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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, February 17.
- February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records (Broken record alert: GET OFF OF FOSSIL FUELS ASAP! Also, humans should slash their meat consumption.)
- Alexei Navalny’s Death Marks the End of Political Dissent in Russia (That’s exactly what Putin wants.)
- ‘Russia’s Responsible’: Biden, World Leaders React To Reports Of Alexei Navalny’s Death
- Long opposed to exile, Alexei Navalny dies a prisoner in a dark and dangerous Russia (“Perhaps he might have been able to coordinate from abroad a powerful anti-war movement. Instead he is silenced for ever”)
- U.S. outrage at Navalny’s death turns into a rallying cry
- Democrat says Trump would ‘hand the keys over to Putin’ if reelected (100% accurate – and HORRIFYING!)
- Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s team confirms his death and demands his body is returned to his family
- “The Messiah of a Future Russia.” The World Mourns Alexey Navalny (“The imprisoned resistance leader—warm, real, and human—was the opposite of what, and who, he stood against.”)
- Why Russia Killed Navalny
- No, Donald Trump is not America’s Navalny (Anyone claimning that is completely deranged.)
- There Was No One Braver Than Alexei Navalny (“He was never going to be a Mandela, or a Havel, or a Walesa because he was never getting out of that Arctic prison alive.”)
- Despair in Russia as Putin Spirals Out of Control
- Mike Johnson needs a cognitive test
- A day ago, in his last public appearance, Navalny seemed in good spirits.
- GOP House chair: Johnson has no way out of Ukraine floor vote (Johnson needs to get his ass back to DC *immediately* and hold a vote on this vital aid for Ukraine.)
- House bipartisan group unveils $66 billion foreign aid bill
- Ukraine’s Zelenskyy warns of an ‘artificial deficit’ of weapons after withdrawal from Avdiivka
- Navalny’s death leaves despair and apathy in Moscow (Just what Putin wants.)
- Outgunned and outmanned, Ukraine withdraws from key eastern city
- With Prison Certain and Death Likely, Why Did Navalny Return to Russia? (“Aleksei Navalny thrived on agitation and feared irrelevancy in exile. Winning respect as he continued to lambast the Kremlin behind bars cost him his life.”)
- Putin must be held accountable – Yulia Navalnaya
- Navalny stood against Putin’s evil. Will the GOP abandon the fight now?
- Navalny’s Grim Fate Sends a Message About Putin’s Grip on Russia
- Navalny death ratchets up pressure on GOP to move Ukraine aid (Stop wasting time – get this done NOW!)
- Opinion: In Navalny’s death, echoes of Stalin
- Ukraine Seeks to Meet Chinese Minister to Discuss Peace Summit
- New details emerge on potential Russian nuclear space weapon
- U.S. Plans to Send Weapons to Israel Amid Biden Push for Cease-Fire Dea
- Video is said to show U.N. relief worker removing shot Israeli from kibbutz (WTF???)
- China-based propaganda accounts flourish on X as others try to curb them (Twitter/X has turned into a cesspool under Elon Musk’s “leadership”)
- Trump Privately Expresses Support for a 16-Week Abortion Ban
- Trump Hit With $350 Million Judgment In Civil Fraud Trial
- Trump’s finances take massive hit from ‘double whammy’ of legal blows (Next up, he needs to go to prison for his insurrection/coup attempt.)
- Trump’s hubris has brought about the downfall of his family’s business empire (Hubris and massive corruption, illegality, etc. Trump is definitely one of the worst Americans to have ever lived.)
- Ex-president ‘perfected the art of the steal’
- Civil fraud ruling shows Trump’s refusal to play by the rules (“The ruling reveals 4 foundational codes that explain the former president’s path through life”)
- Key findings in Trump’s ‘overwhelming’ fraud trial loss
- Trump Ordered to Pay $355 Million and Barred From New York Business
- Trump is suddenly in need of a lot of cash. That’s everyone’s problem.
