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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, October 9.
- Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts (“Record emissions, temperatures and population mean more scientists are looking into possibility of societal collapse, report says”)
- Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction (“Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report finds” People need to slash their consumption of meat, preferably to zero.)
- Green washed: LNG emits 33% more carbon than coal, new report finds
- Stronger Storms Like Helene Are More Likely as the Climate Warms
- Hurricanes like Helene twice as likely to happen due to global heating, data finds (“Analysis shows Gulf’s heat that worsened Helene 200-500 times more likely because of human-caused global heating”)
- Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins
- Zelenskyy ‘victory plan’ summit in doubt after Joe Biden pulls out (“US president prepares for arrival of Hurricane Milton as German chancellor says meeting will be rescheduled”)
- Trump Hooked His BFF Putin Up with Some Covid Tests When They Were Nigh Impossible to Find
- Trump Lashes Out After Damning Report on His Close Ties to Putin
- Trump and Putin Are Even Better Buddies Than Previously Thought, New Woodward Book Reveals
- As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin
- Trump secretly gave Putin Covid test machines, Bob Woodward book says
- Eleven years later, Trump may finally have the best friend he wanted (“In 2013, the future president mused that he might become BFFs with Russian President Vladimir Putin. New reporting suggests that goal might have come to fruition.” SICK!)
- As Israel plots to strike Iran, its choices range from symbolic to severe
- Netanyahu and Biden to Speak as Israel’s Iran Response Nears (“Relations between leaders are strained over cease-fire efforts; Israeli premier warns Lebanon the country could face long war”)
- Netanyahu warns Lebanon of destruction ‘similar to what we see in Gaza’
- Why Netanyahu Won’t Cease Fire (“The Prime Minister sought to justify his broadening of the war—from Gaza to Beirut—with a Biblical reference at the United Nations.”)
- Republicans threaten to punish colleges that allow pro-Palestinian protests (“Exclusive: in video, House majority leader outlines plan of attack on universities that fail to quash criticism of Israel”)
- U.S. Frustrated by Israel’s Reluctance to Share Iran Retaliation Plans
- Chinese Stocks Tumble Most Since 2020 on Stimulus Skepticism
- Women Can Be Autocrats, Too (“Mexico’s new president follows her predecessor’s authoritarian path.”)
- Musk’s X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court demands
- Unemployment in Most US Swing States Is Below Pre-Covid Levels (That’s right, better than when Trump was president.)
- Milton Is the Hurricane That Scientists Were Dreading (“Climate change set up the Gulf of Mexico to birth a storm this strong, this fast.”)
- ‘If meteorologists could stop hurricanes, we would.’ Here’s why humans still can’t control the weather
- ‘I can’t even find the right adjective’: Hurricane Milton offers a catastrophic reminder (“Brutal hurricane season should serve as reality check for GOP climate denial.”)
- What is making Hurricane Milton so ferocious
- 3% of American High Schoolers Identify as Transgender, First National Survey Finds
- US Weighs Google Breakup as Remedy in Historic Antitrust Case
- Well, the FBI Barely Investigated Kavanaugh
- Trump is not women’s “protector”: New Brett Kavanaugh report shows MAGA protects predators (“Republicans believed the allegations against Trump’s Supreme Court pick — and knew Trump would still defend him”)
- SCOTUS Blocked Emergency Abortion Care Access
- US supreme court signals willingness to uphold regulation on ‘ghost gun’ kits
- Republicans are challenging all aspects of mail-in voting in battleground states (Disgraceful.)
- Under God (“The Christian nationalist plan to take over America.”)
- Expert: Analysis shows Trump tax plan “taking money” from bottom 95% and “giving it” to richest 5%
- Donald Trump’s many, many lies about Hurricane Helene, debunked
- Trump can’t do deadly hurricane lies on his own: It takes a bubble
- Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts (Twitter/X really needs to die. It’s a disaster.)
- Tracking One of Elon Musk’s Many Big Lies (“No, the Democrats are not planning to erase the First Amendment.” But Trump is!)
- Two pro-Trump officials pushed conspiracy theory that Hurricane Helene was done through weather “manipulation”
- Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People’s Twitter Accounts To Promote Donald Trump (“How quickly do you think we’d be having Congressional hearings about “election interference” if Mark Zuckerberg so much as posted a ‘Harris/Walz’ lawn sign in front of his house?”)
- Washington’s Nightmare (“Donald Trump is the tyrant the first president feared.”)
- Video: On “The View,” Kamala Harris Explains Her Historic Medicare-at-Home Plan to Support the Sandwich Generation (“They’re taking care of their kids and they’re taking care of their aging parents. It’s just almost impossible to do it all.”)
