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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, June 22.
- Billions of people just felt the deadly intensity of climate-fueled heat waves
- Official Death Toll From Hajj Pilgrimage Climbs Into the Hundreds (This is the climate crisis.)
- Why intense heat waves are more likely because of climate change
- Project Trump, Global Edition (“Cut off all economic ties with China? End all aid to Ukraine? The ex-President’s men have a plan”)
- The New Propaganda War (“Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.”)
- Russia launches ‘massive’ attack on Ukrainian power grid
- Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskiy hails ‘historic step’ as EU set to open Ukraine accession talks
- Teenage Twins Say They Were Drugged and Raped by Putin’s Rampaging Private Army (“A dozen girls have told The Daily Beast that they were kidnapped and sexually abused by Russian paramilitaries.” Pure evil.)
- Russia is punching back at NATO in the shadows
- Israeli Official Describes Secret Government Bid to Cement Control of West Bank (Israel has increasingly gotten on to the wrong path, one that’s not sustainable or survivable in the long run. Really, really stupid…but that’s what right wingers do, so it’s sadly/tragically unsurprising.)
- At least 22 Palestinians killed in shelling near Gaza office of Red Cross, agency says
- America Is Running Out of Options in the Gaza War
- Billionaires Come Under Siege in France’s Election Campaign (“Both parties leading the polls are threatening to impose much higher taxes.”)
- How China could take Taiwan without even needing to invade
- China threatens death penalty for Taiwan independence ‘diehards’
- US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as a show of force against nuclear-armed North Korea
- How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety
- A heat wave is bringing searing temperatures to New York and the I-95 corridor – and Washington DC could hit 100 degrees
- Why Conceding To Lies About The Economy Is A Big Mistake (Democrats should be touting the economy, 24/7. If a Republican were president, he/she certainly would be doing that!)
- What’s Left For The Supreme Court To Decide? Here’s The List. (“The court heard 61 cases this term, and 15 remain unresolved.”)
- Will ‘sigh of relief’ after US supreme court gun ruling be short-lived?
- These are the major cases the Supreme Court still needs to decide
- What the Hell Is Going on With the Supreme Court’s Trump Ruling? (“The court’s deadline to release a decision is next Friday, June 28, but there are fears the conservative majority may have something more sinister up their sleeve.”)
- “Alarm bells about Obergefell”: Sotomayor pens blistering dissent on SCOTUS marriage attack
- Sotomayor Issues Dire Warning on Supreme Court Ruling on Noncitizens
- Justice Samuel Alito absent from Supreme Court session for second day in a row
- The Supreme Court Just Made an 8-1 Mad Dash Away From Clarence Thomas’ Extremism
- Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling
- Clarence Thomas Says Domestic Abusers Should Own Guns
- The Supreme Court Just Proved That Its Gun Rulings Have Been a Disaster
- The Supreme Court refuses to accept blame for its worst guns decision (“US v. Rahimi is completely incoherent, and it faults lower courts for the justices’ own incompetence.”)
- Justices course correct on gun control. Don’t count on it to continue.
- ‘News deserts’: if local newspapers are dying, will local democracy die with them?
- Aileen Cannon Is Who Critics Feared She Was
- Judge Cannon, and the Trump trial going nowhere fast
- Judge Cannon wants to know whether Merrick Garland is supervising Jack Smith
- Judge Aileen Cannon pushes Trump’s lawyer to defend claim that special counsel is part of a ‘shadow government’
- Expert Analysis and Business Leaders Confirm Trump’s Agenda Will Raise Taxes, Increase Costs For American Families (“Moody’s analysis finds…Trump’s plans would trigger a recession, cut 3.2 million jobs, add 1% to inflation, and reduce middle-class families’ incomes by $2,000”)
- Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extreme
- Why isn’t everyone giving presidential candidates $75 million?
- Trump Throws Predictable Conniption Fit Over Fox Poll Putting Joe Biden Ahead
- Biden settles on a message against Trump: He’s even worse than before (“The president and his allies argue that the former president ‘snapped’ and has become more self-obsessed, more dangerous and more extreme since his 2020 loss.”)
