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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, Election Day 2025. Make sure you vote blue up and down the ballot (polls open 6 am to 7 pm).
- EU in last-minute talks to set new climate goal for COP30
- Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities: ‘This is absurd’ (“New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected”)
- More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn (“Expert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20”)
- Trump’s China Trade Policy Is a Hot Mess
- Trump Officials Torpedoed Nvidia’s Push to Export AI Chips to China
- Elon Musk’s $1tn Tesla pay deal to be rejected by huge Norway wealth fund
- EU Leaders Skip Latin American Summit to Avoid Irking Trump
- Scoop: U.S. seeks UN approval for Gaza security force with broad two-year mandate
- Israel rocked by scandal as top military lawyer resigns, goes missing, is found and thrown into jail (“The leaked security footage showed part of an assault in which Israeli soldiers were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee – but the media and the public have largely focused their attention on the leak rather than the abuse allegations themselves.”)
- Torture in Israeli prisons rose sharply during war, says freed Palestinian author (“Nasser Abu Srour says prisons became like ‘another front’ in Gaza conflict and tells of struggle to adjust to life outside”)
- As criticism grows, is UAE ready to walk away from Sudan’s RSF militia? (“After mass killings in El Fasher and four years on from a coup, UAE now admits its Sudan policy has gone wrong” Ya think???)
- Trump just threatened to invade a new country (“Humanitarian intervention, MAGA-style.”)
- Report: ICE Shot a US Citizen Trying to Help Kids (“According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.”)
- The White House’s Plan A is winning its Supreme Court tariff case. It also has a Plan B.
- Federal Courts Divided, So Far, on Trump’s Environmental Retreat
- Bust the Filibuster at the GOP’s Peril
- Trump Admin Tells Judge It’ll Disburse Half of SNAP Benefits for Eligible Households in November, With ‘Significant’ Delays
- Senate GOP blocks Dem effort to fund SNAP
- Senate Republican warns about potential interruptions to federal worker health care
- John Thune says he is ‘optimistic’ Senate will move to end shutdown this week
- House Dems and GOP float compromise plan to end shutdown
- Flight delays pile up as government shutdown enters second month
- Mike Johnson Wants You to Believe He Lives Under a Rock (Mike Johnson is one of the only politicians who can compete with Trump, Youngkin, etc. on being a pathological liar.)
- Trump approval rating falls to second-term low of 37% (Still 37 percentage points too high, but moving in the right direction!)
- Pelosi: Trump is ‘worst thing on the face of the earth’ (No lies detected!)
- Ring the Alarm Bells: Authoritarianism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here Now (“Trump’s authoritarian playbook has 10 rules. He’s following every single one of them.”)
- Donald Trump Is a Commie (“Bernie’s democratic socialism is still compatible with liberal democracy. Trump’s national socialism is not. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”)
- New York, the Capital of Capitalism, Prepares for a Socialist Mayor
- ‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,’ Justice Department aide said of Trump (Trump should have been in prison, for life, many many years ago, for a wide variety of serious crimes.)
- Homicide rates plunging in Trump’s “hellhole” cities
- Report: Donors to Trump’s White House ballroom have $279B in federal contracts (MASSIVELY corrupt!)
- What’s a Scandal When Everything Is Outrageous (“Trump’s ballroom blitz is blatantly corrupt. The fact that no one seems to care shows just how low the standards of behavior have fallen in Washington.”)
- A Confederacy of Toddlers (“The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.” Very, VERY disturbed people – the worst of the worst in this country.)
- Exclusive: Trump ousts watchdog of US housing regulator involved in mortgage probes of his foes, sources say
- Prosecutors urge judge to reject ex-FBI Director James Comey’s claim he’s being ‘vindictively’ prosecuted (Correct – duh.)
- Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack (“The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings and the 2024 election.”)
- Trump’s Ultimate Nemesis Boasts He Has ‘Tons of Evidence’
- Explainer: Who is this Changpeng Zhao that Donald Trump claims not to know?
- The First Big Elections of the New Trump Era Are Today. Here’s What to Look For.
