Tuesday News: “Dead dolphins: how nature became another casualty of the Ukraine war”; “Memo to Democrats: Hammer the GOP as complicit in Trump’s coup”; Fox “News” Won’t Air 1/6 Hearing; Youngkin Planning to Blow Up Budget Deal?

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, June 7.

• Bonn climate conference: World is “cooked” if we carry on with coal, US says
• ‘Climate shocks’ fueling multiple looming food crises, U.N. says
• Funding needed for climate disasters has risen ‘more than 800%’ in 20 years
• Russia’s progress on Popasna axis has stalled over the last week, Britain says
• Dead dolphins: how nature became another casualty of the Ukraine war (“Often overlooked amid the human suffering, Russia is inflicting lasting damage on wildlife and globally important wetlands”)
• Milley equates ‘horrors’ in Ukraine with suffering during World War II
• U.S. seeks to seize 2 luxury jets linked to Russian oligarch
• Exhausted Russian fighters complain of conditions in eastern Ukraine (“Long deployments and a lack of training, support, food and equipment all affecting morale as war drags on”)
• AP Exclusive: Russia begins returning bodies from steel mill
• Ukraine: Situation ‘changing every hour’ in Severodonetsk
• Russia focused on battle for Severodonetsk – Ukraine
• Ukraine war: EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout
• First on CNN: US Military investigating whether US service member carried out an insider attack on base in Syria that injured 4 Americans
• China secretly building PLA naval facility in Cambodia, Western officials say
• Boris Johnson wins vote but suffers large Tory rebellion
• Boris Johnson Has Only Delayed the Inevitable
• UK’s Johnson scrambles to regain authority after rebellion
• Rebels tell Boris Johnson rules could be changed to allow another challenge
• Can Chile’s Young President Reimagine the Latin American Left? (“Gabriel Boric promises sweeping social change. In a nation of duelling political extremes, he’ll need to sell his vision not just to his opponents but also to his allies.”)
• F.D.A. Panel to Weigh In on Covid Shots by Novavax, a Vaccine Latecomer
• How long covid could change the way we think about disability
• Inflation Is Poised to Ease According to These Three Key Indicators (“Prices for chips and shipping containers have come off peaks”)
• The Dishonest Debate Over Gas Prices (“No respectable journalistic outlet should discuss this issue without focusing their coverage on answering two fundamental questions.”)
• Biden takes executive action to increase US supplies of clean energy
• White House takes executive action to spur US solar manufacturing
• Solar stocks jump after Biden administration announces tariff suspensions
• Medication Abortion Will Be Crucial in a Post-Roe World. But It’s Not the Magic Fix Many Think It Is.
• Tuesday primaries test Democrats on crime, GOP on electability, Trump
• Jan. 6 Hearings Give Democrats a Chance to Recast Midterm Message
• Eric Holder on the violent past and imperiled future of voting
• How the defense of Trump foretells a possible new GOP era of extremism
• Report: Trump to Terrorize Nation With 2024 Announcement Soon
• Democrats, remember the Mueller report? Do the opposite in the Jan. 6 hearings.
• Jan. 6 insurrection: A viewer’s guide to 1st public hearing
• Proud Boys documentarian expected to testify at first Jan. 6 hearing
• Proud Boys leader Tarrio, 4 lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy
• Proud Boys Charged With Sedition in Capitol Attack
• Memo to Democrats: Hammer the GOP as complicit in Trump’s coup
• Trump on Trial: A Guide to the January 6 Hearings and the Question of Criminality
• Raskin says Jan. 6 panel has found more on Trump than ‘incitement’ (Lock. Him. Up.)
• Fake Trump electors in Ga. told to shroud plans in ‘secrecy,’ email shows
• Fox News Channel Will Not Carry Thursday’s Primetime Jan. 6 Committee Hearing (Kick them out of the White House press briefings, etc. Do NOT treat Fox “News” as a legitimate news organization, because it most certainly is not.)
• American Rasputin (“Steve Bannon is still scheming. And he’s still a threat to democracy.” How is he not in prison???)
• A Disturbing Percentage of Republicans Think Mass Shootings Are Just “Something We Have to Accept”
• GOP senators surprisingly bullish on prospects for a bipartisan gun deal (It’s almost certainly not going to contain much of anything, though…)
• The GOP spin on gun rights is wrong — morally and legally
• Surging AR-15 sales in Georgia reveal the gun industry’s dark side (“We’re hurtling in the direction of a maximally armed society.”)
