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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, August 9.
The FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago is an unprecedented action in reaction to an unprecedented presidency.
We have never had a president who sought to overturn an election and summon a mob to DC as Donald Trump did on January 6th. pic.twitter.com/eFfEy4KPvo
— Rep. Elaine Luria (@RepElaineLuria) August 9, 2022
- Climate impacts have worsened vast range of human diseases
- Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases
- Hotter nights could increase global mortality rates, a study warns
- Climate change stress is prematurely aging lizards
- There should be no impunity for Russia’s slaughter of POWs
- Moscow steps up assault in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv calls for ‘ban’ on Russians
- Russia suspends inspections stipulated in New START arms control treaty
- Zelensky calls on West to ban all Russian travelers
- Ukrainian resistance grows in Russian-occupied areas
- What’s up with Amnesty International and its moral myopia on Ukraine?
- Pentagon still assesses China will not invade Taiwan in next 2 years
- China used drills to prepare for invasion, Taiwan foreign minister says
- EU Presents ‘Final Text’ to Iran for Reviving Nuclear Deal
- Germany is finally acting like Europe’s major power
- The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West
- Right-wing media spend a week rallying around Viktor Orbán – after he gave what his own aide called a “pure Nazi speech”
- What America’s Great Unwinding Would Mean for the World (“The conundrum facing America’s allies is how to cope with a great imperial power in decline that is still a great imperial power.”)
- Did Democrats Just Save Civilization?
- US Set to Deliver More Offshore Wind Energy in New Climate Bill
- With robust job numbers and falling gas prices, consumer concerns about inflation ease
- Trump Is Soiling Himself Over Mar-a-Lago Getting “Raided” By FBI, and In Fairness, He Should Be
- What we know, and what we don’t know, about the FBI’s raid on Donald Trump (“Trump is possibly in legal jeopardy, but we don’t know yet what charges he could face, if any at all.”)
- What’s in Trump’s Safe the FBI Raided?
- The Mar-A-Lago Raid Proves the U.S. Isn’t a Banana Republic (“A bedrock principle is that no one—not even the president, much less the former president—is above the law, and if they commit crimes they must answer for them.”)
- FBI Search Focused on Material Trump Brought From White House
- McCarthy threatens to probe Garland after Trump FBI raid (Obstruction of justice?)
- FBI searches Trump safe at Mar-a-Lago Club, former president says
- Fox is furiously poisoning the well after the Mar-a-Lago search (“Partisan witch hunt,” “dark day for our republic,” “preemptive coup,” “Third World bullshit,” “Gestapo,” “Stasi”)
- Top Republicans echo Trump’s evidence-free claims to discredit FBI search
- FBI searches Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and seizes documents (“Sources say the Monday morning search was part of an inquiry into missing White House records after Trump’s presidency”)
- New Book Chronicles Trump’s Fraught Relationship With Top Military Officials (“Fraught relationship” is one way to put it. A mealy-mouthed, uninformative way.)
- Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals (“How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.”)
- Alex Jones’s Text Messages Turned Over to House Jan. 6 Committee
- Tucker Carlson ‘Shitting Himself’ Scared That His Alex Jones Texts May Leak
- Biden begins his victory lap after string of legislative wins
- Can Biden capitalise on legislative victories?
- Learning from failures: How Biden scored win on climate plan
- Alexander Vindman on Trump as “cult leader” and the line from Jan. 6 to Putin’s war on Ukraine
- Report: Trump Wanted His Military Leaders to Pretend He Was Adolf Hitler (“Nothing to see here, just the then leader of the free world modeling his management style off of a genocidal maniac.”)
- How many nutty stances can one party take? (“Even the slickest candidate would have a hard time peddling the GOP’s agenda.”)
- Liz Cheney is the Obi-Wan to Trump’s Darth Vader
- This is what happens when the party in charge cares about governing
- The Dems are no longer in disarray, but the GOP is goofing off (“It’s so unusual to see the Democratic Party acting like a well-oiled machine that it’s almost hard to recognize good news when it arrives.”)
- Biden deserves kudos for diverse judges. But White men still dominate.
- Meanwhile, Congress is set to pass a huge wildlife conservation bill with bipartisan support
- GOP tempers expectations for Senate majority
- Steve Bannon throws support behind Alex Jones: “They’re trying to break you as a man and they’re trying to break your incredible organization” (Evil.)
- “Peak Trump” Reached as Ex-President Appears Concurrently in News Stories About Both Toilets and Hitler
- Republicans turn on each other amid post-Roe chaos
- GOP Sen. Tim Scott Claims Democrats Want Abortions Up To 52 Weeks (Of course, women are only pregnant for about 9 months, or 40 weeks.)
