by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, January 15.
- We Don’t Have Time for Climate Misinformation
- A New Study Revealed Big Underestimates of Greenland Ice Loss—and the Power of New Technologies to Track the Changes
- Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn (“‘We need to respond now,’ says author of study that says crucial forest has already passed safe boundary and needs restoration”)
- In the arms race for space weaponry, Russia fires a shot across the bow (“Expect U.S. ingenuity to get busy on a countermove.”)
- US warned allies about Russian space, nuclear capabilities, source says
- Russia’s Advances on Space-Based Nuclear Weapon Draw U.S. Concerns (Meanwhile, Trump’s attitude is to give Putin anything/everything he wants. Disgraceful and disqualifying!)
- The ‘disturbing’ intel roiling the Hill is about Russian nukes in space
- After Fighting Ukraine Aid, Trump Says Biden Will ‘Give’ Ukraine to Putin (Trump will literally say ANYTHING.)
- Military says Russian landing ship sunk in Black Sea
- Vladimir Putin surprised by lack of ‘sharp questions’ in Tucker Carlson interview (Why would he be surprised? Tucker Carlson isn’t a journalist, obviously, and also is a Putin lackey.)
- Putin expresses preference for Biden over Trump (Putin is trolling and trying to help Trump.)
- Biden Team Rebuffs Johnson Demand for Meeting on Ukraine, Border (Johnson is a f’ing disgrace.)
- Lawmakers scramble for Plan B on Ukraine
- Team Biden struggles to reassure Europe the U.S. won’t abandon Ukraine
- Trump is rattling Europe. Now Harris is going there to try to calm nervous allies
- Republicans, once a noble party, fall to ignoble acts on Ukraine aid
- Musk’s X sold checkmarks to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups, report says (And white supremacists, neo-Nazis, etc.)
- Key US Allies Warn Israel Against Planned Offensive in Rafah
- Biden Shields Palestinians in the U.S. From Deportation
- Israeli special forces enter largest remaining hospital in Gaza
- Biden-Netanyahu Relationship at Boiling Point as Rafah Invasion Looms
- Indonesia may have just elected a strongman (“A relic from Indonesia’s dictatorship is the new president.”)
- Japan Loses Its Spot as World’s Third-Largest Economy as It Slips Into Recession (“Economy falls to fourth-largest in world behind Germany”)
- UK economy falls into recession, adding to Sunak’s election challenge
- The Sound of Wages Going Up Faster Than Prices
- Will America ever stop building more highways? (“As emissions rise, some environmentalists are turning their attention to widening roads as well as pipelines”)
- Republicans Plan to Spend Every Day Till the Election Claiming Biden Is a Doddering Old Fool—And That Trump Has the Body and Mind of a 35-Year-Old (In fact, it’s the 180-degrees OPPOSITE!)
- Everyone Needs to Stop Freaking Out About Biden’s Age Immediately (“We’re in a Biden-Trump rematch. And the media is focusing on this?” The U.S. political “news” media is pretty much FUBAR.)
- Three crises that give Biden a chance to prove the doubters wrong
- Special counsel asks Supreme Court to let Trump’s 2020 election case proceed to trial without delay
- Special counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump bid to delay election trial
- Trump state prosecutions reach a critical point on the same day in two cities (“The repeated legal and political collisions of Trump’s cases are all but certain to have long-term consequences”)
- Trump NY Trial Is About Fraud, Not ‘Paying Off a Porn Star’
- Dismiss, delay or stay on track: Trump hush money judge to decide Thursday (“The criminal trial is scheduled to begin March 25, but Trump is trying to derail it.”)
- The Trauma of the Trump Years Is Being Rewritten
- America’s poorer counties are new investment boomtowns: study
- Scoop: Hur making plans to testify to GOP panel about Biden (Screw this guy.)
- The Issues That Are Starting to Really Matter Are Democratic Issues (“For all the talk over the last two weeks about how weak and feeble the top of the ticket is, the Democratic candidates keep winning elections all over the country.”)
