by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, July 16.
- Many Nations Receive Failing Scores on Climate Change and Health (“A new report says the European Union and the United States, among others, need to go much farther in addressing human health impacts in their national climate change commitments.”)
- Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany (“Deluge raises fears human-caused disruption is making extreme weather even worse than predicted”)
- Germany’s worst rainfall in a century leaves dozens dead and hundreds missing, authorities say
- Floods in Germany and Other Parts of Western Europe Leave at Least 45 Dead (Climate crisis.)
- Singapore Says S$5 Carbon Tax ‘A Start’ as It Eyes Higher Levy
- The Amazon rainforest is the world’s carbon sink. Parts of it now release more carbon than can be absorbed. (HUGE problem)
- Greenland Abandons All Future Oil Exploration, ING.dk Says
- WHO chief says it was ‘premature’ to rule out COVID lab leak
- The U.S. Climate Envoy Went To Moscow And Talked About More Than Climate
- What Climate Scientists Are Saying About This Catastrophic Summer (“The community hasn’t done as good of a job projecting how bad climate impacts would be at 1.2 degrees Celsius”)
- Kerry, Russian counterpart vow to tackle increasing climate change with ‘seriousness and urgency’
- Why Big Central Banks Are Becoming Climate Warriors
- Spain deployed 3.4 GW of solar in 2020
- It’s time for progressives and conservatives to put the Cuba canards aside
- Cuba lifts customs restrictions on food and medicine after biggest protests in decades
- The person to ‘weaken’ America: what the Kremlin papers said about Trump (“Documents appear to show how Russian intelligence worked to install their preferred candidate as president”)
- Russia bans media outlet that published Vladimir Putin scoops (“Proekt outlawed in act of revenge for embarrassing revelations about the president and top Kremlin officials”)
- Africa’s Covid Crisis Deepens, but Vaccines Are Still Far Off (“As the Delta variant surges across the continent, hospitals and oxygen supplies are strained and only 1 percent of Africans have been fully vaccinated. Rich nations have bought up most doses long into the future, and supplies to African countries are unlikely to increase much in the next few months.”)
- Biden Says U.S. to Warn Business on Deteriorating Hong Kong
- Canada may open its borders to vaccinated travelers by early September, Trudeau says
- How a Haitian American held in assassination probe financed a ‘personal security’ team
- Biden meets with Merkel in first White House session with a European leader
- Hungary PM calls EU action on LGBT rights ‘legalised hooliganism’
- China Opened a National Carbon Market. Here’s Why it Matters. (“The program may help China eventually curb greenhouse gas pollution. But making emissions markets work is tricky.”)
- U.S. Won’t Send Troops To Haiti To Stabilize Country, Biden Says
- World can’t tolerate ‘premature death’ of Brazil’s democracy, says Bolsonaro rival (“The centre-left politician Ciro Gomes tells the Guardian that Brazil is ‘living through the worst government in its history’” Horrendous.)
- Western US and Canada brace for another heatwave amid more than 70 wildfires
- Delta Variant Clouds Europe’s Economic Outlook
- A Severe Drought Is Threatening the Hoover Dam Reservoir—and Water Throughout the West (“We bent nature to suit our own needs, and now nature is going to bend us.””)
- We have to do something dramatic to protect the US against Covid-19, expert says(Go back to wearing masks indoors, also social distancing.)
- Republican lawmakers push to cast vaccine refusal as a civil rights issue (Really warped.)
- The right’s reckless anti-vaccine campaign is not mere pandering. It’s fatal.
- Right-Wing Vaccine Lies Are Tearing the Country Apart
- Biden administration proposes sweeping protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
- Clean electricity standard lands spot in $3.5 trillion Democratic-backed infrastructure deal
- Yellen sees ‘several more months of rapid inflation’ before easing, worries about housing impact
- Democrats pursue ambitious immigration changes in $3.5 trillion budget measure (“It’s unclear what policy shifts will pass muster under Senate rules that would allow the party’s senators to approve the measure without Republican support.”)
- Donald Trump’s military coup didn’t (quite) happen — but it was much closer than we knew (“The military’s top general thought he might have to save the country from Trump. Nothing about that is good news”)
- “You’re Gonna Have a Fucking War”: Mark Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran (“Inside the extraordinary final-days conflict between the former President and his chairman of the Joint Chiefs.”)
- Two Accounts of Donald Trump’s Final Year in Office, One More Vivid and Apt Than the Other
- Manchin signals he’ll be team player on spending deal
- Senate negotiators scramble to defang GOP criticism
- How Big Spending Got Its Groove Back
- Republicans Now Have Two Ways to Threaten Elections
- American Airlines, other companies resume donations to Republicans who objected to election results (Disgraceful.)
- Corporate America must commit to action on voting rights
- McCarthy puts political hopes above democracy with Trump pilgrimage
- Explosive Interview Directly Implicates Trump in Tax Scheme
- Trump Lawyers Who Spread False Election Claims Are Now Defending Themselves In Court (Disbar all of them.)
- Trump’s ‘Team Kraken’ Lands in Hot Water
- American democracy survived its Reichstag fire on Jan. 6. But the threat has not subsided.
- The Most Important Man in Washington This Week (Bernie Sanders)
- Mitch McConnell’s deliberations on infrastructure show GOP spin is bogus (“How Republicans hoped to kill Democratic chances for a ‘reconciliation’ bill.”)
