by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, October 18.
- New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters (Definitely – do it!)
- Trump has vowed to gut climate rules. Oil lobbyists have a plan ready. (This would be a disaster.)
- Overwhelming majority of young Americans worry about climate crisis
- More Forests Are on Fire, a Big Risk in Climate Change Fight
- Ukraine Has Resisted Russia in One Key Town for Months. Its Hold Is Starting to Break. (“A quarter-mile-wide strip of land that stands between Moscow’s forces and the Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar has become one of the most dangerous places on the front line.”)
- Trump Makes It Clear He Would Royally Screw Ukraine in a Second Term (This ALONE should be all the reason anyone needs to vote for Kamala Harris!)
- Russia flaunts its many doomsday weapons to keep the West from ramping up support for Ukraine
- Right-wing influencers hyped anti-Ukraine videos made by a TV producer also funded by Russian media
- Statement from President Joe Biden on the Death of Yahya Sinwar
- U.S. hopes Yahya Sinwar’s death can spur cease-fire, but regional officials skeptical
- Sen. Tim Kaine Calls IDF’s “elimination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar” a “monumental win for the Israeli and Palestinian people and the long-term stability of the region” (“The time is now for Israel and Hamas to finally accept a deal to establish a ceasefire and release the remaining hostages.”)
- Biden tells Netanyahu it’s time to end Gaza war after Sinwar’s elimination
- Harris: Israeli killing of Sinwar an opportunity to end war in Gaza
- Yahya Sinwar’s Death Was Preordained (“Israel now has an opening to say that it has accomplished a core objective.”)
- Yahya Sinwar Finally Got What He Deserved (“The question now is whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has enough strategic and moral sense to leverage its military wins into a plausible vision of peace.” Highly doubtful, sad to say.)
- Sinwar’s killing means much uncertainty for the war in Gaza but also possible opportunity
- Bowen: Sinwar’s death is serious blow to Hamas, but not the end (“Netanyahu has won a big victory with the killing of Yahya Sinwar. But it is not the end of the war, nor of Hamas.”)
- Sinwar’s killing brings end of Gaza war within reach – if Israel can seize the chance
- Israel kills its prime target – but Sinwar’s death seems down to chance, not precise planning
- Netanyahu promises more war, dashing peace hopes after Hamas leader killed
- Yahya Sinwar’s death ushers in an uncertain ‘day after’ for Gaza
- The flu shot is different this year, thanks to COVID (“This year’s flu shot will be missing a strain of influenza it’s protected against for more than a decade. — That’s because there have been no confirmed flu cases caused by the Influenza B/Yamagata lineage since spring 2020.”)
- How Trump’s Radical Tariff Plan Could Wreck Our Economy
- The Biden administration has canceled student loans for more than 1 million in public service jobs
- When the Top General in the U.S. Says You’re ‘Fascist to the Core’
- Trump seeks to delay release of Jan. 6 case appendix until after election
- Turns out we’ll see a big Jack Smith document dump before the election
- Trump’s legal team tried to keep Stormy Daniels quiet ahead of 2024 election, MSNBC reports
- Donald Trump’s other mental health problem that we’re not talking about
- Trump Says Harris Running Against Him Is a Criminal Act (“Kamala should be investigated and forced off the Campaign!”)
- Trump gets record donations from big oil but far less than $1bn he wanted (“Republican ex-president has received $14.1m oil and gas industry making it his fourth-biggest source of cash” Disgusting industry.)
- How Republicans mainstreamed the baseless idea of noncitizen voting in 2024 (Why is NPR using the weasel word “baseless’ instead of “FALSE” or “LIE”?)
- Fact check: Debunking Trump’s October lying spree about immigration
- Trump Has a Plan to Win Without the Votes—and the Fight Is On to Stop Him
- Trump’s Meandering Speeches Motivate His Critics and Worry His Allies (Yet again, FAIL by the NY Times. In fact, the problem isn’t so much that they’re “meandering” as that they’re batsh*** crazy, extremist, etc. But the NY Times doesn’t use any of those adjectives in its headline. Why the F*** not???)
- Trump delivers profanity, below-the-belt digs at Catholic charity banquet
- Trump Spews Profanity and Insults at Catholic Charity Dinner
- Trump World in Talks With Haley for Eleventh-Hour Joint Campaign Event
- Trump Says the January 6 Mob Wasn’t Armed. He’s Lying. (“We didn’t have guns. That was a day of love.”)
- Harris calls out Trump for ‘gaslighting’ Americans about Jan. 6 attack
- Harris’s Best Answer to Trump’s Resilient Appeal (“The Democrat needs to remind voters about what they really didn’t like about his presidency.”)
