by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 30.
- A message to oil companies: Change or have change forced upon you
- To Slow Climate Change, Australia Turns to Its Coastline (“Scientists in some countries are mending watery habitats that they say can store more carbon per acre than forests”)
- The brazen arrest of a Belarusian activist has terrified dissidents all over the world
- Russia has not been deterred
- U.S. monitoring Iranian warships that may be headed to Venezuela
- Bennett to announce he’s joining opposition to form new Israeli government, oust Netanyahu
- Netanyahu in last-minute bid to scupper possible deal to unseat him
- Analysis: Gaza truce shifts focus to Egypt’s regional role
- UK PM Johnson marries fiancee in surprise ceremony
- Faye Schulman Dies; Fought Nazis With a Rifle and a Camera
- This Time Is Different: Outside OPEC+, Oil Growth Stalls
- Exxon Mobil’s Last-Ditch Attempt to Stave Off a Climate Coup (Exxon Suxx.)
- U.S. Manufacturers Blame Tariffs for Swelling Inflation
- Why It’s So Hard to Fill Jobs in Certain States (“Parts of Mountain West, Plains and New England have three open positions for every unemployed person”)
- Take Two on U.S. Jobs to Show If Tepid Data Was a Blip: Eco Week
- Senate Democrats prepare to work on Biden infrastructure plan ‘with or without’ Republicans
- Joe Biden seeks Republican buy-in but how long before patience snaps?
- As a negotiator, Biden leaves GOP senators unsure how far he will go
- Democrats plot next move after GOP sinks Jan. 6 probe (“… a select-committee investigation would likely provide Democrats with subpoena power, just as Republicans were able to summon witnesses during their years-long investigation into the 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya”)
- A bipartisan January 6 commission is probably dead. Democrats have a backup plan. (“A House committee could be less vulnerable to GOP obstruction.”)
- The Insurrection Isn’t Over (“The Republican Party is increasingly in thrall to the myth that propelled the insurrection. What next?”)
- Pandemic Fuels Surge in U.S. Gun Sales ‘Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen’ (“While gun sales have been climbing for decades, Americans have been on an unusual, prolonged buying spree fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. About a fifth of all Americans who bought guns last year were first-time gun owners, preliminary research data show.”)
- 9 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022
- Democrats’ quandary: Whether to kill the filibuster that could kill their agenda
- Joe Manchin and the Ten Good Republicans
- How Mitch McConnell killed the US Capitol attack commission
- The Trump grand jury is not a ‘witch hunt’
- What happens if an ex-president goes to jail (hypothetically speaking)? It wouldn’t be pretty
- Led by faction of young Republicans, a conservative climate movement is on the horizon (Would be nice, but…we’ve been reading articles like this for decades, and nothing’s come of them.)
- Kamala Harris speaks the truth about race, unafraid
- Justice Breyer’s new warning for Democrats couldn’t have come at a worse time (“American democracy is in crisis. Breyer thinks now’s the time to scold his fellow liberals.” Breyer needs to retire, now!)
- The Dangers of the Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear a Mississippi Abortion Case (“The most pressing question may be not whether Roe and Casey can survive but how reproductive rights can be sustained without them.”)
- San Jose shooting: Guns, petrol and 22,000 rounds of ammunition found (Totally normal, sane country we live in…)
- What is critical race theory, and why do Republicans want to ban it in schools?
- Republicans Are Passing Laws to Keep Teachers From Talking About Race (The GOP is a white nationalist/supremacist party.)
- Republicans who embraced Trump’s big lie run to become election officials (That should be an automatic disqualifier.)
- Black Tulsans Work to Rebuild ‘Black Wall Street’ Decades After Massacre
- Biden: Texas voting bill ‘wrong and un-American’ (“The President urged Congress to pass legislation to block a bill drafted by Texas Republicans that would put more limitations on voting”)
- President Joe Biden says Texas voting bill is “part of an assault on democracy” (Absolutely outrageous, anti-democracy and unAmerican)
- Texas Republicans finalize bill that would enact stiff new voting restrictions and make it easier to overturn election results (100% unacceptable.)
- Limits on voting hours, new criminal penalties included in GOP-backed Texas elections bill
- Critical race theory ban leads Oklahoma college to cancel class that taught ‘white privilege’ (Bonkers.)
- 117 staffers sue over Houston hospital’s vaccine mandate, say they don’t want to be ‘guinea pigs’ (Find another job?)
- Demonstrators gather at shop that offered ‘not vaccinated’ Star of David badges
- Jennifer Carroll Foy, Terry McAuliffe, Jennifer McClellan Respond to Sierra Club Virginia Chapter Survey (“Please note, if you do not see a candidate’s response, it is because they did not respond to the questions.”)
- Kellen Squire’s Interview with Jennifer Carroll Foy: “We need a leader who will lift up every last one of us, and I’ll do exactly that as governor.”
- McAuliffe is riding a comfortable lead ahead of the primary. His key challengers are betting on undecided voters to turn the tide. (The problem for the challengers it that undecided voters aren’t likely to break for one challenger, but more likely to go in different directions, and that there’s no Ranked Choice Voting.)
- Mountain Valley Pipeline resumes work on steep slopes in Roanoke area (So stupid.)
- Saturday (5/29) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Hospitalizations, 10-Day New COVID Cases Near Lowest Points Since Early in Pandemic
- Opinion: Time for Virginia to reject federal COVID-19 unemployment benefits (Hmmmm…)
- Editorial: Marking two years since Beach tragedy
- Food insecurity rose in the Richmond area during the pandemic – with many experiencing it for the first time. Now with stimulus checks gone, it’s rising again.
- Ripples from George Floyd’s death brought protests, change to Fredericksburg area
- Hampton Roads schools spent millions to improve air quality during the pandemic. Experts say efforts could be making it worse.
- After 8 dogs die at training camp site in Portsmouth, pet owners reach out to animal advocate (“Portsmouth Animal Control received a call shortly after noon about a possible animal cruelty incident in the 1500 block of Lane Place, off London Boulevard. The animal control unit is investigating the dogs’ deaths.” WTF?)
- D.C.-area forecast: Another clunker today before a much nicer Memorial Day
