by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, April 27.
- Climate change putting 4% of global GDP at risk, new study
- New Zealand unveils plan to tackle climate crisis by adapting cities to survive rising seas
- Twitter takeover: EU and UK warn Elon Musk must comply or face sanctions (“EU commissioner raises hate speech concerns as UK draws attention to penalties in online safety bill”)
- Ukraine war to cause biggest price shock in 50 years – World Bank
- A major recession is coming, Deutsche Bank warns
- Russia Suspends Gas Supply to Poland and Bulgaria (“Move Follows a Vow by Many Countries to Arm Ukraine”)
- Russia cuts off 2 EU nations from its gas in war escalation
- Russia Stops Gas Flow to Poland and Bulgaria, Deepening Economic Conflict With Europe
- Russia cuts off gas to Poland and Bulgaria (“Move marks significant escalation in economic tension between Moscow and the West”)
- U.S., allies promise to keep backing Ukraine
- Poland, Bulgaria denounce Russian gas ‘blackmail’
- Russia cuts off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria
- Exclusive: Russia’s oil production may fall by as much as 17% in 2022
- Does the exit ramp look more attractive to Putin now?
- Tensions surge after breakaway Moldovan region reports attacks; Kyiv blames Russia
- U.S. intel helped Ukraine protect air defenses, shoot down Russian plane carrying hundreds of troops
- Ukraine admits losses as Russia steps up offensive (“Southern city of Kherson and other towns in the east fall to Russian control as Moscow reinforces and resupplies its troops”)
- Before the Moskva, there was the Kursk: The sunken submarine that helped Putin consolidate power over Russia
- Exclusive: New drone video shows Russian military vehicles and forces on Bucha street strewn with civilian bodies
- UN Chief And Vladimir Putin Agree ‘In Principle’ On Key Ukraine Evacuation
- West gearing up to help Ukraine for ‘long haul’, says US defence secretary (“Lloyd Austin meets with defence ministers as Russia accuses west of engaging in ‘proxy war’”)
- Beijing braces for COVID lockdown with mass testing and panic buying
- Reelection bolsters France’s Macron as powerful player in EU
- China Lockdown Outrage Tests the Limits of Triumphant Propaganda
- Myanmar court sentences Suu Kyi to 5 years for corruption (Totally illegitimate “court”)
- Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal
- Can Japan Keep the Lights On? The Ukraine War Upends a Big Energy Bet.
- United States is ‘out of the pandemic phase,’ Fauci says
- Biden shows once again why he is a huge upgrade from Trump
- TV networks did a poor job of covering climate and environmental issues on Earth Day compared to last year (Inexcusable.)
- CNN Exclusive: Meadows’ texts reveal new details about the key role a little-known GOP congressman played in efforts to overturn election
- The Latest Batch Of Jan 6-Related Text Messages Are Even Dumber (And More Sinister) Than You Could Imagine (“From Donald Trump Jr. to Mike Lindell, what emerges is not a group of brilliant conspirators, but overgrown children play-acting as revolutionaries.”)
- Donald Trump, Malignant Narcissist, Blames Ukrainian Casualties on “Rigged” U.S. Election
- CNN Exclusive: Meadows’ texts reveal new details about the key role a little-known GOP congressman played in efforts to overturn election
- Biden needs to explain why GOP lies and bullying are a danger to democracy
- The Trump White House told Sean Hannity what to say, then he said it
- More Sean Hannity texts, more corruption
- In new audio, McCarthy worried comments by certain GOP lawmakers could incite violence after Jan. 6
- McCarthy Feared G.O.P. Lawmakers Put ‘People in Jeopardy’ After Jan. 6
- Tucker Carlson calls Kevin McCarthy ‘puppet of the Democratic Party’
- A top Democrat ties Pence’s ‘I’m not getting in the car’ to Jan. 6 ‘coup’
- Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid (“The vice-president’s case is considered a ‘breakthrough’ infection, as she is fully vaccinated and received a booster shot last October”)
- The Supreme Court seems fed up with a Trump judge who sabotaged Biden (“Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is not secretary of homeland security, even though he might think he is.”)
