by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, March 16.
- Is 1.5C still realistic? The crumbling consensus over key climate target
- Rich Nations Are Burying the Developing World in Plastic Waste (“Our toxic exports are twice as high as typically estimated, a new analysis finds.”)
- European Markets Rally After Credit Suisse Grabs a Lifeline
- Credit Suisse gets $54 billion lifeline in bid to ease fears of global banking crisis (“The move to shore up the European banking giant saw its shares soar early Thursday as markets reacted well in Europe and the United States.”)
- Credit Suisse shares soar after central bank aid announced
- What Motivates Putin and His Followers Is Resentment (Just like Trump/MAGA.)
- Ukraine invites Ron DeSantis to visit after Florida governor calls war a “territorial dispute”
- DeSantis joins the pro-Putin MAGA crowd (“An anti-Ukraine stance is part of MAGA identity.”)
- Bakhmut: Russian casualties mount but tactics evolve
- Ukraine Burns Through Ammunition in Bakhmut, Risking Future Fights (“The military is using thousands of artillery shells a day as it tries to hold the eastern city, which could jeopardize a planned springtime campaign.”)
- Battle for Bakhmut grinds down Wagner’s mercenaries and cuts their notorious leader down to size
- Wanted: A GOP presidential contender that supports Ukraine (“Senate Republicans are dinging frontrunners Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis for not supporting Ukraine, calling for leaders who embrace a more Reagan-esque foreign policy.”)
- Russian leadership approved aggressive actions of jets that damaged U.S. drone, U.S. officials say
- U.S. releases video of Russian jets intercepting MQ-9 Reaper drone
- US releases footage of Russian jet crashing into drone
- How Russia’s Black Sea drone downing compares with the worst moments of its confrontation with the US
- Senate Confirms Garcetti as Ambassador to India, Capping a Two-Year Fight
- 10 Saudi judges are charged with treason. They were too ‘lenient.’ (WTF???)
- No White House visit for Israel’s Netanyahu as US concern rises
- Australia’s biggest solar farm powers up to help replace New South Wales coal
- South Korea and Japan hail spring thaw amid missiles and weight of history
- North Korea launches ICBM before South Korea-Japan summit
- U.S. Pushes for TikTok Sale to Resolve National Security Concerns
- U.S. Threatens to Ban TikTok if Chinese Founder Doesn’t Sell Ownership Stake
- China says US suppressing TikTok after Biden administration calls for sale (Yeah, and?)
- Macron on the brink: How France’s pensions revolt could wreck his presidency
- UN nuclear watchdog reveals 2.5 tonnes of uranium missing in Libya
- Inside cleantech’s financial crisis
- Power plant owners in 22 states face tighter NOx requirements under EPA’s final Good Neighbor rule
- U.S. Maternal Mortality Hits Highest Level Since 1965 (“The 2021 surge in maternal deaths exacerbated a yearslong trend that has made the U.S. the most dangerous place among high-income countries to give birth.”)
- The GOP: Low-Income Americans Don’t Deserve Food (“The GOP wants to expand the work requirements for food stamp eligibility.”)
- Judge appears sympathetic to abortion pill challenge in consequential Texas hearing (Right-wing nutjob.)
- Abortion pill fight may have broader implications for FDA drug approval
- Takeaways from the Texas hearing on medication abortion drugs
- Walgreens’ supplier of abortion pills said it would not distribute the drug in 31 states
- Much of the 2024 GOP field focuses on dark, apocalyptic themes
- GOP Elites Can’t Simply Wish Donald Trump Away (“They may be done with Trump, but he isn’t done with the party.”)
- Why the GOP is obsessed with “woke” — but can’t define it (“MAGA can’t explain what ‘woke’ is, but that’s the point — it’s a ‘choose your own bigotry’ term for Republicans”)
- A viral moment reinforces the hollowness of ‘woke’ as an attack (It’s completely nonsensical, just like “CRT” and other right-wing memes.)
