by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thurday, March 3.
‘This is ridiculous’: @GovRonDeSantis scolds students for wearing face masks during his @USouthFlorida visit https://t.co/v9XLjueCYi pic.twitter.com/TFeC6t6wL9
— WFLA NEWS (@WFLA) March 2, 2022
- For the First Time, Nations Band Together in a Move Toward Ending Plastics Pollution (“A United Nations resolution embraces a broad definition of the problem that encompasses the life-cycle of plastics, from production to disposal.”)
- Ukraine War and U.S. Politics Complicate Climate Change Fight
- Overruling Scientists, UK Relaxes Ban on Pesticide Toxic to Bees (“Activists aghast as sugar beet farmers are granted an exemption to deploy thiamethoxam.”)
- Russia’s war with Ukraine offers critical lessons for global energy markets
- Major blast lights up Kyiv sky as bloody battles rage across Ukraine
- Russians struggle to understand war: ‘We didn’t choose this’
- Humanitarian crisis unfolds as onslaught on Ukraine continues
- The West is trying to destroy Russia’s economy. And analysts think it could succeed
- After explosions hit Kyiv, dread grips the city over Russia’s approaching military might
- The End of the Oligarch Era Nears With Putin’s Miscalculation in Ukraine
- Biden Seeks to Press Putin on Ukraine Without Sparking Wider War
- Russia Has Suffered a Crushing Moral Defeat. And Russians Know It.
- Putin No Longer Seems Like a Master of Disinformation
- Russia’s Siege of Key Cities Fuels a Humanitarian Crisis
- Russian Forces Advance in Southern Ukraine Ahead of Talks
- Zelensky’s “Perfect Phone Call” With Trump in 2019 Explains a Lot Right Now
- Russian column stalled for days outside Kyiv
- Social media companies shouldn’t let Putin spread his lies
- Four Times Opinion Writers on War in Ukraine: ‘It Is Very Clear Putin Has No Plan B’
- Russia Hits Cities as Kyiv, Moscow to Hold Talks: Ukraine Update
- Who’s in Putin’s inner circle and running the war?
- First major city falls as one million flee Ukraine
- NATO Countries Pour Weapons Into Ukraine, Risking Conflict With Russia (“Brussels is proud to be providing military aid, but Moscow may see it as a dangerous intervention and could move to disrupt the flow of arms through Poland.”)
- U.S. preparing further sanctions against Russian oligarchs -sources
- Russia Blocks Its Last Independent Television Channel
- Ban of Russian aircraft from U.S. airspace has gone into effect
- In Russia, truth is criminal, war is not war and the last independent broadcasters go dark
- More Than 1 Million Have Fled Ukraine
- How Might the War in Ukraine End? Five Factors Will Shape the Outcome
- Ukrainian Jews, Under Putin’s Bombs, Seethe at His Attempt to Smear Ukraine as Neo-Nazi
- Ukrainian camera operator Yevhenii Sakun killed in Russian shelling of Kyiv TV tower
- UK eyes seizing the property of oligarchs hit with sanctions
- China Asked Russia to Delay Ukraine War Until After Olympics, U.S. Officials Say
- How Volodymyr Zelensky Defended Ukraine and United the World
- Russian Fleet Approach Has Ukraine’s Port City of Odesa Bracing
- Neutral Finland, Sweden warm to idea of NATO membership
- China’s Belt and Road strafed by Vladimir Putin
- Analysis: Ukraine crisis threatens China’s discreet pipeline in military technology
- House passes resolution backing Ukraine; Three Republicans vote ‘no’
- Russian and Belarusian athletes banned from Winter Paralympics after U-turn
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forces Germany into diplomatic U-turn (“Sweden and Switzerland did almost nothing to oppose Hitler, but they’re sanctioning Putin now for attacking Ukraine.”)
- Zelensky Is Wrecking the Bare-Chested Putin Propaganda
- Ukrainians Are Shaking America Out of Its Cynicism (“The human virtues being displayed in a terrible human drama have changed public opinion.”)
- Trump’s border wall has been breached more than 3,000 times by smugglers, CBP records show
- GOP foreign policy gurus can’t have it both ways
- Biden soars abroad while he rebuilds at home
- As Biden Pivots, Democrats Seek to Salvage His Domestic Agenda
- Manchin says he’s ready to negotiate again. Democrats must hold him to it. (Oh god, not this asshole again…)
- Manchin moves to help speed up finish of natural gas pipeline(“The Mountain Valley Pipeline is 95 percent complete,” Manchin said. “That means the pipeline is in the ground, covered and reclamation done (on the land above it). But they have been blocked. That pipeline must be connected to the market.”)
