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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, August 1.
- It’s not just hot. Climate anomalies are emerging around the globe. (“A glimpse of a more tumultuous future seemed on full display throughout July, a month packed with weather events that exceeded any definition of normal.”)
- Extreme heat is threatening virtually every aspect of human health
- Leak reveals ‘touchy’ issues for UAE’s presidency of UN climate summit
- War, AI and Climate Change Shake Up $32 Trillion in Global Trade
- Existential threats are getting worse: nuclear war, AI fears, climate change
- Ukraine maps show the price of allies’ hesitation (Exactly – time was and IS of the essence!)
- Russia accuses Ukraine of drone attack on Moscow, hitting a tower for the second time in 3 days
- ‘Nowhere to hide’: The question troubling Ukrainian troops amid a grinding counteroffensive
- Putin’s Crackdown Leaves Transgender Russians Bracing for Worse (“A new law underscores how Vladimir Putin is using the war in Ukraine as justification for greater restrictions on L.G.B.T. life.”)
- In Ukraine, a Surge in Amputations Reveals the Human Cost of Russia’s War
- Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine makes a mockery of law
- ‘Not found’: China’s ex-foreign minister is gone but wait for explanation goes on
- Analysis: Buildup of American forces in Persian Gulf a new signal of worsening US-Iran conflict
- Israel’s spy veterans take on their government over judiciary overhaul
- Israel’s Supreme Court to hear petitions about law that cuts its power
- Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi jail term reduced after some pardons (It’s outrageous and unacceptable that she’s in prison at all. She should be president.)
- ‘Silent killer’: experts warn of record US deaths from extreme heat
- Inside the Republican Plot to Dismantle US Environmental Policy (“Against a backdrop of record-breaking heat and floods this year, the $22 million endeavor, Project 2025, was convened by the notorious rightwing, climate-denying think tank the Heritage Foundation, which has ties to fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch.” Pure evil.)
- Wall Street Economists Are Looking at a September Rate Pause
- Goldilocks and the Bidenomics Bears
- Analysis | Offshore Wind Industry Is Caught In a Financial Hurricane
- Samuel Alito’s View on Supreme Court Reform: Thanks, But No Thanks (“The conservative justice seems to believe that checks and balances don’t apply to the high court, which has been plagued by conflict-of-interest scandals that have lit a fire under Democrats in the Senate.” Alito’s corrupt, extremist and completely unhinged.)
- John Roberts can’t get a Supreme Court ethics code. Alito’s interview shows why
- Samuel Alito Has a Favorite Branch of Government
- Samuel Alito Just Took an Indefensible Jab at the Progressive Justices
- U.S. averaging 2 mass shootings per day so far this year
- ‘Even more insidious than the NRA’: US gun lobby group gains in power (“The National Shooting Sports Foundation has been aggressively pushing gun manufacturers’ interests, and is starting to eclipse its bigger rival”)
- The Radicalization of the Young Right
- Republicans are denying free school lunch to low-income students (“Meanwhile, Democratic governors and legislatures are expanding free and reduced-price school meal programs.”)
- Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, rejecting move to Alabama
- Trump’s New Legal Fund Is a Lean, Mean Grift Machine
- Donald Trump Still Has an Absurd Amount of GOP Support (“In a matchup with Ron DeSantis, voters who think Trump is a criminal still prefer him as president.”)
- Trump’s campaign finances are strained as legal peril mounts
- Trump has ‘my Kevin’ trapped. New data on Fox News viewers shows why.
- “Trump has no way to escape at this point”: Ex-DOJ prosecutor says new charges spell real trouble
- Trump has spent millions more than he’s raised in 2023
- On War Room, Trump chief spokesperson says the Murdochs and Fox News are trying to destroy Trump (Liz Harrington: “People are fleeing” Fox News, which she calls a “fake news network”)
- Georgia’s Broad Racketeering Law May Now Ensnare Donald Trump
- Biden Shores Up Democratic Support, but Faces Tight Race Against Trump
- Trump PAC Down to $4 Million Cash on Hand After Legal Fees
- Trump’s PAC Spent HOW Much on Legal Fees?
- Charles Koch-Tied Group Seeks to Block Trump From GOP Nomination
- Trump increases Republican primary lead despite swirling legal peril (“Latest poll puts ex-president at 54% with closest challenger Ron DeSantis – whose campaign appears to be sputtering out – on 17%”)
- Trump steps up war with Senate GOP
- Public Opinion About Trump’s Criminality Is Shifting—a Bit (“As prosecutors release details of the charges and evidence against him, minds are slowly changing among less partisan voters—and maybe even among Republicans.”)
