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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 23.
- Study: Climate change could be affecting the color of Earth’s oceans
- Europe’s Heat Wave Gives Way to Wildfire, Tennis Ball-Size Hail
- Climate Inferno Threatens to Turn Athens Into Outpost of Sahara
- U.S. in no hurry to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles
- The latest Russian strike on Ukraine’s Odesa leaves 1 dead, many hurt and a cathedral badly damaged (Yet more war crimes by Putin’s terrorist state.)
- Zelensky condemns Russian strikes on Odesa and vows to retaliate
- Weary Soldiers, Unreliable Munitions: Ukraine’s Many Challenges
- Wagner mutiny: Junior commander reveals his role in the challenge to Putin
- Ukraine’s Lack of Weaponry and Training Risks Stalemate in War
- Vladimir Putin Is Still Useful to Xi Jinping. Until He Isn’t.
- Massive Crowds of Israelis Are Protesting Netanyahu’s Supreme Court Power Play, Again (“More than 20 percent of Israelis have reportedly taken part in protests. As a percentage of population, that’s more than double the top estimates of the 15 to 26 million Americans who took part in Black Lives Matters protests, estimated to be largest in US history.”)
- Hundreds Of Thousands March In Israel. Former Security Chiefs Beg Netanyahu To Halt Legal Overhaul (“Tens of thousands of protesters have marched on the main highway into Jerusalem in an attempt to block Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul plan.”)
- Israel’s biggest security threat is Benjamin Netanyahu
- Israel’s Netanyahu recovers from a heart procedure while his judicial overhaul plan moves forward
- Netanyahu Gets Pacemaker as Vote Nears on Judicial Overhaul
- Hungary’s Orban Attacks European Union For LGBTQ ‘Offensive’ (This guy is heinous, so of course the right wing in the U.S. loves him.)
- Spain faces stark left-right divide in hot summer vote
- Spanish voters make their choice in an election that could see another EU country swing to the right
- Spain has been a progressive model. Now far-right Vox has a shot at power. (“An alliance between the center-right and Vox would give Spain its most conservative government since the death of Franco in 1975.”)
- Greek authorities evacuate some 19,000 people as wildfire blazes on the island of Rhodes
- Nova Scotia floods cause ‘unimaginable’ damage; four people missing
- Thailand’s democracy could still move forward — even without Pita (“Thai politics could still change despite the best efforts of the military and the monarchy.”)
- Why aren’t we more scared of the climate crisis? It’s complicated (“Despite extreme heat and weather in the US, most Americans aren’t cowering in fear. There’s a psychological reason for it”)
- Deadly extreme heat is on the rise in national parks – a growing risk for America’s great outdoors
- Death by Design (“There’s nothing ‘accidental’ about pedestrian deaths.”)
- Even Congress thinks its members should stop playing the stock market
- Key drug-pricing bill capping insulin costs faces hurdles in Congress
- ‘Judeo-Christian’ roots will ensure U.S. military AI is used ethically, general says (Hahahahaha, wuuuuut? This nutjob is a GENERAL??? He definitely should NOT be in command of anything!)
- Despite What Republicans Say, Trump’s Legal Cases Aren’t a Distraction (“Instead, they provide an almost encyclopedic guide to the former President’s political and personal character.”)
- A federal judge confirmed one of Trump’s worst labels — and the GOP didn’t blink (“On Wednesday, a federal judge confirmed that a jury ruled that the former President of the United States was a rapist.”)
- Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump’s election claims
- GOP’s crumbling case against Biden on crime, immigration and inflation (The premise of this Axios article is that Trump Republicans were/are acting in good faith – which obviously they’ve never been – and that they ever had a case to begin with, which they definitely DID NOT.)
- Trump’s GOP rivals open door to cutting Social Security for younger people (F*** these people.)
- DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery )(DeSantis is DeRanged and DeMented.)
- The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout (“The Florida governor lost enthusiasm for the shot before the Delta wave. It’s a grim chapter he now leaves out of his retelling of his pandemic response.”)
- Inside the DeSantis Doc That Showtime Didn’t Want You to See
- Biden looks to put North Carolina on ’24 map
- Mike Pence ‘not interested in trading insults’ with Trump as he tries to win New Hampshire
- Biden Will Establish A National Monument Honoring Emmett Till, The Black Teen Lynched In Mississippi
- Democrats put RFK Jr. on blast in change of strategy
- Alabama Republicans Refuse to Create New Majority-Black District: “The Quintessential Definition of Noncompliance” (“The move comes as House Republicans look to keep their razor-thin majority in 2024.”)
- San Diego Library Protest Against Pride Books Draws a Backlash
- Vivek Ramaswamy Says He Qualified For First Republican Debate In August
- Musk Says Twitter Will Change Logo to X, ‘Bid Adieu’ to Bird (WTF?)
- It’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” but for QAnon: Film spreading child trafficking hysteria is making bank
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Says Not Electing Hillary Clinton President Was the “Biggest Failure in My Life”; Says He Got “doctoral-level education in misogyny and mistreatment of women” in 2016 Campaign (Also: “I welcome any pro-democracy person in the GOP to join us in this, but right now the GOP nationally has been taken over by authoritarians.”)
- Photos: 2023 VA Women’s Summit – Sen. Tim Kaine, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Rep. Don Beyer, VA Sen. Jennifer Boysko, Del. Cia Price, Del. Briana Sewell, Del. Jackie Glass, Del. Dan Helmer, etc, etc. (Also Phyllis Randall, Simon Rosenberg. Atif Qarni, Anne Holton…)
- Video: Simon Rosenberg – “You want to put MAGA into the dustbin of history and Youngkin’s politics in the dustbin of history here in Virginia? You have to mobilize young people” (“We need to go big, do everything we can, so that everybody knows that Glenn Youngkin is a failed politician”)
- Editorial: Youngkin’s new take on voting access is refreshing (Wait, the Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press actually think this is in good faith, and not simply a reaction to Rs getting their asses kicked in early voting the past few years? “Refreshing?” Seriously? LOL!)
- Flip and Defend-A-District Friday: Volume V (Jessica Anderson, Leonard Lacey, Joshua Blakely, Charniele Herring, Jeremy Rodden)
- Video: In FIERY Speech, Loudoun County Chair Phyllis Randall Says It’s Time for Dems to Stop Saying “I Can’t Believe” About the Latest Right-Wing Outrage, and Instead Say “They better believe we will fight…stand up” and VOTE!
- Dulles Greenway proposes 40% hike, citing fewer drivers and debt (“The Dulles Greenway, in Loudoun County, is one of a handful of privately owned highways in the United States and the only such roadway in Virginia.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: A few more days of typical July warmth, then a major heat wave is likely
