by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, January 6 – a date that should live forever in infamy, as FDR once said about December 7, 1941. Except on January 6, 2021, it wasn’t a foreign power attacking us, it was our own president attempting to hold on to power through various means, including a violent mob of his supporters attacking our Capitol. And soon, that same president will be returning to the scene of the crime. Greeeaaaat.
- Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds (“Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people”)
- Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans
- Exodus by Wall Street banks from climate group worries advocates
- Ukraine in new offensive in Russia’s Kursk region
- Renewables set to dominate as UK and Germany hit a clean energy high in 2024 (“Renewable energy like wind and solar accounted for 59% of production in Germany last year, while in Britain it stood at 45%.”)
- China Is Ready to Take Advantage of Trump Trashing Clean Energy (“The global fight against the climate crisis will soldier on without the leadership of the United States”)
- Israel’s Red Sea Conundrum: Hit the Houthis or Iran
- South Korea says North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea
- S Korea’s impeached president defiant as arrest deadline looms
- Trudeau expected to announce resignation before national caucus meeting Wednesday
- Canada PM Justin Trudeau could resign as early as Monday, reports say (“Under-fire leader of Liberal party expected to signal intention to step aside after nearly a decade in office”)
- Elon Musk asks if America should ‘liberate the people of Britain’ in tirade against U.K. government (Musk is completely insane – and a fascist.)
- Elon Musk Says Reform Needs A New Leader Because Nigel Farage ‘Doesn’t Have What It Takes’
- Australia’s biggest coal state breaks new ground in wind and solar output (“New South Wales has reached two remarkable renewable energy milestones that signal the growing contribution of solar power to the state’s energy mix.”)
- Biden permanently bans offshore drilling in 625 million acres of ocean, making a Trump reversal difficult
- Statement from President Joe Biden on Protecting America’s Ocean and Coasts from Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling (“I am taking action to protect the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from oil and natural gas drilling and the harm it can cause.”)
- Biden bans offshore drilling across vast area of US
- Biden signs bill to increase Social Security benefits for millions of public workers
- President Joe Biden Signs Into Law Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07)’s Social Security Fairness Act (This will “fix a 40-plus-year injustice for more than 50,000 Virginians and nearly 2.5 million Americans across the country.”)
- Hush-money judge on Trump: ‘Premeditated and continuous deception’
- Does a new report justify Jan. 6 pardons? In fact, it does the opposite.
- The Power of Propaganda (“On this fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, we cannot forget the truth of what happened that day”)
- Joe Biden: What Americans should remember about Jan. 6
- Biden urges Americans not to rewrite, or forget, Jan. 6, 2021
- Jan. 6 Has Taken On a Whole New Meaning (“The failures of the past four years are crystal clear, yet hard to fathom…The reality settling over the United States today is that the insurrectionists outmaneuvered both Democratic leaders and America’s antiquated laws and institutions, and now they will have an extended opportunity to show us all what we’ve won…The people tasked with eliminating the threat that Donald Trump poses to American constitutional democracy were ultimately more worried about the perception of procedural fairness than about getting the job done…The collective impact of all of this neurotic, overcautious hand-wringing was to communicate indifference to the voters. Sure, what Trump did was bad, their actions said, but not bad enough for a single institution of American national governance to officially declare him unfit for office or prohibit him from winning the presidency again.”)
- Biden Rips Efforts To ‘Erase’ History Of Jan. 6 Riot, Says There Won’t Be A Repeat This Time
- Trump Hopes to Flush the Memory of Jan. 6.
- Four Years Ago Tomorrow, America’s Democracy Was Under Assault by a Violent, Pro-Trump Mob. And Now, Congress Is About to Certify the Election of the Guy Responsible??? (As a nation, we massively failed to hold Trump et al legally accountable – and to make sure he lost the 2024 election!)
- Four years after his supporters invaded the US Capitol, Trump is more powerful than ever (Yep, and our country if screwed.)
- Firms that donated to Republican party avoided tariffs in Trump first term – study
- Thune has privately told Trump that Hegseth has the votes to be confirmed as Defense Secretary, sources say (Absolutely appalling.)
- What Jan. 6 Did to Officer Howie Liebengood
- Axios interview: Susie Wiles vows to block West Wing troublemakers
- Donald Trump Is Building a New Army of Foot Soldiers (“Neo-Nazis and white nationalists have been emboldened by Trump’s reelection.”)
- Harris will oversee certification of her defeat to Trump four years after he sparked Capitol attack
- Congress is ready to certify Trump’s election win, but his Jan. 6 legacy hangs over the day
- Democrats re-establish the peaceful transfer of power (“It is maddening that only one party in our two-party system can be relied upon to honor the Constitution and follow the rule of law. But contemplate the alternative: If neither party adhered to the rule of law, we would devolve into chaos. However resentful we feel about the asymmetry of the situation, Democrats must continue to be the anchor that moors our nation to the Constitution.”)
- No, Trump wasn’t “confused” about the New Orleans attack (“We’re way past giving him the benefit of the doubt.”)
- As Trump’s election is certified, Americans should declare war on stupidity
- Kash Patel Believes the FBI Planned Jan. 6th (“His embrace of this wild conspiracy theory should disqualify him from leading the bureau.” Total nutjob.)
- As Trump rewrites history, victims of the Jan. 6 riot say they feel ‘betrayed’ (The media – in this case NPR – keeps downplaying the 1/6/21 violent insurrection/coup attempt by calling it a “riot”…)
- Sen. Adam Schiff says the New Orleans attack shows Kash Patel shouldn’t lead the FBI
- DOJ: 200 Jan. 6 cases pending as Trump prepares to retake office
- Paper Cuts (“The Washington Post is expected to lay off dozens of staffers this week, Status has learned.”)
- Legislative battles ahead in Richmond as session kicks off this week (This is the safe way for the media to frame things, as “battles” between two “sides,” but it’s really not a full and accurate description of what’s going on with American politics at this point.)
- Schapiro: Youngkin legacy tops assembly agenda
- Virginia special elections are early test of Democratic enthusiasm after Trump victory
- Would Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons affect the commonwealth? (“Dozens of Virginians have been convicted or accused of crimes at the 2021 riot.”)
- Report: Virginia’s faith communities want to build affordable housing and they have plenty of land to do so. But it ain’t easy.
- Virginia National Guard stages troops as severe weather moves across state
- Youngkin Stumps for Harding, Venkatachalam Ahead of Tuesday’s Election (The good news is that candidates Youngkin campaigns for often lose.)
- Closings, delays and cancelations in Hampton Roads due to winter storm
- Winter storm dumps snow and ice on large swath of Virginia
- CWG Live: Snow piling up, amounts could reach 6 to 12 inches (“A winter storm warning is in effect”)
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