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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, March 30.
Trump calls for Putin to release dirt on the Biden family right now since now “he’s not exactly a fan of our country” during new interview with Real America’s Voice pic.twitter.com/Sp1gDVsSfr
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 29, 2022
- Climate change: Wind and solar reach milestone as demand surges (“Wind and solar generated 10% of global electricity for the first time in 2021, a new analysis shows…The share coming from wind and sun has doubled since 2015, when the Paris climate agreement was signed.” Crank it up!)
- Global wind and solar growth on track to meet climate targets (Good, now move even faster.)
- Bankers Are Still Standing Behind the Dirtiest Fossil Fuel (Evil.)
- No Worries, This Only Has Implications for the Entire Climate of Europe (“When ice melts at the poles, it sends freshwater into the ocean. This is worse than it sounds.”)
- How to Defeat Putin and Save the Planet (“When cars, trucks, buildings, factories and homes are all electrified and your grid is running mostly on renewables — presto! — we become increasingly free of fossil fuels, and Putin becomes increasingly dollar poor.”)
- 5 New Reports Show Wind And Solar Power Can Cripple Putin, Secure Climate Goals
- Forrest strikes huge $50 billion green hydrogen plan with German energy giant E.ON
- UN Food Chief: War In Ukraine Has Created ‘A Catastrophe On Top Of A Catastrophe’
- Germany Triggers Emergency Plan to Secure Energy Supplies
- Putin’s lies and carnage cloud hopes for an end to Ukraine war
- Russia is retreating. Now give Ukraine the tools to finish the job.
- Situation in besieged cities remains ‘difficult,’ a Ukrainian official said, with no evidence of Russia ceasing hostilities
- Russian Pullback From Kyiv Is Likely to Be Limited and Tactical
- Intense attacks in east Ukraine as Russia regroups forces
- Poland to end Russian oil imports; Germany warns on gas
- 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine, UN agency says
- Russian pledge to scale back in Ukraine draws skepticism
- Accounts of Russian Rapes Are Growing, Ukraine Officials Say
- Ukraine gives medal to soldier who told Russian officer to ‘go fuck yourself’ (“Roman Hrybov, released in a prisoner swap, made remark over radio as warship approached on first day of invasion”)
- Biden Skeptical Russia Is Really Scaling Back Operations In Kyiv
- Attacks Reported Where Russia Had Vowed to Ease Combat (“Signal That Moscow Is in No Hurry to End War”)
- Analysis: Some cautioned that Russia might be using peace talks to buy time to regroup its military forces.
- Russian oligarch Deripaska loses U.S. court battle to lift sanctions
- Putin May Be Accused Of War Crimes In Ukraine, But Trump’s Still Asking For His Help (“Six years after calling on Putin for aid against Hillary Clinton, Trump is now asking for the murderous dictator’s help finding dirt on Joe Biden.”)
- Troops return to Belarus and Russia to ‘reorganize and resupply’
- Van Packed With Kangaroos, Wallabies Escapes Shell-Shocked Kharkiv Zoo
- Satellite images show apparent devastation, hunger in Mariupol
- Palestinian Gunman Kills 5 in Israel’s Fifth Attack in Recent Days
- Analysis: Russia’s war is complicating the path India is trying to walk among world powers.
- Biden officials bracing for unprecedented strains at Mexico border if pandemic restrictions lifted
- Inflation Dominates Americans’ Economic Concerns in March
- Analysis: U.S. stock rally defies economic unease
- Joe Biden signs landmark law making lynching a hate crime (“Kamala Harris and relatives of Ida B Wells and Emmett Till attend ceremony marking Emmett Till Antilynching Act”)
- White House budget would invest billions in clean energy projects
- Manchin shoots down Biden’s new billionaire tax plan (Of course he does. Corrupt @#$@#!)
- Three big takeaways from Trump’s missing Jan. 6 phone logs (“New revelations strengthen the case for the Jan. 6 committee to get more aggressive.”)
- Beware, Trump. 80 new Justice Department lawyers can do a lot of digging.
- Trump’s 7-hour phone gap should spur quicker action for Jan. 6 justice
- A 7-Hour Gap in Jan. 6 Phone Logs Raises the Question: Did Trump Use a Burner?
- Bolton says he recalls Trump using the term “burner phones”
- 7-Hour Gap in the Phone Records? Seen This Movie.
- What Trump Is Hiding (“Seven hours and 37 minutes of missing phone records on January 6 suggest consciousness of guilt.”)
- Three big takeaways from Trump’s missing Jan. 6 phone logs
- Trump’s Missing Phone Logs Mean We Don’t Even Know Half the Illegal Shit He Did on 1/6
- The Clearest Evidence Yet of Donald Trump’s Criminal Intent on Jan. 6
- Feds prepare ‘disclosure’ on figure at heart of pro-Trump Jan. 6 conspiracy theory
- Clarence Thomas’s long fight against fair and democratic elections
- Clarence Thomas faces growing pressure to step aside from Jan. 6 cases
- What Is Ginni Thomas? (“Here is a secret no one in Washington is willing to say out loud: Ginni Thomas is an idiot.”)
