by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, September 8.
- The unconventional solutions scientists are trying to save corals
- Corporate Nature Restoration Results Murky at Best, Greenwashed at Worst
- Private Equity Giant KKR Is Funding Environmental Racism, New Report Finds
- Ukraine rips Elon Musk for disrupting sneak attack on Russian fleet by cutting off Starlink service
- Elon Musk Did Major Damage to a Ukrainian War Offensive Last Year: Report (Sure sounds like treason.)
- Elon Musk ordered Starlink to be turned off during Ukraine offensive, book says (“Biography alleges Musk told engineers to turn off communications network to hobble Ukraine drone attack on Russian warships”)
- Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships: Report (Sure sounds like treason. Also, the US government needs to ditch any Musk company ASAP!)
- Elon Musk Secretly Sabotaged Ukraine Attack Against Russia, Book Reveals (“A Walter Isaacson book excerpt obtained by CNN offers concerning new details about the billionaire’s role in the war”)
- Trench by trench, inch by inch, a visual guide to Ukraine’s counteroffensive
- Ukraine war: Russia holds local elections in occupied Ukraine (Obviously, these are not legitimate elections.)
- After Prigozhin’s Death, a High-Stakes Scramble for His Empire
- ‘Goal is destruction of Ukraine’: ex-defence minister warns west of Putin’s aim (“Oleksii Reznikov urges unity against Russia ‘to save this world from catastrophe of world war three’”)
- Russia Plans Diplomatic Push to Block More Financial Sanctions
- At G20, Biden Looks to Fill a Hole Left by Russia and China
- Biden and Modi are looking to tighten US-India ties as concerns over China rise
- G-20 Leaders in India for Increasingly Divided Summit
- ‘Ashamed of our presence’: Delhi glosses over plight of poor as it rolls out G20 red carpet (“Schools, offices, markets and restaurants have been ordered to close for three days as the city is cleaned up ahead of the arrival of world leaders”)
- US Probes Made-in-China Chip as Alarm Over Huawei Grows
- China’s model is failing. The world should pay attention.
- Did Authoritarianism Cause China’s Economic Crisis?
- North Korea unveils first tactical, nuclear-armed submarine
- Cuba arrests 17 for luring young men to fight for Russia
- ‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: UK auction secures no offshore windfarms
- The Australian solar tech that may have found a low cost solution to deep storage
- ‘Powerless’ son says Aung San Suu Kyi’s life may be at risk due to serious health problems (“Myanmar’s deposed leader has gum disease and struggles to eat but son says requests for help made by prison officers have been denied”)
- Hong Kong hit by heaviest rainstorm in 140 years
- ‘The US is an outlier’: will Mexico’s abortion ruling drive Americans across the border?
- Hurricane Lee intensifies at “exceptional rate” into Category 5 storm
- Solar dominated US generation capacity additions in H1, says Wood Mackenzie
- UAW, White House, automakers at odds as strike threat looms
- Republicans Are Freaking Out Over Imaginary COVID Mandates
- Covid is on the rise again, but it’s different now (“Covid transmission continues to ebb and flow — but at least the latest Pirola variant isn’t too menacing.”)
- The Fall in Home Prices May Already Be Over (“The surprisingly quick recovery suggests that the residential real-estate downturn is turning out to be shorter and shallower than expected”)
- Justice Kavanaugh says ethics changes may be coming to Supreme Court (“May” be? How about “definitely WILL be?”)
- The Supreme Court’s Fake Praying Coach Case Just Got Faker (The Supreme Court never should have even accepted that case, let alone ruled the way it did!)
- Public schools are the latest target of the right’s con culture (“The right’s war on public education has reached its inevitable conclusion: fighting back against supposed liberal indoctrination in schools by empowering an explicitly right-wing organization to expose schoolchildren to flagrant conservative propaganda.”)
- Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices
- Experts warn that “accountability” for Donald Trump could come at a cost to democracy (“Real and actual violence is only becoming increasingly more likely”)
- Senate confirms Biden’s FCC nominee, breaking years-long deadlock
- Trump’s indictments are only a ‘distraction’ if you’re a Republican
- Trump tells judge he may try to move Georgia election interference case to federal court
- Republicans are trying to find a new term for ‘pro-life’ to stave off more electoral losses (“Pro-life” simply means “ANTI-reproductive-freedom”; no Democrat should ever use that Republican framing, nor should the media.)
- Senate GOP throws cold water on House shutdown talk
- Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News
- Another Christian influencer arrested for child abuse: Why conservatives keep falling for these cons (“Ruby Franke was yet another Duggar knock-off, putting a shiny happy gloss on religious oppression”)
- Willis blasts congressman’s ‘interference’ in Fulton Trump probe
- How a former Trump official’s conviction could echo in ex-president’s cases
- Trump White House official Navarro convicted of contempt after defying House Jan. 6 subpoena
- Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Was Convicted, Really Fast, of Contempt of Congress
- Trump and His Adult Sons Are Planning a Dinner Party From Hell to Raise Money for His Alleged Coconspirators: Report
- White House finishes $50 million renovation of Situation Room in first overhaul since 2007
- ‘Nonsense’: Ron DeSantis Lashes Out At Black Man Angered After Jacksonville Mass Shooting (Not surprisinly, the Black man asking the question was right, while Desantis was totally wrong.)
