by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, November 1.
- Alarm grows over ‘disturbing’ lack of progress to save nature at Cop16 (“Fears raised that biodiversity summit not addressing countries’ failure to meet a single target to stem destruction of natural world”)
- EU emissions fall by 8% in steep reduction reminiscent of Covid shutdown (“Decline over 2023, helped by switch to renewable power, means greenhouse gas pollution is now 37% below 1990 levels”)
- China hopes US will continue climate change collaboration whoever wins election, official says
- US election weighs on Ukraine’s frontline soldiers (“Ukrainians on the front lines tell the BBC’s James Waterhouse that their country’s survival is in the hands of Americans.”)
- About 8,000 North Korean soldiers at Ukraine border, says US (What is NATO going to do about it???)
- U.S. calls on a silent China to use its sway over Russia and North Korea
- Iran preparing major retaliatory strike from Iraq within days, Israeli intel suggests
- Israel strikes Lebanon’s ancient city of Baalbek, as tens of thousands of people flee
- More records tumble as renewables hit new high and coal a new low (Good job, Australia!)
- Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Was a Breakdown in American Policymaking (“Another Donald Trump presidency could mark a return to an era of foreign policy decrees untethered to any policy process.”)
- Modern-day populism is a threat to democracy. But it can be beaten. (The WaPo editorial board is doing everything BUT formally endorse Kamala Harris. So bizarre – just endorse her!!!)
- Republicans are serious about cutting people’s health care
- Inside Trump’s ominous plan to turn civil rights law against vulnerable Americans (“A look at Trump’s ideas for a key Justice Department division uncovers the potentially disastrous consequences of his assault on democracy.”)
- A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks (“Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.”)
- She Saw Jan. 6 Coming. Here’s What Worries Her Now. (“The founder of a private intelligence firm says far-right extremists are ramping up — before the election.”)
- Trump Attacks Liz Cheney Using Violent War Imagery (“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?
- Trump Fantasizes About Liz Cheney Facing the Firing Squad
- Trump suggests ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face’ (“Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”)
- Trump says ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should be fired upon in escalation of violent rhetoric against his opponents
- Trump is already poisoning trust in yet another US election
- Leopards Are Telling You That They Will Eat YOUR Face
- ‘Like it or not’: In one quote, Trump distills the 2024 gender gap
- Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands?
- Donald Trump’s plan to “protect” women in action: Two dead, another arrested for miscarriage
- “Whether the women like it or not”: Trump’s words fan the GOP’s gender gap
- Surprise: Donald Trump Had Another F–ked-Up Thing to Say About Women
- Trump makes anti-trans attacks central to his campaign’s closing argument
- These two moments show what’s really on the ballot (“The Harris rally in D.C. and the Trump event in New York remind us this is not a normal election”)
- 11,000 Political Groups Spent $14 Billion to Influence the 2024 Election
- MAGA Bros Are Freaking Out Because So Many Women Are Voting
- “It is so disastrous”: MAGA men are freaking out that wives may be secretly voting for Kamala Harris
- Conservatives in furor over Julia Roberts ad (“A new Harris-Walz campaign ad voiced by actor Julia Roberts encourages women to vote for Vice President Harris in the presidential election, even if their husbands are backing former President Trump.”)
- ‘Not healthy and weird’: Fox News host roasted for threatening wife with ‘D-Day’ over vote
- Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’
- Harris says Trump ‘devalues’ women’s ability to make their own choices (“In an exclusive interview with NBC News, the vice president criticized Trump’s comments about protecting women ‘whether the women like it or not.'”)
- NEW: Inflation Falls Under Biden-Harris Administration While Trump-Vance Ticket Pushes “Inflation Bomb”
- Major News Media Fall For Fake GOP Outrage Yet Again
- Trump’s ‘grab them’ comment was history. Now TikTok is showing it to young voters. (“As the audio clip circulates on the popular video app, Gen Z users are expressing their shock”)
- Why I’m Voting for Kamala Harris (By Michael Bloomberg)
- Forget the Polls Showing a Dead Heat. Kamala Harris Will Win (Fingers crossed that David Rothkopf is right.)
- Trump lagging in early vote with seniors in Pennsylvania, a red flag for GOP
- Video of Donald Trump ‘Struggling’ to Enter Garbage Truck Goes Viral
- Trump sues CBS for $10B over Harris’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview
- Trump sues CBS for $10B over Harris’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview (WTF???)
