by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 3.
- Activist investors press corporations to take action against climate change
- Who Can Save the Amazon? (“Brazil’s President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, promises to keep miners and loggers from destroying the rain forest. On the ground, the fight is complicated.”)
- Oil Prices Jump After Producers Vow to Cut Output (We need to get off of oil and tell OPEC where to shove it.)
- OPEC+ Makes Shock Million-Barrel Cut in New Inflation Risk
- Oil Surges 8% After OPEC+ Blindsides Market With Production Cut
- $100 Oil to Tighter Markets: Here’s What Analysts See After OPEC+ Shock Cut
- Evan Gershkovich and the New Era of Hostage Diplomacy
- Secretary of State Blinken Says Detention of WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich Is “Unacceptable”
- Influential Russian Military Blogger Is Killed in St. Petersburg Bombing (This guy was EVIL – “represented a radical wing of pro-invasion bloggers and activists who backed Moscow’s war”)
- Darya Trepova detained over killing of pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky (“The cafe, Street Food Bar No 1 near the River Neva, was once owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin – who runs Russia’s notorious Wagner mercenary group which has taken part in much of the fighting in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.”)
- Born in Ukraine, Vladlen Tatarsky became an outspoken proponent of its destruction (Pure evil.)
- Japan Breaks With U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap
- Saudis to cut oil production by 500,000 barrels per day
- Sanna Marin defeated by Finland’s conservatives in tight race
- Finland’s Prime Minister Marin Unseated by Pro-Business Party
- In the post-Brexit wreckage, just one Tory strategy remains: the theatre of cruelty
- ‘We’ll kill you’: Troops film boys’ killings in Burkina Faso (Horrific.)
- The Fight for Israel’s Democracy Continues (“…the pressure on Mr. Netanyahu and his government must be sustained by Israelis and by Israel’s true friends, especially the United States”)
- Netanyahu is doing lasting damage to the U.S.-Israel relationship
- France’s Macron wants to charm China — after failing with Putin (Yeah, it’s not going to work.)
- It’s not just Uganda. Much of Africa is marching backward on LGBT rights. (Appalling.)
- Republicans Can’t Agree on a Path Out of Their Own Debt Crisis (Bingo: it’s 100% Republicans’ “own debt crisis”)
- Statement from President Joe Biden on Devastating Weekend Storms
- The thread that ties the recent chemical spills together (“The growing oil and gas industry means more incidents like East Palestine.”)
- GOP divided over how to handle Trump indictment
- America faces a fateful moment ahead of Trump arraignment (Yes, it’s called enforcing the RULE OF LAW.)
- Never Again Trump (“Can the GOP stop an indicted ex-president?”)
- Justice Dept. said to have more evidence of possible Trump obstruction at Mar-a-Lago
- Psaki to Democrats on Trump indictment: ‘Stay out of it for now’
- Donald Trump vows to escalate attacks against Alvin Bragg – sources
- Trump To Deliver Remarks Tuesday Night After His Arraignment (“Donald Trump’s campaign says the former president will deliver remarks Tuesday night in Florida after his scheduled arraignment in New York.”)
- Haberman: Trump ‘extremely angry,’ family ‘rattled’ following indictment
- ‘Delay, delay, delay’: How Trump could push his trial into the heart of campaign season
- In Days Before Trump Appears in Court, Few Signs Point to a Jan. 6 Repeat
- Ex-Manhattan DA on Trump attacking Bragg: Other criminal offenses could ‘change the jury’s mind’
- Trump’s Team Blasts His Lawyer as ‘Dumb’ ‘Loudmouth’
- Bill Barr Says Trump Taking The Stand Is A Very Bad Idea: ‘Lacks All Self-Control’
- In Trump case, experts see echoes of failed case against Sen. John Edwards
- Ahead of Trump’s Arrival, New York Readies for Protests and Celebrations
- Democrats, bedeviled by absences, hope to get back to full strength
- Sen. John Fetterman on depression, recovery, and “making up any lost time”
- John Fetterman On His Struggle With Depression: “I Was Indifferent” Towards Living
- Early DeSantis supporters exhibit Trump fatigue: “I wish he would kind of enjoy retirement”
- Trump indictment pulls DeSantis-leaning Republicans back to MAGA fold
- Calm down, everybody! Trump is not going to be helped by his indictments (“Trump cost the Republicans three elections in a row. His relentless whining will not make things better for them”)
- Disney strips DeSantis of his fairy tale ending. Good.