- The New York Times continues to whitewash right-wing extremism in its Chris Rufo profile (They NY Times does a lot of great work, but NOT when it comes to U.S. political coverage, where it is almost completely broken.)
- Tucker Carlson’s segments promoting pro-Russia talking points are spreading across Facebook
- Biden tells Congressional Hispanic Caucus he’s looking at forgiving some federal student loan debt
- Democrats Need to Stand Up for Themselves (“Humans are drawn to narratives, but too many politicians struggle to use storytelling to find common ground.” Bingo.)
- Don’t let Mallory McMorrow fight bigotry alone
- Trump judges audition for Supreme Court
- The Supreme Court’s threat to the separation of church and state
- Biden Has Already Done More for Rural America Than Trump Ever Did
- Dems grow alarmed by lack of fear over Roe’s future
- Dems offer reality check on Manchin, Build Back Better
- Joe Manchin is at it again. Charlie Brown, meet Lucy’s football.
- Fact check: Kevin McCarthy keeps repeating false claim that attorney general called parents ‘terrorists’ for wanting to attend school board meetings
- Wall Street Owns Elon Musk Now (“Panic that Twitter will be ruined gives the world’s richest man too much power”)
- Twitter is good. I hope Elon Musk doesn’t ruin it. (“The social media platform is a place where powerful people — people like its new owner — are held accountable”)
- Musk’s challenges with Twitter have just begun
- Elon Musk’s Worst Hits (“Regularly attacking his perceived enemies. Running a company accused of rampant racism and sexism. No wonder people are up in arms about his Twitter takeover plan.”)
- How Congress Can Rein in Elon Musk’s Twitter (“U.S. legislators ought to look to a new E.U. law that makes social-media companies responsible for removing harmful content.”)
- Elon Musk Already Showed Us How He’ll Run Twitter
- Even Elon Musk doesn’t know what he means by free speech
- There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter (“In terms of users, it’s not among the top 10 social media platforms in the world. It’s behind Telegram, Snapchat, and even Pinterest. It has about the same number, 436 million users, as Reddit…The fact that Twitter has been a business failure since its inception is no secret. It’s been put up for sale many times, yet no smart buyer concluded that its potential for growth or revenue outweighed its headaches and liabilities…In short, everything Musk wants to do to Twitter would seem to work against the goals of improving the service, enhancing revenue, and growing the user base globally. And he seems to have no vision beyond pumping Twitter full of more blather—just more racist and venomous”)
- Making Twitter More of a Cesspool Makes No Business Sense
- Concern over Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover wipes $126bn off Tesla value (“Investors have wiped $126bn (£100bn) off Tesla’s value amid concern that Elon Musk may have to sell shares in the electric carmaker to fund his personal contribution to his $44bn acquisition of Twitter.”)
- Why Elon Musk Bought Twitter
- Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover
- Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’
- Susan Collins: Elon Musk Should Let Donald Trump Back On Twitter (Susan Collins strikes again…)
- Under Musk, some fear Twitter’s moderation progress could unravel
- On Twitter, conservatives celebrate, and progressives cringe, about Musk’s ownership of Twitter.
- Fox News Poll: Vance moves into top spot in Ohio GOP senate primary (Vance is a fascist.)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Can’t Lie Her Way Out of the Fact That She Violated the 14th Amendment
- A leading Trump sycophant may soon get the humiliation he deserves
- Sources: Rep. Madison Cawthorn cited for having a gun at Charlotte Douglas (Why wasn’t he arrested?)
- Madison Cawthorn Is Trying to Commit Every Possible Scandal
- Libs of TikTok tweeted fake accusations about a school teaching second graders about furries
- Republican Lawmaker Resigns After Texting Alleged Pedophile 72 Times
- Disney tells investors state can’t dissolve special district without paying debt
- Rand Paul Has Advice for the Ukrainians (Rand Paul is a total nutjob and extremist.)
