by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, May 26.
- Revealed: the PR Firm Behind the UK’s Net Zero Backlash
- Germany: G-7 nations can lead the way on ending coal use
- G7 ministers may pledge to phase out coal, decarbonise power -draft (This should have happened years ago!)
- Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
- How to Prevent Gun Massacres? Look Around the World (“Australia, Britain, Canada, and other countries have enacted reforms that turned mass shootings into rare, aberrational events, rather than everyday occurrences.”)
- Pope Francis and a cardinal say it’s time for the U.S. to act on guns
- Monkeypox does not pose a Covid-style risk despite its swift spread, top health execs say
- Analysis: Russia prepares to seize western firms looking to leave
- In Ukraine’s East, a Doomed River Crossing Shows the Perils of Entrapment
- Russia Cuts Interest Rates to Ease Pain of Sanctions
- Russia’s Economy Is Tanking—but the Ruble Is Soaring
- Putin can’t be allowed to win war, Germany says; Russia claims it will let foreign ships to leave Ukraine ports (Is NATO considering ways to break this blockade?
- Exclusive: Russian hackers are linked to new Brexit leak website, Google says
- Now is the time to help Ukraine by stepping up sanctions on Russia
- Ukraine savages idea of concessions to end war, evokes appeasement of Nazis
- Deal proposed by China would dramatically expand security influence in Pacific
- Israel Tells U.S. It Killed Iranian Officer, Official Says
- I am a climate scientist – and this is my plea to our newly elected politicians
- Climate burns the right (“Australia’s Liberals are the latest major party to pay the price for slow climate action.” Democrats need to make this a huge issue, along with gun violence and women’s reproductive freedom, in the United States.)
- US moves to make antiviral drug more available against COVID
- US Wetlands Locked in Epic Battle With a Changing Climate (“And to the surprise of some scientists, they seem to be losing.”)
- High inflation will persist into next year, CBO projects
- Done waiting for Congress, Biden signs a policing order
- ‘The G.O.P. Has Gone Even Farther to the Right Than I Expected’: Three Writers Talk About the Midterms
- The Twisted Logic Behind The Right’s ‘Great Replacement’ Arguments
- Trump Said to Have Reacted Approvingly to Jan. 6 Chants About Hanging Pence
- Why Trump’s private comment about hanging Mike Pence really matters
- David Rothkopf: “The reason that Republicans were willing to storm the Capitol to overturn a fair election…is because they fear the majority” (What Rs fear is that, “on issue after issue, what’s best for the country is what most people want.”)
- After the Georgia primaries, U.S. democracy is safer. But still not safe.
- The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control (“The basic rules of American democracy provide a veto over national policy to a minority of states.” Which makes Z-E-R-O sense.)
- How Democrats can address our hopelessness about child massacres (“Amid the Uvalde horror, Democrats need to tell voters what a specific path to action looks like.”)
- How the Supreme Court made it impossible to solve America’s gun violence problem
- In More Than 100 G.O.P. Midterm Ads This Year: Guns, Guns, Guns
- Donald Trump and Fellow GOP Monsters Will Still Attend NRA Event in Texas on Friday (“Meanwhile, guns will be banned during Trump’s appearance, for his safety”)
- The deceitful dodges Republicans use to resist gun controls
- The American Killing Fields
- Yes, this absolutely is who we are (“We won’t solve gun violence by looking for the goodness in our national heart.”)
- Biden Has Few Good Options to Curb Mass Shootings That Plague US
- NRA Meeting in Houston Likely to Be Met With Protests After School Shooting
- The Conservative Playbook for Deflecting Anger After Mass Shootings (“Ignoring the obvious connection between gun deaths and lax gun laws in three easy steps.”)
‘This is on you’: Beto O’Rourke confronts Texas governor over mass shooting (“Democratic gubernatorial candidate confronts Republican Greg Abbott during press conference, saying: ‘You are doing nothing’”)- 5 Supreme Court decisions from this term that are terrifyingly radical — and not about abortion (“Here is what a Supreme Court now stacked with a strong conservative majority has quietly changed”)
- Supreme Court may soon loosen gun laws as nation reels from massacres (This is a far-right, largely illegitimate court.)
- A grisly checklist and a sickening rampage
- School Shootings Confirm That Guns Are the Religion of the Right
- Guns have become the leading cause of death for American kids
- Texas shooting: Police urged to enter school during attack, witnesses say (“Police were urged to charge into a deadly school shooting in Texas by onlookers, witnesses say, with one suggesting he considered doing so himself as he became frustrated.”)
