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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, March 19.
- Global ocean heat has hit a new record every single day for the last year (Disastrous.)
- Only seven countries meet WHO air quality standard, research finds (Another HUGE reason to get off of fossil fuels ASAP.)
- Firms That Once Called Themselves “Sustainable” Are Now “Greenhushing” (Ugh.)
- New bifacial solar technology generates more power at much reduced cost
- Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in the New England Journal of Medicine
- Ukraine’s Impossible Choice: Conceding Territory or Lives
- Mike Johnson’s ‘political stance is actually costing lives’ in Ukraine
- Speaker Johnson, GOP face crunch time on Ukraine (“The lower chamber is scheduled to be in session for only four days before a two-week holiday recess, and Kyiv’s supporters, including top Democrats in both chambers, are urging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to move the additional aid before week’s end.”)
- Putin’s Win Isn’t Just a Sham. It’s a Danger. (“The election charade was critical to the Kremlin’s comeback from humiliation in Ukraine.”)
- Putin’s Sham Victory Makes Trump 2.0 All the More Frightening
- Who congratulated Putin on his election victory and what does it say about global alliances?
- Israeli delegation to visit Washington to discuss planned offensive on Rafah (“US says attack would be ‘mistake’ as Biden and Netanyahu talk by phone for first time in over a month”)
- Is the Destruction of Gaza Making Israel Any Safer? (“More than five months in, Israel has neither a military strategy for eliminating Hamas nor a political strategy for living with Gaza.”)
- Incoming Palestinian prime minister lays out plans for reform but faces major obstacles
- US reports death of senior Hamas military leader (“Details are also released of President Biden’s high-stakes call to Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.”)
- Biden and Netanyahu Ease Their Feud But Suspicions Linger
- Israel’s Shifa raid shows its grip is slipping as a ‘forever war’ looms
- What Schumer and Biden Got Right About Netanyahu
- Blinken Will Travel to Mideast Again as Cease-Fire Talks Restart
- ‘There Will Be a Political Reckoning in Israel’ (There badly needs to be.)
- Biden warns Netanyahu in a phone call against a major ground operation in Rafah
- In the busy waters between China and Taiwan, the de facto border is being tested
- Bank of Japan ends the world’s only negative rates regime in a historic move, abandons yield curve control
- ‘Only God can change this place’: Haitians see no end to spiralling violence
- ‘Enlist or die’: Fear, looming famine and a deadly ultimatum swell the ranks of Sudan’s paramilitary forces
- Why Are Americans Still Down on the Economy?(“It’s true that most Americans have a negative view of the economy. But people don’t directly experience the economy. What they directly experience are their own financial circumstances — and most Americans are feeling relatively positive about their own finances.”)
- EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted
- As Inflation Fears Persist, Federal Reserve Is Expected to Leave Rates Unchanged
- US Supreme Court justices, judges face new rules for disclosing free trips
- Supreme Court likely to reject limits on White House social media contacts
- Supreme Court Lets Public Office Ban Stand for ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder (That’s appalling – and in clear violation of the U.S. constitution. Great f’ing job, Supreme Court.)
- Justice Breyer, Off the Bench, Sounds an Alarm Over the Supreme Court’s Direction
- Even the Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Fed Up With the Garbage Coming Out of the 5th Circuit
- Brett Kavanaugh rides to the Biden administration’s defense in a big First Amendment case (“The Supreme Court’s center right appears increasingly frustrated with the judiciary’s far right.”)
- Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now (“If she leaves the Court this year, President Joe Biden will nominate a young and reliably liberal judge to replace her.”)
- Congressional leaders strike deal on Homeland Security funding ahead of shutdown deadline
- Congress reaches tentative deal to avoid government shutdown
- Want to Know What Trump Will Do? Listen to What He Says.
- The Trump Campaign’s Rehabbing of Paul Manafort Is Some Real Mob Sh*t
- Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ threat — and campaign coverage that doesn’t work
- Trump’s Autocratic Ambitions Are Flying Under the Radar
- NEW VIDEO: Trump’s “Bloodbath” Comments the “Least of It” on His Calls for Violence (“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature of Donald Trump’s extremism. We take Trump at his word — and voters will too.”)
- Trump’s call for a “bloodbath” was literal — let’s not waste time pretending it was ambiguous (“Trump hides his threats of fascist violence in plain sight — here is how to fight back”)
- Biden Campaign Statement on Trump Attacking Jewish Americans, Again (Trump: “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.”)
