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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, February 21.
- ‘No excuse’: IEA tells energy firms as methane emissions rise
- EU climate czar: Putin’s war accelerated green transition
- Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species
- Europe’s Economy Picks Up After Year of War in Ukraine
- The Problem With Russia Is Russia
- A year of war: how Russian forces have been pushed back in Ukraine (“Guardian analysis shows how Russia has lost a fifth of the land it once controlled in Ukraine after its invasion”)
- Putin says Russia will suspend participation in New START nuclear accord
- Biden’s Trip to Kyiv is the Ultimate Humiliation for Putin—and Trump
- Biden Went to Kyiv Because There’s No Going Back (“The president’s surprise visit sent a message to Moscow—and to European leaders.”)
- One year later: How Russia came to fail in Ukraine, battle after battle
- Biden visits Zelensky in Kyiv and says Putin ‘dead wrong’ on Ukraine war
- Wagner’s Prigozhin accuses Russian top brass of ‘treason’
- Biden’s Kyiv visit shows Putin seriously misjudged his courage
- Putin suspends key US nuclear arms agreement in bitter speech against West (He’s completely f’ed up.)
- Putin Suspends Nuclear Pact With US, Vows to Push War in Ukraine
- Putin chides West, defends Ukraine invasion in major speech (Every word Putin says is a lie.)
- Ukraine war: Biden to frame conflict as battle for democracy
- Putin uses speech to claim the West provoked the war in Ukraine (Putin is a war criminal and a liar.)
- Putin’s Cronies: We Should Have Blown Up Biden in Kyiv
- Biden’s Surreal and Secretive Journey Into a War Zone
- Biden in Kyiv and Warsaw is a reminder of who really leads Europe
- Cloak-and-dagger moves allow Biden to sneak into Ukraine’s war zone
- Biden Just Destroyed Putin’s Last Hope (“The president’s visit to Ukraine was a gut punch to the Russian leader.” Sure hope so.)
- A year after Ukraine invasion, Russia’s reliance on China deepens (China should pull the plug. Immediately.)
- Revealed: Leaked document shows how Russia plans to take over Belarus
- Biden’s Surprise Ukraine Visit Sends a Message: Ignore the MAGA Haters (“As air raid sirens sounded, Biden spent President’s Day touring Kyiv with Zelenskyy, while Republicans back home struggled to formulate a coherent critique.”)
- In China, Worries About a Weakened Russia Prompt a Rethink (“Concern that a Russian setback in Ukraine would cripple China’s partner against the West helps drive Beijing’s push for an end to the war”)
- China Misreads the Room in Munich
- China foreign minister warns against ‘fuelling the fire’ over Ukraine conflict (Yeah, tell that to your ally Putin!)
- Ukraine war: Liz Truss joins Johnson in calling for transfer of fighter jets
- Turkey hit by new earthquakes, leaving 3 dead and more than 200 injured
- CSIS reports outline how China targets Canadian politicians, business leaders
- Delegation meeting Taiwan leader reaffirms US commitment
- Conservative Anglican Leaders Call for Break With Church of England Over Same-Sex Blessings
- Israel’s Government Passes Flagship Bills of Judicial Overhaul in Initial Knesset Vote Amid Chorus of Heckles (This is going to be an unmitigated disaster for Israel.)
- Scoop: Israelis and Palestinians have been holding secret talks for weeks
- ‘Equality of Injustice for All’: Saudi Arabia Expands Crackdown on Dissent (The world needs to stop buying Saudi oil.)
- Why the Covid-19 Death Toll in the U.S. Is Still Rising (“The pandemic is less risky for most people, but America still sees hundreds of deaths daily”)
- Peak flu season appears to have passed
- Millions brace for major coast-to-coast winter storm
- Homes in Flood Zones Overvalued by Billions, Study Finds
- Supreme Court for first time casts doubt on Section 230, the legal shield for Big Tech
- Two Supreme Court cases this week could upend the entire internet
- The Supreme Court could throw the internet into chaos
- More and more, trolls and haters attack female journalists (The internet is kind of a disaster.)
- Buttigieg calls for stronger railroad safety rules after East Palestine disaster
- The right’s repulsive effort to racialize the Ohio train disaster
- Kevin McCarthy Gives Tucker Carlson Access To Hours Of Jan. 6 Footage (“Carlson has repeatedly defended those who stormed the Capitol and pushed conspiracy theories about the insurrection.”)
- Bennie Thompson rips McCarthy for giving Tucker Carlson Jan. 6 footage
- Exclusive: McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson access to trove of Jan. 6 riot tape (McCarthy is heinous.)
- 1/6 committee aide hits Tucker Carlson’s surveillance footage access (Absolutely inexcusable.)
- More Republicans seem to have lied about their resumes. Who’s surprised? (“This is what happens when a party peddles in propaganda.”)
- Most Americans Think House Republicans Aren’t Investigating Real Problems (That’s because House Republicans are NOT investigating real problems – or doing real work.)