- Why Are Pro-Choice Groups Furious Over a Bill To Codify Roe? (“The same way that you can’t be a little bit pregnant, advocates say you can’t be a little bit pro-choice”)
- Senate’s must-pass defense bill eyed for rollback of ‘zombie’ war powers
- ‘Overwhelmed’: Cops combat violent crime as ranks dwindle
- In Lawsuits, Ex-Employees Offer Harsh Portrait of Project Veritas
- Brandon returns, darkly: Democrats turn an insult into a pro-Biden meme
- 6 Races To Watch This Primary Election Day (“Abortion rights, Trump’s election lies and the power of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing are on the ballot in Wisconsin, Vermont and Minnesota.”)
- Welcome to the strangest Senate race in America (That would be in Utah.)
- Michigan Officials Push to Investigate G.O.P. Candidate in 2020 Election Scheme
- 2 Democratic lawmakers encourage Wyoming voters: Change parties and back Cheney
- Progressive group polling finds Ron DeSantis may be in a closer race than expected
- Doug Mastriano, Trump ally and candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, to appear before January 6 committee Tuesday
- Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million
- How Axios Will Shake Out After $525 Million Sale to Cox
- David McCullough, master chronicler of American history, dies at 89 (I read several of his books. Rest in peace, sir!)
- David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89
- ‘Grease’ co-stars, friends and fans pay tribute to Olivia Newton-John (Rest in peace.)
- Father and son sentenced to life in prison for federal hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing
- New Questions for Far-Right Extremist, VA07 Republican Nominee Yesli Vega, Who Just Shared the CPAC Stage With “an anti-Semitic dictator, election deniers, so-called Christian nationalists…”
- Virginians’ Reactions, From Smart/Informed (Barbara Comstock, Gene Rossi, etc.) to Completely Unhinged (Amanda Chase and Bob Good), to the FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago
- Supposed “Moderate” Glenn Youngkin Has Endorsed Numerous US House Candidates Who Push the 2020 Election “Big Lie,” Believe the 1/6/21 Insurrection Was a “Hoax,” etc.
- Opinion/Editorial: We must unite to bring justice to hate groups
- Watchdog files lawsuit requesting records related to Va. teacher tip line
- Va. Gov. Youngkin faces second suit over teacher tip line (“Nonprofit ethics watchdog group American Oversight and the law firm Ballard Spahr filed the suit Monday in Arlington County Circuit Court. The suit seeks documents that show how Youngkin (R) and his staff used the tip line, including how they responded to tips submitted.”)
- Democrat claims Gov. Youngkin wants to ban the word ‘homosexuality’ in Virginia schools (Sen. Louise Lucas is correct, as usual.)
- DPVA: “Today, Governor Youngkin’s Deputy Secretary for Public Safety used an anti-Semitic dog whistle” (Of course, this is the same loaded language Youngkin himself has used in the past…)
- Editorial: Hope for mental health hotline (“Now that a mental health crisis hotline is up and running, Virginia must make sure it works effectively.”)
- Virginia weighs changes to ‘fuzzy’ recall system that lets judges remove local officials
- Statewide police conduct standards will soon be enforceable almost two years after law passed
- Virginia’s teacher shortage is fueling big spending on recruitment and retention
- Virginia’s new tax break for teachers buying school supplies won’t go far, union says. Bill’s sponsors say it’s a start.
- CCAN: “With this ruling [by the State Corporation Commission], Virginia is poised to take its place as a climate leader by ushering in more offshore wind than anywhere else in the country” (“Virginia’s clean energy future is on the horizon.”)
- Monday Virginia COVID-19 Stats: 10-Day New Cases at 27,042; Hospitalizations at 737 (Near Highest Level Since Early March)
- High-speed rail remains a faraway dream in Virginia
- RPD shares quarterly crime update, dodges Dogwood Dell questions
- Virginia Tech announces COVID-19 safety protocols for fall semester
- Shepherd: Landmark legislation protects Va. from climate crisis
- Tenants of Seaview Lofts apartments sue owner, allege housing violations have left some battling depression and sleeping in cars
- White supremacist attack in Charlottesville brought unfair housing issues to forefront
- CASEY: Is 8 years in prison enough for this Jan. 6 insurrectionist?
- Roanoke Gas Co. seeks state approval of renewable energy project
- Virginia Beach teenager who’s planted thousands of trees wins national recognition
- D.C.-area forecast: Oppressive heat and humidity before outrageously nice weekend