- The myth of “liberal” news: How the media does the work of fascists (“From Axios to the New York Times”)
- In the mob’s eyeline: A senior Republican’s close brush revealed in new Jan. 6 footage
- Trump Inches Higher In GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Nearly Half Of Americans Would Support A Ban On Tiktok
- Graham Told Grand Jury Trump Was Out of His Mind After Losing 2020 Election
- EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes of Trump grand jury; jurors hear 3rd leaked Trump call
- Fulton County investigators have another recording of a Trump phone call pressuring a Georgia official
- Donald Trump Must Be Prosecuted (“The eyes of the country are on these cases — the eyes of all those who’ve been badgered for minor violations, who’ve had the book thrown at them for crimes that others either got away with or served no time for. Not only are they watching, but so are their loved ones and their communities.”)
- Trump Media Got Millions in Loans from Foreign Sources with Russian Ties
- Barney Frank defends role at Signature Bank: ‘I need to make money’
- Marianne Williamson’s ‘abusive’ treatment of 2020 campaign staff, revealed
- Reporter Describes Being Fired By Axios After Being Targeted By Ron DeSantis’ Media ‘Machine’
- Florida Scoured Math Textbooks for ‘Prohibited Topics.’ Next Up: Social Studies. (“Behind the scenes, one publisher went to great lengths to avoid mentions of race, even in the story of Rosa Parks.”)
- Fla. reporter fired after calling news release on DeSantis event ‘propaganda’
- Ron DeSantis’s First Big Mistake
- The GOP’s effort to diminish DeSantis on Ukraine
- Fox News attacks LA Times reporting on how minority communities face disproportionately high levels of car pollution (“Fox has a long history of dismissing environmental justice issues”)
- MyPillow CEO Says Company Is Going Broke Defending Election Fraud Claims (Good that it’s going broke.)
- Meltdown: Paul storms out of Homeland Security markup after clash on amendments (Rand Paul’s a nut.)
- Kentucky lawmakers struggle to finish transgender bill
- Who Killed Rasheem Carter? (“A shattered skeleton. Gruesome rumors. A brutal history of lynchings. And tight-lipped cops who quickly said ‘no foul play.'”)
- Announcing: 2023 VAPLAN Virginia Legislators Progressive Scorecard!
- Republican Gov. Youngkin heads to Texas as speculation about 2024 grows (“Youngkin will speak at the George W. Bush presidential library and attend a dinner hosted by a prolific Republican donor.”)
- BAILEY: DeSantis and Youngkin Urge Whitewashing of American History
- A District-by-District Guide to Taking Back a Democratic Majority in the VA House of Delegates This November (Go Josh Cole, Rodney Willett, Michael Feggans, Joshua Thomas, etc!)
- Editorial: A more open government (“On National Freedom of Information Day — which is also James Madison’s birthday — a plea for greater transparency at all levels of Virginia government.”)
- More and more Virginia school divisions are starting to unionize
- In Virginia, school boards will be the primary deciders on AP African American studies
- Dominion’s electricity bills are keeping customers in the dark
- In “Yellowstone” Reference, Far-Right-Republican VA State Senator Calls for “Taking Dems to the Train Station in 2023” (That’s apparently “code for killing [people] and discarding their body off a very high ledge”)
- Photos, Video: Portrait Unveiled of Eileen Filler-Corn, “the first woman to hold the Speakership in the 400-year history of the House of Delegates”
- Schapiro: There’s a lot to learn about learning loss initiative
- Old Dominion University, Chesapeake Bay Foundation launch flood resilience partnership
- The ‘crazy FOIA lady’ used state law to dislodge public records — and improve emergency response times and finances in her town
- Prosecutor: Henrico deputies held down patient for 12 minutes, ‘smothering him to death’
- School board member provides information for Virginia Beach schools’ investigation into alleged sexual assault
- Fariss’ arraignment pushed back to May (“The Campbell County legislator has been charged with two felonies stemming from a traffic incident.”)
- Show your support for Missing Middle housing in Arlington this weekend
- Arlington isn’t full (“According to my calculations, if Arlington allowed five stories of apartments above commerce by right in all of what are now ‘one family dwelling districts’ in the county zoning database, the county could accommodate as many as 900,000 new residents in 545 million square feet of residential living space.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Winds ease and it warms up. Highs in the 60s are back. (“But it turns cold and blustery again over the weekend.”)
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