- Trump Says Jews Who Vote For Democrats ‘Hate Israel’ And Should Be ‘Ashamed’
- Jewish lawmakers rage at Trump’s “revolting” comments
- Trump Says Jews Who Support Democrats ‘Hate Israel’ and ‘Their Religion’ (Trump is completely deranged – and dangerous.)
- Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Rant Is Disgusting in Any Context
- Majority in US reject Trump’s immunity claim, including half of Republicans (“Polls also finds that nearly half of respondents, 46% did not trust the supreme court to issue ‘a fair and nonpartisan ruling’” Should be 100% on both.)
- Context collapse (“Over the weekend, even otherwise sharp stories on his Ohio rally resorted to euphemisms to describe the speech as a whole—’discursive,’ ‘headline-seizing,’ ‘freewheeling’—that gave only a fuzzy impression of what it was actually like. If Trump’s word choices matter, so, too, do ours.” Adjectives like that aren’t just worthless, they are highly misleading.)
- Is Donald Trump About to Go Bankrupt?
- Trump unable to get $464m bond in New York fraud case (“The former president must either pay the full amount in cash or secure a bond to continue his appeal.”)
- Why Donald Trump Can’t Put Up a Bond
- Trump Rules Out Vivek Ramaswamy as Running Mate as He Eyes New Team
- Behind Trump’s campaign cash crunch: Small-dollar donor fatigue, major donor hesitation
- Donald Trump officially “out of his mind” after unhinged speech praising Capitol rioters
- Trump loses bid to block Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels testimony at hush money trial
- Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment
- Mike Pence Should Be the Biggest Story of the 2024 Campaign
- Despite McAfee’s jabs, Willis stays on Trump’s case. For now.
- Liz Cheney fires back at Trump on Jan. 6: ‘Lying in all caps doesn’t make it true’
- Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House (Really, really sick.)
- Over 450 Jewish Creatives and Professionals Denounce Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’ Oscars Speech in Open Letter
- RBG award ceremony canceled amid controversy over recipients (Totally f’ed up.)
- Elon Musk’s MAGA alliance (Musk is a white supremacist and a fascist.)
- Radicalized by the right: Elon Musk puts his conspiratorial thinking on display for the world to see (Musk is completely insane.)
- Peter Navarro Compares Prison Sentence to Dead American Soldiers
- Supreme Court says Trump White House official Peter Navarro must begin prison sentence
- Supreme Court refuses to delay prison time for Trump aide Peter Navarro
- Tuberville says GOP leadership should have vetted claims in Katie Britt’s speech
- Ohio 2024 GOP Poll: Moreno 38%, Dolan 29%, LaRose 12%
- Trump and Ohio’s GOP establishment clash on the eve of a rowdy Senate primary
- On Fox News, Steve Doocy has become the unexpected voice of dissent
- The Insurrationalizers: Rich Lowry Demands Proof Trump Will End Democracy (Rich Lowry is awful.)
- Pro-Trump lawyer arrested on bench warrant in Washington, D.C.
- Kaine For Virginia Submits Over 26,000 Signatures To Be On The Ballot, Highlighting Grassroots Support For His Record Of Standing Up For Virginia
- Anderson filing signatures to get on ballot, leads GOP fundraising in the 7th
- How a “Really Dumb Law” Might Affect 2024 Candidate Ballot Order in Virginia (“Sometimes, like this year in VA-07 and VA-10, there are enough candidates in the races to make ballot order potentially matter.”)
- Judge rules suit against Virginia felon disenfranchisement rule can proceed
- New Census data: exurban Virginia is growing (The opposite of “smart growth,” in other words.)
- Tree preservation: A quality of life opportunity for Virginia (Suburban/exurban sprawl is one of the big threats to trees.)
- With CNBC’s “Best State for Business” Rankings Finalized Soon, Gov. Ralph Northam’s Former Chief of Staff Clark Mercer Wonders, “Will North Carolina match Virginia [which held the title in 2019-2021] and make it a three-peat?” (Democrats showed that “yes, you can be a great state for both business and for workers”)
- Governor Youngkin says no to composting bill (Youngkin is horrible in every way.)
- Industry-friendly Va. ‘skill games’ bill could get caught in arena fight
- Virginia dementia registry project poised to become state law
- This Richmond-area county among fastest-growing in U.S.
- Roanoke seeks to pilot gun violence prevention program for middle schoolers
- Portsmouth appoints its 4th permanent city manager in as many years
- D.C.-area forecast: A brisk, breezy week continues, except warmer Wednesday
