by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, July 8.
- ‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say (“British Columbia scientist says heat essentially cooked mussels:” This is not a world we can live in. Fix it!)
- Australia’s de-facto carbon price at record high, may reach $50 per tonne (We need to put a price on carbon – a steep one – as well. It can be refunded to people, in a progressive way, to citizens.)
- Australian government must protect young people from climate crisis harm, court declares (“Environment minister has 28 days to appeal historic ruling that carbon emissions from coalmine should not cause young people ‘personal injury or death’”)
- A Week After the Pacific Northwest Heat Wave, Study Shows it Was ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Global Warming (“The extreme temperatures have shaken scientists’ fundamental understanding of heat waves and triggered concerns about a climate tipping point.”)
- Climate change: US-Canada heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ without warming
- World ‘must step up preparations for extreme heat’
- Biden said we’d ‘find out’ whether Putin would act on ransomware. Now we have.
- New Covid outbreaks a top risk to economic recovery, OECD chief says
- Covid Origins Mirror SARS’s Genesis in Animals, Study Finds
- Covid Deaths Reach 4 Million as India Eclipses U.S., U.K.
- India Supercharged Its Economy 30 Years Ago. Covid Unraveled It in Months
- Quest to Define Post-Crisis Global Economic Order Gathers Pace (“G-20 finance ministers will attempt to forge consensus on unfinished business ranging from climate change to corporate taxation.”)
- Four suspects killed, two held after Haiti’s President assassinated
- Jacob Zuma, Former South African President, Is Arrested (Good, now what about Trump?)
- ‘No one’s in charge’: Haiti faces violent new era after killing of president (“Assassination of President Jovenel Moïse leaves impoverished Caribbean nation on brink of chaos”)
- Police capture, kill alleged assailants in assassination of Haitian president
- Why Haiti Still Despairs After $13 Billion in Foreign Aid (“Since a powerful earthquake devastated the country in 2010, foreign aid seems only to have helped perpetuate some of the country’s biggest troubles.”)
- EU fines BMW and Volkswagen Group $1 bln over emission cleaning
- Scandal-Plagued Brazil Could Soon Become The Global Leader In COVID-19 Deaths
- EXCLUSIVE Frustrated by delays, Tokyo 2020 sponsors cancel booths, parties
- The Olympics are stuck in the 1980s on marijuana (“Sha’Carri Richardson’s suspension over marijuana is a callback to an era Americans are moving away from.”)
- Analysis: UK PM Johnson’s new COVID gamble worries some scientists
- Deaths and Hospitalizations Averted by Rapid U.S. Vaccination Rollout (“The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has significantly curbed the virus’s spread and national death toll, saving an estimated 279,000 lives and averting up to 1.25 million hospitalizations”)
- America is hitting its vaccination ceiling (“There’s no magic number that determines herd immunity. Experts put out estimates between 60% to 70% early in the pandemic, but they’ve since revised those estimates, in some cases to at least 85%, with the increase in variants.”)
- Masking indoors in the age of the Delta variant
- Delta variant is ‘Covid-19 on steroids,’ expert says, with cases increasing in nearly half of US states
- Biden taunts McConnell for ‘bragging’ about relief bill he voted against
- Can Biden do anything to stop ransomware attacks?
- Republicans preview months ahead filled with obstruction and extremism
- The Extremes Of The GOP Have Moved Beyond Fox News
- How heat waves, climate change put people with disabilities at risk
- An Entire Town Burned Down This Week and the Reindeer Aren’t Doing Too Well Either
- Ranked-choice voting worked in New York. More places should use it.
- Biden Must Get Tough on Carmakers to Slow Climate Change
- Conservative groups mount opposition to increase in IRS budget, threatening White House infrastructure plan
- Democrats Have an Opportunity to Win the Crime Debate
- Will Democrats find their inner Goldilocks?
- Rep on bipartisanship: Republicans want ‘18 more months of chaos’ (Saying the quiet part out loud, eh?)
- The ‘Good’ Republicans Are Bad, and the Bad Ones Are Batshit
- ‘Radicalized’ anti-abortion movement poses increased threat, US warned (“Comments from Anu Kumar of reproductive rights group Ipas come as militant anti-abortion groups gain legislative influence”)
- 36 states sue Google over how it manages its Play Store, alleging damage to both consumers and app developers
- As Bezos called for tax hikes, Amazon lobbied to keep its tax bill low
- We Might Have Reached Peak Populism
- America’s White Christian Plurality Has Stopped Shrinking, A New Study Finds
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can’t stop making Covid-Nazi comparisons (“Greene’s comments are part of a history of far-right disavowal, projection and escalation intended to provide a rationale for retaliation.”)
