by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, July 26.
Brave women and men in uniform across America should never forget that the defeated former president of the United States watched January 6th happen and didn’t have the spine to act.
In my remarks today to @noblenatl, I made that clear: https://t.co/pQ8E4IcZR1 pic.twitter.com/uO60QO0Wrz
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 25, 2022
- Analysis | Climate emergencies in other countries have been ‘wholly symbolic,’ activists say
- Europe Checks Its Thermostats as Russia Crimps Natural-Gas Supplies (“The European Union’s proposal to cut the fuel’s use by 15% is feasible but threatens to cause economic pain, analysts say”)
- Big Oil Set for Record Profit as World Reels From High Fuel Cost
- Europe Struggles to Cut Dependence on Russian Gas
- EU Nations Reach Agreement to Reduce Gas Use for Next Winter
- Russian gas cut to Europe hits economic hopes, Ukraine reports attacks on coastal regions
- Ukraine war: Russia waging gas war with Nord Stream 1 cuts – Zelensky
- Russia aims new air strikes at Black Sea coastal targets
- GOP civil war on Ukraine builds between MAGA, Reagan Republicans
- Griner’s drawn-out drug trial in Russia resumes
- Ukraine Is the Next Act in Putin’s Empire of Humiliation
- U.S. Officials Grow More Concerned About Potential Action by China on Taiwan
- Growing number in GOP back Pelosi on possible Taiwan trip
- Even by the Myanmar junta’s standards these four executions are cruel
- Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada
- Tory leadership debate: Five key moments from Truss-Sunak clash
- Truss and Sunak trade blows in acrimonious first TV debate
- Tunisia president speaks of ‘new phase’ as referendum set to give him almost total power (“President Kais Saied’s supporters celebrate on streets after forecast result likely to make him virtually impossible to remove from office” Disaster.)
- A sign that inflation is easing (“Shoppers have cut back, leaving Walmart with too much merchandise. To help clear out the backlog, the company is slashing prices.”)
- The Fed Is Struggling to Understand a Crazy Economy (“The models that economists have long relied on to analyze inflation have broken down since the coronavirus pandemic began.”)
- Fed Prepares Another Rate Increase as Wall Street Wonders What’s Next
- Investors Look Beyond Expected Fed Rate Rise
- U.S. solar industry jobs rose 9% in 2021, mainly in installation
- Biden administration weighs declaring monkeypox a health emergency
- I used to be optimistic about America’s future. Not anymore.
- New Jan. 6 Committee Video Shows Just How Reluctant Trump Was To Condemn Rioters
- New evidence shows Trump toned down his condemnation of the deadly Capitol attack
- Top Pence Aides Testify to Grand Jury in Jan. 6 Investigation
- Former Pence chief of staff appeared before grand jury probing Jan. 6: Sources
- Looks Like Justice Just Came Up Short—Marc Short, That Is
- Biden tears into Trump over violence against police hours before ex-president returns to D.C. for campaign-style speech
- Biden castigates Trump for failing to act during January 6 insurrection: ‘Donald Trump lacked the courage’
- Trump returns to a city poisoned by his legacy with an eye on 2024
- What do the Trumpists have planned? Turnkey authoritarianism.
- You’re Going to Miss the Deep State When It’s Gone (“The Wannabe Dictator”)
- Jan. 6 panel Dems throw shade at Senate bipartisan effort
- Arizona fake-electors subpoenas show breadth of DOJ Jan. 6 probe
- Why the right-wing media is fracturing in its defense of Trump
- Why Rupert Murdoch Is Finally Done with Donald Trump
- Wake me up when Sean Hannity editorializes against Trump
- No, the Murdochs haven’t turned on Trump (“The Murdochs may want some credit from the establishment for having their relatively high-brow outlets, the Journal and the Post, criticize Trump. But they also want to speak to the party’s Trumpist, pro-insurrection base. And so they are cheering on Tucker Carlson’s blood-soaked white nationalism, his deadly anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, and his reprehensible 1/6 trutherism.”)