- Republicans’ attempt to demonize Ketanji Brown Jackson isn’t going well
- Supreme Court confirmations are a farce. Blame the Supreme Court.
- Why Ketanji Brown Jackson would be such an upgrade over Breyer
- Who’s Afraid of Ketanji Brown Jackson?
- How Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Stonewalling Sarah Bloom Raskin’s Nomination to the Fed
- Trump unleashed the poison of racism — and new research suggests it will linger for years (Trump and Trumpism have done ENORMOUS damage to America.)
- Anti-Semitic Propaganda Rose in U.S. Last Year
- Jan. 6 committee alleges Trump, allies engaged in potential ‘criminal conspiracy’ by trying to block Congress from certifying election (No question, so…lock him up already???)
- Jan. 6 Committee Lays Out Potential Criminal Charges Against Trump
- Trump Engaged In ‘Criminal Conspiracy’ Says Jan. 6 Committee
- Jan. 6 probe points lawmakers more and more toward GOP colleagues (Expel them from Congress.)
- Trump adviser Peter Navarro skips scheduled deposition with January 6 committee (Lock him up too.)
- Oath Keeper pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy for Jan. 6 attack (So it WAS a seditious conspiracy, not just a spontaneous “riot,” as the media loves to claim.)
- The Texas GOP attack on trans kids reaches a horrifying new level
- Statement by President Biden on Texas’ Attacks on Transgender Youth
- Statement by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Reaffirming HHS Support and Protection for LGBTQI+ Children and Youth
- The GOP’s untouchable loudmouths
- Serena Williams calls out NYTimes after paper erroneously prints photo of Venus
- Right-wing media rewrite history and claim Russia’s invasion never would have happened under Trump
- Sean Hannity proposes NATO fighter jets bomb Russian convoy “and then nobody takes credit for it, so then Putin won’t know who to hit” (Hannity is a drooling imbecile.)
- Lindsey Graham says Trump calling Putin genius was ‘a mistake’ (It’s not a “mistake” when someone does something multiple times, INTENTIONALLY.)
- Rep. Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid
- Is This What Presidential Timber Looks Like These Days?
- Ron DeSantis, Smug Asshole, Takes Time Out of His Day to Yell at Students for Wearing Masks (“The Florida governor called mask-wearing ‘ridiculous’ and ‘COVID theater.'”)
- Kim Reynolds shows the true face of the GOP — but not the one she intended
- How Rob Manfred’s ineffective reign as MLB commissioner led to baseball’s ‘disastrous outcome’
- ‘This is ridiculous’: DeSantis scolds students for wearing face masks during USF visit
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says He’s 67 and Remembers Hiding Under Desk During Nuclear War Drills, and Such a Future Is “Unthinkable” (“Putin is not a genius, Putin is a bully, a thug, and he needs to be constrained”)
- Kaine introduces bill to research and combat long covid, after suffering it himself
- Tim Kaine, Virginia Senator, Reveals He Has Long Covid
- Glenn Youngkin approval is split in Roanoke College poll
- YIKES: New Poll Shows AG Jason Miyares with 24% Favorability Rating
- Virginian-Pilot Editorial: Cloud of uncertainty about legal pot in the commonwealth
- Editorial: An example that Youngkin should not follow (“Certainly, he shouldn’t be taking any pointers from Gov. Abbott.”)
- Ex-EPA chief Wheeler left out as General Assembly OKs rest of Youngkin’s Cabinet picks (“Deeds said his caucus had asked the Youngkin administration to restore the 11 Northam appointees who had been removed, suggesting that otherwise Senate Democrats would proceed to block Youngkin’s picks moving forward.”)
- Virginia lawmakers still can’t bring themselves to ban personal use of campaign cash (In fact, it was *Republicans* who killed this.)
- VA House Republicans Block Ban on Personal Use of Campaign Funds, Ignoring Ethics Recommendations(“Virginia remains out of step with nearly every other state and federal government on ban”)
- Virginia Republicans kill bill giving Indian tribes a role in reviewing development on ancestral lands
- Medical debt bill likely headed to Governor Youngkin’s desk
- ‘Major topic of session’: Senate pushes House school construction loan bill toward negotiations
- An effort to add party affiliation to Constitutional offices is dead
- Two Dems join GOP to advance bill that closes inactive police files to the public
- 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 90% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations at Lowest Level Since Mid-November; Deaths Remain Relatively High
- Phase 2 of Metro’s Silver Line, delayed again (“I think we’re all obviously very frustrated in the timeline and sliding schedule. It’s almost become a joke now when we get a new date”)
- Push to accelerate Richmond combined sewer fix halted in House
- Virginia substitute teacher suspended over Russia comments
- Fairfax County may rename two districts over ties to slavery
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny and on the cool side, but a big warm-up over the weekend
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