by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 12. In short, the news is bad…worse…and worst. Gotta love this “Golden Age” Glenn Youngkin promised at Trump’s inauguration, huh?
- Bees Are Under Threat from Climate Change, the Trade War and Doge
- What Some Animals Endure Before We Eat Them (If you eat meat, you’re part of this problem – and part of the horrific cruelty. There’s just no way around it, really…)
- Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says (Criminal.)
- Trump envoy’s embrace of Russian demands worries Republicans, U.S. allies
- Trump Is A War President (“He Is Working For Putin’s Victory And Using The Right Language Is Crucial”)
- Scoop: Trump envoy Witkoff travels to Russia to meet Putin (Meeting with a vicious war criminal with blood and numerous severe crimes on his hands.)
- US special envoy meets Putin as Trump urges Russia to ‘get moving’ on Ukraine ceasefire (Beyond disgraceful.)
- The World Is Taking Urgent Steps to Prepare for Trade War Downturn
- Why Beijing is not backing down on tariffs
- European travellers cancel US visits as Trump’s policies threaten tourism
- In the face of Trump’s mayhem, Europe is the direction to which the UK must turn – and Keir Starmer knows it
- Trump Will End Temporary Protections for Afghans and Cameroonians
- Panama opposition party accuses US of ‘camouflaged invasion’ (“Discontent with government handling of diplomatic crisis rises as Pete Hegseth says US troops moved to country”)
- U.S. and Iran see Saturday’s nuclear talks as test of whether other side wants a deal
- What America stands to lose in the trade wars
- What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week (“The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it.”)
- Why Trump is scrambling for allies in his trade war with China (“After months of insulting, tariffing and even threatening to annex some of its best allies, the Trump administration suddenly needs some help”)
- Trump tariff collection for freight shipments delayed by Customs ‘glitch’
- Trump’s China tariff shocks US importers. One CEO calls it ‘end of days’
- Trump Floats Possible Exceptions to 10% Baseline Tariff
- Trump trade team chases 90 deals in 90 days. Experts say good luck with that
- Dealmaking genius or boy who cried wolf? Trump’s trade retreat sows doubts
- Here are 90 people across Fox News and Fox Business who cheered Trump’s destructive tariffs
- Stephen Miller Wins This Week’s Stalin Prize for Totalitarian Flattery (“There was stiff competition this week to praise Dear Leader Trump for his market-destroying tariffs, but the White House adviser takes the cake.”)
- Trump’s favorite trick is blowing up in his face (and ours) (“He thinks chaotic behavior gets him better deals. Instead it’s gravely harming the US economy.”)
- Why are Democrats pulling their punches on Trump’s disastrous trade war? (“The party is blowing its chance to mount an offensive against protectionism.”)
- Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading
- Trump grants military control over strip of federal land along US southern border (Insane.)
- Judges, Attorneys Face Trump’s Salvadoran Black Hole (“There’s a real risk that hundreds of people sent to a brutal prison camp will never be free.”)
- Judge demands ‘daily updates’ on whether Trump admin is complying with court order to return illegally deported man (We’ve got a HUGE problem here.)
- Trump’s Horrifying Removal of Man in “Error” Takes an Even Darker Turn (“The Trump administration could allow Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into the U.S. and try to deport him through proper channels. So why won’t it even do that?”)
- He was deported in error. Why won’t the government provide any information about him? (“We don’t know what happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts — and it should worry every American.”)
- Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead (“A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.”)
- She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her (“President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.”)
- Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
- Immigration Judge Rules Khalil Can Be Deported, but Legal Hurdles Remain
- Marco Rubio Basically Admitted Why the Trump Administration Arrested Columbia Student Mahmoud Khalil (“The secretary of state suggested that the US can revoke an immigrant’s legal status when they participate in protests that “severely undermine” “core American interests and American citizens.””)
- Karoline Leavitt Reveals Shocking Logic on Wrongly Deported Immigrant
- For some students who protested war in Gaza, fear and silence is a new campus reality
- Inside the DOGE immigration task force (“The taskforce, led by Musk confidante Antonio Gracias, is providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole and terminating visas.”)
- ‘From Anxious to Petrified’: Consumer Sentiment Plunges Further
- 10-year Treasury yield tops 4.5% after surge this week that’s worrying Wall Street and the White House
- We’re Still On This Economic Roller Coaster (“Did the ”pause” in the tariffs fix the economy? No? Ah well, back to golf.”)
- Amid tariff chaos, Republicans plot “massive redistribution” of wealth from workers to the rich (“The cost of tariffs will eclipse any tax cuts most households see, experts say”)
- Supreme Court avoids confronting Trump so far, even when it rules against him (“Members of the court appear to view Trump as just another Republican president — even as lower court judges have raised the alarm.”)
