by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, September 28.
- To save the birds, I’m killing my farm (“I’m turning hayfields into meadows of wildflowers and native grasses for the critters who need these biomes to live.” Nice!)
- UK court hands prison terms to climate activists who threw soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ (If you want to make a point about the climate crisis, disrupt meetings of oil executives, etc. – don’t vandalize amazing artwork!)
- Trump Says Putin Wants War (That He Started) to End (“Fails to explain why he doesn’t just end it”)
- Trump Suggests Putin Wants to End War, as Zelensky Looks On (“President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine stressed that the war shouldn’t have been started.”)
- The real reason Trump hates Zelensky (“Trump is admitting that Zelensky is too good at what he does, too is deserving of the world crown in dealmaking. Zelensky, in short, is a threat. “)
- Israel seeks decisive blow with attack targeting Nasrallah (Not sure it will be “decisive”…)
- Nasrallah’s Folly (“The Hezbollah leader escalated a fight that Israel was only too eager to wage. Now Israel claims to have killed him.” Good riddance to this evil scumbag – with American and many others’ blood on his hands – if true, although I still wonder what Israel’s long-term strategy is.)
- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Beirut strike, Israel’s military says (“The military said that it carried out a precise airstrike while Hezbollah leadership met at their headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.”)
- Bowen: Huge Beirut strike leaves West powerless as Israel chases victory
- Israel Says It Killed Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah
- How Israel and Hezbollah Are Slipping Closer to All-Out War
- Iran weighs its next move as its closest ally takes a hit in Lebanon
- Israel’s strike on Hezbollah leader is an alarming escalation in conflict
- Iran’s Khamenei calls on Muslims to confront Israel after report of Nasrallah’s killing in Beirut
- US charges Iranians with hacking attack on Trump campaign
- Australia’s biggest wind farm proposed to fill gap as last coal generators exit grid
- With Balkonkraftwerk, Germany’s Renters Have Access to Solar Electricity
- “Remigration” — How a White Nationalist Threat Spread From Austria to the US
- Hurricane Helene blows climate deniers Trump and Vance off course again (Reminder: being a climate denier should AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFY you from holding public office – of any kind, let alone the presidency! – in America)
- Dozens dead and millions without power after Helene’s deadly march across southeastern US
- Grim new death records as brutal heat plagues US south-west into the autumn (This is definitely global heating.)
- GOP Attorneys General Have Launched a New Attack on Gender Care for Kids (Disgraceful.)
- Trump’s big ideas would stunt U.S. growth and spur inflation
- Harris goes to the border to take Trump to task for blocking bill to fix migration issues: ‘He prefers to run on a problem’
- Harris, in visit to border, proposes new restrictions on immigration
- Kamala Harris goes on offensive with ‘tough on border’ message
- Harris in Arizona visit vows to outdo Biden on border security
- Kamala Harris Shoves the Migrant Border Crisis in Trump’s Face (“The vice president travels to Arizona, where she will blame Trump for killing immigration reform no matter what he says about eating cats and dogs.”)
- Trump publicly bragged about tanking the border bill — now a Fox host is trying to help him revise history (Fox “News” is pure propaganda.)
- Trump Lays the Groundwork for More Bogus Stolen Election Claims: ‘They Cheat’ (No, “they” – whoever “they” are – don’t “cheat”)
- Trump Threatens to Prosecute Google for Showing ‘Bad Stories’ About Him (Wannabe dictator. Also, there are bad stories about Trump because he’s really bad!)
- There’s No Vast Conspiracy to Prosecute Biden Critics. Crimes Are Just Illegal. (“Eric Adams and Donald Trump are singing the same tune. It was only a matter of time.”)
- The One Unlikely Ally Eric Adams May Have Left (That would be fellow criminal/scumbag Donald Trump.)
- Eric Adams, Facing Corruption Charges, May Have Found a Friend in Donald Trump
- Harris stretches lead over Trump in what could be significant increase (“The Guardian’s newest poll tracker, based on a range of surveys conducted across a 10-day period, shows the vice-president and Democratic nominee at 48.2%, compared with 44.4% for Trump, the Republican candidate and former president – giving Harris a 3.6-point advantage. That’s one point up from the lead she held a week ago and broadly consistent with most – though not all – recent survey findings.”
- Can Evangelicals Get Behind Harris? (“A coalition of believers, including many conservatives, is embracing the Democrats.”)
- Harris’ team is considering keeping Biden Cabinet officials if she wins and Democrats lose the Senate
- What if the media has the election all wrong?
- CNN Poll: Harris and Trump are tied in North Carolina, while vice president leads in Nebraska’s 2nd District (That Nebraska 2nd district result is very encouraging; let’s hope it’s accurate!)
- Harris and Trump Are Neck and Neck in Michigan and Wisconsin, Polls Find (First of all, the NY Times and Siena College seem to be biased towards Trump. Second, these polls show Harris narrowly up in Michigan and Wisconsin, and up BIG time in Nebraska’s 2nd district.)
- Efforts to elect more Republican women stalled in the 2024 primaries (“But Democratic women could expand their ranks this year after a strong showing.”)
- Kamala Harris defies critics on policy and politics (“Harris leaves those complaining about her policies’ ‘lack of details’ with egg on their faces.”)
