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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, June 9. Congrats to Terry McAuliffe, Hala Ayala and Mark Herring on their big wins last night; now let’s go win in November!
- Record heat bakes Middle East as temperatures top 125 degrees (THIS is the climate crisis.)
- Your G7 greenwashing guide: How Australia will feign climate ambition
- The Retreat of Exxon and the Oil Majors Won’t Stop Fossil Fuel (“National oil champions are likely to fill the gap left by private-sector players.”)
- Afghan Soldiers Gird for Taliban to Attack Cities After the U.S. Leaves
- The World’s Biggest Investors Get Louder About ESG
- Biden’s global vaccine strategy draws scrutiny ahead of G-7 pandemic talks
- U.S., allies on track to produce 1 billion vaccine doses for Indo-Pacific
- The Criminals Thought the Devices Were Secure. But the Seller Was the F.B.I.
- Biden Heads to Europe to Restore Alliances and Counter Autocracy’s Rise
- With G7 summit the first stop, Biden embarks on 8-day trip to Europe
- Biden Aims to Bolster U.S. Alliances in Europe, but Challenges Loom
- Biden heads for Europe to meet Putin, a pandemic and skeptical allies
- Biden preps for 1st foreign trip as president, summit with Putin
- Joe Biden heads overseas as his prospects darken at home
- El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law
- Bitcoin Fall Has Strategists Eyeing Possible Drop to $20,000
- China Says U.S. Is Creating ‘Imaginary Enemy’ With Senate Bill
- Senate approves sprawling $250 billion bill to curtail China’s economic and military ambitions
- Global supply chain squeeze, soaring costs threaten solar energy boom
- Biden quietly moves to start closing Guantánamo ahead of 20th anniversary of 9/11
- The Drought In The Western U.S. Is Getting Bad. Climate Change Is Making It Worse
- Kamala Harris, With Blunt Language on Border, Forges Immigration Image
- In the U.S., vaccines for the youngest are expected this fall.
- The Highly Contagious Delta Variant Is On The Rise In the U.S. (Get vaccinated if you haven’t already.)
- Biden’s Bipartisan Hopes Dealt Blow as Schumer Preps Go-It-Alone
- Democratic, GOP House Members Propose New Infrastructure Plan
- White House infrastructure talks with Capito collapse, leading to fingerpointing as Biden shifts strategy (Ugh, these media headlines are so stupid.)
- Biden’s infrastructure talks with GOP collapse amid irreconcilable differences (More like, “amid Republicans not being in the least bit serious.”)
- Biden ends infrastructure talks with Senate GOP, starts engaging bipartisan group
- Biden seeks new coalition for infrastructure bill as talks with key GOP senators fall apart
- Why We Need to Tax Wealth More Effectively (“Jeff Bezos and other American billionaires have gamed the system.”)
- Richest 25 Americans reportedly paid ‘true tax rate’ of 3.4% as wealth rocketed (Absolutely nuts; we need a wealth tax and a steep inheritance tax.)
- Democrats have their guidebook on how to win elections. Now they must deliver. (“They need to go on the offense.”)
- Senate GOP blocks bill to combat gender pay gap (Why would any woman, or any man who cares about women, vote Republican?)
- Berating Joe Manchin won’t do Democrats any good. Here’s what they should focus on. (“The answer is to win more seats.”)
- Schumer plans to force key votes to win over Democratic holdouts on filibuster
- Senate Democrats befuddled by Joe Manchin
- So What The Hell Do We Do Now? (Joe Manchin Edition)
- Manchin Says Voting Rights Are “Fundamental” as He Torpedoes the Plan to Protect Them (“He backed a different bill, which wouldn’t reverse a wave of new voting restrictions.” Manchin makes zero sense.)
- Unfortunately, the John Lewis voting rights bill isn’t nearly enough
- Mitch McConnell Just Made Joe Manchin Look Like a Sucker. Again.
- Where voting rights go from here (“Democrats will need a Plan B beyond H.R. 1.”)
- A damning Senate report on Jan. 6 shows what Republicans want to keep buried (“Through omission, the report shows how devoted Republicans are to protecting Donald Trump.”)
- A January 6 Report’s Major Plot Hole (“The report details massive security and intelligence failures in the lead-up to the attack on the Capitol. But it doesn’t cast blame where it belongs.”)
- US Capitol attack was planned in plain sight, Senate report finds (“Despite ample evidence of plots there was an intelligence breakdown and lack of preparation but report skirts causes of riot” We need to know what role Trump and his minions played.)
- Trump Impeachment Lawyers Are Now Representing Capitol Riot Defendants
- ‘Bipartisanship’ Was the Enemy of the Whole Truth
- Merrick Garland Will Face Institutionalist Issues
- Why Is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?
- Justice Kavanaugh hands down some surprisingly hopeful news for women’s equality (“Much — but not all — of Justice Ginsburg’s women’s rights legacy is probably safe.”0
- How America Fractured Into Four Parts (“People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?”)