- Accused adulterer Trump who paid to keep Stormy Daniels affair secret professes ‘love’ for the Ten Commandments
- Exclusive: DNC moves ahead on all-virtual roll call for Biden presidential nomination
- How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts (This NY Times headline is disgracefully bad, but the substance is accurate, regarding how “the Republican National Committee and the Trump team have circulated videos of Mr. Biden that lacked important context and twisted mundane moments to paint him in an unflattering light” and that “clips were cropped in a way that omitted crucial details when compared with additional footage.”)
- Trump’s Allies Say They’ll Enforce the Comstock Act. Believe Them.
- Enjoy Normalcy Before It Ends for Us All Next Week
- Biden and allied Republicans are trying to rally GOP women in swing-state suburbs away from Trump
- Biden Is Pouring Millions Into a State Democrats Haven’t Won Since 2008
- Judge dismisses charges in Nevada fake electors case over venue question, attorney general to appeal
- DJT share price down nearly 50% since Trump guilty verdict (The price/earnings ratio is still infinite, as earnings are nil.)
- Youth Activists Score Huge Climate Win in Hawaii
- Youths Win Landmark Settlement in Hawai’i That Enshrines “Life-Sustaining Climate Policy” Into Law
- ‘Florida loves prison labor’: why most incarcerated people still work for free in the Sunshine state (Completely insane.)
- Ex-Florida Official Says He Was Forced Out For Defying Illegal Ron De Santis Orders
- 2 killed, 8 wounded in mass shooting outside Arkansas grocery store (Remember, Republicans want more guns – and less gun violence prevention.)
- Kyle Rittenhouse’s Family: We’re His Collateral Damage (It’s astounding that Rittenhouse isn’t in prison.)
- “Wouldn’t wish it on anyone”: MLB icon Reggie Jackson details racism he faced
- Newly named Washington Post editor decides not to take job after backlash, will stay in Britain (One down, one to go.)
- Trump campaign bets big on Minnesota, Virginia with new field offices
- Hung Cao hits campaign trail, laughs off Tim Kaine’s attack ad calling him ‘elitist’
- Six Questions for Hung Cao After Republicans Defeat Right to Contraception Act in the U.S. Senate (“Given this context, how can you argue that contraception is not under threat, as you did during your Congressional race?”)
- Ahead of Two-Year Anniversary of Dobbs Decision, Spanberger Helps Lead Bicameral Effort to Repeal Antiquated Law (the “Comstock Act”) Restricting Abortion
- Direction of our democracy will be determined in November, Col. Eugene Vindman warns (100% accurate!)
- Good says he’ll request a recount in GOP 5th District congressional primary (“State Sen. John McGuire retained a roughly 300-vote lead on Friday.”)
- Bob Good raises election integrity suspicions as he trails challenger (Good is completely unhinged. Of course, Good challenger – insurrectionist John McGuire – is no better.)
- Trump to hold rally in Virginia with Youngkin day after CNN debate
- VA Dems: Youngkin a “spineless, failed governor…kissing up to Donald Trump…such an embarrassment…a lost soul” (Youngkin was never a “moderate,” but now has gone all-out MAGA/extremist)
- Dominion aims to complete offshore wind project in 2026
- JD Spain Sr. wins Arlington County Board Democratic primary
- JD Spain, Sr. wins Democratic nomination for Arlington County Board (This is a huge relief, as the runner-up is strongly anti-“Missing Middle”)
- With coffers growing, VCU approves $1.7 billion budget
- Where will Richmond-area trash go 20 years from now?
- Old Dominion University offers to act as fiscal agent, partner for 5 lab schools that face loss of state funding
- ‘You would want to think twice about swimming’: Swimming advisory issued for northern Lake Anna by Va. health department
- D.C.-area forecast: Temperatures approach 100 today, feeling like 105 to 110
