by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, September 8.
- What Antarctica’s Disintegration Asks of Us
- Who Is Responsible for Pakistan’s Floods?
- NSW to be first state to regulate CO2 as pollutant under sweeping new proposals
- Out of thin air: new solar-powered invention creates hydrogen fuel from the atmosphere
- Opinion: Who should foot the bill for climate disasters? Rich nations, of course
- Climate Change Could Worsen Supply Chain Turmoil
- A tale of two realities (“Getting all of humanity to adopt a carbon diet is the challenge of our time. If we’re lucky and make the right choices, we may still have time to redirect the human murmuration toward a sustainable economy.”)
- US lobster put on ‘red list’ to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales (“The 1m lines from pots used to catch the crustaceans are one of the two main threats to the whales, of which fewer than 340 remain”)
- Shock Waves Hit the Global Economy, Posing Grave Risk to Europe
- European governments are taking back control of energy markets, reversing years of free-market policies.
- New Gas Terminals Arrive to Ease Putin’s Grip on Europe
- Kyiv seizes the moment with surprise counterattacks; Putin threatens to let Europe ‘freeze’
- Europe mulls drastic moves to control prices as Russia energy war heats up
- The sanctions against Russia still have holes. Here’s how to plug them.
- Europe Says Putin’s Gas Power Is Weakening
- UK, the West mustn’t succumb to Ukraine war fatigue
- Putin Says He Will Meet With Xi and Insists Russia ‘Has Not Lost Anything’ (Putin is completely delusional.)
- Washington hits back at ‘desperate’ Putin after he slammed U.S. ‘dictatorship’
- ‘Lukashenko Is Easier to Unseat Than Putin’ (“A band of Belarusians is resisting the threat of a neo-Soviet empire by taking up arms in Ukraine.”)
- Blinken, in Kyiv, unveils $2B in US military aid for Europe
- Blinken makes unannounced trip to Ukraine as nuclear fears rise
- Hundreds Of Thousands Of Ukrainians Have Been Forcibly Deported To Russia, U.S. Says
- Russia Destroyed Mariupol. Now It’s Using It for Propaganda.
- Canada’s horrific knife rampage over as last suspect dies
- White House warns Truss over efforts to ‘undo’ Northern Ireland protocol (“Biden administration says undoing the protocol would not be ‘conducive’ to a trade deal between the UK and US”)f
- Is Israel’s interminable election cycle about to end? Watch the details.
- America Is a Rich Death Trap (“It’s not just the pandemic. For citizens of a wealthy country, Americans of every age, at every income level, are unusually likely to die, from guns, drugs, cars, and disease.”)
- EVs aren’t straining the electric grid — and they just might save it
- How U.S. ethanol plants are allowed to pollute more than oil refineries
- Urban Highways Segregate America’s Cities. Tear Them Down.
- Congress’s first job right now: Safeguarding democracy
- The latest Trump revelations should prompt more talk of reform
- Mar-a-Lago a magnet for spies, officials warn
- Trump Was Holding Stuff Other Governments Want
- We Need to Know Trump’s Motive For Taking Classified Documents
- Trump Told White House Team He Needed to Protect ‘Russiagate’ Documents
- F.B.I. Sought Interview With Trump Aide
- Justice Dept. Faces Tough Calls in Weighing Response to Trump Ruling
- Scoop: Dems’ accidental GOP data mine ( A slip-up by social media giant Snap allowed leading Democratic campaigns and party committees to unwittingly tap into a vast repository of Republican voter data to hone their midterm ads, Axios has learned”)
- Republicans dodge implications of documents at Mar-a-Lago
- Gloves off, Biden embraces tough tone on ‘MAGA Republicans’
- GOP donor pool unexpectedly shrinks as midterms near (“Online fundraising usually increases steadily as elections get closer. That’s not what happened to Republicans earlier this year.”)
- The GOP’s threat to the American idea is nothing new (“The challenge of the Civil War still resonates.”)
- How reactionary is MAGA? Try the first century B.C.
- I’ve seen America’s future if the Trumpers win: It’s what Lebanon looks like right now
- The right-wing grift machine blows up in Steve Bannon’s face (“Bannon’s scheme is very much in keeping with 50 years of conservative grift.”)
- Trump Pushed Officials to Prosecute His Critics, Ex-U.S. Attorney Says
- Trump’s Gone Full QAnon. There’s No Point in Denying It.
- Obamacare is under attack by Republican judges again. Here’s what’s at stake.
- Marco Rubio downplays classified docs scandal as a ‘storage’ issue (Rubio is, incredibly, Vice Chair – under Sen. Mark Warner – of the Senate Intelligence Committee. That’s nuts.)
- Obamas unveil their portraits, and it feels like a reunion
- On judging Trump, Americans are moving from ‘unethical’ to ‘illegal’
- Trump Is Caught in a Double Bind (“The former president’s winning strategy is also a losing one.”)
- The Right-Wing War on Free Speech Could Backfire
- Schumer announces same-sex marriage vote
- California scrambles to avoid blackouts as it pursues a green energy future
- U.S. House members raise doubts about Manchin environmental permitting deal
- Schumer in tough spot over Manchin promise
- “I Really Hope That We Don’t Both-Sides Democracy”: Where Is CNN Headed?