- Trump and His Family Are Fined $355 Million for Fraud—and a Lack of Remorse That “Borders on Pathological” (It doesn’t BORDER ON pathological, it’s actually pathological – severely.)
- Judge Engoron Lowers the Boom on Donald Trump
- Donald Trump, the Business Fraud
- Trump’s legal debts top a half-billion dollars. Will he have to pay?
- Judge: Trump Org defendants’ ‘complete’ lack of contrition ‘borders on pathological’
- Donald Trump’s ‘Fraudulent Ways’ Cost Him $355 Million (“Justice Arthur Engoron’s ruling is not fatal for Trump’s business empire, but it might be a near-death experience.”)
- Trump Keeps NY Empire Intact as Judge Rescinds Asset-Sale Order
- With business empire on brink of abyss, tycoon Trump recasts himself as victim
- The Donald Trump Fire Sale Starts Now
- The Trump gravy train is about to run over the RNC. Good.
- GOP suffers ‘most spectacular embarrassment imaginable’ in anti-Biden case
- Joe Biden Says Republicans Should Drop Impeachment Following FBI Bombshell (Yes, and anyone involved in this should resign immediately.)
- Some Republicans can atone for their betrayal of U.S. democracy (“Retiring Republicans might grow a spine.”)
- The Fani Willis hearing was must-watch TV that no one needed to see (“Fani Willis’s courtroom testimony was riveting, awkward, cringe-worthy — and probably successful.”)
- February 2024 National Poll: Biden Performs Strongest Against Trump among Prominent Democrats (Anyone arguing that Dems should dump Biden at this point is completely clueless – for both substantive and political reasons.)
- Fani Willis’ testimony evokes long-standing frustrations for Black women leaders
- Rachel Bitecofer’s tough-love lesson for Democrats: Time to fight dirty (“Political scientist turned strategist sees a winning strategy: Paint the GOP as murderous, delusional fascists” Trump is definitely a murderous, delusional fascist – that’s just a fact.)
- Romney rules out voting for Trump, citing court’s sexual abuse finding in Carroll case
- House Democrats question Johnson’s invitation of far-right preacher known for anti-LGBTQ views
- Wisconsin fake elector tells ‘60 Minutes’ he was afraid of Trump supporters
- The majority of traffic from Elon Musk’s X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests
- Virginia Democrats React to the Murder of Alexei Navalny by Putin’s Regime. As for Virginia Republicans, So Far the Reaction Has Been Mostly “Crickets.”
- Each chamber of the General Assembly to release their budget plans Sunday
- The fate of legislation barring school divisions from banning books may rest in the governor’s hands
- Sturtevant’s human smuggling bill that cleared Senate dies in House panel
- Plan to set air standards in Virginia schools scuttled over funding concerns (“Currently in the commonwealth, no benchmarks exist.”)
- Second Virginia ABC employee files whistleblower lawsuit against authority
- Miyares casts doubt on whether Lynchburg Republicans can legally hold a ‘firehouse primary’ (“A new state law makes it difficult for parties to nominate candidates any way other than using a state-run primary. Lynchburg Republicans have wanted to run their own nominating process. In an opinion issued Friday, the state attorney general suggested that might run afoul of the law.”)
- Jury issues split verdict in Virginia Beach deputy’s wrongful termination case, awards $10,000 in damages (“The panel ordered Ken Stolle to pay former deputy William “Dave” Fowler $10,000 in damages, far below the more than $1 million his attorneys had asked for.”)
- Oh deer. The Virginia House passed a roadkill bill. (How about we fix highways and roads so that there’s a lot less “roadkill” – aka, death of animals, large and small?!?)
- ‘Total devastation’: 1 firefighter killed, 11 others injured after Loudoun County home explodes
- Virginia home explodes with fire crews inside, leaving firefighter dead and 12 others injured, officials say
- D.C.-area forecast: Clearing and blustery in the wake of overnight snow
