Tuesday News: “Jan. 6 Panel Abruptly Sets Tuesday Hearing on ‘Recently Obtained Evidence’”; “There’s another War Between the States coming over abortion”; “How the GOP threat in 2022 just got much uglier after Roe”; Daily Progress Compares Del. John McGuire (R) to “torch-bearing Neo-Nazis…chanting their lies”

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, June 28.

• Deaths, Costs of Climate-Linked Disasters May Be Grossly Undercounted
• Climate change role clear in many extreme events but social factors also key, study finds
• The Hottest Investor in Renewables Is a Big Oil Producer (“Seeking international clout, the United Arab Emirates is emerging as the world’s biggest state financier of clean energy while remaining a influential investor in oil and gas”)
• Can Dual-Use Solar Panels Provide Power and Share Space With Crops?
• Rescuers dig for survivors after Russian missiles demolish Ukrainian shopping mall
• World leaders condemn Russian attack on Ukraine shopping centre
• A missile strike hit a shopping center with 1,000 people inside, Zelensky says. (Putin and numerous others in his regime should be charge with war crimes and prosecuted if possible.)
• Russia slides into historic debt default as payment period expires
• G-7 leaders wrap up summit meant to bolster Ukraine support
• The AP Interview: Spanish PM says NATO summit to show unity
• G-7 leaders pledge $5 billion to combat food crisis stoked by Russia’s war in Ukraine
• Europe Has an America Problem
• G-7 Meeting to Conclude With Focus on China
• How the GOP threat in 2022 just got much uglier after Roe (“Abortion bans could soon come to blue-leaning swing states. And that’s only the beginning.”)
• Why Did Republicans Become So Extreme?
• Kevin McCarthy’s Overtures To Extremists Might Come Back To Bite Him (“Kevin McCarthy spent years emboldening conspiracy theorists and election-deniers who now may not want him to be their speaker, if Republicans take back the House.”)
• Nobelist Maria Ressa: Social media is corroding U.S. democracy
• Democrats Press for a More Assertive White House Response to Roe’s Reversal
• Why US women are deleting their period tracking apps
• Supreme Court pushes divided nation closer to breaking point
• White House Dodges Calls to Use Federal Property for Abortions After Roe Ruling
• Roe Rage (“Who knew losing our rights would feel this bad?”)
• Ex-RNC chair: Republicans will ‘absolutely’ kill filibuster to pass nationwide abortion ban
• Did violence follow Roe decision? Yes — almost all of it against pro-choice protesters
• Citizens No More
• Roe Is the New Prohibition — The culture war raged most hotly from the ’70s to the next century’s ’20s.
• Supreme Court Takes a Knee For School Prayer (“The Court’s conservatives struck another blow against the separation of church and state by ruling to protect highly performative prayer.”)
• It’s not a court. It’s a junta.
• The ‘pursuit of happiness’ means having the right to privacy
• Republicans need to answer hard questions about women’s lives (“Democrats can expose Republicans’ contempt for women.”)
• U.S. Supreme Court takes aim at separation of church and state
• The Supreme Court hands the religious right a big victory by lying about the facts of a case (This decision completely violates the separation of church and state, which absolutely WAS the intent of the Framers, and does so based on LIES. This 6-3 extremist Court is completely f’ed up and we should have ZERO respect for it at this point.)
• Mitch McConnell’s Court Delivers
• Frustration, anger rising among Democrats over caution on abortion
• Abortion deserves a sober debate. Instead, it gets a war of unreason.
• Pelosi signals votes to codify key SCOTUS rulings, protect abortion
• Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data
• The last institutionalists are the leaders of the Democratic Party (They’re wrong about this Supreme Court, which is completely illegitimate, extremist and “rogue” in the sense that it’s not even close to adhering to the U.S. constitution, “original intent” of the Framers or the rule of law. So why on earth should we obey these legal insurrectionists?)
• Why the Post-Roe GOP Will Only Get More Radical (“Ending Roe is just the start”)
• Biden’s chance to go bolder on abortion rights
• Thomas and Alito Are Appropriating Racial Justice to Push a Radical Agenda (“Cynical whataboutism is the conservative legal movement’s new ploy.”)
• There’s another War Between the States coming over abortion (“Before the Civil War, Northern and Southern states did battle over fugitive slaves. Once again, something legal in one state is illegal in a state next door.”)
• The Supreme Court’s right-wing revolution isn’t slowing a bit
• Judges Block Utah and Louisiana Abortion Laws Amid Flurry of Legal Action
• Federal Agents Seized Phone of John Eastman, Key Figure in Jan. 6 Plan
• Former Meadows aide will testify before January 6 committee on Tuesday, sources say
• Jan. 6 Panel Abruptly Sets Tuesday Hearing on ‘Recently Obtained Evidence’
• January 6 committee focuses on phone calls among Trump’s children and aides weeks before election
• After Roe, mainstream outlets are pretending conservatives actually care about children (Disgraceful.)
