Monday News: “Despite the Ukraine aid vote, the neo-isolationist threat still looms”; “Young Americans’ wealth has soared since the pandemic”; Psychopath Kristi Noem, Who Youngkin Campaigned For, “defends dog slaying as ‘responsible’”

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 29.

• Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’ (DO IT!!!)
• World’s largest sovereign wealth fund says green backlash is a chance for it to ‘phase in’ — not out
• Ukraine Bets on Long-Range Drones, Raising Costs of War for Russia
• Despite the Ukraine aid vote, the neo-isolationist threat still looms
• Exclusive: China firms go ‘underground’ on Russia payments as banks pull back
• Elon Musk pursues self-driving approval on China trip as Tesla wins key endorsement
• Israeli Officials Believe I.C.C. Is Preparing Arrest Warrants Over War
• Palestinian leader appeals to US to stop Israel’s Rafah offensive
• The wartime outrage in Gaza that no one is talking about
• Sanders says there’s not ‘any doubt’ what Netanyahu is doing now is ‘ethnic cleansing’
• Middle East crisis live: ‘measurable progress’ in delivering aid to Gaza but ceasefire ‘most effective’ to address humanitarian suffering, says Blinken
• Blinken Meets With Top Arab Diplomats on Gaza War
• As Anger Grows Over Gaza, Arab Leaders Crack Down on Protests
• Spain’s PM will not resign after allegations against wife
• An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi’s India
• Gang leader’s vision for the future of Haiti (“One of the gang leaders accused of destabilizing the Caribbean nation spent hours showing CNN around his territory. Here’s what he had to say.”)
• Young Americans’ wealth has soared since the pandemic (According to this, young people are doing great under President Biden.)
• The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population (Why on earth would we want to explode the population? Crazy shit.)
• The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars (“Dangerous, polluting SUVs and pickups took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame.”)
• The Supreme Court’s men aren’t here to protect you
• Academic Freedom Under Fire (“Politicians despise it. Administrators aren’t defending it. But it made our universities great—and we’ll miss it when it’s gone”)
• Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at campuses as colleges crack down on encampments
• Bill Barr Reveals How Donald Trump Frequently Talked About ‘Executing’ Rivals
• McConnell: Flipping Senate “most important” thing before leaving leadership (McConnell has done ENORMOUS damage to America, wants to do more before his disgraceful career ends.)
• Fox News’ abrupt silence on the Biden impeachment crusade speaks volumes
• GOP Reps Slam MTG’s Mutiny—but Johnson Still Faces Gangplank (“There’s exhaustion and anger in the GOP over Rep. Greene’s push to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, but the conditions for a revolt are slowly coming into place.”)
• All eyes on Greene threat to oust Speaker Johnson
• Sen. Lindsey Graham Says He’ll ‘Absolutely’ Still Support Trump Even If Convicted (What dirt does Trump have on Graham??? Must be NASTY!)
• Is another Trump coup case really necessary? Yes. Arizona matters.
• Biden and Trump supporters sharply divided by the media they consume
• RFK is now openly gunning for Trump voters — and Republicans are starting to worry (“Kennedy wants more marks for his anti-vaccination grift — he’ll find way more of them by marketing to MAGA”)
• Trump and DeSantis meet privately in Florida (DeSantis is a horrible person.)
• Scoop: Gov. Doug Burgum moves up Trump’s VP ladder
• Kristi Noem defends dog slaying as ‘responsible’ (Youngkin STILL hasn’t commented about this psychopath, who he campaigned for in 2022)
• Video: On “Meet the Press,” Sen. Tim Kaine Says Calling in National Guard to College Campuses – as Speaker Mike Johnson Has Suggested – Is a “very, very bad idea” (“Offering students more opportunities to have dialogue that is civil and constructive where people hear one another, that’s by far preferable.”)
• Sen. Kaine says sending National Guard to college campus protests would be ‘very, very bad idea’
• Youngkin on campus protests: We will protect peaceful gatherings but not ‘hate speech and intimidation’
• Virginia lawmakers reached a compromise on energy efficiency – here’s what it will mean for utilities and regulators
• Virginia can still meet clean energy goals (“In my view, Virginia can stay on track to carbon neutrality by adopting four basic principles: data centers must pay their own way, both literally and carbon-wise; solar must be easy to build and interconnect; utilities must not build new fossil generation for ‘reliability’ before exhausting non-carbon solutions; and efficient buildings must be added to the strategy.”)
• Many Hampton Roads families are struggling to get students back in class. Here’s how schools are trying to help.
• Protest at Virginia Tech swells, police moving to break it up late Sunday
• Arrests underway at pro-Palestinian Virginia Tech protest, school says
• Police remove dozens of people from protest on Virginia Tech’s campus
• D.C.-area forecast: Today’s heat could be record-setting, and it will be warm all week