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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, September 26.
- The “Most Important Question” on Earth: How Soon Will China Quit Coal?
- Climate change is intensifying the US border crisis. It will only get worse
- China’s ‘hostage diplomacy’ standoff with Canada is over. But how much damage was done?
- A property giant in China is on the brink of collapse. The government might let it fail.
- Chinese Regulators Are Serious About Banning Crypto This Time
- Election fraud, QAnon, Jan. 6: Extremists in Germany read from a pro-Trump script
- A Changed Germany Sees the End of an Era as Merkel Nears the Exit
- Angela Merkel’s departure will be felt in a world that needs democratic champions more than ever
- The Russian election was supposed to shore up Putin’s legitimacy. It achieved the opposite.
- German frontrunner Olaf Scholz: ‘EU and UK will have to work together as friends’
- Germany Holds Watershed Vote to Choose Angela Merkel’s Successor
- Angela Merkel Was Underestimated, and It Became Her Superpower
- German elections: Voters decide who will take charge after Merkel
- Angela Merkel’s departure leaves a void in Germany — and a fight to fill it
- Afghanistan’s Taliban Warn Foot Soldiers: Behave, and Stop Taking Selfies
- From New York to Sydney: See the Supply Shocks Spanning Globe
- Switzerland holding referendum on same-sex marriage
- Taliban publicly display bodies of alleged kidnappers in Herat
- Killings of Islamic State Militants Highlight Power Struggle With Taliban
- Tapering Doesn’t Mean Tightening for Central Bank Money Printers
- One Thing Will Save Us From These Suicidal Lunatics—Mandates
- The Five Biggest Issues Dividing Democrats in Budget Bill Talks
- Pelosi: Biden spending plan, infrastructure deal and funding ‘must pass’ next week (“Speaker sends letter to party at mercy of warring factions; One reporter observes: ‘Well, this is raising the stakes’”)
- Democrats urge Biden to go all in with agenda in limbo
- Pelosi: House must pass 3 major pieces of spending legislation this week
- The Next Real-Time Test for the Press (“The ‘debt limit’ is a serious threat. It’s not a serious issue. This will be a chronicle of whether media can remain clear about the difference.” Spoiler: the media can’t handle it.)
- The nation faces financial calamity. Republicans will be to blame.
- Mitch McConnell needs to stop playing games with the debt ceiling (Yes, he “needs” to but he won’t, because he’s a sociopathic, power-hungry, amoral asshole.)
- McConnell has given Democrats the justification they need to kill the filibuster
- U.S. Supply Chain Struggles to Adapt as Delays Worsen
- Democrats Discussing 2 Options To Change The Filibuster To Pass Voting Rights Laws (“Those choices include a filibuster carve-out for voting rights or bringing back a talking filibuster.”)
- Democrats gear up to push Biden diplomatic nominees past Republican blocks (“’This chamber under this leadership is not going to tolerate a few members who want to muck up the confirmation process to make a scene,’ said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.”)
- Is this what Joe Manchin really wants?
- McConnell won’t rule out blocking Biden supreme court pick (“Senate minority leader says he will ‘cross those bridges when I get there’ as expert says court may have reached a ‘turning point’” We’d better make damn sure Dems keep control of the US Senate!)
- Democrats position themselves as last line of defense for abortion rights (“Party sees new urgency – and political opportunity – amid growing threat to Roe v Wade”)
- Federal court temporarily blocks Covid-19 vaccine mandate for New York City teachers
- Democrats’ Spending Fight Carries High Stakes for Their Candidates
- Harris, assigned to tackle volatile issues, quietly builds a network
- Senator Tim Scott says police reform talks collapsed because Democrats supported “defunding the police” (Why should Democrats ever talk to this guy again, after this wild, bad-faith, flat-out lie about them?)
- Trump on what would prevent 2024 bid: ‘I guess a bad call from a doctor’
- Trump says Stacey Abrams ‘might be better than existing governor’ Kemp
- Trump intensifies war with Georgia GOP leaders at Perry rally
- U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham: ‘I hope President Trump runs again’ (Lindsey Graham has absolutely zero moral compass.)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apologizes after tearful ‘present’ vote on Israel Iron Dome funding bill
- Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep their identities secret
- The NBA’s Anti-Vaxxers Are Trying to Push Around the League—And It’s Working (“Conspiracy theories in the locker room. Mask police in the arena. Superstars trying to avoid the shot. After bringing back the culture from Covid, basketball confronts its own civil war”)
- Fresh calls for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson over ‘replacement theory’ (Fox basically has a white supremacist and fascist as one of its leading “personalities.” That says it all about Fox, and why Democrats should stop treating it as a normal or even semi-reputable “news” network.)
- At Least 50 Hurt in Amtrak Derailment in Montana, Official Says
- Lin Wood’s Ex-Partners Say He’s a Fraudster
- Democrats lean into vaccine mandates, coronavirus response in Virginia governor’s race (“Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe plans to focus on his approval, and Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin’s disapproval, of vaccine and other pandemic-related mandates in the final weeks of the race for Virginia governor.”)
- Why Democrats should be worried about Virginia’s governor’s race (Perhaps, but also this is so predictable by the mainstream media.)
- Youngkin is using the critical race theory bogeyman to rile up the Trumpian base
- Handful of Virginia House races highlight fight for control of chamber
- Editorial: Budget prudence and restraint (“It’s smart to tap the brakes on sweeping plans to return or spend Virginia’s budget surplus with so much economic uncertainty in the commonwealth.”)
- Editorial: VEC still falls short of needs
- Video: Debate Between Del. Joshua Cole (D-HD28) and His Right-Wing Republican Opponent Shows *Drastic* Contrast, Highlights High Stakes of This Election! (Durant dodged the questions and read false, right-wing talking points on climate, the Texas abortion law, guns, police, etc.)
- Loudoun Judge Who Outrageously Jailed Domestic Violence Survivor Is a Former Local GOP Chair, Was Pushed By Far-Right Republicans (Dick Black, Mark Obenshain, Dave LaRock, etc.) In Process That Wasn’t Fair or Open (If this outrages you and you never want it to happen again, make sure you vote *Democratic* up and down the ballot this election!)
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “Holy cow I cannot believe I am an ER doctor in the middle of a 1 and 100 year pandemic” (“As a country, we’re quite possibly over the hump of the current surge.”)
- Department of Corrections obstructed Virginia’s jail death investigator during power grab
- Opinion: Redistricting “cure” might be worse than the illness (“The Virginia Redistricting Commission’s work so far reflects a grim, and incorrect, view on the value of incumbency, columnist Gordon C. Morse writes.”)
- Richmond’s Confederate statues are gone. What should replace them?
- City Council candidates talk climate concerns at forum
- Albemarle joins other school systems in mandating student-athletes get vaccinated
- D.C.-area forecast: A splendidly sunny Sunday and Monday with a gradual warming trend
