by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, September 5.
- G20 per capita CO2 emissions from coal rise 7% from 2015 -research
- Invasive species are costing society more than $423 billion a year: report
- Scientists warn invasive pests are taking a staggering toll on society
- G20 must forge agreement to increase tax on rich, say campaigners (“Letter from almost 300 millionaires, economists and politicians says urgent action needed to prevent extreme wealth” How about a 90% tax on billionaires?)
- Kim Jong-un and Putin Plan to Meet in Russia to Discuss Weapons (Two of the worst people in the world.)
- Exclusive: Ukrainian intercepts show Russian soldiers’ anger at losses, disarray
- Ukraine’s Secret Boat Raids Are Exposing Cracks in Russia’s Southern Front (“Small, secret boat raids along the Dnipro River are playing an outsized role in Ukraine’s counteroffensive strategy—revealing cracks in Russia’s southern front and creating tough choices for Russian commanders.”)
- How worrying is a Putin-Kim Jong Un alliance?
- More Ukrainians Who Fled War May Never Return, Study Shows
- Putin says he won’t renew the grain deal until the West meets his demands. The West says it has.
- ‘Where Is the Money?’ Military Graft Becomes a Headache for Ukraine (“The removal of the defense minister highlights the enduring challenge of corruption in Ukraine, which has emerged as a rare area of criticism of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership.”)
- Ukraine war: Sergei Surovikin ‘seen in first photo’ since Wagner mutiny
- China Slowdown Means It May Never Overtake US Economy, Forecast Shows
- Why China Is Avoiding Using ‘Bazooka’ to Spur Economy
- China Coal Giant to Build More Fossil Fuel Plants Despite Carbon Neutral Pledge
- Italy Seeks to Leave China’s Belt and Road Initiative—Without Angering Beijing
- Will China’s Economic Slump Be Contagious?
- UAE Pledges $4.5 Billion to Help Finance Africa Climate Projects
- Kenya’s leader says climate change is eating away Africa’s GDP, calls for talks on global carbon tax
- EU Pledges Help to Build African Green Bond Market
- Pakistan bears the brunt of global extreme heat illness and mortality
- UN nuclear watchdog report seen by AP says Iran slows its enrichment of near-weapons-grade uranium
- Iran expands stock of near-weapons grade uranium, IAEA reports no progres (This Reuters headline is very different than the AP headline.)
- COVID-19 raises anxiety at start of new school year
- U.S. deficit explodes even as economy grows
- A Huge Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded. No One Is Sure Why. (“Instead of growing and growing, as it always had, spending per Medicare beneficiary has nearly leveled off over more than a decade.”)
- Return-to-Office Is a $1.3 Trillion Problem Few Have Figured Out
- UAW’s Clash With Big 3 Automakers Shows Off A More Confrontational Union As Strike Deadline Looms
- Biden Touts Unions and Job Growth During Labor Day Parade in Philadelphia (“‘When the last guy was here, your pensions were at risk’, the president told a crowd of hundreds of union members.”)
- Here’s why the US labor movement is so popular but union membership is dwindling. (“Nearly a quarter of the workforce belonged to a union 40 years ago. Now that number is just over 10%. What happened to the American labor movement?”)
- Clean Energy’s Fate May Be Decided on the Jersey Shore (This anti-offshore-wind movement is bonkers and disgraceful.)
- Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of Higher Education. Why?
- CNN Exclusive: Special counsel election probe continues with focus on fundraising, voting equipment breaches
- McCarthy faces political minefield on Biden impeachment
- Congress returns to try to stave off a government shutdown while GOP weighs impeachment inquiry
- Impeachment threats and shutdown fears: Congress returns for a chaotic September (This is a classic “both-sides,” false equivalence, bullshit framing by NBC News. In fact, this is 100% the fault of MAGA Republicans.)
- Here’s What to Expect From Congress This Fall (Pain and Suffering) (“Kevin McCarthy’s most extreme caucus is ready to shut it all down.”)
