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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national, and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 28.
- How climate change is disrupting the global food supply
- Heating Waters Force Change in Industries That Depend on the Ocean (“Rising temperatures are disrupting ecosystems around the world—and turning Maine lobstermen into kelp farmers.”)
- Wagner Mourners in Moscow Reflect Prigozhin’s Appeal Among Russians (Warped.)
- Ukraine war live updates: Russian billionaire pleads for sanctions relief: Reports; Ukraine says it liberated another village
- Ukraine says its troops liberate key southeastern settlement (“Ukraine said on Monday its troops had liberated the southeastern settlement of Robotyne and were trying to push further south in their counteroffensive against Russian forces.”)
- Ukraine Claims to Retake a Small Southern Village
- An evacuation order finds few followers in northeast Ukraine despite Russia’s push to retake region
- China’s summer of climate destruction
- China’s Worsening Economic Slowdown Is Rippling Across the Globe
- China won’t require COVID-19 tests for incoming travelers in a milestone in its reopening
- Biden Official Says Trade Can Stabilize US-China Relationship
- Evergrande: Shares in the crisis-hit Chinese developer plunge by 80%
- Korea’s Jeju Island Is a Leader in Clean Energy. But It’s Increasingly Having to Curtail Its Renewables
- French education minister announces ban on Islamic dress in schools (Are they being consistent on this and also banning kids from wearing other religious symbols, dress, etc? If not, why single out Muslim students?)
- Taliban stop female Afghan students leaving country to study in Dubai (The Taliban are evil. Same thing with anyone like the Taliban.)
- Reported Israeli strike damages Aleppo airport and puts it out of service
- Israel’s foreign minister meets with Libyan counterpart in sign of burgeoning ties
- The popular will is thwarted again in Thailand
- Iran Reports Oil Spill That’s Spread Off Gulf Coast, IRNA Says
- Zimbabwe’s elections herald more of the same (“Emmerson Mnangagwa declared victory despite claims of fraud and voter intimidation.”)
- Not Over Yet: Late-Summer Covid Wave Brings Warning of More to Come (“Hospitalizations are still low but are on the rise in recent weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”)
- Biden’s course for U.S. on trade breaks with Clinton and Obama (“President Biden is reshaping the U.S. approach to trade policy to focus on the needs of Americans as workers rather than consumers, breaking with 30 years of trade policy.”)
- Joe Biden: We must keep marching toward Dr. King’s dream
- The U.S. is pumping oil faster than ever. Republicans don’t care (“GOP presidential candidates are blaming pump prices on President Joe Biden’s clean energy policies, even though the U.S. is churning out record amounts of oil.” Politico might want to mention in its headline that Republicans are LYING.)
- Student Loans Are Emerging From Deep Freeze, and Borrowers Are Confused
- How Restarting Student Loan Payments Could Change Millions of Lives — And The Economy
- GOP tensions between Senate, House raise shutdown odds
- Video: Jen Psaki Explains, “This [Republican] claim that Democrats support abortion up until the moment of birth is entirely misleading.” (What’s most disturbing is that leading Rs – Trump, DeSantis, Youngkin, etc. – have repeated these wild/damaging lies.)
- “We call that kind of love a cult”: Experts on the latest disturbing poll of Trump supporters (“New poll reveals that members of the MAGA cult trust Trump most: He ‘provides the kind of love they crave'” The stupidest thing is that Trump doesn’t love his supporters at all, he actually holds them in utter contempt.)
- Republicans are stuck in three yesterdays (“First is the one associated with Trump. The second is the tea party rebellion during the Obama years. And the third — glowing in a sacred conservative stratosphere — is the tradition of Ronald Reagan.”)
- Republican Voters Aren’t Looking to Be Rescued From Trump
- First test in Georgia v. Trump: Can prosecutors keep home-court advantage? (“At a key Monday hearing, a federal judge will consider a bid to move the case out of the state court system.”)
