by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, September 24.
- China Needs to Kick its Coal Habit at Home, Too (“Xi Jinping’s pledge to cease financing coal plants abroad is good for the environment and makes business sense, too. But progress at home is the real key.”)
- Young global climate strikers vow change is coming – from the streets (“Mass youth protests to hit more than 1,400 locations weeks before Cop26 climate summit”)
- China Says All Crypto-Related Transactions Are Illegal
- Biden to rally regional support for China containment strategy at Quad summit (“Biden will meet leaders of Australia, India and Japan as he builds a web of alliances to support democracy and deter authoritarianism”)
- China’s pledge to end building coal plants abroad improves Belt and Road’s reputation, development bank says
- Mercedes-Benz Plans $8.2 Billion Battery Venture
- Germany’s far-right stokes new grievances for voters: Masks rules and vaccine mandates (Sound familiar?)
- After Nearly 16 Years As Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel Has No Clear Successor In Sunday’s Election
- Ancient Footprints Suggest Humans Arrived In Americas During Ice Age (“Human footprints found in New Mexico are about 23,000 years old, a study reported, suggesting that people may have arrived long before the Ice Age’s glaciers melted.”)
- Morrison and Joyce need to follow the trillions shifting to zero emissions
- Trumpworld Gets a Red-Carpet Welcome in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (Disgusting.)
- CIA station chief in Vienna recalled amid criticisms of management and handling of ‘Havana Syndrome’ cases
- Gas crisis leaves Europe searching for solutions
- Hungry and desperate: Climate change fuels a migration crisis in Guatemala
- US arrests finance chief of Russian natural gas group Novatek
- Kim Yo-jong says North Korea open to ending war if conditions met
- Taliban official: Strict punishment, executions will return (Seriously f*** these people.)
- Aid Official Warns Of A Bleak Situation In Afghanistan As Winter Approaches
- US envoy to Haiti resigns over ‘inhumane’ decision to deport migrants
- The Memo: Biden’s immigration problems reach crescendo in Del Rio
- WATCH: Ukraine’s leader takes U.N. to task as ‘retired superhero’
- K Street Firm Finally Cuts Ties With Saudi Office Implicated in Khashoggi Murder
- Biden makes good on his promises to cultivate alliances (“‘Kiss and make up’ is what friends do.”)
- Biden’s agenda is in deep danger. But Pelosi has a hidden way out. (“Pelosi’s goal, as described by multiple sources involved in the negotiations, is to get moderates and progressives in both the House and Senate to publicly agree on the outlines of that framework by Monday. That way, the House can try to move toward a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill with unified Democratic support next week.”)
- White House prepares for potential shutdown as leaders grapple with crucial deadlines, Biden agenda (“Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced ‘an agreement on a framework’ with the White House over taxes to pay for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.”)
- Congress Juggles Agenda to Avert Government Shutdown and Default
- Mitch McConnell Goes Nuclear on the American Economy but He’s Still Not Nuts Enough for Trump
- House GOP finds new reasons to be upset over bill they already oppose
- More evidence that talking to Republicans is useless
- C.D.C. Chief Overrules Agency Panel and Recommends Pfizer-BioNTech Boosters for Workers at Risk
- Rapid Shift to Clean Energy Could Save ‘Trillions.’ But Corporate-Backed Groups Are Fighting the Transition in US Budget Bill (“Wind, solar, and batteries are already the cheapest source of electricity and an aggressive shift to clean energy makes more economic sense than a slow one, according to a new study. However, an enormous lobbying effort is underway to block climate policy in the $3.5 trillion budget bill under consideration.”)
- Sinema’s Income Tax Stance Has Democrats Looking Anew at a Carbon Tax (“With Arizona’s iconoclastic senator cool to increased tax rates, the Senate Finance Committee is drafting a carbon dioxide fee to fund a budget bill.”)
- FBI Arrests FreedomWorks Staffer For Storming The Capitol On Jan. 6 (“Brandon Prenzlin, who until this week was a grassroots coordinator at FreedomWorks, was arrested in Arlington, Virginia, on Sept. 17, according to an arrest warrant unsealed on Thursday”)
- Our constitutional crisis is already here (“Trump’s charges of fraud in 2020 are not about looking back, as many Republicans insist. They are about establishing the predicate to challenge future election results more effectively.”)
- Biden White House leans toward releasing information about Trump and Jan. 6 attack, setting off legal and political showdown (DO IT!)
- The Jan. 6 Plotters Had a Mob. They Also Had a Plan.
- SELECT COMMITTEE SUBPOENAS INDIVIDUALS TIED TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN THE DAYS SURROUNDING JANUARY 6TH
- House Jan. 6 committee issues subpoenas for Trump aides and advisers, including Meadows and Scavino
- How the Jan. 6 probe could unearth sordid new details about the Trump coup memo (“New developments suggest the reckoning will be broad and deep.” It had better be!)
- Press Watch mission statement: Political journalism needs a reset
- It’s Too Early to Consign Joe Biden to the Ash Heap of History
- Biden Loses Ground With the Public on Issues, Personal Traits and Job Approval
- Fascism is a mind-killer — and Trump’s version is destroying Americans’ grasp of reality (“Trumpism goes full Orwell: ‘Democracy’ is when Republicans win, and reality is replaced by fascist fantasy”)
- The Supreme Court has only itself to blame (“‘Partisan hacks’ should be less partisan.”)
- Adam Kinzinger: Republicans Are ‘Frigging Crazy’
- Republicans prove they never really wanted police reform. They’re on the wrong side of history.
- The death of police reform shows why bipartisanship is impossible (“Even supposedly good-faith Republicans can’t bring themselves to do the right thing.”)
