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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, March 29.
- An Oil Company Executive Said the Energy Transition Has Failed. What’s Really Happening? (“Some wishful thinking by Saudi Aramco’s CEO doesn’t alter the reality of climate change or the momentum of the shift to clean energy.”)
- Biochar Is ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ for Sequestering Carbon and Combating Climate Change
- Evan Gershkovich’s Year in Captivity (“The U.S. journalist is in prison because Vladimir Putin has made no pretenses about using Americans as human bargaining chips.”)
- Waiting for Evan, Putin’s ‘bargaining chip’ in Russian jail
- Putin’s Next Escalation Is Coming (Putin is a menace to the entire world.)
- Trump’s anti-Ukraine view dates to the 1930s. America rejected it then. Will we now?
- Hostage families told Netanyahu they get better treatment from the White House
- Israeli court halts subsidies for ultra-Orthodox, deepening turmoil over mandatory military service
- Top UN court orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza
- Biden Says Arab States Ready to Recognize Israel in Future Deal
- Boiling weeds, eating animal feed: People in Gaza stave off hunger any way they can
- Israeli strikes on Syria kill dozens, security sources say
- Meloni, Le Pen rift mars far right’s prospects of wielding EU power
- Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary
- Bidenomics Is Making China Angry. That’s OK.
- Turkey’s local elections — and whoever wins Istanbul — could dictate the future of the country
- A ship crashed into a Baltimore bridge and demolished the lies about immigration (Will Bunch is really one of the best columnists in America.)
- Massive effort to clear Baltimore bridge collapse is an ‘incredibly complex job,’ governor says. Here’s how they’ll do it
- U.S. updates how it classifies people by race, ethnicity for first time in decades
- Biden restores some, but not all, ESA protections
- Americans continue to lose their religion as GOP pushes it
- GOP-led states sue in attempt to block Biden’s student loan repayment plan
- Many more people have died after police subdued them than the public knows. These are their stories
- S&P 500 closes at a fresh record, posts strongest first-quarter performance since 2019
- Supreme Court abortion case brings 19th century chastity law to the forefront
- How MAGA broke the media (“Recent controversies surrounding Ronna McDaniel and Candace Owens show how the media struggles to handle the increasingly extreme right.”)
- Trump Has a Big Problem With GOP Voters (“The GOP primary has been effectively over for weeks, but voters are still showing up to cast their ballots for anyone but Donald Trump.”)
- Trump benefits from an unequal system. Still, he can’t outrun justice.
- Biden notches up the pace as Trump runs a strange campaign (“Trump’s hawking Bibles and boasting about his golf game, while the president invokes the Democratic party’s glory days at an event with Obama and Clinton”)
- Trump’s No-Good, Very Bad Tariff Plan Would Cost American Families $1,500 Every Year: Report
- Biden takes press to task over coverage of his polls
- Trump’s megalomania is a trap for the GOP (“His general odiousness represents a path to electoral calamity in 2024 for the GOP” Let’s hope.)
- The Christian reaction to Trump’s Bible endorsement goes deeper than you think (“Jason Cornwall, a pastor from South Carolina, said on X that Trump’s Bible endorsement was a violation of one of the Ten Commandments of the Hebrew Testament that forbids taking God’s name in vain.”)
- Obama, Clinton and big-name entertainers help Biden raise a record $26 million for his reelection
- Beating Trump in the Money Wars, Biden Gathers Top Donors
- 3 presidents. Many stars. 1 New York fundraiser
- Lara Trump’s Big Lie hiring: Republicans stick with loser strategy that failed them in 2020 and 2022 (“Election denial doesn’t impress voters, but it sure attracts massive defamation lawsuits”)
- RNC weighs limiting NBC’s access at this summer’s convention
- The Cynical Hypocrisy Behind Trump’s Visit to an NYPD Officer’s Wake
- Trump aims his ire at spouses, children of judges at heart of legal troubles (Why is Trump not in prison?!?)
- House will send impeachment articles against Mayorkas to Senate on April 10 (This whole thing is 100% a farce and should be reported accordingly.)
- Jewish Dems Endorse in Key House and Senate Races, Pledge Resources to Mobilize Jewish Voters (Among others, they endorsed Missy Cotter Smasal in VA02)
- Right-wing media really want you to be mad that Jon Stewart sold his apartment (“Trump’s apologists are scrambling to manufacture distractions from his $454 million fraud scheme”)
- Jan. 6 Architect John Eastman Roasted By Judge In Disbarment Case
- The election deniers relentlessly hounding Georgia officials
- Kentucky bill strips governor of power to appoint senator
- A Judge Finally Found Fraudulent Votes. They’re All From a Republican.
