by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, September 6.
- Climate-linked ills threaten humanity
- UN announces ‘climate breakdown’ after record summer heat
- August was hottest ever recorded, third straight month to set record
- This summer’s swelter was a global record breaker for high heat ever measured, meteorologists say
- The Planet Is Now Cracking Up on Every Level (Humanity continues to not treat the climate crisis as a true crisis. And, of course, there are the fossil fuel companies and banks who finance fossil fuel projects…)
- New solar installations to hit nearly 400GW this year as module prices hit new lows (Great, but still needs to be a lot higher/faster to fend off complete climate disaster.)
- As Africa Climate Summit promotes solar, off-grid power ramps up below the Sahara
- How Russia’s Blockade of Black Sea Ports Is Hitting Ukraine’s Economy
- Blinken arrives in Kyiv. He’s expected to announce more than a billion dollars in new US funding for Ukraine
- Blinken visits Kyiv in show of support for Ukraine’s efforts to push out Russia’s forces
- Meet the man leading the front-line effort in Ukraine’s cyber war with Russia
- Putin, Saudi Crown Prince Laud OPEC+ Cooperation, Kremlin Says
- UK to declare Russia’s Wagner a terrorist organisation
- Armenia to exercise with US troops next week, Russia voices concern
- China authorities arrest 2 for smashing shortcut through Great Wall with excavator
- China’s Economic Pain Is a Test of Xi’s Fixation With Control
- Soaring Dollar Raises Alarm as China, Japan Escalate Pushback
- Israel’s Supreme Court delays pivotal judicial overhaul hearing after attorney general opposes plan
- You Can’t Normalize Relations With a Government That Isn’t Normal
- EU lists Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and three other tech giants as ‘gatekeepers’ under strict competition rules
- India’s Moment Has Arrived, and Modi Wants a New Global Order
- Afghanistan women suffer 2 years after Taliban takeover
- Agribusiness Giant Cargill Is in Activists’ Crosshairs for Its Connections to Deforestation in Bolivia
- Spanish soccer is in chaos. The U.S. women’s team deserves some credit.
- Tropical Storm Lee is expected to intensify into an ‘extremely dangerous’ hurricane by the weekend
- Fed Set to Double Its Economic Growth Forecast After Strong US Data
- A Huge Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded. And No One Is Sure Why. (“For decades, runaway Medicare spending was the story of the federal budget. — Now, flat Medicare spending might be a bigger one.”)
- The shrinking number of primary-care physicians is reaching a tipping point
- Unions seek gains in hostile territory: ‘If you change the South, you change America’
- As Abortion Laws Drive Obstetricians From Red States, Maternity Care Suffers
- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse files ethics complaint over Justice Samuel Alito interview
- Judge Chutkan is The Boss
- Sad! Donald Trump’s Coconspirators Have Started Throwing Him Under the Bus (“The threat of prison time is apparently testing the ex-president’s demands for total loyalty.”)
- Trump Plans Harsher Trade and Tax Policies for His 2024 Comeback Bid (“Trump’s second-term proposals are causing angst among many economists and the business community.”)
- The AP Interview: Harris says Trump can’t be spared accountability for Jan. 6
- Would Trump pardon the Proud Boys?
- The Proud Boys aren’t sorry
- Special Counsel Says Trump Is Making ‘Daily’ Comments That Risk Biasing Jury Pool (“The judge in Trump’s federal election interference case has already warned the former president to ‘take special care in your public statements about this case.'”)
- Clashes mount between Trump and his legal nemesis
- Section 3 of the 14th Amendment Has Trump Sweating
- Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy
- Far-right violence a growing threat and law enforcement’s top domestic terrorism concern
- The Former Proud Boys Leader Finds Out
- Opinion: Locking up the Proud Boys is only a first step (“Furthermore, the executive branch’s failure to provide legally required domestic terrorism data and the nebulous and ineffective approach to the collection of information on extremist groups from publicly available sources show how many of the most basic steps aren’t being taken.”)
- Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader on Jan. 6, sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy (The judge should have gone with the prosecutor’s recommendation of 33 years)
- New York AG asks judge to sanction Trump for rehashing failed legal arguments
- Scoop: House Republicans warn of McCarthy leadership challenge
- Gaetz advocates forcing impeachment votes in warning to McCarthy (Gaetz has no business being in Congress, for a number of serious reasons.)
