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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, April 21.
- Ice sheets melting faster than anticipated, study shows
- Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting rapidly and driving sea level rise, new satellite data finds
- ‘Devastating’ melt of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is found
- US to begin training Ukrainian troops on Abrams tank
- Ukraine defended Bakhmut despite U.S. warnings in leaked documents
- Ukraine planned attacks on Russian forces in Syria, leaked document shows
- Russia’s air force accidentally bombs own city near Ukrainian border
- Russia crosses new lines in crackdown on Putin’s enemies
- India takes a distressing retreat from democracy
- China Plans to Conduct Intensive Military Drills Amid US Tensions
- UK Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab resigns over bullying investigation
- UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rocked by resignation of top ally Raab over bullying allegations
- Uganda’s president rejects new hardline anti-gay bill as not tough enough (“Yoweri Museveni sends bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality back to parliament”)
- House GOP Hard-Liners Push For Changes To Debt Ceiling Bill
- McCarthy at risk of falling short on GOP votes for debt ceiling bill
- US House Republicans squirm over Speaker McCarthy’s debt ceiling proposal
- Kevin McCarthy’s Debt Ceiling Bill Just Proves He’s Terrified By His Own Majority
- We will hold the country hostage until we figure out our demands
- The Most-Cited Number About the Inflation Reduction Act Is Probably Wrong, and That Could Be a Good Thing (“Key provisions of the law have no caps on spending, which means the actual outlay could be more—potentially much more—or less than the figure we keep hearing about.”)
- Senate Democrats need to play hardball (“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) seems spectacularly ill-suited for an era when democracy is at risk, when Republicans observe no rules of decorum and when the federal judiciary’s credibility is crumbling.”)
- Supreme Court Is Expected to Decide on Access to Abortion Pill (“The court is likely to weigh in on Friday on whether a commonly used pill, mifepristone, should remain widely available while an appeal moves forward.”)
- Americans look abroad for abortion pill with its fate on the line in court
- Two days that could shape abortion access and the future of American health care
- Congressional standoff over Supreme Court escalates
- Top GOP lawyer decries ease of campus voting in private pitch to RNC (Yep, Republicans are all about voter suppression, nothing whatsoever to do with “voter fraud” or “elections integrity” or whatever Orwellian bullshit they spew out.)
- Trump Ally Says Key to Republicans Winning Elections Is to Stop College Kids From Voting (“Obviously coming up with policies that are, y’know, popular with college kids, is out of the question.”)
- How to Think About Political Violence in America Ahead of 2024 (“National security officials are still not prepared for a far-right revolt.”)
- Trump Leads DeSantis in Test of GOP Presidential Field, WSJ Poll Finds
- Fox News Doesn’t Do Apologies (“Rupert Murdoch may have to pay for Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies, but who’s going to reimburse American democracy?”)
- Did Fox News Just Pay for the Privilege of Continued Corruption?
- Don’t Expect Fox News to Change After Massive Dominion Payout
- Ralph Yarl’s shooting is many Black parent’s biggest nightmare
- Our new terror: The ‘law-abiding’ gun owner who is ready to kill
- Knocking on the Wrong House or Door Can Be Deadly In a Nation Armed With Guns
- The GOP war on youth: Spate of innocent stranger shootings shows perils of paranoid rhetoric (“Republicans encourage paranoid, angry men to buy guns — young people are the ones paying the price”)
- Trump-appointed judge facing more scrutiny as Christian radio interviews surface
- Biden preparing to announce reelection campaign next week
- Turns Out Republicans Don’t Hate Big Government
- Backlash to Mulvaney’s milestone reminds us how toxic masculinity can be
- In a leaked Q&A, Mark Zuckerberg tells employees “we’re in a different world”
- Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Still Banning Journalists for Simply Doing Their Job (“Wired reporter Dell Cameron was permanently suspended Wednesday after interviewing the man who hacked conservative activist Matt Walsh’s Twitter and email accounts.”)
- Elon Musk’s Explosive Day (“First SpaceX blew up a rocket. Then Musk blew up Twitter’s verification system.”)