- Will Susan Collins Admit She Was Wrong? Ha!
- Trump’s election challenges distracted from covid response, White House adviser told colleagues
- J.D. Vance Defends Texas Abortion Ban, Calls Rape ‘Inconvenient’ (Completely unhinged and evil.)
- Sham Arizona 2020 review blows open Trump’s election lies — but he’s trying again in Texas (“Donald Trump’s effort to destroy confidence in America’s elections suffered a serious setback late Thursday after a draft of the sham review ordered by Arizona Republicans confirmed that he had lost to President Joe Biden in the state’s critical Maricopa County.”)
- Draft report of GOP-backed ballot review in Arizona confirms Biden’s win
- Republican Review of Arizona Vote Fails to Show Stolen Election (“The much criticized review showed much the same results as in November, with 99 more Biden votes and 261 fewer Trump ones.”)
- Hand count in audit affirms Biden beat Trump, as Maricopa County said in November
- Texas secretary of state’s office announces audit of 2020 election results after Trump calls for one
- Iowa Republican US Sen. Chuck Grassley will run for reelection in 2022 Senate race (Grassley appears to be an insurrectionist himself.)
- The Murdochs want Tucker Carlson’s blood-soaked conspiracy theories
- Charlie Kirk: “Deputize a citizen force, put them on the border” in order to protect “white demographics in America” (Charlie Kirk is a white supremacist and fascist.)
- No ‘Russian roulette’: Va. senators vow firm stand on preventing debt default
- Virginia legislators speak out ahead of potential government shutdown
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Republicans Being Extremely Irresponsible on Debt Ceiling; Says This “Rubik’s cube on steroids” Has To Be Resolved “literally in the coming days” (On the VA governor’s race, Sen. Warner says Youngkin is “mimicking a lot of the Trumpisms about vaccinations, about the ‘Big Lie’ about election integrity”)
- Liebrecht: Morgan Griffith and the fall of Afghanistan (“For Mr. Griffith expressing his outrage is a good way to deflect attention from his seditious vote to overturn the results of a fair election. Perhaps he hopes that this will sufficiently fire up his supporters that people will forget that he voted to undermine American democracy.”)
- 50+ Medical Professionals from Across Virginia Endorse Terry McAuliffe for Governor, Citing Terry’s Leadership on COVID-19 Vaccines & Recovery (“Glenn Youngkin Opposes All Vaccine Mandates and Rejects CDC Recommendations to Keep Virginia Families and Children Safe”)
- Glenn Youngkin just hurt his chances with his tepid abortion statements (Hahahaha.)
- WashPost-Schar School Poll: “7 in 10 registered voters support Virginia’s statewide mask mandate for teachers, staff and students in school buildings” (“Two-thirds support school districts requiring teachers and staff to be vaccinated.”)
- Most Virginia voters support vaccine mandates for workers, teachers and high school athletes, Post-Schar School poll finds
- BREAKING: Donald Trump Reminds Virginians That Glenn Youngkin is His Hand-Picked Candidate (Trump adds, “The only guys that win are the guys that embrace the MAGA movement.”)
- Trump warns Youngkin that he has to fully embrace ‘MAGA movement’ to win
- Trump calls on Youngkin to get off the fence and embrace MAGA (“The Republican risks losing the Virginia governor’s race if he doesn’t, according to the former president.”)
- Sears, other Virginia Republicans set to attend event with Steve Bannon
- Trump commented multiple times on the VA gubernatorial race Thursday
- FWIW Virginia: COVID Response Frames the Gubernatorial Campaign (“Youngkin’s team is clearly concerned about McAuliffe’s attacks on COVID policies”)
- NEW TV AD: Terry for Virginia Releases New TV Ad “Good Jobs” Highlighting Terry McAuliffe’s Record of Bringing Good-Paying Jobs to Virginia and His Plans to Build a Stronger Economy
- Video: AG Mark Herring Releases First TV Ad of General Election; “As Attorney General, I’ve worked to keep Virginia families safe.”
- Governor Northam Announces All Virginia School Divisions Open for Full In-Person Instruction (“First Lady Northam concludes a successful 2021 Back to School Tour”)
- Virginia’s Supreme Court Rejects Prison Gerrymandering Lawsuit
- VIDEO: Virginia Redistricting Commission Debates – Emotionally, Sometimes Heatedly – To What Extent, How Exactly Race Should Be Considered in Drawing New Districts
- Thursday (9/23) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations (2,168) Near Highest Level Since Mid February, 10-Day New Cases (+35,900) Near Highest Since Early February
- Protesters call for investigation into judge who jailed witness in domestic violence case (“‘It has made the prosecution of this nearly impossible,’ prosecutor says” This judge is a complete disgrace.)
- Advocates to Gather at Loudoun County Courthouse to Protest Judge James Fisher’s Jailing of a Domestic Violence Survivor; Incident Called “Misogynistic and Patriarchal” (Del. Mark Levine: “An out-of-control Loudoun County Judge is drunk with power.”)
- What’s next in the Loudoun Co. mistrial that’s outraged advocates for domestic violence victims
- Flaccavento: Too much vision, not enough sight (“The full potential for bottom-up economic development to build prosperity and resilience in rural Virginia won’t be realized until we shift our public policy to support this proven community development strategy.”)
- Former Rocky Mount police officer jailed in U.S. Capitol insurrection case seeks speedy trial
- Thomas Nelson Community College will officially be renamed Virginia Peninsula Community College (“College president Towuanna Porter Brannon described the new name in a statement as ‘welcoming, inclusive, and representative of our unique region.'”)
- Activists’ Black liberation symbols removal makes Lee statue take down bittersweet
- D.C.-area forecast: It’s classic fall today, with more to come in the days ahead
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