Tuesday News: GOP’s “devil’s bargain on climate”; “How the Right Retired [Racist Slur] “Negrophile”—and Substituted ‘Woke'”; “Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America”; “Trump’s trial calendar vs. the US political calendar”

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, August 29.

• How Climate Change Is Harming Earth’s Microbiome
• Developed countries urged to ‘step up’ contributions to global nature fund
• Why you should tell your children about vanishing fireflies
• UN seeks to help children battling climate change in court
• A worldwide lithium shortage could come as soon as 2025
• Pope’s praise of ‘great’ Russian empire sparks fury in Ukraine (Just bizarre.)
• Ukraine is crossing Russia’s ‘red lines’ with impunity. It’s a lesson for Biden.
• The U.S. Inches Closer To Breaking Russia’s Monopoly On This Rare And Necessary Fuel (“The Putin government’s control over a special nuclear fuel has rattled the West’s atomic industry. New deals show the U.S. is finally trying to catch up.”)
• U.S., Allies Seek Long-Term Aid for Ukraine to Show West’s Resolve
• The Kremlin says Putin is not planning to attend Wagner chief Prigozhin’s burial
• ‘Dying by the dozens every day’ – Ukraine losses climb
• No ‘silver bullet’: Ukraine faces many challenges in getting the F-16 into combat
• G20: Putin tells India PM Modi he will not attend Delhi summit
• Belarus fears risk of trapping citizens with ‘the beast’: opposition leader
• China Pledges to Speed Up Fiscal Spending
• China continues coal spree despite climate goals (Totally unacceptable.)
• Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis
• Toyota’s Japan production at standstill as system failure hits assembly plants
• Germany Is Losing Its Mojo. Finding It Again Won’t Be Easy.
• The GOP’s suicide pact with Big Oil — and how climate victims are fighting back (“Last week’s GOP debate illustrated the devil’s bargain on climate — but Big Oil may pay for it in the courtroom”)
• At 30%, Solar Panel Tax Credits Are at a High Point for Now (“Americans are increasingly turning to rooftop solar panels to save money on their energy bills, and over the next decade, federal tax credits can help”)
• America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow (“Rampant overuse is draining and damaging aquifers, a Times investigation found, threatening millions of people and the nation’s status as a food superpower.”)
• This Fall’s Covid Variant Might Really Be Different
• How to Treat Right-Wing Violence in the U.S. (“Does the far-right extremism of the Trump era represent an eternal pattern in American politics or a new one?”)
• Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America (“Momentous week of GOP debate, Trump’s arrest gets ‘horse race’ coverage when the story’s not about an election, but authoritarianism.”)
• How the Right Retired “Negrophile”—and Substituted “Woke” (“Favorite slur too racist? Replace it.”)
• The Paranoid Style in American Plutocrats
• The Forgotten Radicalism of the March on Washington
• Fani Willis proves the skeptics wrong: 18 co-defendants is a big problem for Donald Trump (“Yes, a RICO case is tangled and difficult, but one big advantage is emerging: Defendants are fighting each other”)
• This Is Going to Be a Mess (“Trump could become the presumptive GOP nominee in the 2024 election at the same time as his lawyers are in court for his trial for seeking to steal the last election.”)
• Donald Trump’s Plan to Get Reelected and Pardon Himself Was Just Dealt Serious Setback
• A Fourth Arrest and a Mug Shot Turned Out Pretty Well for Donald Trump’s Bottom Line
• Federal judge sets March trial date in Trump’s election interference case
• Trump’s trial calendar vs. the US political calendar
• Meadows testifies in Atlanta; March trial date for Trump in D.C.
• Whether or not he is convicted, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president (“Trump has converted the blizzard of indictments into fundraising gold. His campaign raised $7m on the Fulton county booking last week”)
• Trump’s March Trial Date in D.C. Is Not Budging, No Matter What He Tries
• Retired Judge Spots ‘Stunningly Stupid’ Move From Donald Trump’s Legal Team (“It is ‘absurd’ and a surefire way to ‘alienate’ the judge, argued LaDoris Hazzard Cordell.”)
• Jim Jordan’s latest antics won’t save Trump from a jury’s judgment
• Mark Meadows’ historic gamble: Why Trump’s White House chief of staff took the stand (“Meadows sought to convince a judge that, as Trump’s right-hand man at the White House, his various attempts to block his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden were part of his official government duties.” So…he’s arguing that his “official government duties” included helping plan and carry out a coup attempt?!?)
• Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s testimony in contempt case is ‘weak sauce,’ judge says
• Peter Navarro says Trump told him to assert privilege during Jan. 6 committee investigation
• Mark Meadows takes stand in bid to derail Georgia criminal charges
• House Republican aims to defund Trump prosecutions until 2024 election
• “Fake news”: DeSantis campaign denies Trump claim he might drop out of 2024 race
• DeSantis challenges: A hurricane, a shooting and taunts from Trump
• The Limits of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Racist Con Game
• Ramaswamy Says He Loves Richard Nixon. Is He Serious?
