by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, January 23.
- Five Ways Trump Made It Suddenly Harder to Face Climate Risks (Total insanity.)
- Bloomberg philanthropy to cover U.S. climate dues after Paris withdrawal
- Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties (“Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policies”)
- Trump’s anger toward WHO may reshape global health, politics
- Exclusive: Putin growing concerned by Russia’s economy, as Trump mulls more sanctions
- NATO chief ‘very happy’ with Trump’s sanctions threat on Russia
- Nato chief urges ‘step up’ in support for Ukraine (“Vladimir Putin victory would lead to bloc’s members spending ‘trillions’ more on defence, says Mark Rutte”)
‘Rising star’: EU made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024- China Will Be Thrilled if Trump Kills America’s Green Economy
- Trump says China is ‘operating’ the Panama Canal – here are the facts
- Rubio is heading to Panama
- Syria’s new leaders turn to Islamic law in effort to rebuild Assad’s police
- Trump’s early actions overwhelm the immigration system
- US military ordering thousands more troops to southern border
- ACLU sues to block Trump’s expansion of “fast-track” deportations
- What Trump’s executive orders tell us about the future of immigration (“It’s not good”)
- Inventing An ‘Invasion,’ Trump Eliminates Asylum Rights At The Border (“One executive order from Trump’s first day makes radical changes to border policy.”)
- Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry (“Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively affected the nation’s agricultural sector, causing alarm that food prices could skyrocket in the near future as a result of Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies.”)
- Trump has canceled Biden’s ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of ‘drain the swamp’
- Donald Trump Is Running Riot
- Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog
- Who Is Russell Vought? Probably the Most Important Person in Trump 2.0.
- Explained: how Trump’s day one orders reveal a White House for big oil (“From LNG to drilling in Alaska, here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s energy and climate executive orders”)
- Trump’s Retreat From Clean Energy Puts the U.S. Out of Step With the World
- President Trump, Crypto Billionaire
- Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division
- Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications
- Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring (This is shaping up to be the most disastrous four years in post-Civil War American history)
- How America’s Fire Wall Against Disease Starts to Fail
- Trump’s Definitions of “Male” and “Female” Are Nonsense Science With Staggering Ramifications (“How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?”)
- How Much Power Does President Trump Have? (“In his executive orders, Trump repeatedly asserted that he can make and interpret law, alongside Congress and the courts.”)
- Trump’s Rush List for Security Clearances Poses Risks, and Congress Will Have No Oversight
- Democrats Slow G.O.P. Rush to Confirm Trump Nominees
- Federal judge says Trump’s pardons can’t erase ‘immutable’ truth of Jan. 6
- Trump suggests Biden and those he pardoned should be investigated (EXTREMELY dangerous and f’ed up.)
- Trump suggests it was a mistake Biden didn’t pardon himself
- Trump pardons police officers convicted of murder, obstruction in man’s death
- Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Already Rearrested on Gun Charges
- Trump freed a Jan. 6 defendant charged with assaulting police. DOJ had him arrested again on a gun charge.
- Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes visits Capitol Hill after Trump clemency
- What Kash Patel Doesn’t Want the Senate to Know About the ‘J6 Prison Choir’
- RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck
- House G.O.P. Floats Medicaid Cuts and More to Finance Trump’s Huge Agenda
- GOP leaders mull a big debt-and-funding deal with Democrats
- How to Stop Trump in One Stupid Chart (“At -1.6 unfavorable, Trump is a juggernaut. At -18 unfavorable, Trump is weak. Pushing him to -18 is Democrats’ job. Their entire job. In fact, I’m not sure that anything else they do over the next year even matters.”)
- Trump’s Second Term Might Have Already Peaked (“As far as policy accomplishments are concerned, it could very well turn out to be as underwhelming as the first.”)
- Oh Good, the Acting United States Attorney for D.C. Previously Advocated for Jan. 6 Defendants (“Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is just nuts.”)
- Bishop who made plea to Trump says she won’t apologize (Why on earth should she apologize???)
- Trump Revokes Workplace Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965
- Federal Workers Ordered to Report on Colleagues Over D.E.I. Crackdown
- Trump’s sweeping new order tries to dismantle DEI in government — and the private sector
- Trump calls DEI programs ‘illegal’ and ‘immoral’. Here’s how he’s ending them
- Trump targeted federal workers in his opening act, starting with DEI employees (“Fifteen percent of federal workers are based in the D.C. region, where cuts and changes will be felt acutely.”)
