by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, September 9.
- Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work
- Big oil’s delay tactics are the new climate science denialism
- Almost All of The World’s Coal Is Now ‘Unextractable’, Scientists Warn (“The vast majority of the world’s fossil fuels are effectively “unextractable” and must remain in the ground if we want even half a chance at meeting our climate goals, according to a new study.”)
- Climate change: Fossil fuels must stay underground, scientists say
- Biggest Carbon Capture Effort Begins in Iceland, But Involves a Fraction of the Gas in the Atmosphere (“Even a planned facility 10 times larger would have almost no impact on the 33 billion tons of carbon to be emitted this year.”)
- Brazil escaped a January 6-style insurrection — for now (“Bolsonaro’s September 7 rally made clear the crisis of Brazilian democracy isn’t over.”)
- Explainer: Beyond Delta, scientists are watching new coronavirus variants
- What’s happening inside North Korea? Since the pandemic, the window has slammed shut.
- The war on terror and the long death of liberal interventionism (“In the 1990s, liberals dreamed of a world where America saved the innocent from tyrants and murderers. 9/11 and the war on terror brought a very different reality.”)
- How carbon lobbyists control the climate policy debate in Australia (Disgraceful.)
- Trudeau Has 12 Days to Salvage His Career After Election Blunder
- Taliban Allow 200 U.S. Citizens to Evacuate, Al Jazeera Says
- Afghanistan: Protesters defy Taliban intimidation
- Ashraf Ghani: ‘I apologise that I could not make it end differently’
- Last known member of Afghanistan’s Jewish community leaves country, taking dozens of women and children with him (“Historical evidence suggests Afghanistan was once home to a sizable Jewish community. It reached 40,000 in the mid-19th century and began declining around 1870 with the passage of anti-Jewish measures, according to the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, a nonprofit group. Most of Afghanistan’s remaining Jews left following Israel’s creation in 1948 and then in 1979 after the Soviet invasion, the group said.”)
- As Taliban Crush Dissent, New Leaders Face Cascading Challenges
- Terrorism will increase under Afghanistan’s newly appointed Taliban government, experts warn (“The Taliban in Afghanistan have named a new interim government led by hardliners that includes no women, minorities or opposition members.”)
- DOE Releases Solar Futures Study Providing the Blueprint for a Zero-Carbon Grid (“New Report Shows Solar Energy Rapidly Expands, Generating More Electricity in 2035 than All Homes Consume Today and Creating Economic Opportunities Across America”)
- From 4% to 45%: Energy Department Lays Out Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Power (“The department’s analysis provides only a broad outline, and many of the details will be decided by congressional lawmakers.”)
- Biden to outline new strategy to battle delta variant surge
- It’s time for Biden to reset the battle against covid-19
- Too optimistic, too soon? As delta surge threatens gains, Biden looks to recalibrate COVID strategy
- COVID-19 surge in the US: The summer of hope ends in gloom
- College football season is here. And so is the delta variant. (“Outdoor events are not as risky as indoor events, but few Covid precautions mean the games are still a risk — particularly as people congregate before and after.”)
- Ivermectin causes sterilization in 85 percent of men, study finds
- L.A. is poised to become the first major U.S. school district to mandate vaccinations for students.
- Biden faces hard truths of the pandemic ahead of major speech (Biden “will make a new attempt on Thursday to chart a path out of a national nightmare that is beginning to feel like a dark, repeating, permanent reality — and to prove he is the leader that can reach that elusive destination.”)
- We best remember 9/11 by moving beyond it
- How 9/11 conspiracy theories fueled the war on reality
- 9/11 Changed Us (“People of my generation will never know again what my children’s generation only tasted: an innocence and obliviousness about threat and danger. I am — we all are — covered forever with a bit of the ash from those towers.”)
- After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong (“A mission to rid the world of ‘terror’ and ‘evil’ led America in tragic directions.”)
- Sept. 11 was a tragedy. What we did with the next 20 years was a disaster. (“In a different world we might have learned from our mistakes and come together. This is not that world.”)
- Twenty Years After 9/11, a Cloud of Pessimism Hangs Over the Country
- US’s wealthiest 1% are failing to pay $160bn a year in taxes, report finds (“This amounts to 28% of the ‘tax gap’, treasury report says, which Biden proposes closing by empowering IRS to pursue aggressively”)
- U.S. election workers get little help from law enforcement as terror threats mount (“Local police agencies said in interviews that they have struggled to identify suspects who conceal their identities and to determine which threats are credible enough to prosecute. The U.S. Justice Department has acknowledged that law enforcement has not responded well to the surge in threats to election officials…Threats to commit any violence – especially repeated threats intended to cause terror – are not protected by the First Amendment, said Mary McCord, a former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Department of Justice who now teaches at Georgetown Law School. McCord and other experts say some incidents pose challenges for prosecutors, and that applicable laws don’t prescribe any ‘magic words’ that a threat must include to constitute a crime.”)
- Republicans Aren’t New To The Anti-Vaxx Movement
- Democrats hit crunch time for passing Biden agenda
- Democrats face many hurdles in advancing $3.5 trillion economic package
- Manchin lays out long list of demands as key Senate chairs move to win his vote (Ugh.)
- Democratic leaders betting Manchin will back down in spending fight
- U.S. Antitrust Cops Unveil Data Backing Facebook Monopoly Case (Break Facebook up and heavily regulate it.)
