by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, January 21.
- Opinion | What Exxon Knew, but Concealed, About Climate Change
- Seal and robot discovered potential climate change disaster at glacier
- Kyiv’s frustration mounts as West fails to agree on tank delivery
- Allies offer more weapons to Ukraine, but no decisions made on tanks
- Stryker Combat Vehicles Will Be Headed To Ukraine From U.S.
- US to designate Russia’s Wagner mercenary group as a ‘transnational criminal organization’
- Ukraine war: ‘Frank’ talks as Ukraine pushes Germany for tanks
- Germany snubs Ukraine’s tank request
- Analysis: NATO Is Holding Strong on Ukraine, but Fractures Are Emerging (“The allies differ on strategy for the coming year and the more immediate question of what Ukraine needs before major offensives in the spring.”)
- Ukraine adviser tells allies ‘think faster’ on military support (Exactly, stop reacting and start being proactive!)
- Russia expected to increase cyberattacks in Ukraine war — to little effect
- German caution on Ukraine arms rooted in political culture (“Germany has become one of Ukraine’s leading weapons suppliers in the 11 months since Russia’s invasion, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz also has gained a reputation for hesitating to take each new step — generating impatience among allies.”)
- Ukraine Latest: Official Calls Tank Indecision ‘Disappointment’
- Austin Warns US Allies Time Is Short Before Russian Offensive
- Russia Boosts Air Defenses Around Moscow Amid Drone-Strike Fears
- Germany Allows Ukraine ‘Preparatory’ Training on Leopard Tanks
- China’s Global Mega-Projects Are Falling Apart (“Many of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure projects are plagued with construction flaws, including a giant hydropower plant in Ecuador, adding more costs to a program criticized for leading countries deeper into debt”)
- China says Covid outbreak has infected 80% of population
- Turkey cancels visit by Swedish minister as planned protests stoke tension
- America in Decline? World Thinks Again. (“Bolstered by a strong response in Ukraine, the U.S. is once again the talk of Davos.”)
- This Winter’s Rain and Snow Won’t be Enough to Pull the West Out of Drought
- Yellen rejects GOP gambit on debt ceiling
- Debt Ceiling Brinkmanship Is Republican Extortion
- Mainstream media let Republicans off the hook for holding the economy hostage in manufactured debt ceiling crisis (The “mainstream media” is a disgrace in many, many ways.)
- The right’s debt ceiling strategy depends on the failure of the press
- Biden aides want to force GOP to abandon debt limit threats
- What the Tech and Media Layoffs Are Really Telling Us About the Economy (“About 130,000 people have been dismissed from their jobs at large tech and media companies in the past 12 months. Why?”)
- FERC acting Chairman Phillips says priorities are reliability, transmission and environmental justice
- The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing (Good, do that ASAP!)
- What the Supreme Court Left Out of Its Dobbs-Leak Report
- Supreme Court Justices Were Interviewed in Investigation of Leaked Abortion Opinion
- Most Abortion Bans Include Exceptions. In Practice, Few Are Granted. (“Rape victims and patients with complicated pregnancies are confronting the limits of state abortion laws.”)
- Republicans squabble over abortion as 2024 primaries loom
- What Winning Did to the Anti-abortion Movement
- Thousands gather for first post-Roe March for Life
- DOJ reserves right to not cooperate with certain House GOP requests
- House Freedom Caucus has moved from the fringe to center stage
- The Freedom Caucus Was Designed To Disrupt
- Donald Trump is smothering the religious right (“Nothing has exposed the moral bankruptcy of the Christian Right more than its ecstatic embrace of a lying libertine”)
- Donald Trump’s Fissure With Evangelicals Opens the Door for Mike Pence
- Tensions with evangelicals threaten Trump White House bid
- The five hardest hits from a judge’s scathing ruling against former President Trump
- Republicans Have Been Using “Democrat Party” as a Slur for Longer Than You Think (“Commentators have long sought to explain the infantile, but persistent and aggressive, Republican habit of labeling the Democratic Party as the ‘Democrat’ party”)
- Elon Musk defends his old tweets in securities fraud trial in San Francisco
- Elon Musk Testifies His Tweets Don’t Mean That Much In Shareholder Suit — Over A Tweet (Musk is a pathological liar, also bonkers.)
- George Santos appears to admit drag queen past in Wiki post
- Santos Bragged of Engagement to Man While Married to Woman
- Santos leans on group with white nationalist ties (This is a guy who was a Brazilian drag queen, now he’s a far-right extremist with ties to white nationalists?)
- George Santos is exactly where he belongs (“The House Republican majority is perfect for people like Santos who just sit around and make things up.”)
- George Santos Has Got to Go
- Leonard Leo’s Dark Money Doesn’t Want to Step into the Light
- Despite Red Flags, G.O.P. Backed Candidate Now Charged in Shootings
- Arizona executions on hold amid review ordered by governor
- Judge: DeSantis violated state Constitution, First Amendment in firing state attorney
- DeSantis sparks outrage with rejection of African American studies class (DeSantis is a racist, fascist, and evil in general.)
- 50 Years Since Roe v. Wade, Jen Kiggans Seeks to Further Restrict Reproductive Freedoms (“Kiggans is actively working with her fellow MAGA House Republicans to ban abortion nationwide.”)
- BREAKING/Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Announces He WILL Run for Reelection
- Va. Sen. Tim Kaine says he will seek another term
- Schapiro: Kaine Senate reelection bid is package deal
- Remembering McEachin, Campbell, lawmakers push bill for cancer screening
- Virginia Senate panel nixes Republican bills restricting abortion (“Senate Democrats killed three bills that would have restricted abortion, including a 15-week abortion ban that was one of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s key legislative priorities for this year.”)
- BREAKING: Virginia Senate Subcommittee Votes Down Harmful Abortion Bans (“Senate Subcommittee on Health Professions recommends full committee reject abortion bans – SB1284, SB1385, SB1483”)
- Va. Republican turns against proposed 15-week abortion ban (Kinda/sorta…and only for political reasons.)
- Republican senator breaks with GOP to oppose 15-week abortion bill in Virginia
- Republicans Continue Their Assault on the Hallmark Legislation Passed in 2020 and 2021 Committing Virginia to a Zero-Carbon Economy by 2050
- How China Worries Drove Youngkin to Spurn a Massive Ford Battery Plant (“CATL is not owned by the Chinese government, and Beijing had reportedly tried to dissuade CATL from expanding in the United States because of tensions.”)
- Youngkin Says Ford Has ‘Trojan Horse’ Relationship With Chinese Battery Maker
- ‘Come forward now:’ Youngkin warns schools statewide about delayed accolades
- Amazon launches $35 billion data center expansion in Virginia (“If approved by Virginia lawmakers, Amazon Web Services stands to receive up to $140 million in economic incentives from the state and as many as 15 years of tax breaks.”)
- Appalachian Power bills have increased. Here’s why
- Would Arlington County’s missing middle zoning plan make homes more affordable? (This report says, correctly, that exclusionary single-family zoning was designed to “[replace] explicit racial discrimination in housing policy, walling off neighborhoods from people of color by making home prices unattainable.” Yet it then goes into absurd “both sides” mode, claiming that proponents of “missing middle” housing have had just as “fierce” reactions as opponents. Alrighty…)
- Student says she was assaulted in Fairfax County middle school bathroom
- D.C.-area forecast: Today’s sunshine gives way to raindrops Sunday
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