by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, September 22.
- China Just Entered a Major International Climate Agreement. Now Comes the Hard Part (“Under the Kigali Amendment, Chinese chemical companies must stop emitting a super-pollutant called HFC-23. The challenges are enormous.”)
- Climate, Covid Dominate UN as Biden and Xi Up Their Promises (“Fears over the global environment and the Covid-19 pandemic dominated the UN’s first day.”)
- ‘Big line in the sand’: China promises no new coal-fired power projects abroad (“Experts welcome Xi Jinping’s announcement at UN as hugely influential, but concerns remain over domestic emissions”)
- China delivers “killer blow” to coal as Morrison courts Joe Biden (“China will step up support for other developing countries in developing green and low carbon energy and will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad”)
- Biden vows to double aid to developing countries vulnerable to climate crisis
- Sasol Improves 2030 Emissions-Cut Target, Sets Net-Zero Ambition
- Bolsonaro vowed to show a new Brazil but ‘lie-filled’ UN speech cuts little ice (Bolsonaro is a fascist who’s committing ecocide, among other things – pure evil.)
- Joe Biden plays down chances of UK-US trade deal
- In Biden’s Oval Office, Johnson’s Big Brexit Promise Slips Away
- Boris Johnson admits he has six children
- U.K’s Boris Johnson comes to America to push for climate commitments — and make nice with Biden (“The prime minister headed to the White House Tuesday — by Amtrak, an emissions-conserving choice that no doubt appealed to the American president with a Delaware train station named after him.”)
- Xi Jinping’s disturbing Maoist turn
- Kim Jong Un’s shift from nuclear push to economy intensified internal debates in country, report says
- Most Europeans believe US in new cold war with China and Russia – poll
- Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Really Is (“Behind shipping delays and soaring prices are workers still at mortal risk of COVID-19.”)
- Amid Skepticism, Biden Vows a New Era of Global Collaboration
- Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
- Dems nix $1 billion for Iron Dome from budget bill after progressive pressure
- Qatar’s Ruler Urges World Leaders Not To Boycott Taliban
- U.S. Top Military Officer Talks Counterterrorism Support With Russian Counterpart
- Shots fired at adviser to Ukrainian president in assassination attempt
- Canada election: Conservative O’Toole defiant after loss to Trudeau
- Jeff Bezos commits $1 billion to conservation as Amazon destroys the world
- Kamala Harris on expulsions at US border: ‘Human beings should never be treated that way’ (Agreed.)
- Haitian migrants revolt in custody and seize control of privately contracted bus
- Biden to Host Vaccine Summit, Pledge Donation of Pfizer Doses
- Is The Worst Over? Modelers Predict A Steady Decline In COVID Cases Through March (“Though infections are still sky-high, the U.S. may be turning a corner, according to a consortium of researchers who forecast the pandemic. And we may well be spared a winter surge.”)
- U.S. parents weigh risks, benefits as COVID-19 vaccine for kids nears approval
- Pressure Grows on U.S. Companies to Share Covid Vaccine Technology
- ‘I Just Cry All the Time’: Non-Covid Patients Despair Over Delayed Care (“In areas inundated with coronavirus patients, hospitals have postponed treatments and surgeries for people with other serious conditions.” Terrible.)
- The Democrats’ Greatest Delusion (“The party keeps behaving like it can win the next election by pulling off the right set of political maneuvers.”)
- Hillary Clinton tried to warn us — and paid the price. Let’s at least call Republicans what they are (“Still, America’s political class is unwilling to call the fascist, white supremacist Republicans what they are” Nope, they continue to normalize the 100% abnormal. Completely f’ed up.)
- Here’s the real crime Gen. Milley exposed: the cowardice of Senate Republicans (“Milley probably went outside the Constitution — but he revealed that 50 Republicans were Trump’s co-conspirators”)
- Would Mitch McConnell Really Blow Up the Economy Over Campaign Ads? (“Of course he would”)
- Senate Republicans Are Set To Block Debt Limit Increase (Yep, this is 100% Republicans’ fault, no matter what the media says.)
- Democrats Pursue Doomed Debt Move, With Emergency Option in Hand
- U.S. default this fall would cost 6 million jobs, wipe out $15 trillion in wealth, study says
- Leaderless Republicans rush headlong toward default
- This shouldn’t be hard: Republicans must help the U.S. avoid default
- House passes bill to avert shutdown and suspend debt ceiling, but legislation faces grim prospects in Senate
- House Republicans refusing to support infrastructure bill as they fight Biden agenda
- Political journalists are both-siding a “crisis” caused entirely by the GOP
- The Horrifying Legal Blueprint for Trump’s War on Democracy (“The John Eastman memo is a new high-water mark in Republican authoritarian thought.”)
- Trump lawyer John Eastman touted his plan to overturn the 2020 election in interviews with right-wing media
- Right wing media helped elevate the Trump coup memo’s author before Jan. 6 (“How right wing media propaganda helps Trump and his supporters weaken democracy.”)
- How serious is the threat to democracy, and how do we defeat it? (“Legislative fixes are necessary, but not sufficient.”)
- It Shouldn’t Be This Easy to End the Republic
- Special Report: Backers of Trump’s false fraud claims seek to control next election
- New bombshells show Trump’s coup threat was real and hasn’t passed (“A paper trail is beginning to add up to an extraordinary indictment of the ex-President’s abuses of power” Lock. Him. Up.)