- CNN’s on-air talent get the message (They should quit.)
- Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session
- Dr. Oz owns shares of companies that supply hydroxychloroquine, a drug he has backed as a Covid treatment
- Fetterman to POLITICO: I will debate Oz
- Police arrest county official in reporter’s stabbing death (“Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday evening in the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, whose investigation of the politician contributed to his primary election loss in June.” Yikes.)
- Newly Uncovered Emails Show Blake Masters’ Long History of Hating Democracy
- The Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Has Given Beto O’Rourke a Chance (“As a candidate for Texas governor, the Democrat was considered a long shot. But the state’s new restrictions have galvanized his campaign.”)
- Cousin Sex, Crudités, Fat Jokes About Stroke Victims: Dr. Oz’s Most WTF Moments (“Yes, he gave people the green light to have sex with their second and third cousins.”)
- Democrats Fret as Stacey Abrams Struggles in Georgia Governor’s Race
- Georgia’s biggest county can’t find a top elections official
- Colorado clerk Tina Peters pleads not guilty in election security breach case
- Anne Garrels, longtime foreign correspondent for NPR, dies at 71 (R.I.P.)
- How a ‘Ludicrous’ Sarah Palin Feud Could Hand Alaska to Dems (“Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich both refuse to drop out. That could lead to a Democrat winning Alaska’s House seat for the first time in decades.”)
- Police say Memphis shooting suspect killed 4 during rampage
- Trump-Appointed Judge Is Not Keen to Hear More about How She’s Bad at Law
- Trump special master ruling ‘troubling,’ legal experts say
- A rare legal consensus: The special master ruling is a mess
- The Trump ‘special master’ ruling violates the principle that no-one is above the law
- Why did a judge grant Trump’s request for a ‘special master’? (“Critics say the decision to stop reviewing documents seized from Mar-a-Lago until a special master is appointed is ‘unprecedented’ and ‘insane’” She should not be a federal judge, obviously.)
- Pregnant women held for months in one Alabama jail to protect fetuses from drugs
- Video: In Joint Press Conference, Maine and Virginia Dems Blast “[Paul] LePage in a red vest,” “wacko governor” Glenn Youngkin for “eating lobster rolls with an unabashed racist” (VA House Dem Leader Don Scott: Youngkin “continues to run towards…this extremism and radicalism and this attack on people like myself, people of color.”)
- DNC Statement on Glenn Youngkin Campaigning for “Completely Unhinged,” “Extreme” Paul LePage (“LePage’s anti-choice record isn’t so different from Youngkin’s own.”)
- Photos: Glenn Youngkin Campaigns for Unhinged Extremist, Virulent Racist, Climate Denier Paul LePage in Maine (Youngkin is greeted by a “pop-up protest” of pro-choice women in Lewiston)
- Video: VA House Dem Leader Don Scott, Del. Cia Price Slam Glenn Youngkin’s “Extremist Agenda” as “Pro-Cruelty”/”Forced-Birth” Agenda”; “Lighting the Flames of Culture War”; “Division, Division, Division”; etc.
- Youngkin campaigns for Maine Republican LePage, who has history of making racist comments
- VA Senate Democrats Condemn House Republicans’ Waste of Taxpayer Dollars Following Special Session Stalemate (“Senate Democrats have held up our end of the bargain; however, House Republicans can’t or won’t do the business of the people”)
- Virginia lawmakers fail to reach deal on SCC pick (Sounds like Democrats upheld their end of the bargain, while House Rs reneged.)
- More absence than action in Va. General Assembly’s one-day special session
- Virginia’s General Assembly returned to Richmond — but did little (No indication in the headline of WHY that was the case – namely, VA House Republicans.)
- Deadline approaching for some Virginians to seek student-loan forgiveness
- The debate over Virginia’s place in RGGI could end in court
- Serious illness from Covid-19 plateaus in Virginia
- ‘This is the future’: rural Virginia pivots from coal to green jobs (“Region’s long awaited energy and economic transition will be substantially boosted by US’s first climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act”)
- Stabilization plan approved for pipeline that passes through Jefferson National Forest
- Navy reservist already charged in Jan. 6 riot indicted in Va. (“Hatchet M. Speed has been described by federal prosecutors as a heavily armed Nazi sympathizer with a top-level U.S. government security clearance”)
- Editorial: Deeds, not words (“Hampton Roads leaders and residents need to work together to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to curb violent crime.”)
- Chesterfield Sheriff responds to report his deputy is an Oath Keeper (“Sheriff Karl Leonard released a statement Wednesday night saying as long as no lines are crossed, he supports the first amendment right to join an organization.” Totally absurd.)
- Leaked Oath Keepers list includes Virginia officials
- Spotsylvania to remove 5 books from high school libraries following review
- Former Prince William election registrar indicted on corruption charges (“Former Prince William County General Registrar Michele White was indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts and one misdemeanor, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares said Wednesday.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Increasing sunshine and pleasant warmth next three days
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