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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, April 4.
- Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
- Global rainforest loss continues at rate of 10 football pitches a minute (“Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly equal to Switzerland”)
- Tree loss drops after political change in Brazil and Colombia (“However, increased tree felling and fires in Bolivia, Laos and Nicaragua wiped out many of these gains.”)
- Schools close and crops wither as ‘historic’ heatwave hits south-east Asia
- Boom in mining for renewable energy minerals threatens Africa’s great apes
- Dozens of Ad & PR Industry Directors Have Ties to Heavily Polluting Industries (Disgusting.)
- NATO plots Trump survival strategy on its 75th birthday (It’s totally insane that this is even happening – thanks to Trump and those who support that treasonous scumbag.)
- NATO chief’s ‘Trump-proofing’ proposal is a half-step forward
- Russia’s neighbours urge Nato allies to bring back military service
- Greene keeps alive campaign to oust Johnson and warns against new push for Ukraine aid (Greene is pure evil)
- Biden’s team has been quietly backchanneling with Mike Johnson to push for Ukraine aid (“The administration believes that aid will ultimately be passed. But the process of getting there is still hazy.”)
- Russian drone attack kills four in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, cuts power supply
- Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers ‘systematically, car by car’ (If that’s the case, it’s WILDLY unacceptable.)
- ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets
- US defence secretary rebukes Israel over killing of aid workers in Gaza
- Top Israeli official Ron Dermer began yelling during a meeting with U.S. officials about Gaza, officials say
- ‘Angry’ Biden not changing Israel policy after deadly strike on aid workers
- World Central Kitchen demands an independent investigation of Israeli strikes
- In Israel’s war against Hamas rule, Gazans go hungry, aid groups retreat
- Netanyahu’s coalition moves closer to the brink (“While Biden expresses frustration about the Israeli leader’s conduct of the military onslaught, Netanyahu’s far-right coalition shows signs of weakness” Just collapse already!)
- ‘Very best of humanity’: the seven aid workers killed in Israeli airstrike
- Biden Is Set to Speak With Netanyahu Amid Rising Frustration With Israel
- Trump Spoke Recently With Saudi Leader (That can’t be good.)
- China’s BYD to launch first electric pickup truck this year in latest challenge to Tesla, Ford
- With luck, China’s stunning cuts in the cost of wind and solar will feed through to Australia
- Indonesian Communities Are Reviving Coral Reefs Decimated by Humans (“It’s like they put a forest there.”)
- What’s Wrong With the Economy? It’s You, Not the Data
- US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale
- America has legislated itself into competing red, blue versions of education
- Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out, report says (Ugh.)
- Why Republican federal judges are fighting among themselves (“Simmering tensions between traditionalist Republican judges and MAGA judges are starting to boil over.”)
- Donald Trump has no idea what to do on abortion
- A dangerous return to denial: Trump’s threats against Biden met by familiar media shrug (“One of the many reasons why the mainstream news media has lost credibility with huge swaths of the public” Yep, the “mainstream media” is a f’ing disaster.)
- Judge Won’t Delay Trump’s Criminal Trial to Wait for Immunity Ruling
- Jack Smith puts Judge Aileen Cannon on notice (Cannon has ZERO business being a judge, let alone presiding in this important case involving Trump – who nominated her!)
- Why Judge Aileen Cannon is on thin ice in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago case
- Jack Smith’s Not Buying Judge Cannon’s Interpretation of the Presidential Records Act
- Video: UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato Says After Florida 6-Week Abortion Ban Ruling, This Issue Is Trump’s and GOP’s “Achille’s Heel”; Could Make Florida Winnable for Dems (Who Should Talk About This for the Next 217 Days)
- Democrats see abortion and marijuana juicing youth vote in Florida
- GOP Senate candidates cash out at Mar-a-Lago
- Rejected and ‘returned for correction’: Docs for Trump’s $175M bond get bounced
- Two investors in Trump Media insider trading case plead guilty
- Trump’s threats to the rule of law continue
- Inside the Terrifyingly Competent Trump 2024 Campaign (“With Donald Trump mostly focused on his own legal peril—leaving staffers free to run the campaign—the candidate’s third bid for the White House is as efficient as it is explicitly authoritarian. How worried should you be? Very.”)