- ‘Legacy blue checks’ disappear from Twitter as Musk’s changes take effect (“Checkmark denoted accounts verified for authenticity, which can now be bought for an $8 a month subscription called Twitter Blue”)
- LeBron James didn’t pay for his Twitter checkmark, but Elon gave it to him anyway
- BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down, Company Laying Off 180 Staffers
- The Internet of the 2010s Ended Today
- REVEALED: GOP leader, who voted to expel TN Three, resigns; found guilty of sexually harassing interns
- He Voted to Expel the Tennessee Three—After He Sexually Harassed an Intern
- Mike Lindell’s firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge
- Republicans Call for Censure of Transgender Lawmaker Who Condemned Care Ban
- Transgender lawmaker silenced by Montana House speaker until she apologizes (“Montana’s House speaker on Thursday refused to allow a transgender lawmaker to speak about bills on the House floor until she apologizes for saying lawmakers would have ‘blood on their hands’ if they supported a bill to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, the lawmaker said.”)
- ‘Self-infatuated extremist’: Marjorie Taylor Greene hit with brutal op-ed after rushing to defend a ‘reckless brat’
- Widow of man who died in custody of deputies in Oklahoma county where officials talked about lynching Black people files suit
- McCurtain Gazette-News releases entire audio of county leaders talking about killing reporters, lynching Black residents
- Jan. 6 defendant fired on deputies ahead of expected arrest, court records show
- Larry Elder announces 2024 White House bid
- Public schools would have to display Ten Commandments under bill passed by Texas Senate (Obvious violation of the U.S. constitution, specifically separation of church and state.)
- Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA04) Opposes H.R. 734, the Politics Over Participation Act (“McClellan Fights a Federal Trans & Intersex Sports Ban”)
- Video: In Softball, Sycophantic “Interview” at George W. Bush Presidential Center, Glenn Youngkin Spews Out B.S., Falsehoods; Smears Northam and McAuliffe Administrations
- VA Board of Education Approves 2023 History and Social Science Standards of Learning (VA Board of Education President Dan Gecker: “Are they perfect? Probably not. But they represent a balance between content knowledge and inquiry…”)
- After months of debate, Virginia Board of Education adopts history standards
- State Board of Education approves new history, social science standards with emphasis on contributions ‘of all Americans’
- Restoration of rights should be automatic
- JUST IN: Democratic challengers for 37th Senate District team up in push to oust Chap Petersen
- Yalowitz Drops Out Of 37th Senate Race, Leaving Petersen Facing Salim
- Erika Yalowitz, One of Two Democratic Primary Challengers to Sen. Chap Petersen, Announces That “For the Good of This Community,” She’s Ending Her Campaign and Endorsing Saddam Salim in the SD37 Democratic Primary
- Erika Yalowitz Exits F.C. State Senate Race
- Pope & Schapiro: Campaign cash & confidence in public education
- Youngkin names Southwest Virginia OB/GYN as health commissioner
- Youngkin names Southwest Virginia health leader as health commissioner
- TikTok trend spurs record-breaking numbers of Virginians to cash out unclaimed property
- 11 years ago, a national study warned against mining uranium in Virginia
- Fairfax GOP Endorses “3x accused domestic assaulted & disabled child mocker” for School Board (Not surprisingly, the Fairfax GOP vice chair really REALLY didn’t want to talk about this on right-wing radio this morning.)
- Video: Fairfax County School Board (At-Large) Candidate Kyle McDaniel Calls for School Shooting Prevention Task Force (“I will not stand idly by while our kids are sacrificed on the altar of guns”; “School shootings are a uniquely American problem”)
- The battle between misinformation and election officials in Buckingham County
- Details emerge on why Loudoun Co. schools spokesman was charged with lying under oath
- Maggie Walker students protest planned Earle-Sears appearance
- Richmond receives mixed marks for air quality
- Dominion says coal ash pond cleanup underway at Chesterfield
- Charlottesville on track to become clean energy hub, experts say
- One nonprofit housing provider’s dangerous living conditions revealed a systemic lack of oversight in Arlington County
- D.C.-area forecast: Record warmth possible today with highs near 90
