by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, October 6.
- Study Finds Global Warming Fingerprint on 2022’s Northern Hemisphere Megadrought (“Long heatwaves in Eurasia and North America baked soils dry, threatening ecosystems and food production, and contributing to a cascade of compounding impacts that can reduce power supplies and increase heat deaths.”)
- Biggest polluting firms failing to disclose climate risks – study
- Climate Change Made Summer Hotter and Drier Worldwide, Study Finds
- Nearly half of the coal industry is still on an expansion course in ‘reckless’ mining rush (Utter insanity.)
- Climate policies to push global wind capacity past 2TW over coming decade (“A spate of positive climate policies around the globe is expected to drive big growth in the wind energy sector, according to analysts Wood Mackenzie.”)
- IMF-World Bank meetings are the last stop before a coming economic storm
- We Can Kick Our Coal-Burning Addiction. Here Are Some Ideas.
- How the war in Ukraine has remade Europe
- Russia in retreat on two fronts as Ukraine steps up counteroffensives
- Russia’s nuclear rhetoric is escalating. Here’s what we know about its arsenal.
- Vladimir Putin’s botched mobilisation triggers blame game in Russia
- EXPLAINER: Russia’s military woes mount amid Ukraine attacks
- Russian rockets slam into Ukrainian city near nuclear plant
- US believes elements within Ukraine’s government authorized assassination near Moscow, sources say
- Putin’s Draft Order Has Inspired a Russian Exodus (“I’ve never seen anything like this,” an advocate said. “It feels like a sort of popular resistance.”)
- Spurning annexations, Ukraine reclaims even more land; ‘You’ve already lost’ Kyiv tells Moscow
- Pathos and Panic: Russians Are Mobilized for an Undeclared War
- The Saudis Keep Picking Sides, and It Never Seems to be Ours
- OPEC’s October Surprise: Higher gas prices a boon to Putin, the Saudis — and Republicans
- Washington sees OPEC+ oil production cuts as a political ‘blow against Biden,’ says Dan Yergin
- Biden’s new Saudi strategy (Time to seriously reevaluate this entire relationship, including weapons sales, etc.)
- U.S. delivers angry rebuke of massive OPEC+ production cut — and it could backfire for Saudi Arabia
- U.S. slams Beijing and Moscow after latest North Korean missile tests
- 35 killed in attack beginning at Thailand childcare center
- U.S. Plans to Ease Venezuela Sanctions, Enabling Chevron to Pump Oil
- Mexico mayor assassinated in town hall massacre
- Macron’s New Europe Debuts in the Shadow of War (“President Emmanuel Macron of France sees the European Political Community as a way to stir new thinking amid the war in Ukraine and an energy crisis. Whether the 44-nation group, convening today for the first time, follows his lead is unclear.”)
- Op-Ed: Hurricane Ian and the coming climate crash
- The Climate Economy Is About to Explode (“A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks.”)
- US wind, solar tripled over the past decade: analysis
- Long COVID is still disabling millions of Americans
- U.S. court allows Justice Dept to fast-track appeal in Trump case
- 66 clinics across 15 states have stopped offering abortions post-Roe
- Why is the Army punishing a general for calling out MAGA lies? (This is beyond bizarre.)
- How the GOP counts on Democrats’ goodwill to conceal its own cruelty
- House Rating Changes: Ten Races Shift, Mostly Towards Democrats
- In key battlegrounds, GOP onslaught of crime ads tightens Senate races (Totally predictable. The question is, are Dems ever ready for this?)
- NPR poll shows Biden’s approval rating is up but there are warning signs for Democrats (This is such an embarrassing and cliched formula – always has to be a “but” after any good news for Democrats, with some blather about how there’s actually BAD news for Democrats.)
- Whoops! Behold the Republican Trove of Truly Terrible Candidates.
- Republicans have found the 2022 version of ‘death panels’ (“The scary Halloween tale of 87,000 agents will be appearing on a TV screen near you.”)
- Can blue-collar Pennsylvania help save the Democratic House?
- VP was in car accident; Secret Service first called it ‘mechanical failure’
- A Twitter trial would expose Elon Musk to scrutiny. Buying Twitter might help him avoid it.
- Musk, Twitter at Odds Over Terms to Close Deal
- Elon Musk’s Incredible Shrinking Future (Among other things, he’s also now pushing pro-Putin propaganda. Do NOT buy a Tesla or anything else from one of his companies.)
- Why Marjorie Taylor Greene is raging about the Biden ‘regime’ (“A dark turn in right wing propaganda signals political instability ahead.”)
- Cheney warns Arizona voters that the GOP nominees for governor and secretary of state are threats to democracy
- She Had an Abortion With Herschel Walker. She Also Had a Child With Him.
- Walker responds to abortion story with words, but legal action has yet to follow (With utterly meaningless and nonsensical words.)
- FOX 5 Poll: Raphael Warnock leads Herschel Walker after abortion allegations
- Mainstream outlets downplay Christian Walker’s allegation that his father Herschel threatened to kill him and his mother (The political media in this country is a disgrace.)
- Why Democrats Have a Good Shot at North Carolina’s Open Senate Seat (“Cheri Beasley is in dead heat against Republican Ted Budd, giving Democrats renewed hope in a high-stakes Senate race that has gone under the radar this midterms cycle.”)
- Walker’s Christian fans unfazed by abortion revelations (So yeah, they’re completely full of it.)
- Herschel Walker’s Son Is No Hero
- Oregon’s GOP Candidate For Governor Is Tying Herself To Violent Extremists
- “I Held Onto My Dogs Extra Hard”: Will Puppygate Sink Dr. Oz’S Senate Campaign? (“The revelation that Oz’s research experiments reportedly killed over 300 dogs and an ‘entire litter of puppies’ may be the final nail in the coffin.”)
- Wes Moore bids to become Maryland governor: ‘I’m running against an insurrectionist’
- California family kidnapped on Monday found dead, Sheriff says (Horrifying.)
- States not on track to meet 2025 Chesapeake Bay goals, says report
- Tourism CEO says Youngkin ad agency hired partly because of ‘familiarity’ with governor (“No other firms submitted a bid to produce the video, and the ad agency, Poolhouse, has no record of doing work for state agencies on the commonwealth’s procurement site.”)
- Schapiro: Riggleman asks, ‘Do we want the lunatics running the asylum?’
- Virginia paid Gov. Youngkin’s political ad agency $268K to make a tourism ad — featuring Youngkin.
- “This is a clear misuse of taxpayer dollars for Youngkin’s own political gain. There should be an immediate investigation into this corruption” (VA House Dems Leader Don Scott: “The Office of the Inspector General needs to investigate how this was able to happen.”)
- Democrats call for review of how Youngkin political consultant won $268K tourism ad contract
- DPNM and DPVA: Ronchetti and Youngkin Team Up Against Abortion Access (Ronchetti’s an NRA-endorsed candidate who brags that he’s a “proud conservative who supports President Trump”)
- IT issues stall voter-records processing for 107,000 in Virginia (“State election officials would not detail the source of problem, say how it came to their attention or explain how it was addressed.” WTF???)
- Jason Miyares’s ‘Election Integrity Unit’ is a sham
- Virginia traffic deaths are back up again. Can road safety improvements help?
- Virginians can pay a new fee by mile. It’s already nation’s largest system.
- Black bears in Virginia are itchy and losing fur as mange spikes
- Homicides trending down in Richmond
- ‘A hero’ — Arlington NAACP VP remembered after being shot dead in Turks and Caicos
- Arlington civil rights leader killed in Turks and Caicos shooting
- D.C.-area forecast: Sun and lots of it through the weekend
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