by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, March 28.
- ‘Rewilding’ Parts of the Planet Could Have Big Climate Benefits (“Restoring fish, bison, gray wolves and other animals in key regions is possible without risking food supplies, and could remove nearly 500 [million tons] of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2100.” Do it!)
- Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm (“Exclusive: Australian company resurrects flesh of lost species to demonstrate potential of meat grown from cells”)
- Torture and Turmoil at Ukrainian Nuclear Plant: An Insider’s Account (“The former director of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant described abuse of Ukrainian workers and careless practices by the Russians who took control.”)
- German and British tanks arrive in Ukraine; Russia fires supersonic missiles off Japan’s coast
- Putin prepares Russia for ‘forever war’ with west as invasion stalls
- Facial recognition is helping Putin curb dissent with the aid of U.S. tech (Unacceptable.)
- Netanyahu finally went too far
- Netanyahu’s unforced error could come with heavy costs
- Netanyahu Cannot Be Trusted (“Israel’s prime minister is backing down from his power grab for now. But Israel’s crisis isn’t over.”)
- Netanyahu Flinched — The Israeli prime minister and his radical allies pushed the country to the brink
- Netanyahu Delays Bid to Overhaul Israel’s Judiciary as Protests Rage
- Ahead of Summer Legislative Blitz, Netanyahu Keeps Israel’s Crisis Rolling
- White House sees Netanyahu likely abandoning judicial overhaul to pursue compromise
- Has Netanyahu’s Assault on Israeli Democracy Been Stopped? (“In the face of mass protests, the Prime Minister has backed down from his plan to overhaul the judiciary—for now.”)
- Inside the U.S. Pressure Campaign Over Israel’s Judicial Overhaul
- Analysis: Netanyahu Attempts Another Juggling Act, Maybe His Toughest Yet (“Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is caught between his far-right coalition and public anger over the government’s plan to weaken the judiciary.”)
- US urged to hold Assad to account as power shifts in Middle East
- Australia hits new rooftop solar record (“Residential rooftop solar supplied a record 14% of Australia’s electricity this summer – contributing more than brown coal and more than large-scale wind farms and solar projects.”)
- ‘We are all Chinese’, former Taiwan president says while visiting China
- U.S. wants allies to line up against China. Europe is starting to listen. (“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is finally forcing the EU to get real about reliance on authoritarian states.”)
- Reports: Dozens dead in fire at migrant facility in Mexico
- France braces for violence in new wave of pension protests
- France braces for huge strikes over retirement age, raising pressure on Macron
- In 2024 Republicans may complete a historic foreign policy reversal (“… it seems highly likely that the GOP in 2024 will continue to move away from Eisenhower-style international cooperation toward a volatile compound of isolationism and unilateralism. And that could generate enormous turbulence across the globe.”)
- U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022
- Environmentalists Praise the EPA’s Move to Restrict ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water and Wonder, What’s Next?
- Where’s the Urgency on the Adderall Shortage?
- How to save America’s public transit systems from a doom spiral (“The focus must be on providing the high-quality service that reinforces transit systems as assets worthy of investment. The alternative — widening budget deficits and deteriorating service — would be a tragedy for some of America’s greatest cities.”)
- ‘Wokeness’ is winning (“…on several hot-button issues related to ‘wokeness’, substantial majorities of Americans believe our progress toward inclusion and diversity is on the right track.”)
- What the Push for ‘Parents’ Rights’ Is Really About (It’s part of conservatives “relentless effort to dismantle a pillar of American democracy that, for all of its flaws, is still one of the country’s most powerful engines for economic and social mobility” and “to undermine public education through a thousand little cuts.” Bottom line: “The reality of the ‘parents’ rights’ movement is that it is meant to empower a conservative and reactionary minority of parents to dictate education and curriculums to the rest of the community.”)
- Abortion Wins Elections The fight to make reproductive rights the centerpiece of the Democratic Party’s 2024 agenda.
- Donald Trump wants to be the charismatic leader of an apocalyptic cult: Yeah, it’s an overreach (“His campaign denies Trump wanted to invoke the specter of David Koresh, 30 years after Waco. We’re not that dumb”)
- Trump’s verbal assaults pose risks to prosecutors and could fuel violence
- Top Republicans balk at Trump highlighting Jan. 6 rioters, calling it politically unwise (They don’t care that it’s inherently wrong/evil, just that it’s “politically unwise.” That says it all about “top Republicans”)
- GOP Senators Break With Trump Over ‘Offensive’ Jan. 6 Tribute At Texas Rally
- Trump extends election-rigging myth to his potential criminal charges (And by “myth,” the WaPo could have just as easily written “lie,” which would have been more accurate.)
