by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, June 15.
- Fears of hottest year on record as global temperatures spike
- The hard right and climate catastrophe are intimately linked. This is how
- Rooftop Solar Grew Nearly 50 Percent Globally Last Year
- Greta Thunberg: not phasing out fossil fuels is ‘death sentence’ for world’s poor (“Climate activist says only ‘rapid and equitable’ phaseout will keep temperatures within 1.5C limit” Correct.)
- Global steel industry can quit coal, reach net-zero by early 2040s, study finds
- Big batteries storm the fossil fuel citadels, and spell the end for coal and gas
- In the Pacific, Some Coral Survived the Last El Nino, Thanks to Ocean Currents
- Activist Group ‘Names and Shames’ Cargill and Its Heirs to Keep Deforestation Promises
- Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance (“Exclusive: Breakthrough could aid research into genetic disorders but raises serious ethical and legal issues”)
- As Saudis Sought to Push Up Oil Prices, Markets Had Other Ideas
- Russia’s Big Economic Problem: Not Enough Workers
- Putin’s War Hits Close to Home (“Russia has faced a series of recent attacks, but, in the absence of public space, military losses are personal tragedies, not collective experiences.”)
- Ukraine’s long war and the importance of patience
- Clandestine Ukrainian unit claims successes against Russian forces in Bakhmut
- The Russian Soldier Who Surrendered to a Ukrainian Drone
- How Dowries Are Fuelling a Femicide Epidemic (“Every year in India, many thousands are killed in marriage-payment disputes. Why does this war on women persist?”)
- US military will have ‘unimpeded’ access to Papua New Guinea bases under new security deal
- China, Palestine upgrade ties to ‘milestone’ strategic partnership
- Hoping to Avert Nuclear Crisis, U.S. Seeks Informal Agreement With Iran
- Scathing report finds Boris Johnson deliberately misled UK Parliament over ‘partygate’
- Greece searches for hundreds feared missing after migrant boat sank, leaving 78 dead
- The Fed grows confident its Goldilocks scenario might come true
- Powell Indicates at Least Two More Rate Hikes Ahead After Pause
- Shutdown odds grow amid GOP infighting
- Republicans Are Bringing Back Their Plan to Gut Social Security and Medicare (“A new budget proposal for the 2024 fiscal year makes sweeping cuts.”)
- Tentative agreement ends worker slowdowns and stoppages that crippled West Coast ports (“The new contract is six years and will cover workers at all 29 West Coast ports. No details of the deal terms were released.”)
- How the debt ceiling bill’s permitting deal hurt the outlook for deeper reforms, transmission legislation
- Gallup survey shows support for abortion in US remains strong (“Nearly three-quarters of Americans say abortion should generally be legal in first trimester, a record high”)
- As more schools target ‘Maus,’ Art Spiegelman’s fears are deepening (“‘It’s a real warning sign,’ the author says of the targeting of his graphic novel about the Holocaust.”)
- The Next GOP Supreme Court Pick Will Make Brett Kavanaugh Look Like a RINO (We’d better make sure that Rs do NOT win the White House…for the foreseeable future!)
- In Big Win For Progressives, Senate Confirms Dale Ho To Be A Federal Judge
- Progressive coalition launches $1 million campaign backing Supreme Court reform
- Power companies quietly pushed $215m into US politics via dark money groups
- How much did Congress lose by defunding the IRS? Way more than we thought. (“New research finds that for each extra dollar the IRS spends auditing wealthy taxpayers, it can collect more than $12 in return.”)
- L.G.B.T.Q. Americans Could Become a ‘New Class of Political Refugees’
- Trump’s defenders get caught up in the corruption (“The GOP establishment has taken back the wheel and they are now driving the MAGA bus”)
- Trump rejected lawyers’ efforts to avoid classified documents indictment
- Will Walt Nauta flip? Trump keeps valet close as question hovers over the case.
- Judge in Trump Documents Case Has Scant Criminal Trial Experience (She has ZERO business presiding over this case.)
- Government Watchdog Calls for Recusal of Judge Cannon from United States v. Donald Trump
- The Radical Strategy Behind Trump’s Promise to ‘Go After’ Biden (“Conservatives close to Donald Trump are laying out a ‘paradigm-shifting’ legal rationale to erase the Justice Department’s independence from the White House.” That would be the end of the rule of law in America.)
- Trump’s only defense is celebrity: When you’re a star, they have to let you do it (“Meanwhile, Republicans talk about Trump like’s he a stupid baby — and regard their voters as even dumber”)
- Mike Pence Has Sudden Epiphany That Trump May Have Done Some Very Bad Things
- Why the Biden, Clinton, and Pence document cases don’t compare to Trump’s
- Jack Smith’s Backup Option (“Donald Trump was indicted in Florida. Could he also face charges in New Jersey?”)
- ‘Stand with Trump’ becomes rallying cry as Republicans amplify attacks on US justice system (Dangerous, irresponsible, appalling.)
- Trump centers campaign on his prosecution, vilifying legal system
- A Simple Test: What if Donald Trump were someone else? (“There is ample reason to believe that the document case against Trump falls into the second category: Had any other American done what he is accused of doing, that person would almost certainly be prosecuted. “The real injustice,” the editors of The Economist magazine wrote yesterday, ‘would have been not to indict him.'”)