• Fox News pundit calls Ramaswamy proposal ‘criminally stupid’ and ‘like a freshman foreign policy paper’
• Ramaswamy Fires At Nikki Haley On Campaign Website: ‘Keep Lying, Namrata Randhawa’
• EXCLUSIVE: Eminem sends Vivek Ramaswamy a cease and desist letter demanding he stop rapping his music on the campaign trail
• Faculty member shot and killed in a campus building, says University of North Carolina official
• GOP silences ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat on House floor for day on ‘out of order’ rule; crowd erupts
• Black people are killed for being Black. Again.
• The Jacksonville Dollar General Shooting Is a Reminder That Our Illusions Are Killing Us (“We really can’t get out of our own way on these things just as we never as a society [have] gotten out of our own way on the subject of white supremacy and the violence inherent in it.”)
• A beloved mother, a devoted father, an aspiring streamer: Jacksonville shooting victims identified (“Angela Michelle Carr, Jerrald Gallion and AJ Laguerre Jr were shot fatally when a gunman opened fire in a Dollar General store”)
• Racist Jacksonville shooter wore Rhodesian army patch, a symbol of white supremacy, law enforcement sources say
• A federal hate crime probe is underway after 3 people were killed in a racist rampage in Jacksonville, officials say. Here’s what we know
• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis faces Black leaders’ anger after racist killings in Jacksonville
• ‘It’s been festering in Florida’: DeSantis accused of hypocrisy over response to racist shooting (“Democrats criticize governor’s comments after shooting that left three Black people dead and say ‘this type of hatred isn’t random’”)
• Biden signs state of emergency order for Florida as Hurricane Idalia approaches
• Idalia strengthens to a hurricane, dangerous storm surges are forecast for Florida’s Gulf Coast
• Moms for Liberty Is Riding High. They Should Beware What Comes Next.
• Eastman’s defense is shattered in state bar proceeding
• Inside Matt Schlapp’s Offer to Settle Sexual Battery Lawsuit (“American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp has maintained that the sexual battery allegations against him are untrue. But he’s also offered to settle, sources say.”)
• Fox spent nearly 3 hours on its Viktor Shokin interview in rerun of its Ukraine disinformation campaign (For anyone who thinks that Fox is in any way/shape/form a real news network, or that it can be rehabilated or whatever idiocy…)
• Kevin McCarthy Suddenly Very Open to a Joe Biden Impeachment Push (Impeaching Biden over absolutely nothing. Sounds like Republicans.)
• What Fox’s Jonathan Turley gets wrong about Trump’s legal issues (Everything? Also, why the HELL is this guy employed by GW Law School?!?)
• How Trump’s Election Lies Left the Michigan G.O.P. Broken and Battered
• A Wisconsin election official has bipartisan support. She may be driven out anyway.
• Youngkin pushes back on Va. school districts rejecting trans guidance (Youngkin is, as usual, flat-out wrong.)
• ‘They don’t have a choice’ | Gov. Youngkin doubles down on transgender student policies, as attorney general weighs in on legal enforcement (They absolutely DO have a choice, just like they did with Gov. Ralph Northam’s “model policies”)
• The “False Fearmongering” by Virginia Republicans Is Out of Control, Including Their Wild Lies/Distortions on Electric Vehicles (As Sen. Scott Surovell says, “we’d still ride horses if GOP had its way.”)
• The five luckiest candidates for the General Assembly this year
• Youngkin’s parole board chair to take charge of state prisons
• Virginia AG asks for dismissal of suit over menhaden fishing in the Chesapeake Bay
• Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano: “Youngkin and Miyares ‘model policies’ for trans students make Virginia’s students less safe.” (Jason Miyares’ “official opinion is both misleading and cruel, and targeted squarely at Virginia’s children.”)
• Bon Secours sues Anthem over alleged ‘slow pay and no-pay tactics’ in Virginia
• Youngkin-driven cuts at ABC has liquor industry wondering why
• Credit Where Credit’s Due: Who Cut Virginia’s Grocery Tax? (“While reproductive rights have emerged as a centerpiece of many Democrats’ messaging campaigns this cycle, the party’s lawmakers have economic accomplishments to tout as well, despite the fact that Republicans seem to think they have a monopoly.”)
• Williams: Farmville was no stranger to headlines before ‘Rich Men’
• Some Virginia Beach businesses left short-staffed because of early start to school year
• Charged with trespassing at airport, she died in custody 2 weeks later (“Abonesh Woldegeorges collapsed at the Arlington County Detention Center and was later pronounced dead. The NAACP says it wants to know why she was held so long.”)
• Hazardous weather outlook issued for Hampton Roads as part of rainy week
• Editorial: Plan for waterfowl protects the environment as HRBT expansion proceeds
• 21 Richmond homes at risk of city-forced auction
• Youth soccer coach recovering from attack by parent in Virginia (“Coach Vince Villanueva is recovering after a parent beat him with a metal water bottle during a scrimmage at George Hellwig Memorial Park in Manassas.”)
• D.C.-area forecast: Clouds, showers and storms before clearing later tomorrow