- The media must do better to address photojournalism’s sexual harassment problem
- A Record Number Of Americans, Including Republicans, Support Same-Sex Marriage
- No, Trump’s not delusional — it’s actually much worse than that (“Trump’s Big Lie about the election and fantasies of ‘reinstatement’ aren’t delusional. They’re devious strategies”)
- My Fellow Republicans, Stop Fearing This Dangerous and Diminished Man (by former Rep. Barbara Comstock – R, VA10)
- How the GOP enables private ‘militias’ and the terrorist threat they pose
- No, Judge Benitez, we do not need weapons of war for ‘home defense’
- Judge who reversed California assault weapons ban faces barrage of criticism (“U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez overturned the state’s three-decade-old assault weapons ban. How he shaped his arguments is ‘incredibly problematic,’ one legal expert said.” It was also extremely unprofessional, read more like a screed on a far-right blog or Facebook page. Why is this guy a judge?!?)
- Arizona ballot audit backed by secretive donors linked to Trump’s inner circle
- The Heritage Foundation’s critical race theory expert is an extremist who thinks women should not hold jobs and is very concerned with virginity (The Heritage Foundation is bats***.)
- Greene says she knows COVID-19 is a ‘bioweapon’ because evolution doesn’t exist (She is completely unhinged.)
- Lachlan Murdoch gave Tucker Carlson the green light to spread “replacement theory,” and he took it (Lachlan Murdoch is evil.)
- Jack Ciattarelli wins GOP primary for New Jersey governor, CNN projects
- Trump backers lose big as Ciattarelli claims GOP nomination in N.J.
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Applauds Senate Passage of Legislation to Invest in American Innovation and Competition
- Sen. Mark Warner Calls Findings of 1/6 Report “extremely troubling”; Says “even more alarming is the intelligence failures leading up to the attack on our Capitol”
- Today, Virginia Dems Choose Our Nominees. Tomorrow, We Get to Work Defeating Trump Republicans Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Sears and Jason Miyares.
- Virginia Primary Day 2021 Results: Live Blog
- Terry McAuliffe wins Democratic nomination for Virginia governor (“Incumbent Mark Herring won the Democratic nomination for attorney general, while Del. Hala Ayala won the lieutenant governor nomination.”)
- Virginia Primary Day 2021: Open Thread
- McAuliffe crushes competitors in Democratic primary for governor (It really is amazing…62% in a 5-way field?!? Wow, that’s impressive.)
- Mark Herring wins Democratic nomination to seek a third term as Va. attorney general
- McAuliffe, Ayala, Herring Win Democratic Nominations; More Results Here
- Return of the Mac: Terry McAuliffe Wins Va. Democratic Primary
- McAuliffe wins big in Virginia
- Analysis: McAuliffe 2.0 gambles that, for Virginia, what’s old is new
- Terry McAuliffe earns Democratic nomination to run for governor
- McAuliffe wins Democratic primary for governor, teeing off a heated contest to defend party’s control over the state
- Four Democratic incumbents, one Republican ousted in Virginia House primaries (“Dels. Lee Carter, Mark Levine, Ibraheem Samirah, Steve Heretick and Charles Poindexter lost their bids for reelection.”)
- Democratic primary voters in Virginia oust some of General Assembly’s most outspoken delegates (It’s not because they were “outspoken”)
- Virginia 2021 House of Delegates primary: Some incumbents cruise to victory, others toppled
- Dels. Lee Carter, Mark Levine lose House seats after trailing in statewide bids
- Nadarius Clark defeats incumbent Steve Heretick in 79th House District Democratic primary
- Five Incumbent Delegates Defeated in Primaries
- Tuesday (6/8) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Hospitalizations, 10-Day New COVID Cases Near Lowest Points Since Start of Pandemic
- End wildlife killing contests (These things are beyond appalling and should be illegal in Virginia.)
- No Immediate Decision On Lee Monument From Virginia Supreme Court
- Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson defeats former mayor Allison Silberberg in Democratic primary
- Group with ties to investor behind Richmond casino plan gave thousands to Stoney’s reelection campaign
- UPDATE: McEachin declares victory as Richmond’s top prosecutor; sheriff’s race remains close
- Amid feud with Sentara, EVMS hired a PR firm. A torrent of negative Sentara stories followed. (“Tigercomm, a PR firm hired to do crisis communications for EVMS, shares a founder with a blog that has been posting negative stories about Sentara since November. The school says it’s not paying for or directing the content of the blog.”)
- In upset, Virginia Beach attorney and gun shop owner Tim Anderson wins 83rd House GOP primary (In another sign the Republican Party is going extremist, this guy was Amanda Chase’s attorney. Bad news for democracy, good news for Democratic incumbent Del. Nancy Guy!)
- Ramin Fatehi will be Norfolk’s first new chief prosecutor in more than a decade (“Ramin Fatehi, 42, captured nearly 60% of the roughly 15,646 votes cast, nearly tripling the number of his nearest competitor, with all 49 precincts reporting their votes, according to data from the Norfolk Office of Elections.”)
- Platania wins Democratic primary for city commonwealth’s attorney
- Arlington Voters Favor Establishment Democrats in Primary (Ridiculous headline, but…yes, congratulations to Takis Karantonis, an activist who was first elected a year ago and is FAR from “establishment,” whatever that word even means.)
- Milde defeats Shelton in Republican primary race for Stafford supervisor
- Wade, Pinkston triumph in Democratic primary for City Council (“Wade and Pinkston will compete with Mayor Nikuyah Walker and Yas Washington, both running as independents, for two seats in November.”)
- Bowden beats back challenges from Cooper, Perkins in Hampton sheriff’s race
- Loudoun County schools names Scott Ziegler as new superintendent
- D.C.-area forecast: Summer warmth and storm chances through Thursday; much cooler Friday with showers
