by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 2.
Congrats Arizona! You made the Wyoming debate look sane in comparison to yours. What in the actual… https://t.co/GMmP7tfDl3
— Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️ (@AdamKinzinger) July 2, 2022
- The Scientist Rebellion: “We’re Not Exaggerating” About The Climate Crisis
- With Climate Agenda Stalled at Home, Biden Still Hopes to Lead Abroad
- Vladimir Putin is the world’s best wind turbine salesman
- Climate graphic of the week: Asia-Pacific remains stuck on coal for half its power needs
- Monkeypox cases triple in Europe, WHO says, Africa concerned
- ‘Perfect storm’ of crises is widening global inequality, says UN chief
- Charting the Global Economy: Factories Slow Down From US to Asia
- Skyrocketing Global Fuel Prices Threaten Livelihoods and Social Stability (Just a reminder that the fuel costs of the sun, wind, etc. are essentially free.)
- Ukraine Has Exposed Russia as a Not-So-Great Power (“Kyiv’s success against Moscow forces us to reexamine our assumptions about what it means to be powerful”)
- Russia’s messages with missiles tell West to back off
- Recent attacks on pro-Russian officials in southern Ukraine indicate signs of growing resistance
- Brittney Griner is a hostage, plain and simple
- Brittney Griner in court as Russia may want to use case to negotiate prisoner exchange with US (“Basketball star appeared in Moscow court on Friday after being arrested four months ago on suspicion of cannabis possession” F*** Putin.)
- Blasts rock Ukraine city as Russian missiles drive up civilian death toll (Putin should be charged and, if at all possible, arrested for war crimes.)
- Exclusive: Ukraine requests Turkey detain Russian-flagged ship it says carrying Ukrainian grain
- New rocket systems from U.S. change calculus on Ukrainian front lines
- How the climate crisis is forever changing our national parks
- Exxon Sees $5.5 Billion Refining Windfall as Gas Prices Soar
- Biden Administration Offers an Offshore Drilling Plan. Likely Backers: Very Few. (We shouldn’t be adding new drilling for oil/gas offshore at this point. Time to accelerate the switch to CLEAN energy – solar, wind, geothermal, etc.)
- EPA retains tools to cut power sector GHG emissions despite Supreme Court curbing its authority: attorneys (“However, the court’s use of the ‘major questions doctrine’ signals likely challenges to future regulations, according to lawyers.”)
- Dana Milbank: Et tu, Alito? The Supreme Court murders stare decisis.
- A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?
- What Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Can Do on a Radical-Right Court (“Can the liberal Justices hold the conservatives back—by appealing to shame or the Constitution—as the consequences of the majority’s recklessness become even more dangerous for American democracy?”)
- The Supreme Court case voting rights experts say could bring ‘chaos’ to elections
- Alarm as US supreme court takes a hatchet to church-state separation
- ‘We’re being hurled back decades’: the week the supreme court reshaped America
- As abortion rights collapse, Black and Brown women will suffer most
- A bold new push shows how blue states can resist the Supreme Court
- Democracy advocates raise alarm after Supreme Court takes election case (It’s bizarre that the WaPo headline frames this as “democracy advocates” being some special subset of Americans, as opposed to the majority of Americans wanting to keep our country a democracy. Very, very strange and unhelpful by the WaPo.)
- ‘Revolutionary’ high court term on abortion, guns and more (Disastrous is what it was…)
- Roe v Wade: Women travelling for abortions will be protected – Biden
- More than 700K sign petition calling for Clarence Thomas to be impeached
- Liz Cheney’s harsh new attack on Trump is a plea for GOP sanity
- Accounts of Trump angrily demanding to go to Capitol on January 6 circulated in Secret Service over past year (So much for the “news” story by “journalist” Peter Alexander of NBC “News,” huh?)
- Meadows intermediary may have tried to influence Hutchinson’s testimony to January 6 committee, sources say
- Cassidy Hutchinson vs. the Mob-Like MAGA Goons
- New Insights Emerge About Trump’s Attempt To Join The Capitol Riot (“Several sources familiar with Trump’s behavior at the time are expanding on the bombshell testimony from White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson.”)