• Most Americans don’t accept the mass slaughter of children. Why does the GOP?
• Manchin wants to raise age to 21 for gun purchases, doesn’t see need for AR-15s (If he’s serious, he’ll vote to ditch the filibuster and pass legislation accordingly.)
• It’s common sense to raise the minimum age for purchasing rifles
• Key GOP senators signal that raising age to buy semiautomatic weapons is off the table
• What a NY Republican abandoning his reelection says about gun reform
• Supreme Court May Hear ‘800-Pound Gorilla’ of Election Law Cases (Oh no…)
• The Supreme Court gives workers a backhanded victory (“Southwest Airlines v. Saxon carves out the narrowest exception to one of the Court’s most egregious anti-worker decisions.”)
• On crime and the economy, Republicans dictate the media narrative (“Wonder why you haven’t heard about Republican prosecutors struggling with increasing crime?”)
• Fox & Friends fearmongers that the “largest-ever migrant caravan” is gathering in Mexico
• EXCLUSIVE Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies
• NY governor signs law raising age to own semiautomatic rifle
• Elon Musk threatens to pull out of Twitter deal without more information about fake accounts.
• Musk’s ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ Won’t Get Him Out of Twitter Deal
• Texas Attorney General Opens Investigation of Twitter Bots (Abuse of state power.)
• California is about to experience a political earthquake (“In Los Angeles and San Francisco, two of the nation’s most liberal large cities, voters are poised to send stinging messages of discontent”)
• Chesa Boudin and the Limits of San Francisco Liberalism
• “Trumpian”: GOP pours money in SF recall
• Metro is short on trains, drivers — and public confidence
• The Washington Post suspends reporter David Weigel over sexist retweet
• The Washington Post Dumpster Fire Is Still Raging (“In this week’s edition of Confider, a multi-front war within WaPo is raging, resulting in the suspension of star reporter Dave Weigel and questions about editorial decisions.”)
• A Conservative Quits Georgetown’s Law School Amid Free Speech Fight (The NY Times headline whitewashes what the problems are with Shapiro – NOT that he’s a “conservative,” but that he’s said offensive, racist, nasty stuff.)
• Milo Yiannopoulos is an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene
• Opinion/Editorial: Spanberger has right idea to test gun legislation
• Kaine wants to bring ‘Virginia Plan’ for gun violence prevention to federal level
• Va. students question Tim Kaine on guns: After shootings, ‘nothing happens’ (“For more than an hour at an Arlington high school, the senator took questions, sought advice and explained in detail the hurdles facing numerous gun-control provisions.”)
• From Shenandoah Valley farms to the Chesapeake Bay: ‘Historic’ cleanup proposal included in state budget deal
• Federal judges quash effort to force Va. legislative elections this year
• Federal judges dismiss lawsuit seeking new Va. House elections this fall
• Court dismisses lawsuit seeking House elections this year
• Va. Gov. Youngkin hints at budget amendments on education, gas tax (“House Appropriations Committee Chairman Barry D. Knight (R-Virginia Beach) has urged the governor not to tinker with the budget, which emerged after months of negotiations with his counterpart in the Democratic-controlled Senate, Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Fairfax), chairwoman of her chamber’s Finance and Appropriations Committee.” Youngkin’s going to blow it all up?)
• Editorial: Paying for dental benefits
• Yoga Mats, Crayons, and Microwave Containers, Oh My! What the Virginia Department of Education is Buying for Private Schools with Federal COVID Money
• Cumberland beagle breeders shut down by Feds; Virginia toughens laws
• COVID-19 cases have climbed in Virginia over the spring
• Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 86% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations Down to 560 From ~4,000 in January; Both Up From a Couple Months Ago
• Siegel-Hawley: Commit to improve — not dismantle — public schools
• Virginia seeking more federal grants to carry out rail vision, including Richmond-Raleigh fast trains
• Walk for Appalachia’s Future Completes Two-Week Series of Events (The walk “connected community members and allies to highlight environmental damages caused by the fossil fuel industry, the need to cancel the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the interconnected fights for justice occurring across the region.”)
• Educators to Youngkin: SW Va. schools already innovating
• PolitiFact VA: Sen. Chap Petersen changes mind on Commanders football stadium in Northern Virginia (“Until May, Petersen publicly supported the NFL franchise locating in Virginia.”)
• Why Southwest Virginia Community College is adding housing
• Kelly Till named president and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the first woman to lead the organization in its 172-year history
• D.C.-area forecast: Clouds build with showers and storms tonight into Wednesday