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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, October 18 (three weeks until election day 2022).
- Rich countries must urgently help poor nations hit by climate crisis, says V20
- EU produces record wind and solar energy as it shirks Russian gas
- ‘Bad situation’: Soaring US dollar spreads pain worldwide
- EU faces battle to keep energy prices from tanking economy
- 30% of Ukraine’s power stations destroyed in just over a week, Zelensky says
- Russian strikes prompt power cuts across Ukraine
- Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’
- Winter is coming: Ukrainians dig in for brutal season ahead
- Ex-empires Iran and Russia forge new bonds as both blame their woes on the West
- Most Ukrainians want to fight until victory, poll finds; power facilities hit again
- There’s One Country Keeping Putin’s Desperate Bombing Campaign Alive (Iran.)
- Fears for Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi after she competed in Seoul without a hijab (“Friends have been unable to contact athlete since Sunday, while embassy says she has returned home with rest of team”)
- Ukraine war: US says Iranian drones breach sanctions
- Missiles, exploding drones again hit Ukraine’s power, water
- Blinken Says China Wants to Seize Taiwan on ‘Much Faster Timeline’ (“China has made a decision to seize Taiwan on a “much faster timeline” than previously thought, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, shortly after China’s leader reiterated his intent to take the island by force if necessary.”)
- Saudi Arabia sentences U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets
- Germany extends nuclear power amid energy crisis
- A rare moment of public self-criticism by a former president (“Obama now feels that his initial stance on Iran was wrong, as he explained on Crooked Media’s “Pod Save America” podcast, run by a group of his former White House aides.”)
- Ex-UK pilots lured to help Chinese military, MoD says (Treason?)
- Biden just pulled off a big diplomatic victory — and almost no one noticed
- U.N. Security Council considers sending multinational force to Haiti
- Australia drops recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
- Countering GOP Inflation Misinformation
- When the Snow Crab is the Canary in the Coalmine
- Voters See Democracy in Peril, but Saving It Isn’t a Priority (And that will be the end of democracy right there.)
- The Justice Department is doing its job. Will voters? (Apparently not.)
- This election isn’t about inflation or abortion. It’s about whether democracy can survive (“Of course the economy and reproductive rights are important. But in the shadow of fascism, they almost don’t matter”)
- The “Litter Box in Schools” Lie Is a Litmus Test for Idiots
- The Secret Service’s mishandling of Jan. 6 demands a reckoning
- Scalise acknowledges GOP plan to change Social Security, Medicare
- The country is edging towards an abyss
- Preparing for Republican Debt Blackmail
- Jim Crow Should Have Made One Thing Clear (“In other words, too many Americans still think ‘it can’t happen here,’ when the truth is that it already has and may well again.”)
- Future Democratic stars at risk of getting wiped out in the midterms (“A number of second-term House Democrats are seen as future statewide candidates within their party.”)
- Biden administration officially opens application for student debt cancelation
- How Liberals Should Confront a Right-Wing Supreme Court
- Trump Hotels Charged Secret Service Exorbitant Rates, House Inquiry Finds
- Trump charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ rates at his hotels, records show
- The Incredible Mystery of How Trump Got Judge Cannon in the Mar-a-Lago Case (“There are a number of incredible coincidences that led to the former president getting his preferred judge.”)
- Trump’s Antisemitism Reaches New Heights
- Right-Wing Leaders Mobilize Corps of Election Activists (Very dangerous.)
- Kanye West’s antisemitism has no deeper meaning. Stop looking. (“The temptation to analyze the artist now known as Ye is obvious. But there’s only one thing that matters: antisemitism is noxious.”)
- Trump and Kanye West speak amid rapper’s antisemitic rants, acquisition of Parler
- Will the GOP condemn Trump’s latest antisemitic remark? Of course not.
- Ye Says He Bought Parler Because Instagram, Twitter Penalized Him
- Lachlan Murdoch, architect of Fox News’ extremist turn, may soon gain even more power
- Why pro-Israel lobby group Aipac is backing election deniers and extremist Republicans (AIPAC is evil.)
- DOJ Seeks 6 Month Prison Sentence For Steve Bannon
- Trump Says He Wants Marjorie Taylor Greene in His Next Administration (If Trump were ever reelected, our democracy would be over.)
- Congress braces for new members who were at Capitol on Jan. 6 (If they engaged in insurrection, they should not be eligible to serve in Congress. Period.)
- In Kari Lake and Tudor Dixon, the GOP offers a cynical alternative to Trump
- Kari Lake’s sugarcoated Trumpism is scarier than the original
- Herschel Walker tries to turn ‘prop’ badge controversy into campaign gold (Idiocracy.)
- SNL has better coverage of Herschel Walker than the mainstream media (“Once again, the mainstream media fails to accurately describe a Republican candidate.” The mainstream media is mostly trash.)
