by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, May 11.
- Emission reduction remains public’s preferred approach to climate change
- Big Oil braces for shareholder revolt over climate plans in proxy voting season
- Construction begins on Australia’s first gigawatt scale wind project
- John Kerry warns a long Ukraine war would threaten climate efforts
- US intel chief: Putin preparing for protracted conflict (“Avril Haines painted a grim and uncertain picture of the future and said the current situation increases the chances ‘Putin will turn to more drastic means'”)
- Ukraine Latest: War Affects Physical Gas Supplies Via Ukraine
- Ukraine diverts some Russian gas flows, claims battlefield gains
- Ukraine war: Putin preparing for long haul, US intelligence says
- About a Boy: The Roots of Putin’s Evil (“Putin’s childhood taught him many lessons that shape his thinking and actions to this day: that might makes right, that existing hierarchies can only be changed through violence, that force is the only language that matters, that power is always a zero-sum game.”)
- Attribution of Russia’s Malicious Cyber Activity Against Ukraine
- US, Western Europe fret over uncertain Ukraine war endgame
- Ukrainians stop Russian gas at one hub, make gains in east
- Putin’s current dilemma was JFK’s worst fear (“Reflecting on the Cuban missile crisis, President John Kennedy once warned that nuclear powers ‘must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.'”)
- Town Makes Mockery of Putin’s Troops and His Sh*tty Arsenal (“An eastern Ukrainian village that suffered tremendous devastation at the onset of the war is now turning the tables on Russian forces.”)
- Ukraine Accuses Russia of Stealing Its Grain
- Are Finland and Sweden going from neutral to Nato?
- Could the Ukraine war spill over into Moldova?
- House Approves $40 Billion Aid Package To Help Ukraine, Allies
- House Approves $40 Billion in Emergency Aid for Ukraine
- China calls WHO chief ‘irresponsible’ for saying zero-COVID strategy ‘not sustainable’
- Philippines election: torture survivors from Marcos era in shock after son’s win (“Factcheckers say Ferdinand Marcos Jr was overwhelming beneficiary of a flood of online disinformation before poll” Disinformation – spread by cable “news,” right-wing radio and social media – really could be the death of us all.)
- Trump’s Korea policy was even more reckless than we thought
- Passengers say Lufthansa barred all visibly Jewish travelers from flight
- Stock Futures Rise Ahead of U.S. Inflation Data
- U.S. Inflation, While Still High, Is Expected to Have Cooled in April
- April’s consumer price index report expected to show inflation has already peaked (“The issue is how fast inflation could decline when it comes to determining how the Federal Reserve will respond with interest rate hikes.”)
- US inflation might have dipped last month from 40-year high
- A Baby Formula Shortage Leaves Desperate Parents Searching for Food
- We’re in danger of losing our democracy, but most Americans are in denial
- How the GOP strategy to paint Democrats as ‘extreme’ really works (“One part distraction, one part hyperbole, and one part fake outrage.”)
- Pro-choice states rush to pledge legal shield for out-of-state abortions
- Senate to vote on a bill that codifies abortion protections, but it will likely fail (The headline could easily say WHY it will fail, which is because of Republicans.)
- The Abortion Protest Moral Panic (“People are freaking out over a handful of peaceful demonstrations”)
- Biden pushes ‘ultra-MAGA’ label on GOP as he defends record (Republicans’ record – and policy positions, behavior, etc. – is 100% indefensible.)
- The Horrifying Implications of Alito’s Most Alarming Footnote (“A ‘domestic supply of infants’ is exactly what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended to abolish.”)
- The Movement That Put Alito on the Court Isn’t Finished
- Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe is still the only one circulated inside Supreme Court (“A rattled Supreme Court will meet Thursday for the first time since the abortion opinion was reported”)
- Justice Alito Is Not Holed Up in Some Bunker Eating Surplus MREs (“He could be at a hotel. Or the whole ‘undisclosed location’ business could be a product of the right-wing puke funnel.”)
- Cook Confirmed as First Black Woman on Federal Reserve Board (“Economist Lisa Cook is confirmed despite a united GOP campaign against her.”)
- Give me one good reason I shouldn’t believe Mitch McConnell
- How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church (“The movement spent 40 years at war with secular America. Now it’s at war with itself.”)
- Trump Claims He’s Not Ignoring N.Y. Attorney General Subpoena, He Just Lost His Phone
- House gives green light to staffer unionization
- Wash. Post continues to amplify harmful anti-abortion messaging at a critical point for the future of reproductive rights
- Negativity bias, personality and political ideology (” Research suggests that right-wing ideology is associated with negativity bias: a tendency to pay more attention and give more weight to negative versus positive stimuli.”)
