by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, August 24.
- Throwing the switch on Scotland’s largest offshore windfarm (“A rare bright spot for the UK’s energy supply as Seagreen’s £3bn project begins generating power” Good, more more more of this!)
- Solar power is booming in Germany as Russia turns down the gas
- A near 100 per cent renewables grid is well within reach, and with little storage
- Holding Russia to Account for War Crimes in Ukraine (“Reporting from Ukraine, a veteran war correspondent chronicles a campaign to collect evidence of Russian atrocities that might stand up in court against Putin, his commanders, and their troops.”)
- UK and US banks among biggest backers of Russian ‘carbon bombs’, data shows (“Ukrainian campaigners call for immediate end to investments, to cut funds to war and help avoid climate breakdown” Absolutely, pull that funding IMMEDIATELY and never do it again!)
- Analysis: Putin bets winter gas chokehold will yield Ukraine peace – on his terms
- ‘Reborn’ Ukraine defiantly marks independence day six months after invasion
- Six months into Russia’s war in Ukraine, here’s a look at the map of control
- An independent Ukraine, with its achievements and flaws, is worth the fight
- Six Months of Putin’s War Unravels Russia’s Superpower Image
- The Ukraine war, six months on
- Ukraine marks Independence Day six months after start of war
- Western sanctions are wounding but not yet crushing Russia’s economy
- A Murder in Russia (“Why an assassination in Moscow matters to Ukraine and the West”)
- Battle for Kyiv: Ukrainian valor, Russian blunders combined to save the capital
- US to send $3 billion in aid to Ukraine as war hits 6 months
- As War Hits Milestone, Ukraine and Russia Are Both Reshaped (“Half a year after Russian forces first made their move, here is how the conflict appears to the combatants, and to a continent plunged into turmoil. In Ukraine, a delicate sense of normalcy masks a staggering toll. In Russia, new ultranationalist rules have snuffed out any vestiges of dissent.”)
- Ukraine says Russian shackles worse than missiles six months after invasion
- Thai PM suspended while court mulls if he defied term limits
- Dugong: Animal that inspired mermaid tales extinct in China (Ugh, that sucks.)
- What China’s worst drought on record looks like
- Biden orders airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in Syria after attacks near base housing US troops last week
- Will Bolsonaro stage a coup? Bernie Sanders is warning of the worst.
- Biden Administration Plans for New Booster Campaign Soon After Labor Day
- How the right turned on Dr. Fauci
- Biden administration forecasts $1.03T deficit, down $400B
- A big boost to wind and solar is coming. Be patient, says Rystad (“While the recently signed IRA is expected to add 155 GW of additional utility scale capacity, it will take time to gear up as both wind and solar have industry dynamics to manage.”)
- Must We Suffer to Bring Inflation Down?
- Biden to Unveil Long-Awaited Student Debt Relief Measures on Wednesday
- Biden to Announce Decision on Student Loan Debt, Affecting Millions of Borrowers
- Chris Wray was hired to be boring. Now, he’s guiding the FBI through threats and MAGA hate.
- FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search followed months of resistance, delay by Trump
- Trump’s risk of indictment for his document snatch just skyrocketed
- Trump’s latest Mar-a-Lago spin has a huge hole in it
- Trump Tells His Lawyers: Get ‘My’ Top Secret Documents Back (They most certainly are NOT his!)
- Judge orders Trump to give details about Mar-a-Lago search warrant lawsuit
- Trump, Without the Presidency’s Protections, Struggles for a Strategy
- Trump Kept Over 700 Pages of Classified Documents, Letter Says (If anyone else had done this, they’d be in prison.)
- Trump appears to concede he illegally retained official documents in filing (The headline should read, “In filing, Trump appears to concede…”)
- When It Comes to Eating Away at Democracy, Trump Is a Winner
- The Truly Scary Part of the $1.6 Billion Conservative Donation (Very disturbing and 100% unacceptable.)
- Trump Wants a Independent Review of ‘His’ Files
- Judge gives Trump until Friday to better explain why he wants a special master for Mar-a-Lago documents
- Jan. 6 Panel Questions Trump Cabinet Members on 25th Amendment Talks
- Jan. 6 panel investigators traveled to Copenhagen to view Stone footage
- Abortion Rises in Importance as a Voting Issue, Driven by Democrats
- Democrats Are Riding the Backlash to the End of Roe (“A special election is the latest in a string of surprises that could matter come November.”)
- New poll indicates a Liz Cheney presidential run would hurt Biden more than Trump (Bizarre. In fact, Liz Cheney is hard right in almost every way, other than defending democracy and hating Trump. Obviously, no Democrat, progressive or moderate should vote for her.)
- The Koch network and other Trump allies are quietly backing his biggest GOP critic: Rep. Liz Cheney (Ewwwww.)
- McConnell dismisses threats to U.S. democracy, calling it ‘solid.’ (McConnell has done a GREAT deal of damage to our democracy.)
- After ‘1,000-year’ storm in Dallas, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott chooses not to mention ‘climate change’ (Abbott is pure evil.)
- Oz Campaign: Fetterman Wouldn’t Have Had A Stroke If He ‘Had Ever Eaten A Vegetable’ (“The highly questionable jab landed about as well as an overpriced crudité platter without any tequila.”)