- GOP official who claimed 2020 was stolen voted illegally nine times, judge rules (LOCK HIM UP.)
- Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted
- Revealed: Idaho professor behind extremist site that spread conspiracies (“BSU’s Scott Yenor ran Action Idaho, which attacked the university, LGBTQ+ people and Republicans deemed not rightwing enough”)
- Pro-Trump fake electors in Arizona have pleaded the Fifth before grand jury
- Georgia lawmakers pass new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest
- GOP Michigan state rep mistakenly claims Gonzaga team buses are for ‘illegal invaders’ (Deranged, xenophobic, etc.)
- RFK Jr.’s vice presidential pick calls IVF ‘one of the biggest lies being told about women’s health’ (Wuuuut?)
- Vaccines, IVF, That Super Bowl Ad: What to Know About Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.’s Running Mate
- No Labels’ 2024 Presidential Effort Suffers More Setbacks
- The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (“Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.”)
- Racists called Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott a ‘DEI mayor.’ Here’s how he responded
- South Carolina to use congressional map deemed unconstitutional
- Democrats face growing divide in Maryland Senate primary
- Ted Leonsis Finally Abandons Glenn Youngkin’s Doomed Virginia Gambit (“Youngkin, a sneering MAGA grandstander masquerading as a sensible and credentialed moderate, signaled immediately that he would veto the bills, and, in an act of further self-injury, he then made a dumb and inflammatory speech at a mock GOP nominating convention, and gloated about it on Twitter. This reduced greatly the chance that the Potomac Yard proposal would ever see the light of day, and in the process made a minor national hero out of state senator L. Louise Lucas”)
- Blame game ensues as Virginia’s $2 billion sports and entertainment deal falls apart
- Video: Speaking with Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA04), “History Maker” Nancy Pelosi Talks About Breaking the “Marble Ceiling,” the Great Diversity of House Dems, Hakeem Jeffries Being Speaker “I’m hoping this year,” etc. (Rep. McClellan: “It’s been crazy but knowing that I’m making a difference on on such a bigger scale”)
- Video: Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) Says If Speaker Mike Johnson Is Threatened with Ouster for Bringing Forth Ukraine Aid Bill, “I would absolutely vote to table that motion and shut it down”
- Sen. Mark Warner convenes biotech leaders in Roanoke and New River valleys
- Sen. Tim Kaine, who suffers from long COVID-19 symptoms, pushes for research
- For No Good Reason(s), Youngkin Vetoes Legislation That Would Have Raised Minimum Wage to $15/Hour, Created a Retail Cannabis Market, etc. (MAGA Glenn also vetoes bill that “removes the farmworker exemption from the Virginia Minimum Wage Act.”)
- Gov. Youngkin vetoes cannabis bill, minimum wage hike
- Youngkin vetoes bills to create legal pot market, raise minimum wage in Va.
- Va. Gov. Youngkin arrived like a GOP star, but arena failure clouds legacy (Youngkin “arrived like a GOP star” in large part because terrible “journalistic” outlets like the WaPo pumped him up – falsely – as a “star.” And now they’re surprised that Youngkin’s actually an incompetent buffoon, right winger, etc? Duhhhh…drool.)
- Commentary: Voters are raising their voices for equality. Does Youngkin hear them? (Nope, definitely not.)
- Virginia Families First Tour: A Resounding Success (“Despite the governor’s attempts to label our budget as ‘backward,’ we’ve demonstrated forward-thinking governance.”)
- Pope & Schapiro: Death of an arena
- Millions in federal dollars announced to address Virginia’s abandoned coal mines
- Lead Fairfax Co. prosecutor calls Gov. Youngkin ‘boneheaded’ over gun vetoes
- Youngkin smokes cannabis, minimum wage bills
- Virginia fines MVP for environmental violations
- Patriot Front members who vandalized Ashe monument struggle in federal court
- Lowes Island couple charged with entering Capitol during Jan. 6 riot (Lowes Island is in Loudoun County)
- Editorial: Port of Virginia will lend a hand as Baltimore begins its recovery
- Hanover approves 1,200-acre data center development
- Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion will take an extra 18 months
- Virginia Board of Education changes school rating system
- D.C.-area forecast: Breezy sunshine today, and dry much of Easter weekend