- Still in Contempt, Trump Now Owes New York $150,000
- ‘Provide some cover’: Batch of Eastman emails sheds light on contacts with state legislatures
- Trump Kept Asking if China Was Shooting Us With a ‘Hurricane Gun’ (Trump is an imbecile.)
- Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter ban on Donald Trump
- Elon Musk’s plan to reinstate Trump on Twitter would just reignite a race to the bottom (“Ads account for 90% of Twitter’s revenue, and now that advertisers know exactly what Twitter would look like under Elon Musk’s leadership — they should be terrified”)
- Elon Musk says he would let Trump back on Twitter. History shows us why that’s dangerous.
- The One Group That Can Stop Elon Musk From Unbanning Trump on Twitter
- The Republic Depends on Susan Collins’ Sidewalk
- Terrified Susan Collins Calls Cops After Chalk Vigilantes Politely Ask Her to Protect Women’s Rights
- Colorado county bars indicted pro-Trump official from overseeing 2022 elections
- Multiple fake electors cooperating in Georgia criminal probe of Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election
- Pa. GOP insiders are plotting an 11th-hour plan to stop Doug Mastriano in the governor’s race
- Fox News Poll: Three-way race in Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary election
- Pillen beats Trump’s candidate in Nebraska governor primary
- Pillen wins Nebraska governor primary, dealing blow to Trump
- The power of Trump’s endorsement takes a blow in Nebraska’s GOP primary for governor
- Charles Herbster, Accused Of Groping 8 Women, Loses Nebraska Gubernatorial Race (“Herbster had the strong support of former President Donald Trump in the Nebraska race.”)
- Alex Mooney Rides Trump Endorsement to West Virginia House Primary Win
- Inside the Republican campaign to take down Madison Cawthorn
- Florida Is Making Students Sit Through 45 Minutes on the Horrors of Communism
- California considers 3 GW of offshore wind by 2030 as experts stress need for clean energy diversity
- The J. D. Vance I Knew (“His abilities, I never underestimated. What he was willing to do for political advancement, I did.”)
- VA Congressional Democrats Get Almost Unanimous “A” Grades on 2022 “Democracy Scorecard”; Republicans All Get “F”s (Rep. Abigail Spanberger Receives an A+ grade when it comes to “major anti-corruption and voting rights legislation”)
- A Republican Plan to Raise Taxes on Virginians and Potentially End Social Security and Medicare is Massively Unpopular, Poll Shows
- Coming Soon to Virginia: “The Glenn Youngkin Handmaid’s Tale” (“The future of abortion rights here in the Commonwealth is at stake as long as Governor Youngkin and Republicans have power”)
- A historical look: abortion access in Virginia
- AG Jason Miyares Only Believes in the First Amendment When It’s Aligned with His Agenda (“The ease at which Attorney General Miyares abandoned the first amendment is worrisome”)
- Generation Ratify: >5,000 Virginia Students Participated in Monday’s “Student Day of Action for Abortion Access”; Now, It’s Going Nationwide on Wednesday, May 18th
- CT scans at Virginia hospitals could be delayed because of supply chain disruption
- Youngkin gets backlash over stance on protests outside Alito’s home (“Conservatives demanded that the new Republican governor order state troopers to arrest the demonstrators under a state law prohibiting picketing outside private residences — even though it’s up to local police to enforce that law.”)
- Youngkin retracts job offer to Indiana official to run Virginia DMV (“Virginia Gov. Youngkin retracts a job offer to a DMV candidate after a news report raises charges of drinking and inappropriate comments in candidate’s former job in Indiana.”)
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 89% Compared to 1/19, But Creeping Up; Hospitalizations Down to 282 From ~4,000 in January, But Also Creeping Up (10-day new cases at highest level since Feb. 25.)
- One year into a new health clinic, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe is expanding and buying back lands
- Bullet strikes window in Attorney General’s building in Richmond, office says (“The Attorney General’s office said the incident does not appear to be targeted toward the office or any individual employee.”)
- Three groups announce intent to sue Justice coal company over cleanup failures at Wise County mines
- Fairfax County adopts budget with lower tax rate for homeowners (“The Board of Supervisors lowered the residential property tax rate by three cents, part of an effort to help residents deal with inflation.”)
- Loudoun Co. schools counsel details Virginia AG subpoena request
- Fairfax Co. board rejects motion to curb panhandling
- Norfolk sheriff to review jail’s mental health program after Virginian-Pilot report
- Richmond takes action to remove A.P. Hill statue, relocate Confederate general’s remains
- Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney dedicates a plaque in memory of those lost to COVID
- Hanover School Board clarifies its stance on student-led protests, walkouts
- Arlington Marks Vision Zero Year 1, Launches Crash Awareness Campaign
- D.C.-area forecast: Still nice through tomorrow despite increasing clouds
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