- Alas, a Super PAC Can Only Do So Much For Ron DeSantis’s Weird Personality
- DeSantis and Ramaswamy Call Proud Boys’ Sentences ‘Excessive’ and ‘Wrong’ (Quite the contrary, their sentences were quite lenient. As for DeSantis and Ramaswamy, they’re appealing to the utter dregs of the Republican “base” and should be automatically disqualified for doing so.)
- Vivek Ramaswamy Is a LinkedIn Post Come to Life
- Disney drops all but free speech claim in political retaliation suit against DeSantis
- RFK Jr.’s Republican-friendly Democratic presidential campaign, explained (RFK, Jr. is completely insane.)
- Mitch McConnell is indispensable. Here’s the problem with that.
- One of America’s most popular politicians is a Democrat — in Kentucky
- Wisconsin GOP entertains a constitutional crisis. Again.
- The Republican Party’s plan to rule the state of Wisconsin forever, explained (Authoritarianism/anti-democracy)
- Wisconsin Republicans Try to Subvert Democracy, Again
- Federal appeals court says Texas’ floating barriers can remain in Rio Grande for now
- Biden administration considers forcing migrant families to remain in Texas
- Tim Scott suggests opponents are planting stories about his unmarried status
- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to endorse Trump at Friday rally, sources say (South Dakota used to be a sane state politically. Not anymore!)
- Kristi Noem is suddenly front-and-center in the veepstakes
- Grim Reality in Maui: Hundreds Still on Missing List a Month After the Inferno
- Famed tech journalist deletes X account with epic rant at Elon Musk and his ‘cesspool’ site
- “Elon Is Learning the Hard Way”: Taylor Lorenz on Twitter’s Collapse
- Fox News runs ads for Mike Huckabee’s climate-denial book targeted at children (Evil.)
- Jimmy Fallon apologises to Tonight Show staff after toxic workplace allegations – reports
- Chaos, Comedy, and ‘Crying Rooms’: Inside Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says a Government Shutdown Would Be “Crazy,” That Speaker McCarthy Is “gonna have to break with some of these folks” (On whether the 14th amendment disqualifies Trump, Sen. Warner says, “I’m not going to weigh in on the legal arguments”)
- DCCC: Jen Kiggans’ Extreme, Dangerous Record, Exposed (“Kiggans is the ultimate party loyalist who is embracing an extreme, dangerous agenda.”)
- Virginia Republicans try to cover up support for anti-abortion policies
- New state data shows Virginia students are still struggling
- Youngkin lays out new plan after another round of disappointing SOL scores (Spoiler: Youngkin has NO CLUE what he’s doing, does NOT have a plan, and only knows how to blame the previous administration for whatever’s happening on his watch.)
- Youngkin outlines steps to boost student test scores, reduce absenteeism (The “mainstream media” continues to do stenography and uncritical “journalism”)
- Despite post-pandemic efforts, Virginia student test scores remain mostly flat
- Rural counties stand to play a critical role in Virginia’s move to solar
- Pope & Schapiro: Budget action & the fall campaigns
- Video: Russet Perry Campaign Releases First TV Ad, “For The Commonwealth” (“As a CIA officer and as a prosecutor, I worked every day to keep our country and our community safe”)
- 15 Virginia Senators give their goodbyes
- Commentary: Driving impaired is a problem. Virginia’s new anti-DUI campaign won’t solve it
- Virginia solar alliance hopeful after regulators suspend new interconnection rules (“Dominion Energy had rolled out new fees and requirements for solar installers to connect to the utility’s grid, but the changes were never approved by state regulators.”)
- FOIA Friday: Disclosing dollar amounts of local government settlements
- Lawsuit seeks to block Virginia’s stricter hemp laws
- Sen. Monty Mason and former Sheriff Danny Diggs face off in York Co. forum (Diggs wants to trash public schools and have right-wing/mostly male politicians tell women what they can/can’t do with their bodies. Go Monty Mason!)
- University of Richmond, VCU grad Scott Booth to be Roanoke’s next police chief
- Virginia lawsuit stemming from police pepper-spraying an Army officer will be settled
- Police and prosecutors target major drug ring in central Virginia
- 19 charged after police bust Charlottesville drug ring with ties to Mexican cartels
- Covington man charged in Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol
- Editorial: As UVa. pays tribute to fallen players, the commonwealth mourns and remembers
- D.C.-area forecast: Strong storms possible again today and Saturday
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