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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, November 1. Polls open in 71 hours; today is he last day of in-person early voting!
- World leaders, remember that future generations will judge you. At Cop30, you can define how
- Trump won’t send ‘high level’ representatives to COP30 climate summit
- Putin Brandishes Menacing Nuclear Weapons as Talks With U.S. Falter
- Ukraine says it hit a key fuel pipeline near Moscow that supplies Russian forces
- Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks on substations are ‘nuclear terrorism’, says Ukraine
- Xi Jinping’s moment and whirlwind diplomatic tours: key takeaways from the Apec summit in South Korea
- Latest remains returned from Gaza are not bodies of hostages, Israel says
- Canadian PM Carney apologises to Trump over anti-tariff Reagan ad run by Ontario premier (Carney had absolutely nothing to apologize for, but I get why he felt he had to do it with this crazy person.)
- Trump Boat Bombings Worsen as New Horror Shakes Experts: “Alarm Bells” (The Trump administration is just flat-out murdering people, presumably most of whom are NOT drug smugglers or criminals of any kind, let alone “terrorists” or whatever the Trump people are falsely calling them.)
- Trump says he is not considering strikes within Venezuela
- A Sudanese massacre foretold: the grim familiarity of the RSF’s rampage through El Fasher (“Atrocities unfolding in El Fasher since it fell to paramilitary forces follow a bleak pattern seen in Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan itself, including lack of international action” HORRIBLE!)
- Visible from space, bloody sands expose the slaughter of tens of thousands of in Sudan
- US electricity bills increased by 11% in Trump’s second term, data shows
- ICE and Border Patrol’s use of tear gas injures, sickens and tests the law
- More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy
- US judge permanently blocks Trump order requiring voters to prove citizenship
- In Big Win for Voters and Democrats, Court Blocks Trump’s Demand for Voter ID on Registration Form
- ‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’: Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Protesters in Illinois
- Trump just decided ICE has been too nice (“A new purge of ICE leaders and the empowerment of Border Patrol sets the stage for a more extreme crackdown in US cities.”)
- Uncertainty Persists for Americans Waiting for Monthly Food Stamps
- Shutdowns, Obamacare and the Risks of Bargaining for Policy Wins in a Crisis
- Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund
- Trump’s Demands Throw Wrench Into Shutdown Talks
- Stop asking who’s “winning” the shutdown (“The media must focus on the real story — how Washington’s gridlock is hurting ordinary Americans”)
- Judges order Trump administration to use emergency reserves for SNAP payments during the shutdown
- It’s Sickening That Trump Is Using Hungry Children as Leverage to End the Shutdown
- Trump just kneecapped the GOP’s shutdown strategy (“The president finally weighed in on how to end the shutdown. Republican congressional leaders probably wish he hadn’t.”)
- As the Shutdown Pain Grows, Trump Attends to Other Matters (“President Trump attended a Halloween party and called attention to the marble renovation of a White House bathroom.”)
- As shutdown hits one-month mark, federal workers are not okay
- RFK Jr. concedes administration lacks scientific evidence on Tylenol claims (And almost everything else it claims.)
- New Pentagon policy undercuts trans troops’ ability to ask to stay in the military, AP learns
- Trump touts Lincoln Bathroom overhaul featuring marble, gold fixtures (“The president unveiled the renovation project on his way to spend the weekend at his club in Mar-a-Lago as pressure mounts to reopen the government.”)
- JP Morgan warned US of $1bn in Epstein transactions possibly related to human trafficking
- White House restricts media access in the West Wing
- The fall of the CBS News climate team (“David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.” APPALLING!)
- Frustration mounts inside FBI over thwarted ‘potential’ terror plot
- Multiple people have been arrested in Michigan in a Halloween weekend attack plot, FBI director says (The problem, of course, is that we absolutely can’t believe a word crazy Kash Patel says about ANYTHING – literally, if he said the sun rises in the morning and sets at night, you’d have to seriously question whether that’s accurate, lol.)
