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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, August 3.
- 6.5 billion people endured climate-change-driven heat in July, report says
- The Right Way for America and China to Cooperate on Climate
- Arson attacks hit military enlistment offices across Russia, authorities say
- Ukraine Boosts Production of Ammunition as War Depletes Global Supply (“A Ukrainian official said that hundreds of domestic facilities were focused on producing ammunition and drones as the need grew more urgent.”)
- US sees price cap on Russian oil working despite upturn in prices
- Rising domestic violence is a hidden front in Ukraine’s war
- Justin Trudeau, hit by separation, set to stay on and fight election
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Wife Sophie Grégoire Announce Their Separation
- Travis King: North Korea confirms custody of US soldier
- What you should know about the latest Covid-19 surge. A doctor explains
- For Economists, Good News Is Starting to Feel Good Again
- Credit downgrade shocks Biden aides, as fights loom over $31 trillion debt
- Climate change is hitting close to home for nearly 2 out of 3 Americans, poll finds
- Climate change is settled science. Republicans don’t see it that way in new poll (Complete insanity.)
- Uninsured rate hit record low in early 2023, CDC says (Thank you Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc.)
- Supreme Court Approval Holds at Record Low (It should be at zero among anyone but MAGA Republicans.)
- ‘Everything has fallen off a cliff’: Battleground state GOPs nosedive in Trump era
- Trump will appear in court to respond to charges of election subversion efforts (“Former president’s arraignment comes two days after special counsel Jack Smith issued an indictment for four felony counts”)
- Barr says he believes Trump ‘knew well he lost the election’
- William Barr Blasts Claims That Trump Indictment Violates First Amendment (“Free speech does not give you a right to engage in a conspiracy”)
- All The Republicans Who Told Donald Trump He Was Lying About Election Fraud (“His vice president, his attorney general and even his own campaign manager told him his claims were bogus, per the latest federal indictment.”)
- Part Thriller, Part Whodunit: The Trump Indictment Is a Must-Read
- 21 Donald Trump election lies listed in his new indictment
- Trump set to return to Washington for monumental court date – but a national catharsis is unlikely
- Trump Is a Dangerous Criminal Who Belongs in Prison
- Trump’s lawyer drops an unsettling hint about his defense strategy
- The Trump indictment’s main finding: Do you want this person as your president? (“The former president’s first term was damaging enough. A second term would be a disaster.”)
- Trump’s Threat to Democracy Is Now Systemic (“Each time GOP leaders have had the opportunity to move away from Trump, the party has sped past the off-ramp.”)
- Newly Revealed Text Messages Show GOP Officials At Ground Zero Of Election Conspiracy Outlined By Trump Indictment
- Trump Prepares to Make Familiar Trip to Courthouse, This Time in Washington
- There is no First Amendment right to overturn an election (“Trump’s lawyers plan to argue he had a First Amendment right to subvert the 2020 election. He didn’t.” Nope, that’s just a completely absurd/laughable “argument”)
- Why Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment feels so different: This time, there are victims (“This time it’s personal: As Jack Smith writes, Trump attacked our ‘right to vote, and to have one’s vote counted'”)
- Heart of the Trump Jan. 6 indictment: What’s in Trump’s head
- Trump’s election lies and the Republicans who corrected him
- Indictment Mystery: Did Someone Spill About the Trump-McCarthy Jan. 6 Call?
- Trump’s indictment for Jan. 6 turns Mike Pence into a litmus test
- From Right-Hand Man to Critical Witness: Pence at Heart of Trump Prosecution
- Mike Pence Is No Hero. His Actions Might Send Trump to Jail Anyway.
- Mike Pence Torches Trump And ‘His Gaggle Of Crackpot Lawyers’ (“The former vice president has been increasingly emphatic in his criticism of Trump, and his campaign suggested it’s paying off.”)
- Trump’s Offense Against Democracy Itself
- A dumbed-down defense of Trump on Jan. 6 indictment
- Trump Extremists Make New Calls to Hang Mike Pence: ‘Watch His Toes Dangle’
- Messages Point to Identity of Co-Conspirator 6 in Trump Indictment
- The Absolutely Wildest Details of the Government’s Latest Indictment Against Donald Trump
- Finally. The Coup Indictment.
- Fulton sheriff says he’s ready for possible Trump indictment
- Will Three Indictments Prove Too Much For Trump’s Campaign?
- Gravity of new Trump charges scramble GOP politics
- ‘Political germ warfare’: rightwing media fervently defend Trump (“Pundits lined up to compare Trump charges to ‘criminalizing thoughts’ and the dropping of ‘fifteen dozen’ atomic bombs” Embarrassing and also dangerous rhetoric.)