- Trump’s indictments: Polling shows half of Americans want him to suspend his campaign, and more takeaways
- Drama unfolds on two fronts Monday as Trump cases enter new phase (“Americans are about to learn significant new details from the trials of the former president and 2024 GOP front-runner”)
- Federal judge poised to set Trump trial date in election interference case
- Another harebrained idea from Kenneth Chesebro (“Chesebro this past week apparently figured he would catch Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis unprepared. He moved, as he is entitled, for a speedy trial. Willis shot back: She’ll try all 19 defendants beginning Oct. 23. Oops! The judge agreed with Willis and set Chesebro’s trial for Oct 23…Now, sooner than anyone imagined, and thanks to Chesebro, Willis could well get a chance to show the whole country the criminal enterprise that Trump allegedly directed.”)
- House Republicans barrel toward Biden impeachment inquiry — but some hesitate (Insanity.)
- The next big abortion battleground: Pennsylvania
- Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to intensify into dangerous Category 3 hurricane as it churns toward Florida
- The Jacksonville Killer Wanted Everyone to Know His Message of Hate
- Jacksonville killings refocus attention on the city’s racist past and the struggle to move on
- Florida shooting: ‘White supremacy has no place in US,’ Biden says after killings
- Statement from President Joe Biden on the Shooting in Jacksonville, Florida
- Jacksonville sheriff identifies hate crime killer and victims at Dollar General shooting
- Florida Lawmaker: DeSantis Has ‘Blood On His Hands’ After Jacksonville Shooting (“Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon (D) went after DeSantis and the state’s GOP for ‘doing nothing but hurting’ the Black community.”)
- Ron DeSantis Booed At Vigil For Victims Of Jacksonville Shooting (“The Florida governor did not get a warm welcome from those mourning the three people killed in Saturday’s racist attack.”)
- Jacksonville is no place for racists, leaders tell vigil after ‘evil’ shooting
- Nikki Haley Repeats Call To Raise Retirement Age For Millennials And Gen Zers
- Pressley punches back at Ramaswamy over KKK jibe: ‘A line was crossed’
- Ramaswamy breaks with GOP candidates, says Pence missed ‘historic opportunity’ on Jan. 6 (This guy is utterly repulsive.)
- Simone Biles wins record 8th U.S. gymnastics title, a decade after her first (Amazing!)
- Richmond Times-Dispatch Editorial Asks, “Can ‘Parents Matter’ actually improve K-12 education?” The Answer: “Of course not” (“Black Lives Matter begot Blue Lives Matter and, yes, Parents Matter…Youngkin shifted focus to the ‘real’ victims”)
- Commentary: A big win for climate activists in Montana offers lessons for Virginians (“Elevating environmental quality to a constitutional postulate in 1971 was a beginning, a symbolic success. A new generation of Virginians can move the state’s policies and constitutional language beyond hope to fulfillment.”)
- Virginia Gov. Youngkin eyes a 15-week abortion ban as a ‘consensus’ voters would back (The goal, obviously, is for them to completely ban abortion, with 15 weeks being a starting point at the minimum.)
- Using the Dems’ own law, Youngkin could unlock GOP power in pivotal 2023 races (Very weird, negative, cynical framing for a law whose intention was to make it easier – for EVERYONE – to vote.)
- Virginia schools grapple with teacher shortage as school year begins
- Youngkin fundraises off fentanyl-murder bill and calls Virginia a border state (Utterly repulsive and false, as usual from this lying liar.)
- 92% of Virginia babies born out of wedlock have fathers IDed on their birth certificates
- Woman dies after Arlington jail incident, police say
- Tropical Storm Idalia could have impact in Hampton Roads and Outer Banks
- Sen. Surovell may be from Fairfax County but has family ties to Roanoke’s famous star
- D.C.-area forecast: Humid to start the week, with showers at times (“Tropical Storm Idalia probably passes to our south on Thursday.”)
