by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, June 15.
- Solar Power’s Giants Are Providing More Energy Than Big Oil (“Seven Chinese companies have a bigger stake in the energy of the 21st century than the Seven Sisters of oil that dominated the 20th. “)
- ‘Gut-wrenching effects of climate change’: WH climate adviser on heat deaths and floods
- Germany’s top climate envoy says ‘this is the critical decade’ after Dutton ditches 2030 target
- Wildlife experts urge action on pesticides as UK insect populations plummet
- G7 leaders accuse China of ‘enabling’ Russia war on Ukraine in stark warning
- Putin offers truce if Ukraine exits Russian-claimed areas and drops NATO bid. Kyiv rejects it (Total joke.)
- World leaders to meet at Swiss resort on possible Ukraine peace roadmap. Russia is notably absent
- Zelensky seeks show of support at giant Ukraine peace summit
- It’s Not Just Russia: China Joins the G7’s List of Adversaries
- Scoop: Democrats plan to go bigger than a boycott for Netanyahu speech
- For Hamas, Everything Is Going According to Plan (“Why accept a peace proposal when the goal is ‘permanent war’?”)
- Biden to send senior adviser to Israel for talks on Lebanon escalation
- Macron’s Election Gamble Gives Europe Brexit Nightmares Again
- Sunak Vows to Stay as MP for 5 Years If Tories Lose UK Election
- U.S. Designates Largest Neo-Nazi Group in Sweden as Terrorist Organization
- Fistfight erupts in Italian parliament as tensions rise over expanding regional autonomy
- South African foes unite in uneasy coalition (“For the first time since Nelson Mandela negotiated an end to white minority rule, former sworn enemies are coming together in South Africa under a pledge to overcome ideological differences for the good of the nation.”)
- Here’s How Many Cases the Supreme Court Has Yet to Decide (Notice how they’re stalling on the insane Trump “absolute immunity” case???)
- The Supreme Court just effectively legalized machine guns
- The Supreme Court’s bump stock ruling values dictionaries over human lives (“The court’s majority seems to have no shame for our country’s mass shootings.”)
- Supreme Court rules gun ‘bump stocks’ ban is unlawful
- Supreme Court gun ruling stuns Las Vegas shooting survivors
- Clarence Thomas’ Opinion Legalizing Bump Stocks Is Indefensible
- Supreme Court’s abortion pill ruling puts new focus on conservative Trump judge in Texas (He’s not “conservative,” he’s a far-right radical.)
- Powerful heat dome is just one of the upcoming extreme weather hazards
- Nasdaq Composite ekes out fifth straight record close, notches a 3% weekly gain
- Fed’s higher interest rates do not get all the credit for lower inflation (“Improvements in supply chains and availability of labor have helped, even though the economy didn’t respond to rate increases as expected.”)
- Biden preparing to offer legal status to undocumented immigrants who have lived in U.S. for 10 years
- DACA at 12 is on life support and already leaving out many young immigrants
- Voters care about abortion more than ever—and that’s a problem for the GOP
- Summers Says Trump Tax Ideas Mean ‘Mother of All Stagflations’
- CEOs at Trump meeting: Ex-president ‘meandering’ and ‘doesn’t know what he’s talking about’
- ‘Cheapfake’ Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead
- Anthony Fauci: Volcanic Donald Trump Screamed F-Bombs, Then Said He Loved Me
- The Memo: Talk of Trump-free GOP convention grows as sentencing looms
- Trump Has Reportedly Been Voicing Concerns About What Kind of Prison He Could Be Sent To
- Mitch McConnell Is Trump’s Gimp. Again.
- Trump Once Promised to Revive Coal. Now, He Rarely Mentions It.
- The GOP’s Whitewashing Of Jan. 6 Is Now Complete
- White House Rips ‘Desperate’ Murdoch Press Over Deceptive Biden Video
- Top GOPer Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Biggest Lie About Jack Smith
- The Chilling Reason You May Never See the New Trump Movie
- Donald Trump’s 78th birthday becomes a show of loyalty for his fans and fellow Republicans
- Trump Slams ‘Incompetent’ People, Attacks Rival To Celebrate 78th Birthday
- How Trump gets away with being so old (“He’s just three years younger than Biden. Why does no one seem to care about his age?”)
- DOJ says it won’t prosecute Attorney General Merrick Garland after House contempt vote (Of course not; how absurd. BTW, how has Garland’s strategy of bending over backwards to be evenhanded worked out?)
- Republicans’ contemptible contempt vote against Merrick Garland
- House Republicans narrowly pass defense bill loaded with culture war issues (The media really needs to stop using the vague, non-descriptive, “both-sides”-style phrase “culture war,” when what’s really going on is a far-right assault on LGBTQ people, women’s reproductive freedom, diversity and equity, etc.)
- House G.O.P. Pushes Through Defense Bill Nixing Abortion Access Policy
- Democrats seize on Trump’s ‘horrible city’ remark about Milwaukee for ads
- Alex Jones’ personal assets will be sold to help pay Sandy Hook debt as judge decides Infowars’ fate
- Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure
- DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain (DeSantis is completely unhinged – and evil.)
- Sen. Tim Kaine, Reps. Abigail Spanberger, Don Beyer, Gerry Connolly, etc. React to “Dangerous,” “Shameful,” “Dreadful” Supreme Court Ruling on Bump Stocks (“This decision by a conservative activist court will result in more Americans getting shot and killed”)
- Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02)’s March Toward a Nationwide Abortion Ban: Attacking Service Members’ Access to Reproductive Care (“If it’s a day that ends in ‘Y’, Jen Kiggans will vote for national abortion restrictions.” – DCCC)
- Woman accuses Helmer of groping her 6 years ago
- LCDC Leaders Air Allegation Against Helmer Ahead of Tuesday Primary
- Schapiro: Secondary factors defining primary day
- AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Virginia’s state primaries
- Mark Warner hand-delivers $650K in federal funding for new housing center for Charlottesville-area residents
- Blandest in the bunch: Virginia’s governor went from GOP darling to low on Trump VP list
- Virginia Sentencing Commission debates ‘possibly unconstitutional’ post-release system
- Mountain Valley Pipeline goes into service, starts delivering gas in Virginia
- A ‘Rights of Nature’ Tribunal Puts the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Trial
- What is VMSDEP? And why is the General Assembly meeting about it?
- State pulls Ferrum College lab school application; president says no explanation offered
- Dollar Tree, A Virginia Corporate Success, Faces New Pressures Over Its History Of Violations
- No wrecking ball yet — but Arlington Co. begins boarding up vacant Key Bridge Marriott
- Man arrested after holing up in Suffolk elementary school bathroom with children inside
- D.C.-area forecast: Weekend weather reprieve ahead of a hot week
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