by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, November 6.
- Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers say (“Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating”)
- The U.S. Is Skipping This Year’s Climate Summit. For Many, That’s OK. (“World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.”)
- ‘New reality’: Hurricane Melissa strength multiplied by climate crisis, study says (Some of the worst people in the world, btw, are climate minimizers, for instance people who, after every disastrous weather event almost certainly linked to climate, say some variant of “we can’t possibly KNOW if this ONE event is climate related. Combination of ignorance and malevolence?)
- Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg (“Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.” OK, f*** Bill Gates.)
- Experts call for new taxes on worst polluters to help poorer nations with climate crisis (“Report to be discussed at Cop30 says global agreements should target carbon intensive activities and ‘ultra high net worth individuals’”)
- Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
- Elon Musk’s ultimatum to Tesla: Make me a trillionaire or I may leave (Insanity.)
- Putin’s repressive machinery turns inward to target pro-war figures (“Analysts say a purge of the Russian regime’s own supporters is under way as rival factions turn on each other”)
- Exclusive: US military to establish presence at Damascus airbase
- Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
- Senate to vote on legislation to stop unauthorized war against Venezuela
- Mark Warner: I Can’t Confidently Say The U.S. Isn’t Going To War With Venezuela
- US military buildup off Venezuela coast stirs echoes of 1989 Panama invasion
- US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
- Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street
- We published explosive stories about the president of El Salvador. Now we can’t go home (“Days before we ran interviews with gang leaders describing their alleged ties to Nayib Bukele’s government, we left the country to avoid arrest. We fear our exile will never end”)
- Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father (“‘Devastated’ family demands answers after two-year-old driven by armed agents from LA Home Depot parking lot” Psychos.)
- Families ‘Horrified’ After Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents
- Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago (These people are completely psycho.)
- Supreme Court’s Skepticism of Trump’s Tariffs Means Uncertainty Reigns
- The Supreme Court’s Tariffs Arguments Were a Bloodbath for Trump (Should be 9-0 against Trump, but won’t be.)
- Trump has other tariff options if the Supreme Court strikes down his worldwide import taxes
- US Has Most October Layoffs in Over 20 Years on AI and Cost Cuts
- ‘Jenga Tower’ US Economy Teeters as Middle Class Pulls Back Spending
- Trump’s bright view of the economy doesn’t match what voters are seeing (“NBC News exit polls from Tuesday’s elections showed voters are deeply worried about pocketbook issues and the direction of the country.”)
- Trump administration will reduce traffic at 40 airports across the US starting Friday if shutdown continues
- FAA orders 10% cut in flights at several airports as shutdown drags on
- Workers decry Trump officials as ‘out of control’ as longest shutdown drags on (“Key figures accused of harassment, bullying and attacks as US employees work without pay to keep services running”)
- Democrats gird for longer shutdown fight after election sweep
- Democrats’ confidence in shutdown strategy soars after election sweep
- ‘None of This Is Good For Republicans’ (“Gerrymandering efforts look different after Election Day.”)
- The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges (“Democrats won up and down the ballot yesterday, riding a backlash to Donald Trump’s second term.”)
- Trump Really Was on the Ballot — The magnitude of the GOP rout is a bad sign for holding Congress in the midterms.
- Republicans implode after stunning Democratic victories (“MAGA can’t win without ‘big daddy’ Trump on the ballot”)
- What Democrats’ 2025 Election Sweep Means for the Midterms
- Trump goes on posting frenzy a day after Democrats win key elections (“President shares more than 30 Truth Social posts in less than three hours, including series of bizarre AI-generated videos” Trump is deranged.)
- Donald Trump enters his lame duck era (“Republicans are starting to contend with the fact that the president will soon be gone, and they’ll be fending for themselves.”)
- Trump Humiliation Worsens as Fresh Info Reveals Scale of GOP Losses
- Pollsters Didn’t See the Blue Wave Coming in New Jersey and Virginia
- What’s really concerning Republicans after Tuesday’s romp (“People don’t think he’s lived up to his promises”)
- Economic Anger Once Again Punishes the Party in Power
- Democrats’ big election wins showed they don’t need to hide their support for trans rights
- The resistance is ascendant (“Trump suffers a major defeat. And half of Americans approve of No Kings protests.”)
- Two days that tarnished Trump’s aura of absolute power
- Why Dem Triumph Is Only Act One of Trump’s Year From Hell
- This is how the Trump coalition unravels (“The 2025 elections illuminate a nightmare scenario for the Republican Party.”)
- Republicans may have a Latino problem (again)
- Judge accuses prosecutors in James Comey case of taking an ‘indict first, investigate later’ approach
- Trump’s gold sign outside Oval Office prompts backlash (“Lawmakers outraged that president gilding White House as Snap food stamps in jeopardy amid longest US shutdown”)
- Rock Star Glamour and Centrist Pragmatism: Democrats Had It All
- Voters Soundly Reject Trump’s Plot to Rig the Next Election (“On Tuesday, Democrats passed new congressional maps, defeated GOP attempts to make it harder to vote, and protected pro-democracy judges.”)
