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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, July 10.
- Is There Still Time to Be Hopeful About the Climate? (“Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—and some still do, even as that grim milestone nears.”)
- Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator (Agreed, it’s really pathetic.)
- Unhappy with Putin, Trump and Congress move closer to Ukraine (Duh!)
- Putin, Undeterred by Trump’s Words, Escalates His War Against Ukraine
- The ‘Russia Hoax,’ Revisited (“CIA Director John Ratcliffe wants to rewrite history.”)
- Rubio to meet Russia’s Lavrov with Ukraine tensions high
- Russia’s frozen assets must be used to rebuild Ukraine, says Zelenskyy, as he hits out at ‘terrorism’ of daily attacks
- Unhappy with Putin, Trump and Congress move closer to Ukraine
- U.K. and France Agree to First-Ever Nuclear Weapons Pact to Fend Off Threat to Europe
- Gaza ceasefire push tests Trump-Netanyahu bond
- US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel’s Gaza offensive
- Israel’s Agonizing Choice Over Which Hostages to Save (“The current deal on the table would see 10 men released out of 20 believed to be alive.”)
- Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says (Horrible.)
- Trump’s Dictator Protection Program (“Using tariffs to fight democracy”)
- Trump’s 50% Levy on Brazil Shows World Nothing Is Off Limits
- Trump hits Brazil with 50% tariff, in part due to trial of ally Jair Bolsonaro (This is beyond appalling!)
- Brazil will respond to Trump’s 50% tariff with ‘reciprocity,’ says da Silva
- South Korea Arrests Impeached Ex-Leader for a Second Time (This is what should have happened in the US, within weeks or at most months after 1/6/21. Massive f’up by Merrick Garland and, sad to say, Joe Biden.)
- Trump praises English-speaking Liberian president’s English
- Trump says the president of Liberia, where English is the official language, speaks ‘good English’ (Embarrassing.)
- How El Salvador Is Reaping Rewards From America’s Deportation Agenda
- Prices are now starting to rise because of tariffs. Economists say this is just the beginning
- Racial Profiling Could Create Mass Backlash to Mass Deportations
- How $178 billion is creating a police state (“A massive funding increase for ICE means more detention camps and more masked agents in the streets”)
- Courts Can Check, and Have Checked, Executives’ Military Judgment
- Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Absolutely Had It with Her Fellow Supreme Court Justices (And for good reasons!)
- U.S. sees most single-year measles cases since it declared disease eliminated (“As anti-vaccine sentiment rises, experts predict country is on dangerous course”)
- Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push (“The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.” Bonkers.)
- The GOP’s New Lie After Cutting $1 Trillion From Medicaid: We Gave It More Money!
- Trump calls wind, solar bad for power grid. Texas shows otherwise
- The Law Firms’ Deals With Trump Are Looking Worse and Worse (“Trump’s assault on Big Law has been a big mess.”)
- Internet Extremists Want to Make All AI Chatbots as Hateful as Grok Just Was (“Incredible things are happening.”)
- Trump’s push to claw back funding ignites a fight that threatens a government shutdown
- The Epstein Files Anticlimax Is Exposing Trump for Who He Really Is
- Ex-FBI Director Comey and ex-CIA Director Brennan are under investigation by Trump Justice Department (This is third-world-despot crap.)
- Trump on Brennan, Comey probe reports: “Maybe they have to pay a price”
- Comey Tracked by Secret Service After Post Critical of Trump
- GOP senators fear Musk-Trump beef spells trouble for midterm election
- 25 Steps Democrats Must Take to Undo the Trump Catastrophe
- How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party (“During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win elections. It’s destroying them now.”)
- Tillis Suggests He Regrets Vote to Confirm Hegseth, Calling Him ‘Out of His Depth’ (Tillis just figured this out? It was glaringly obvious the second Trump nominated Hegseth.)
- Noem’s Red Tape Reportedly Slowed Down FEMA Response To Texas Flood
- FEMA’s response to Texas flood slowed by Noem’s cost controls
- Greg Abbott Compares Deadly Flood That’s Killed Over 100 to Being Down at the Halftime of a Football Game
- Have you seen this man? (“In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found.”)