- Harris keeps bringing in new money as Trump struggles to grow his donor base
- RFK Jr. Wants Federal Health Data So He Can Show Vaccines Are Unsafe, Trump Transition Co-Chair Says (SHUDDDERRRR…)
- From joy and JLo to insults and ‘alpha males’: Harris and Trump zero in on Nevada
- ‘We are Americans’: Jennifer Lopez addresses Puerto Rico comments made at Trump rally
- YouTube let right-wing figures undermine the 2024 election results even before any votes were cast (APPALLING by YouTube!)
- JD Vance: Teens Become Trans to Get Into Ivy League (Nutjob, bigot, etc.)
- Vance suggests upper- and middle-class kids ‘become trans’ for college admissions, says Trump may earn ‘normal gay guy vote’ (Vance is completely unhinged.)
- ‘All hell has broken loose’: Inside Elon Musk’s high-stakes pro-Trump door-knocking effort
- Elon Musk’s ‘election integrity community’ on X is full of baseless claims (“Feed is rife with posts of individuals deemed suspicious and calls for doxxing with little evidence provided of fault”)
- Elon Musk Could Have US Citizenship Revoked If He Lied on Immigration Forms
- Jen Kiggans and Derrick Anderson To Campaign With Speaker Mike Johnson After He Promised to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
- Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08) on “reports of the devastating effects Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would have on [Metro]” (“Metro is essential to the National Capital Region’s success and prosperity.”)
- Some Virginia voters think Vindman’s brother is the one on the ballot (“The Vindman twins both played a role in Trump’s first impeachment. As Eugene campaigns for Congress, some voters are confusing him with his brother, Alexander.”)
- 5th District: McGuire pushes Trump, Witt warns against MAGA
- Political analyst says Trump’s visit to Va. may be aimed to boost [R]epublican candidates (That’s really, really dumb – Morgan Griffith, Ben Cline and John McGuire are all in totally safe “red” districts and don’t need a boost; Hung Cao is going to get crushed by Tim Kaine.)
- Trump plans rally in Salem Saturday, despite polls showing Harris on top in Virginia (Seems really stupid, but…ok.)
- Military-heavy Virginia swing district has become late battleground
- Virginia Organizing: Supreme Court Ruling Violates Rights of Over 1,600 Eligible Virginia Voters (“Voters in Virginia who find themselves removed from the rolls should re-register at their polling place when they go to cast their ballot.”)
- This is what election crime -and punishment- looks like in Virginia
- Pope & Schapiro: Voter roll purges, polling averages and Congressional races to watch
- Virginia citizens make plans to vote after finding they’ve been wrongly purged from rolls
- The Atwater Way (“The rule of law is that voter rolls can not be changed 90 days before the election, yet the Supreme Court just ruled that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin can purge the voter roles just six days before the election. The claim is that this is to keep suspected illegal immigrants from voting. The key word there is suspected because they don’t have time to check, and those disenfranchised by this ruling don’t have time to appeal their removal from the voting rolls.”)
- Our View: Governor, attorney general succeed in disenfranchising eligible Virginia voters
- Video: VA NAACP President Rips “egregious action from the Supreme Court” and by Youngkin to Suppress the Vote of People of Color (Cozy Bailey: “It makes me even more conscious that the Civil Rights era is not a historical event, it is a continuous event.”)
- How U.S. citizens mistakenly removed from Virginia voter rolls can still cast a ballot
- Youngkin’s best shot for the presidency is if Trump loses. Here’s what happens after the election. (No question, Youngkin needs – and probably wants – Trump to lose.)
- Virginia colleges say ban on legacy preference isn’t impacting admissions (“Similar percentages of legacy students enrolled this fall, data shows.”)
- Report ranks Va. near bottom of states for open school enrollment
- Virginia lawmakers consider K-12 plan to meet student needs, cost share among state and localities
- How secure are ballot drop boxes in Virginia?
- Virginia voter roll purge includes Loudoun residents who say they’re eligible
- “We do not want a casino in Fairfax County”
- Fairfax Co. moving forward with pilot program to lower speed limits on at least 3 roads
- D.C.-area forecast: A chance of morning raindrops ahead of another warm day
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