- Trump’s Puzzling New Excuse For Pelosi-Haley Blunder Includes A Whole New Gaffe
- The Truth About Trump’s RNC Shakeup—and Why the GOP Suffers
- Trump On Pace to Drain Legal Funds by July, With Only $27 Million Left
- With Trump’s Takeover of RNC, MAGA’s Conquering of the GOP Is Complete
- Senior Republicans fear Trump will tap the RNC to cover legal bills again
- Republicans admit it. Kevin McCarthy has never looked so good.
- Powerful House GOP chair retiring after Mayorkas impeachment
- Nearly 1 in 5 Believe Taylor Swift Election Conspiracy Theory (And they are – shocker! – overwhelmingly TRUMP SUPPORTERS.)
- After New York special election loss for GOP, right-wing media struggle to embrace early voting (“In the wake of the right-wing propaganda campaign to undermine early voting and throw out ballots in 2020, conservative media are realizing they hobbled their own voter efforts”)
- Instead of blaming the GOP’s failure to compromise on immigration for special election loss, right-wing pundits pine for George Santos (Beyond parody.)
- George Santos puts former congressional colleagues in group chat to call them ‘f***ing idiots’
- George Santos Calls His Ex-Colleagues “F–king Idiots”
- In New York Win, Democrats Sense a Pivot on Immigration and Border Politics
- A longtime NY Democrat flipped a Republican seat. The nation took notice.
- Migrant-Crisis Fearmongering Wasn’t Enough to Hold George Santos’s Old Seat
- McCarthy says Mace needs help ‘to straighten out her life’ (“You can’t have somebody who just flips and flops based upon what TV station she gets put on. You want someone who’s willing to work, and so I hope she gets that kind of help.”)
- Democrats see 2024 border blueprint in Suozzi’s New York win
- National Archives closes to public after activists dump red powder on case holding Constitution
- Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing (Of course it doesn’t!)
- Biden Says The Kansas City Shooting ‘Cuts Deep In The American Soul’
- At least one killed and 21 injured in Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting (“Three suspects have been arrested in connection to the shooting as the Super Bowl victory celebrations were wrapping up”)
- Investigators search for motive of shooting that left 1 dead and more than 20 injured at Chiefs Super Bowl celebration
- Video: At Press Conference, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) Urges Speaker Mike Johnson to Bring Bipartisan National Security Bill to U.S. House Floor, Deliver Aid for Ukraine, Israel, & Taiwan
- Schapiro: Kaine’s the key to Biden winning Virginia (A better focus would be on how Kaine and Biden are the key to Democrats winning VA02.)
- Crossover roundup: What’s alive and what’s on shaky ground in Virginia’s General Assembly
- If the General Assembly were a sports event, here’s what the halftime report would say
- Virginia Utilities Seek Unbridled Rate Adjustments for Unproven Small Modular Nuclear Reactors in Two New Bills (“Under the proposed legislation, Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power would be able to pass the exorbitant cost of building SMRs onto consumers. Environmentalists warn the legislation contains no protections for ratepayers.”)
- Virginia lawmakers delay decision on Dominion Energy’s offshore wind monopoly (“A proposal to inject competition into the state’s offshore wind procurement has been delayed until 2025 and is set to be studied by a revamped energy commission.”)
- Bills advance to protect state employees who access medical cannabis
- How will Governor Youngkin approach vetoes this session?
- Victory for Reproductive Freedom: Virginia General Assembly Passes Sweeping Reproductive Freedom Legislation
- After rejecting its own version, the Virginia Senate considers House plate reader bill
- Video: Virginia Legislative Black Caucus Releases Crossover Update on Criminal Justice Reform Agenda
- A win-win: addressing Va.’s mental health workforce shortage and getting people addiction help
- Southwest Virginia landowners’ Mountain Valley Pipeline lawsuit dismissed again
- Oyster lobby pitches shell recycling as Virginia legislators slurp up the results
- Virginia Beach Republican Barry Knight removed from House Appropriations Committee
- In Norfolk, Newport News, city councils hear heated public comments about Israel-Hamas war
- Public school integration in Virginia started slowly, with just a few students. Their stories are now being shared.
- Charlottesville Democrats renew push to ban firearms on college campuses after UVa shooting
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny but blustery today; snow a good bet Friday night
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