- Donald Trump Is About to Have His Wile E. Coyote Moment
- Jack Smith Changed My Mind On Prosecuting Trump
- Trump Is ‘Scared Sh*tless,’ Ex-Chief Of Staff John Kelly Says
- Thomas Zimmer: Rightwingers Close Ranks Behind Trump…and “the white grievance politics that seeks to forever preserve America as a place of traditional hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth” (“We are in deeply dangerous territory because so many on the Right..see no lines they are not justified to cross.”)
- https://americanindependent.com/progressive-coalition-campaign-supreme-court-reform/ (“The Global Project Against Extremism and Hate hopes the directory ‘will help to identify where far-right actors are active’ and ‘the narratives they are pushing.'”)
- Republicans Acknowledge Biden Bribe Audio Might Not Exist (Total joke.)
- Fox News Hits Panic Button As White House Criticizes Network On Live TV (Fox “News” has zero business being in the White House press corps at all, as it’s not a real news channel, just far-right propaganda.)
- White House rips Fox News as the right-wing channel launches sinister attacks on Biden
- Fox News stirs outrage after labeling Biden a ‘wannabe dictator.’ The network says it ‘addressed’ the situation
- The Trumpist media is demanding politicized justice
- DeSantis faces few good options on Trump indictment
- A President Governing From Behind Bars?
- Green groups give Biden an early endorsement
- Four major environmental groups endorse Biden’s reelection (“LCV Action Fund, NextGen PAC, the Sierra Club, and the NRDC Action Fund endorsed Biden together at the dinner, which is honoring former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”)
- Scoop: White House elbows back on “MAGA” Hatch Act violation
- Fox News Is Already Declaring the 2024 Election Rigged
- GOP effort to censure Adam Schiff defeated in House vote (Utterly moronic.)
- A No Labels candidate would likely throw the election to Trump
- Miami GOP Mayor Francis Suarez jumps into presidential race
- Grand jury indicts Daniel Penny in chokehold death of Jordan Neely (Good.)
- Texas governor Greg Abbott sends ‘1st bus’ of migrants to Los Angeles
- Music publishers accuse Twitter in $250M lawsuit of copyright infringement
- Ex-Harvard Medical School morgue manager accused of selling body parts
- Bill Cosby sued in Nevada by 9 women who accuse him of sexual assault (Bill Cosby is a horrible person.)
- Man who wanted to kill gay people when he opened fire in a small Montana town is sentenced to 18 years
- MAGA pastor: Christians need people who are ‘willing to strap bombs to their chest’ like the Muslims (Very, very dangerous people…American Taliban, basically.)
- District Profiles: Virginia’s Congressional Districts
- Kaine and Warner announce funding to aid teacher shortage
- Virginia senator questions credibility of Biden bribery allegations (“Democratic senator Tim Kaine compared it to the ‘boy who cried wolf.’ He said the GOP has little specifics and evidence to back up those allegations.”)
- National Airport changes spell disaster for our constituents
- ICYMI: In a Washington Post Op-ed, Cardin, Van Hollen, Kaine and Warner Oppose Changes to Slot and Perimeter Rules at DCA
- Sen. Tim Kaine pushes to keep Washington D.C. airports the same
- Registrars are beholden to democracy, not partisan electoral boards
- Editorial: Including pipeline in debt bill dismantled a system protecting Virginians (Senators Kaine and Warner, plus all the Democrats in the U.S. House delegation from Virginia, tried to stop this.)
- With Just 6 Days Until Virginia’s 2023 Democratic Primaries, Here Are Ten More Endorsements for State Senate, House of Delegates
- State Senate veterans face stiff primary challenges in Virginia (“Three veteran Democrats in Virginia’s state Senate – George L. Barker, Dave Marsden and R. Creigh Deeds – face tough challenges from younger, somewhat more liberal rivals in the June 20 primary.”)
- Schapiro: Something old, new, red, blue, Part I
- Eight questions that the primaries will answer (Really ridiculous “both sidesism” in this article.)
- School districts struggle to implement new laws on sexually explicit books
- Why Democratic officials won’t let a would-be candidate run for the Virginia House (“In early June, Lipscomb sent an email suggesting Rural GroundGame had volunteered to help her collect the 100 petition signatures. In response, Lynlee Thorne, Rural GroundGame’s political director, said that email “came as a surprise” and explained that the group had told Lipscomb the party’s filing requirements in the district weren’t particularly unusual and that she would only be supporting Lipscomb if Lipscomb would commit to meeting those requirements. ‘I advised strongly against taking guidance from an individual in another state,’ Thorne wrote in a June 1 email.”)
- As Amazon HQ2 opens its doors, neighbors brace for a transformation (“Northern Virginia residents have a wide range of expectations for Amazon HQ2 as the first major set of offices is set to open in Arlington.”)
- Attorney general has copy of laptop found in gunman’s home, Virginia Beach Shooting Mass Shooting Commission says
- CASEY: Regarding recent public freakouts about local libraries and public schools
- Dominion reviving plans to build a natural gas peaker plant in Chesterfield (“Proposal signals shift from renewables-heavy focus of the past few years” Unacceptable.)
- How does the new Hanover County Public Schools’ book ban work?(“The school board approved an expedited policy on Tuesday to remove books from school and classroom libraries.”)
- Norfolk city manager appears to be on his way out, with an updated severance plan
- D.C.-area forecast: Hazy sunshine today with a chance of showers tomorrow
