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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, March 8.
- US exits fund that compensates poorer countries for global heating (“Trump pulls out of Cop28 loss and damage deal that recognises harms done by richer, polluting economies to vulnerable nations”)
- Trump just reversed course on two key U.S. climate pledges (“By pulling out of two global climate finance programs, the United States has increased challenges for vulnerable countries.” Deranged sh*t.)
- How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks
- Trump’s week of whiplash rattles markets, allies and his own administration
- With Drones and North Korean Troops, Russia Pushes Back Ukraine’s Offensive
- “Hundreds of Dead”: Inside the Fallout from Trump’s Ukraine Intel Pause
- New DOGE Staffer Has Ties to a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch
- Russian strike on Ukrainian town kills 11 as US cuts intelligence sharing with Kyiv
- Ten Days That Shook Ukraine’s World Reverberate in Defiant Kyiv
- Trump says Ukraine ‘more difficult’ to deal with than Russia (Trump is a Russian asset and/or Putin puppet.)
- Trump says Putin launching massive strike on Ukraine is ‘what anybody would do’ (Also, Trump is an imbecile AND pure evil.)
- Ukraine war briefing: Thousands of Kyiv’s troops in Kursk nearly surrounded by Russian forces – report (“Reuters says open source maps show Ukrainian situation in Russian region has deteriorated sharply in recent days after Moscow’s counteroffensive.” UGH.)
- Trump’s Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever (“President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but Mr. Trump’s policy shifts could have profound effects.”)
- Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich (“Hitler didn’t want a peace deal, and neither does Putin.”)
- U.S. suspends commercial satellite imagery service to Ukraine (“The move was immediately felt by Ukrainian soldiers, some of whom described the decision as treachery, not politics.”)
- Europe still has ‘cards.’ Play them all. (“Europe has options to deal with Trump’s retreat. Its best approach: All of the above.”)
- A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era
- Alarmed by Trump, Poland Must Look at Nuclear Options, Premier Says
- Trump considers pulling troops out of Germany (If that happens, Germany will need to rearm BIG TIME, probably including building a nuclear arsenal.)
- Trump strikes dark tone as he seeks to restart nuclear talks with Iran
- Trump says he sent a letter to Iran’s leader proposing nuclear deal
- South Korea’s impeached President Yoon released from prison
- China hits back at Canada with fresh agriculture tariffs
- Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy
- Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again. (“His MAGA sycophants knew all along that his central economic proposal was a sham, but they repeated his lies. And now the economy is cracking.”)
- This isn’t the economy Trump promised (“This week’s rocky economic news is a reminder that Trump was never going to work the miracles he’d promised.”)
- How Trump’s dizzying jerks and jolts on tariffs are ‘freezing’ US business
- Fox News Suddenly Starts Panicking about Trump’s Economy: “Weakening!” (“Yes, they’re still blaming Joe Biden, but the talking heads at Fox are getting awfully nervous that President Trump might be on the verge of sending the economy into a tailspin.”)
- Thousands “Stand Up for Science” Across the Country
- Trump vows to end ‘war on crypto,’ build ‘virtual Fort Knox’ for bitcoin (Trump doing exactly what Republicans CLAIM to hate, which is government putting its thumb on the scale to help one industry or the other, basically “picking winners and losers.” Plus, this is massively corrupt.)
- Staffing cuts at Social Security spark fears the system could collapse
- House Dems still offer no promises to help GOP avoid shutdown
- EXCLUSIVE: Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate
- DOGE job cuts bring pain to Trump heartland
- Is DOGE Losing Steam?
- ‘I don’t trust a word of it’: Federal workers deeply skeptical that Trump will rein in Musk
- Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk
- Elon Musk and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for SpaceX, DOGE, and Musk Himself
- Marco Rubio Melts Down at Musk in Furious Cabinet Shouting Match
- Tesla shares have declined every week since Elon Musk went to Washington
- Elon Musk’s Starlink has a growing footprint in the federal government
- Trump Abuses Power To Target Law Firm In Retribution Spree
- Trump’s populist platform gives way to billionaires’ agenda (I’m only including this headline by NBC “News” to illustrate how awful NBC “News” is – in this case, actually believing that Trump ever had a “populist” agenda. Terminally naive?)
- Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
- Donald Trump’s Student Visa Crackdown Doesn’t Seem Very Pro-Free Speech
- Trump is fast dismantling the free press. We all have to stop him.
- Trump Admin Slammed As ‘Stupidest’ Ever After Linking WWII Plane ‘Enola Gay’ To DEI
- Homeland Security ends TSA collective bargaining agreement, in effort to dismantle union protections
- Trump administration declares TSA screener union contract void
- Trump Tightens Grip on FBI and Justice Department
- Trump Administration Forces Out More Senior Justice Dept. Officials
- Federal prosecutors who worked on the Eric Adams case escorted out of workplace (FUBAR.)
- Federal prosecutors who investigated Eric Adams put on leave by Justice Department: Sources (MASSIVELY corrupt.)
- Trump signs executive action targeting public service loan program
- Multistate lawsuit seeks to reverse Trump officials’ purge of federal workers
- Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
- DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers
- Democrats Are Busy Fighting Over What to Fight Over
- Former VA Del. Mark Levine Explains the Differences between Democrats and Republicans: “Democrats love democracy…Republicans hate democracy, despise voting,” etc. (Also: “Republicans believe Trump is perfect in every way. He is the Messiah. He is the King.”)
- Do Democrats Need to Learn How to Build? (“Liberals have long emphasized protections over progress. Champions of the “abundance agenda” think it’s high time to speed things up.”)
- Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants for Columbia University
- Charlie Kirk warns “all these campuses that don’t treat us well at Turning Point USA” may have their funding cut (Just a reminder that Gavin Newsom having a friendly chat with Charlie Kirk eliminates him from even being CONSIDERED as a possible 2028 Democratic presidential nominee.)
- Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. Considering a Run For President in 2028 (That would be a way for Trump to stay in power without directly violating the constitution.)
- Lauren Boebert Accuses Black Lawmaker of Waving ‘Pimp Cane’ at Trump (Boebert represents the most deranged, rotten heart of MAGA.)
- Sam Bankman-Fried Ramps Up Effort for a Pardon From Trump
- Trump names Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, Maria Bartiromo to Kennedy Center board (As long as Trump is president, the Kennedy Center is going to be a DISASTER.)
- Monmouth University will shutter its gold-standard polling institute (That’s not a good sign.)
- South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’
- The Politics Hour: Could the D.C. region be headed into a recession?
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Says Sending Education Back to the States Takes Us Back to “where we were before Brown v Board of Education” (On tariffs, Sen. Kaine says Trump’s people “may have talked abusively, but they ended up backing down, not Canada.”)
- Senator Tim Kaine Calls Trump Tariff Delays Positive, but Doubts Debate Is Over
- Congressman Beyer warns of devastating impact of Medicaid cuts
- Virginia Dem spotlights case of US citizen detained by ICE
- VA Dems: GOP Statewide Candidates Continue to Back Trump’s Harmful Attacks on Virginia’s Workforce, Despite Growing Concerns of Regional Recession (“Their continued support for these attacks shows a blatant disregard for the well-being of Virginians and Virginia’s economy.”)
- After Youngkin Appointees Vote to Oust VMI’s First Black Superintendent, Cedric Wins, He Calls Out “misfeasance that endangers VMI and the future of our nation” (Wins says this decision “abandons the values of honor, integrity and excellence up on which VMI was built.”)
- VMI’s first Black superintendent says ouster is based on politics, not job performance
- University of Virginia moves to dissolve DEI office, earning Youngkin’s praise
- Glenn Youngkin takes a victory lap on Fox for University of Virginia ending DEI and says it’s a step toward restoring the values of Thomas Jefferson
- Virginia nonprofit ceases refugee resettlement program in wake of federal cuts (“Since October, Commonwealth Catholic Charities has taken on 96 cases, a total of 378 refugees coming to Virginia from places like Afghanistan, Eritrea, Syria and Ukraine. The nonprofit is still assisting 60 families with things like rental payments while they look for work.”)
- Virginia commissions approve $155 million Manassas rail line agreement
- No jail time for RPD officer accused of assaulting handcuffed motorist
- Developer says it will make last-minute payment to Henrico arena project (“The GreenCity arena project is at a crossroads, with a developer trying to save it and a county government ready to pivot in a new direction.”)
- CWG Live updates: Seasonable and breezy this weekend, then much warmer into next week
