by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 27.
- 5 ways we’re making progress on climate change (“Clean energy is beating coal”; “Batteries are world-beating”; “The clean-energy economy is humming”; “Climate innovation is only getting started”)
- The world has a verdict on 100 days of Trump 2.0: Wow, what a loser (“His return to the global stage has been an extended, catastrophic self-own. Yeah, he’s dangerous — but not serious”)
- Trump’s next 100 days to feature trade deals, peace talks, ‘torpedoes,’ officials say
- 100 Days. That’s All It Took to Sever America From the World.
- Trump’s first 100 days: America First president is overturning world order (And making everything MUCH worse.)
- Trump Administration Live Updates: President Meets With Zelensky, Says Putin Might Not Be Serious About Peace (Duh, ya think???)
- Trump expresses doubts Putin is willing to end the Ukraine war, a day after saying a deal was close
- Trump floats tougher Russia sanctions, meets Zelenskyy for first time since Oval Office blowup
- Analysis: Putin has outmanoeuvred a host of US presidents. Trump is only the latest
- Ukraine war briefing: Suspect held in Moscow car bombing of general, Russia claims
- Trump says he fears Putin ‘may be tapping me along’ after Zelenskyy meeting
- Panic in Pakistan as India vows to cut off water supply over Kashmir (“For the first time, India on Wednesday suspended the World Bank-mediated Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, which ensures water for 80% of Pakistani farms.” VERY dangerous situation!)
- The World’s Democracies Are Getting the Balance Wrong on Turkey
- Palestinian president names Hussein al-Sheikh vice-president of PLO and his likely successor (“Mahmoud Abbas appoints veteran aide to newly created role, making him frontrunner to replace ageing leader”)
- The international criminal court should prosecute Syria’s Assad
- U.S. says “further progress was made” in third round of nuclear talks with Iran (How much do you want to bet that the Trump idiots end up with something similar, but weaker, than what President Obama negotiated – and that Republicans attacked as too “weak,” etc?)
- Death toll from blast at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port rises to 25 (“The death toll from a powerful explosion at Iran’s biggest port of Bandar Abbas has risen to at least 25 dead, with more than 700 people injured, state media reported on Sunday, as firefighters worked to fully extinguish the fire.”)
- How Pope Francis united a once-skeptical Church with climate action
- Trump Refuses to Give Biden Air Force One Ride to Pope’s Funeral
- Trump’s 14 Hours in Rome: Fleeting Encounters Amid Global Discord (“During his whirlwind trip to Italy, President Trump’s interactions with world leaders, as they paid their respects to Pope Francis, were being watched closely.”)
- Lobbying for next pope heats up, with outcome less predictable than ever
- Trump accused of Pope Francis funeral faux pas after ‘breaking dress code’ then leaving early
- Mighty and meek bid farewell to Pope Francis at funeral where he is remembered as pope of the people
- “Build Bridges, Not Walls”: Pope Francis’ Funeral Sermon Offered Thinly Veiled Reminder to President Donald Trump
- ICE deports immigrant mother of an infant and 3 children who are US citizens, lawyers say (ICE is a disaster; time for agents to either quit or refuse illegal/immoral orders.)
- How a Trump administration crackdown on foreign students unraveled
- The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration’s plan. (“This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.”)
- Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing (WTF?)
- Wisconsin Judge Monica Isham Threatens Not to Hold Court Over Hannah Dugan Arrest (“I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process, as BOTH of the constitutions we swore to support requires. Should I start raising bail money?”)
- FBI director posts photo of arrested Wisconsin judge’s perp walk, possibly violating DOJ policy (BTW, I will never forgive Wayne Gretzy for sitting next to Patel, chatting pleasantly with him, etc. at a hockey game.)
- Taking MAGA seriously on migration and due process
- A stunning reversal of fortunes in Canada’s historic election
- Poll: Canadians despise Trump and distrust US
- Police say 9 people were killed when a car plowed into a Vancouver street festival crowd
- National Science Foundation eliminates hundreds of grants day after director resigns (Deranged.)
