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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, August 13.
- The health risks from climate change that almost no one talks about (“Rising temperatures are rewriting the earliest stages of life.”)
- Unsettling photos show the effects of climate change projected onto our everyday lives
- Other Nations Move Toward Making Their Own Vaccines as US Cuts Funding
- State department softens human rights criticisms of Trump-allied countries (“Report steps up criticisms of Europe, Brazil and South Africa but says little about abuses in Israel and El Salvador”)
- Zelensky scrambles to avert disaster as Trump meets Putin
- Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap (“Donald Trump badly wants a deal to end the war in Ukraine. What is he willing to give up?”)
- Leaders in frantic phone diplomacy with Trump ahead of Putin summit on Ukraine
- ‘It’s a robot war’: eastern Ukraine faces onslaught of Russian glide bombs, rockets and kamikaze drones
- Ukraine will not cede land that could be Russian springboard for new war, Zelenskyy says
- Will Trump fall into Putin’s trap?
- Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
- Trump Is Doubling Down on Sanctions. Putin Is Laughing All the Way to Alaska.
- White House sharply lowers expectations for Trump-Putin summit
- White House lands on Trump-Putin summit location as officials race to prepare for historic Alaska meeting (Total debacle.)
- Trump to hold call with Zelensky and European leaders ahead of Putin summit
- Putin Heads to Trump Summit Confident He Is Winning in Ukraine
- U.S. scientists are under attack. France wants to give them refuge.
- Netanyahu hints that Gaza ceasefire talks now focus on the release of all hostages at once
- Israel bombards Gaza City as UK and allies demand action against ‘unfolding famine’
- Mexico transfers 26 cartel figures wanted by US authorities in deal with Trump administration
- New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal (“Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada”)
- Democrats say Trump is illegally blocking them from visiting Ice detention: ‘The goal is to bully us’
- Judge orders ICE to stop forcing detainees to sleep on dirty concrete floors (“And he ordered officials to offer detainees three meals a day, not just two.”)
- Trump’s moves are making immigration courts dysfunctional
- The Partisan Economist Trump Wants to Oversee the Nation’s Data (HORRIBLE choice.)
- Hackification (“Arendt’s Law comes for economic data”)
- Here’s Why Trump’s BLS Nominee Has Ignited A Cascade Of Criticism From Economists
- Trump’s BLS commissioner nominee EJ Antoni calls Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” (The guy’s a nutjob and extremist.)
- A government-data skeptic with a history of economic errors (“Economists say Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a disaster”)
- Trump Wants a Bureau of MAGA Statistics
- Bets on Outsize Fed Rate Cut Gain Steam After Inflation Data
- Energy coalition encourages EPA not to repeal GHG standards for power plants
- Here’s why advocates doubt the Supreme Court will revisit marriage equality
- The Christian right claims marriage equality is persecution (“Conservative justices are aching to declare that Christians are oppressed by other people’s marriages”)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Impact So Far: ‘The Worst Possible Case’
- CDC shooting highlights increasing rhetoric and hostility against health professionals
- States look to unleash wind and solar boom while tax credits still exist
- Federal appeals court clears DOGE to access sensitive records at agencies (That’s insane.)
- Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts. (“A POLITICO analysis of DOGE data reveals the organization saved less than 5 percent of its claimed savings from nearly 10,100 contract terminations.” And it also COST a shit-ton of money in a bunch of ways, including lost productivity and massive costs to the country from trashing vital programs. Just pure evil.)
- New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency (“America’s first family is conducting its grift in full view of the public, but the profits remain a guessing game”)
- There’s a big, important limit on Trump’s power to seize control of DC’s police (“The question is whether a Republican judiciary will read the entire law governing Trump’s power over DC, or just the part that Trump likes.”)
- Trump Deploys National Guard for D.C. Crime but Called Jan. 6 Rioters ‘Very Special’ (“President Trump said he needed to send in the Guard to secure the nation’s capital. But on Jan. 6, 2021 — the most lawless day in recent Washington history — he had a very different reaction.”)
- Fact-Checking Trump’s False and Misleading Claims About Crime in D.C.
- National Guard troops appear in Washington DC as mayor rejects ‘authoritarian push’
- White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision (“Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary” Insanity. Also fascism.)
- White House reviewing Smithsonian exhibits to make sure they align with Trump’s vision (“The president signed an executive order this year ordering the removal of ‘improper ideology’ from the museum system.”)
- Texas Democrats to return after governor ends special session that included redistricting, sources say
- Newsom says California will draw new electoral maps after Trump ‘missed’ deadline
- We Asked Pete Hegseth if Women Should Have the Right to Vote. The Answer Was … Unsettling.
- Dana White says UFC will host first-ever White House fight on July 4: “It is definitely going to happen”
- White House May Award ‘Big Balls’ Same Medal as Rosa Parks
- Scoop: Beshear wows Democrats at Jeffries’ big donor fundraiser
- Menhaden management board looks at more restrictions for reduction fishing in the Chesapeake Bay
- Former Alexandria councilman Seifeldein announces bid for Congress
- Winsome Earle-Sears under fire over apparent free plane trip: Is this a big deal?
- New questions have emerged about Earle-Sears’ trips
- Fmr. VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R/Trump Voter) Demolishes Winsome Earle-Sears’ “very unwise” Suggestion of Using “Rainy Day Funds” to Cover Massive, Long-Term Medicaid Funding Shortfall Cause by Trump’s Big Ugly Bill
- “This is wrong”; “they should release Momand immediately”: VA State Senators Schuyler VanValkenburg, Ghazala Hashmi Weigh In After ICE Arrests Henrico High School Student (with a Valid Visa) (Arman Momand’s father “made significant contributions to the U.S. Government’ in Afghanistan”)
- Following Circuit Court’s 7/29 Ruling That Blocked Eight Youngkin University Board Appointees From Serving, AG Jason Miyares Files “Petition for Review” with VA Supreme Court (Miyares argues: “The balance of hardships and public interest weigh against the preliminary injunction”)
- AG files appeal to lift suspension of Youngkin appointees from Va. college governing boards
- Youngkin and Reid appear united, friendly at joint appearance in New Kent (How about telling readers about Reid’s extremism? Oh no, can’t do that…must stick to the “horse race,” much safer.)
- Gov. Youngkin campaigns with John Reid in New Kent
- VA hospitals are finding it harder to fill jobs, watchdog says
- Youngkin signs order calling for hiring of more nursing home inspectors
- Virginia’s nursing homes rank 38th in the nation with a backlog of more than 1,000 complaints
- NC DEQ holds public hearing on MVP Southgate natural gas project that impacts Virginia
- Meet the candidate: John McAuliff (“Democratic House of Delegates candidate John McAuliff is challenging incumbent Republican Del. Geary Higgins in the 30th District.” Higgins is HORRIBLE, so…yeah, would be great if McAuliff beat him.)
- Staying hot and humid as storm chances make a comeback today