- Biden’s biggest anti-poverty plan is now a reality. Here’s how he can make it even better.
- The Democrats’ Supreme Court Time Is Ticking (“Justice Stephen Breyer’s refusal to budge at age 82 is driving progressives nuts and could thwart Biden’s ability to appoint a judge.” Wildly irresponsible by Breyer.)
- CPAC’s Dallas conference was a carnival of extremists and conspiracy theorists (“All shapes and sizes of conspiracy fans and Jan. 6 supporters showed up in Dallas — organizers didn’t care”)
- Tennessee has one of the lowest vax rates. Republicans are working to make sure that stays the case. (Totally f’ed up.)
- Facebook grants transparency only to help its own image (“People were enthusiastic about the transparency CrowdTangle provided until it became a problem and created press cycles Facebook didn’t like”)
- Pushing more easily-debunked lies about the election, Tucker Carlson threatens another insurrection (“Carlson uses Fox News prime time show to push another conspiracy theory-filled ballot ‘audit,’ this time in Georgia — or else.”)
- The FBI failed up and down the line in the Larry Nassar case
- Texas Democrats won’t play by GOP rules. That’s how to fight oppression.
- Texas Democrats find voting rights are a tough sell as Capitol Hill turns its focus to Biden’s economic agenda
- How Long Can Texas Democrats Hold Out? (“Texans don’t necessarily support stricter voting laws, but without federal intervention, Democrats face a hard path.”)
- The delta variant is ravaging this Missouri city. Many residents are still wary of vaccines. (That’s right, they are “wary” of something that protects them against a disease that could kill or severely harm them. Idiocracy?)
- 16 members of Florida white supremacist gang charged in sweeping indictment
- Fox News Guest Says Kamala Harris Slept Her Way to the Top: ‘She Started Out Her Political Career as Willie Brown’s Bratwurst Bun’ (These people are deranged.)
- Windermere police officer arrested in Capitol riot along with ex-Apopka cop son
- ‘I’m Here, Mom!’: FBI Arrests Man Who Wore Roman Gladiator Costume To Capitol Riot
- Cuomo to Be Questioned in Sexual Harassment Inquiry
- Court Denies Republican Request to Dismiss Arizona Audit Case
- Matt Gaetz hired legal firm used by Jeffrey Epstein and El Chapo, campaign report shows
- L.A. County will require masks indoors amid alarming rise in coronavirus cases
- Former area prosecutor Combs announces bid for 5th District Democratic nomination
- Mark Warner, a ‘Business Guy’ Democrat, Lands Back in the Fray (“Virginia’s senior senator spent years in the Capitol eyeing the exits. Now he is seen as a ‘linchpin’ in talks on infrastructure, social and environmental spending, and the tax increases to pay for it.”)
- Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) on reconciliation infrastructure bill, Capitol riot
- Two women stand out in GOP race to unseat Spanberger
- Prince William supervisor Lawson joins GOP race to unseat Jennifer Wexton (Lawson is a right wingnut all the way…)
- Putin Plotted to Put “Mentally Unstable” Trump In White House; Gen. Milley Warned of Trump’s “Reichstag Moment.” Glenn Youngkin Is *HONORED* To Have His Endorsement.
- FWIW Virginia: “Curiously, Youngkin’s campaign is awkwardly trying to tie McAuliffe to Trump”; “McAuliffe takes advantage of Youngkin’s debate refusal”
- NEW VIDEO: “Glenn Youngkin’s Ditch” Highlights His Desperate Attacks About Virginia’s Strong Economy
- Opinion | Glenn Youngkin tried to fool Virginia voters. He’s already failed.
- What They’re Saying: Leaders Across the Commonwealth Applaud Virginia’s Consecutive Victories as “Top State for Business” in CNBC Ranking
- Court rejects challenge to Virginia’s carbon rule
- First surprise medical bills head to arbitration under Virginia’s new balance-billing ban
- Virginia Sierra Club 2021 Grades Are Out: All 63 Republicans in the General Assembly Got “F”s, While 63/76 Democrats Got “A”s on Protecting Our Environment
- VA Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn Announces Record-Breaking 2Q21 Fundraising; Reports Over $2,140,000 Cash on Hand!
- Video: Virginia Leaders Discuss New Child Tax Credit Expansion As Hundreds of Thousands of Virginia Families Receive Their First Payments Today
- Del. Lashrecse Aird: Continued Leadership Needed To Protect Against “Jim Crow” Backslide On Voting Rights
- State lawmakers begin work on addressing dangerous staffing shortage at state mental hospitals
- Thursday (7/15) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Still Relatively Low, But…Highest New 1-Day COVID Cases (+440) Since 5/25; Highest 10-Day New COVID Cases (+2,860) Since 6/3
- A Candidate for Falls Church School Board Has Connections to the Koch Network. Here’s Why You Should Be Worried.
- Yes, Virginia, Schools Will Open Five Days A Week This Fall
- Fairfax schools superintendent announces he will leave at end of contract (“Superintendent Scott S. Brabrand says he lead the school system until his contract expires in June 2022.”)
- Judge dismisses lawsuit against Robert Jeffrey; search warrant provides details of embezzlement allegations
- City extends deadline for statements of interest for Confederate statues
- D.C.-area forecast: Heat wave continues into Saturday as rain chances rise this weekend
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