by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, July 13.
- Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink (“Massive floods. Record heat. Extreme ocean temperatures. Forest fires burning out of control. Climate alarm bells are ringing all over the planet.”)
- Floods, Heat, Smoke: The Weather Will Never Be Normal Again
- Climate talks chief, who also heads oil company, says world must ‘attack all emissions, everywhere’
- Global Layoffs Slow in Sign Cooling Economy Won’t Mean Recession
- Covid-19 repeatedly spread between humans and deer, study shows, raising concerns about animal reservoirs
- NATO delivers gut punch to Putin (“The NATO summit this week delivered yet another blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with allies standing as united as ever against his war in Ukraine while announcing efforts to expand the alliance and boost defense spending. The most punishing setback for Putin came on the eve of the summit, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hashed out a deal to admit Sweden into NATO after more than a year of resistance.”)
- What Zelensky wanted from NATO – and what he got
- Biden says support for Ukraine ‘will not waver’ in fiery Vilnius speech after Zelensky Nato meeting – live (“Enthusiastic crowds gathered at Vilnius University for Biden speech on sidelines of Nato Summit”)
- Biden arrives in Finland touting an expanded NATO to counter Putin
- Biden Visit Cements Finland’s Pivot Away From Neutrality
- Biden can leave Vilnius feeling like he got almost everything he wanted from the NATO summit
- Ukraine will ‘no doubt’ join NATO when war with Russia ends, US defense secretary tells CNN
- Russian general in Ukraine says he was fired after accusing defense minister of treachery
- Russian general says top military brass betrayed soldiers fighting in Ukraine
- G.O.P.’s Far Right Seeks to Use Defense Bill to Defund Ukraine War Effort
- Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more (“Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from brand-new wings in Russian prisons to clammy basements.”)
- Xi Jinping Chokes Off Crucial Engine of China’s Economy (“Foreign direct investment in China fell to $20 billion in the first quarter from $100 billion a year earlier, hurting an already struggling economy.”)
- China’s Worse-Than-Expected Exports Deal New Blow to Economy
- Chinese hackers breach government email accounts through Microsoft cloud
- Chinese Hackers Targeted Commerce Secretary and Other U.S. Officials
- Looming U.S. Investment Restrictions on China Threaten Diplomatic Outreach
- China’s warp speed on renewables is a ray of hope for the climate
- Forget About Hiding From Climate Chaos in America
- Expanding heat wave leaves more than 112 million under alerts (This is the climate crisis.)
- Climate change is already making parts of America uninsurable
- US Republicans oppose climate funding as millions suffer in extreme weather (This party is completely insane.)
- Inflation cooled in June to slowest pace in more than 2 years
- Inflation rose just 0.2% in June, less than expected as consumers get a break from price increases
- US inflation cooled in June for the 12th straight month
- June Inflation Report: Inflation Continues to Cool
- New Biden administration rule would lower child care costs across the country (“If the rule is implemented, the White House estimates that 80,000 families could see a reduction in child care costs.”)
- Most Americans support legal abortion with some restrictions (“60% of the public think Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.”)
- The Future of Online Speech Shouldn’t Belong to One Trump-Appointed Judge in Louisiana (Agreed; this is utterly absurd.)
- Democrats Try a Novel Tactic to Revive the Equal Rights Amendment
- House Republicans use spending bills to push for abortion restrictions
- McCarthy confronts bleak reality as conservatives undercut GOP agenda (And by “conservatives,” Politico really means – but won’t say – “right-wing extremists.”)
- Christie defends Wray amid GOP grilling, calls House hearing ‘theater’
- How Trump turned the ‘law and order party’ into an enemy of the FBI
- Yes, Joe Biden Is Old. Is That All Republicans Have to Run On? (Biden is old, but: a) he’s sharp as a tack; b) he’s got tremendous experience, both domestically and on the world stage; c) Trump’s very old too.)
- Today’s House Judiciary Committee Meeting Took Place On Another Plane of Reality Entirely
- Republican Gains in 2022 Midterms Driven Mostly by Turnout Advantage
- DeSantis donors privately worry about campaign as Florida governor lags in 2024 polls
- DeSantis Confronts a Murdoch Empire No Longer Quite So Supportive
- Casey DeSantis Is the Smiling Face of Anti-LGBTQ Activism (“Take Sarah Palin’s ‘hockey mom’ populist schtick, gussy it up with 2023’s ‘wokeness’ panic, and you’ve got a strikingly powerful presidential campaign surrogate.”)