- After lowering the bar for Walker in first debate, mainstream media ignores his absence from the second (The “mainstream media” appears to be rooting hard for Republicans to win and destroy our democracy.)
- Google Play approved the Truth Social app, even though nothing has changed since it was initially rejected
- Steve Bannon hosts QAnon-linked activist to promote organization seemingly focused on intimidating voters
- Ted Budd Aided Donors Trying To Bypass Predatory Lending Laws
- The four sleeper races that may decide the Senate majority
- Opinion: Kari Lake’s real opponent in Arizona’s governor’s race (“Lake is running not so much for Arizona governor as against American democracy.”)
- 4 takeaways from the Kemp-Abrams debate
- Five takeaways from the second Ohio Senate debate
- New poll shows Hofmeister leading Stitt in Oklahoma Governor’s race
- Exclusive: Republican JD Vance has slight lead on Democrat Tim Ryan in Senate race in Ohio (Vance is absolute scum, while Ryan is superb. This shouldn’t even be close, even in a “red” state.)
- Oath Keepers Leader Bought Arsenal of Weapons Ahead of Jan. 6 (Why is this legal in America and in basically no other country?)
- Peltola trounces Palin and Begich in September fundraising, wins over Don Young loyalists
- Oath Keepers Trial Rocked by Wacky Sexts Between Militia Boss and Lawyer (“The case against the far-right group for its role in the Capitol riot was already disturbing. Then came evidence of what prosecutors say is an inappropriate relationship”)
- Tulsi Lobs a Bomb in NH: She Compares Biden to Hitler (She also said Hitler had good intentions. Total nutjob, and she’s campaigning for…yep, Yesli Vega.)
- Josh Throneburg says opponent Good is ‘not being biblical, he’s a bigot’
- Del. Candi King, Former Del. Josh Cole Explain How Extremist Yesli Vega “corrupted the debate process to install a far-right, biased ‘moderator’ who basically endorsed her” (“The entire ‘debate’ was a last ditch effort by Vega to create Trumpian confusion after months of answering for her extreme positions”)
- DEBATE SPECIAL: Jen Kiggans Doubles Down On Anti-Abortion Extremism (“In today’s debate, Coastal Virginians see Kiggans for the anti-abortion political opportunist she is…”)
- Yesli Vega to Campaign With Putin Sympathizer, Noted Homophobe Tulsi Gabbard (“It’s completely vile to see Yesli Vega enlist the support of a war criminal sympathizer and anti-LGBTQ radical to resurrect her failing campaign.”)
- EDITORIAL BOARD: “No Excuse” for Vega Dodging Questions on 2020 Election (And “most telling, [Vega] refused to debate Rep. Abigail Spanberger in Fredericksburg, because the UMW-sponsored event would have taken place at ‘a college of your base'”)
- Spanberger-Vega debate in Virginia’s 7th District is canceled (“Plans for Friday’s debate started to crumble after the committee lined up conservative commentator and talk show host Larry O’Connor to co-moderate.” More to the point, O’Connor is completely/heavily pro-Vega and anti-Spanberger, so obviously shouldn’t be a debate moderator.)
- PolitiFact: Spanberger voted to send COVID checks to prisoners. So did Republicans.
- Youngkin campaigns for Yesli Vega in Fredericksburg (Disgraceful.)
- Incumbents have financial edge in Virginia’s hard-fought congressional contests
- While Virginia tracks COVID, other respiratory viruses are attacking
- Youngkin to ask Va. legislature for funds to beef up law enforcement (“The Republican governor also appeared in Portsmouth, where he read a proclamation in honor of rapper Missy Elliott.”)
- Virginia launches social media campaign to recruit teachers
- Forget to register to vote? Under a new law, you can still cast a ballot.
- Report: Virginia Lottery should be state’s primary gambling regulator
- Many rural schools lack access to local food—this southwest Virginia program is working to change that
- Black, Hispanic students disproportionately suspended in Arlington schools, county says
- Four people found fatally shot in Prince William County, Va., home (“Police said the incident appeared to be ‘domestic related,’ and they were questioning a man they described as a person of interest.”)
- Ex-Portsmouth city manager alleges ‘major crimes involving public corruption’ in lawsuit against city
- On ‘Missy Elliott Day,’ hip hop superstar tells joyous Portsmouth crowd she always ‘took Virginia’ with her
- Gov. Youngkin blasts Guzman’s bill that would make it illegal to not affirm LGBTQ children (This is a bill that’s going nowhere, and which VA House Democratic Leader Don Scott has already said is dead on arrival.)
- Continuing coverage: From the Roanoke City Council election races
- Study tries to determine if casinos can coexist in Petersburg and Richmond
- Fairfax Co. considering recruiting teachers from Barbados to address shortage
- Proposed rail-to-trail path could connect portions of Southside
- D.C.-area forecast: Chilly breezes battle bright sunshine, with cold nights ahead
