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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, April 22.
- On thin ice: the brutal cold of Canada’s Arctic was once a defence, but a warming climate has changed that
- Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say (“Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed”)
- Most of the world’s population wants stronger climate action. They just don’t realize that they are a majority (“The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch a year-long exploration of the ‘silent majority’ of people who want to fight climate change”)
- Pope Francis hailed as ‘unflinching global champion’ on climate crisis
- The Guardian view on Pope Francis: an outsider who was a force for good in the world (“Officials and campaigners from around world pay tribute to pontiff who put environment at heart of his papacy”)
- Pope’s death due to stroke and irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse
- The Papacy Is Forever Changed
- Pope Francis’s funeral to take place on Saturday as Vatican releases images of open coffin
- Vatican power struggle: will an ‘anti-Francis’ pope emerge from conclave? (That would be very bad.)
- US Imposes Tariffs Up to 3,521% on Southeast Asia Solar Imports (Insanity.)
- India’s Modi and U.S. Vice President Vance optimistic on New Delhi-Washington trade deal
- Gaza rescue service dismisses Israeli probe into killing of medics as a ‘fabricated investigation’
- How Canada’s Trump-Style Candidate Blew a 20-Point Polling Lead
- Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low (“With many stock markets in the red and Dow Jones headed for worst April since 1932, gold could even reach $4,000”)
- Dollar falls below 140 yen line as Trump attacks Fed chief
- “I Did Not Think for One Second He Was Going to Go This Crazy” (Why not? Did you listen to a single speech Trump made during the 2024 campaign? They were ALL crazy!)
- There’s only one way the U.S. avoids a recession (“The U.S. is probably not in a recession, but it’s looking inevitable unless there’s a dramatic shift from the White House on trade.”)
- The Fire Jerome Powell Market Rout
- U.S. dollar falls to three-year low as Trump’s Powell threats further dent investor confidence
- Markets Are Discovering the Real Trump Trade Is ‘Sell America’
- Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal
- Bukele Has Cruel Plan to Make Trump’s Mass Deportations Even Worse
- New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them (Completely INSANE!)
- Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Cruelty and insanity.)
- Justice Dept. agrees to let DOGE access sensitive immigration case data (Is Pam Bondi going to push back on ANYTHING Trump asks her to do, EVER?)
- Trump blasts Supreme Court while arguing trials for migrants ‘not possible’ (Trump is actually arguing that we can’t have due process, a foundation of this country’s rule of law!)
- The Supreme Court Finally Takes on Trump
- E.P.A. Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic Chemicals (More insanity and cruelty.)
- With CDC injury prevention team gutted, ‘we will not know what is killing us’
- Climate Leaders Warn About Potential Trump Action Against Environmental Groups (APPALLING!)
- Climate Crisis Deniers Explain Why They Like U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright (“In exclusive interviews, they called the Trump administration official “terrific,” “very smart,” and someone who “gets it.”” That says it all!)
- Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning
- Trump May Soon Offer a Motherhood Medal, an Idea Popularized in Nazi Germany
- Which Past Fascist Does Trump Most Resemble? The Incompetent One. (“Donald Trump’s narcissism bears a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini’s. Which does not bode well.”)
- MAGA Pronatalism Is Doomed to Fail
- The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data (Horrendous.)
- Firing Hegseth three months into his tenure would force an embarrassed Trump to admit he’d made a mistake
- “Full-Blown Meltdown”: Don Jr. and MAGA Rage as GOPers Turn on Hegseth
- Hegseth could ‘implode on his own’ even as Trump sticks by him
- Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary
- ‘An amateur person’: GOP Rep. Bacon says Hegseth should go (That’s an insult to amateurs, actually.)
- Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Crisis Is So Much Worse Than You Think
- Congressman: It’s ‘Fair To Wonder’ If Pete Hegseth Was Drinking Amid Signal Use
- Why Trump Is Standing by Hegseth, for Now
- Playbook PM: Trump backs Hegseth (Trump doesn’t care if Hegseth destroys the Pentagon, he just wants someone who will carry out his orders without any question or pushback.)