- Donald Trump’s war on DEI is not about “merit” (“Executive orders attacking DEI are about promoting unqualified white men over diverse candidates”)
- House passes Laken Riley Act, sending it to Trump for first legislative win
- Trump threatens to withhold aid for California wildfires in first TV interview since inauguration (“I don’t think we should give California anything until they let water flow down” WTF does that even MEAN???)
- President Donald Trump goes off the rails when asked about California wildfires
- Former Navy SEAL Said to Be Interim Head of FEMA (“The 47-year-old conservative married father of three also ran for Congress in an unsuccessful bid for a Virginia seat in a Democratic district…Hamilton has no experience running a federal emergency agency nor has he ever worked for FEMA.”)
- Why Trump’s AI plan made Elon Musk flip out
- Musk bashes Trump’s AI project, undermining a $500 billion investment by tech giants that was highly touted by the president
- CBS Meteorologist Gone From Station After She Slammed Elon Musk’s Salute
- FCC reinstates complaints against ABC, CBS and NBC for 2024 election coverage
- CNN to lay off hundreds of employees as post-inauguration transformation begins, sources say …
- Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
- Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’
- Fresh Fires Break Out in Blaze-Stricken Los Angeles, Forcing More Evacuations
- Video: In Confirmation Hearing, Sen. Mark Warner Tells Trump’s OMB Nominee Russell Vought, “you want to put the workforce in trauma?” “I find [those comments] disqualifying”
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Presses Trump’s Nominee for OMB Director on His Extreme Comments, Including “a gleeful speech about traumatizing the federal workforce” (Sen. Kaine to Russ Vought: “I don’t think SNAP programs or benefits for kids are woke and weaponized. You agree with me?” )
- Kaine grills Vought on planned ‘woke and weaponized’ budget cuts
- Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07): “Thanks to Trump, over a thousand violent criminals, some of whom have been convicted of assaulting a police officer, now walk free. What happened to law and order?” (Vindman singles out “five of the worst executive orders” by Trump so far)
- Virginia Dems Vindman, Subramanyam help pass Laken Riley Act
- Editorial: Youngkin and Miyares fall silent as Trump pardons violent Jan. 6 rioters (And Sears and Kiggans and…)
- Democrats seek Youngkin’s support during his last legislative session as governor
- Trump’s Plans to Screw Over Virginia’s Seniors: Gutting Social Security and Medicare
- VA Young Democrats Express Their “Great Disappointment’ in Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10)’s Vote on the Laken Riley Act, Urge Him to Reverse Course Immediately (“Voting for [this bill] would be a direct betrayal of [our] support and trust.”)
- Video: Fmr. Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05) Calls Trump’s Pardons of 1/6/21 Insurrectionists “Heinous,” “Ludicrous,” a “Body Blow Against the American People” (“[Trump’s] pardon actually showed that he thought he was responsible for it”; “it is not ‘back the blue,’ it is ‘screw the blue'”)
- 2 bills to give Virginia greater role in affordable housing fail
- Virginia Senate committee hears bills that would change elections, how people vote
- 87 Virginians received clemency for Jan. 6 involvement (Appalling.)
- Virginia Dems defeat effort to add anti-union, ‘right to work’ policy to the state constitution
- The 2025 General Assembly session’s “mom agenda”
- State lawmakers want to create a new rent relief program, but it comes with a hefty price tag
- A bipartisan effort to study illegal cannabis products is moving forward
- Legal notice requirements in Virginia’s local publications survive another year
- What Trump’s executive orders mean for Virginia (and what they don’t)
- Democrats push $15 minimum wage, GOP raises business concerns (Broken record by Republicans, who will always raise business concerns – even when not merited.)
- Skill games legislation finds a second chance in the Senate
- Kamras proposes $43.7M budget increase for Richmond Public Schools
- Richmond residents sought out the city’s natural springs during water crisis
- State moves to remove Waynesboro election official who refused to certify vote
- CWG live updates: Sunshine over next three days only slightly dents the chill (“Arctic air eases up just a bit today.”)
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