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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, May 12.
- Renewable power is set to break another global record in 2022 despite headwinds from higher costs and supply chain bottlenecks
- New Research Shows Aerosol Emissions May Have Masked Global Warming’s Supercharging of Tropical Storms
- Fossil Fuels Aren’t Just Harming the Planet. They’re Making Us Sick (“Petrochemicals are linked to diverse health problems from infertility to cancer, and now they’re building up in pregnant women.”)
- Renewable Energy To Grow To New Record In 2022: IEA
- Putin pushes renewables to record year, but strong policy vital beyond 2022
- US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster (“140bn metric tons of planet-heating gases could be unleashed if fossil fuel extraction plans get green light, analysis shows” Absolutely insane.)
- More Than $200 Billion Wiped Off Cryptocurrency Market in a Day
- Crypto Billionaires’ Vast Fortunes Are Destroyed in Weeks
- EU Oil Embargo Would Push Russian Crude Output to 18-Year Low, IEA Says
- In U-turn, IEA sees world weathering lost Russian oil supply
- Ukraine regains territory, and crime scene investigators move in
- Finland’s leaders call for NATO membership ‘without delay’
- Russia hits Ukraine’s east as Finland moves toward NATO bid
- Intelligence-sharing with Ukraine designed to prevent wider war
- Ukraine to hold first war crimes trial of captured Russian
- Sanctions forcing Russia to use appliance parts in military gear, U.S. says
- World War II Is All That Putin Has Left (“The regime offers Russians little more than selective memories of Soviet-era military triumph.” And remember, they triumphed in large part because of massive U.S. aid.)
- ‘This tears my soul apart’: A Ukrainian boy and a killing
- Russia Continues Airstrikes On Mariupol Steel Plant As Ukraine Seeks Deal
- Russian troops ill-prepared for Ukraine war, says ex-Kremlin mercenary
- Ukraine war: Russia pushed back from Kharkiv – report from front line
- Finland’s leaders declare support for joining NATO
- Ukraine ‘Road of Death’ Shows Russians Fired on Civilians: A Video Investigation
- China fights economic slump, sticks to costly ‘zero COVID’
- China’s Economic Slowdown Is Rippling All Around the World (“The country’s crumbling economic growth is being felt everywhere from German factories to Australian tourist spots; Apple and General Electric warn of production problems”)
- North Korea: ‘First’ Covid cases prompt strict national lockdown
- Palestinians reject probe with Israel of reporter’s killing
- Iran Nuclear Talks Fizzle Just When Markets Need Oil the Most
- Americans must not ‘grow numb,’ Biden says, as U.S. marks 1 million Covid deaths (“To heal, we must remember. We must remain vigilant against this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible”)
- Biden administration cancels Alaska oil and gas lease sale
- Creaky U.S. power grid threatens progress on renewables, EVs
- The Southwest’s Drought and Fires Are a Window to Our Climate Change Future
- Biden waives executive privilege for new set of Trump records
- Leaked emails from Trump’s lawyer show blueprint for a 2024 coup
- Video: UVA Prof. Larry Sabato Warns – “This is a real danger. We’re still in crisis. And people act as though it was one day in January. They couldn’t be more wrong.” (1/6/21 “was an attempted coup d’etat – the first one since 1865. And it could have succeeded. It could have succeeded! And people need to understand that.”)
- Must-Read Thread by Prof. Thomas Zimmer on the “Democratic establishment’s inability to reckon with the radicalizing Republican assault on democracy and civil rights” (Time to stop pretending; “Better to grapple with the GOP that actually exists – the one that’s an acute threat to democracy.”)
- Judge lifts $10,000-a-day contempt ruling against Trump, with conditions (Yet AGAIN, Trump gets away with it? WTF???)
- ‘The great MAGA king’: Biden sharpens midterm attacks
- Republicans as ‘compassionate consensus builders’? Really? (Laughable.)
- John Eastman Pressed Pennsylvania Legislator to Throw Out Biden Votes (How is this traitor not in prison?!?)
- The Far-Right Troll Known As “Baked Alaska” Just Blew Up His Own Jan. 6 Plea Hearing
- ‘I’d like to file lawsuits in all 50 states’: Mike Lindell still pushing Trump’s lie
- Senate Republicans block bill that would codify Roe v. Wade
- A Leaky Supreme Court Starts to Resemble the Other Branches
- Supreme Court Justices To Meet For 1st Time Since Roe Draft Ruling Leak
- GOP Senator Likens Women To Wildlife In ‘Ridiculous’ Anti-Abortion Argument (Steve Daines is a disgrace to the U.S. Senate, to his state and to the country. WTF is he doing in the US Senate?!?)