- Democrats pounce on GOP ‘woke-waste’ attacks (“Woke” is pretty much a word that means “anything Republicans dislike.” It also has racist and homophobic connotations.)
- Jimmy Carter’s Presidency Was Not What You Think (“The man was not what you think. He was tough. He was extremely intimidating. Jimmy Carter was probably the most intelligent, hard-working and decent man to have occupied the Oval Office in the 20th century.” No doubt about it. And Americans booted him out of office for Ronald F’ing Reagan?!?)
- The ‘wackadoodle’ foundation of Fox News’ election-fraud claims
- The media’s biggest addiction: Trump voters (“In diners across the country, the media has obsessively stalked out so-called white working class voters for years” Pathetic.)
- In Mississippi’s Capital, Old Racial Divides Take New Forms (Pathetic headline – it’s not about some generic “divides,” it’s about RACISM against African Americans. God, the NY Times sucks.)
- The New York Times Is Repeating One of Its Most Notorious Mistakes (“The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.”)
- Ron DeSantis tramples over Trump turf with his outreach to law enforcement
- Despite her role, Marjorie Taylor Greene backs ‘national divorce’
- Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for a ‘national divorce’ between liberal and conservative states (She has no business being in Congress.)
- James O’Keefe Resigns From Project Veritas After Employee Complaints
- Project Veritas Has Forced James O’Keefe Out
- ‘It’s Becoming More and More Evident That These People Are Christian Nationalists.’ (“A group that wants government to promote Judeo-Christian values took over a Michigan county board in January. The county hasn’t been the same since.” They’re not “Judeo-Christian,” by the way, and the media should stop saying that.)
- The bipartisan odd couple banding together to fight election deniers in Arizona (“Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer have found common cause since a bitter 2020 face-off.”)
- Don Lemon to Undergo ‘Formal Training’ After Sexism Scandal
- In Wisconsin’s supreme court race, a super-rich beer family calls the shots (“When Wisconsinites vote on Tuesday in primary elections for a justice’s seat on the state’s supreme court, few will be aware that much of the big money pouring into this race hails from just one family whose fortunes flow from beer.”)
- Five things to know ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election
- Plenty of Wisconsin voters are really into the Supreme Court primary race
- ‘I never claimed to be Jewish’: Santos suggests his false Jewish claims were a ‘party favor joke’ in new interview (Riiiiiiiight.)
- Rep. Jennifer Wexton says the parties can come together over cancer research and veterans
- Voters picking McEachin successor in Virginia’s 4th District
- In Virginia’s 4th District race, Jennifer McClellan faces Leon Benjamin
- Virginia expected to elect its first Black congresswoman in special U.S. House election
- Democrats look to close U.S. House gap in Benjamin–McClellan matchup
- McClellan looks to make history Tuesday in Virginia congressional race
- VA04 Special Election Is [Today]; Far-Right-Republican Nominee Just Hung Out with Insurrectionists Michael Flynn, Amanda Chase and John McGuire
- Given a chance to apologize for the theft of a Black man’s heart, House Republicans declined.
- Why Sen. Chap Petersen is right: Va. shouldn’t build Dan Snyder a stadium
- Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants AP African American studies reviewed (Screw him.)
- After Florida rejection, Virginia reviewing AP African American studies course
- Va. might create religious exemption allowing gun background checks without photo ID
- Republicans in Richmond kill Deeds-UVa gun bill (THAT is how you write a headline – say clearly what happened and who did it.)
- Editorial: Corrections reform stalled (“The Senate unanimously passed legislation that would have strengthened oversight of the Department of Corrections. [Its] failure in the House is a disappointment.”)
- Opinion: Virginia is the best location to advance the FBI’s mission (Yeah, except for Youngkin’s hostility to the FBI.)
- Video: Del. Candi Mundon King Tells GOP Colleagues, When It Comes to Protecting Women’s Reproductive Freedom, “We just don’t believe you” (“Don’t tell us that…if we were nicer or smiled…that maybe we would have had a different outcome, because we all know that’s not true”)
- Farmland ownership legislation headed to governor (Almost no farmland is owned by foreigners, let alone by China, and most of that is owned by Youngkin’s buddies at Smithfield Foods, so…)
- Senate kills House-backed measure on elected school boards
- Bourne will not seek re-election to House, opening way for Carr (“Bourne did not foreclose a return to politics, and veteran political scientist Bob Holsworth said Democrats are likely to urge him to run for mayor of Richmond in 2024 to succeed Mayor Levar Stoney.”)
- Richneck Elementary School fifth grader sent threatening text messages about shooting up class, admin says
- ‘The stupidest person on earth’: Lynchburg City Council’s new Republican majority ruptured by in-fighting
- Feds seek to seize funds from white supremacist convicted in deadly Charlottesville car attack
- D.C.-area forecast: Mild and breezy today, then cooler tomorrow before crazy-warm Thursday
