by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, March 4.
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- Supreme Court’s Climate Skeptics Will Help Decide Humanity’s Fate (“Justices Alito and Coney Barrett appear wary of settled science, and that’s a problem.” Horrible people.)
- National TV news’ coverage of the latest IPCC report missed a key opportunity to connect climate inaction to the war in Ukraine
- Editorial: Climate catastrophe already is here. What will it take for the world to act?
- Ukraine war prompts European reappraisal of its energy supplies (“Analysis: Russian invasion could speed up renewables transition – or lead to disastrous return to coal” The only serious answer is the former, NOT the latter.)
- Global outcry after Russia seizes nuclear plant
- Russian forces seize huge Ukrainian nuclear plant, fire extinguished
- Russian forces seize Europe’s largest nuclear power station
- Expert calls Russian attack at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant ‘astonishing’
- Russia condemned for ‘reckless’ nuclear plant attack
- After call with Putin, Macron is convinced ‘worst is yet to come’ and Russia wants all of Ukraine, French official says
- EXPLAINER: How dangerous was Russia’s nuclear plant strike? (“But even though the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is of a different design than Chernobyl and is protected from fire, nuclear safety experts and the International Atomic Energy Agency warn that waging war in and around such facilities presents extreme risks.”)
- Why Ukraine’s Shelled Nuclear Plant Is Unlikely to Be a New Chernobyl
- Live updates: Zelenskyy talks to leaders about nuclear plant
- Fire out at key Ukraine nuclear plant, no radiation released
- How Ukraine’s Military Has Resisted Russia So Far
- Putin misjudged his adversary and squandered his military advantages
- How do you like the Russian military now, Senator Cruz?
- In war, Russia has swallowed up Belarus. Freedom is at stake there, too.
- Putin and Zelensky underscore how history is shaped by individuals — and character
- Putin’s war is a nightmare for the Ukrainian people and for Russia, an expert warns
- Putin Thought Ukraine Would Fall Quickly. An Airport Battle Proved Him Wrong.
- Last Vestiges of Russia’s Free Press Fall Under Kremlin Pressure
- China Declared Its Russia Friendship Had ‘No Limits.’ It’s Having Second Thoughts.
- Why China’s Banks Won’t Come to Russia’s Rescue
- Revulsion with Putin sparks outcry — and more unity than expected
- Putin’s Financial Isolation by World’s Powerful Is a Cautionary Tale for Xi Jinping
- Putin Isn’t Just Insane, He Thinks He’s God’s Man on Earth
- Washington’s Newest Worry: The Dangers of Cornering Putin
- Ukraine buries ‘America First’ for good, we hope
- Russia’s richest may lose their yachts as US and its allies move to seize assets
- BBC revives shortwave radio dispatches in Ukraine, and draws ire of Russia.
- The atrocities inflicted on Ukrainian civilians must not go unanswered
- Seize, don’t just freeze, Putin’s billions (Yep, and give the money to Ukraine.)
- Russia’s Looming Economic Collapse
- FACT SHEET: The United States Continues to Target Russian Oligarchs Enabling Putin’s War of Choice
- Analysis: Russia’s invasion is straining the long-held idea that economic ties among nations spur peace.
- Europe awakens to the Russian threat
- Behind sandbags, a haggard President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine hosted his first news conference since the war began.
- Russia’s space agency is increasingly becoming isolated from its Western partners.
- How the US and its allies can help Ukraine without starting World War III (“It’s a very tough needle to thread, but there’s a way to make the West’s Ukraine strategy work.”)
- Swedish Poll Shows Majority Backs Joining NATO for First Time
- Ukraine is economic catastrophe, warns World Bank
- Russia’s most notorious propagandist retains unrestricted access to social media while Russia invades Ukraine (“Major platforms restricted RT and Sputnik in Europe, but their hateful editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, is thriving on them”)
- No Apology Necessary (“Mitt Romney deserved to be mocked in 2012 when he said Russia was America’s top geopolitical foe.”)
- Demoralised Russian soldiers tell of anger at being ‘duped’ into war
- How the US is helping Ukraine fight Russia
- Biden Will Allow Ukrainian Immigrants In The US To Obtain Temporary Protected Status
- Lindsey Graham Calls for Russians to Assassinate Putin
- RT America ceases productions and lays off most of its staff (Good riddance. Now, what about Fox “News,” which is seditionist/insurrectionist, has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans from COVID, etc?)
- Absolute Power (“Asked about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman said, ‘If that’s the way we did things, Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000 people on the list.'” In reality, MBS had Khashoggi brutally murdered.)
- America’s Very Peculiar Economic Funk (“And while I do not come here to bash the news media, I do feel that we’re missing a big part of the story if we take negative public views of the economy at face value without pointing out that they’re at odds not just with official statistics but also with self-reported experience. And we should try to understand where that disconnect is coming from.” We definitely SHOULD be bashing the news media for its irresponsible coverage of the economy and many other things.)
- Jobs Report for February Expected to Show Another Strong Gain
- Progressives say they’re open to Manchin’s new framework. So what’s the holdup? (“If Manchin means what he says — which is an extremely big “if” — then this really shouldn’t be that difficult a problem to solve.”)
