Monday News: “The Supreme Court declares war on modern America”; Post-Roe, “Black women could see a 33% increase in pregnancy-related deaths”; Far-Right Extremist Yesli Vega Questions Possibility of Pregnancy After Rape, Absurdly Claims “The individual, the male, is doing it as quickly”; “The racial ignorance of Virginia’s health czar”

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 27.

• Corporate Net-Zero Goals Don’t Add Up to a Net-Zero Planet
• Ukraine War’s Latest Victim? The Fight Against Climate Change.
• India’s electricity shortages ease as wind and hydro output rises
• How the G-7 can tip the scales toward Ukraine
• G-7 Expected to Adopt Fresh Russia Sanctions
• ‘Show them our pecs’: G7 leaders mock Putin’s bare-chested horse-riding
• Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918
• G-7 leaders confer with Zelenskyy, prep new aid for Ukraine
• Help us end war by year’s end, Zelensky urges world leaders
• Concerns grow that India is ‘back door’ into Europe for Russian oil
• G-7 Expected to Agree on Exploring a Price Cap on Russian Oil
• Dazzling Mountain Views Can’t Hide Darker Mood Among G-7 Leaders (“G-7 moved from the beaches of Cornwall to Bavarian Alps; Putin’s war has erased the lightheartedness of last year”)
• Russia’s neighbors fear NATO’s defense plans are not fit for purpose and they could be overrun
• Military Intelligence backs revived Iran deal, breaking with IDF chief, Mossad
• Alarm in Beijing after announcement zero-Covid policy may last five years
• Does Hungary Offer a Glimpse of Our Authoritarian Future? (“American conservatives recently hosted their flagship conference in Hungary, a country that experts call an autocracy. Its leader, Viktor Orbán, provides a potential model of what a Trump after Trump might look like.”)
• Analysis: Food export bans, from India to Argentina, risk fueling inflation
• Better late than never: Biden administration unveils new push for offshore wind
• Supreme Court ruling turns the U.S. into a cautionary tale around the world
• The case against the Supreme Court of the United States (“The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, the dead hand of the Confederacy, and now is one of the chief architects of America’s democratic decline.”)
• The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act for 9 years. This case could be the next blow.
• The Politicization of the Supreme Court Is Eroding Its Legitimacy (“Is Eroding Its Legitimacy?” Try “Has Completely Destroyed Its Legitimacy.” We should treat it as a rogue, extremist, far-right, political actor at this point.)
• Supreme Court Ruling Unleashes Frenzy of Activity on Both Sides of Abortion Fight
• Political Lessons for Democrats in a Post-Roe America (“Democrats can look across the aisle if they want pointers on how to overcome the challenges of an unrepresentative political system, a stacked Court, and their internal divisions.”)
• ‘I’m very afraid’: same-sex couples express anxiety about a post-Roe landscape
• We Americans are dancing on the Titanic. Our iceberg is not far away (“The greatest shock of all would be to wake up and find that while we were driving the kids to soccer practice and enjoying cocktails, autocracy took hold”)
• Capitol attack hearings: if Republicans did nothing wrong, why were pardons sought?
• Black women could see a 33% increase in pregnancy-related deaths post-Roe. Why?
• Roe v Wade ruling hurts Black women disproportionately, experts say
• ‘A matter of life and death’: maternal mortality rate will rise without Roe, experts warn
• America’s chaotic new reality over abortion takes shape (“The Supreme Court’s decision triggered after-shocks that have begun to change the character of national life”)
• Democrats seize on abortion ruling in midterms, as Republicans tread carefully (This WaPo headline is really inaccurate. Republicans “tread carefully?” How so?!? In fact, most of the Republican candidates in Virginia – such as in VA02, VA07 and VA10 – expressed GREAT pleasure at the overturning of Roe!)
• The Supreme Court declares war on modern America
• With the end of Roe, the US edges closer and closer to civil war (“The question is no longer whether there will be a civil conflict in America. The question is how the sides will divide, and who will prevail — The cracks in the foundations of the United States are widening, rapidly and on several fronts.”)