- Overturning Roe could reverse economic gains
- Why Trans Rights Became The GOP’s Latest Classroom Target
- Statement from President Biden on the Senate Vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act
- Republicans who support abortion rights have come up with their own bill.
- Senate Democrats’ imaginary majority
- Roberts may face roadblocks in probe of Roe leak, reporter who published it says
- Yes, experts say protests at SCOTUS justices’ homes appear to be illegal
- Republican senator’s push to arrest abortion protesters meets GOP resistance
- Democrats seek criminal charges against Trump Interior head
- Biden Names Seven to Restock US Sentencing Commission
- Democrats finally get their FTC majority back
- DNC Launches Signature Latino Outreach Program “Adelante” and Spanish Language Ads Across the Country
- DeSantis-appointed judge signals Florida’s congressional map is unconstitutional for diminishing Black representation
- Ron DeSantis is crushing Josh Hawley in the culture war primary (“Being a governor gives you a big advantage.”)
- GOP panics over ‘ultra-MAGA’ Pennsylvania Senate wild card
- Kathy Barnette is the surprise Pa. Senate candidate who just might win. Now she’s getting new scrutiny.
- ‘Stop being so doom and gloom’: Democrats launch $15M effort to ‘Blue Shift Florida’
- Elon Musk’s Belated Disclosure of Twitter Stake Triggers Regulators’ Probes
- The Nebraska Republican Primary Was Extremist vs. Extremist Accused of Groping
- Sharing LGBTQ Identity A Fireable Offense, Mississippi High School Warned Teacher
- Fox News melts down following revelation Karine Jean-Pierre called the network racist. She’s right.
- Newsroom Managers Caution Journalists on Abortion Views (Seriously?)
- Joe Manchin Votes Against Protecting Abortion Rights
- Sen. Tim Kaine discusses abortion protection bill that failed in the Senate (“Kaine says there are ‘certain decisions that states can’t intrude upon’”)
- JEC Chairman Don Beyer on April CPI Data: “Democrats are fighting on behalf of U.S. workers and families to grow the economy and lower costs on the most expensive household essentials” (“This is in sharp contrast to Republicans, who are putting up roadblocks and offering no solutions to help households and families—now or in the future”)
- KGBob Opposes Support for Ukraine … Again (“Congressman Double-Plus-Un-Good has a history of telling Ukraine to pound sand. The question for Virginia voters is this: will they allow themselves to be represented by someone who outsources his vote to Moscow?”)
- Fairfax County Board Chair: Youngkin’s Suggestion to Establish “Perimeter” Around Homes of SCOTUS Justices Would Violate 4th Amendment, Possibly 1st Amendment as Well
- Youngkin, Hogan ask Justice Dept. to halt protests at justices’ homes (Republicans want to shift the focus from the substance of what the extremist, far-right-activist Supreme Court is doing – which is depriving women of bodily autonomy – to something else. Don’t fall for it.)
- Virginia lawmakers are unprepared for a post-Roe landscape
- Youngkin requests security perimeter around Virginia homes of Alito, Thomas, Barrett
- Is the Youngkin Administration Unraveling? Three State Agencies Implode in One Day (“Alcohol, rage, workplace misconduct, inappropriate sexual remarks, staff disgruntlement, and the mishandling of confidential records are at the center of three scandals”)
- Youngkin’s ‘almighty creator’ rhetoric in new diversity training offends some state employees (“The administration overhauled the mandatory course to include religious references from a former speech”)
- Shareholders ask Dominion for report on risk of stranded natural gas assets
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 87% Compared to 1/19, But Creeping Up; Hospitalizations Down to 289 From ~4,000 in January, But Also Creeping Up (10-day new COVID cases hit highest level since February 23.)
- Higher car prices have Virginia localities weighing tax options
- Sen. Joe Morrissey lashes out at his radio producer when pushed on abortion position
- Cadet researches the history of free and enslaved Black men at VMI
- Norfolk leaders push community development group to invest locally
- A last chance for real justice emerges in the Bijan Ghaisar case
- Longtime Fairfax Co. teachers could see pay bump under budget proposal
- Portsmouth high school to move to virtual learning due to COVID cases among staff
- City of Hampton responds to scapegoating allegation by Codi Bigsby’s family, says police chief won’t walk back comments
- Henrico leaders approve emergency ordinance on tax bills, seek feedback in June
- D.C.-area forecast: Mainly dry today before shower chances increase Friday into the weekend