- America’s gun exceptionalism, by the numbers
- The Uvalde school district had an extensive safety plan. 19 children were killed anyway.
- After Texas shooting, Republicans face online anger over NRA money
- A teacher in Uvalde, Texas, describes ‘the longest 35 minutes of my life’
- Beto O’Rourke confronts Abbott during news conference on Uvalde mass shooting: ‘This is on you’
- Elon Musk backs ‘tight’ background checks for all gun sales in wake of mass shooting in Texas
- Texas Republicans offer the same old shameful responses to shootings
- Abbott calls Texas school shooting a mental health issue but cut state spending for it
- Weakened gun laws put Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on the defensive
- Gov. Greg Abbott won’t say whether he plans to attend NRA convention in Houston on Friday
- Hours after Uvalde school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott attended a fundraiser 300 miles away
- AR rifle maker tied to Texas school shooting facing scrutiny, possible future lawsuits
- Republicans pledge allegiance to a hobbled NRA
- Just after Texas shooting, California Senate passes Texas-style bill targeting assault weapons, ghost guns
- Sinema Says ‘DC Solutions’ Are Not ‘Realistic’ When Asked If She’d Reform Filibuster To Pass Gun Control (Sinema is seriously f’ed up.)
- Trans woman’s photo used to spread baseless online theory about Texas shooter
- How Raffensperger went from Trump outcast to MAGA vanquisher
- ‘Trump picked this fight’: Why heavyweight Republicans no longer fear Trump
- Fox News blames everything but guns for Uvalde massacre
- Fox’s focus on mental health after mass shootings is a cynical dodge
- Oz, McCormick race heads into recount in Pa. Senate primary
- Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams are in a rematch. A lot has changed since 2018.
- Georgia deals critical blow to Trump’s kingmaker status
- Moderate-turned-MAGA Rep. Elise Stefanik’s stock is rising in Trump world (Stefanik is evil, ergo perfect for Trump.)
- Oklahoma governor signs the nation’s strictest abortion ban
- Wisconsin Republican quits election board over party’s 2020 falsehoods
- Jordan demands docs from Jan. 6 panel in face of subpoena (“Gym” Jordan is scum in every way.)
- Senators Warner, Kaine Join 80 Colleagues in Urging Biden Administration to Swiftly Advance NATO Applications for Sweden, Finland
- “We’ve done nothing”: Kaine calls for gun control action after another mass shooting
- After Mass Shooting In Elementary School Leaving 19 Children Dead, Lt. Gov. Sears Will Be Keynote Speaker at NRA Event in Texas This Weekend (DPVA: “We call upon the Lt. Governor to not attend this event, but also to denounce the NRA [which] is complacent in the face of another mass shooting.”)
- Youngkin meets with cabinet members to discuss school safety; stresses funding for SROs (Utterly pathetic by Youngkin.)
- Restoring rights a good gubernatorial move, but automatic restoration would be better
- Gridlocked on guns, Virginia lawmakers debate other ways to address violence (A more accurate, more informative headline would be: “Republicans refuse to enact literally ANY gun violence prevention measures”)
- ER Nurse Kellen Squire: Seeing Images of Family Members Desperately Waiting for News of Their Children in Uvalde Flashes Back to an Incident During the “Unite the Right” Attack in Charlottesville (It won’t be easy, but this situation HAS to be addressed.)
- Southwest Virginia ‘ahead of the curve’ on post-pandemic jobs recovery
- AG’s office backs teacher fired for refusing to use transgender student’s preferred pronouns (Of course Miyares would do that…)
- Commanders stadium project on life support as $350 million subsidy loses key supporters in Virginia legislature
- Key Virginia senators raise doubts about Commanders stadium bill (“The effort to lure the Washington Commanders to Virginia could be in trouble when the General Assembly returns to the Capitol next week.” Good, they need to kill this utter idiocy.)
- Virginia lawmaker comes out against Commanders stadium legislation
- Virginia politicians pick self-preservation over principle
- Radio producers get restraining orders against Sen. Joe Morrissey after studio blowup
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 81% Compared to 1/19, But Near 3-Month High; Hospitalizations Down to 519 From ~4,000 in January, But Also Increasing (10-day new cases at highest point since 2/16; hospitalizations at highest point since 3/10)
- Opinion/Editorial: COVID vaccines could have saved 7,123 Virginians
- Luke Priddy enters race for Roanoke council
- Lawsuit alleges Alexandria has been polluting Potomac with coal tar
- D.C.-area forecast: Cloudy and mild today before a threat of severe storms on Friday
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