by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, June 16.
Surveillance footage shows a tour led by Loudermilk to areas in the House Office Buildings, as well as the entrances to Capitol tunnels.
Individuals on the tour photographed/recorded areas not typically of interest to tourists: hallways, staircases and security checkpoints. pic.twitter.com/Rjhf2BTdbc
— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) June 15, 2022
- In An Unusual Step, a Top Medical Journal Weighs in on Climate Change
- Market failure: Why no one trusts fossil generators to “do the right thing”
- China Ramps Up Coal Power to Boost Post-Lockdown Growth (Ugh.)
- In energy-strapped Europe, coal gets an encore (Big mistake.)
- Analysis: Market meltdown lays bare Europe’s divisions
- EU leaders criticised for tepid support bring ‘message of unity’ to Ukraine
- Ukraine welcomes more U.S. weapons, hosts trio of European leaders
- Statement by President Joe Biden on Support for Ukraine and Call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine
- French president visits Kyiv suburb, decries ‘massacre’
- Leaders of Germany, France and Italy visit Kyiv to meet Zelensky (“The leaders of France, Germany and Italy arrived in Kyiv on Thursday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and send ‘a strong signal of support’ for the country’s fight against Russia’s invasion.”)
- The West’s unity over Ukraine could be starting to crack, just as Russia’s invasion gains ground (Possibly, but that headline seems overly pessimistic.)
- ‘It was worse than hell’: life in Mariupol under Russian occupation
- Putin wants to break and silence Navalny. We can’t let him.
- Why Biden Is Trying to Keep Naftali Bennett Afloat
- Police: Amazon fisherman confesses to killing missing pair
- Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Brazil police find two bodies in search for missing men (Bolsonaro has got to go.)
- Senior Islamic State Leader Captured In U.S.-Led Military Raid In Syria (“A U.S.-led global coalition fighting the Islamic State group says it has conducted a military operation in northern Syria to capture a senior leader from the extremist group.”)
- Something Extraordinary Is Happening in France (“After the first round of the country’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, the biggest challenge to Mr. Macron’s power comes not from the right but from the left. Over the next few years, it’s the other side of the spectrum that could in large part determine the country’s political direction.”)
- Stopping inflation is going to hurt (“The economy will feel worse before it feels better.”)
- Powell Sets Path to Restrain Economy and Stop Runaway Inflation
- How Americans will feel the squeeze from higher interest rates
- Fed Raises Rates By 0.75 Percentage Point, Largest Increase Since 1994
- Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
- U.S. Home Equity Hits Highest Level on Record—$27.8 Trillion
- Parents Anxious to Vaccinate Young Children Describe an Agonizing Wait
- Ivermectin doesn’t meaningfully aid COVID-19 recovery, study finds
- America Can Cut Emissions in Half by 2030—if We Choose To (“Renewables are cheap enough for us to decarbonize quickly. The politics are another matter.” Exactly. Just do it!)
- SEIA proposes how to extricate hundreds of gigawatts of solar from interconnection queues
- Biden calls on oil companies to increase production after months of massive profits
- Executive Order on Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals
- Biden launches plan to protect transgender youths’ health care
- Encrypted planning, high-power firearms make extremist threat in US unique: DOJ official
- Normalizing Mass Hysteria (“I would argue that we are now living in an age of political mass hysteria, one that, while led by Donald Trump’s election lies, encompasses the fanatical campaigns casting trans people as groomers, history teachers as indoctrinators and Covid precautions as politically toxic.”)
- Jan. 6 panel releases Loudermilk tour footage
- Even the ‘good’ lawyers didn’t blow the whistle on Trump. That was wrong.
- Cheney and other GOP truth-tellers have a critical role in the midterms (“Sane Republicans need to help defeat election deniers.”)
- Republicans Are Trying to Brush Off Jan. 6 Bombshells (“Yet 10 million tuned in Monday, as the committee detailed how those close to Trump didn’t buy his election lies. Members are trying to keep the momentum going ahead of Thursday’s hearing.”)