- DeSantis and Black Republicans Struggle for the Soul of the Anti-Anti-Racism Movement
- Harris takes center stage for White House with Biden on vacation
- The Fun Gap (“It’s real. And not surprisingly, Trump is winning it.”)
- Trailing in polls, Ron DeSantis unveils economic plans echoing Trump’s
- DeSantis’ latest comments slammed by anti-abortion group as ‘unacceptable’
- DeSantis sharpens critique of Trump but faces huge odds
- Ron DeSantis’s “Slavery Was a Good Thing” Curriculum Weirdly Unpopular Among GOP Hopefuls (“Anybody that is implying that there was an upside to slavery is insane.”
- ‘We gotta get DeSantis indicted’: Ally quips DeSantis would benefit from prosecution, too
- ‘This belongs in the Smithsonian’: Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis’ campaign
- Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld admits Republican investigations into Hunter Biden are “payback” for Trump investigations
- Hunter Biden associate describes “illusion of access”
- Right-wing media promised Devon Archer’s testimony about Hunter Biden would be a bombshell. New reporting shows otherwise.
- Witness Touted By GOP Provides No Link To Biden Criminality, House Democrat Says (“Former Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer told lawmakers he would call his dad in front of business partners, but Rep. Dan Goldman said they never talked business.”)
- RFK Jr. super PAC got more than half its funds from GOP mega donor
- Leprosy cases surging in Central Florida: CDC
- Twitter Threatens to Sue Center for Countering Digital Hate Over Research
- Musk’s X Sues Nonprofit That Accused It of Allowing Hate Speech
- White Nationalists Are Big Fans of Elon’s “White Genocide” Tweets
- “They need us. We don’t need them:” The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (“Elon Musk’s business model depends on ‘triggering’ liberals — but he’s now running out of progressives to bait”)
- Ex-Fox News Star Bill Kristol Joins Fight to Get FCC to Come Down on Fox
- Joe Rogan Says It’s a ‘Fact’ That Jan. 6 Was a False Flag, Cites Ray Epps (Unhinged.)
- Gunman shot by police after trying to enter Memphis Hebrew school
- Paul Reubens, actor best known as Pee-wee Herman, dies at 70
- Opinion | Elissa Slotkin and Abigail Spanberger come into their own
- Political scientist says Spanberger is “right at top” of candidates for Virginia governor
- Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) Recaps the House GOP’s “disastrous first few months in the majority” (“From the beginning, the slim Republican majority has been hijacked by far-right extremists.”)
- Virginia enviro groups file notice they will challenge Youngkin’s RGGI withdrawal
- Virginians Will Pay the Costs of Gov Youngkin’s Misguided Efforts to Exit the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
- Fact Sheet: Democrats Are the Real “Education Party” While “Republicans… are engaged in a broad assault on public education” (“If Republicans take control of the Virginia legislature this fall, we can expect prompt adoption of Florida-style restrictions in Virginia’s schools.” – Arlington Dems)
- Senate to meet on budget, with Youngkin waiting in wings for deal (“Senate budget negotiators will meet in Richmond on Wednesday to consider a proposed compromise on the stalled state budget.” Actually, these are budget AMENDMENTS; Virginia HAS a budget.)
- Virginia NAACP Responds to Secretary James’ Letter, Renews Call for Fair Process for Restoration of Voting Rights (“…our main question remains unanswered—why are some returning citizens having their rights restored while others are denied”)
- Virginia’s sales tax holiday likely won’t happen this weekend
- Virginia Legislative Elections Guide 2023
- Roanoke homicides surpass 2022’s with five months left in year
- Schapiro: Politics means not all UVa overseers are on board (Youngkin “has vowed to DeSantis-ize UVa and other public colleges and universities he deems intolerant of conservatives.”)
- Judge dismisses federal lawsuit over firing of former Nottoway election official
- Editorial: GAO’s recommendations will help streamline Navy’s shipyard improvements
- Bon Secours drops Anthem-managed Medicare plans
- VCU will not require students to take class on racism
- Crisis center opens in Abingdon, but staffing shortages remain
- D.C.-area forecast: Warm sunshine, some haze, pleasantly low humidity