- Redistricting Battles, Set Off by Trump, Have Few Parallels in U.S. History
- Two Republican Incumbents Will Face Off as Red Turf Shrinks in California
- California’s new map puts GOP on the run
- It started with a bad internal poll. How Newsom turned it around and beat Trump on redistricting
- Jared Golden: I won’t seek reelection. Here’s why.
- Democrats Have a Lot to Learn From Centrist Abigail Spanberger—and Progressive Zohran Mamdani (“As their wins show, the biggest lesson is not about ideology, but basic politics.”)
- Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
- Va., N.J. elections were a dead canary in the coal mine for the GOP; can Republicans learn from it? (“Many will look at Tuesday and the Virginia GOP’s worst massacre of the 21st century and shrug it off as a blue state doing what a blue state does. That conclusion ignores abundant state political history and squanders two informative takeaways, writes columnist Bob Lewis.”)
- Kaine: Trump’s Shutdown Is Pure Neglect
- “Let’s call a deal a deal.” Sen. Tim Kaine details what could end longest shutdown in U.S. history.
- Sen. Tim Kaine discusses election wins for Democrats (Kaine “said he is not surprised by the outcome but was surprised at the margin of victory for the three statewide candidates and the number of seats in the House of Delegates that Democrats picked up Tuesday night.”)
- Can Ben Cline moderate the MAGA inside to survive the 2026 midterms? (Nah.)
- SCOVA hears arguments in suit over Youngkin’s university board appointments
- Virginia Democrats won in a ‘doggone tsunami’ of an election. Now what? (“Virginia Democrats exceeded their own expectations Tuesday. They don’t want to waste the moment, yet as they strategize how to use their power, they’re preaching restraint.”)
- Video: VA Speaker Don Scott on House Democrats’ “historic, unbelievable 64 seats”; “Virginia Republicans were too terrified to stand up to Donald Trump.” (“Together we built what will be a historic enduring majority, the largest Democratic majority. in three decades.”)
- What Changed in Virginia
- Speaker Scott: Democrats plan to legislate with ‘restraint’ after decisive victory
- ‘This is what a mandate looks like’– Virginia House Democrats beam following historic win
- Political Winners and Losers: Virginia Elections November 2025
- VA Elections 2025 Polls and Predictions: Some of the Best…and Some of the Worst
- Governor-Elect Spanberger Gets to Work, Announces Transition Team Leadership (“Gov.-Elect Spanberger Announced Her Chief of Staff & Her “United for Virginia’s Future” Transition Leadership”)
- Former VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R/Trump Voter) Attributes Last Night’s Blue Tsunami/Republican Wipeout to “BAD ENVIRONMENT,” “BAD CANDIDATE,” “BAD CAMPAIGN.”
- Virginia voters push back hard on Trump administration efforts to reshape federal government
- ‘Every seat is on the table’: VA Dem Campaign Chair Dan Helmer on the Democrat’s election night sweep
- Trump’s unpopular, harmful policies fueled Democratic wins, says Virginia’s Ghazala Hashmi
- Williams: Making history is not enough. It’s about ‘what comes next’
- ‘We’re baaaaaack’: Virginia Democrats suddenly in firm control going into 2026 (“Democrats went into Election Day holding 51 House of Delegates seats. They emerged with at least 64, according to unofficial results. Four those flips occurred in Hampton Roads districts”)
- Editorial: Spanberger makes Virginia history with landslide victory on Tuesday (“With a campaign focused on cost-of-living and other practical concerns, Abigail Spanberger made history on Tuesday to win election as Virginia’s 75th governor.”)
- Not all the winners and losers in this week’s election were on the ballot (Somehow, this twists big loswers into “winners”…weird.)
- Youngkin strikes conciliatory tone after big Democratic wins (Way too late now, after four years of nastiness, divisiveness, demagoguery, dishonesty, demonization, etc.)
- After stinging GOP losses, Youngkin pivots to legacy and transition (“Legacy?” Seriously? He accomplished basically nothing in four years…other than harming Virginia. And he got his butt kicked in election after election. So what “legacy” is the VA Mercury talking about?)
- Youngkin congratulates Spanberger, admits federal shutdown caused “challenges”
- The meaning — and the duty — of a first (“Winsome Earle-Sears’ candidacy was a missed opportunity for reconciliation, a moment when symbolism could have become substance, write guest columnists Sophia Nelson and Colita Fairfax”)
- Northern Virginia now has no Republicans in the General Assembly (Byyyyeeee! LOL)
- Election 2025: Democrats gain a single House seat in Western Virginia
- MAGAs win in local Augusta County races: But things shifted, a tiny bit
- CWG Live updates: Cool today, milder into the weekend. But then a cold blast Monday.