- Fox’s new prime-time lineup cements its support for Trump
- A memo to national media – Brian Kemp is no moderate savior (The national political media is a joke.)
- Why A Third-Party Candidate Might Help Trump — And Spoil The Election For Biden
- Arizona Man Cited in Conspiracy Theories Sues Fox News for Defamation
- Why can’t the right-wing bubble give up on Ray Epps?
- It’s Not Just Trump. Right-Wing Defendants Keep Saying the DOJ Framed Them, Too.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. press dinner explodes in war of words and farting (Wuuuuut?)
- RFK Jr. is building a presidential campaign around conspiracy theories
- Tommy Tuberville Goes on Defense Over Hold on Military Promotions, Racial Comments (And by “racial comments,” the Wall Street Journal means “RACIST comments”)
- Why Republicans are trying to rebrand white nationalism right now (“Tommy Tuberville can play coy, but history is clear: The GOP has long made white nationalism synonymous with racism”)
- Tommy Tuberville Is Whitewashing White Nationalism (Tuberville is dumb as a tuber.)
- Meta’s Threads Now Has to Keep Its Millions of Users Engaged (So far, it’s not really doing that.)
- Tucker Carlson’s Twitter interview with Andrew Tate: Elon Musk is really getting desperate (“Twitter traffic is plummeting — so Tucker Carlson sits with an accused rapist in a trollish bid for attention”)
- No deal on Hollywood actors contract, strike vote will be held Thursday morning
- Mountain Valley Pipeline Halted as Legal Wrangling Heats Up (“A federal court in Richmond has held up construction, despite a law passed by Congress last month that says it no longer has jurisdiction over the pipeline.”)
- Video: On “Morning Joe,” Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) Says What Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) Is Doing Re: Holding Up Military Promotions Is “absolutely unthinkable and irresponsible,” “dangerous to our nation” (Joe Scarborough: This is happening because of “one Republican senator and a lot of other Republicans who are letting him do this”)
- DNC “War Room”: “Glenn Youngkin Announces Support for Extreme National Abortion Ban” (Youngkin has “spent his entire term so far trying to rip away Virginia women’s right to choose”)
- VA Dems Veterans Caucus Chair Charley Conrad: “Using our Virginia National Guard troops as political props is abhorrent to my every impulse as a veteran” (“We should not risk the lives of our Guard members and disrupt their families for a political errand.”)
- Virginia Republicans unleash attack ads in 12 suburban House districts (The WaPo headline or subheader should note that the ads are completely false. Instead, the WaPo just acts as Rs’ stenographer.)
- Rupert Murdoch Wants a Particular Republican to Enter the 2024 Race: NYT (Murdoch, of course, is one of the most destructive, evil men in the world. The fact that he wants Youngkin to run for president really says it all about Youngkin.)
- CASEY: U.S. Postal Service denies mail slowdown in Virginia
- Youngkin completes review of new regs to pull Virginia out of carbon market by year’s end (This is illegal.)
- Changes to sex listed on Virginia birth certificates more than doubled after 2020 law
- Dominion Energy’s Climate Numbers Don’t Add Up (Is Dominion really intending to more than double its climate pollution in Virginia?)
- Video: “Virginia suburban women gather to celebrate the launch of Red Wine & Blue’s Virginia program” (“Woman to woman. Friend to friend. Relational organizing, this is what we do best”)
- Virginia elections commissioner rejects complaint from Sen. Amanda Chase (LOL)
- Loudoun GOP Invites NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, Who “compared homosexuality to cow manure, maggots, and flies”, To Its “Patriot Ball” on 9/23 (Among many other things, Robinson also “claimed that the Marvel movie Black Panther was ‘created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic Marxists'”)
- Hanover school board installs new leadership (“Bob May and Steve Ikenberry serve as the board’s new chair and vice chair, respectively.”)
- The unusual demographics that are driving potential school closings in Lynchburg
- Editorial: Virginia Beach challenged to host festivals while keeping city beaches open
- D.C.-area forecast: Toasty through the weekend with late day storm chances (“Today is probably the week’s hottest day.”)
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