by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, September 16.
- Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
- Climate change is one reason for hotter oceans. But there are others
- How Russia Profits From Ukraine Invasion by Selling Stolen Grain on a Global Black Market
- ‘Sprinkled with our blood’: Why so many Ukrainians resist land for peace
- Ukraine is bleeding out. It cannot fight forever.
- A Crude System of Coded Messages Is Keeping Hamas’s Leader Alive
- Israeli airstrikes kill 16 in Gaza, including 4 children, Palestinians say
- Germany begins conducting checks at all its land borders
- Flooding in Central Europe leaves 5 dead in Poland and 1 in Czech Republic
- Justin Trudeau’s sinking popularity puts him on shaky ground
- The Rape Catastrophe Unfolding in Congo’s War (“Around 80% of women in camps for the displaced have been raped in brutal attacks, as international attention wanes” HORRIFYING and completely UNACCEPTABLE!)
- Fed Ready to Unshackle US Economy With Soft Landing at Stake
- How Inflation Fooled Almost Everybody
- Why Didn’t Facing a Common Enemy Bring Us Together? (“As I ran the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic, I learned that something deep within our culture is wrong.”)
- A polluting, coal-fired power plant found the key to solving America’s biggest clean energy challenge (“Repurposing the so-called interconnection system is short-circuiting what could have been seven years of bureaucracy and red tape to get this electricity distributed to its customers. Experts say this is the secret to solving America’s clean energy dilemma: There is more electricity from clean energy waiting to get connected to the grid than the entire amount of energy currently on the grid. The years-long delays are an existential threat to many projects’ chances of getting built.”)
- John Roberts’ Secret Trump Help Revealed in Huge SCOTUS Leak (John Roberts has done ENORMOUS damage to America.)
- Why House Republicans still can’t manage to fund the government (“Internal conflicts and a narrow GOP majority make each spending fight a pitched battle up to the shutdown deadline.”)
- Republicans Had Planned to Campaign on the Economy. Trump and Vance Are Talking About Cats and Taylor Swift.
- If Trump and Vance win the election, this is what’s at stake
- Violence and instability have become a feature, not a bug, of US political life
- Political violence becomes America’s new norm – but is still shocking
- Suspected Gunman Said He Was Willing to Fight and Die in Ukraine
- Who Is Alleged Trump Golf Course Gunman Ryan Wesley Routh?
- FBI Says It’s Investigating a Possible ‘Attempted Assassination’ Aimed at Trump
- Harris expresses relief Trump safe after gunshots
- Biden on Trump shooting incident: “There is no place for political violence”
- Trump ‘attacker’ Ryan Routh supported Indian origin Republicans, Vivek, Nikki and Tulsi; voted for Trump
- Musk Has the Worst Take on Latest Trump Assassination Bid
- Elon Musk Faces Firestorm Over ‘Appalling’ Assassination ‘Joke’ About Biden-Harris
- Elon Musk’s pro-Trump super PAC ramps up swing state operations (Musk is a fascist – do NOT buy ANYTHING from ANY of his companies!)
- Musk Posts Then Deletes ‘No One Is Even Trying To Assassinate Biden/Kamala’
- Elon Musk’s Post After Donald Trump Assassination Attempt Sparks Backlash
- Accused Trump Golf Course Gunman Was ‘Cuckoo’: Neighbor
- New apparent Trump assassination bid is another dark moment with unpredictable political consequences (“The former president is all but certain to use the latest events to reinforce his baseless claim that he’s a victim of persecution meant to keep him from power. But it’s too early to say whether the second apparent assassination attempt will have greater political impact than the first.”)
- Trump says ‘I hate Taylor Swift’ after pop star endorses Harris
- Laura Loomer is the symptom. The real problem is Donald Trump. (“Her breathtaking offensiveness underscore who he is and the danger he poses.”)
- Vance backtracks on whether Trump would veto national abortion ban
- JD Vance admits he is willing to ‘create stories’ to get media attention
- JD Vance Keeps Doubling Down on Racist Lies About Springfield
- FBI examining threats targeting Haitians at Springfield, Ohio, college
- JD Vance Was a Reliable Punch Line at the Emmys
- Vance defends spreading claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets (This headline by NPR – of course it’s NPR, whose political coverage is relentlessly bad! – sucks. At the minimum, it should say FALSE claims.)
- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says baseless claims about Haitian immigrants are ‘garbage’
- Dana Bash and JD Vance clash over baseless claims about Haitian immigrants
- Senate Republican candidates are trailing Donald Trump
- Debates don’t matter. Except when they really do. (“For the second time, a debate revealed the candidates as they really are, without misleading spin.”)
- Mike Lindell Group Accused of ‘Impersonating’ Election Cybersecurity Initiative
- Harris-Walz Reproductive Freedom National Bus Tour Rolls Through Virginia with Whip Katherine Clark, Reps. Spanberger and McClellan, Reproductive Rights Advocates and Storytellers
- Amid internal GOP feud in the 5th District, Democrat Gloria Witt sees her chance (“The political newcomer from Amherst County is hoping to win over Republicans turned off by their party’s infighting.”)
- Virginia leaders react to second apparent assassination attempt on former president Trump
- Cao says border security is his top priority in fight to unseat Kaine
- What Does It Take For Elected Officials To Break Up With Trump? (“Why are you doing this, Bill Bolling?” It’s completely deranged and irresponsible by Bill Bolling. And yes, “If you’re still willing to support Trump after all of this, what does that say about you?” Absolutely nothing good; in fact, it appears that Bolling has completely lost whatever moral compass he once had. Pathetic.)
- Virginia businesses weigh benefits of electrification as leaders review policies
- UVa ends disciplinary proceedings against pro-Palestine protesters
- Hampton Roads students and parents fearful, on edge amid school threats and rumors on social media
- Richmond mayor candidates’ ideas on housing and how the state can help the city
- Shots Fired: Virginia Beach 9-year-old’s grueling recovery shows full impact of gun violence
- D.C.-area forecast: We need rain and some is coming
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