- J. D. Vance’s Bad Answer to an Anti-Semitic Question (“The vice president will need to choose between accommodating and rejecting the right’s anti-Semites.”)
- Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash
- JD Vance defends saying he wants his wife Usha to convert to Christianity (How has she not divorced him yet, for so many reasons???)
- Cruz, McConnell slam Heritage president’s defense of Tucker Carlson
- The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi (“Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.” Heritage, btw, is Youngkin’s favorite think tank.)
- Welcome to Your Reckoning (“Republicans discover—with shock!—that white supremacists were the call coming from inside the house”)
- Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report (She’s completely unhinged and extreme, and ANY “journalist” who falsely assured us for years that she was “moderate,” blah blah blah, should NOT be working in journalism!)
- Mace Unleashes Diatribe at Airport Police for Missing Security Escort
- Texas Grid Increasingly Meets Growing Demand With Renewables (“Solar and wind power met nearly 40 percent of Texas’ electricity demand this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports.” No brainer!)
- Debate over energy costs fuels clear divide in New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races
- Trump Is the Democrats’ Best Campaigner (“GOP candidates for Tuesday’s elections are trapped between Trump’s demands for fealty and voters who want independence.”)
- Obama looks to dial up Dem enthusiasm ahead of Tuesday’s elections (“On Saturday, Obama will appear alongside Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democrat vying for governor in New Jersey. He will also stump for Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, hoping to give a last-minute push to both candidates. “)
- Obama to campaign for Sherrill, Spanberger on Saturday in home stretch of governor elections
- Virginia Congressional Democrats blast Trump administration plan to slash national Chesapeake Bay office
- Video: VA Senate Democrats Unanimously Vote to Pass Redistricting Amendment – “a break-glass maneuver for a truly unpredecented moment” as Trump Tries to “rig the entire national election” (Unfortunately, we first had to sit through Republicans’ bad-faith bloviating…)
- Virginia Democrats advance redistricting plan aimed at securing more seats in Congress
- General Assembly passes constitutional amendment to redraw Virginia’s congressional maps (Terrible subheader on this – “other states’ efforts to do the same?” In fact, this is ALL stemming from Trump’s and “red”-state Republicans’ efforts to steal the 2025 midterms!)
- Redistricting clears major hurdle in Virginia. Here’s what to know.
- Redistricting amendment passes first General Assembly test (“The amendment push comes after President Donald Trump asked Republican-controlled states to ‘find more seats’ ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.” Excellent subheader on this!)
- Virginia Senate approves mid-decade redistricting amendment in party-line vote (Also, ridiculously “neutral” subheader ont his one. The media is failing us badly.)
- Virginia becomes first state to fund food assistance amid federal SNAP pause
- Virginia sees surge in early voting, mostly among likely Democratic voters
- New Polls, Including Atlas Intel (Spanberger +8.7, Hashmi +6.1, Miyares +1.5); Echelon (Spanberger +12, Hashmi +3, Miyares +3), etc.
- Photos: Spanberger’s “Virginia Votes Bus Tour” Rolls Through Northern Virginia with a Focus on Delivering for All Virginians (“Stops in Prince William County, Alexandria, Fairfax, Manassas, & Loudoun County”)
- Earle-Sears absent from Republican candidates’ last-minute stop in Blacksburg
- Former President Obama Speaks at Rally for Abigail Spanberger’s Campaign for Governor (This is scheduled for this afternoon.)
- Why Is Susan Collins Mixed Up in the Virginia Governor’s Race?
- Virginia’s Elections Are Our First Government Shutdown Referendum
- Spanberger Cruising in Virginia, But Scandal Could Take Down AG Candidate
- Virginia patients shut out as Medicaid cuts hit reproductive care access
- ‘We’re denying them justice’: Virginia needs to step up to protect victims of child rape
- Virginia wind turbine installation work delayed, Dominion Energy says
- CWG Live updates: Pleasant weather to start November
