by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, October 9.
- Global energy storage set to nearly triple in 2021: Wood Mackenzie forecast
- Covid is at the center of world’s energy crunch, but a cascade of problems is fueling it (“It’s like a car that’s been taken off the road for a while and now we want to restart it quickly — it takes time”)
- The energy crisis couldn’t have come at a worse time for climate
- Saudi aide accused of directing Khashoggi murder edges back to power
- The Nobel Peace Prize Acknowledges a Dangerous Era for Journalists (“The co-winner, Dmitry Muratov, is the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, which has lost more journalists to murder than any other Russian news outlet.”)
- Global Tax Agreement Will Set 15% Minimum Rate
- Global Corporate-Tax Overhaul Advances as 136 Nations Sign On
- EXCLUSIVE U.S. delegation to meet Taliban in first high-level talks since pullout – officials
- Afghanistan: Deadly attack hits Kunduz mosque during Friday prayers
- The U.S. and Taliban are to hold the first talks since Afghanistan withdrawal
- China-Taiwan tensions: Xi Jinping says ‘reunification’ must be fulfilled
- China presses U.S. to cancel tariffs in test of bilateral engagement
- In a Surge of Military Flights, China Tests and Warns Taiwan
- ‘Starting a Fire’: U.S. and China Enter Dangerous Territory over Taiwan (“The self-ruled island has moved to the heart of deepening discord and rivalry between the two superpowers, with the potential to ignite military conflagration and reshape the regional order.”)
- Global Supply-Chain Woes Escalate, Threatening Recovery (“Shortages of components, surging prices of raw materials, transportation backups and pandemic lockdowns are squeezing manufacturers around the world—and the bottlenecks keep compounding.”)
- A Chinese company is building a colossal 16 MW offshore wind turbine
- A message from the unemployed: They’ll work when they feel safe, well paid
- GOP governors who ended unemployment benefits failed to spur job growth, September numbers suggest (“Republicans tend to blame poor jobs numbers on expanded unemployment insurance. The numbers tell a different story”)
- Fed’s Brainard signals that climate change guidance may be coming for big banks.
- Top 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class (We need a steep wealth tax.)
- The best- and worst-case scenarios for Covid-19 this winter (“Why this winter should be better than the last one.”)
- How Joe Biden Is Winning the Culture War Over Vaccines (“He’s singling out anti-vaxxers as public enemy No. 1.”)
- Biden points to Covid as a reason for disappointing jobs report, but argues progress is being made
- Our constitutional crisis is here (“Robert Kagan warns that the United States faces its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War.”)
- One more time Trump tried to undo the will of the voters
- Merrick Garland Is About to Face His Most Important Test(“Former Trump White House aide Dan Scavino is one of a number of former Trump officials and confidantes who, along with the planners of the Jan. 6 rally, are facing October deadlines to turn information about the insurrection over to Congress and appear for depositions.”)
- Trump Forcing Courts To Decide If Executive Privilege Has A ‘Coup-Plotting’ Exception
- Biden Announces He’ll Be Exposing Trump’s Traitorous Ass
- Biden rejects Trump’s request to withhold documents from House committee investigating Jan. 6 attack
- Biden declines Trump request to withhold White House records from Jan. 6 committee
- Thompson & Cheney Statement on Subpoena Deadline (“Though the Select Committee welcomes good-faith engagement with witnesses seeking to cooperate with our investigation, we will not allow any witness to defy a lawful subpoena or attempt to run out the clock, and we will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of Congress referral.”)
- Jan. 6 Panel Threatens to Pursue Charges Against Bannon (“A lawyer for Stephen K. Bannon said he was refusing to comply with a subpoena from the committee on the directive of the former president.”)
- GOP senators who voted to convict Trump say it’s too soon to worry that he could undermine 2024 election (Wildly irresponsible and absolutely nuts.)
- Growing number of Democrats endorse abolishing debt limit altogether
- Senate Republicans sow disinformation after $480bn US debt ceiling deal
- Chuck Schumer Got Mad and Made Senate Republicans (and Joe Manchin) Very Mad (Manchin is really pathetic.)
- Senate Republicans upset they got called out for nearly tanking the economy
- McConnell vows GOP won’t help raise debt ceiling in December after Schumer ‘tantrum’ (Ditch the damn filibuster.)
- Is Mitch McConnell Losing a Step?
- Defense Department warns climate change will increase conflicts over water and food
- Kyrsten Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Proposed Climate Funds, Sources Say (Absolutely unacceptable; to the contrary, we should be MASSIVELY INCREASING our efforts re: the climate crisis!)
- Biden restores beloved national monuments, reversing Trump cuts (“Restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante represents victory for advocates after protections were slashed”)
- Biden administration announces goal of 5 million homes powered by community solar
- Scaling up distributed solar and storage could save ratepayers $109b by 2030 (“A report found that the U.S. must deploy a minimum of 103 GW of distributed solar and 137 GW of distributed energy storage by 2030 to achieve climate and equity goals at the lowest cost.”)
- Why is a prominent federal judge hiring a law clerk who said she hates Black people?
