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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 9.
- New solar panels are 1000 times more powerful with big tech breakthrough (“By harnessing the unique properties of titanium dioxide and selenium, this innovative approach not only boosts efficiency dramatically but also has the potential to transform the entire solar power generation sector.”)
- US Intelligence Ban Leads to Heavy Ukrainian Losses (Absolute evil.)
- US ‘to cease all future military exercises in Europe’ (WTF???)
- Weekend Update #123: The Week The USA Started Killing Ukrainians
- How Trump is driving US towards Russia – a timeline of the president’s moves (“Since becoming president, Trump has upended the US approach to Ukraine and treated Moscow more as an ally”)
- Can Ukraine—and America—Survive Donald Trump?
- Musk Calls on US to Quit NATO, Stop Paying for Defense of Europe (How much is Putin paying Musk – or how badly is Putin threatening Musk, or both?)
- Some 12,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk as Russia tried to take back the region (Massive f’up by the Biden administration not to impose SEVERE consequences on North Korea for sending troops to fight Ukraine.)
- Putin Won (“The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.”)
- ‘S**t People’: Vance Condemns Pro-Ukraine Protesters in OH (F*** V**ce!)
- Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy ‘fully committed’ to US talks in Saudi after Trump’s Russia comments
- US vetoes G7 proposal to combat Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers (The Trump administration has completely gone over to Putin’s side, for whatever insane reasons.)
- Marco Rubio: one-time Russia hawk makes stunning U-turn under Trump (Rubio is one of the worst people in American history.)
- Iranian leader says he won’t accept demands by “bully countries” after Trump claim
- Chaos Sweeps Coastal Syria: ‘We Have to Get Out of Here’
- More than 1,000 people killed in two days of clashes in Syria, war monitor says
- Syrian security forces accused of killing hundreds of civilians
- Muslim nations reject Trump’s call to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population
- Trump Turnberry vandalised by pro-Palestine group
- German election winner Merz moves step closer to forming government (“Conservative bloc and SPD to start full coalition talks as chancellor-in-waiting plans to revive ailing economy”)
- Trump’s Tariffs Could Help Tesla, by Hurting Its Rivals More
- Invading Canada would spark guerrilla fight lasting decades, expert says (“Canadian ‘niceness’ is a myth that would vanish overnight in the face of invasion — An expert on insurgency says an American military incursion into Canada would be a disaster — for the United States.”)
- How Trump’s threats have brought Canada’s Liberals back from the dead (One good thing, albeit inadvertent, that Trump’s done…)
- Canada’s Liberals to Elect New Leader and Prime Minister (“The results of the vote to choose a successor to Justin Trudeau, amid threats from the U.S., will be announced at a special event in Ottawa tonight.”)
- Trump policies could fuel illicit drug trade despite vow to curb fentanyl (“‘Coercive’ tariffs and federal funding cuts could worsen flow of illicit drugs into US, ex-government officials warn”)
- RFK Jr. could further deter childhood vaccinations as rates fall in the U.S.
- Trump says brief economic pain is worth long-term gain. Will Americans agree? (First of all, it won’t be “brief.” Second…no, Americans won’t like that at all.)
- Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ is just a giveaway to Big Oil
- Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care
- Cuts at V.A. Delay and Disrupt Cutting-Edge Treatments for Veterans
- Amy Coney Barrett Isn’t What the Conservative Legal Movement Expected (“The Supreme Court’s second-newest justice is proving herself to be a non-hack—to the increasing consternation of MAGA.”)
- A Single Day Of Trump And Musk’s Cost-Cutting Campaign Remakes Huge Sections Of Government
- ‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law
- Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns
- Sycophancy and toadying are de rigueur in Trump’s court of self-aggrandizement (“Gestures of servility from administration members and world leaders alike are sickeningly common in the mad king’s court”)
- With Congress on the sidelines, judges and world leaders defy Trump
- Trump’s Justice Dept. ousts national security officials in latest purge (“The transferring of at least three national security officials amounts to a complete gutting of leadership in the highly sensitive National Security Division. “)
- Climate coalition launches lawsuit against Trump freeze
- Trump signs order to limit who gets public service student loan forgiveness
- New MAGA FBI Chief Unveils Bonkers Paranoid Demands (“Kash Patel’s secret requests upon assuming office make clear his distrust of the agency he runs.” Total nutjob.)