- Trump’s Revenge on Public Health (“The attacks on HIV research are just the beginning of unraveling decades of progress.”)
- Measles Is Spreading, and RFK Jr. Is Praising Quacks (“For every semi-endorsement of vaccines, the Health and Human Services secretary seems to add several more nonsensical statements to muddy the waters.”)
- Autism Society says RFK Jr.’s comments ‘unrealistic and misleading’
- RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ called FDA employees ‘sock puppet’ of industry (This guy is completely deranged.)
- Staffers Walk Out of RFK Jr.’s Slur-Ridden Speech About Deep State
- RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ references past work with ‘the r— d’ in speech to FDA staff
- What HHS told House staff about RFK Jr.’s overhaul of the agency
- New Trump Administration Directives to Repeal Environmental Regulations En Masse Make ‘No Sense,’ Legal Experts Say (“Experts in environmental and energy law said the effort ‘reflects a complete lack of understanding of how government works.'”)
- Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science (“Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed”)
- Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research (Completely bonkers and wildly irresponsible.)
- EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting (“The cancellation of a meeting of top advisors to the agency’s scientific research arm, with no explanation or plans to reschedule, signals bad news for public health and the environment, say former advisors.”)
- Exclusive: Trump budget proposal would fully eliminate Head Start (Horrifying.)
- Social Security Says On X It’s Not Switching All Communications To X (Update) (“The agency batted down a Wired report that it was moving all of its communications to X … with a post on X.”)
- Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
- DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
- A Lot About Trump Doesn’t Add Up
- F.B.I. Suspends Bureau Employee on Patel’s So-Called Enemies List (“The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.’s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.”)
- Legal questions linger over deferred resignation program as feds feel pressure to accept offer
- Federal benefits face possible cuts in House Republicans’ budget resolution
- Marco Rubio’s Department of State has Zoomed Right Past McCarthyism to Something Resembling East Germany
- State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’ (“‘It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,’ one official said.”)
- White House moves Obama portrait for painting depicting Trump assassination attempt (Bizarre/cult-like.)
- Trump administration advances effort to pull Maine’s federal K-12 funding over trans athletes (So much for “states’ rights” – that was always total bulls*** by right wingers.)
- New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
- Top U.S. Prosecutor in New Jersey, a Trump Loyalist, Targets Governor (“Alina Habba said she was investigating Gov. Philip D. Murphy and the state’s attorney general over immigration policy. She called the inquiry a ‘warning for everybody.'” Again, so much for “states’ rights.” Or rule of law.)
- Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree (“Mahdi, who killed an officer in 2004, endured torture in his childhood and argued he was denied a fair trial”)
- More than 25 Virginians Travel to Washington to Ask Their Members of Congress Not to Cut Medicaid and SNAP to Fund Tax Giveaways for the Ultra-Wealthy (Meet with Rep. Jennifer McClellan and staff from the offices of Sen. Mark Warner, Sen. Tim Kaine; Reps. Bobby Scott, Don Beyer, Eugene Vindman, Jen Kiggans, and Rob Wittman.)
- ICYMI: Everytown for Gun Safety Endorses Spanberger for Governor, Rallies in Alexandria for Safer Virginia Communities (“Abigail knows firsthand what is at stake when we talk about the safety of our kids and our communities”)
- WINSOME, LOSE SOME: Trump’s Tariffs Raise Prices for Virginians, Throw Economy into Chaos, Sears Thinks “That’s Good”
- Schapiro: Things looking up for down-ticket candidates
- Gov. Youngkin says Virginia is leading U.S. in cutting chronic absenteeism in schools (I’m including this, by WSET, simply to demonstrate how NOT to write a headline – pure stenography in this case, simply amplifying what Youngkin said without any fact checking. Whatever that it is, it’s NOT journalism.)
- Unemployment Claims Spike in Northern Virginia as Youngkin and Sears Back Trump’s Attacks on Virginia’s Workforce
- ‘You can’t make decisions’: Virginia businesses struggle to plan in Trump trade war
- Is Trump setting stage to challenge Virginia’s Clean Economy Act? 5 takeaways from his push to boost coal.
- Some Hampton Roads universities are quietly removing DEI references
- ‘Ideas are not illegal’: Arlington academic fights back against Trump administration’s deportation efforts
- Roanoke County school official demoted for supporting gay rights, lawsuit claims
- Shuttered Norfolk brewery at center of ‘woke mob’ controversy needs nearly $2 million in 20 days (Why even put “woke mob” in the headline without indicating that it’s total b.s.?)
- CWG Live updates: Cool and somewhat damp today ahead of a sunnier Sunday
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