- January 6 Committee Releases Disturbing Footage of GOP Congressman Giving Capitol Tour to Man Who Said Was Going to “Take Out” Democratic Lawmakers on 1/6 (Horrifying)
- Man who attacked Capitol was given tour of building by Republican day before riot
- Before Jan. 6, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was given plans to occupy congressional buildings, Supreme Court
- Decoding Liz Cheney’s big hint about John Eastman — and Donald Trump
- Ginni Thomas corresponded with John Eastman, sources in Jan. 6 House investigation say
- What to watch for during today’s Jan. 6 hearing
- Third panel hearing will show Trump’s pressure on Pence to overturn election (“Aides say today’s session will make the case that Trump’s pressure campaign against the former Vice President ‘directly contributed’ to the violence”)
- Trump Lawyer Cited ‘Heated Fight’ Among Justices Over Election Suits
- There’s an election integrity crisis. But not the one Republicans claim.
- Analysis: Trump loyalists are positioning to fix the next election, undercutting Jan. 6 panel’s attempt to save democracy
- Who Is Financing Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ Caucus? Corporations You Know.
- Inflation could put election deniers in charge of our democracy
- Loudermilk Must Testify or Be Tossed from Congress
- Former federal Judge Michael Luttig has stark message for Jan. 6 committee (“America’s democracy was almost stolen from her.”)
- Photos show Vice President Mike Pence, family in hiding on Jan. 6: ABC News Exclusive
- How Trump’s right-wing media diet fueled his “bogus” election fraud conspiracy theories
- House GOP welcomes a new Chamber, declares war against the old one (“House Republicans welcomed to the Capitol on Wednesday a new self-described “anti-woke” business lobbying group, amplifying their hostility toward the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and broader “environmental, social and corporate governance” (ESG) movement.” The House GOP is an absolute disgrace.)
- Trump was ‘extremely disciplined in grifting’ and trying to use the presidency to make money, expert on fascism says
- The latest GOP primaries point to serious election chaos ahead
- Mitt Romney’s challenge to Joe Manchin — and to fellow Republicans
- Has Your State Made It Harder To Vote?
- AFL-CIO unveils plan to grow but some union leaders underwhelmed
- Biden’s rousing speech before the AFL-CIO is exactly the message Democrats need
- McConnell’s gun safety gamble
- Scoop: New CNN Boss Chris Licht Wants Staff to Stop Calling Trump’s Election Claims ‘The Big Lie’ (Uhhh…it actually IS a Big Lie!)
- Inside CNN, Lichtxiety Runs Amok
- National hate group monitor unmasks a Lehigh Valley-area publishing company peddling Nazi and fascist literature
- The Leader of Trump’s Favorite 2020 Election “Audit” May Be Disbarred After Courtroom Meltdown
- New Mexico’s Supreme Court orders county commission to certify vote
- Every state but Florida pre-ordered COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5
- Dr. Anthony Fauci tests positive for COVID-19 (The good news is that he’s vaxxed/boosted, so it almost certainly will be mild and not lead to hospitalization or death. And that, of course, is the main purpose of getting vaccinated!)
- Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is joining the Biden administration
- How Republican Demagoguery Brought Us the Anti-Gay U-Haul Nazis
- Abortions Have Already Been Stopped in Two States, Before Roe Ruling
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on the Uvalde massacre: “God has a plan” (Completely absurd, inappropriate thing to say.)
- Texas Governor’s Race Tightens In Wake Of School Mass Shooting
- Right-wing media see baseless conspiracy theories in the FBI arrest of Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley (Of course they do.)
- Nevada Republicans just nominated a Fox-promoted Big Lie candidate for U.S. Senate (“Adam Laxalt’s primary campaign benefited from friendly Fox News appearances — and campaign donations from Fox Corp. executives”)
- Herschel Walker Admits to Yet ANOTHER Secret Son (This guy is a scumbag in pretty much every way.)