- Is Ginni Thomas a paranoid conspiracy theorist with prior knowledge of the J6 ‘coup in search of a legal theory’?
- Murkowski faces big test with primary challenge looming
- Liberal Tech Giant’s Employees Fume About Work for GOP (“Inside the turmoil—and Slack conversations—at Salesforce over their contracts with the Republican National Committee”)
- NFL says all teams must add minority offensive coach, expands Rooney Rule to include women
- Cawthorn’s ‘orgies’ line shows how right-wing politics can boomerang
- Orgies, Beheadings, Jewish Space Lasers: Everything Kevin McCarthy Has Had to “Speak” to Republican Lawmakers About
- Cawthorn’s orgies-and-drugs comment stirs trouble within Freedom Caucus
- Breaking down each broadcast TV network’s coverage of climate change in 2021
- Kayleigh McEnany wants more “Christian babies”: It’s an overt call-out to racist paranoia (“Former Trump spokeswoman sends a clear signal to Christian nationalists and fans of the ‘Great Replacement’ theory”)
- Op-Ed: CBS News giving Mick Mulvaney a paid contributor gig is an act of journalistic malpractice
- CBS News’ hiring of Mick Mulvaney is an embarrassment (Disgrace.)
- Mick Mulvaney Is Not a Newsman for Our Times
- GOP’s Senate campaign chief won’t back down from party fight
- Trump’s Truth Social App Plummets in Traffic, Sees 93% Drop in Signups Since Launch Week (Exclusive)
- David Perdue says he misunderstood ‘lock him up’ chants about Brian Kemp (Riiiiight.)
- Teachers fear the chilling effect of Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law (Glenn Youngkin thinks Ron DeSantis is a model governor.)
- Is Ron DeSantis the Future of Trumpism? (“The greatest threat to Trump’s hold on the GOP may be his Florida neighbor.”)
- UnKoch My Campus Organizer: Anti-CRT Movement Actually an Orchestrated Product of a Coordinated Dark Money Campaign (“Instead of a homegrown grassroots endeavor, we’re seeing something much more manufactured that is creating divisiveness”)
- Kaine bill to restrict any effort to remove U.S. from NATO advances
- Video: Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) Says It’s “a little baffling” Why We’re Still Waiting for DoJ to Act, Three Months After Meadows’ Contempt Referral
- VA-02: Jen Kiggans’ Primary Trouble on Display as Jarome Bell Takes the Trump Lane
- Northern Va. lawmakers demand update on Silver Line delay
- Lawmakers send letter requesting update on latest Silver Line delay (“U.S. Reps. Wexler, Beyer and Connolly express concerns about project’s repeated setbacks”)
- Editorial: Governor, General Assembly earn “F” on FOIA test
- He’s Not a “Moderate” or “6 Foot 5 Mystery Date.” Nope, THIS Is Glenn Youngkin.
- Commonwealth Institute: Youngkin’s Gas Tax Proposal Misses the Mark: Majority of “Savings” Would Flow to Oil Industry and People Who Don’t Live in Virginia
- Virginia joins suit to bar mask requirement on mass transit (Miyares wrong yet again.)
- Schapiro: Proposed tax cut spotlights other taxing questions
- How the war in Ukraine could impact Virginia agriculture
- There continues to be a lot of debate over curriculum in Virginia classrooms (Bland, anodyne headlines like this don’t tell readers what’s actually going on. In this case, it’s a right-wing assault on teaching about history, racism, sexuality, you name it. But you’d never know that from the headline…)
- Commentary: Gov. Youngkin’s tax plan can lift us out of recession (I’m including this article simply to note a few things: 1) the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star actually published this trash; 2) the author works for a VERY right-wing group, the “Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy”; 3) far from being in a recession, the country’s in a major economic boom right now, approaching “full employment” and with inflation relatively high due in part to super-strong demand. So this op-ed is *factually* wrong in every way/shape/form, and should never have been published. Massive disservice to readers.)
- Group targets invasive Bradford pear trees (These things are awful; get rid of them and replace with NATIVE trees!)
- Slumlords beware: Virginia may give localities new power to go after poor housing conditions
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 96% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations Down to 326 From ~4,000 in January
- Atlee students suspended for LGBTQ-related “unapproved student walkout”
- Editorial: Public safety takes priority (“Virginia Beach has adopted reforms since a deadly Oceanfront shooting one year ago, but that hard work must continue with urgency.”)
- Dominion agrees to study viability of Wise power plant that’s not producing much power (This plant was always a mistake, as some of us argued vociferously when it was approved in the first place.)
- Group informing Hanover school policy helped craft law restricting transgender athletes in other states (“Earlier this month, the Hanover County School Board voted to allow the Arizona-based group Alliance Defending Freedom – which the Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed an anti-LGBTQ hate group – to review a district policy pertaining to the rights of LGBTQ students in school.”)
- Emory & Henry College going through ‘creative reinvention’
- D.C.-area forecast: Milder by this afternoon; storms possible late Thursday
