by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 16.
- Climate change could be increasing sewage-associated viruses, new study shows
- The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse (“By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again.”)
- The Covid pandemic was catastrophic. But don’t overlook what went right. (“From mRNA vaccines to remote work, the technologies that blunted the worst of the pandemic.”)
- Trump’s New World Order Tests the Dollar
- Russia Overpowers Bold Ukrainian Military Venture in Kursk (“Ukraine’s retreat from most of the Russian region deprives it of a bargaining chip in peace talks.”)
- US official heading Ukraine peace plan has history of empathizing with Russia (“Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy, has written op-eds and reports questioning Ukraine’s role in negotiations”)
- Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy accuses Putin of seeking to prolong war amid buildup of forces
- Trump Orders Attacks on Militant Sites in Yemen and Issues a Warning to Iran
- ISIS second-in-command killed in U.S. airstrike with Iraqi aid (Good riddance.)
- A river ‘died’ overnight in Zambia after an acidic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine
- Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar (“Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.”)
- RFE/RL President: Defunding Would be “Massive Gift to America’s Enemies”
- ‘Bloody Saturday’ at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks
- Trump signs order to gut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations (Yet again, how is this legal or constitutional given that CONGRFSS authorized these agencies and appropriated their funding???)
- Voice of America staff put on leave after Trump orders cuts (This is a MASSIVELY bad move.)
- Judge blocks Trump after he invokes wartime Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations (We most definitely are NOT at war.)
- Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later
- Alien Enemies Act: what is it and can Trump use it to deport gang members? (“Using the 227-year-old law to argue a Venezuelan gang’s activities amount to an invasion is ‘unprecedented’, according to the Congressional Research Service”)
- Court blocks deportations hours after Trump says he invoked Alien Enemies Act
- BREAKING: Trump Admin Aiming to Invoke Alien Enemies Act, the “Tip of a Very Dangerous Spear” for Democracy
- Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know. (If it’s “despite federal court order,” people need to go to jail for contempt of court, etc.)
- Editorial: COVID anniversary finds a fractured nation less prepared for future outbreaks (True, but both the headline and subheader are vague, non-descriptive, unhelpful, etc. Instead, they should say SPECIFICALLY what the problem has been, including the right-wing assault on science, public health, etc. Newspapers are sooooo scared.)
- The Pandemic Never Ended (“Five years after Covid arrived on these shores, many believe the anxieties of the plague years are in the rearview mirror. But the threat is far from over.”)
- A mural of Anthony Fauci was meant to inspire staff. Then NIH took it down.
- STAT+: At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
- Inflation (“Including how to think about Trumpflation”)
- Trump administration sends a clear message to the oil and gas industry: ‘You’re the customer’ (Appalling.)
- After such a relentless market correction, the relief rally faces a high burden of proof
- Election Denier Michael Flynn Attended Trump’s Justice Department Speech (“Afterward, the disinformation merchant and early QAnon promoter posed for a photo with FBI director Kash Patel. ” Yes, we are living in hell.)
- Trump’s Justice Dept. Speech Shows a Renewed Quest for Vengeance
- Kash Patel Pushes Command Changes at F.B.I.
- Critics warn staff cuts at federal agencies overseeing US dams could put public safety at risk
- How Pete Hegseth is pushing his beliefs on US agency: ‘nothing to prepare forces’
- Trump Embraces Mini Elon’s White House Takeover With Gesture (“The president signed an X with his finger before pointing to the child trailing behind in a viral clip.” This is NOT normal!)
- The honeymoon is over for Trump, whose every unwitting misstep brings chaos and strife
- Cockroaches and working in a closet: Inside Trump’s return-to-office order
- Trump’s Assault on Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling, Georgetown University Law Center, etc. Puts the “Bully” (Seeking to Harm or Intimidate) in “Bully Pulpit”
- Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Columbia
- Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
- Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat
- New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand Vote to Prevent a Government Shutdown But Incur Wrath of Democrats Statewide
- The man whose tweets helped kill DEI (“We talk to Richard Hanania, an influential thinker on the online right, about how he got DEI dismantled and why he’s fallen out of love with MAGA.”)
- New Study by Media Matters Illustrates Democrats’ MASSIVE – and Disastrous – Failure in Online Media (It’s simply inexcusable that Democrats have allowed this to happen, especially given that they were warned a gazillion times about it over the past 15-20 years…)
- Whitewashing American history (“The Trump Presidency as a project of erasure”)
- Voters flood town halls with fears of Social Security cuts, putting heat on GOP over Musk and DOGE
- Fox News Host Jesse Watters Says His Mom Is ‘Upset’ Over DOGE Cuts (“Watters previously advocated for the department’s massive cuts, which are now slated to have an impact on the university where his sister is employed.”)
- Eggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire against Musk
- JACL condemns Trump erasure of 442nd and 100th Infantry Battalion
- Trump Seeks More Sway in Picking Kennedy Center Honorees (This is going to be a complete joke going forward.)
- At least 34 dead as tornadoes tear through southern US
- Audio: 2025 VA GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Amanda Chase Says She Wasn’t Going to Run Until Winsome Earle-Sears’ Campaign Started “Unraveling”; Riffs on the “Battle of the Blondes,” “Trump 2.0,” “Population Control”; Brags About Being There on 1/6/21; etc.
- Virginia legislators fear cuts to entitlement funding
- Herrity says his advantage is being able to win in Democratic areas (That’s definitely not the case – in fact, the LG nominee will closely track the governor nominee from each part, wich most likely VERY minimal difference between the two. Also, Herrity is very conservative, so…no, he wouldn’t draw any significant percentage of Democratic votes.)
- Ukrainian refugees in Virginia see uncertain future as Trump weighs denying legal status (On this, as on so many things, utterly disgraceful by the Trump administration.)
- CWG Live updates: Warmer today; showers and strong storms this afternoon into evening
