by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, June 1.
- Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says (Humans have badly f’ed things up.)
- New Research Shows Global Climate Benefits Of Protecting Nature, but It’s Not a Silver Bullet (“Since 2000, protected forest areas have stored nearly 10 billion metric tons more carbon than ecologically similar unprotected areas.”)
- Hazardous air alerts are rising in unexpected places, thanks to climate change
- If climate goals are meant to protect us from ‘significant harm,’ then they aren’t good enough, scientists say
- Europe on verge of permitting leap for wind, solar farms
- Exxon, Chevron Investors Reject Climate Measures (“An investor-driven climate change push at some of the world’s largest oil companies has stalled out.”)
- Asia climate woes mount as heat shatters May records
- Climate paradox: Emission cuts could ‘unmask’ deadly face of climate change, scientists warn
- Euro zone inflation falls more than expected to 6.1% as core pressures ease
- Ukraine war: Children die in new missile attack on Kyiv
- Biden shows growing appetite to cross Putin’s red lines
- ‘Fear is contagious but so is courage’: the Ukrainian soldiers training to retake Bakhmut
- Zelenskiy joins European leaders at summit in Moldova
- Russian jail holding U.S. journalist is designed to instill fear, isolation, despair, ex-inmates say
- Iran plans to escalate attacks against U.S. troops in Syria, documents show
- US and China are on a collision course that could risk conflict
- Sudan: 19 killed in shelling of market in poor area south of Khartoum
- US births in 2022 didn’t return to pre-pandemic levels
- Debt-Limit Deal Passes the House, Easing US Default Concerns
- Statement from President Joe Biden on House Passage of the Bipartisan Budget Agreement
- [Debt ceiling] Bill passes House, moves to Senate as deadline nears
- Sidestepping crisis, Biden and McCarthy claim victory in debt deal
- Scoop: Jeffries, McCarthy cut side-deal to save debt ceiling bill
- US debt ceiling bill passes House with broad bipartisan support
- Rand Paul to force Senate vote on potential cuts to Social Security, Medicare
- Manchin could get a gas pipeline out of the debt ceiling deal, and environmental advocates are livid
- Kevin McCarthy’s GOP Critics Say He’ll Be the One to Pay for the Debt Deal
- A break-glass option, gumbo and a bike ride: How the debt ceiling deal got done
- The Real Climate Defeat in the Debt Ceiling Deal (“It’s not the pipeline. It’s the power lines.” It’s definitely the pipeline, but he’s right, we BADLY need new power lines to transmit wind and solar power across the country, and we didn’t get it in this debt ceiling bill – huge missed opportunity!)
- Kevin McCarthy’s Debt-Limit Win Risks His Job as Speaker
- Republicans Push for More Military Spending in Debt Deal as They Decry Deficit
- House passes debt ceiling bill in big win for McCarthy: Five takeaways (“Higher chance of attempt to oust McCarthy as Speaker”; “Jeffries, Dem leaders keep a tight ship”)
- Legal Experts Predict Dire Outcome For Donald Trump After Tape Report
- Trump has a history of saying on tape things he may regret
- Trump recorded saying he kept classified document
- EXCLUSIVE: Trump captured on tape talking about classified document he kept after leaving the White House
- Report: A Mar-a-Lago Employee Who Moved Trump’s Boxes of Documents Later Allegedly Asked “How the Security Cameras Work”
- Prosecutors have recording of Trump discussing sensitive Iran document
- Months of distrust inside Trump legal team led to top lawyer’s departure (“Exclusive: Two Trump lawyers considered a ‘murder-suicide pact’ where one would resign if the other was fired”)
- ‘Trump Bucks’ retailers’ websites taken down, days after being exposed for selling bogus currency
- Jack Teixeira Should Have Been Stopped Again and Again (“How did the worst leak in a decade take almost a year to be detected?”)
- FTC Says Ring Employees Illegally Surveilled Customers, Failed to Stop Hackers from Taking Control of Users’ Cameras
- FTC and DOJ Charge Amazon with Violating Children’s Privacy Law by Keeping Kids’ Alexa Voice Recordings Forever and Undermining Parents’ Deletion Requests
- Mike Pence to launch campaign for president in Iowa June 7 (There’s zero chance Pence will be president.)
- Report: Chris Christie to Launch 2024 Bid Next Week, Campaign on How Much Trump Sucks (Christie’s not going to be president either, but hopefully he’ll go after Trump.)