- Former National Enquirer Publisher Testifies Again in Trump Inquiry
- Trump and the Violence Next Time
- Room in the Classroom For Guns But Not Books?
- Biden says gun violence ‘ripping our communities apart’ after Tennessee shooting (“President again calls on Congress to pass assault weapons ban, saying we ‘need to do more to protect our schools’”)
- We spent 7 months examining the AR-15’s role in America. Here’s what we learned.
- The gap between GOP gun rights fantasy and Nashville’s reality
- White House On Nashville Shooting: ‘How Many More Children Have To Be Murdered Before Republicans In Congress Step Up?’ – Update
- “Devastated” GOP Congressman Who Represents the Covenant School’s District Posed in Gun-Toting Christmas Card
- After Nashville school shooting, Nikki Haley tells voters she is against gun control legislation (Of course she is.)
- A Christian school that ‘celebrates childhood’ becomes killing scene in Nashville
- Nashville private school shooting suspect had maps of building and scouted possible second attack location, police say
- Woman Interrupts Fox News Broadcast With Passionate Call For Gun Control
- Nashville shooter was a former student at the private school, police say
- Survivor of Highland Park gunfire crashes Nashville shooting news conference
- Activist group led by Ginni Thomas received nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations
- Jim Jordan doesn’t understand his job (“Attempts to politicize prosecutions and turn prosecutors into lackeys strike at the heart of the impartial administration of justice and the rule of law.”)
- Pro-DeSantis Super PAC Hires Another Former Trump Aide (A former Youngkin campaign staffer.)
- How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?
- In Michigan, an agenda countering the anti-woke GOP frenzy takes shape
- The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else
- Elon Musk announces Twitter blue tick shake-up (“Only paying users will have their content recommended and be allowed to vote in polls from 15 April.” It’s past time to start migrating over to Spoutible.)
- Elon Musk says only verified users will show up in Twitter’s recommendation feed in further shake-up (Musk is a nutjob.)
- How the Fox bubble is stifling Trump’s GOP challengers
- NY Times Fires Off Warning to Staffers After Trans Coverage Brouhaha
- Virginia Democratic Members of Congress React to Nashville School Shooting, Call for Action, Argue for Banning Assault Weapons
- Kaine ‘mystified,’ ‘puzzled’ by some aspects of Navy’s budget for FY 2024
- SASC seapower chair Kaine: ‘All systems go’ to support Marines’ 31 amphibs (“Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., also stated that he is ‘likely’ to receive the Navy’s updated 30-year shipbuilding plan ‘in the next day or so.'”)
- Editorial: Improving judicial transparency (“Legislation that will pull back the curtain on judges found guilty of misconduct will bring needed transparency to Virginia’s judiciary.”)
- Curious about air quality? The EPA will loan out pollution sensors in Virginia
- Officials say Virginia must improve disability services for students
- With deadline approaching, Youngkin signs bills designed to help students and adults with disabilities
- Commentary: Va. schools must address the legacy of segregation
- Over 5,600 Signatures So Far on Petition Opposing Youngkin as GMU Commencement Speaker – Sign It! (GMU students “do not want the memories of our graduation day to be tainted by an individual who has harmed and continues to harm the people he serves”)
- GMU leader defends plan to host Youngkin as commencement speaker
- The governor wants to move forward with nuclear innovation; critics say more info is needed (The lame “critics say” formulation rears its head yet again…)
- Cases of potentially dangerous fungus detected in Virginia
- Lawsuit filed over nomination method for one Va. GOP race
- Morrissey faces petit larceny hearing, pushes to hold wife’s lawyers in contempt (“The state senator in May will face a petit larceny hearing for allegedly stealing her passport. The hearing is set to take place in Chesterfield County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court at 10 a.m. on May 18 — a little over a month before he faces a Democratic primary against former state delegate Lashresce Aird.”)
- A $1.6 million grant will help Norfolk study the removal of an I-264 ramp that divided a community
- ‘Dream’s come true’ as Virginia Tech reaches 1st Final Four
- D.C.-area forecast: Dry and brisk as sunshine slowly returns (“70s are possible on Friday and a shot at 80 by Saturday.”)
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