- GOP funding patch boosts defense and deportations, cuts other programs
- Republicans unveil another extension to try to avert government shutdown
- ‘You lose all hope’: Federal workers gripped by mental health instability amid Trump cuts (“Federal workers shared stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, panic attacks and more.”)
- Stephen Miller’s outside army (Everything about this is disturbing.)
- Remember the Greatest Generation? Today’s GOP Is the Worst Generation (“Republican pols, I listened to you prattle on for years about fascism and freedom. You were lying the whole time.”)
- HHS grants DOGE access to child support database, overriding objections (Bonkers.)
- More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut (Also bonkers.)
- DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers
- FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts (F’ing brilliant – thanks to Trump/Musk.)
- DOGE’s $1 spending card limit touches everything from military research to trash pickup (“The crackdown on routine expenses is part of a campaign by the president and Elon Musk to reset the scope and mission of America’s sprawling bureaucracy.” How the hell is this legal???)
- Musk Doesn’t Understand Why Government Matters
- Some Republicans act as if Musk is the first to uncover waste. He isn’t. (Has Musk uncovered literally ANY “waste” so far, other than programs he personally doesn’t like for whatever reasons, mostly corrupt on his part?)
- Elon Musk Is Making Republicans Sweat and Giving Democrats a New Target
- Rage Against Elon Musk Turns Tesla Into a Target
- Anger at Elon Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla lots
- Trump Golf Weekends’ Cost To Taxpayers Hits $18.2 Million
- The Tyranny of Public Opinion (“The battle over trans rights shows that Democrats have forgotten the fundamentals of politics” This is a VERY smart article!)
- As the media landscape shrinks, the right-wing bullhorn only gets louder (“Broadcast news anchors are leaving and critics like Joy Reid have been fired. Can the news as we know it survive?”)
- What will it take for a former president to speak out against Trump? (“Sabato believes that one factor is an awareness that Trump – and his vituperative supporters – would be sure to strike back, including at family members such as Hillary Clinton, a former first lady and secretary of state who ran against Trump in the 2016 election…It’s unpleasant. Trump unleashes this army of assholes and we’ve all experienced them on Twitter and in other ways. I get it. But I think they have an obligation to do more.”)
- Tim Walz has some sharp critiques of the Dem 2024 campaign (Most of them actually aren’t that “sharp,” but Politico’s gonna Politico…)
- Trump’s 2.2 billion-gallon dump from California reservoirs just got even uglier
- ‘SNL’ Trump and Musk Thoroughly Humiliate Marco Rubio
- Video: Rep. Suhas Subramanyman (D-VA10) Says Federal Workers in His District Are “not just worried about their jobs,” but “about the work that they were doing and how important it was to the American people” (“by hearing the stories, the administration starts to buckle…so I say keep fighting.”)
- VA Dems – “WINSOME, LOSE SOME: Sears Campaign Keeps Getting Hit While Already Down” (“And with Winsome, it’s Virginians who stand to lose the most”)
- Commentary: Virginia’s DEI purge will worsen discrimination (That’s exactly the goal of Republicans.)
- Editorial: Mums the word as the state robs Richmond – again
- Williams: When it comes to an arena deal, the grass isn’t greener in Henrico
- Former Va. Senate candidate owes nearly $20,000 to immigrants she defrauded (“Jasmine Moawad, 49, pleaded guilty to a felony after police say she posed as a lawyer and charged thousands, then threatened to turn victims in to immigration authorities.”)
- CWG Live updates: After early chill, milder with an afternoon breeze; warming up this week