- Nebraska legislators buck Trump by blocking Electoral College vote change — for now
- Biden camp reaches out to Nebraska Dems as state considers denying president crucial vote
- Federal judge condemns ‘normalization’ of January 6 while sentencing defiant rioter
- Man who used megaphone to lead attack on police during Capitol riot gets more than 7 years in prison
- Democratic tactics against RFK Jr. are rattling his campaign
- Alyssa Farah Griffin: RFK Jr. Isn’t Just an Anti-Vaxxer, He’s a Gaslighting Fraud
- How Steve Bannon guided the MAGA movement’s rebound from Jan. 6 (MASSIVE failure by the U.S. criminal justice system, political system, etc.)
- Schumer expected to move quickly to dismiss Mayorkas impeachment (Yet again, the media fails to note right in the headline that this impeachment is BULLSHIT.)
- A Study in Senate Cowardice (“Republicans like Rob Portman could have ended Donald Trump’s political career. They chose not to.”)
- Has the House GOP Ever Considered…Governing?
- Greene says Speaker Johnson is a ‘Democrat,’ comparable to Nancy Pelosi
- Scoop: Jacky Rosen’s record-breaking ad splash in Nevada
- Team Biden-Harris Reaches Millions of Voters Across the Battlegrounds During March Month of Action (“The difference between our ground game and Donald Trump’s nonexistent presence in the battleground states couldn’t be more clear”)
- Underwater heat waves a growing problem in the Bay, research says
- Decades of foresight enable Va. to process cargo diverted from Maryland after bridge collapse
- Congressional hopefuls are almost out of time to get their paperwork in
- A state senator wants to talk to environmental stakeholders about crafting legislation with one caveat: it must remain a secret
- Sen. Dave Marsden’s “Fall 2024 Virginia Clean Economy Summit” Raises a Host of Issues, Including Transparency (or Lack Thereof), Who’s Invited and Who’s Not (e.g., Citizen Input?), Who’s Helping Put This Together, etc. (Bottom line: VCEA should only be strengthened, not weakened (or made even more lucrative for Dominion Energy)…)
- On ‘Make Medicine Affordable’ Tour, Richmond Area Community Leaders Urge Gov. Youngkin to Sign Bill for Lower Medicine Costs (Will Youngkin actually do the right thing for once?)
- Advocates urge Youngkin to approve drug affordability board legislation
- Va. governor signs bills to combat hate crimes, vetoes civil penalties for invasive plant sellers
- Youngkin Vetoes Bills to Require Retail Warning of Invasive Plant Species (Youngkin is a f’ing disgrace.)
- Budget deadlines loom for Youngkin, Democrats
- Now what the heck do we do about data centers?
- Dominion gets approval for solar projects; regulators discuss data center demand
- Schapiro: Va. politics and the lowering of higher education
- Virginia’s General Assembly is trending younger. At 28, Del. Clark strives to get young voters involved.
- Fairfax police academy bars Herndon officers in dispute over Chinese signature
- $10M state grant to fund crisis response, mental health initiatives in Henrico
- WATCH: Fairfax Co. police ‘narrowly escaped line-of-duty death’ in chaotic ‘street takeover,’ chief says
- Carilion seeks to expand inpatient medical rehabilitation services in Roanoke
- Shelor donates speedway, baseball stadium to Pulaski County
- Editorial: The Hampton Roads Regional Jail was deadly. Its closure was necessary.
- Portsmouth planning to purchase Hampton Roads Regional Jail facility, with possible move in by July
- Police: No charges for Chesterfield officers who shot, killed mentally ill man
- D.C.-area forecast: Chilly afternoon showers could produce graupel (“It dries out but remains cool into the weekend.”)
