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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, October 7.
- Climate warning as world’s rivers dry up at fastest rate for 30 years (“World Meteorological Organization says water is ‘canary in the coalmine of climate change’ and calls for urgent action”)
- Exclusive: BP abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy (BP’s propaganda campaign is ubiquitous, by the way – and should be ignored and/or mocked.)
- It’s Happening: See-Through Solar Windows Kick Fossil Energy To The Curb
- Putin’s ‘Merchant of Death’ Is Back in the Arms Business (“Russian gunrunner Viktor Bout is trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants.”)
- Ukraine strikes oil depot in occupied Crimea
- One Year After Oct. 7, the Middle East Is on the Brink of Exploding
- How Oct. 7 changed everything (“The Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks unleashed a year of unthinkable violence in Israel, Gaza and across the Middle East.”)
- Israel strikes Lebanon and Gaza on anniversary of Hamas attacks
- ‘The land is full of blood’: An Israeli kibbutz where Oct. 7 never ends (“A year after the Hamas attacks, Kibbutz Beeri yearns to move on, but the calendar refuses to turn. War has become the background noise of whatever future is coming.” Total nightmare.)
- Israelis pause to remember the attacks of one year ago
- How Israel’s war spread beyond Gaza (In large part because Iran’s proxies – and Iran itself – joined in by attacking Israel.)
- Bowen: Year of killing and broken assumptions has taken Middle East to edge of deeper, wider war
- Gaza then and now – a visual guide to how life has changed in 12 months
- These are the hostages still held by Hamas (“A total of 97 hostages taken captive after the 7 October attacks, still remain unaccounted for.” Horrible.)
- Gaza is in ruins after Israel’s yearlong offensive. Rebuilding may take decades
- Israel marks anniversary of Hamas attacks as war rages (“Hundreds gathered at the site of the Nova music festival to honor those killed, hours after thousands attended a vigil in Tel Aviv”)
- ‘A year is just too long’: relatives of Gaza hostages speak of their anguish
- The War That Won’t End: How Oct. 7 Ignited a Year of Conflict
- With Nowhere to Go, Gaza Has Become a Mass Death Trap
- What I’m Thinking About on the First Anniversary of the War (“…even after a year of warfare, in which Hamas and Hezbollah and Israel have inflicted terrible pain on one another’s forces and civilians, no one has decisively won the battle on the ground or the battle for the story. Indeed, one year after Oct. 7, this is still the first Arab-Israeli war without a name and without a clear victor — because neither side has a clear win or a clean story.”)
- The Sorrow of Gaza, One Year After the October 7 Attacks
- One Year After Oct. 7, Israel Sees a Future at War (“The Hamas-led attack has convinced the country that it must take the battle to its enemies”)
- A year on from October 7, the Middle East is facing its greatest upheaval in a half-century
- Iran is increasingly desperate, retired US general says
- Awaiting Promised Support From the West, Indonesia Proceeds With Its Ambitious Energy Transition
- Bolsonaro-Backed Candidates Pull Ahead in Brazil Mayor Elections
- There Is No Climate Haven. We All Live in Florida Now.
- US cities and campuses on high alert over 7 October anniversary events (There’s zero excuse for anyone supporting Hamas or Hezbollah. Sure, support the Palestinian people, but not terrorist groups.)
- ICYMI: Jobs Up, Stock Market Up, Wages Up (Also, Rising Faster Than Prices), Crime Down, Border Encounters Down (You’d never know it from the “mainstream media,” but Biden-Harris has been an amazingly productive, successful administration!)
- Overdose deaths decline sharply after years of fentanyl-fueled surges
- A new Supreme Court term: What the experts are watching for
- How the Supreme Court could reshape the 2024 race — again
- Supreme Court to hear trans rights, guns and porn cases in new term (Nothing good will come from this horrible, extremist, illegitimate Court.)
- ‘What’s at stake is the world’: Nobel winner Maria Ressa warns U.S. election a ‘tipping point’ for democracy
- Johnson won’t say Biden won in 2020, raising worries on 2024’s process (Mike Johnson has ZERO business being Speaker. Absolute disgrace.)