- Kamala Harris’ Support Among Republicans Almost Doubles: NYT-Siena Poll
- Walz: Harris doesn’t support key benefits for undocumented immigrants
- Harris takes aim at “loser” Trump over beers with Colbert
- Trump Campaign Rages Over Kamala Harris’ Beer With Stephen Colbert
- Trump Lashes Out at ‘Dumb Women’ Hosts of ‘The View’
- Romney Won’t Endorse Harris, Saying He Wants to Keep His Voice in the Party (He’s delusional if he thinks he has a voice in the MAGA/Trump GOP)
- What Trump really means when he says immigrants have “bad genes” (“The ominous implication of an outburst that ties two strains of right-wing thought together.”)
- The 9 Elements of a Trump Rally (“These are the themes Donald Trump returns to again and again at his rallies.” Lots of lies, grievance, threats, anger, lunacy, xenophobia, etc.)
- Trump Holds Up Transition Process, Skirting Ethics and Fund-Raising Rules (“Donald Trump has so far opted out of the planning for a government handover, allowing him to avoid disclosing the donors to his transition effort.”)
- The Cataclysmic Post-Election Scenario No One’s Bracing For
- The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously
- Errol Morris’s Trump Immigration Doc Is Reportedly Being Held Until After the Election (“According to a report, MSNBC is allegedly waiting to air the documentary about child separation.”)
- Inside the Battle for America’s Most Consequential Battleground State (“Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are pouring more money, time and energy into Pennsylvania than anywhere else, waging an ad war as they crisscross the state.”)
- In Florida Senate Race, Two Candidates With Vastly Different Views on the Climate (“Incumbent Rick Scott, a Republican, reportedly banned the words “climate change” from state agencies as governor. Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell favors climate-resilient infrastructure.”)
- Ron DeSantis Throws Televised Conniption Fit After Reports That He Ignored Kamala Harris’s Calls to Discuss Hurricane Relief
- Millions in Florida told to leave as Biden makes Hurricane Milton ‘life or death’ warning
- Senate candidate Dave McCormick led hedge fund that bet against some of Pennsylvania’s most iconic companies
- Report: Mark Robinson Skips Vote on Hurricane Helene Support—Again
- Poll: Alsobrooks keeps ahead of Hogan in costly Maryland Senate race (“Alsobrooks is ahead of Hogan 48 percent to 39 percent among likely voters in a poll from the University of Maryland at Baltimore County’s Institute of Politics, with just 1 in 5 voters saying they would be willing to change their minds before Election Day.” Good – let’s hope Alsobrooks crushes Hogan and ends his political career.)
- Youngkin stokes fear of vast noncitizen voting in Virginia. Records don’t show it. (“Gov. Glenn Youngkin touts 6,303 noncitizens being purged from Virginia’s voter rolls, but statewide data show little or no evidence of such illegal voting.” Youngkin is a F***ING DISGRACE.)
- Lawsuit says Virginia is illegally purging legitimate voters off the rolls
- Coalition of Groups File Lawsuit Arguing Youngkin, Miyares, etc. Are Engaging in “an illegal voter purge based on conspiracy theories” (“The Purge Program by design and in implementation threatens the voting rights of eligible Virginia voters who are naturalized citizens.”)
- State report says 7 Virginia universities should be monitored as enrollment cliff approaches
- Roanoke College survey: Trust in Virginia stalls at lower leve
- Free speech watchdog dings Youngkin administration for campus intervention
- No, FEMA Helene funds aren’t going to undocumented immigrants, despite Youngkin appointee’s tweet (Appalling.)
- Virginia GOP Condemns Loudoun GOP Chair for Saying He Doesn’t Care About the White or Christian Vote, That Trump Won’t Visit the Mosques, etc. (This is the same guy who, in 2021, asked, “Do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water?”)
- Patriot Front leader gets no jail time for participating in 2017 torch march at UVa
- UVa faculty, students say school is repressing pro-Palestinian activists (“Similar policies were implemented at other Virginia universities this summer with the backing of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration.”)
- Richmond council to discuss three real estate tax proposals
- Norfork casino construction is one step closer to starting after City Council approval
- 8th District preview: Wilson looks to unseat Trammell; Jafari, Sherman square off
- Richmond officer pleads guilty to using police computer to track down Tinder acquaintance
- In Norfolk election, mayor touts accomplishments while 2 challengers want a new direction
- Fewer than 200 Southwest Virginians remain without power post-Helene, Youngkin says
- After Helene, schools were closed for a week in rural Smyth County. Educators kept working to make sure families had needed resources.
- Boil water advisory lifted for some areas of Montgomery County
- D.C.-area forecast: Spectacular fall weather the next several days
