by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, November 19.
- UN climate talks drag into extra time with scant progress
- Despair, lack of progress at climate talks, yet hope blooms
- COP27 Talks on Verge of Collapse After EU Threatens to Walk Out
- Biggest Win Yet at COP27? Calls to Reform Multilateral Lenders
- U.S. eyes shifts on climate payments, in possible breakthrough at summit
- COP27 Gets Chaotic With Mysterious Draft Text, Elusive President
- Cop27 live: ‘deeply worrying’ climate talks may be close to breaking down, campaigners warn
- Our leaders had a final chance to halt climate breakdown. They failed each and every one of us
- COP27 negotiators push for deal in overtime climate talks
- Is COP27 the End of Hopes for Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Celsius?
- World leaders met all week to address global issues. Putin appears to no longer have a seat at the table
- How Close Are We to Nuclear War? (“Recent advances in military technology may push us closer to the edge.”)
- Asia-Pacific leaders condemn war, renew calls for open trade
- ‘We survived’: Kherson comes alive after Russian withdrawal
- Can Ukraine’s infrastructure survive the winter?
- Iranian Protesters Attack Khomeini’s Childhood Home as Unrest Spreads
- North Korea’s Kim boasts new ICBM as US flies bombers
- Gay people living under radar in Qatar prepare warily for World Cup
- North American electric grid faces ‘unprecedented’ widespread risk this winter: NERC
- DOJ Appoints War Crimes Prosecutor From The Hague to Investigate Trump (“The special counsel’s previous work experience feels extremely appropriate.”)
- Why special counsel Jack Smith might be different from Robert Mueller (“He’s overseeing Trump investigations, but his appointment comes in a very different context.”)
- Jack Smith, named as special counsel, has a long history as a career prosecutor.
- Appointment of a Special Counsel
- Merrick Garland was right to appoint a special counsel
- The new Trump probe special counsel should move quickly
- Who is Jack Smith, the special counsel investigating Donald Trump?
- What it means that a special counsel is running the Trump investigations
- Trump explodes at special counsel appointment: ‘I am not going to partake in it’ (You don’t decide if you’re going to “partake” in a special counsel. WTF?)
- Trump encourages GOP to ‘fight’ special counsel decision as Republicans attack DOJ
- Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite, a declassified document shows (How on earth is this scumbag not in prison?!? Anyone else who did this would be in deep, deep trouble.)
- New York Post Takes Aim at Trump, and Hits a Nerve
- Trump 2024 rivals court his donors as primary season begins
- Trump 2024 Rivals Court His Donors At Big Las Vegas Meeting (“Trump will speak by video conference, while leading rivals including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence will deliver keynote addresses in person…Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, another potential 2024 contender, canceled his appearance after a Sunday shooting at the University of Virginia that left three dead.”)
- Trump faces potential fundraising problem as megadonors jump ship
- There Is a Way to Break Out of Our Constitutional Stagnation (“Because of their flexibility, because of the frequency and relative ease with which they change, state constitutions and state constitution-making are valuable forums for practicing democracy.”)
- Democrats’ first leadership shakeup in decades takes shape with no drama — almost
- Nancy Pelosi’s Persistent Toughness (“She helped save Obamacare and other transformative legislation, and made it clear when the nonsense had to stop.”)
- House GOP pushes Hunter Biden probe despite thin majority
- House Republicans announce plans to produce content for Fox News
- Republicans on House Judiciary panel focus on first White House target (The media absolutely should not report these absurd witch hunts as legitimate inquiries.)
- Welcome to the Congress of endless investigations (“Republicans will investigate the border, Hunter Biden, the IRS, Hunter Biden, the Justice Department and Hunter Biden.”)
- As Republicans take the House, the crazies take the wheel
- How Marjorie Taylor Greene’s MAGA House will boost Trump
- Capitol rioter who said he wanted Trump’s ‘approval’ gets three years in Jan. 6 case
- ‘You Didn’t Love America That Day’: Federal Judge Sends Jan. 6 Rioter to Prison for Obstruction, Stealing Coat Rack and Bourbon from Capitol
- Judge rejects former White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s effort to quash subpoena
- Making Sense of Mastodon and Other Twitter Alternatives
- I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.
