by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, September 18.
This speech literally could have been written by Goebbels. https://t.co/R6C8jKdUS0
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) September 18, 2022
- The world’s ice is melting. Humanity must prepare for the consequences.
- Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims
- China lost its Yangtze River dolphin. Climate change is coming for other species next
- Dollar’s Strength Spells Trouble for Global Economies
- Europe suffers fuel prices soar as Russia cuts natural gas supply
- UK: Russia likely to step up Ukraine civilian target attacks
- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
- Ukraine wants more weapons. But can Europe provide?
- Ukrainian strikes into Russia’s border towns compound Putin’s troubles
- Russians who killed boy’s parents in front of him may be investigated for war crimes
- Strikes and Fighting in Ukraine’s South Put Pressure on Russian Forces
- Russia’s pro-war activists sour on the conflict as Ukraine’s battlefield success breeds panic
- What Would a Ukraine Victory Look Like?
- Russia’s Use of Iranian Kamikaze Drones Creates New Dangers for Ukrainian Troops
- Biden: Putin using nuclear weapons would see “consequential” U.S. response
- EU urges war crimes tribunal over Ukraine killings
- India and China pull away from Russia
- Mahsa Amini: Women take headscarves off in protest at funeral
- Indigenous Community Reels After Stabbing Attacks in Canada
- China Steps Up Robotics Push as Workforce Shrinks
- Joe and Jill Biden fly to London for funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
- World leaders head to London for Queen Elizabeth II funeral
- China values UN relationship despite human rights criticism
- UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools ‘shameful’
- In a first, EU moves to cut money for Hungary over damaging democracy (It’s about f’ing time!)
- Bolsonaro’s quest to be Brazil’s top gun endangers the whole country (C’mon Brazil, VOTE BOLSONARO OUT!)
- America’s Christian majority is on track to end
- As Trump Inquiry Heats Up, Garland Says Divisions Imperil the Rule of Law
- ‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy
- Trump’s Former Accounting Firm Begins Turning Over Documents to Congress
- What the Martha’s Vineyard Stunt Says About the Trump Wannabes
- Normalizing Cruelty: The Mainstreaming of Authoritarianism and What It Reveals
- Echoing Trump, These Republicans Won’t Promise to Accept 2022 Results (This should be 100% disqualifying for holding any public office in America. Period.)
- Congress might finally ban members from conducting sketchy stock trades
- The Republicans Built a Time Machine, Powered by Racism (“This is who the party has always been, they just aren’t hiding it anymore.”)
- DeSantis Flying Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard Is Part of a 60-Year-Old Segregationist Playbook
- Special master ruling shows Trump’s takeover of courts has started to sting (Disastrous.)
- The Trump-appointed judge delivers the goods for her patron (We should treat this judge as completely illegitimate.)
- Justices join debate on Supreme Court’s legitimacy after abortion ruling
- 5th Circuit Rewrites A Century Of 1st Amendment Law To Argue Internet Companies Have No Right To Moderate
- Gaetz sought pardon related to Justice Department sex trafficking probe
- The story of the praying Bremerton coach keeps getting more surreal
- ‘Huge mistake’: DeSantis’ migrant transports could undercut support in South Florida (“The move by DeSantis dominated the radio and television airwaves in South Florida — where large swaths of Hispanic voters live.”)
- In Ohio, Vance scrambles to ramp up campaign after mounting GOP criticism
- Fetterman trolls Oz, Mastriano with ‘Jersey Boys’ meme following reports of voter registration in NJ
- Trump rallies for Vance — and himself — in Ohio
- The racist backlash to The Little Mermaid and Lord of The Rings is exhausting and extremely predictable (These people are the worst.)
- The Climate Divide: Lessons from mapping heat islands in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia
- Appalachian Voices Statement on Kaine-Warner FERC Pipeline Permitting Bill
- “Gov. Youngkin of VA is a transphobic bully…disgraceful, hateful and politically driven” (George Takei: “This is a culture war that Youngkin is cynically waging using the most vulnerable kids in Virginia schools as fodder.”)
- VA Senate Dems: “The actions by Youngkin’s Department of Education are an outright violation of Virginians’ civil rights” (Youngkin’s policies “perpetuate the national MAGA playbook of obliterating any inference of diversity, equity, or inclusion in our communities.”)
- Opinion: Don’t backpedal on pledge to teach all of Virginia’s history
- Va. students: Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s rollback of LGBTQ+ student rights ‘makes school unsafe’
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “We know it’s not over but have much of the fatigue that everyone else has.”
- Gibson: Va. state parks need more funding to reach full potential as outdoor classrooms
- UVa police working with FBI to solve recent hate crime
- D.C.-area forecast: Mostly sunny and very warm through midweek
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