• 21 Republican Primaries And A Special Election To Watch On June 28
• Raphael Warnock’s push for a new America
• NY Times uncritically cites anti-immigrant “hate group” Center for Immigration Studies (“On June 25, The New York Times published an article on the suspension of a Biden administration policy that ordered law enforcement to prioritize the arrest of undocumented immigrants who are considered a threat to public safety and national security. In its reporting, the Times quoted the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigrant group with roots in the white supremacy eugenics movement, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group.”)
• CVS, Rite Aid Ration Contraceptive Pills as Demand Surges
• Texas Sued by ACLU Over ‘Antiquated’ Pre-Roe Abortion Ban
• Facebook Is Banning People Who Say They Will Mail Abortion Pills (Facebook is a disaster for a host of reasons.)
• Instagram restricts some abortion resource posts and hashtags
• Live Updates: At Least 46 Migrants Found Dead in San Antonio
• 46 Migrants Found Dead Inside Tractor-Trailer Near (“At least 16 others were taken to hospitals after the rig was found abandoned on the outskirts of the Texas city.”)
• Sean Hannity endorses Justice Thomas’ call for the Supreme Court to review rulings on contraception and anti-LGBTQ sodomy laws (Hannity is evil.)
• Clarence Thomas hasn’t given up on toppling New York Times v. Sullivan
• Rudy Giuliani gets caught in another lie — at a supermarket (Giuliani is the one who should face charges.)
• Rudy Giuliani Says Guy Who Tapped His Back in Supermarket Should Be Thrown in Prison (“The former mayor of NYC claims he could have been killed by the “assault.” Video footage suggests, shockingly, that he is full of s–t.”)
• Joe Manchin is quietly pushing Democrats into another catastrophe (“If they don’t fix this soon, millions of Americans will see their insurance premiums spike.”)
• Alex Wagner to Succeed Rachel Maddow at MSNBC
• Ghislaine Maxwell to be sentenced in Epstein sex abuse case
• Ghislaine Maxwell prosecutors seek up to 55-year sentence for sex trafficking (“Maxwell, 60, faces 30 to 55 years in prison after she was found guilty of procuring teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse”)
• Scoop: Spanberger rival Yesli Vega doubts pregnancy after rape
• Republican Yesli Vega Falsely Suggests Rape Victims Are Unlikely to Get Pregnant
• “What does anti-abortion #VA7 candidate Yesli Vega have in common with the late Todd Akin? She thinks it’s harder to get pregnant from rape.” (Akin’s insane/extremist comments destroyed his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2012. Vega’s insane/extremist comments should do the same for her VA07 bid in 2022!)
• In Stark Contrast to Her Ignorant, Extreme Republican Opponent, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07)’s Well-Informed, Well-Reasoned Voice Is One We BADLY Need in Congress!
• DPVA Chair: “I am stunned by Yesli Vega’s comments. They are deeply hateful, offensive and an insult to all rape victims” (In stark contrast, Rep. Abigail Spanberger “is a staunch defender of a woman’s right to choose and the fundamental right to privacy”)
• PolitiFact VA: Black Virginians are disproportionately killed in gun homicides
• Virginia’s top health official needs an education on racism (Actually, he needs to be fired.)
• The long road to overturning Roe started in Virginia (“Before the creation of Moral Majority, which played a huge role in the 1980 national elections, its leader, the Rev. Jerry Falwell of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va., became involved in two political campaigns in Virginia that gave him the confidence that he and other religious conservative leaders could become a powerful national political force.”)
• Virginia health department employees who sought telework say Greene requested medical records (“Individuals interviewed by VPM News said they expected to turn over medical paperwork to the human resources department — not the state health commissioner.”)
• Retirements transform state finance agencies
• Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 88% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations Down to 529 From ~4,000 in January; Both Up From a Couple Months Ago
• How would Virginia prosecutors respond to a 15-week abortion ban?
• Virginia took in less trash from out of state in 2021 (but still a lot)
• Virginia’s lingering pandemic-era eviction protections to end June 30. Here’s what it means in Hampton Roads.
• Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler comes out as bisexual at Virginia Beach Pride event
• Opinion/Editorial: Goochland delegate feeds the Big Lie (“Like the torch-bearing Neo-Nazis parading through the University of Virginia campus in 2017 chanting their lies, state Del. John McGuire has the First Amendment right to spread Donald Trump’s Big Lie that widespread voter fraud cost Trump the 2020 presidential election.”)
• D.C.-area forecast: Excellent Tuesday and Wednesday before 90s return late week