- Elon Musk can’t get his story straight on Twitter (“All the times Twitter’s Chief Flip-Flopper has gone back on his word.”)
- How likely is a complete Twitter meltdown?
- Elon Musk says no decision yet on Trump’s Twitter ban as he reinstates others
- You Can’t Code Your Way Out of the Culture Problem (“Elon Musk’s Delusional Fixation at Twitter”)
- Georgetown Prof. Thomas Zimmer: “Thoughts on Twitter, Musk, and the destruction of the virtual public square” (“No amount of snark or schadenfreude will change the fact that this situation is a disaster.”)
- Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave
- Musk summons engineers to Twitter HQ as millions await platform’s collapse
- Read Elon Musk’s Friday emails to Twitter engineers asking them to come to the office
- Why Elon Musk Is Blowing Up Twitter’s Business (“The new owner says he hates advertising. That’s a problem because it provides 90 percent of his social-media platform’s revenue.”)
- Musk’s Twitter Fix-It Team Fades Out as Billionaire Says Transition Is Almost Done
- Twitter Has Been Incredibly Important For State and Local Journalists Like Me
- BREAKING: Judge allows Saturday voting before U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia
- In win for Democrats, Georgia judge allows early voting in Senate runoff on Saturday after Thanksgiving (Actually, it’s a win for DEMOCRACY, but the media loves framing everything with a “horserace”/”who’s-up-who’s-down” narrative.)
- There’s Still One Dangerous Election Denier on the Cusp of Power (“If Republican Abe Hamadeh becomes Arizona’s attorney general, he could muck up the 2024 presidential election.”)
- How Karen Bass prevailed against Rick Caruso’s $100-million campaign
- Democrat Adam Frisch concedes to Lauren Boebert in nail biter House race
- Federal Judge Tells Ron DeSantis to Sit Down and STFU (“The judge blocked Florida from enforcing its anti-free speech law restricting conversations about race, calling it ‘positively dystopian.'”)
- Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud
- Video: Rep. Gerry Connolly Vows to Fight GOP’s “groundless, so-called investigations…designed for one purpose only…to undermine the legitimacy of a Democratic administration”
- Marijuana research bill co-sponsored by Sen. Kaine and Rep. Griffith goes to Biden
- Gov. Northam’s Secretary of Education, Atif Qarni, Recommends Investigation Into Youngkin’s VA Dept. of Education, Removal of Youngkin’s Board of Education Appointees From Senate Confirmation List (“I strongly believe, from my observations, that the State Superintendent and the new BOE appointees are acting in bad faith”)
- Video: On The ReidOut, VA Sen. Louise Lucas Calls Youngkin Administration’s Proposed New History Standards “racist, historically and factually incorrect… and reflect explicit political bias” (Lucas vows to “make sure that we get rid of some of those people” on the VA Board of Education)
- Youngkin acknowledges ‘omissions and mistakes’ in draft history standards
- New history standards draft planned for January or February
- Williams: In attempting to whitewash history in Virginia classrooms, the Youngkin administration is repeating it
- Virginia lawmakers may weigh what to do about precious metal mining next session
- Jagdmann to resign, leaving State Corporation Commission with only one seat filled
- Could Virginia’s red flag law have helped in the UVa case?
- In memorial service, UVA community will mourn shooting victims (“Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry will be remembered during a ceremony at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville.”)
- University of Virginia running back wounded in Sunday’s bus shooting was trying to warn others when he was shot, his mother says
- UVa housing policies banned candles and BB guns, but not specifically handguns
- Forest Service to prepare new environmental impact statement on Mountain Valley Pipeline crossing
- Richmond coalition seeks commitments from Bon Secours
- Ex-Norfolk Academy teacher accused of bullying, belittling students says she was trying to hold them ‘accountable’
- D.C.-area forecast: Cool but tolerable today, then windy and cold Sunday
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