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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 8.
- Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years. Here’s how we know.
- Climate change ratchets up the stress on farmworkers on the front lines of a warming Earth
- The world is officially ‘free’ of chemical weapons. Here’s what that means
- Kremlin smears Wagner boss Prigozhin, hailing Putin as Russia’s savior
- CNN Exclusive: Biden says sending cluster munitions to Ukraine was ‘difficult decision,’ but ‘they needed them’
- President Zelensky visits Snake Island as war enters 500th day
- Turkey’s Erdogan hosts Zelenskyy and says Ukraine deserves membership in NATO
- Turkey’s Erdogan to host Putin, hopes for Black Sea grain deal extension
- ‘Terrible mistake’: human rights groups decry sending cluster bombs to Ukraine
- Analysis: End justifies means for Biden in sending cluster bombs to Ukraine (“Decision to approve cluster munitions, lambasted by rights groups, exposes feeling in Washington that war is reaching crunch time”)
- Bucha Gets a Remake, but Pain Lingers Behind the Facade
- Inside the Secretive Russian Security Force That Targets Americans
- Ukraine Recap: Biden Says Kyiv Isn’t Ready for NATO Membership
- NATO summit host Lithuania is a small country with a loud voice, especially when it comes to Russia
- Latvia swears in EU’s first openly gay president
- US urges China to cooperate on climate action
- NATO’s New Focus on China Creates Internal Tension About Mission Creep
- Yellen Says US, China Must Address Economic Concerns ‘Directly’
- China’s iron fist reaches across the globe
- Erdogan Says Turkey Wants Three-Month Extension of Grain Deal
- A Year After His Death, Japan Is Closer to Abe’s Vision
- Dutch Government Collapses Over Plan to Further Limit Immigration
- Sudanese People Want Democracy. The World Has Never Listened.
- Canada faces ‘long, tough summer’ of wildfires with even hotter temperatures (“More than 9m hectares of country had burned, federal data shows, shattering 34-year record”)
- Harassment of TV meteorologists reflects broader anti-science, anti-media trends (Totally unacceptable.)
- Here’s where the jobs are for June 2023 — in one chart
- Wage Gains, Low Unemployment Keep Pressure on Fed; Hiring Cooled in June
- Joe Biden’s quiet success goes much further than Bidenomics (“If this is what happens when you have an elder as a leader maybe we ought to think about amending the Constitution”)
- The Most Remarkable Part of This Supreme Court? The Arrogance.
- How long will Americans put up with the court’s originalism? (It’s not really even “originalism,” as the extremists on the Supreme Court completely distort what the Founders intended on just about every issue. In other words, it’s pretty much ANTI-originalism.)
- The Most Baffling Argument a Supreme Court Justice Has Ever Made (“An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.”)
- The Supreme Court’s new “separate but equal” doctrine
- Remember When Donald Trump Discussed Seizing Voting Machines and Invoking Martial Law? Special Counsel Jack Smith Sure Does
- Activists want to disqualify Trump from ballot in key states under 14th Amendment
- Trump says he’d bring back “travel ban” that’s “even bigger than before”
- White House officials worried Trump showed reporters classified material while in office, new book recounts
- Trump Asked About I.R.S. Inquiry of F.B.I. Officials, Ex-Aide Says Under Oath
- Roger Stone joins Trump on his private plane to Las Vegas after a campaign stop in Iowa (Totally normal, huh? Not.)
- Former Trump Cabinet member tells him to ‘kiss’ his ‘butt’
- Trump Blasted by Former CIA Chief Over Classified Documents in New Political Ad
- Trump-appointed judge gives a ‘break’ to Jan. 6 rioter who wants to be a police officer (“Tyler Bensch, who used bear spray during the Capitol attack, was sentenced to probation and 60 days home detention instead of the nine months in prison sought by prosecutors.” Appalling.)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Is No Longer Radical Enough for the GOP’s Radical Fringe
- Trump says DeSantis was ‘lousy candidate’ for governor until his endorsement
- DeSantis Campaign Stalls as He Tries to Court Trump’s GOP Fans and Foes Alike
- A supporter’s plane flew from Florida to N.H. DeSantis won’t say if he was on it. (“The Florida governor’s travel to New Hampshire coincided with the path of a wealthy supporter’s private plane.”)