- Elections in New York, New Jersey and Virginia offer early test of Trump’s agenda
- The 25 Young(ish) New Democrats to Watch
- Trump celebrates CBS News’ new leadership as “the greatest thing that’s happened in a long time to a free and open and good press”
- Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here’s the ugly backstory. (“Plus: ‘Stealth editing’ at the Washington Post; and an opportunity lost at the New York Times”)
- CBS’s interview with Donald Trump was an abdication (That’s the end of CBS “News” and also “60 Minutes”)
- 60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
- Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon (We are, indeed, living in the “Upside Down”)
- As Condé Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue’s Website, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan
- Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies at 84
- Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies
- Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank
- Nick Fuentes Was Charlie Kirk’s Bitter Enemy. Now He’s Becoming His Successor.
- G.O.P. Figures Seek Distance From Tucker Carlson, Denouncing Antisemitism
- Top Heritage Foundation staffer departs after Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes controversy
- Nick Fuentes started a MAGA civil war — and it looks like he’s winning
- Trump backs Cuomo for New York City mayor and threatens to cut funding if Mamdani wins
- Trump and Musk tell New York to ‘vote’ Cuomo over Mamdani on eve of mayoral election
- Elon Musk endorses Andrew Cuomo for NY mayor (So, whatever you think of Mamdani – and I have serious misgivings – Andrew Cuomo is just completely unacceptable. If I lived in NY City, I might leave the mayor’s election line blank on my ballot. Yuck.)
- Lauren Boebert’s racially charged Halloween costume sparks backlash (And yet again, the media goes with the weird phrase “racially charged” instead of just saying RACIST. Because…they’re cowards? they just suck?)
- Trial starts for assault case against DC man who tossed sandwich at federal agent on viral video
- Virginia Election Day 2025: Open Thread
- In history-making vote, Virginia to elect its first female governor
- The Virginia governor’s election is about more than Donald Trump (I’m including a link to the WaPo editorial just to remind everyone to CANCEL your Bezos Post subscription, as this paper has gone right wing – and also slashed its best people on the editorial page, and many others elsewhere – very quickly. At this point, it’s really a low-quality paper.)
- Editorial: Make time to cast a ballot and chart a course for Virginia’s future
- On Election Day in Virginia, control of state government is up for grabs
- Election Live: Updates and analysis of Virginia’s 2025 election
- Virginia could make history with first Muslim woman elected to statewide office (“Trump’s travel ban inspired state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi to first run for office. Years later, she said fighting bigotry and the ‘chaos’ of Trump’s second term is top of mind.”)
- Coalition of Powerful Black Women Leaders, SEIU Presidents Stands United Behind Abigail Spanberger to Deliver for Virginia’s Working Families
- NAACP and Advancement Project Sue Virginia Over Illegal Rejection of College Student Voter Registrations (“This is a clear attempt to rob students of the right to vote in a state where they study and potentially live once they graduate.”)
- NYT Article accuses AG Miyares of Abuse of Power helping Trump to attack Progressives
- The Battle in Virginia Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller (“Criminal inquiries pit the Miller family’s safety concerns against the First Amendment rights of an activist who has criticized the administration.”)
- VA Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell Releases Statement on Richmond Judge Blocking 2nd GOP Attempt to Protect President Trump’s Map-Rigging Plan (“While the U.S. Supreme Court will not limit President Trump’s power, Virginia’s courts remain independent and have now spoken clearly twice…”)
- Kara Gotsch: Virginia’s lawmakers must finish work started by Voting Rights Act
- Jeb Bush: Va.’s education reforms creating pathways that work for every student (Please clap, lol!)
- 757 Votes: The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press 2025 election guide
- Voters in Fairfax, Loudoun to decide on school bonds in referendum vote
- Report of active attacker at UVA sets off university-wide alert, but nothing found
- Update: UVA Police issue ‘all clear,’ investigating false report in Shannon Library incident
- Chesterfield School Board names interim member to replace ex-chair (“Jenna Darby will take over a seat on the Chesterfield County School Board vacated by former Chair Dot Heffron as of Jan. 1, 2026.”)
- CWG Live updates: Sunny but breezy weather as temperatures bounce around