- Biden Administration Prepares to Sue Texas Over Abortion Law
- Republicans Don’t Actually Want Roe v. Wade to End This Way (“GOP politicians appear terrified of Texas’ abortion ban. The Supreme Court should take note.”)
- Democrats have a high-risk, high-reward plan to save Roe v. Wade (“The Women’s Health Protection Act, explained.”)
- Red states eye Texas abortion law as new model
- How Far Will the Anti-Abortion Movement Go?
- What should the Jan. 6 probe examine? A veteran Sept. 11 investigator weighs in.
- Police planning to reinstall Capitol fence ahead of rally
- The FBI Releases New Video Of The Suspect Who Planted Bombs Before The Capitol Riot
- These Public Defenders-Turned-Federal Judges Constitute Some of Joe Biden’s Finest Work
- The right has lost the debate over the Confederacy (“In Richmond, the statue of Robert E. Lee comes down at last.”)
- Trump rips removal of Robert E. Lee statue: ‘Complete desecration’
- Biden administration tells ex-Trump officials to resign from military academy advisory boards or be dismissed
- Biden asks Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway to quit military academy boards (“White House confirms that 11 Trump appointees were asked to step down – or be fired – including Conway and Spicer”)
- Trump reaches out to families of U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan
- Ron DeSantis Once Again Told to Sit Down and STFU by Florida Judge
- Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes ‘lied and cheated’, trial hears
- Videos promoting ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment are all over YouTube, despite the platform’s guidelines (WTF, YouTube/Google?!?)
- California’s recall becomes the new epicenter of unfounded fraud claims (Because Larry Elder’s gonna get his butt kicked, and Republicans apparently can’t accept losing.)
- Larry Elder baselessly raises possibility of election ‘shenanigans’ in California recall (Why “baselessly” instead of the more normal word, “falsely?”)
- Harris stumps with Gavin Newsom ahead of California recall election: ‘Everyone has to vote’
- Who Is Owed Reparations? Larry Elder Argues Slave Owners Whose ‘Legal Property Was Taken Away’
- Republicans, elections experts say Wisconsin probe is flawed (“Former Republican officeholders and election experts say that the GOP-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin lacks credibility, transparency and raises security risks and legal concerns”)
- Greg Abbott Takes the Lead in the GOP’s Race to the Bottom
- Trump praise for Robert E. Lee’s statue in Virginia shows how far this ‘hero’ has fallen (“Lee’s reputation today seems to mirror his once-towering Richmond monument: cut to pieces.”)
- Virginia’s candidates tussle with abortion rights, thanks to Texas (“Tussle?” LOL)
- Virginia Republicans’ Rhetoric This Election Comprised of Menacing Hobgoblins Aimed at Stoking Fear, Anger and Division; Appealing to Racism (“Let’s also be clear [fearmongering about “Critical Race Theory”] is about white supremacy”)
- AG Mark Herring Leads Coalition of 21 AGs in Fighting to Protect Women’s Access to Abortion Services
- Winsome Sears, GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, lets go of campaign team, ex-aide says
- Virginia GOP lt. gov. nominee lays off campaign staff ahead of election (“A former Sears campaign staffer, who was laid off, told The Hill that the entire team, including the campaign manager, was let go on Wednesday. Staff was notified by a law firm about the termination and no reason was given for the layoffs, according to the former staffer. “)
- Republican lieutenant governor candidate Winsome Sears terminates several members of her staff
- Virginia Constitutional Conservatives’ 2021 Candidate Survey Shows What’s at Stake This November
- Opinion: Report finds Virginia making strides for working families
- Schapiro: In Virginia, political aftershocks of 9/11 endure
- More Proposed Maps From the VA Redistricting Commission, Which Meets Tomorrow. And It Looks Like One Commission Member, Sen. George Barker, Is Still Trying to Gerrymander His Own District…
- Video: Watch Live as Robert E. Lee Monument Is Removed From Richmond
- Robert E. Lee statue is removed in Richmond, ex-capital of Confederacy, after months of protests and legal resistance
- Final Confederate Statue Removed from Monument Avenue
- With Confederates vanquished, what’s next for Richmond’s Monument Avenue?
- Robert E. Lee Defeated Again in Virginia
- Monmouth Poll: By Wide Margins, Virginians Support Requiring Face Masks in School, Requiring Vaccines for Schoolkids Age 12+ (“A clear majority (64%) support reinstituting general face mask and social distancing guidelines” in Virginia; Biden at 46%-49% in Virginia, Northam at 48%-42%)
- Wednesday (9/8) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations (2,161) at Highest Level Since Mid February, 10-Day New Cases (+38,745) Highest Since Early February
- Va. Native American tribes acquiring more lands for cultural and environmental preservation (“They are closer to the land than anybody”)
- Video: Republican Stafford County Supervisors Rail Against Two of Their Favorite Bogeymen (“Critical Race Theory” and “Pronouns”), Threaten to Withhold School Funding Used For “This Type of Instruction”
- Walker withdraws from re-election campaign following contentious City Council meeting (“Mayor Nikuyah Walker says she is tired of battling racism in Charlottesville. Her decision comes on the heels of the firing of Police Chief RaShall Brackney.”)
- Alexandria police follow fire union, plead for boost in pay and hires
- Mullin, Simonds concerned about the number of people removed from Newport News voter rolls (“Dels. Shelly Simonds and Mike Mullin say that people should confirm that they can still vote in November.”)
- AFL-CIO president tells striking Mondelez workers in Henrico that it is ‘fed up with the way you have been treated’
- D.C.-area forecast: After morning showers, a super string of sunny days
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