- Greg Abbott Has Gone Out of His Way to Look Like a Buffoon Recently
- Warren tries to ‘light the fire of urgency’ for Democrats
- Democrats don’t need to panic about young people
- Why Republicans are favored to win the Senate — and how Democrats could stop them
- Michigan Republican resigns from GOP committee citing ‘delusional lies’ (“Tony Daunt, a longtime Michigan Republican insider, resigned Tuesday night from the GOP’s state committee, saying party leaders had made the coming election a test of ‘who is most cravenly loyal’ to former President Donald Trump.”)
- The Chilling Fate of the Nurse Who Accidentally Killed a Patient (“What the RaDonda Vaught case says about our health care system.”)
- Bernie Sanders celebrates seven Starbucks union victories at The National
- After deaths of 7 service members assigned to USS George Washington, Rep. Luria wants answers
- 10th District GOP Candidates Meet at Patrick Henry College Debate (“John Beatty, Dave Beckwith, Húng Cao, Mike Clancy, Theresa Coates Ellis, John Henley, Jeanine Lawson, Caleb Max, Brandon Michon, and Brooke Taylor took questions on topics, such as a question referencing the Biden administration’s ‘failures in Afghanistan and Ukraine;’ when life begins, to which they all answered ‘at conception;’ and U.S. energy independence, for which the majority answer was to do more fossil fuel extraction in the U.S.” Crazy.)
- Vega kicks off congressional bid, Cuccinelli to chair campaign (Cuccinelli is an extremist, homophobe, xenophobe, climate science denier and Trump/Cruz loyalist. Horrible, in other words.)
- Virginia lawmakers to take up Youngkin vetoes, amendments
- General Assembly reconvenes for veto session (“Lawmakers to consider Youngkin’s amendments and vetoes Wednesday, but no movement on budget deal.”)
- Veto Session: A List of Governor Youngkin’s Most Egregious, Controversial Vetoes and Amendments
- Video: Gov. Northam’s Secretary of Education, Atif Qarni, Says “CRT” Is “Manufactured…[by] a group in America that’s really fearful of the change that’s happening and really resisting it” (“The biggest threat to America right now is nothing external. It’s internal. It’s the hate, the vitriol, that has built up in one part of America, that’s been propagated through Fox News and so forth.”)
- Rumor of Clean Virginia backing Scott for Dem leader lacks evidence
- Lawmakers return to Richmond to take up vetoes and Democrats’ drama
- Marijuana advocates oppose Youngkin amendment
- Youngkin’s new marijuana crimes face skeptical Democratic Senate
- Editorial: East Coast tech hub (“Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google have all made substantial investments in Virginia, recognizing the commonwealth’s tech potential.”)
- New survey shows Virginians value medical research, biotechnology fields
- Why using the phone in Virginia prisons can be dangerous
- The Virginia General Assembly should fill vacant Supreme Court seats
- Youngkin announces $631K grant to enhance school safety in Va.
- New VA Solar Survey Finds “Virginia is on a path of clean energy transition” (“The growth of large-scale solar has become an important consideration for many Virginia localities”)
- What New Virginia Laws Reveal About How the Natural Gas Industry Sees Its Future (“Competition from ever-cheaper wind and solar have stalled the gas industry’s growth in the power sector.”)
- Northern Virginia leaders target taxes to soften rising cost of living
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 94% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations Down to 185 From ~4,000 in January
- One of Virginia’s poorest cities is also its least healthy, new rankings show
- Danica Roem did opposition research on herself. It’s one way she reclaimed her story
- Danica Roem’s new book shares her journey from ‘closet-case trans girl’ to legislator
- ‘It is about accountability.’ Friends, family rally for answers in aftermath of triple homicide in downtown Norfolk
- One Virginia Beach brother gets prison time, the other gets probation for role in U.S. Capitol riot
- D.C.-area forecast: Bright, breezy and cool through tomorrow
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