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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, September 12.
- Big oil faces a rising number of climate-focused lawsuits, report finds (As well they should!)
- Consumerism and the climate crisis threaten equitable future for humanity, report says
- Rich nations have millions of mpox shots as Africa’s outbreak spreads; Will they share?
- Russian hawk pushes case for Putin to toughen policy on nuclear weapons (Insanity.)
- West’s missile go-ahead to Ukraine would hold no shortage of risks (“Any decision to let Kyiv fire western missiles at Russia could have dramatic impact and must be carefully calibrated”)
- Russian ship captured in satellite image ‘delivering ballistic missiles from Iran’
- What are Storm Shadow missiles and why are they crucial for Ukraine?
- Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests (“Andrew McCabe says Trump-Putin interactions ‘raise questions’, as Harris says Putin would eat Trump ‘for lunch’”)
- Should Ukraine Launch NATO Weapons Deep Into Russia? (“President Biden has refused to allow Ukraine to use long-range Western missiles on Russian military targets, but he appears to be wavering.”)
- UN says Israeli strike on Gaza school killed six of its staff
- Israel Needs More Soldiers as Reservists Tire of Constant War
- First Stage of Gaza Polio Campaign Is Ending With High Hopes
- Mexico’s Judicial Overhaul Passes Final Test as States Back Plan
- CPI Report Shows Biden-Harris Admin is Turning the Page on Inflation While Recent Report From Trump’s Alma Mater Calls Out MAGAnomics Agenda
- US inflation reaches a 3-year low as Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates
- Offshore Wind Slowed by Broken Blades, Rising Costs and Angry Fishermen
- More women had their tubes tied after Roe v. Wade was overturned
- Biden to announce new efforts to curb gender-based violence
- U.S. House speaker withdraws spending bill that would require ID to register to vote (Johnson is an extremist AND an incompetent buffoon.)
- Johnson faces GOP ire after conservative spending plan blows up
- Republicans push for clean stopgap as leaders regroup on shutdown plan
- It’s Curtains for Mike Johnson’s Spending Proposal, Courtesy of the Angry Children’s Caucus
- Scoop: Schumer cornering GOP on Trump IVF plan
- Trump sells himself as a ‘leader’ on IVF, angering some Republicans
- 2025 Counting and Certification of Electoral Votes Designated a National Special Security Event (That’s because of Trump and what he caused to happen on January 6, 2021)
- Donald Trump Brought a 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist to a 9/11 Memorial Event
- Laura Loomer, who promoted a 9/11 conspiracy theory, joins Trump for ceremonies marking the attacks (Just horrifying. Can you even imagine the reaction if a Democrat did this???)
- Harris trolls Trump by posting most of debate as ‘new ad’
- Trump Says He Had a Great Debate. His Allies Privately Say Otherwise.
- How Kamala Harris Knocked Donald Trump Off Course
- The night Donald Trump choked like a dog (Kamala’s version)
- MAGA Will Fall for Anything
- What More Do You People Want from Kamala Harris?
- This Was the Beginning of Donald Trump’s Final Unraveling
- Debate Loser Trump Says ABC News Should Fire Entire Staff (Actually, Trump needs to stop wildly LYING all the time – then he won’t be fact checked!)
- Longtime GOP Pollster: Trump’s Campaign Is Over After Debate (Maybe so, but the last person anyone should listen to is Frank F’ing Luntz.)
- Trump pushed replacement theory during the debate. Mainstream media fact checks sanitized it.
- Fox’s “crime crisis” narrative imploded at the debate and the network is furious
- Trump allies do damage control as Harris rides fresh momentum post debate
- Kamala Harris Broke Donald Trump
- Kamala Harris Scrambled Trump’s Brain at the Debate (“Her plan worked even better than she seemed to imagine”)
- Disastrous, Debacle, Dumpster Fire: Our columnists on the debate
- Trump May Not Have Met His Waterloo, but He More Than Met His Match
- How 10 minutes on abortion changed the race between Trump and Harris
- “Concepts of a Plan”: Trump Roasted for Having No Clue What He’s Doing
- Even Fox News Acknowledges Reality: Trump Blew the Debate
- Wall Street investors think Trump lost the debate, too
- ‘This was plain and simple a rout’: 3 columnists discuss the Harris-Trump debate
- GOP grapples with fallout from Trump’s rocky debate (The adjective “The Hill” is looking for should have been “disastrous,” not “rocky”)
- The Most Satisfying Moment of the Harris-Trump Debate (” It was about as close to perfect as Kamala Harris has come in a debate, and it was as close to self-parody as Donald Trump—who doesn’t comprehend parody—can manage. Harris repeatedly laid out the bait, and Trump couldn’t resist taking it”)
- You Want My Debate Takeaway? Harris Pitched A No-Hitter And They’re Eating The Dogs In Springfield
- Harris to begin ‘more aggressive’ post-debate campaigning stage, campaign says (“Vice President Harris will hold rallies in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.”)