- Federal appeals court temporarily reinstates Texas’ 6-week abortion ban
- Appeals court reinstates Texas’s six-week abortion ban, two days after it was lifted
- Facebook and Trump: America is sleepwalking towards fascism (“This week showed how powerful forces are aligned for the end of democracy”)
- Trump Supporters Have Already Turned on the Cyber Ninjas
- Fox News keeps turning vaccine resisters into culture war heroes (Fox is evil.)
- Opinion: Time to consider that Facebook can’t be fixed (It’s fundamentally flawed, no doubt.)
- No federal charges against officer who shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake
- A slavery petition was the latest racist incident at this school. Parents and lawmakers are fed up (“Some White parents are telling school leaders that lessons about race make their students feel bad. Then there’s the racism happening in schools.” That’s what the anti-CRT is really all about, by the way.)
- White House condemns NC Lt Gov Robinson’s anti LGBTQ comments (“The Biden White House condemned on Friday North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s comments calling transgender people and homosexuality ‘filth.'”)
- Two Parents Found Guilty of All Charges in College Admissions Cheating Case
- Report finds Trump’s DC hotel lost $70m during his presidency
- Rep. Gerry Connolly Now Has Evidence “Donald Trump hid debts, concealed millions in losses, and received millions more from Foreign Governments at Trump Hotel”
- VIDEO: Former Va. House Democratic Leader David J. Toscano and Virginia Advocates Call for Congress to Pass President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda
- New Wason Center Virginia Poll: Terry McAuliffe Up 4 pts (49%-45%), Hala Ayala Up 4 pts (48%-44%), Mark Herring Up 6 pts (49%-43%)
- TODAY: Insurrectionist Amanda Chase to Promote Anti-Abortion Republicans in Virginia (“Noted insurrectionist and sham election review supporter is appearing to promote anti-abortion Republicans in the Chesterfield region”)
- NEW TV AD: Terry for Virginia Releases New TV Ad “Starving Schools” on Glenn Youngkin’s Trumpian Plan to Slash Education Funding & Destroy Public Schools
- On the ‘big lie,’ Glenn Youngkin wants to have it both ways
- Look What You Made Us Do: Glenn Youngkin’s Dismal Week in Review
- Youngkin says he doesn’t ‘know’ if humans are responsible for climate change (In a sane world, that would be completely disqualifying in and of itself.)
- Youngkin walks fine line on ‘election integrity’ (Yeah, except there’s no “fine line”; you either believe in democracy and our electoral system or you don’t, really.)
- Progress Virginia: Failure to Disclose Vaccination Status Should Disqualify Winsome Sears From Becoming Lieutenant Governor
- Youngkin brings out a large crowd in Chesterfield (Youngkin “talked in a grandiose fashion about topics without going into detail” and gave a shoutout to insurrectionist and COVID denier Amanda Chase.)
- [UPDATED: Commission Collapses] We Hate to Say “We Told You So,” But…the VA Redistricting Commission Appears on the Verge of Complete Collapse (Co-chair Greta Harris: “We’re at an impasse…I don’t see the need for us to continue…I would say we are done”)
- Va. Redistricting Commission implodes as Republicans reject compromise and Democrats walk out
- Virginia’s bipartisan redistricting effort breaks down over accusations of partisan stalemate (“Citizen co-chairwoman and two members walk out of meeting with deadline fast approaching.”)
- ‘I think our work here is done.’ Virginia’s redistricting commission is staring at failure.
- The Scorpion and the Frog (Or, the Virginia Redistricting Commission) (“Make no mistake, the Republicans played a winner-take-all game in Richmond. And we all lost.”)
- Future of Redistricting Commission in Jeopardy
- The Politics Hour: October 8, 2021 (Hala Ayala is interviewed)
- Flip-[Or-Hold]-A-District Friday: Volume XIII (Mel Cornelisse, Dr. Doug Ward, Sam Soghor, Chance Trevillian)
- Schapiro: Of different eras, of the same origins, of similar goals (“In 2020 and 2021, Northam would achieve victories that had seemed unimaginable in Virginia”)
- Virginians deserve to hear the truth about qualified immunity
- Virginia school boards can dismiss the loud voices (“As is often the case, the loudest voices in Virginia politics are not all that representative…In a sharp contrast from the views expressed by many who spoke at contentious public meetings over the summer, only 18 percent of Virginians surveyed said their local school district’s coronavirus policies were too strict…13 percent of Northern Virginians surveyed gave their local districts an A, 25 percent said B, and 22 percent favored a C grade.”)
- Friday (10/8) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations Near Highest Level Since Mid February, 10-Day New Cases (+27,216) Near Highest Since Mid February
- 5.5 million more oysters coming to Chesapeake Bay, thanks to new partnership
- “I attended a very disturbing Fairfax County School Board meeting last night” (“The anti LGBTQ and anti CRT folks were out in force…When asked [to wear masks], they roared, ‘you’re not my boss.’”)
- Richmond-area residents express frustration with Postal Service delivery delays and service problems. Politicians urge reform.
- Williams: Pharrell Williams is not happy. If his Virginia Beach music festival is to continue, that city’s leadership must listen and learn
- D.C.-area forecast: Mild conditions persist this weekend, with some warming next week
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