by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, May 30.
- Meat and Dairy Industry ‘Weakening’ Climate Policy in the EU: Report
- EU agrees to quit energy investment treaty over climate concerns (“The bloc argued that the treaty was no longer in line with the Paris agreement on climate change and EU ambitions regarding the energy transition.”)
- Top Biden aides signal openness to letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons
- Russian forces are weaponizing sexual violence against Ukrainian men: prosecutors
- Europe on high alert after suspected Moscow-linked arson and sabotage (“Security services say spate of fires and infrastructure attacks could be part of attempt by Russia to destabilise continent”)
- U.S. is the lone holdout in push to let struggling Ukraine strike inside Russia with Western weapons
- U.S. concerned about Ukraine strikes on Russian nuclear radar stations
- Blinken urges Israel to craft post-war Gaza plan, warns of chaos
- Israel extends control of Gaza’s entire land border (“An Egyptian source denies that tunnels used by Hamas still exist on the country’s border with Gaza.”)
- Israel’s Rafah Offensive Puts Egypt in a Dangerous Bind (“A sputtering economy and anguish over Palestinian deaths have put pressure on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi to respond more forcefully to a former adversary.”)
- Nikki Haley Writes “Finish Them!”, Draws Heart on Israeli Artillery Shell
- Italy’s PM says fascism is ‘consigned to history’. Not everyone is so sure
- Hong Kong convicts 14 democracy campaigners of subversion
- Mexico is likely to elect its first woman president this weekend
- Spain approves Catalan amnesty bill set to define PM’s term
- South Africa election: ANC seen losing majority, DA and Zuma’s party performing well
- India’s Economy Is Powered by the South, While Modi’s Strength Draws From the North. Can He Combine the Two?
- Fed’s Bostic Says Many Inflation Measures Moving to Target Range
- Trump’s plans to make inflation worse are still missing from nearly all inflation news coverage in top newspapers
- The strange case of Alito v. Alito
- Alito says the Supreme Court’s fake ethics code allows him to be unethical (“The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is worse than nothing — Alito just proved it.”)
- How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases (“This recusal statute, if triggered, is not a friendly suggestion. It is Congress’s command, binding on the justices, just as the due process clause is. The Supreme Court cannot disregard this law just because it directly affects one or two of its justices.”)
- Trump congratulates Alito for rejecting recusal calls amid flag flap (Really, really disturbing.)
- Alito Refuses to Recuse: ‘My Wife Is Fond of Flying Flags’
- Alito’s Excuses Only Raise Questions About His Marriage
- Alito’s Aggrieved Letter to Congress Tips His Hand in the Jan. 6 Cases
- Samuel Alito’s Flag Defense Makes Even Less Sense Now (“The conservative Supreme Court justice claimed his wife displayed a pro-Trump symbol outside their Virginia home in 2021 after a dispute with a liberal neighbor. But that flimsy story seems to be crumbling.”)
- For Decades, the Government Took Native American Kids from Their Homes Into a Network of Predators
- Donald Trump Could Actually Go to Prison If Convicted (or He Could Be Sentenced to Picking Up Trash on the Side of the Highway)
- Trump Imagines a World in Which Mother Teresa Paid Off a Porn Star to Keep Her Quiet About an Alleged Affair
- Trump likens himself to Mother Teresa as jury weighs fate in hush-money case (Just imagine if Joe Biden talked like this.)
- Opinion: I’ve observed the Trump jury. Here’s what could be happening in deliberations
- Tense waiting game underway as Trump jury deliberates (“Trump’s only way of letting off steam is in a pen outside the courtroom, where he blasts the judge and the case routinely”)
- Live updates: Jurors are set to rehear key testimony as deliberations resume in Trump hush money case
- The Jury Deliberates, and Trump Posts (“Outside the courtroom, the former president is showing voters who he really is.”)
- In closing, Trump’s team takes the jurors for idiots
- Biden: If Black Americans stormed the Capitol, Trump wouldn’t be ‘talking about pardons’
- RNC co-chair Lara Trump invites conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec on her podcast to push election denial (“Posobiec, who has been linked to far-right figures including neo-Nazis, discusses walking among the cherry blossoms in Washington while declaring that Biden didn’t win in 2020”)
- Inside Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Growing Alliance (Sick. This is how fascism comes about – an alliance with far-right plutocrats.)
- The MAGA movement and the Trump assassination plot that wasn’t
- Trump is now trying to downplay Project 2025 (Definitely do NOT believe it.)
- Amid scandal and deliberation, all eyes are on the courts
- Perhaps Lost in the Polling: The Presidential Race Is Still Close
- A Devil’s Bargain With OpenAI (“Publishers including The Atlantic are signing deals with the AI giant. Where does this lead?”)
- RFK Jr. files complaint with Federal Election Commission over CNN debate criteria
- RFK Jr. Is Crying Over Confederate Statues
- Vivek Ramaswamy uses his 8.4% BuzzFeed stake to unsuccessfully push layoffs, right-wing hires
- Florida sticks by social studies standard teaching ‘benefit’ of slavery (F’ed up.)
- Texas GOP Platform Endorses Death Penalty for Abortion Patients (The Republican Party has gone completely insane.)
- Texas GOP Appears To Put Death Penalty For Abortion Patients On 2024 Wish List
- Texas House runoffs bring wave of GOP incumbent defeats, give Abbott votes for school vouchers
- New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances
- Two New Giant Pandas Coming to Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute From China by End of the Year
- New “Internal” VA07 Democratic Primary Poll by Eugene Vindman’s Campaign Has Vindman Up by >30 Points (Eugene Vindman 43%- Andrea Bailey 10%-Elizabeth Guzman 8%-Briana Sewell 4%; also note, there are 32% still undecided)
- Meet Hung Cao, Endorsed by Donald Trump, and Now the Likely 2024 VA GOP Nominee for US Senate (Cao compares abortion to the Holocaust, thinks “wiccans have taken over parts of California” and “we can’t let that happen in Virginia,” etc.)
- Schapiro: Does Trump’s endorsement trump all?
- New poll shows Biden and Trump tied in Virginia (Riiiiight.)
- With Republicans Coming for the Right to Use Contraception, Youngkin’s Veto of the Contraceptive Equity Act Was Ominous (Republicans are “ready to take away any agency you think you have when planning your family”)
- Groups criticize environmental justice approach in Virginia
- Federal judge denies delay to Dominion’s offshore wind project
- Editorial: Proliferation of mass surveillance erodes personal privacy in Virginia
- Virginia Breeze to offer east-west bus line in 2025
- Curious Commonwealth asks: What’s being done to manage tree of heaven? (“Virginia law lists the invasive species as a noxious weed. And it’ll grow just about anywhere it has sun.”)
- Charlottesville weighs bringing police back into schools
- Alexandria celebrates high school campus expansion as population grows
- D.C.-area forecast: Beautiful sunshine and comfortable temperatures into the weekend
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