- ‘Shameful!’ Johnson slammed for saying Congress won’t cut recess short to pass disaster relief aid
- Mike Johnson won’t commit to bringing House back before the election for more hurricane relief
- Trump’s plan would add $4 trillion more to U.S. debt compared to Harris’, analysis says
- Harris’ proposals would increase the national debt, but Trump’s would add even more, study finds
- Muslim faith leaders endorse Harris
- Harris attacks Trump with new Jack Smith revelations
- Harris blasts Arkansas governor’s comments about her lack of biological children (Sarah Huckabee Sanders is so, SO awful.)
- Harris hits Trump on abortion record in “Call Her Daddy” interview
- Potential Trump loss threatens destruction of modern GOP (“An identity crisis. A brutal power struggle. Years in the wilderness. — If Donald Trump is defeated in next month’s election, the Republican Party will face a reckoning unprecedented in modern political history.”)
- Stop Letting Trump Suck All the Oxygen Out of the Room – AGAIN (“How about we stay two-thirds squarely focused on messages that benefit Democrats and one third on our horror at MAGA insanity?”)
- MAGA Malarkey: The Extremism You Missed From Republicans Last Week (“In case you missed it: JD Vance refused to admit Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and again whitewashed the violence of January 6”)
- Trump Reiterates He Wants to Be a ‘Dictator’ for ‘One Day’ at Wisconsin Rally
- Vance says Trump administration would end funding to Planned Parenthood
- Vance says a future Trump administration would defund Planned Parenthood
- Fact check: Six days of Trump lies about the Hurricane Helene response
- ‘Every day is a new conspiracy’: behind Trump’s ironclad grip on rightwing media (“What rightwing outlets cover increasingly differs from the mainstream, furthering the bubbles a divided US lives in”)
- A List of Everything Trump Claims Is ‘Election Interference’
- Fact-checking Trump’s claims about Helene, immigration and the economy at his Butler rally
- How JD Vance underlined Trump’s worst vulnerabilities
- Kamala Harris, Tim Walz will be featured on “60 Minutes” [Monday]. Here’s what to know for the interview.
- ‘SmartLess’ Podcast Snags Tim Walz Interview
- Tim Walz Easily Bats Down Fox Anchor’s Anti-Abortion Questions
- Elon Musk Bends the Knee to Donald Trump (“The alliance between the billionaire and the politician is pure strongman politics.” And pure EVIL!)
- Elon Musk Costarred in Trump’s Disinformation Fest in Butler (NOBODY should buy a Tesla or any other product from a Musk-owned company. If you own a Tesla now, sell it and get a different electric vehicle?)
- Senate Republicans’ strangely uneven spending map
- GOP looks to avoid disaster in Nebraska Senate race
- Hurricane Milton: Florida faces another major storm
- Larry Hogan made the wrong choice (“Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan should have left the Republican Party and run as an independent.” Absolutely. Massive f’up by Hogan!)
- Kaine faces off against GOP challenger Cao in high-stakes U.S. Senate race (“Cao declined to be interviewed for this story, but he has openly supported Trump’s plan to deport all undocumented immigrants that are currently in the country. Cao also supports the former president’s effort to build a border wall, which he began during his first term in the White House.”)
- UMWA leaders endorse Kaine, Baker
- Virginia interfaith leaders call for peace during contentious election season (One “side” – the MAGA Republican Party – is almost completely at fault for this situation, so call THEM out!)
- Virginia hospitals are assessing an IV fluid shortage after Hurricane Helene
- Virginia develops workforce as demand for electrification grows
- Secrecy over officers’ names, pay keeps Virginians in the dark
- Henrietta Lacks, ‘mother of modern medicine,’ statue unveiled in her childhood home of Halifax County
- Inaugural ‘muster’ recruits new militia members in Lynchburg (Why?)
- Cornell professor lauds Charlottesville’s ‘rare,’ ‘brave’ zoning plan
- In Giles, 48 residents lost their homes to Helene’s flood. Now the county’s paying to find them new housing.
- D.C.-area forecast: A beautiful fall week with lots of sun and pleasant temperatures