- The Triumph of a Sometimes-Trump Republican (“South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace’s careful tightrope walk helped her win her primary, but it wasn’t the whole story.”)
- Texas agencies resist releasing public records that could help clarify response to Uvalde school shooting (Coverup.)
- Why the Chesapeake Bay’s Beloved Blue Crabs Are at an All-Time Low
- Video: On “All in With Chris Hayes,” Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05) Says “Team Normal Was “Late…to the National Bar Fight Between Facts and Fantasy” (“Individuals might be getting brave now, they might be coming out now after being quiet for so long, but Trump isn’t going away.”)
- Grading VA’s Leading Democratic, Republican U.S. House Candidates, Nominees on Arguably the Top Two Issues Facing Us: Democracy and the Climate Crisis (Almost all the Republicans are horrendous, including VA10 nominee Hung Cao, who believes that god will “never wipe out the world again, so it’s kind of arrogant for us to believe we can we can destroy god’s creation”)
- The NRA’s Advice to Kids: Run From Guns. But What If They Can’t? (“Rep. Rob Wittman has commended the NRA for its ‘Eddie Eagle’ program. It’s time to replace Wittman with Democrat Herb Jones.”)
- GOP Congressional primaries in Virginia clouded by 2020 election (The article is good, but the headline is horrendously bad. In fact, the GOP Congressional primaries in Virginia are “clouded” by Trump’s BIG LIE about the 2020 election. Why not say that in the headline? Lame.)
- Youngkin’s budget amendments include changes to education, abortion, and the gas tax
- Youngkin budget amendments target gas tax, education, inmate sentence credits
- Gov. Youngkin Announces 38 Budget Amendments; General Assembly to Vote Them Up or Down on Friday (Many legislators had urged that Youngkin NOT mess with a budget that is bipartisan and carefully crafted. But did he listen? LOL)
- Youngkin revives gas tax cut, skips Commanders stadium in budget plan
- Youngkin proposes budget changes on education, criminal justice and SCOTUS protests
- WaPo Report: VA’s Chief Public Health Official, Appointed by Youngkin, Is a Racist Nutjob Who Thinks “”If you say racism, you’re blaming White people” and “Gun violence is, frankly, a Democratic talking point.” (This guy only associates racism with “overt displays of violence, such as, ‘fire hoses, police dogs and Alabama sheriffs.'”)
- Advocates wonder why state Democrats didn’t pass an assault weapons ban when they were in power(How do you write an article like this without mentioning the fact that all Republican Senators plus Democratic Senators Chap Petersen, Lynwood Lewis, John Edwards and Creigh Deeds opposed the bill?)
- Virginia Board of Education pans Youngkin report on K-12 student achievement
- Shepardson: Voting rights for ex-felons shouldn’t be controversial in Virginia
- First Lego manufacturing facility in U.S. is coming to Virginia (“The Lego Group announced plans to build a $1 billion manufacturing facility in Virginia, its first factory in the United States.”)
- Chesterfield to house Lego’s only manufacturing facility in the U.S.
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 84% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations Down to 566 From ~4,000 in January; Both Up From a Couple Months Ago
- Right-Wing-Dominated Hanover County School Board Bans Student Walkouts, Nearly Bans Book on Police Killings of Black People (Because, Supposedly, “That Only Happens in the Inner Cities”)
- Hanover school board votes to keep ‘A Place Inside of Me’ on library shelves
- Hanover schools toughen penalties for student walkouts
- Richmond School Board adopts FY23 budget, increases bus driver pay
- Virginia Supreme Court to hear appeal in Loudoun County prosecutor’s criminal case (Biberaj blasted Fox 5’s reporting on this, by the way.)
- Human Rights Advocate, Community Organizer Nick Gothard Announces Run for Loudoun County School Board
- D.C.-area forecast: Storms threaten in the morning and evening today (“It’s steamy for now, but the weekend promises stunningly mild weather.”)
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