by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, May 17.
- Shut down fossil fuel production sites early to avoid climate chaos, says study (“Exclusive: Nearly half existing facilities will need to close prematurely to limit heating to 1.5C, scientists say”)
- Climate geoengineering must be regulated, says former WTO head
- Can gravity batteries solve our energy storage problems?
- Energy storage important to creating affordable, reliable, deeply decarbonized electricity systems (“MIT Energy Initiative report supports energy storage paired with renewable energy to achieve clean energy grids.”)
- How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?
- Ukrainian Soldiers Lay Down Arms at Mariupol’s Azovstal Steel Plant
- Putin involved in war ‘at level of colonel or brigadier’, say western sources
- Fighters leave as Ukraine ends Mariupol steelworks defence
- Estonia’s Tough Voice on Ukraine Urges No Compromise With Putin
- Turkey’s Erdogan Puts the Brakes on NATO’s Nordic Expansion
- Russia is losing. That might make Putin more dangerous.
- Opinion: Putin’s useful allies are throwing a wrench in the works
- Ukraine will get worse for isolated Russia, analyst says on state TV
- Turkey says it will not approve Sweden and Finland joining Nato
- Why Finland Joining NATO Is More Shocking Than Anyone Realizes
- Ukraine mounts effort to rescue last fighters at steel mill
- War Crimes Watch: Targeting schools, Russia bombs the future
- Life Returns in Bucha, a Symbol of Death and Atrocity (“About 10,000 residents have come back to the eastern Ukrainian city, which is racing to repair the physical and psychological damage from Russia’s occupation.”)
- McConnell tries to stamp out Trump dissension on Ukraine
- White House moves to loosen remittance, flight rules on Cuba
- Reversing Trump measures, U.S. will expand flights to Cuba and resume family reunifications
- N. Korea’s Kim faces ‘huge dilemma’ on aid as virus surges
- Western US May Be Experiencing Its Worst Dry Spell in 12 Centuries
- DeSantis net-metering veto highlights path for solar in red states, advocates say (“While the Florida governor’s veto of a utility-backed bill to block net metering caught many off guard, advocates say it’s part of a growing movement of conservative support for solar power.”)
- John Roberts, the Money Whisperer, Strikes Again—This Time to Ted Cruz’s Benefit (John Roberts is a disgrace to the Supreme Court and to the legal profession in general.)
- For Justice Thomas, the Roberts court is more feud than family
- FDA announces plans to ease the shortage of baby formula
- FDA, Abbott agree on plan to resume production of infant formula at Michigan plant
- F.D.A. and Abbott Reach Agreement on Baby Formula to Try to Ease Shortage
- We Asked 2,000 Americans About Their Biggest Concern. The Resounding Answer: Inflation.
- GOP to working class: Get mad! But don’t expect much from us. (“They’re all in on appeals to class-based resentment, but actually helping the working class is an afterthought.”)
- White Americans must speak out against white supremacy
- White Power, White Violence
- Federal Election Commission deadlocks, won’t punish Trump (Trump gets away with it yet AGAIN! Completely f’ed up.)
- Trump’s campaign committee dodges penalty as federal watchdog deadlocks on complaint it laundered hundreds of millions of dollars
- Election 2022: Trump’s influence over GOP faces fresh tests
- A lethal combination of guns and hateful ideology led to tragedy in Buffalo
- The Buffalo Shooting Was Not a Random Act of Violence
- The Violent Defense of Whiteness (“The long game of white-power activists isn’t just to terrorize and intimidate nonwhites: As “The Camp of the Saints” shows, these activists fear apocalyptic extinction if they don’t take up arms. The American equivalent, ‘The Turner Diaries,’ imagines what it would be like to establish white-dominated world through race war and genocide.”)
- GOP leaders ought to banish officials who embrace ‘replacement theory’
- The Steady Drumbeat of Apocalyptic Rhetoric Has Consequences
- President Biden will travel to Buffalo today to meet with shooting victims’ families
- Violent Far-Right Extremism Is Fueling Mass Shootings in America
- The Normalization of White Male Violence
- Fox News is the Republican Party. Here are over 400 examples proving it.
- Latest white supremacist massacre is a decision point for Fox advertisers
- Republicans are bringing extremism to the mainstream
- A neo-Nazi idea to spark a race war inspired the Buffalo killings
- Republicans Are Furious People Remember They’ve Been Pushing the Racist “Great Replacement” Rhetoric for Years
- Yes, Tucker Carlson Shares Blame for the Buffalo Attack (“The white nationalist’s conservative allies mount an unconvincing defense”)
- Tucker Carlson not only promoted the white nationalist “great replacement” theory, but repeatedly called on his audience to take action
- Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting (“Suspect was allegedly motivated by the theory, but network has barely mentioned gunman’s reasoning, even after Tucker Carlson pushed the concept in more than 400 of his shows”)
- The Fox News Lie
- Buffalo suspect may be latest mass shooter motivated by ‘eco-fascism’ (“The suspected perpetrator of the deadly shooting in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday may have been the latest mass killer to be motivated by a growing fixation of rightwingers – environmental degradation and the impact of overpopulation.”)
