by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 11.
- White House Calls Trump ‘Unhinged’ After Remark On Urging Russia to Attack Allies
- Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members (“So much for Russia being afraid to start wars if he was in office.”)
- Trump Says He Might ‘Encourage’ Russia To Attack NATO Allies
- Trump Says He Gave NATO Allies Warning: Pay In or He’d Urge Russian Aggression
- Trump Says He Will Refuse to Honor NATO Treaty
- Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little
- Trump Says He’d Encourage Russia to Attack NATO Allies Who Don’t Pay
- White House Rebukes Trump for Remark On Urging Russia to Attack Allies
- Russia launches 45 drones in mass barrage of Ukraine as Kyiv continues war cabinet reshuffle
- Tucker Carlson exposed Putin’s true war motive: For Russia to own Ukraine (No shit!)
- Russia using Musk’s Starlink, Ukraine army intelligence says
- Outgunned and exhausted: what hope for Ukraine if US military aid dries up? (“With Republicans blocking US military aid, if Europe does not plug the gap Ukraine risks slow-motion defeat”)
- Ukraine looks for new start after Zelensky fires top general
- Short on Soldiers, Ukraine Debates How to Find the Next Wave of Troops
- How Putin’s Obsession With History Led Him to Start a War
- Faisal Islam: Russia’s war economy cannot last but has bought time (“Western nations must now weigh up the risks of diverting some seized assets to Ukraine.”)
- Israel, Just Downgraded, Readies Bond Spree to Pay for War Against Hamas
- Saudi Arabia warns Israel of ‘very serious repercussions’ for storming Rafah (“The UN is ‘extremely worried’ about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to evacuate the city and complete a ground offensive by March 10”)
- Bombing the Last Refuge: Israel Makes It Impossible to Safely Follow Their Orders in Gaza (Agreed; as heinous as the terrorist group Hamas is, this crap by the far-right Israeli government is wildly unacceptable!)
- Hamas had command tunnel under U.N. Gaza HQ, Israeli military says
- Egypt threatens to suspend Camp David Accords if Israel pushes into Gaza border town
- Netanyahu vows ‘safe passage’ for civilians out of Rafah ahead of Israeli assault (Where on earth are they supposed to go?!?)
- ‘This Is Where I Want to Be’: A Family Returns to a Devastated Kibbutz
- Israeli military operation in Rafah ‘cannot proceed,’ U.S. ambassador to the U.N. says
- MAGA Warms to a Murderous Chilean Dictator (Of COURSE they do!)
- Final results give Khan-backed candidates lead in Pakistan
- Shocking Opposition Victory Throws Pakistan Into Chaos
- Let’s just say it: The Republican problem is metastasizing
- ‘No One Is in Charge Over There Right Now’: A Top Senate Dem on the GOP’s Border Meltdown
- Trump’s Republican Senate backers sour on longtime leader McConnell
- Dems plead with Biden to do more, not less, media as doubts grow about his capacity for the job
- Former FBI official: Similarities between Biden and Hillary Clinton reports ‘nauseating’
- The Real “Robert Hur Report” (Versus What You Read in the News)
- Did special counsel cross the line in bashing Biden’s memory? Even some Republicans think so
- Merrick Garland Needs to Be Thanked For His Service and Shown the Door (“He is not equipped to use all the tools god gave the Department of Justice to thwart the genuine threat to the Republic that is El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago, and the dangerous political climate he has created.” He really isn’t.)
- Biden Campaign Responds to “Trump’s unhinged ramblings [Friday night] in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with the NRA” (“Every single time Donald Trump opens his mouth, he’s confused, deranged, lying, or worse.”)
- Trump bizarrely claims ‘they’ will change the name of the state of Pennsylvania if he loses it
- Trump asks about whereabouts of Haley’s husband, who’s serving overseas
- Instagram and Threads Will Make It Harder to See Political Posts
- Elon’s Early Days at Twitter: “People Were Emotionally a Wreck”
- In Lexington, Donald Trump Jr. questions Biden’s mental fitness, downplays January 6 (Donald Trump, Jr. is a completely deranged and evil individual.)
- Former Gov. Gilmore calls on Haley to drop out of presidential race
- Can a Biden Democrat Win the MAGA Curious? (“The NY-03 race will say a lot about the suburbs where the White House will be won or lost”)
- Wisconsin Rep. Gallagher will not seek reelection
- Mike Gallagher Won’t Seek Reelection After Refusal To Impeach Homeland Security Chief (The Republican Party is being purged of pretty much anyone who isn’t a pure Trump/MAGA cultist, extremist, etc.)
- Andy Kim sinks first lady Tammy Murphy in NJ Senate race’s first Democratic convention
- Video: Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) Rips GOP-Controlled House for “fiddling while Rome burns”; Calls for Keeping the Government Open, Funding Ukraine, the Killing to Stop and a Two-State Solution in the Middle East
- Video: VA Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell (D) Talks About Youngkin’s Unrealistic (and Regressive!) Tax Plans and “Budget Gimmicks”; the Proposed Tysons Casino and Wizards/Caps Arena; Gun Violence Prevention and Reproductive Freedom; etc.
- Commentary: Illegal ghost guns are legal in Virginia. They shouldn’t be
- Editorial: Washington dysfunction threats to harm state, regional growth (It is NOT generic “Washington dysfunction,” it’s 100% the fault of House Republicans – and to a lesser extent Senate Republicans – and of course Donald Trump! Yes, the media sucks for refusing to say so clearly.)
- Judge, former legislator Onzlee Ware dies(“He was the first Black legislator from the western part of the state and only the second Black judge. Democrats and Republicans alike hailed him as a quiet giant in Richmond.”)
- Onzlee Ware, Roanoke judge and former state legislator, dies at 70
- Williams: A for-profit billboard has no place at the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground
- D.C.-area forecast: Some showers today, soaking rain late Monday into early Tuesday
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