- Trump Eyes Early 2024 Announcement as Jan. 6 Scrutiny Intensifies
- Lock Her Up? Totally Not-Worried Trump Rants About Jailing Cassidy Hutchinson in Tweetstorm-esque Posts
- Pat Cipollone can aid or impede Jan. 6 Committee’s search for truth
- Cassidy Hutchinson and the all-knowing presence of Washington’s aides
- There Are 11 Types of Donald Trump Enablers. Which One Are You?
- Maybe the Democrats aren’t doomed in November
- More men are seeking vasectomies now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe
- Restrictions on Contraception Could Set Women Back Generations
- The Biden-McConnell Deal to Make an Anti-Abortion Advocate a Federal Judge Is Still On
- Trump Media is subpoenaed in federal inquiry of Truth Social deal.
- As Ohio restricts abortions, 10-year-old girl travels to Indiana for procedure
- Gun permit process in NY could include social media check
- New York Fights Back on Guns and Abortion After Supreme Court Rulings
- New York advances constitutional amendment to protect abortion access
- Feds show up at home of North Texas woman who posted angry tweets after Roe decision
- Justice Dept. subpoenas two Arizona state senators in Jan. 6 probe (There are several Virginia delegates and at least one State Senator who probably should be on the Justice Department’s subpoena list as well for their role/participation in the 1/6/21 violent insurrection and coup attempt.)
- New Restrictions For Some Florida Schools As ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Goes Into Effect
- Ron DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law Has Already Made Florida Schools Dystopian Hellscapes
- Facebook swift to respond to Roe fallout with abortion censorship (“The move comes just after Meta vowed to cover travel expenses for employees seeking out-of-state abortions”)
- Google says it will delete location history for visits to abortion clinics after overturning of Roe v. Wade
- Texas Supreme Court blocks order that allowed abortions to resume
- This Is What Liz Cheney Is Up Against In Wyoming (“You know, the 2000 Mules movie, is something that I think we have great concerns about.” Insane people, in other words…)
- Tucker Carlson lists Trump’s coup plotters who he says should never be punished for anything, ever (Carlson is an insurrectionist himself.)
- Jill Biden urges parents to vaccinate their young children during Richmond visit
- Molly Ball Pens the Most Pathetically Bad Article Ever Written About Glenn Youngkin? (On the other hand, Youngkin’s paid PR guy loves it, and Molly Ball retweeted his praise! LOL)
- Massive Cluster@#!%: Youngkin’s New Executive Order Puts Trump’s EPA Director (and Fossil Fuel Industry Tool) Andrew Wheeler in Charge of Cutting Regulations in Virginia, Mistakenly Links to Donald Trump’s Website!
- Youngkin appoints Wheeler to head new Office of Regulatory Management
- Youngkin appoints Trump EPA chief to new post after failed Cabinet bid
- Youngkin pushes for more say in Virginia community colleges search
- Youngkin administration warns feds new wind areas could hurt commercial fisheries (“Potential new offshore wind sites could cause ‘millions of dollars of negative impact’ to Virginia fishing industries” The Youngkin administration is hostile to offshore wind because it will compete with coal and natural gas, obviously. Screw them.)
- Judge DENIES Envigo’s Motion; All 4,000 Surviving Beagles May Soon Be Bound for Adoption
- Schapiro: Virginian who backed Roe saw it as striking balance
- Schapiro: 1/6 star witness set example Youngkin could follow (“Youngkin’s rhetorical gymnastics — on an issue that might put out of reach for his party Luria’s and two other Democrat-held suburban congressional seats — do not conceal a reality: He refuses to deal straight with Virginians, the majority of whom favored Roe v. Wade. We know Youngkin stands to the right on abortion, but how far right depends on his audience.”)
- Chesterfield and Henrico residents are fed up with speeding
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 86% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations Down to 591 From ~4,000 in January; Both Up From a Couple Months Ago
- Seibert appointed to Va. Board of Education, college board appointments also made
- Chesapeake grapples with influx of discards at city recycling drop-off sites
- Amtrak to offer third daily train from Norfolk, restore train from Newport News
- Roanoke School Board extends superintendent’s contract, approves budget
- D.C.-area forecast: Strong storms late today, then better weather through the Fourth
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