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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 22.
- It’s Earth Day—and the News Isn’t Good (“New reports show that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than anticipated, and other disasters loom.”)
- Elegy for an Altered Planet
- ‘Appalling’ Earth Day greenwashing must not detract from message, says protest founder (“Denis Hayes, who coordinated the first event in 1970, denounces fossil fuel companies that use the event to get positive publicity”)
- Minister: Ukraine will beat Russia in war of technologies
- Airman Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely and for Longer Than Previously Known
- FBI leak investigators home in on members of private Discord server
- Sudan’s army says evacuations of diplomats expected to begin
- Why so many top Republicans want to go to war in Mexico
- Most Federal Forest is Mature and Old Growth. Now the Question Is Whether to Protect It (“The Biden administration completes inventory, launches plan for new rules on ‘climate resilience’ for forests. Meanwhile, logging continues in carbon-rich federal stands.”)
- Biden’s Earth Day order aims to ease pollution in poor communities
- Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll
- McCarthy Is Coming Up Short in Support for House Debt-Limit Bill
- Why the Debt Ceiling Debate Is Also a Climate Fight (“As Congress fights over the nation’s ability to borrow money, Republicans have made clean energy tax credits a key target in their efforts to slash federal spending.”)
- Republicans end the week short on votes for their debt ceiling plan
- Enraged by GOP debt limit extortion? Blame MAGA’s moderate enablers.
- Republicans’ Proposed Medicaid ‘Work Requirements’ Would Affect 10 Million
- Supreme Court preserves access to key abortion drug as appeal proceeds (“An appeals court will consider whether Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk was right to suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone.”)
- What comes next after the order on abortion pills (“The Supreme Court’s decision Friday is unlikely to be the justices’ final word on the FDA’s approach to the drug”)
- Supreme Court allows abortion pill to stay on the market for now
- The justices’ abortion pill ruling is as good as it gets for this court
- The Supreme Court’s new abortion pill decision, explained (“The justices hand down the first decision in the mifepristone litigation saga that is not completely unhinged.”)
- The Anti-Abortion Movement Finally Went Too Far for This Supreme Court (“Mifepristone will remain legal in blue states, despite a lawless judicial effort to ban it.”)
- The Supreme Court Stopped Short of a Radical Act
- Abortion Surges to the Center of the 2024 Campaign
- Details about multimillion-dollar stock holding concealed in abortion pill judge’s financial disclosures (This guy should be impeached.)
- Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s financial reports include an unusual redaction
- SpaceX’s Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess
- SpaceX didn’t want to blow up its launchpad. It may have done just that. (“Videos shared on social media showed debris slamming into a van several hundred feet away and striking the nearby beach and the shoreline as if they were a war zone.”)
- Two Men Sentenced for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States
- Republicans follow their new leader, Marjorie Taylor Greene (“Extremists such as Greene can’t be dismissed as gadflies. They are central to the Republican House majority.”)
- What is wrong with these people? (“Indifferent to government’s impact on people, encased in a bubble and driven by anger and ambition, these politicians act like a caricature of Republicans.”)
- The Republican Party Can’t Reform Until They Jettison People Like Cleta Mitchell (“Instead, they’re inviting her to present at the RNC donors summit.”)
- America’s Tragedy Is Its Culture of Fear—Armed With Millions of Guns (“‘Patriotic’ culture warriors are terrified of drag queens, ‘illegals,’ and extremely rare vaccine injuries. But tens of thousands of annual gun deaths—meh.”)
- House Republicans, Manhattan DA End Fight Over Trump Inquiry (“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to let Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee question an ex-prosecutor.”)
- Exclusive: Text messages reveal Trump operatives considered using breached voting data to decertify Georgia’s Senate runoff in 2021
- Team Trump’s Attempt to Overturn the Election in Georgia Was Even More Corrupt Than We Thought
- House GOP’s latest Hunter Biden laptop theory is less than meets the eye (It always is.)
- Hunter Biden and ‘dirty’ New York: Fox News back to basics after lawsuit (And by “basics,” we’re talking about constant lying, right-wing propaganda, etc.)