- Early voting surge seen as advantage for Harris campaign
- Hey Democrats, Don’t Panic — Here’s Why (“The polls are tight, but there are a lot of tremendously positive signs for Kamala Harris”)
- Scoop: Former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent voted for Kamala Harris
- McConnell exposes deep anti-Trump sentiment within Senate GOP
- Fox News’s interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism
- Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits Kamala Harris did damage to Trump: ‘She was on a mission’
- Even Fox News’s Bret Baier Admits Harris Outsmarted Him in Interview
- There is no Fox “news side.” Wednesday’s Trump and Harris events prove it.
- Harris ought to send Bret Baier flowers for that Fox News interview
- JD Vance’s new spin on the Big Lie is even more fascist than Trump’s original (“Trump’s conspiracy theory was vague and self-centered, but Vance’s version is about justifying a radical ideology”)
- “Thirst for the spectacle of Trump’s cruelty”: Exploring MAGA’s unbreakable bond (“‘Make America Great Again’ actually means ‘Make America White Again'” It’s a white supremacist movement, no question.)
- I’m Completely Losing It With the Way the Press Is Covering Trump and Harris (“The New York Times must be sent to headline jail for these crimes.” How about everyone just unsubscribe from the NY Times?)
- Harris’s Harsh Takedown of Fox’s Bret Baier Exposes MAGA’s Biggest Lie
- Donald Trump’s Roomful of Suspiciously Friendly Women (“A female-focused town hall gets very weird indeed.”)
- Scoop: Google will block election ads after polls close
- Mark Cuban mocks Trump’s tariff ideas at Harris campaign rally as Elon Musk tours PA with pro-Trump PAC (GREAT job by Mark Cuban!)
- Elon Musk holds a pro-Trump town hall in Philly suburbs (Musk is batsh** crazy and evil.)
- A Mystery $30 Million Wave of Pro-Trump Bets Moves a Popular Prediction Market (“Four Polymarket accounts have systematically placed frequent bets on a Trump election victory.”)
- ‘It’s the First Amendment, stupid’: Federal judge blasts DeSantis administration for threats against TV stations
- U.S. judge blocks DeSantis admin’s threats to broadcasters over Amendment 4 ads
- Sen. Tim Kaine discusses Middle East conflict, re-election bid, and bipartisanship
- With Three Weeks To Go, The Knives Are Out For Cao’s “No Show Campaign” (“As we head into the homestretch, it’s no secret why Hung Cao is hiding from Virginians: he’s trying to hide his extreme, out-of-touch agenda”)
- McGuire and Witt offer contrasting views in first and likely only 5th District debate (This article is really weak, mostly sandpapering over the fact that McGuire is a far-right extremist, also pretty much uncritcally amplifying McGuire’s false/misleading statements, including “McGuire said the U.S. needs to become energy independent through fracking and other methods to lower the cost of living.” This is NOT the job of the “news” media – or shouldn’t be, anyway!)
- Witt and McGuire square off in sole 5th District debate (“With just 18 days until the Nov. 5 election, McGuire defended his presence at the Stop the Steal rally at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as his constitutional right. On that day, a group of rioters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to halt the certification of the election that Republican Donald Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden. At least 140 police officers were injured in the violent event and over 1,400 people have been criminally charged in connection to it.”)
- McGuire accuses Democrats of planning pandemic at debate with Witt (This is a MUCH better article than the pathetic one by Cardinal News, as it LEADS with McGuire’s lunacy: “In the only debate in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, Republican state Sen. John McGuire declined to commit to supporting the results of the 2024 presidential election and floated a conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump.”)
- Dems use cardboard cutouts to mock Virginia candidate over viral ‘fake family’ photo
- Dominion Energy’s “all of the above” plan worries environmental advocates
- Pope & Schapiro: Voter roll purge, the Presidential election, and storm recovery
- Clean voter rolls are essential, but Youngkin’s late, politically driven ‘purge’ deserves challenge
- FOIA Friday: Nonprofit sues Criminal Justice Services for withholding records of officers (“What Virginia officials withheld or disclosed, Oct. 14-Oct. 18, 2024”)
- Va. education department seeks $125M for new student assessment system
- In Roanoke, Youngkin, Miyares and others say efforts are reducing violent crime (It almost certainly has nothing to do with Youngkin or Miyares.)
- Q&A with Harrison Roday, candidate for Richmond mayor
- Virginia Interfaith Center Launches “Interfaith Souls to the Polls” to Boost Early Voting in Richmond (“This program also focuses on racial equity by targeting outreach to Black congregations, addressing historical barriers to voting.”)
- UVA basketball coach Tony Bennett to retire immediately (With 2 1/2 weeks to go until the most important election in US history, any media outlet making this – or ANY sports story – their lead story this morning is a complete joke. That includes the Virginian-Pilot, which is a shell of what it used to be.)
- Jail apparently posed unconscious detainee for mugshot before rendering aid
- D.C.-area forecast: Warming trend kicks into gear today, perhaps 80 next week (“Sun dominates, breezes light, and humidity is — along with rain chances — nowhere to be found.” Drought again?)
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