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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, June 2.
- World’s wheat supply at risk of shock due to climate change, study warns
- Global investments in clean energy have accelerated way past fossil fuels (“For every $1 spent on fossil fuels, $1.70 is now spent on clean energy. Just five years ago, this ratio was 1:1.” Good – crank it up even faster!)
- Governments are continuing to push investment into clean energy amid the global energy crisis
- A pledge to fight climate change is sending money to strange places
- Conservation Groups Aim to Cushion Birds From a Solar Power Boom (“Recognizing the desperate need for more clean energy, avian advocates are working to steer solar projects away from key habitats”)
- Satellite Images Reveal Russian Defenses for Ukraine Counteroffensive
- Russia says thousands of iPhones were hacked, blames U.S. and Apple
- Pentagon buying Starlink dishes for Ukraine after funding dispute with SpaceX (Huge mistake to do business with Musk; the guy’s a national security risk.)
- Ukraine battles sky-high expectations ahead of counteroffensive
- Exclusive: US looks to buy TNT from Japan for Ukraine artillery shells
- To liberate territory, Ukraine must smash fortified Russian defenses
- US deal could plug Turkmenistan’s colossal methane emissions (“The central Asian country has the worst rate of climate-heating ‘super-emitter’ events in the world”)
- Why North Korea’s Latest Nuclear Claims Are Raising Alarms (“North Korea’s new wave of propaganda suggests that it has succeeded in miniaturizing its nuclear warheads and made its missiles easier to launch and harder to intercept. The claims — not fully corroborated — show the country is on a path that is worrying to its neighbors, and to the United States.”)
- Explainer: Why are wildfires raging in Canada’s eastern Nova Scotia province?
- Number of migrants crossing the southern border hits lowest point since Biden took office
- President Biden brokered a debt limit deal by following instincts developed through long experience in Washington.
- Senate passes debt ceiling bill, sending it to Biden to sign into law
- How House Dems went from angry at to rallying around the Biden White House
- Irrational Exuberance of a Non-Catastrophe (“The bipartisan debt deal was a win for both Biden and McCarthy, but it might not have been the breakthrough Washington was waiting for.”)
- Biden is delivering on his most far-fetched pledge: Compromise
- Senate passes debt ceiling bill, sending it to Biden to become law and avert disaster
- Just don’t boast: How Biden world sought to ace the debt ceiling standoff
- McCarthy says Biden stopped him from cutting Social Security and Medicare
- ‘Shrink the room’: How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt-limit deal and staved off a catastrophe
- Is Joe Manchin’s Pipeline a Big Deal?
- Debt limit bill gives Republicans IRS cuts, but Democrats say they expect little near-term impact
- The Lesson From the Debt-Ceiling Fiasco: Only Money Matters (“For all the QAnon acid-trippery, it is the money power that still represents the fundamental forces of nature in our politics.”)
- Biden won on the debt ceiling. Why doesn’t he want it to look that way? (“That Biden isn’t reveling in his triumph says a lot about how he intends to run for reelection.”)
- 5 winners and 5 losers from the debt ceiling deal (“Biden and McCarthy win. The Freedom Caucus loses.”)
- The debt ceiling deal collapses the right’s Biden “dementia” smear
- Joe Biden Was Underestimated Once Again on the Debt Ceiling Deal
- House passes debt limit bill with permitting reform, transmission study
- The debt-limit deal could help clean energy. But probably not much
- U.S. Job Growth Expected to Remain Resilient
- US debt ceiling deal narrowly passes senate averting catastrophic federal default (Only “narrow” given that it required 60 votes.)
- Republicans find an antidote to the madness. Will they take it?
- AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test (“The Air Force’s Chief of AI Test and Operations said ‘it killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective'”)
- Senate votes to block student loan forgiveness but Biden vows to veto bill
- Republicans Have a Twisted View of the Safety Net
- Unions are relieved as the Supreme Court leaves the right to strike intact
- US Supreme Court hands defeat to organized labor in truckers strike case
- The Trump Classified-Docs Case Is Now at the “Recording of Trump Bragging About Keeping Classified Info About Iran” Stage
- Lordy, There Are Tapes (“Trump’s fear of damaging press was so much greater than his fear of criminal accountability that he ended up making an incriminating recording.”)
- Trump’s Smoking Tape?
- What Trump’s Recording Could Reveal
- Recording of Trump Underscores Growing Evidence in Documents Case
- Fox News’ In-House Trump Adviser Allows Him To Lie And Whine For Full Hour in Iowa
- Trump, DeSantis in open warfare as they hit the trail in early states
- Trump Loses NHGOP Rep’s Endorsement to DeSantis Over Treatment of Fox News Host
- Scoop: Trump pollster tells donors DeSantis electability is a “myth”
- Ron DeSantis loses his temper with a reporter: ‘Are you blind?’
- Ron DeSantis Will Get Back to You on the Pronunciation of His Last Name (“It appears the governor and presidential candidate is still deciding.”)
- Ron DeSantis praised Anthony Fauci for Covid response in spring 2020 for ‘really doing a good job’
- Team DeSantis Goes Full Anti-Vaxx to Attack Trump After He Spars With Angry Voter
- Trump says he told Hannity not to joke about Biden’s cognitive ability
- J6 Unmasked: Security footage shows Pelosi evacuating Hollywood-style from Capitol as daughter films
- Watch Roger Stone Explain on Hot Mic How to Manipulate Trump
- Former Los Angeles Dodger Steve Garvey weighs U.S. Senate bid
- Elon Musk’s new Twitter pronoun rule invites bullying, LGBTQ groups say
- Arizona Limits Construction Around Phoenix as Its Water Supply Dwindles
- New details of Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP
- Arizona state Sen. Janae Shamp has promoted neo-Nazis and other virulent antisemites
- In a deep red Florida county, a student-teacher revolt shames the right
- Tim Scott’s Purity Culture (“Why the 2024 candidate made his virginity key to his political persona.”)
- Chris Christie is not in it to win it. His task is more important.
- Virginia’s Democratic U.S. House Members Explain Their Votes For or Against the “Fiscal Responsibility Act” (aka, the Debt Ceiling Bill)
- Sen. Tim Kaine discusses his effort to remove permitting for the Mountain Valley Pipeline from the debt ceiling legislation
- Kaine’s effort to remove Mountain Valley Pipeline provision from debt-limit deal fails
- Statement of U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner on Passage of Legislation to Raise Debt Ceiling
- Sen. Tim Kaine speaks against debt limit agreement, pipeline project
- Sen. Mark Warner Joins Bipartisan Effort to Claw Back Executive Pay in the Wake of Bank Failure
- “Dark money epitomized,” as Youngkin Gets $1M “from an unknown LLC…the name of the $1M donor…hidden from view”
- Youngkin’s PAC gets a second $1 million contribution
- FOIA Friday: What Virginia officials withheld or disclosed, May 26–June 2, 2023
- Incarcerated teens find escape in music and poems composed with artists
- Pope & Schapiro: The border, the debt ceiling and some contested primaries
- Youngkin once again calls on lawmakers to reach budget deal
- VDOT moves several regional Smart Scale proposals forward
- Two popular candidates face off in Cville area primary
- Why groups are fighting over obscure 1960s-era ‘slot and perimeter’ rules at a Virginia airport
- Amid controversy, Lynchburg Electoral Board hires a new registrar
- Fairfax Co. eighth-grader finishes second at Scripps National Spelling Bee (Nice!)
- Judge denies request to drop disorderly conduct charge against Loudoun Co. father arrested at school board meeting
- D.C.-area forecast: Summerlike today, then a weekend cooling trend