- Dominion’s C.E.O.: We Settled the Lawsuit Against Fox News, but We’re Not Done Yet
- New wave of GOP candidates to challenge Trump, DeSantis
- ‘I don’t think he cares about people’: DeSantis struggles with former Hill colleagues (DeSantis is a sociopath and fascist.)
- Ron DeSantis’ Disney Vendetta Has Jumped the Shark
- The Sickening Déjà Vu of Watching Trump Manhandle DeSantis
- Trump campaign releases lengthy statement trashing Florida: ‘Misery and despair’
- Rough week, Ron? DeSantis flounders with Disney feud and abortion stance
- Florida students say they’re walking out and teaching themselves banned history lessons to protest censorship and anti-LGBTQ laws in education
- Mitt Romney Thinks the Labor Secretary Shouldn’t Represent Labor (Romney is a corporate tool.)
- Dril and other Twitter power users begin campaign to ‘Block the Blue’ paid checkmarks (“After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users’ checkmarks, Twitter’s biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.”)
- Twitter users #BlockTheBlue as ‘verified’ accounts take on new meaning
- BuzzFeed, Blue Check Marks, and the End of an Internet Era (“Just a decade ago, Twitter and BuzzFeed were the popular poles of online life. Now their struggles are emblematic of where social media went wrong.”)
- Elon Musk had a rough week across his empire — Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX
- Retired Navy Officer Takes on Florida’s Book-Ban ‘Fascism’
- Bud Light’s marketing leadership undergoes shakeup after Dylan Mulvaney controversy
- Texas Republicans Seem Hell-Bent on Turning K–12 Schools Into Churches (“The state’s GOP-led Senate is pushing one bill that would require all public elementary schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, while another measure would open the door for prayer and Bible study.”)
- “QAnon sheriff” Mark Lamb goes deep into far-right fringe in Arizona Senate race (“Ultra-MAGA far-right candidates nearly all lost in Arizona last year. That’s not stopping Sheriff Mark Lamb”)
- Jim Justice plans Senate launch for next week (Manchin is toast.)
- In tour, Kaine touts tax credits as ‘powerful’ incentive for Southern Virginia megasite
- Sen. Kaine visits Danville mega site, holds economy roundtable
- Sen. Kaine visits Southern Virginia Mega Site, says workforce development will be key to attracting business (“The U.S. senator toured the Pittsylvania County site and said that workforce development has now become a bigger issue than tax incentives to businesses considering a site.”)
- VA House Dems Leader Don Scott: “While the Supreme Court made the right decision today, we know extremists in the VA GOP still stand poised and ready to take away women’s rights.”
- Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin dodges 2024 questions as he gears up for Asia trip
- What’s At Stake: A Recap Of What’s On The Line in This November’s Virginia General Assembly Elections (“Gun safety legislation, LGBTQ rights, reproductive freedom, climate change mitigation measures, and voting rights are all on the line this November.”)
- Ex-DeSantis donor cuts big check for Youngkin (“Days after withholding his financial backing for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, billionaire GOP donor Thomas Peterffy is opening his wallet for Glenn Youngkin”)
- Virginia launches push to expand semiconductor business in state
- School accreditation status could be affected by chronic absenteeism again after state Board of Education vote
- What campaign finance records show about this year’s General Assembly races
- Video: Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) and His Democratic Primary Challenger Saddam Salim Disagree Strongly on Whether to Repeal So-Called “Right-to-Work” Laws in Virginia (Salim argues that what Petersen said is “just false” and “a scaremongering tactic aimed at Republican votes”)
- With uncertainly looming over state budget, Virginia Tech raises tuition by nearly 5 percent
- Endorsement: Stella Pekarsky for VA Senate in SD37 (Western Fairfax County)
- Democratic candidates for Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney (These guys – Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano and challenger Ed Nuttall – really, REALLY don’t like each other, repeateadly calling the other one a liar, incompetent, etc.)
- Loudoun to Propose New Dulles Takeoff Rules, Other Noise Fixes
- Appalachian Power cited for air pollution from Clinch River natural gas power plant
- ANALYSIS: In Spotsylvania, the worst is yet to come (“And the worst starts Monday”)
- Demand for housing is soaring in Danville. Both the city and developers are responding.
- Residents sue Arlington County over ‘missing middle’ zoning change (Ugh.)
- D.C.-area forecast: Showers and storms likely this afternoon into evening
