by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, March 8.
- The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone (“As far as humanity is concerned, the transformation of our seas is ‘effectively permanent'” Humans have really f’ed things up.)
- ‘Insure Our Future:’ A Global Movement Says the Insurance Industry Could Be the Key to Ending Fossil Fuels
- Opinion: I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too
- Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they’re moving closer to trial
- Climate Disasters Are Leaving Some Poor Nations in a Crushing Cycle of Debt
- ‘The Russians have more of everything’: Ukrainian forces struggle to hold back enemy in Mariinka
- Thune on Ukraine: ‘America cannot retreat from the world stage’
- The Republicans Who Sold Their Souls to Vladimir Putin
- Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality
- Biden announces US will build pier on Gaza shore for large-scale aid delivery
- Biden at SOTU tells Israel Gaza aid can’t be a “bargaining chip”
- After months of warnings that Israel’s siege is causing famine, children begin to die in Gaza
- EU, US to Launch Maritime Corridor to Deliver Aid to Gaza
- Fed Is ‘Not Far’ From Confidence Needed to Cut Rates, Powell Says (“The Fed chair says he wants more evidence inflation is moving sustainably at 2%.”)
- Jobs report Friday is expected to show a slowing but still healthy labor market
- US natural gas pipeline accidents pose big, unreported climate threat
- Reminder: Trump’s Last Year in Office Was a National Nightmare
- A Forceful Biden Takes On Trump and His Own Doubters
- Fiery Joe Biden Unleashes Forceful Rebuke Of Trump, GOP In State Of The Union Address
- Biden draws election battle lines in fiery speech
- Video, Remarks as Prepared for Delivery of President Joe Biden’s Superb 2024 State of the Union Address – GO BIDEN!
- Fiery Biden takes on GOP, makes case for second term (“The president engaged in repeated exchanges with Republican lawmakers in the House chamber, at times, turning the address into a form of political theater.”)
- Biden electrifies Democrats, spars with Republicans in fiery State of the Union address
- Why women were wearing white at the State of the Union (The headline should say “Why DEMOCRATIC women were wearing white…”)
- The biggest moments from Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address
- ‘Biden Brought the Heat’: Our Columnists on the State of the Union
- The Most Unusual State of the Union in Living Memory (“Republican members of Congress repeatedly heckled President Biden, who was happy to mix it up with them.”)
- Biden to Dems: I got this
- Takeaways from Biden’s State of the Union address: Combative attacks on a foe with no name
- Biden projects a vision of strength that’s been missing from his presidency but will be needed in 2024 campaign (It hasn’t been “missing from his presidency,” but ok…)
- Biden Brutally Goes After Trump During SOTU—Just Not by Name
- Reproductive rights take center stage during Biden’s State of the Union address
- Joe Biden Got the Job Done (“In the State of the Union speech, he took it to Trump and showed he can fight.”)
- Biden portrays nation on the upswing in energized State of the Union
- Biden stares down questions about his age and fitness for office with spirited speech
- Biden’s State of the Union Address: Right in Trump’s Face! (“He was anything other than a grandfatherly old man”)
- Biden Zeroes In on Abortion, Ukraine—and Trump
- Biden’s State of the Union got one big thing right (“The president dodged the ‘norms trap’ by going straight after Trump on democracy.”)
- Biden Basically Had One Job During the State of the Union—and He Did It
- Joe Biden Didn’t Mince Words for Republicans in Fiery State of the Union (“The president tore into Donald Trump and clapped back against GOP jeers, while attempting to address concerns about his age head-on. ‘The issue facing our nation isn’t how old we are,’ he said. ‘It’s how old our ideas are.'”)
- Biden’s very populist State of the Union address
- Presidential Historian Spells Out What U.S. May Be Under Trump Only Next Year (“Michael Beschloss sounded the alarm on “what’s at stake” in the 2024 election”)
- Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants.