- The real manhood crisis is conservatives whining about manhood
- ‘We want dictator Trump’: America First activist publicly calls for ‘Trumpian Reich’ (Pure fascism.)
- Jack Smith Is Really Leaving No Stone Unturned
- Trump and DeSantis Push Election Laws to Breaking Point
- Opinion | The DeSantis Strategy to Take Down Trump
- LGBTQ+ Pride month kicks off with protests, parades, parties
- Christopher Rufo Launched the Critical Race Theory Panic. He Isn’t Done. (“Meet the man helping Ron DeSantis’ efforts to turn back the clock on social progress.”)
- ‘Demeaning’ Marianne Williamson Has Staff Running for the Exits (She’s completely bonkers. As if RFK Jr., by the way.)
- Project Veritas Sues James O’Keefe for Bullying Staff, Misusing Funds
- Inside Trump and DeSantis’ Ugly Feud Over The Babylon Bee
- A verified AOC parody account got a boost from Elon Musk’s Twitter
- Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules New Abortion Bans Unconstitutional
- Tommy Tuberville’s musician brother ‘compelled to distance’ himself over ‘racial stereotypes, white nationalism’ (Tommy Tuberville is evil and has ZERO business being in the U.S. Senate.)
- DOJ sues coal firms owned by Jim Justice’s family
- Opinion: What this ultra-MAGA attorney general could cost the Texas GOP
- Federal grand jury charges ex-GOP candidate with shootings on lawmakers’ homes
- Pentagon leaders cancel drag show at a Nevada Air Force base
- Virginia delegation splinters as House votes to raise debt ceiling
- Virginia delegation splits on vote to raise the debt ceiling
- ‘Gimme a break!’: Sen. Kaine vows to strip pipeline from debt ceiling deal
- Virginia Democrats Tim Kaine and Jennifer McClellan aren’t happy with the White House for not alerting them of the Mountain Valley Pipeline project’s inclusion in the debt ceiling deal — and they’re not hiding it. (“The MVP project would cut into Virginia.”)
- Virginia NAACP Opposes Mountain Valley Pipeline Provisions in Fiscal Responsibility Act (VA NAACP also “applauds US Senator Tim Kaine and US Representative Jennifer McClellan’s proposed amendment to remove the Mountain Valley pipeline from the Fiscal Responsibility Act.”)
- Virginia wetlands’ protection unclear post-Sackett (“The commonwealth is home to about 1 million acres of wetlands.”)
- “Youngkin for President has officially jumped the shark – our VA National Guard troops shouldn’t be used to further presidential ambitions” (“…much less fight a MAGA culture war in Texas of all places”)
- Va. Gov. Youngkin deploys National Guard to Texas border
- Youngkin deploys 100 Virginia National Guard troops for border enforcement in Texas
- Republican Virginia governor sends 100 National Guard soldiers to U.S.-Mexico border
- Abortion Restrictions in Other States Could Affect Virginia Medical Care. Here’s How
- Video: VA Senate Democrats Join VA Planned Parenthood To Discuss The Future Of Abortion Rights in Commonwealth (“The fundamental freedom to make your own health care decisions is at stake in this year’s elections” – Sen. Mamie Locke)
- New federal tailpipe rules would put stricter limits on Virginia’s heavy truck emissions
- New data: productivity in Virginia is down, but hours worked is up
- Schapiro: Choosing candidates by the company they keep (This is an absolute false, crazy statement by Jeff Schapiro: “Democrats are lurching further left and Republicans, further right. There’s little about either party that resembles a big tent.” In fact, the Democrats continue to be a normal, center-left party, while Republicans have lurched into far right, authoritarian, anti-democracy, anti-climate-science, conspiracy theory, etc. territory.)
- Youngkin promises quick payback from new workforce agency
- Religious minorities protest Virginia prison policies that keep them from practicing their faith
- Southwest Virginia congregations join growing wave of disaffiliations from United Methodist Church over LGBTQ+ ministers and marriages
- Two Prosecutors in Arlington/Falls Church Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office Make the Case for Reelecting Parisa Dehghani-Tafti (“These reform policies work, and they make us all safer. The numbers bear this out.”)
- 2 GOP chairs address ‘shenanigans’ ahead of Ballard, Pyles nomination contest
- Lynchburg Electoral Board ousts registrar in what Democrats say is political move
- Two arrested in connection with double homicide in Fairfax County
- D.C.-area forecast: Enjoyable warmth today but a shot of summer heat tomorrow
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