- GOP Senate candidates back Trump on almost everything. But only Greitens has joined him in publicly attacking McConnell.
- The Trump Campaign Knew the Dominion Voting Machine Stuff Was Nonsense When They Started With It
- Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows (Disbar every single one of these mother#@$#s)
- Graham tries to help Trump and McConnell bury the hatchet (Yuuuuuck.)
- Democrats need a new litmus test (“The madness of reconciliation is proof: If you don’t believe in reforming the filibuster, you can’t call yourself a real Democrat”)
- Republicans’ overreach on abortion may haunt them in 2022
- Trump Sues NYT and Niece—Who Calls Him ‘F*cking Loser’
- FBI director says domestic terror threats have ‘exploded’ since 2020
- Mike Lindell says state Republicans are giving him voter rolls for his team to “canvass” to prove his voter fraud conspiracy theories (Hasn’t this Lindell asshole broken any laws by now?)
- No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image (Facebook is a disgrace, completely indefensible and should be heavily regulated and/or broken up.)
- Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites
- New York nearly doubles goal for distributed solar installations on success of existing incentives (Any reason why Virginia shouldn’t do this too?)
- The NRA Is Bankrupt but It Still Owns America’s Gun Agency
- Sinema Cueing Up To Go Indy (Must Read)
- Kyrsten Sinema Is Threatening to Derail Democrats’ Agenda. Again. (“She campaigned on lowering drug costs. Now she’s poised to blow up a spending bill that would do just that.”)
- Texas governor approves miles-long ‘steel barrier’ of vehicles to deter migrants
- New Texas law bans abortion-inducing drugs after seven weeks pregnancy (“Governor Greg Abbott’s actions sparked outrage from reproductive rights advocates in a state that recently passed another restrictive bill”)
- Federal judge blocks Florida law banning sanctuary cities
- New FL surgeon general opposes mask, vaccine mandates (Brilliant, eh?)
- Texas couple asked to leave restaurant for wearing face masks to protect their immunocompromised infant (Totally f’ed up.)
- FBI seeks public’s help in finding Gabby Petito’s fiance as new tip emerges about his previous movements
- Gabby Petito confirmed dead of homicide, autopsy finds; authorities are searching for her fiance
- Sens. Warner, Kaine announce more than $9M in federal funding for two Virginia airports
- Virginia’s congressional delegation splits along party-lines in the House over the debt ceiling and funding
- One Virginia Lawmaker is Working to Boost the Federal Government’s Performance
- After Recall Victory, Newsom Campaign Urges Supporters to Help Terry McAuliffe in Virginia
- McAuliffe Is Going With the Newsom Playbook in Virginia (“McAuliffe will hammer Youngkin on COVID-19 measures, abortion, and Donald Trump, while the Republican will count on the natural midterm trends.”)
- Why ‘all eyes’ will be on the Virginia suburbs this fall
- Two New Virginia Election Polls – by Public Policy Polling and Kellyanne Conway – Show McAuliffe Up by 3, 4 Pts; Ayala and Herring Way Up (The polls also find that police are VERY popular; vaccine requirements popular; “Critical Race Theory” and “Defund the Police” VERY unpopular)
- Early Voting Off to a Very Slow Start So Far in Virginia; UVA Prof. Larry Sabato Says “This is falling off a cliff; I wonder how good Dems’ GOTV is this year” (Prof. Sabato also notes, “There’s a natural fall-off because Trump isn’t in the race (directly, at least)”)
- Video: On CNN, Terry McAuliffe Calls Out Glenn Youngkin’s Far-Right Priorities For Virginia
- New Digital Ad: Terry For Virginia Releases New Digital Ad “Disqualifying” Calling Out Glenn Youngkin’s Anti-Vaxx Rhetoric
- Latest Polls In The Virginia Governor’s Race
- Here’s Why Glenn Youngkin’s Embrace of the School Choice Movement Has Some Worried (“…on the whole, most studies have found that charter schools are not, on average, better or worse in student performance than their traditional public school counterparts.”)
- AG Mark Herring Backs Commonsense Approach to Concealed Carry Laws (Joins coalition of 19 AGs filing amicus brief with US Supreme Court defending New York’s law regulating when individuals may obtain a license to carry firearms in public)
- Gabby Giffords Rallies Support for Virginia House Democrats in Manassas (“House Dem majority championed historic gun reform”)
- Virginia on the ‘verge of patient care disaster’ as vaccination rates remain low
- Virginia nurses make emotional plea as they confront another COVID surge
- Tuesday (9/21) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations (2,211) Near Highest Level Since Mid February, 10-Day New Cases (+37,648) Near Highest Since Early February
- Racial Makeup of New Statewide Maps Questioned in Redistricting Commission’s First Look
- An Emancipation Statue Debuts In Virginia Two Weeks After Robert E. Lee Was Removed
- Guzman says she is eager to debate Baldwin in HD-31 race
- Many state employees remain unvaccinated despite mandate
- Governor Northam announces Appalachian Regional grants totaling more than $2.5M to help Virginia communities
- Before Xzavier Hill’s mother can question the officers who killed her son, a judge wants to know what she’ll ask
- Arlington proposes adding $3M to budget to retain, attract police
- Tackling violence in Portsmouth not a job for police alone, city leaders say. They need the public’s help.
- 15-year-old Heritage High student arraigned, community holds vigil following school shooting that wounded 2
- D.C.-area forecast: Occasional showers and storms through tomorrow, then a fabulous fall Friday and weekend
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