- Inside the bitter GOP ‘undercard’ rivalry between Mike Pence and Nikki Haley (“Pence staffers are complaining privately about media coverage of another, second-tier contender.”)
- No Labels group raises alarms with third-party presidential preparations (“No Labels” really should be called “No Brains” or “No Sense” or “No Principles”)
- Ex-Arkansas GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson Is Running For President
- ‘60 Minutes’ Interview With Marjorie Taylor Greene Prompts Backlash (“60 Minutes” and Lesley Stahl just utterly disgraced themselves.)
- MTG Calls Dems a ‘Party of Pedophiles’ in Softball ‘60 Minutes’ Interview (“The soft-pedaled segment also featured footage of the congresswoman working out and deflecting blame for calling the Parkland shooting a false-flag operation.”)
- Twitter strikes New York Times’ verified badge on Elon Musk’s orders (Twitter under Musk is rapidly becoming dysfunctional and a chaotic joke.)
- ‘The dominating issue’: judicial election will decide fate of abortion in Wisconsin (It’s actually far more important than just the fate of abortion in Wisconsin; it could be key to U.S. democracy. Go Janet Protasiewicz!)
- This Race Could Decide the Fate of Democracy in Wisconsin—and the 2024 Election (“The stakes of the state’s supreme court election couldn’t be higher.”)
- Ex-DeSantis staffer Parkinson runs for Kaine’s Virginia seat (“Scott Parkinson, a former congressional staffer and advisor to Ron DeSantis and other Republican officials, is set to announce plans Monday to seek the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia next year. Parkinson, who works for the conservative economic policy group Club for Growth” – All we need to know is that he worked for DeSantis and works for the odious/far-right “Club for Growth,” which among other things “supported ‘QAon-friendly Candidate Lauren Boebert'”)
- Coal miners in Appalachia are at a higher risk of black lung (
- A Few Thoughts on the Book, “What the Eyes Can’t See: Ralph Northam, Black Resolve, and a Racial Reckoning in Virginia” (Instead of quitting or retreating into anger, bitterness, etc., Northam deserves great credit for instead deciding to learn, grow, and turn that into ACTION to make Virginia a much, much better place.)
- Expanded telehealth services are ‘here to stay’ in Virginia as public health emergency ends
- Gov. Youngkin amends 78 bills, including changes to hemp industry and government TikTok use (“The General Assembly will reconvene April 12 to consider the governor’s vetoes and amendments.”)
- Some districts will get new legislators without a single vote being cast (“That’s because those districts are so strongly weighted toward one party that the party nomination is tantamount to election. In some cases, there’s no one else on the ballot…”)
- Public comment closes on Youngkin administration’s regulation to withdraw Virginia from RGGI (“More than 6,000 voiced their opinion, with a majority siding with keeping Virginia in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.”)
- Students demand GMU cancel Gov. Youngkin as speaker. University refuses.
- GMU’s president is right to reject students’ call to cancel Youngkin’s commencement speech (Nope, because: 1) Youngkin is antithetical to most students’ values; 2) the main reason the school invited Youngkin was to try to kiss his butt and get more $$$ for the school, so it has nothing to do with free speech or whatever.)
- One injured, suspect in custody after shooting at Dulles Town Center mall (“Police said that a suspect was in custody and that the shooting was believed to have stemmed from a dispute between two people.”)
- Owner says abortion clinic in Bristol is here to stay, regardless of the outcome of a lawsuit seeking to terminate her lease.
- D.C.-area forecast: Big warm-up early this week before a late-week cooldown
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