- America is producing more energy than ever, but Fox News is attacking Biden over it anyway
- Trump’s Money Problems Are Very Real and Very Bad
- Trump loses bid to delay $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation judgment
- Trump is ordered to pay legal fees after failed lawsuit over the Steele dossier
- The Case Trump Really Hates
- Stormy Daniels alleges in new documentary that Donald Trump cornered her the night they met
- Merrick Garland isn’t to blame for delays in Trump’s election interference case
- Biden Campaign: Trump Is Not Seeking Haley’s Voters, He Is Driving Them Away (“Trump’s approach is no surprise from someone who spreads division and hate like most of us breathe air.”)
- Katie Britt’s America Sounds Scary, But Not as Scary as Katie Britt (“State of the Union responses are hard, but the Alabama senator’s reply to Biden was both lurid and banal in content and downright weird in delivery.”)
- Sen. Katie Britt’s ‘Deeply Weird’ Biden Response Is Freaking People Out
- Official GOP Response to SOTU Has Republicans ‘Losing It’ (“Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama gave the GOP response to President Biden’s annual address—and got panned for it by some in her own party.”)
- Haley tried to warn about Trump. Biden could have more success.
- Disaster for Trump as Truth Social Crashes at Critical SOTU Moment
- Truth Social Suffers Outage in Middle of Trump’s Furious Live-Tweeting About Biden Speech
- If 2024 is about freedom, Trump loses. That’s why he’s yelling about ‘the border’
- Taylor Swift can teach us all a lesson in how democracy works (“Democracy, by its nature, requires participation. You have to give a damn. Taylor Swift does, and so should we all”)
- House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok
- Byron Donalds Moves the Goalposts for Being Trump‘s VP, Suggests He Wouldn‘t Certify 2028 Election If Asked (Completely unhinged and fascistic.)
- Indicted Serial Liar George Santos Announces New Run for Congress During State of the Union
- Navy demoted Ronny Jackson in 2022 after scathing watchdog report (Ronny Jackson is scum.)
- Sherrod Brown raises nearly $6M in 2 months amid Ohio Senate race
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Breaks House Rules to Wear MAGA Hat at State of the Union (She’s a sociopath.)
- As Virginians Tune in to President Biden’s State of the Union This Evening…Biden’s Record Delivering for Virginians Trounces Trump’s Failures
- DPVA Chair: Youngkin Endorsing “a man who called the Nazis that came to our very own Charlottesville ‘very fine people’ is more proof of his lack of political courage and leadership ability” (Jason Miyares and Jen Kiggans also “fall in line,” while Winsome Sears so far is showing some backbone…)
- Video of/Commentary on Youngkin’s Whiny, Self-Pitying, Petulant Press Conference on the Wizards/Caps Arena…as Senators Lucas, Locke and Ebbin Look on Scornfully
- Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis: Virginia Budget Conferees “Say No To Tax Breaks for Millionaires, Yes to Historic K-12 Funding and More” (“Thankfully, under the leadership of Chair Lucas and Chair Torian, budget conferees soundly rejected the worst of the governor’s tax package”)
- Senator Louise Lucas and Delegate Luke Torian Announce Conference Committee Finalizes Biennial Virginia Budget (“By the end of the day, the amendments will be posted to the state budget webpage”)
- Proposed spending bill doesn’t include $2B arena deal
- How Virginia’s Caps, Wizards arena plan got blocked by state lawmakers
- Gov. Youngkin says legislators made ‘colossal mistake’ by leaving arena out of budget (Actually, the “colossal mistake” is the Glenn Youngkin governorship. What a f’ing joke – one of the worst governors in Virginia’s modern history.)
- Bill to allow marijuana sales in peril after breakdown on Virginia arena deal
- FOIA Friday: Richmond whistleblower complaint and closing police decertification hearings
- Three interesting bills: declawing cats, sewage regulations and on-duty physicians
- Bryan Price and Craig Jones: Youngkin has the opportunity to affirm marriages in Virginia
- How Del. Michael Feggans worked to keep your landlord from bursting in on you, among other bills
- Editorial: Virginia Beach takes a thoughtful approach to festival management
- To hit Vision Zero traffic safety goals, Richmond needs a ‘cultural shift’
- Hanover supervisors postpone data center vote
- A feasibility study doesn’t rule out a landfill in Russell County. But it raises issues that need more evaluation.
- D.C.-area forecast: Tranquil today and wet Saturday, then turning windier
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