by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, October 22. Exactly two weeks until election day – make sure you vote early (Democratic and for democracy, up and down your ballot, of course!) if you haven’t done so already!
- 2024 almost certain to be Earth’s hottest year on record (And the Trump GOP is an actual climate science DENIAL party! How can ANYONE vote for that???)
- Meteorologists could be climate change heroes by relaying its urgency to the public (Failing to do so is an abdication of responsibility.)
- Climate Change Is Killing Buildings in Slow Motion
- Russia’s Warming Arctic Is a Climate Threat. War Has Shut Scientists Out of It.
- Russian Propaganda Unit Appears to Be Behind Spread of False Tim Walz Sexual Abuse Claims
- Video: New DNC Ad Highlights David Duke, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin’s Support For Jill Stein (“Long-time Klan leader David Duke endorsed her. And like Trump, she’s cozied up to Vladimir Putin.”)
- Military Gains Strengthen Netanyahu’s Hand, but Israelis Remain Divided
- Why Trump’s Phone Call With Netanyahu Is So Alarming
- Blinken arrives in Israel as US looks to renew cease-fire efforts after the killing of Hamas leader
- What leaked US assessment of Israeli plans to strike Iran shows (“Glaringly absent from these documents is any mention of what targets Israel intends to hit in Iran, or when.”)
- She survived the October 7 terror attack. A year later, she took her life. Her family blames the state for not helping
- What Happens to Hamas and Hezbollah Now That Their Leaders Have Been Killed? (They pick new leaders, and this goes on and on?)
- Fed’s Daly Says She Doesn’t See Reasons to Stop Cutting Rates
- Infant mortality in the U.S. worsened after Supreme Court limited abortion access (Reminder: abortion access is an important part of healthcare for women.)
- Can the Media Survive? (“Big tech, feckless owners, cord-cutters, restive staff, smaller audiences … and the return of print?”)
- ‘More Republicans than you’ve seen vote for a Democrat in decades’: Inside the Harris campaign effort to turn red voters blue
- Kamala Harris Isn’t Repeating the Mistakes of 2016 (“Donald Trump might still win, but it won’t be for Democrats’ lack of a well-organized campaign.”)
- Harris leads Trump by 20 points with younger Americans, new CNBC Generation Lab survey finds
- How Liz Cheney showed her value to Democrats (“Cheney’s appearance alongside Harris points to one of the most critical factors in the final days of campaign”)
- Gerald Ford’s daughter endorses Harris
- Exclusive: Harris holds 46%-43% lead over Trump amid voter gloom, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (“Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris held a marginal 46% to 43% lead over Republican former President Donald Trump, with a glum electorate saying the country is on the wrong track, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.”)
- Republican lawsuits over overseas and military voting hit setbacks in 2 swing states
- With Election Day 2 Weeks Away, 15 Million Voters Have Already Cast a Ballot
- Kamala Harris Says Donald Trump’s Potty Mouth “Demeans The Office” of the President
- The Many Links Between Project 2025 and Trump’s World (“Large portions of the “Mandate for Leadership,” the driving document behind Project 2025, were written by longtime Trump loyalists who were advisers to Mr. Trump during his first term.” That includes…yep, former Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli, a completely unhinged far-right extremist.)
- Trump plan would make Social Security insolvent in just 6 years, budget group says
- New analysis shows Trump would devastate Social Security’s finances, debunking MAGA talking point
- Trump, on the Civil War, in His Own Words
- Trump puts noisy, crude campaign in spotlight, as Harris seeks to turn it against him (“Noisy” and “crude” are really not the adjectives to put in the headline. Try “fascistic,” “vicious,” misogynistic,” “racist,” “xenophobic,” “evil,” “dangerous,” etc, etc. But as always, the mainstream media is either in the tank for Trump or TERRIFIED of Trump supporters.)
- The difference between work and Trump’s staged McDonald’s theatrics
- No, McDonald’s didn’t confirm Trump’s baseless claim about Kamala Harris (Why say “baseless claim” instead of “false claim” or “lie?”)