- Republicans Play on Fears of ‘Great Replacement’ in Bid for Base Voters
- Racist Attack Spotlights Stefanik’s Echo of Replacement Theory
- How Elise Stefanik and the GOP sanitize ‘great replacement’ ugliness
- Fox News’ Tucker Carlson under fresh scrutiny after Buffalo mass shooting
- Buffalo suspect considered attacking elementary schools, churches, according to online chat logs
- Store guard confronted Buffalo suspect during March visit, online account says
- Only 22 saw the Buffalo shooting live. Millions have seen it since. (The worst of the internet.)
- Shooter Ripped Off Past Manifestos—and GOP Talking Points
- How the ‘Replacement’ theory went mainstream on the political right
- Our Out-of-Control Political Moment Has Been Joined to Our Insane Attraction to Firearms
- Laguna Woods church shooter was motived by hate of Taiwan, sheriff says
- California Church Shooting Was ‘Politically Motivated Hate’ Crime: Sheriff (“The suspected shooter is a Chinese American man believed to have targeted the Taiwanese community.”)
- Big money, Trump and ideological war: Seven big things we’re watching in Tuesday’s primaries
- 12 Democratic Primaries To Watch In Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania And Oregon
- How Trump’s pact with the Club for Growth turned into a grudge match
- Pro-Israel lobbying group Aipac secretly pouring millions into defeating progressive Democrats (AIPAC is an abomination.)
- Republican ‘Chaos’ in Pennsylvania Threatens to Upend the Midterms
- How Trump’s Dr. Oz endorsement could cost the GOP in Pennsylvania
- Doug Mastriano aide who blocked press at campaign event was at Capitol on Jan. 6
- GOP blame game erupts in Pennsylvania governor’s race
- Barnette said she was leading buses to DC for ‘our 1776 moment’ on January 6, 2021
- Elon Musk’s silence on how he’d moderate the Buffalo shooting livestream is deafening (If Musk ends up buying Twitter, it will be flooded with hate speech, threats, you name it.)
- Musk: Twitter deal “cannot move forward” unless spam questions answered
- Musk: Doubt about spam accounts could scuttle Twitter deal
- There Are Just Three Explanations for Elon Musk’s Unhinged Behavior Right Now (“Is he needling Twitter because he still wants to buy it, or because he doesn’t?”)
- Musk Says Twitter Deal at Lower Price Is ‘Not Out of the Question’
- Arizona Senate to investigate Wendy Rogers over social media post on Buffalo shooting
- Metro GM retires one day after transit agency announces recertification lapses
- Metro GM Wiedefeld retires a month early; COO Leader resigns
- Virginia Elected Officials React to White Supremacy-Fueled Buffalo Shootings; Republicans Almost Completely Silent
- Boysko: Senate Democrats support our law enforcement officers with real funding, not just lip service.
- Audio: Northam Administration Secretary of Education Atif Qarni Says Youngkin “Snitch Line,” Other Policies Have “had significant negative impacts on our teachers” (On the Loudoun County school sexual assault, Qarni said “the student who did the assault was actually NOT a trans student…that’s a lie in the right-wing media”)
- The Virginia debate over security protection for Supreme Court justices
- Youngkin announces slate of environmental board appointments (They don’t look good at all.)
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 87% Compared to 1/19, But Creeping Up Steadily; Hospitalizations Down to 372 From ~4,000 in January, But Also Increasing
- New federal programs offer Virginia households a subsidy for affordable high-speed internet
- State personnel director leaving as Virginia’s telework deadline looms
- As Students Struggle with Cost of Living, VCU Votes to Increase Tuition
- Stoney asks for statewide response on baby formula shortage
- Youngkin assembles Va. task force on violent crime
- The leaked abortion opinion could lift Virginia Democrats
- In reversal, Montpelier appoints directors from descendants of the enslaved
- Virginia Beach School Board group removes ‘Gender Queer’ book from libraries, calls it ‘pervasively vulgar’
- Feds seek prison time for Newport News man who stormed Capitol in ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt (“Photographs of Robert Keith Packer wearing the sweatshirt with the antisemitic message went viral after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. When FBI agents asked him why he wore the sweatshirt, he ‘fatuously’ replied ‘because I was cold,’ prosecutors said in their sentencing memo.”)
- VCU keeps professor after he threatened Doug Wilder and called the Youngkin Admin. ‘Nazis’ (Wilder absolutely “f***ed up badly” with his support for Youngkin during the 2021 gubernatorial campaign, helping to elect a right-wing administration, plus a Republican-controlled House of Delegates. Why did he do it?)
- A bloody 18 hours: 6 shootings across Hampton Roads leave 3 dead and 3 injured, with only 1 arrest announced so far
- Hampton’s plan to prevent I-64 traffic from creating gridlock on city streets draws complaints, praise
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny and delightful today and tomorrow; burst of summer by Friday (“Friday and Saturday bringing our first taste of 90s.”)
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