- QAnon’ new ‘plan’? Run for school board
- New TrumpWorld social media site Gettr is hacked, mocked and trolled with hedgehog porn (“Jason Miller’s new platform is latest right-wing social flop, following Gab, Parler and Mike Lindell’s Frank”)
- Trump charged Secret Service nearly $10,200 in May for agents’ rooms
- FBI orders new look at autopsy of Black motorist Ronald Greene after release of graphic bodycam video
- Election fraud is the GOP’s new fundamentalism
- Trump’s Fantasy Legal World (“The former president is obscuring the very real legal problems he has with imaginary ones he wants.”)
- Trump’s latest ridiculous lawsuit shows how small he has become (Complete joke and should be treated as such by the media.)
- Trump’s Social Media Lawsuits Are Full Of Arguments Courts Have Repeatedly Rejected
- Trump’s lawsuits against big tech are just another fundraising tool (“The cases likely won’t hold up in court, but that doesn’t really matter.”)
- The Chilling Message of Trump’s Embrace of Ashli Babbitt Martyrdom (“January 6 is now a heroic uprising for the movement”)
- Trump says ‘there was no reason’ for officer to shoot rioter who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 (As always, Trump is 100% wrong.)
- Kevin McCarthy’s struggles over the Jan. 6 committee reveal a dark GOP truth
- Fox is wary of Tucker Carlson’s NSA claims. That’s probably because he’s a huge liar.
- ‘We Make Mistakes’: Twitter’s Embrace of the Extreme Far Right
- Trump-allied GOP chairs turn on fellow Republicans
- Federal judge blocks effort to invalidate parts of new Georgia voting law ahead of July runoffs
- Texas Is the Hardest State to Vote In. It Could Soon Get Much Harder. (“Democrats are desperately trying to act before Republicans can revive a restrictive voting bill.”)
- Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim
- Officials Are Ending The Search For Survivors In The Surfside Condo Collapse
- Collapsed Florida tower could have been repaired faster under repealed law, experts say (“If a 2008 Florida law that required condos to plan for repairs had still been in place, “this never would have happened,” said the legislator who sponsored the law.”)
- Adams victory in NYC reignites Democratic debate on crime, policing
- Secretary of State Katie Hobbs asks Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate possible election interference by Donald Trump, allies
- Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C. court (Good, although there are many others besides Giuliani, this takes way too long, and penalties should be more severe.)
- Michigan Judge Refuses to Allow Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Other ‘Kraken’ Attorneys to Skip Sanctions Hearing
- Darnella Frazier Filmed George Floyd’s Murder. The Minneapolis Police Just Killed Her Uncle.
- Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee admits to hiding extreme abortion views to win election
- VA Dems: “Glenn Youngkin was caught on video admitting that he’s lying to Virginians about his plans to defund Planned Parenthood and ban abortion” (Youngkin: “I’m not gonna go squishy on you, I will not go squishy. But I gotta win [first]…”)
- Video shows Glenn Youngkin saying he can’t fully discuss abortion or risk losing independent Virginia voters
- GOP Candidate For Virginia Governor Says He Can’t Share Antiabortion Stance With Voters (“As a campaign topic, sadly, that in fact won’t win my independent votes that I have to get”)
- Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia Endorses Reproductive Rights Champions Terry McAuliffe, Hala Ayala and Mark Herring
- What You Won’t See in Glenn Youngkin’s New Carlyle Ad
- Helicopters, cash payments and a new public health lab: How state agencies propose spending Virginia’s rescue fund money
- Declining Birth Rates May Transform Virginia Schools (“Births in Virginia are now the lowest they’ve been at since the late 1990’s, a time when Virginia’s population was 25% smaller. If the birth rate continues to sag, that’ll mean enrollment in schools is likely to go down.”)
- Virginia Retirement System Sees Major Returns
- Governor Northam Announces Extension of Expanded Child Care Subsidy Program for Virginia Families
- Wednesday (7/7) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Hospitalizations, New COVID Cases At Lowest Levels Since March 2020
- Gov. Northam Signs Bills By Senators Surovell, McClellan and Delegates Herring, Bourne, Delaney to “Bring Virginia Out of the Criminal Justice Stone Age”
- Statue of Former Governor and Segregationist Harry Byrd Removed (Good riddance.)
- After Failing to Secure His Own Domain, “Seditionist/Racist” Del. Dave LaRock (R-HD33) Gets a New Website (Courtesy of South Park “Staff Writer, Occasional Voice Actor”)!
- Alexandria will redirect funds from school police to mental health, mentorship programs (“The vote by Alexandria City Council caps off a contentious few months of debate on the city’s School Resource Officer program.”)
- With only 55% of Richmond adults vaccinated, city falls short of Stoney’s 70% goal for July 4 (“The percentage of Richmond adults vaccinated against COVID-19 has increased only 3 percentage points since June 1”)
- Hampton school board throws out chairman following months of discontent
- Tropical Storm Elsa will bring strong winds, heavy rain, possible tornadoes to Hampton Roads
- Jeffrey says he will contest embezzlement charges, keep up Roanoke City Council duties
- D.C.-area forecast: Elsa brings rain late today, and a muggy weekend follows
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