- A decade of missed opportunities: Texas couldn’t find $1M for flood warning system near camps
- 6 Secret Service agents suspended over conduct during attempted Trump assassination
- Texas to consider redistricting congressional map in special session (If red states are going to do this, then blue states need to do the same. As for Virginia, we MASSIVELY f’ed up by passing the fatally flawed redistricting amendment in 2020 – huge, huge mistake.)
- Redrawing Texas: the Republican plan to stack the decks for the midterms
- The CEO who never was: how Linda Yaccarino was set up to fail at Elon Musk’s X
- Yaccarino’s Break From Musk Was Months in the Making
- Chesapeake Bay is stagnating. Here’s what could help.
- Kaine, Warner: Virginia must resist Trump’s attacks on higher ed – before it’s too late
- MAGA congressman Ben Cline attacks injunction in Planned Parenthood case (This headline by Chris Graham is superb, and should be -but definitely won’t be! – emulated by all media organizations: state clearly IN THE HEADLINE that a Congressman is “MAGA” or whatever they are, so that readers are very clear on that. Also, by the way, state whether what the person’s doing/saying is true or false, legal or illegal, etc. And cut the b.s./false “objectivity,” which is really just cowardice.)
- Winsome Earle-Sears Criticized Fellow Republican for Taking Money from a Nazi Sympathizer While She Did the Same Thing
- APPALLING: Youngkin “Fully Embraces” Trump’s Tax Bill, Dismisses Risk of 322,000 Virginians Losing Access to Health Care, Falsely Claims Figure Is “Made Up” (DPVA Chair Lamont Bagby: “Youngkin’s latest comments make it painfully clear: the stakes couldn’t be higher” in November)
- Fmr. VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a Conservative Republican and Trump Supporter, Calls Winsome Earle-Sears Proposal to Kill the Car Tax “a political gimmick” and “horrible policy” (Among other problems, axing this tax “would cause local governments in Virginia to lose about $3 billion a year in revenue.”)
- Spanberger on GOP Tax Bill’s Threat to VA’s Hospitals, Healthcare: Youngkin, Earle-Sears “should be standing up to these attacks and building a plan for protecting our most vulnerable neighbors, rather than praising these cuts”
- Where does Earle-Sears stand? Nobody really knows because she won’t make herself available for serious questioning. (“The Republican candidate for governor isn’t talking policy questions, not from journalists and not from one of the state’s main pro-business groups, either. This isn’t normal.” Yes, although the headline is false: we DO know where Earle-Sears stands on just about every issue, given that she’s presided over the State Senate the past four sessions, which have covered pretty much every subject.)
- DLCC Names Virginia Lieutenant Governor Candidate Ghazala Hashmi as a Spotlight Candidate (“The Lieutenant Governor plays a critical role in breaking ties in the narrowly divided Democrat-led Virginia Senate”)
- DLCC to help Hashmi for lieutenant governor with emphasis on breaking tie votes
- Meet the candidate: State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi (Substantive and smart as always from Hashmi. The only thing I wish she’d do more of is call out her far-right opponent for his policy positions, for his demonization of Democrats, etc.)
- As AI booms and the grid strains, Virginia grapples with competing energy visions
- As part of FEMA Review Council, Youngkin to assess state, federal disaster coordination (What a joke.)
- Youngkin family rescued from Texas flooding
- Parents allege antisemitic bullying, retaliation at Virginia private school (“A Virginia private school is facing a civil rights complaint after parents alleged their Jewish children were subjected to antisemitic bullying and retaliation.”)
- Threatened by rising waters, Norfolk museum fights back
- Hanover County School Board elects new leaders
- Environmental group highlights summertime pollution at Hampton Roads beaches
- I gave UVA Athletics a chance to make amends on the coach misconduct story: They don’t wanna
- CWG Live updates: Humidity sticks around and so do storm chances