- House Majority Forward Announces $20 Million Voter Registration and Grassroots Mobilization Campaign
- How MAGA Election Officials Could Help Send Trump Back to the White House
- Biden honours Vietnam pilot who disregarded order (“In 1968, Capt Larry Taylor tried something that had never been done before under intense enemy fire.”)
- US ‘university’ spreads climate lies and receives millions from rightwing donors (“PragerU is not accredited but has become a key tool in pushing false claims to youngsters – and raked in $200m from 2018 to 2022”)
- Enough! Advertisers and Governments Must Dump Elon Musk. (ASAP!)
- Elon Musk Borrowed $1 Billion From SpaceX
- Can Joe Biden Ride “Boring” to Reelection? (“His administration is getting a lot done for the American people, yet its accomplishments don’t get the same media attention as Trumpian chaos.”)
- Video: Biden-Harris 2024 Announces New Ad to Air During NFL Primetime Season Opener (“‘Got to Work’ outlines how President Biden defied the odds to avoid economic catastrophe with decisive leadership and action”)
- Biden tests negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday, will mask around others
- 2 reasons Republicans are done with McConnell
- McConnell’s health becomes bigger problem for GOP
- Pressure ramps up on Tuberville over 300 military holds
- Republicans hired way more ex-lobbyists as congressional staffers in the last year than Democrats, analysis finds
- CNN Poll: GOP voters’ broad support for Trump holds, with less than half seriously worried criminal charges will harm his 2024 chances
- A DeSantis Speech Too Dangerous to Teach in Florida (“The governor championed rules that bar frank discussions of racist violence, like the one he offered in the wake of a mass shooting, in the state’s schools.”)
- Christie knocks DeSantis for not meeting Biden during visit to survey hurricane damage
- DeSantis built a massive network of big donors. Many have ditched him.
- George Santos and aide appear to be discussing plea deals with feds
- George Santos Insists He Is Not Working On A Plea Deal
- The Alabama Legislature Had It Coming
- Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial begins with a former ally who reported him to the FBI
- Complaints over campaign comments by Wisconsin Supreme Court justice are dismissed
- In Nightmare Fuel No One Asked for, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake Are Reportedly Duking It Out to Become Trump’s VP
- Gabe Amo, Former White House Official, Wins Rhode Island Congressional Primary (“Amo, a Democrat and the son of West African immigrants, is poised to become the first Black person ever to represent Rhode Island in Congress.”)
- BREAKING: More than 60 Atlanta training center activists named in RICO Indictment
- Bill Maher Is Strangely Pro-Boss, Anti-Labor for a ‘Liberal’ (Bill Maher is awful.)
- New Poll by GOP Outfit That WILDLY Overestimated Republican Candidates in 2022 Has Dems Up 1 Pt. in the “Generic” General Assembly Ballot Question (Also, abortion is one of the top two issues, and only 21% agree with most GOP candidates that it should be completely banned.)
- Some details of the budget agreement are clearer, as lawmakers return to Richmond
- Virginia budget could bring increased oversight of state prisons
- Youngkin won’t get big tax cuts as Va. lawmakers return to tackle budget
- Former VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) Predicts State Senate “remains in Democrat[ic] control with a narrow margin of 1-2 seats, which is exactly where it stands right now.” (“Even though there are 40 seats in the State Senate, there appear to be four key races that will determine who controls the Senate in 2024”)
- Commentary: Youngkin’s decision to pull Virginia out of RGGI disregards science, law
- Is Virginia prepared for growing easy access to gambling?
- Cannabis-related stores are popping up across Virginia amid confusion over the state’s marijuana laws
- If Dominion’s plan is so bad, is there a better one? (Spoiler alert: yes, there is.)
- Virginia plan projects universal broadband access by 2028
- After six years of inaction, Virginia Commission on Electric Utility Regulation reconvenes
- Two New Unions Form at Virginia Tech, Will Hold Campus Rally on Tuesday
- Dominion sells gas utilities for $9.4 billion
- Former Youngkin aide to lead polling nonprofit
- Virginia Democratic Party press secretary launches write-in run for Blacksburg council
- Alexandria proposal would eliminate single-family-only zoning (Good.)
- Tow truck hauls away SUV near Va. mall with toddlers still inside (“The woman who left her kids in the car was cited. The company, Advanced Towing, had faced a lawsuit over its aggressive practices in the past.”)
- Henrico Making Strides in Walkability As Residents Demand More Sidewalks
- Source: Virginia expects over 50,000 to honor shooting victims at home opener against JMU
- D.C.-area forecast: Scorching heat continues through tomorrow, then a little cooler Friday
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