- Fox News anchor Bret Baier slams Trump, saying January 6 hearings made him look ‘horrific’
- Congress sprints to address drug pricing, same-sex marriage and more before recess
- The country has a major microchip problem — and the Senate has a $52 billion solution
- Democrats are taking what they can get on Build Back Better
- Liz Cheney and Larry Hogan show what it means to stand against GOP lies
- Why Democrats’ Midterm Chances Don’t Hinge On Biden’s Approval Rating
- Biden poised for big wins in Congress (“After a long stretch when his legislative program stalled, President Biden and the Democrats appear ready to notch a string of victories.” We’ll see…)
- Steve Bannon Calls On ‘4,000 Shock Troops’ To ‘Deconstruct’ The Government ‘Brick By Brick’ (Why isn’t Bannon in prison yet?)
- Red states are building a nation within a nation (Handmaids Tale-style dystopias)
- Attorneys general will be at ground zero in the new abortion wars
- The Dystopian Myths of Red America
- Why Republicans Stopped Talking to the Press (“‘I just don’t see the point,’ said an adviser to a GOP presidential aspirant.”)
- Fox News attacked LGBTQ people on over 100 days in the first half of 2022 — including nearly 90% of days during Pride Month
- Election-denying extremist candidates Kari Lake and Doug Mastriano appear on Fox News for friendly interviews
- Senate candidate Blake Masters doesn’t just want to ‘build the wall.’ He’s building a dystopia
- Matt Gaetz Goes on Unhinged Rant
- GOP Senate Candidate J.D. Vance: If People Love Their Kids, They’ll Stay in Violent Marriages
- Gavin Newsom’s plan to save the Constitution by trolling the Supreme Court
- “It’s Crazy Like a Fox”: Why Democrats Have Poured Millions Into a Risky Strategy Elevating MAGA Republicans
- Gunmaker’s Super Bowl stunt sheds light on marketing of ‘America’s rifle’
- How Elise Stefanik Became ‘Ultra-MAGA and Proud of It’
- ‘A moral imperative’: how southern ministers are trying to change minds about the climate crisis
- GOP lawmaker attended gay son’s wedding 3 days after voting against same-sex marriage (Massive hypocrisy.)
- Sandy Hook Parents to Testify Against Alex Jones, and a Culture of Lies
- ‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’ is canceled by TBS after 7 seasons
- Kushner Says He Was Treated for Thyroid Cancer While in White House
- Uvalde school board pushes Greg Abbott for special legislative session to increase legal age for purchasing assault rifles
- Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) “releases unseen video of depositions and exhibits showing Trump crossed out line in prepared remarks on 1/7 that he would call on DOJ to prosecute Capitol attack rioters”
- Opinion/Editorial: “No” Good asks others to take risks (“Virginia Republican Reps. Morgan Griffith and Ben Cline joined Good to give the state a solid presence in the crackpot caucus that broke ranks with 176 Republicans who voted for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance. The crackpot caucus includes such notorious wackos as Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Matt Gaetz of Florida, and Madison Cawthon of North Carolina. No other state contributed as many no votes against Finland and Sweden as the Old Dominion.”)
- Congressman Beyer cites economic cost of gun violence in effort to spark change
- Report: FBI looking into how allegations against Justin Fairfax surfaced
- Former VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a Conservative But Non-Trumpist Republican, Asks, “why does the GOP insist on self destruction by nominating fringe candidates like [Dan] Cox to run for office?” (The answer, per David Atkins: “they’re not obsessed with the next election. They’re obsessed with building the Christian Nationalist Kingdom on earth”)
- A call to ban menhaden fishing from a surprising place
- Morgan: For Va. lab schools, the devil’s in the details
- Graphics: VA State Senators’ Fundraising in 2021-2022 vs. Four Years Earlier (Democrats dominate the top of the graphic, Republicans the bottom)
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 85% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations Down to 756 From ~4,000 in January; But at Highest Level Since Early March
- Documents, video related to use of tear gas on peaceful protesters released by Richmond police
- Richmond police have arrested dozens based on list of potential ‘shooters’ (“The majority of individuals being tracked and arrested in Operation Red Ball are public housing residents.”)
- Hanover NAACP asks county leaders to reconsider school board appointments
- Richmond City Council approves collective bargaining measure
- Norfolk mobile home park will be torn down to build apartments. All the residents must go.
- D.C.-area forecast: Less heat, more clouds, and occasional showers and storms
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