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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, October 3.
- China’s Energy Crisis Highlights Weaknesses in Xi’s Power
- German Election Prompts Hope For Climate Action, Worry That Democracies Can’t Do Enough (“The impacts of global warming motivated voters, but the results won’t deliver the swift policy changes needed to stop them.”)
- Exxon Sees Green Gold in Algae-Based Fuels. Skeptics See Greenwashing (“The oil giant, under pressure to address climate change, says it is getting closer to making the biofuel viable”)
- North Korea accuses U.N. of double standards over missile tests, warns of consequences
- N.Korea Condemns UN Security Council’s Meeting on Missile Tests
- OPEC+ Will Drive Oil Prices Over Coming Months, Says Vitol
- Headwinds Mounting for World Economy Into Final Stretch of 2021
- Brazil Bolsonaro: Thousands protest calling for president’s removal (“A poll by the Atlas Institute suggested that 61% of Brazilians described his government’s performance as bad or very bad, up from 23% when he first took office in January 2019.”)
- Mass protests in Brazil call for Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment (Bolsonaro is a fascist committing environmental crimes, among other things. A perfect match for Trump and Trump’s cronies.)
- Battle for the badlands — Yemen’s seven-year civil war could turn on fierce fighting in remote Marib province
- No more immigration: PM says Britain is in period of adjustment (Boris Johnson isn’t as bad as Trump or Bolsonaro, but he’s still a godawful excuse for a “leader”)
- China sends record number of warplanes towards Taiwan
- Philippines’ Duterte says daughter running for president in 2022 elections – media
- Kabul University chancellor says female students will be allowed, but segregated
- Iran Told U.S. to Unblock $10 Billion to Start Nuclear Talks
- Terrifying videos, threats: How kidnappers extort migrants’ relatives for ransoms
- Lukashenko is exploiting migrants as a weapon against his neighbors. The E.U. must stop him.
- The 7 most devastating climate disasters of summer 2021 (That’s just in the U.S.!)
- We must do more to save species from the fate of the ivory-billed woodpecker
- ‘Tragic and completely avoidable’: US hits 700,000 Covid-19 deaths (“Joe Biden laments ‘astonishing death toll’ as 100,000 die since June despite the availability of vaccines” Why on earth someone wouldn’t get a life-saving vaccine is mind boggling.)
- Virginia ER Nurse Kellen Squire at 18 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: “I’m Tired…But I Can’t Quit.”
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “Although the US exceeded 700,000 COVID deaths this week, new cases have fallen 25% over the last 2 weeks.” (“We are likely on the downside of the current surge.”)
- Biden signs 30-day extension of highway funding into law
- Women’s march targets Supreme Court, with abortion on line
- Abortion rights march: Thousands attend rallies across US
- Tens of Thousands Rally Across America for Abortion Rights
- White House seeks to flip debate on agenda price tag
- Pelosi Sets Revised Oct. 31 Target to Pass Infrastructure Bill
- Pelosi sets end-of-October deadline for infrastructure vote
- Pelosi on verge of cementing legacy as one of the most powerful members of Congress ever — or ending her career on a sour note
- Sinema slams delay of infrastructure vote: ‘Inexcusable’ (She’s nuts.)
- What will it take for Biden to bring fractured Democrats together?
- Biden to host lawmakers at White House next week amid impasse on his agenda
- ‘Everybody is frustrated,’ except for Biden, about agenda delays (“President Biden will meet with the Senate next week to discuss debt-ceiling delays before going on the road to advocate for his Build Back Better agenda and the bipartisan infrastructure deal.”)
- Think Biden is a “failed” president who can’t get re-elected? Consider Bill Clinton (“Biden will certainly be damaged if he can’t pass his big spending bill, but don’t write his political epitaph”)
- Harvard and Other Schools Make a Choice on Fossil Fuels (“We are confident that Harvard’s example will inspire still more colleges and universities to invest in the future that their own students — and all young people — deserve.”)