- Democrats frustrated with latest Manchin pitch on Build Back Better
- Two legal developments show the Jan. 6 investigation is closing in on Trump’s inner circle
- Jan. 6 committee’s hint at possible crimes by Trump exposes deep rot in GOP
- The Justice Dept. and the Jan. 6 inquiry make moves to snare Trump (“This is the theory that leads to Trump and his closest cronies.”)
- Why the January 6 Committee Alleged ‘Criminal Conspiracy’ by Team Trump (“It’s still unlikely that Trump lands in jail, but the panel is raising the specter of criminal charges as it gets closer to unveiling his full plot.”)
- Panel Suggests Trump Knew He Lost the Election, Eyeing Criminal Case
- Former AG Barr said Trump became enraged after being told election fraud claims were nonsense (We already knew that. As for Bill Barr, he’s horrible.)
- Where does Biden go now? Back to Scranton and ahead to great projects.
- Adam Schiff on threats both global and domestic
- Democrats Are Fighting Like Hell for Voting Rights
- An ugly racist attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson makes its inevitable return (“Tucker Carlson demands to see her LSAT scores, because accomplished people of color apparently can’t be smart enough.”)
- Tucker Carlson Demands Black Supreme Court Nominee Prove Herself to Him (“The Fox News host won’t admit Ketanji Brown Jackson is qualified for the job until he sees her LSAT scores.”)
- YouTube Won’t Distinguish Between Misinformation and Reporting, So It Suspended My Channel (“Not only does YouTube punish channels that spread misinformation, but in many cases, it also punishes channels that report on the spread of misinformation. The platform makes no distinction between the speaker and the content creator.” Yep, YouTube has done this to Blue Virginia as well – for *reporting* on what people like Amanda Chase said! This policy by YouTube is totally moronic and broken.)
- Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Kimberly Guilfoyle, Don Jr.’s Girlfriend (She’s evil.)
- AIPAC’s PAC endorses dozens of Republicans who refused to certify Joe Biden as president (AIPAC is a disgrace.)
- Transgender Teens and Their Families Prepare to Flee Texas (“What choice do we have? I’d rather lose our home and our state than lose my child.”)
- In Greene and Boebert, Democrats See a Helpful Political Target
- White Nationalists With Lanyards: Orlando Showed The Ugly Future Of The Republican Party
- Former Fox News Director Jack Hanick Indicted for Helping Russia (Why is this not surprising?)
- Jon Stewart rips ‘dishonest propagandist’ Tucker Carlson for Putin comments
- Melania Trump Event Called Off After Officials Question Fund-Raising
- Florida Lawmakers Vote to Ban Abortions After 15 Weeks
- The Misinformation Empire Steve Bannon Built With a Fugitive Chinese Tycoon Is in Trouble (How is Bannon not in prison?)
- ‘Better safe than sorry.’ A son explains turning in father over the Jan. 6 attack
- Sen. Mark Warner Joins Bipartisan Effort to Ban Russian Energy Imports (“As Putin continues his vicious assault on the citizens of Ukraine, we should not continue to support Russia’s energy economy”)
- Amid Reports of Racial Discrimination at Ukraine’s Border, Sen. Mark Warner Pushes to Ensure That All Refugees Are Granted Equal Access to Safety
- Virginia Senate Democrats Act As Brick Wall Against Attacks On Abortion and Family Life Education
- Video: VA House, Senate Democrats Call on House Republicans to Take Up Constitutional Amendment Resolutions on Marriage Equality, Voting Rights
- Republicans fall in line against final push to expand felon voting rights in Virginia
- Schapiro: Jury’s out on whether lawmakers can agree on judges
- In Virginia, abandoned coal mines are transformed into solar farms (“Six old mining sites owned by the Nature Conservancy will be some of the first utility-scale solar farms in the region — and the nonprofit group hopes the model can be replicated nationwide”)
- Lawmakers have again rejected a homeschool sports bill
- Pope & Schapiro: As time runs out on General Assembly, some big issues are left behind
- Virginia’s schools are crumbling. How did the state get here?
- With Dem support, Senate panel advances bill targeting admission changes at governor’s schools (Sen. Chap Petersen “significantly amended the legislation to remove most of its most controversial components”)
- VA Senate Democrats Stand Up for Students, Kill GOP Efforts to Undermine Public Schools (“Senate Democrats have been and will continue to be the brick wall against these egregious educational ‘reforms.’”)
- Bill to stop colleges from holding transcripts hostage is defeated in House subcommittee
- Video: In Powerful Speech, Del. Sally Hudson Declares That in Virginia, “Every major chapter in our history that has been marked by Black gains has been met by White backlash” (“…and all session long we have been writing that chapter in our history right now”)
- 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 92% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations at Lowest Level Since Mid-November; Deaths Remain Relatively High
- Metro delayed, Loudoun Co. adopts parking plan near Ashburn station
- Loudoun Co. considers preventing data centers along Va. State Route 7
- D.C.-area forecast: Chilly with comforting sunshine today, then turning much warmer this weekend
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