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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, September 7.
- This wildly reinvented wind turbine generates five times more energy than its competitors (“It could power up to 100,000 households.”)
- Climate Change Is The Greatest Threat To Public Health, Top Medical Journals Warn
- Green hydrogen could help solve the puzzle of getting to 100 pct renewables
- More global aid goes to fossil fuel projects than tackling dirty air – study (“Air pollution kills more than malaria, HIV/Aids and TB combined but receives only 1% of development aid” Totally nuts.)
- Climate impact of a transatlantic flight could cost global economy $3,000 (“Economic cost of climate crisis has cut 37% from global GDP this century, say researchers”)
- Total is spending $27 billion in Iraq. This time it’s about solar energy, too
- Major automakers fear the global chip shortage could persist for some time
- Christopher Columbus Statue In Mexico City To Be Replaced With 1 Honoring Indigenous Women (Given his horrendous record towards native Americans, Columbus absolutely should not be honored.)
- Justin Trudeau hit by stones on campaign trail (Completely unacceptable.)
- US helped 4 US citizens leave Afghanistan overland, official says
- Shot-Up SUVs, Teens Manning Checkpoints: A Reporter’s Return to Kabul Weeks After the Fall
- Women’s rights protesters keep up the pressure as Taliban consolidates control over Afghanistan
- A curtain divides male, female students as Afghan universities reopen (“Students across Afghanistan have started returning to university for the first time since the Taliban stormed to power, and in some cases females have been separated from their male peers by curtains or boards down the middle of the classroom.” Moronic.)
- El Salvador leads world in adopting bitcoin as official currency
- Israel’s Rising Covid Cases Aren’t So Scary This Time
- The U.S. can no longer look away from Egypt’s grim human rights record
- U.S. Surpasses 40 Million Covid Cases
- Goldman Cuts U.S. Growth Forecast as Consumer Sees ‘Harder Path’
- A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’
- What We Didn’t Know on 9/11 (“I was at the twin towers that day. It was obvious that the world would change—but I never imagined how.”)
- Biden’s Electric Car Plans Hinge on Having Enough Chargers (“The United States has about 100,000 public chargers, far fewer than Europe and China. It needs 10 times as many, auto experts say, to complete the switch from combustion engine vehicles.”)
- ‘Women of America are not calm right now’ (“Republicans inflame women — again.”)
- What the Justice Department should do to stop the Texas abortion law (“A federal civil rights law called the Ku Klux Klan Act could be used to stop vigilantes from interfering with women’s abortion rights.”)
- Justice Department to protect women seeking an abortion in Texas
- UN experts condemn Texas abortion law as sex discrimination ‘at its worst’ (“Exclusive: human rights lawyer criticizes the supreme court and says new law will ‘make abortion unsafe and deadly’”)
- Supreme Court trashed its own authority in a rush to gut Roe v Wade
- Joe Manchin would be foolish to indefinitely hold up the reconciliation bill
- Biden Bets on Economic-Plan Win as Democrats Struggle to Deliver
- The coming weeks will define Biden’s presidency and shape the midterm elections
- A sobering fact Biden is learning: Good policy is not good politics (“Much of the time, the president gets no little or no credit even for doing popular things.”)
- America’s School Board Meetings Are Getting Weird — and Scary
- Schools become political ‘battlefield’ in culture wars Trump cultivated (Trumpism has done SO much damage to our country, it’s incredible.)
- ‘An Emotional Hellscape’: Frayed Nerves for the Teachers of Unmasked Students
- What 9/11 Did to the Democratic Party (“While Bush’s decision to expand his “global war on terror” beyond Afghanistan to Iraq lost a lot of Democratic and even some Republican support, the fear of looking weak on national security gripped much of the Donkey Party up to and beyond the 2004 presidential election — a tortured legacy that remains with us to this day.”)
- Universities Say They Want More Diverse Faculties. So Why Is Academia Still So White?
- Red and blue states are increasingly divided on voting regulations (The WaPo frames this as a “both sides,” partisan battle. In fact, it’s Rs waging war on voting rights and Ds pushing to protect and expand voting rights. That FACT should be right in the WaPo’s headline.)
- The John Lewis Act would restore key voting protections. Democrats should fight for it.
- Concerns mount over upcoming right-wing rally (Revoke the permit?)
- What are Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney waiting for? (“Imagining that Republicans will come to their senses is delusional.”)
- Black cop shoots white woman: The saga of Michael Byrd and Ashli Babbitt (“The killing of Ashli Babbitt was justified — but it violated America’s racial script, and backlash is inevitable”)
- Spotlight turns to GOP’s McCarthy in Jan. 6 probe
- GOP’s Promised Jan. 6 Probe Has One Problem: No One Wants It
- “My Priorities Are Focused on Bolstering Worker Power’ (“Labor Secretary Marty Walsh speaks to Intelligencer about the nature of essential work.”)
- Union workers propel Newsom in waning days of recall campaign
- Alphonso David, Who Advised Cuomo, Fired as Human Rights Campaign President
- Michael K. Williams, Star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ Found Dead at 54
- Phil Murphy, Terry McAuliffe, and the Trump Suburban Squirm (“Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chair and Virginia governor who’s now campaigning for a second term, knows that the former president is about as popular as the Delta variant in blue Virginia suburbs. He wants Trump to make an appearance for his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, like Joe Biden did for McAuliffe in July. At that rally, you would have been forgiven for thinking that Trump himself would be on the gubernatorial ballot in Virginia this year.”)
- Strongly Pro-Worker Virginia Dems, Virulently ANTI-Worker Virginia Republicans Tweet Labor Day Messages…the Latter Without Any Sense of Self-Awareness, Shame or Irony (Rs receive abysmally low ratings from unions.)
- Enhanced federal unemployment benefits to end for 60,000 Virginians
- Progress VA: All of Us Should Have the Power of a Union (“Politicians like Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Sears, and Jason Miyares are committed to putting up barriers to prosperity for hardworking families in our community.”)
- Editorial: Virginia’s land preservation law raises questions of equity
- Monday (9/6) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations (1,981) at Highest Level Since Mid February, 10-Day New Cases (+32,259) Highest Since Mid February
- Experts expect legal battle over COVID-related workers’ compensation in Virginia
- You Call That Democracy? How Virginia’s Electric Co-ops Fail Their Member-Owners
- State Prisons Are Dangerously Understaffed
- Virginia leads nation in distribution of federal rent relief
- Lee statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue will be removed Wednesday morning
- Gov. Northam: “Virginia’s largest monument to the Confederate insurrection will come down this week” (Richmond Mayor Stoney: “We are taking an important step this week to embrace the righteous cause and put the ‘Lost Cause” behind us”)
- Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond to be removed Wednesday
- Crews to begin removal of Lee Statue Wednesday
- CASEY: Ex-bus driver caught in VEC benefits limbo for 15 months
- Virginia foresters from Franklin, Henry, Patrick counties went west to help fight wildfires
- As they head back to school, students in Hampton Roads will receive free meals
- D.C.-area forecast: Warm sunshine into the weekend with a brief storm chance Wednesday (“Highs to continue mainly in the 80s.”)