- Congress’s First Gen Z Member Could Be An Anti-Gun Violence Activist From Florida (“Progressive Maxwell Frost, 25, won a Democratic primary in central Florida and will likely win the general election in November.”)
- Does the Twitter Whistleblower Help Elon Musk?
- Twitter Comes Under Washington Spotlight
- Democrats have seized the momentum — now that needs to flow down-ballot (“Our analysis shows a narrow path for Democrats to win back state-level power. It’s crucial — but it won’t be easy”)
- Democrats gain momentum: 5 takeaways from the last big primary night of 2022 (“Trump’s candidates are still chalking up wins, but the headwinds facing Democrats appear to have eased.”)
- 4 winners and 2 losers from the New York and Florida primaries
- Dems notch major special election win, 2 incumbents fall in big primary night
- Seven takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries
- Live Updates: Nadler Routs Maloney in New York; Upstate Voters Send Abortion Message
- Republican Who Praised Hitler Somehow Loses Congressional Primary
- Democratic win in bellwether N.Y. House district showcases power of abortion rights message
- Dan Goldman Defeats a Splintered Field of Progressives (“It was a nail-biter against Yuh-Line Niou, but the veteran prosecutor who put $4 million into his campaign race emerged victorious.”)
- Democrat Pat Ryan defeats Republican Marc Molinaro in bellwether House race
- Democratic win in New York signals power of abortion issue in midterm vote
- Rep. Jerry Nadler beats Rep. Carolyn Maloney in bitter New York House primary
- Democrat Pat Ryan wins bellwether special election in New York’s Hudson Valley
- ‘He’s a wannabe dictator’: Democrat has DeSantis in his sights in Florida primary
- Florida Democrats choose Rep. Crist to challenge DeSantis
- Florida governor Ron DeSantis attacks media in ‘Top Gun’ campaign ad (So DeSantis is just as bad as Trump?)
- MAGA Republican Senate candidates should have to explain themselves (“Let them defend their wacko positions.”)
- Rick Scott’s ill-timed Italian vacation
- What Herschel Walker’s clueless campaign says about the GOP
- Herschel Walker’s anti-tree campaign is genius
- Gaetz wins GOP primary in Florida after fending off attacks over sex trafficking investigation (Republican voters strike again…)
- Ex-Detective Admits Misleading Judge Who Approved Breonna Taylor Raid
- Duo found guilty over plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (Lock them up for a loooong time.)
- OAN host uses Nazi youth book burning to push book banning
- D.C. region leaders want to halve transportation emissions by 2030 despite road widening plans
- Political Opportunist Jen Kiggans Fact-Checked for False Claim (Kiggans’ “record of pushing dangerous misinformation…should be a concern to all Virginians and disqualify her from office.”)
- PolitiFact VA: Rep. Ben Cline overstates how large the IRS could grow after Inflation Reduction Act (If Cline’s lips are moving, he’s lying or smearing Dems – or both.)
- Politico Reports Youngkin Will Campaign for Hard-Right Nevada Gov Candidate Who’s 100% Anti-Abortion, Anti-“Red Flag Laws,” Pro-“Don’t-Say-Gay” Laws, Anti-Immigrant, etc. (This guy’s slogan – “Safe from Antifa. Safe from Anarchy. Safe from Socialism” – gives you a feel of where he’s coming from…)
- Youngkin traveling to five more states amid talk of possible 2024 bid
- Commentary: Statue removal is about restoring dignity to those destroyed by the confederacy
- “The party that voted against healthcare for toxic-exposed veterans just opened a ‘community center’ to use the same veterans as unpaid labor for their political campaigns” (This is “part of a concerted effort by Republicans nationwide to recruit marginalized populations into the GOP volunteer ranks”
- Dominion: Consumer protection for wind farm ‘untenable’
- Wild Virginia Blasts “Appalling” FERC Four-Year Extension of Fracked-Gas Mountain Valley Pipeline Certificate
- Tuesday Virginia COVID-19 Stats: 10-Day New Cases at 25,989; Hospitalizations at 815 (Near Highest Level Since Early March)
- Police: Effort to alert school about arrest was unsuccessful (So the Chesterfield police failed to inform the Fairfax school system, yet Youngkin is attacking the Fairfax school system?)
- Why we need a national clean energy summit in Southwest Virginia
- Opinion/Editorial: GOP should not try to enlist UVa in its culture war
- Buchanan metallurgical coal mine to expand after deal with Virginia
- Suffolk council candidate disqualified from ballot after allegations of forged petition signatures
- Williams: Where the Richmond School Board and Jason Kamras are concerned, now is no time for a divorce
- Watch Now: 11 candidates for Roanoke City Council’s Nov. 8 ballot introduce themselves
- Richmond School Board votes down motion to scrap division’s curriculum
- An ODU student was shot dead in 2011. Now, an accused killer is set for trial after charges against 2 others were dismissed.
- Man charged in shooting deaths of two landscapers in Alexandria (Pure evil.)
- Book chronicling transgender teens to remain on Chesterfield school shelves
- Farmville’s unique formula for economic success
- D.C.-area forecast: Not too humid today, then settling into a classic summer pattern
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