- Trump-aligned Senate candidates raise concerns for GOP
- Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment is his biggest grift yet (“The latest indictment will be another cash cow for Trump — unless the FEC acts now”)
- Trump Dines With Fox News Executives After Learning of Third Indictment
- Two reported co-conspirators in Trump’s alleged coup plot are in organizations looking to staff his next administration (“Jeffrey Clark’s Center for Renewing America and John Eastman’s Claremont Institute are two advisory groups to Project 2025, which aims to provide the next Republican administration with personnel and policy”)
- Special counsel asks if Nauta’s attorney has too many Mar-a-Lago clients
- Trump supporters view the latest indictment as evidence of a crime — against Trump (It’s a death cult.)
- ‘Come Here, Big Tits’: Rudy Giuliani’s Sex Abuse Accuser Has the Tapes (“‘Your tits belong to me. Give them to me,’ the former mayor told Noelle Dunphy, according to transcripts filed in court by Dunphy’s lawyers.”)
- Rudy Giuliani in Vile New Audio Transcripts: ‘Jewish Men Have Small Cocks’
- U.S. Capitol Police searching Senate office buildings after unconfirmed report of active shooter
- Gay Louisiana doctor says he’s leaving the state over its ‘discriminatory’ legislation
- Jan. 6 rioter who Tucker Carlson guest said was a fed is arrested by the FBI
- Barack Obama Is Also Scared Shitless That Donald Trump Could Win Another Term: Report
- Ronald DeSantis Is Clearly Angling to Move the Trump Trial to Where More White People Are
- The Queasy Liberal Schadenfreude of Watching Trump Wreck DeSantis
- Scoop: DeSantis’ state-funded office hires ousted campaign aides
- Disney’s governing district in Florida slashes all DEI programs
- Ramaswamy: I ‘don’t believe’ the 9/11 Commission report (This guy’s completely unhinged.)
- No Labels Is Such a Weird and Desperate Grift
- Biden world eyes Cornel West and No Labels as potential obstacles for his reelection campaign
- Cornel West Owes More Than Half a Million in Unpaid Taxes (“The presidential candidate has made raising taxes on the rich a fixture of his campaign. He’s shorted the IRS more than the median salary in six of the last 20 years.” Isn’t that a crime?)
- Wisconsin Supreme Court chief justice accuses liberals of ‘raw exercise of overreaching power’ (Note that he was 100% fine with right wingers on the court massively overreaching…)
- This New Lawsuit Could Restore Democracy in Wisconsin
- Mike Huckabee Is Now Peddling Climate Misinformation to Children – Mother Jones (Both Mike Huckabee and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are completely f’ed up.)
- Virginia Republican Senate hopeful runs on draining the swamp while taking lobbyist cash
- Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08): “Just as we warned, the recklessness of extreme MAGA Republicans risked massive damage to our economy and harmed our credit rating.”
- Video: On “Morning Joe,” Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05) Talks About Trump’s Quarter-BILLION-Dollar “Stop the Steal” Grift, the “Radicalization Pipeline,” “Command-and-Control,” etc. (Also: “the same people behind J6 are behind the Hunter Biden laptop”)
- Biden’s economy hurts ‘all Americans’: Gov. Glenn Youngkin (So let’s get this straight: 1) Youngkin wildly lies, falsely taking credit for Virginia’s super-strong economy, which he’s had NOTHING to do with; 2) Youngkin not only gives Biden no credit for the super-strong economy, he falsely claims it’s actually hurtful to “all Americans.” What. The. F***???)
- Virginia traffic stop data show racial disparities
- Virginia Senate working on response to latest House budget proposal
- Who gets to serve on university boards in Virginia?
- Opinion: Does Gov. Youngkin really want a budget deal?
- An expensive primary season points to an expensive general election season
- Video: VA State Sen. Monty Mason (D) Releases First TV Ad; This Is a CRUCIAL, MUST-WIN District for Democrats This November! (The ad highlights Sen. Mason’s “impressive legislative achievements like cutting the grocery tax, lowering income taxes, and giving families a rebate to deal with inflation and higher cost of living”)
- Local Audubon Society asks Va. regulators to suspend use of fishing nets in Bay over osprey worries
- CASEY: Should Botetourt County libraries be for adults only?
- Umstattd calls for restrictions on international travel after ‘sister city’ trips spark criticism
- Richmond domestic workers look to get federal protections
- Richmond will cancel a planned burn tower in Southside
- Most bus stops in Richmond lack adequate shelter or benches
- D.C.-area forecast: More muggy through Friday with a few showers possible