- I oversaw rigorous review of NSF-funded research on misinformation: Now the Trump administration is cancelling it
- Musk says DOGE’s work recalls Clinton-era cuts. Al Gore disagrees. (Musk is WILDLY lying!)
- Trump Officials Weaken Rules Insulating Government Workers From Politics (“A reinterpretation of the Hatch Act announced by the administration lets officials wear campaign paraphernalia like MAGA hats, and removes an independent board’s role in policing violations.” That’s bonkers.)
- Trump Tightens Control of Federal Workforce as Musk Pulls Back From DOGE
- ‘100-year timeframe’: how Project 2025 is guiding Trump’s attack on government (“David A Graham’s latest book considers the vast far-right plan to change US politics – and why its architects are playing the long game” Liberals, Democrats, etc. never seem to play the long game. WHY THE HELL NOT???)
- About half of Americans say Trump has been a ‘poor’ or ‘terrible’ president so far, a new poll finds
- Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal
- Why the New NYT Poll is Very Bad News for Trump
- About 4-in-10 Americans say Trump is a ‘terrible’ president amid sinking approval: Survey
- Trump approval sinks as Americans criticize his major policies, poll finds (“As President Donald Trump nears his 100th day in office, a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll finds a lower approval rating, growing opposition to his agenda and opposition to many of his major initiatives.”)
- Trump won these independent voters. Now some are souring on his second term.
- Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned
- “When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?” (“Senator Cory Booker on the grave harm that Donald Trump has inflicted on American life in his first hundred days in office.”)
- One Hundred Days of Ineptitude (“Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal.”)
- Trump’s Cosplay Cabinet (“The president’s appointees often appear to be acting out a made-for-television version of their jobs rather than actually doing them.”)
- Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator was once arrested, accused of passing bad checks to casinos
- Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
- Federal cuts to NOAA could be an ‘incredible blow’ for Chesapeake Bay, storm reporting
- Video: Indivisible Charlottesville Activists’ “John McGuire sighting in the wild,” Attempt to Send Him a Certified Letter, etc. Re: Today’s “Where is John McGuire” Town Hall (McGuire’s weird response: “Who wants to go to a town hall with an undressed naked mannequin?”)
- Video: At Packed “In-Abstentia Town Hall” in Henrico County, Residents Blast Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01), Conclude “The train has left the station. We need to vote him out. We need to find a new representative.” (“We the people will fight to defend our constitution…The question is…will [Wittman] be fighting with us or against us?”)
- Wittman constituents host town hall in his absence to address immigration, federal funding concerns
- Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) Rips House Oversight Committee Republicans’ Billionaire Giveaway to Make America More Expensive (“Republicans want to make President Trump’s destruction of the American economy law through this partisan budget reconciliation bill.”)
- Williams: Schools are under siege. They don’t need assault by the state
- Could Lt. Gov. furor give Republicans a do-over on N.Va. candidate?
- John Reid resists pressure to drop out of LG race over hot gay online photos (“I’d say I feel bad for John Reid here, but once this is leopards eating people’s faces writ large.”)
- Youngkin wants Reid out over disputed nude photos; Reid blames Republican ‘radicals.’ Here’s what to know. (Reid, in fact, is very much one of those “radicals” – on pretty much every single issue, from abortion to guns to government to…you name it.)
- Youngkin’s event with the GOP statewide ticket next week is no longer happening
- In first campaign appearance after nude photos controversy, Reid wins applause from Republicans in Abingdon (“The GOP candidate for lieutenant governor again denied the social media account was his and said he had yet to hear from his party’s candidate for governor.”)
- Editorial: Take off the blinders, Mayor Avula. Drop the pay raises
- CWG Live updates: Cooler and windy today with abundant sunshine. Heating up this week.
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