- Hegseth Lashes Out At Media After Firing His Own Aides Amid Pentagon ‘Meltdown’ (Attacking the media for accurately reporting Hegseth’s own f**kups is so “incompetent white guy DEI”…)
- Newly Minted DOJ Employee Michael Caputo Keeps Posting ‘Antifa’ Death Fantasies Online
- The ACLU Is Suing the Government to Get Access to DOGE Records
- Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant
- With Latest Missteps, Veneer of Discipline in 2nd Trump Term Falls Away
- Trump pretends he’s a dictator — and the credulous media too often nods along
- Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Threats to Cut Funding
- Trump approval rating dips; many wary of his wielding of power, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (42% approval nationally would probably mean Trump’s in the upper 30%s in Virginia.)
- Tesla Slides as Analyst Warns of ‘Code Red’ Ahead of Earnings
- ‘We’re the Rising Power’: The MAGA Media Stars Taking Over the White House Briefing (“The AP is on the outs, but these new MAGA media stars are on the rise.”)
- Right-leaning online shows claiming to be nonpolitical pushed pro-Trump messaging during the administration’s first 30 days (“Media Matters reviewed 12 supposedly nonpolitical online shows and found two-thirds of episodes praised Trump or his administration or pushed right-wing misinformation/narratives” And, of course, liberals/Democrats have been asleep at the switch…)
- She told Trump the Smithsonian needs changing. He’s ordered her to do it.
- Mississippi Governor Declares April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month (This is what a LOT of Republicans would like to do – and a big part of what they mean when they say “Make America Great Again.”)
- Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official Verification
- Virginia Democrats Mourn Pope Francis, Say He “modeled humility and compassion,” Was a “tirelessly humble and visionary leader” for the Poor, the Environment, etc.
- Virginians remember Pope Francis: ‘He genuinely loved everybody who was persecuted’
- Sen. Tim Kaine remembers Pope Francis as a “beautiful leader”
- Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10) Statement on Near-Assault Saturday at Leesburg Pro-Democracy/Anti-Trump Rally: “While January 6th insurrectionists want to intimidate and bully people into silence, this is not a time to be afraid or cave to intimidation.”
- Virginia Democratic Members of Congress Overwhelmingly Call for Pete Hegseth to Resign or Be Fired; Virginia Republicans SILENT
- Sen. Warner: Secy. Hegseth should “either quit or be fired”
- With Pat Herrity Dropping Out of the Lt. Gov. Primary, the 2025 VA GOP Ticket Is Now Set, and It’s Quite Possibly the Most Far-Right/Extreme Ever (The infamous 2013 “Extreme Team” Ticket – Ken Cuccinelli, EW Jackson, Mark Obenshain – Is Close Competition)
- Republican Pat Herrity drops out of lieutenant governor race
- Virginia GOP ticket set as talk-radio host clinches lieutenant governor nomination (The WaPo doing its usual job of whitewashing far-right Virginia Republicans. It’s pretty much the WaPo’s job…)
- Heart surgery, resulting complications force Republican candidate to drop out of lieutenant governor race
- 7 takeaways from Herrity’s withdrawal and the early nomination of the Republican ticket (Not a word about Reid’s far-right positions on the issues. Another whitewash, in other words.)
- Nearly half of House of Delegates challengers this year are women. Here’s why.
- Sears and Spanberger Part 4: From Mailboxes to TikTok
- Businesses in some Virginia counties won’t feel tariffs at all, but the ones who will feel them most are in rural areas.
- Editorial: Virginia’s military survivors’ tuition program left high and dry again
- Virginia’s agriculture at risk after Trump administration’s cuts to NOAA
- New law will allow Virginia bridges and tunnels to be replaced or repaired sooner
- Youngkin touts success of Virginia gang and immigration sweep with over 500 arrests (Stenography.)
- Ahead of Earth Day, a focus on recovery from Helene, conservation
- Who is Ken Cuccinelli, the new Board of Visitors appointee? (This completely misses who Ken Cuccinelli is – a far-right, anti-immigrant, anti-climate-science, etc. radical.)
- School funding pleas top Roanoke citizen budget requests
- CWG Live updates: Nice spring weather before showers Friday and Saturday