- Donald Trump McDonald’s Hit With Bad Reviews: ‘Bronzer on My Fries’
- Harris Hits Trump Over Minimum Wage After McDonald’s Stop
- What’s Wrong With Donald Trump? (“Trump’s disinhibition is yoked to a malignancy at his core” “Donald Trump is not cognitively fit to be president”)
- PAC paying Trump’s legal fees has run out of cash — with $3M in debt: report
- Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ sue Trump for defamation after debate comments
- JD Vance: “Totally Reasonable” for Trump to Attack American Citizens as “Enemy From Within” (“Trump’s alarming and vile attacks against American citizens are indefensible, and voters are not falling for Vance’s pathetic spin…”)
- Walz on Musk’s pro-Trump giveaways: ‘That’s what you do when you have no plan’
- Mark Cuban says the election is now a battle between Kamala Harris and Elon Musk, not Donald Trump
- What’s in the 2024 US election for Elon Musk? (“The SpaceX boss says only fellow billionaire Donald Trump can save democracy – but some question his motives.”)
- Are Elon Musk’s Million-Dollar Giveaways to Voters Legal? (They certainly shouldn’t be if they are.)
- Elon Musk ‘Jokes’ in a Church About Someone Killing Kamala Harris (Hello, Secret Service???)
- First two Elon Musk giveaway winners had already voted
- Rudy Giuliani appears in Georgia with Tea Party Patriots leader and claims there will be “frauds” to try to take the election from Trump
- Trump distances himself from Mark Robinson: ‘I’m not familiar’ (Suuuure.)
- Trump flips stance on making voting easier after storm batters North Carolina (Because it’s not about principle for Trump, only about what benefits HIM personally.)
- Florida official says DeSantis’s office ordered him to threaten TV stations over abortion ads (DeSantis is a fascistic thug.)
- DeSantis Was Directly Behind Ominous Threats To TV Channels Over Pro-Choice Ads, Former Official Says
- Ted Cruz Suffers Blow as Texas’ Biggest Newspaper Endorses Opponent
- New York Magazine: An Update to Our Readers (“…the magazine and Nuzzi agreed that the best course forward is to part ways. Nuzzi is a uniquely talented writer and we have been proud to publish her work over her nearly eight years as our Washington Correspondent”)
- Olivia Nuzzi leaves New York magazine after revelation of RFK Jr relationship (She should have been fired a looong time ago, actually, for her biased, disgraceful, unethical “reporting” on Joe Biden.)
- In New Voter Guide, Far-Right-Extremist VA GOP U.S. Senate Nominee Hung Cao Spews Out Lunacy, Lies, Including That Virginia “may very well be a net beneficiary” of Trump’s Plan to Decimate Region’s Federal Workforce (Cao also insanely asserts that he “needs ‘a lot more data about climate change’ to be convinced”)
- “DonBot” brings AI to this year’s political cycle in Virginia
- Federal judge orders release of names impacted by voter rolls purge
- Youngkin’s voter purge requires appropriate federal oversight (“According to our local registrars, most of the 6,300 voters who were purged by the governor’s administration as noncitizens are actually legal voters who made errors in paperwork or in renewing their voter registration.”)
- Commentary: Small businesses pay the price for governor’s doublespeak
- Insurance payments to repeatedly flooding Va. properties continue to rise
- Early voting in Northern Virginia surges, reshaping the balloting trends (This was totally predictable, by the way – as more early voting “satellite” locations opened, a lot more people started voting early!)
- Prince William Co. students say cellphone restrictions are helping them focus in class
- Richmond mayor takes aim at billboard atop a historic Black cemetery
- Federal government sends Virginia $10 million for Route 58 repair after Hurricane Helene washout
- Tavares Floyd’s connection to George Floyd called into question
- Tavares Floyd’s past as a lawyer and CEO are uncertain (This is really wild – check it out.)
- Group files lawsuit arguing Norfolk traffic cameras are unconstitutional
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny skies with warm highs, little rain
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