- What Was He Even Talking About? (“Trump’s rant about immigrants eating pets was another sign of his break with reality.”)
- Trump stokes suspicions about assassination attempt, raising fears of more violence (“After an initial period of relative restraint, the former president has begun blaming the shooting on his opponents and amplifying conspiracy theories.”)
- Donald Trump lost the debate because he’s too online (“The GOP nominee spoke to swing voters as though they were his Truth Social followers.”)
- How resounding was Kamala Harris’s debate win? Let’s look at the polls.
- Trump’s debate performance punctured his foreign policy pretensions (“Trump’s debate performance against Harris showed why he’d be a danger as commander in chief (again).”)
- The Reviews Are In: Vice President Harris Won the Debate (“Kamala Harris pitched a shutout on almost every subject I can think of.” – Chris Wallace “She was exquisitely well prepared. She laid traps and he chased every rabbit down every hole” – Chris Christie)
- Over 67 Million Viewers Tune In for ABC News Harris-Trump Debate
- A Catastrophic Debate for Trump (“He was angry and fixated on the past, and he failed to define Harris or her policies.”)
- After Trump’s flailing performance, some MAGA figures falsely claim Harris was wearing an earpiece at the debate
- Trump’s Trainwreck
- How Swing Voters Reacted to the Trump-Harris Debate
- Taylor Swift’s “Childless Cat Lady” endorsement of Kamala Harris exposes what MAGA men fear most (“Voting for Donald Trump will not make the ladies like you, Elon Musk”)
- Taylor Swift Drove Nearly 338,000 People to Vote.gov With Kamala Harris Endorsement Post
- Taylor Swift’s Endorsement Has Triggered Donations—and Trump
- No, Taylor Swift Did Not Coordinate Her Kamala Harris Endorsement With the Campaign
- Elon Musk Threatens Taylor Swift After Harris Endorsement: ‘I Will Give You a Child’
- How Taylor Swift Surprised Harris, and Entered a New Political Era
- How Taylor Swift’s Harris endorsement is impacting the 2024 election
- Anatomy of a racist smear: How false claims of pet-eating immigrants caught on
- Dad Demands Donald Trump and JD Vance Stop Exploiting His Son’s Death
- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine pushes back on fake migrant story amplified by Trump: “The internet can be quite crazy”
- Haitian Americans fear for their safety after Trump repeats false claims about immigrants
- JD Vance Doubles Down on Evidence-Free Pet-Eating Story, Says He’s Also Heard Geese Are Being Abducted and Slaughtered (Vance is a sick, warped, disturbed, dangerous dude.)
- Scoop: Activist Leonard Leo pushes to “weaponize” conservatives
- Democrat in Florida Senate race raises more than $1M after poll showing dead heat
- 400,000 without power as Francine hits Gulf Coast
- Kaine, Cao react to presidential debate, preview own debate (Cao’s comments were completely detached from reality, as usual.)
- Schapiro: Post-debate challenge – defending the indefensible (“Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who talked up Trump ahead of the debate in a give-and-take with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, apparently fell silent afterward — an indication, possibly, that when it comes to Trump’s performance against Harris, it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie? …there was nary a word, post-debate, from Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. A Trump loyalist in 2020, she was a Trump antagonist two years later, having said after the GOP’s poor showing in the congressional midterm elections that the party needed a fresh face for 2024. Now running for governor, Earle-Sears’ fealty to Trump — or lack thereof — could cost her the 2025 nomination”)
- Trump confuses Virginia with West Virginia in debate when sharing debunked lie
- With Three New Polls Showing Kamala Harris Leading in Virginia by Wide Margins (8, 10, 13 points), FiveThirtyEight Now Has Harris with an 84% Chance of Winning Here (As always, though, take NOTHING for granted – “run through the tape” and let’s win HUGE on 11/5!)
- VCU poll gives Harris a 10-point lead over Trump (That’s among likely voters; it’s 13 points among registered voters.)
- Riggleman’s road: From GOP congressman to Republicans for Harris
- CASEY: The Roanoke Valley roots of Trump’s immigrants-cooking-Ohio-pets myth
- National group finds low-income residents in Richmond are severely energy burdened
- ‘Major deficiencies’ found at Va. Boar’s Head plant almost two years before deli meat recall, documents show (Everything about raising, slaughtering and processing animals into “meat” is disgusting, cruel, environmentally destructive, etc.)
- Fairfax County Tightens Data Center Zoning Restrictions
- Loudoun County Public Schools monitoring ‘multiple rumored threats’ against school system
- A Virginia Beach private school student reported a classmate had a bullet. Both students got suspended.
- Chesapeake man who participated in Jan. 6 riot sentenced to 6 months in prison (These sentences all should be a lot longer.)
- Norfolk Southern fires CEO Alan Shaw for an inappropriate relationship with an employee
- Rockingham County School Board permanently removes seven books from classrooms and school libraries
- D.C.-area forecast: Seasonably warm and sunny through weekend (“Rain chances return next week.”)
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