• CBS News poll: Americans react to overturning of Roe v. Wade — most disapprove, call it step backward
• A ‘sucker punch’: Some women fear setback to hard-won rights
• Thomas remains an outlier in targeting other privacy rights — but for how long?
• Supreme Court ‘set a torch’ to last of its legitimacy with Roe reversal, Elizabeth Warren argues
• Women who had their abortions canceled are now scrambling.
• Roe’s Final Hours in One of America’s Largest Abortion Clinics
• In states that allow abortion for rape and incest, finding a doctor may prove impossible
• Battleground Republicans squeezed hardest on abortion after Roe falls
• Roe Is Reversed, and the Right Isn’t Ready
• How Did Roe Fall? — Before a Decisive Ruling, a Powerful Red Wave.
• Juan Williams: Hillary Clinton can rescue Democrats in the midterms
• McCarthy’s coming headaches (“Far-right candidates are surging in House races across the map: Republican leaders increasingly fear that a red wave will wash in a raft of conspiracy theorists and extremists”)
• CBS News poll: Half say Trump tried to stay in office through illegal means, should be charged with crimes (It should be 100%.)
• What Has Made the January 6 Hearings Such Great Television?
• Brian Kilmeade Becomes Latest Fox Host To Rip Trump Over Baseless Election Claims (“Fox News host Brian Kilmeade attacked Donald Trump on Sunday and said he has seen no evidence that proves the former president’s claims of election fraud.”)
• Why did they wait? Uvalde anger grows over bungled police response
• Rudy Giuliani Has Grocery Store Worker Arrested For Slap On The Back
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders Vows A ‘Kid’ In The Womb Will Be As Safe As Those In Classrooms (Huckabee Sanders is a really bad joke.)
• Scoop: Spanberger rival Yesli Vega doubts pregnancy after rape
• Video: Reps. Don Beyer, Gerry Connolly; Delegates Don Scott, Dan Helmer Urge Democrats to Organize Like During 2017-2020, Win Back Majorities and Pass Progressive Legislation
• The impact of the January 6th committee on Virginia’s 2nd Congressional race (Interesting headline, but not much information in the very short/cursory article.)
• The post-Roe abortion debate in Virginia
• “Voting will not change everything, but it can have huge impacts,” Such as the HUNDREDS of Pieces of Progressive Legislation Passed/Signed Into Law During the 2020-2021 Democratic “Trifecta” Years in Virginia
• The racial ignorance of Virginia’s health czar
• 2022 exposed the dysfunctions of Virginia’s agrarian, part-time legislative model. Again.
• Video: On MSNBC, VA Del. Danica Roem Says “This is an all hands on deck, we have to win everywhere, at every level of government” (“I am here to tell you that you have to be your best advocate, you have to step up and you have to get engaged.”)
• No further bird flu spread in Virginia, but danger hasn’t passed, says state vet
• Molly Ringwald boosts Sen. Ghazala Hashmi at Richmond fundraiser
• Opinion/Editorial: Youngkin appointee’s insults to innocent kids must disqualify him
• Virginians craft a plan to boost farmers while reducing beers’ carbon footprint (“A Southwest Virginia effort to supply brewers with locally grown barley aims to limit shipping-related emissions and offer an opportunity for farmers during what’s usually the fallow season.”)
• The Richmond Department of Veterans Affairs is scaling down its research on laboratory dogs
• ‘Like waking up in a brave, new and terrible world’: Protesters gather in Norfolk after overturning of Roe v. Wade
• Lawsuit seeks to stop Charlottesville Lee statue from being melted down
• Loudoun judge throws progressive prosecutor’s office off case
• ‘Particularly vigilant’ — Reston church damaged, Arlington diocese says parishes are ‘alert’
• Amended suit claims Fairfax school covered up, minimized sexual assault complaint (“In response to the claims, the Fairfax County School Board told InsideNoVa that it takes the allegations very seriously but said, ‘The allegations made today differ significantly from those reported to the school at the time.'”)
• D.C.-area forecast: Showers today, cooler Tuesday, then gradually heating back up