- JD Vance: “Trump Thoroughly Failed to Deliver” on the Economy During Term in Office (“After previously calling out Trump’s disastrous record and toxic extremism, Vance is now a loyal MAGA minion who is pushing Trump’s Project 2025”)
- CBS News Says It Will Be Up To Vance And Walz To Fact-Check Each Other In Veep Debate (Actually, no, that is the job of the moderators! Pathetic by CBS “News”)
- JD Vance Is Teaming Up with a Deeply Weird Evangelical Influencer Named Lance Wallnau (“Vance’s attempts to appear human continue to go well.”)
- Justice Department sues Alabama, claiming it purged voters too close to the election
- NC court rules UNC digital IDs not valid at the polls (Why the hell not???)
- Elon Musk’s Midlife Crisis Over Populating Mars (“New timeline from the billionaire underscores that there are increasingly fewer windows to reach the red planet in his lifetime” It ain’t happening – period.)
- 5 Days With Elon Musk on X: Deepfakes, Falsehoods and Lots of Memes (“Almost a third of 171 posts last week from the X owner were false, misleading or missing vital context.”)
- RFK Jr. Had FaceTime Sex With ‘in Love’ Olivia Nuzzi: Report (RFK Jr. is insane/reckless, and Olivia Nuzzi is a horrendous, unethical excuse for a “journalist”)
- North Carolina Candidate Mark Robinson Hospitalized After Burn ‘Incident’: Reports
- Trump ally Sebastian Gorka defends Mark Robinson during interview: “I hope you sue [CNN] into the ground. … I hope you win.” (Sebastian Gorka’s wife, by the way, is head of the Fairfax GOP)
- New York officials call on Mayor Eric Adams to resign after indictment (It’s really astounding that this corrupt slimeball won the Democratic primary. Apparently, Adams voters did zero research on the guy, because if they had Googled him, they would have very quickly figured out that he wasn’t fit to be mayor of NY City!)
- Eric Adams Could Be in Deep Trouble. Here’s What Our Insiders Say.
- Adams Quietly Changed City Hall’s Succession Plan After Indictment
- After NYC Mayor Eric Adams was indicted for bribery, right-wing media baselessly cried political retribution (Right-wing media is a cesspool. Don’t watch or listen to ANY of it.)
- Kyle Rittenhouse texts pledging to ‘murder’ rioters disillusion his ex-spokesperson (This guy should be in prison for many, many years.)
- Video: Kaine for Virginia Campaign Launches Series of Ads to Reach Diverse Virginians (“The ads will be placed on African American radio stations, Spanish-language radio stations, and Korean and Vietnamese newspapers, in addition to being placed on streaming platforms.”)
- US Senate Intel Chair Mark Warner Pushes CISA to Step Up to Combat Misinformation, Disinformation Campaigns by Foreign Actors – Russia, China, Iran, etc. (“The letter also raises the unique threats posed by the development of artificial intelligence”)
- “New levels of weird and creepy”: VA07 GOP Nominee Derrick Anderson “trying to mislead voters by renting a family in his pictures” (So yeah, if you’re in VA07, make sure you vote for Eugene Vindman on or before 11/5!)
- Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Friend’s Wife and Kids for Photo Ops
- G.O.P. Candidates, Looking to Soften Their Image, Turn to Their Wives (The headline here should have been that Derrick Anderson’s photo implied that he was with his wife and kids, but they were NOT his wife and kids!)
- Video: On Debate Stage, Mike Clancy Couldn’t Run Away From His Project 2025 and Heritage Foundation Ties (“As a contributor on the far-right Newmax, he was always introduced as a member of the Heritage Foundation and proudly wore that badge of honor”)
- Video: On Americans for Contraception Call, VA State Sen. Mamie Locke Rips Donald Trump, Hung Cao and Jen Kiggans as MAGA Extremists Who Want to Take Away Women’s Reproductive Freedom (“I know Jen Kiggans – she’s so extreme, she voted against a bill in 2020 that would have simply said that birth control is not abortion”)
- As Early Voting Starts in Virginia, DNC Announces Five-Figure Investment in Democratic Party of Virginia for Final Push in November
- If money talks, Virginia’s not in play this November (“Neither former president Donald Trump nor Vice President Kamala Harris is putting big bucks on a spin of the wheel here.”)
- In 4th Congressional District, McClellan faces GOP newcomer Moher
- The Politics Hour: Virginia’s Republican and Democratic party chairs talk early voting and local races (Terrible job by the hosts – tons of false equivalence, “both sides” b.s., failure to ask tough questions, you name it. Just awful.)
- Faulty welding found on submarines, aircraft carriers at Newport News shipyard; may be intentional (“The faulty work was discovered after some workers came forward and reported it, according to Newport News Shipbuilding’s president.”)
- Hurricane Helene takes out power in much of Southwest Virginia; 1 person dead and 2 injured in Craig County
- Power outages, washed-out roads and canceled festivities as Helene’s outer bands hit Central Virginia
- Circuit judge strikes down Arlington’s ‘missing middle’ housing plan (Totally unacceptable; Arlington’s County Board needs to address this, ASAP, and/or appeal!)
- Radford animal shelter evacuates, as New River levels rise
- Martinsville council candidates talk housing, homelessness, economy at forum
- SCC Concludes Hearings on Eastern Loudoun Powerline Project
- D.C.-area forecast: Warmer and sunnier today, then shower odds rise again
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