- The nihilism of Neil Gorsuch (“Trump’s first Supreme Court appointee’s radical vision to remake America, explained.” Gorsuch is a completely illegitimate Supreme Court Justice.)
- When Is a ‘Majority’ Not Actually a Majority? (“Equal state representation in the Senate necessarily means that a citizen in a low-density state has greater representation — and therefore political power — than a citizen in a higher-density state…With just the right amount of geographic, educational and racial polarization in the electorate, a party could control the White House and a majority of seats in Congress without ever winning a majority of votes in either a presidential or a congressional election.”)
- Democrats, don’t forget what got you here (“Now, Democrats are on the threshold of delivering transformative investments to both the country’s infrastructure and people. Internecine warfare over $2 trillion or $3 trillion is self-defeating. Thinking Democrats would settle for what they can get and, with Biden, come back for the rest following another good day at the polls. Or are war and mutual destruction better?”)
- Why Republicans Are Still Recounting Votes (“The point of the so-called audits is not so much to delegitimize the past election as it is to normalize unnecessary reviews of future ones—including, perhaps, a 2024 race in which Trump’s name may be on the ballot.”)
- It’s Been Quite a Week for Bozo Behavior in Donald Trump’s Extended Circle of Bozos (Dangerous Bozos, though…)
- Steve Bannon Calls For ‘Shock Troops’ To ‘Deconstruct’ State As GOP Takes Oval Office (This guy is a menace. How is he not charged with any crimes, btw?)
- Jan. 6 Was Worse Than We Knew
- Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says
- Facebook Defends Itself Against Whistleblower Accusation It Helped Fuel Insurrection: Report
- Facebook Braces Employees for Whistle-Blower Accusations
- Trump asks court to force Twitter to reinstate his account
- EXCLUSIVE: Married Trump donor tells police she feared for her safety
- Something’s Very Wrong with the [New York] Times (They need to completely overhaul their DC bureau, and their US political coverage in general – new editors, new reporters, etc.)
- Tesla delivered 241,300 vehicles in the third quarter, topping expectations
- SNL Debuts New Cast Member’s Spot-On Biden Impression in Season Premiere (“James Austin Johnson, best known for impersonating Trump, took center stage with the show’s best take on Biden since Jason Sudeikis.”)
- Opinion: Virginia voters need to hear Youngkin and McAuliffe answer these questions (For Youngkin: “You say you will support former president Donald Trump if he is the Republican nominee in 2024. Do you believe he bears responsibility for encouraging the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6?”)
- McAuliffe, Youngkin stump for votes; Election Day is month away
- Virginia Early Voting As of 10/1: “Blue” Areas Like VA08/NoVA Leading, “Red” Areas Like VA09/SWVA Trailing Well Behind
- As VA Redistricting Commission Comes Down the Home Stretch, Del. Marcus Simon Vows, the “General Assembly isn’t going to pass maps rated an F by independent gerrymandering experts” (The Princeton Gerrymandering Project called the GOP-drawn Senate map a “doozy” and a “Republican gerrymander”)
- VA Del. Alex Askew Denounces “Overtly Racist” GOP Mailers Depicting Him “Bound and Hanging By Taut Rope” and “That Showed His Likeness Burning”
- Several hundred Virginia health-care workers have been suspended or fired over coronavirus vaccine mandates (“Hospitals in rural areas, where vaccine hesitancy is higher, tend to be hit harder by an employee exodus over the vaccine.” You have to read the article to find out that these numbers represent “less than half of 1 percent of [INova’s workforce,” and just “a little over 1 percent” for Valley Health. Which means that the headline of this article COULD/SHOULD have been, “99%+ of Virginia health-care workers have NOT been suspended or fired over coronavirus vaccine mandates”)
- Opinion: Virginia addressing flood crisis, but more work is needed
- Opinion: Fish spills renew concerns about menhaden management
- Hundreds march for abortion rights in downtown Norfolk
- Inmate, 77, died of COVID-19 at Newport News City Jail; was awaiting mental health hearing
- D.C.-area forecast: Partly sunny and warm today with a shower chance by evening
