- Virginia Announces Three New Solar Projects in Halifax and Orange Counties
- In clash with Loudoun County supervisors, Leesburg considers annexation of Joint Land Management Area
- It’s Now Time to Turn Prince William County Totally Blue
- Arlington home values to rise 17.2%; inventory has ‘fallen off a cliff’ (“The Northern Virginia Association of Realtors has revised its forecast for home price appreciation in Arlington County this year to 17.2%. The arrival of Amazon’s HQ2 prompted the revision.”)
- Solar panels drop Richmond family’s energy bill to $8: ‘I can’t believe it!’
- Rain early, a pause, and then a chance of afternoon storms. Clearing and delightful on Friday.
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