- America is moving on from COVID. That’s not good for Ron DeSantis.
- North Carolina’s GOP front-runner for governor has a history of racist and antisemitic diatribes
- Ocasio-Cortez endorses Biden’s reelection campaign, sending a strong signal of Democratic unity
- The GOP’s campaign against trans rights is rooted in eliminationism
- Why MAGA elites are facing a fresh set of disasters
- Disciplinary panel calls for Rudy Giuliani’s disbarment (Good, although this should have happened back in 2021, along with the rest of Trump’s insurrectionist-supporting lawyers.)
- The (figurative) cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk is on
- Meta’s New Threads App Is Terrible. It Just Might Bury Twitter.
- Threads won’t kill Twitter if it’s boring (“Instagram’s new copycat app is nowhere near as fun as Twitter. Can anything be?”)
- Meta’s Threads Has 70 Million Signups, Surprising Zuckerberg
- Meta’s Threads upends social media in less than 48 hours
- Elon Musk sues Wachtell law firm to recoup fees from Twitter buyout (“Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter for defeating his bid to walk away from his $44 billion buyout of the social media company.”)
- How Twitter lost its place as the global town square
- Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) says he will not run for U.S. Senate (“At this moment, I believe the best way for me to make the greatest difference in American politics in 2024 and beyond is this: to run for reelection to the House of Representatives in Maryland’s extraordinary 8th District.”)
- Outrage as Republican says 1921 Tulsa massacre not motivated by race (“Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters decried for comments on 1921 massacre in which hundreds were killed by white mobs”)
- Inside Moms for Liberty’s summit: Big money and even bigger conspiracy theories
- ‘Sound of Freedom’ is a box office hit whose star embraces QAnon
- Ramaswamy Investments Seem at Odds With His Position on ‘Woke’ Culture
- Texas gunman in Walmart shooting gets 90 consecutive life sentences and may still face death penalty
- NEW DATA: 390,400 Virginians Projected to Save on Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Costs (“The contrast between President Biden’s record and the Republican war on health care could not be clearer.”)
- Audio: Former VA House Dems Exec. Director Trevor Southerland Analyzes Campaign Spending in Several Key Primaries on 6/20 (In SD37, “Chap [Petersen]’s message to Democratic voters was essentially, ‘I am smarter than you, I will tell you what is good for you’, and people don’t like that message.”)
- Schapiro: Little details can cause big problems for Va. governors
- Virginia tutor explains why she pulled out of Youngkin’s learning grant program: ‘It’s a disaster’ (“It’s a big problem. It’s a hot mess. It truly is”)
- Advocacy groups criticize Youngkin administration over reports of pulled LGBTQ+ online resources
- ‘Parents Matter’ says Youngkin in Salem (This is a classic case of what the media should NOT do – uncritically repeat a politician’s false spin/propaganda. Very irresponsible, but sadly typical of the “mainstream media.”)
- Governor listens to Roanoke Valley parent concerns over children’s safety on social media
- Who Was The Big Winner In Virginia’s Primaries?
- Youngkin announces new appointments to Virginia Board of Education (“The only remaining member of the nine-person board who was appointed by a Democratic governor is Anne Holton, who was appointed by then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe in 2017 and again in 2021 by Northam.”)
- Ex-Newport News assistant principal sentenced to 8 years for sexual misconduct involving Chesapeake student
- Details emerge about retired Portsmouth officer’s treatment of pregnant woman before in-custody death
- After illegal fireworks in Virginia Beach damage multiple boats, officials ask for public’s help
- D.C.-area forecast: Modest storm chances today that grow on Sunday
