by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, September 15.
- Where Thick Ice Sheets in Antarctica Meet the Ground, Small Changes Could Have Big Consequences
- China Is Writing the Story of the Climate Future (“But if China is doing much more damage now to the future of the climate than any other nation, it is also the case that the country has been the strongest force for clean energy over the past decade. Last year, China installed more renewable capacity than was rolled out in the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa combined.”)
- “Remarkable:” South Australia may soon be first big grid to run on renewables only
- Europe Moves to End Russian Gas Dependence, but Households Are a Wild Card
- Ostracized by the West, Russia Finds a Partner in Saudi Arabia (We need to ditch oil for many reasons, including so that we can tell oil-producing countries where to shove it.)
- Ukraine’s Zelenskiy sees damage in recaptured towns; Russia strikes city water system
- Putin, Zelenskyy court major allies as Ukraine makes gains
- Russian forces strike dam, flooding parts of Kryvyi Rih city; President Zelenskyy involved in car accident
- Xi, Putin hold summit in Uzbekistan as Ukraine war dominates
- Biden’s Ukraine policy may not win an election. But it matters anyway.
- Trump told Jordan’s king he would give him the West Bank, shocking Abdullah II, book says
- In Dramatic Shift, Right-Wing Bloc Wins Slim Majority in Sweden (“Despite the success of the far-right Sweden Democrats, they will influence but are not expected to be formally part of the governing coalition.”)
- Exclusive: Biden urges Mexico to take migrants under COVID expulsion order he promised to end
- Oil Executives Privately Contradicted Public Statements on Climate, Files Show
- House Committee Investigates the Role of PR Firms in Spreading Climate Disinformation (A lot of PR firms are really evil.)
- Biden says a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike
- US Railroads, Unions Reach Tentative Pact on Eve of Deadline
- Biden announces tentative labor agreement to avert national rail strike
- Biden Says Tentative Railway Labor Agreement Reached
- U.S. installed a record 2.6 GWh of grid-scale energy storage in Q2
- The Inflation Picture Isn’t as Negative as Republicans Are Saying
- Biden approval rises sharply ahead of midterms: AP-NORC poll
- U.S. Population Growth Has Nearly Flatlined. Is That So Bad? (Overall, a stable world population would be a great thing.)
- Insurers force change on police departments long resistant to it
- Elena Kagan to her colleagues: You’re why the Supreme Court has lost legitimacy
- Kagan repeats warning that Supreme Court is damaging its legitimacy
- Supreme Court rejects Orthodox Jewish university’s emergency request to deny official recognition to LGBTQ student group
- Biden outpacing Trump with blistering pace of judicial confirmations
- Ken Starr’s tragic misjudgment lives on in our politics (“Kenneth Starr has died, and John Durham’s probe has fizzled. Republicans though they’d both deliver the goods, and they both failed.”)
- Why every conspiracy Republicans imagine eventually crumbles to dust
- The Fox-fueled Durham probe is ending with a whimper (Pathetic joke.)
- How Trump Spread Incitement of Violence Throughout the GOP
- Fox News Poll: Inflation, abortion motivating voter turnout
- Christians in the US could be a minority group by 2070, study finds
- Jan. 6 panel’s subpoena yields “thousands” of Secret Service records
- Will the January 6 Committee End With a Bang or a Whimper?
- Trump’s legal problems multiply as his excuses disappear
- Exclusive: Mark Meadows complied with DOJ subpoena in January 6 probe
- Jeffrey Clark told DC Bar that DOJ search of his home linked to false statements, conspiracy, obstruction investigation
- Hidden hand involved in Stewart Rhodes’ bid to derail Oath Keepers Jan. 6 trial
- Oath Keepers lawyer and federal judge in screaming match in court over US Capitol riot case
- McConnell’s renegades (“Two of the highest-profile Republicans in the Senate are publicly defying Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on high-stakes issues vital to the GOP’s chances of retaking the majority”)
- Graham delivered a gift to Democrats: Proof of GOP’s abortion extremism
- McConnell, Rick Scott on collision course over spending deal
- Lindsey Graham Caught the Garbage Truck
- Graham’s 15-week abortion ban gives the endgame away
- Graham’s abortion bill is hypocritical — and dangerous
- Lindsey Graham’s Unbelievably Cruel Abortion Ban
- Lindsey Graham Doesn’t Care If His Abortion Ban Will Force Women to Give Birth to Children With No Chance of Survival
- Mitch McConnell’s Refusal to Seat Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court Is Coming Back to Haunt Him
- Prof. Thomas Zimmer: Trumpists Are “animated by ideology and conviction rather than blind, nihilistic rage, mak[ing] the threat to American democracy more, not less acute” (Their goal? To reverse the “supposed victimization of white Christians” and to destroy “an egalitarian, multiracial, pluralistic order.”)
- Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company
- Patagonia founder gives away company, ensuring profits go to fight climate change (“We’re making Earth our only shareholder.”)
- ‘You’re blowing this’: New book reveals Melania Trump criticized her husband’s handling of Covid
- Florida Flies 2 Planeloads of Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard (Insane shit yet again by fascist Ron DeSantis.)
- Georgia Governor’s Race: Too Close To Call, Quinnipiac University Georgia Poll Finds; Georgia Senate Race: Warnock Leads Walker 52% – 46%
- Doctored videos exacerbate Fetterman speech issues in viral social media posts
- Fetterman Has Issue Edge over Oz
- Mastriano Ally: God Told Me Prince Charles Would Murder Queen Elizabeth
- Donald Trump’s visit to his Virginia golf course was in preparation for 2023 LIV Golf event
- Debunking This Morning’s “Slow Boring” Article, Which Argues, “Let Joe Manchin have his pipeline already” (There are numerous questionable, unsupported, and/or false statements in this article regarding natural gas in general and the Mountain Valley Pipeline specifically.)
- This Candidate Thinks The 2020 Election Was Illegitimate. But He’d Rather You Didn’t Know That.
- With Metro struggling, the D.C. region will not recover
- Near-total abortion ban with narrow exceptions takes effect in Indiana
- Kiggans Backers Introduce National Abortion Ban After She Claims it’s a “State-Level Issue” (“Congressional Republicans made clear what we have long known: their goal is to pass an extreme national abortion ban”)
- Rep. Luria, member of Jan. 6 committee, gets Norfolk security detail
- Kiggans talks up 15-week abortion ban but won’t say if she’d vote for it
- The Kiggans campaign implies she would support a 15-week ban on abortion
- VIDEO: DPVA Releases New Video on Yesli Vega’s Embarrassing Kevin McCarthy Flip-Flop (“The only thing Virginians can trust Vega to do is impose an extreme agenda that includes banning abortion”)
- Youngkin travel records show dozen out-of-state trips since March
- Virginia Board of Education to hold history standards hearings in October
- Editorial: Undermining election trust (“The attorney general’s ‘Election Integrity Unit’ is more likely to undermine confidence in Virginia elections than to bolster it.”)
- Virginia NAACP Demands Attorney General Jason Miyares Disband His “Elections Integrity” Unit
- Advocates say child poverty rates in Virginia are low thanks to pandemic-related relief
- A hydrogen plant could rise near a former King George coal plant
- Hanover School Board member accused of violating federal student privacy law
- Diamond District plans attempt to balance the needs of cyclists, pedestrians and drivers
- D.C.-area forecast: Plenty of sun through the weekend, with building warmth
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