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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, October 20.
- With Asia and the Pacific on the front lines of the climate crisis, WHO unveils an ambitious blueprint for action on climate and health
- Around the World, Fury Mounts Over an A.I. Frenzy
- Death of baseload: World’s biggest isolated grid is reaching 84 pct wind and solar almost daily
- Fortnite, Snapchat among major apps to go dark in global AWS outage
- Zelenskyy calls for more US Patriot air defences after Trump again sides with Putin (“Ukrainian president ready to join Putin-Trump summit and asks for additional anti-missile batteries, paid for with frozen Russian assets”)
- Senior German General Says Europe Must Do All It Can to Help Ukraine (“European democracy and rule of law are at risk, the general says, so Europe must give Ukraine whatever it can to pressure Moscow, even if Trump does not.”)
- Ukraine’s EU membership bid set for breakthrough in December, says deputy PM (“Taras Kachka believes ‘creative solutions’ will overcome Hungary’s opposition to Kyiv’s joining the EU.”)
- Trump calls for Ukraine to be ‘cut up’ after tense meeting with Zelenskyy (Trump is a Putin puppet and just horrifically bad.)
- Trump Urged Ukraine’s Zelenskyy To Make Concessions To Russia In Tense Meeting, Sources Say (Inexcusable.)
- China Says Economic Goal in Reach Despite Weakest Growth in a Year
- To hit back at the United States in their trade war, China borrows from the US playbook
- Trump Lists Top Demands on China Before Trade Talks Resume
- The Gaza ceasefire is cracking. Hamas is to blame. (Israel’s far-right government sucks for sure, but Hamas is pure evil, no question about it.)
- U.S. scrambles to save Gaza peace deal amid new clashes
- Gaza ceasefire live: Trump’s envoys arrive in Israel amid scramble to shore up fragile truce
- Clashes in Gaza Reveal Cease-Fire’s Fragility, With Rougher Road Ahead
- Louvre heist puts pressure on French government over museum security (“Justice minister says ‘we have failed’ after thieves take seven minutes to steal priceless jewels from museum”)
- Witnesses, a drone and colored soil: How Reuters confirmed an Assad plot to move a mass grave (Assad is in Putin’s Russia, of course.)
- Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats (“U.S. and other officials say the route under attack by the Trump administration carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa, not to the United States.”)
- Trump’s claims about Venezuelan drug boats don’t match reality, officials and locals say
- U.S. Kills 3 on Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs for Colombian Rebels (Horrendous headline by the NY Times; “suspected” by WHOM??? Pete Hegseth? Any evidence???)
- Colombia’s Leader Accuses U.S. of Murder, Prompting Trump to Halt Aid
- A Squalid Building, a Tip to the Feds, and Then ‘Straight-Up Chaos’ (“An immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago followed years of problems with crime, and neglect by landlords. It swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night.” OUTRAGEOUS!)
- ICE boosts weapons spending 700% (“A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.”)
- Fired Justice Department lawyer says he refused to lie in the Abrego Garcia case (“Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who’s now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ.”)
- Bravo to the judges standing up to Trump in Chicago and Portland (Reminder, by the way: subscribe to The Guardian if you’re not already, as it’s a superb newspaper!)
- The Supreme Court’s Arrogance Is Creating Surprising Problems for Trump
- ‘Empty shelves, higher prices’: Americans tell of cost of Trump’s tariffs (“US consumers say price rises caused by president’s tariffs contradict his promise to make life more affordable”)
- How Americans are feeling about their chances on the job market, according to an AP-NORC poll (“Some 47% of U.S. adults are ‘not very’ or ‘not at all confident’ they could find a good job if they wanted to, an increase from 37% when the question was last asked in October 2023.”)
- The Warning Signs Lurking Below the Surface of a Record Market
- Troops on the streets, a polarized country and climbing prices: welcome to Trump’s ‘golden age’
- Trump says inflation is dead. Most data says: Not quite. (Weak headline and subheader by the Bezos Post. How about just say that Trump is WILDLY LYING, which he is?!?)
- Nearly 3 weeks in, White House and GOP remain aligned on shutdown (“Hill Republicans voice few quibbles over federal closures.” Heinous.)
- Democrats are finally exposing Donald Trump’s weakness (“By holding firm in shutdown fight, Dems are revealing Trump’s strongman limitations”)
- Prosecutors may move to oust James Comey’s defense lawyer (“Federal prosecutors told a judge that defense attorney Patrick Fitzgerald may have a conflict due to his role in releasing memos Comey wrote about Trump to the media.” Oust the prosecutors too, for being Trump lackeys?)
- No Kings protesters on their hopes for resistance movement against Trump: ‘If we lose momentum, we lose the fight’
- Trump’s response to ‘No Kings’ marches only proved the protesters’ point (100%!)
- Civil Resistance Confronts the Autocracy (“While MAGA’s spin was both insane and revealing, the No Kings Day 2 Marches were a major step towards taking our country back.”)
- We Will Not Be Ruled (“Reflecting on the joyful atmosphere at Saturday’s No Kings protest—and the gravity of what’s at stake for America”)
- No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump’s response. (“Turnout was enormous. There was no violence. And the wannabe king is triggered.”)
- ‘Who cares?’ About 7 million people, that’s who (“Media coverage of Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protests included the New York Times’s shrug”)
- ‘King’ Trump, 79, Dumps on Protesters in Bonkers AI Video
- Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters (“President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.” Hahahahahahaha, the NY Times says it’s “brown liquid,” not SHIT, which it obviously is. Hahahahaha – this is the self-proclaimed greatest “paper of record”???)