- Poor families could see cuts to food aid as Congress battles over budget (This “as Congress battles” framing is weak, uninformative, unhelpful, even harmful by the WaPo.)
- US Senate races ahead of House on spending bills, aims to avoid gov’t shutdown (“Democrats will look to gain the upper hand over House Republicans when the chamber returns from summer recess on Tuesday, as the threat of an embarrassing October government shutdown looms.”)
- Trump is in a league of his own as GOP primary hits fall sprint
- Trump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him (“There’s a nascent courtroom strategy by some people close to Donald Trump: Heap blame on the former president.”)
- Donald Trump Spends Labor Day Weekend Planning A Revenge Tour (“Republicans are already thinking about what we are going to do to Biden and the Communists when it’s our turn”)
- Is Trump disqualified for 2024? Here’s how we’ll soon find out.
- Proud Boys, Oath Keepers prosecutions set stage for Trump DC trial
- Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio faces lengthy prison sentence for Jan. 6 riot
- Three service secretaries to Tuberville: Stop this dangerous hold on senior officers
- Peter Navarro to Face Contempt Trial Over Defiance of Jan. 6 Committee
- Inside MTG and Kari Lake’s ‘Death Race’ To Become Trump’s VP
- First lady Jill Biden tests positive for Covid-19
- Elon Musk threatens to sue Anti-Defamation League over lost X revenue (“World’s richest man claims civil rights group has falsely accused site formerly known as Twitter of being antisemitic”)
- ‘Weak, Weak Man’ Elon Musk Mocked On Own Website Over Latest Meltdown (“Critics are firing back after he threatened to sue one of his company’s most prominent critics.”)
- Elon Musk blames ADL for lost revenue, says he’s ‘against anti-Semitism of any kind’ (Musk, meanwhile, is blaming the Jews for his problems and spreading classic anti-Semitic tropes.)
- Wisconsin GOP weighs moves to sideline elections chief and liberal Supreme Court majority (That’s an assault on democracy.)
- Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars (“Farris and Dan Wilks’ deep pockets fund climate denialism education, conservative politicians and pro-fossil fuel projects”)
- Texas braces for the historic impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton
- The Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Ideological Purity (“The Florida governor is refusing to accept millions in federal funding that would help his constituents. Why?”)
- North Carolina Supreme Court justice files lawsuit over state investigation into her comments about diversity
- Burning Man Attendees Begin to Leave Soggy Festival Site
- Everything You Need To Know About Tuesday’s Special Elections In Rhode Island And Utah
- DPVA Chair: “it could not be more important that we keep President Biden – the most pro-union and pro-worker president in history – in the White House next year.” (“Here are a few highlights of how President Biden has delivered for workers and organized labor”)
- Freedom VA on Labor Day: “Only one party has a proven track record fighting for working families” (“…in less than three weeks, working families will have the opportunity to vote for a Virginia that is truly pro-labor.”)
- After rise in violence, Virginia hospitals rewrite their security plans
- Full Disclosure Briefing: The Commonwealth remains resistant to privatization of liquor sales.
- A cap for support staff at Virginia school’s will be up for debate this week
- What’s in Virginia’s long-delayed 2023 budget deal
- Deputy secretary in Youngkin administration joins PR firm
- Invasive plants have spread all over Virginia. Some groups say that needs to stop. (Stop selling them, replace them with native plants, etc.)
- Fairfax County School Board candidate sends controversial mailer to voters (“School board candidate Harry Jackson is pictured on the front of a postcard sent to voters in Fairfax County. On the flip side are illustrations of sex acts depicted in some of the books he wants FCPS to remove from schools.”)
- Virginia Tech graduate students and staff are launching labor unions
- Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood (“In 1961, it seized the core of the Shoe Lane area, including the Johnsons’ farmland, for a new public two-year college — a branch of the Colleges of William and Mary system. The council overrode protests from homeowners and civil rights advocates that there were more suitable, and less expensive, sites elsewhere for the college, which today is Christopher Newport University. The city worsened the blow by paying 20% less for the properties than the value set by an independent appraiser, council records show.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Scorching September heat wave continues the next few days
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