- Mike Johnson Understands Nothing About the United States of America (“The speaker led a rogues’ gallery of Republicans impugning the patriotism of the No Kings rallygoers. On Saturday, the real Americans had their say.”)
- Trump and Johnson Are Melting Down Over The Success of “No Kings” (“Trump posted an AI video of himself dropping raw sewage on the protesters from a plane. Yes, you read that right.”)
- Republicans Should Be Afraid—Just Look at Who Joined No Kings Protests (“For days, Republicans have been claiming No Kings protesters are all agitators and terrorists. Well, America had a different message for them, and for their dear leader.”)
- Trump posts AI video showing him dumping on No Kings protesters (“The president shared a video depicting him in a fighter jet dropping what appeared to be feces on U.S. protesters.”)
- Trump calls ‘No Kings’ protests a ‘joke’: ‘I work my ass off’ (Trump is pathetic.)
- CNN Awkwardly Plays Trump’s Feces-Filled AI Video: ‘I Don’t Really Know What to Say About It’ (“Host Manu Raju gave fair warning before showing the clip posted by the President of the United States.”)
- Why protesters against Trump are wearing frog, chicken and T. rex costumes
- Speaker Johnson doubles down on ‘No Kings’ criticism following demonstrations nationwide (Worst Speaker ever.)
- Speaker ‘Mad Mike’ Johnson becomes voice of GOP shutdown strategy (The dude is seriously unhinged.)
- Chris Hayes: The Democrats’ Main Problem Isn’t Their Message (“In other words, even though [Kamala Harris] lost, her core problem was not her message, however imperfect it might have been. It was an inability to get enough people to hear it, in spite of record-breaking advertising spending. If Mr. Trump had not run a single paid advertisement in the race, he almost surely would have dominated the single most important resource of our age: attention. Democrats need to win the attention contest in 2026 and beyond if they want to win back the country. The old way is dying. Any campaign must have a theory and a plan for capturing the attention of the voters they need to win. Before the era of TV, campaigns used all kinds of strategies, like doing whistle-stop tours and training supporters to give speeches to local assembly halls on the candidate’s behalf. For much of the past four decades or so, the reach and power of broadcast TV solved this problem for campaigns.”)
- How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience (“By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown”)
- Why the Young Republicans Felt Comfortable Saying Such Vile Stuff (Politico blames “the internet,” which certainly plays a huge role in the degregation of our culture and our democracy, but what about TRUMP, MAGA, etc???)
- Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand (“Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.”)
- Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says
- Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
- Secret Service discovers hunting stand with direct sight line to Trump’s Air Force One exit in Florida
- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Ups The Ante As He Calls For A General Strike
- George Santos defends commutation: ‘If President Trump had pardoned Jesus Christ off the cross, he would have had critics’ (Anyone who ever voted for Santos really needs to be thinking about their life choices, lol.)
- Video: On “Meet the Press,” Sen. Tim Kaine Says Jay Jones Shouldn’t Drop Out, Nor Should Winsome Earle-Sears, Who Said About Pro-Choice Activists, “murder is murder, and your time will come” (On ending the government shutdown, Sen. Kaine says Trump isn’t serious, that “the promise of a vote in the Senate without the promise of action is hollow.”)
- Kaine says Jay Jones scandal won’t cause trouble for Spanberger in Virginia election
- Tim Kaine says Jay Jones’ texts ‘cannot be defended’ but ‘he shouldn’t’ drop out of AG race
- Virginia whatabout: Jay Jones death wish vs. Winsome Earle-Sears ‘murder is murder’ (“I’ll be voting against Jason Miyares, because four more years of Jason Miyares as AG means four more years of wasting our taxpayer dollars on frivolous pro-Trump lawsuits aimed at keeping us from being able to move in the right direction.
To vote against Jason Miyares, I have to fill in the oval for Jay Jones. It seems doable to me that we run Miyares off into the political sunset, appoint somebody to serve as an interim in the AG office, and do it all again in a special election in November 2026. That’s what I’m voting for. Not the jerk with a death wish.”) - Jay Jones rolls out ad tying Miyares to Trump in Virginia AG race
- Video: Sears Lies About Debate Night Answer, But Refuses to Say Opposing Gay Marriage and Firing Virginians for Being Gay Is Discrimination (“When asked about the comments, Sears refused to admit opposing gay marriage and firing Virginians for being gay is discrimination.”)
- Spanberger to launch new bus tour in final push to election
- Data centers emerging as an election issue
- Transgender youth not winning wedge issue in 2025 state election
- The unconventionally conventional campaign of John Reid (This is a HORRIBLE article; doesn’t mention ANYTHING about Reid hosting a far-right, conspiracy-theory, MAGA radio show for years, during which time Reid said literally 1000s of things that most Virginians would disagree with strongly or find offensive. But nope, the “Cardinal News” can’t bother writing about any of that. Basically, this is the opposite of journalism.)
- Candidates for lieutenant governor lay out different visions for education in Virginia (The headline is boring, “neutral,” etc. – doesn’t let readers know how extreme John Reid is.)
- How the Virginia Department of Health is healing internal issues amid federal funding cuts (This is like a P.R. piece for Youngkin’s VDH)
- As election nears, Democrats campaign on high utility bills, energy plans (Ghazala Hashmi “told the Virginia Mercury that while locals can benefit from the tax revenue from data centers, there are statewide implications to the energy use and how it can translate to everyone’s bills going up.”)
- Local residents meet to discuss treatment of immigrants at the Farmville Detention Center
- Wise County plans webinar on electric authority as some residents resist proposal
- CWG Live updates: Lots of sun and crisp autumn air this week
