by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, April 30.
- UN climate talks will be ‘uphill battle’ amid Trump rollbacks, says Cop30 chair
- Global populists once emulated Trump. Now they’re running from him
- Trump Is Making America a Declining Power
- What Zelensky told Trump at Pope Francis’ funeral
- China’s Export Orders Plunge, Hit by Tariffs
- China sends a stern video message to Trump: We won’t ‘kneel down’
- China creates list of US-made goods exempt from 125% tariffs, sources say
- Pakistani nationals leave India as tensions escalate over Kashmir attack
- Center-left party approves German coalition deal, paving the way for Merz to be elected chancellor
- Elon Musk’s X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months
- Spain reached 100 pct renewables a week before blackout. Some big batteries might have helped keep lights on
- Middle East crisis live: US backs Israel’s stance on Unrwa at ICJ hearing (“US official tells international court of justice about ‘serious concerns’ over agency’s impartiality”)
- Trump congratulates Canada’s Carney as they agree to meet in ‘near future’
- The Liberals Who Can’t Stop Winning (“Trump isn’t the only reason Canada’s center-left has stayed in power.”)
- Trump helped elect a liberal leader in Canada
- The US government has a new policy for terminating international students’ legal status
- USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show (That’s f’ed up.)
- Federal Court Says First Amendment Bars Government From Deporting Students and Faculty on Basis of Political Viewpoint,
- Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter (Disgusting.)
- Trump says he “could” bring Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador, but won’t
- Trump says he “could” bring Ábrego García back from El Salvador (So Trump just admitted he’s defying the US Supreme Court.)
- Trump offers automakers some relief on his 25% tariffs, after worries they could hurt US factories
- Trump promised a ‘golden age’ for the economy. Then he unveiled tariffs
- 8 Charts That Sum Up Trump’s First 100 Days (“By many measures, the opening months of President Trump’s second term stand apart from those of essentially any modern president.” Another vague, bland, non-descriptive headline from the NY Times.)
- Trump Bashes Powell, Touts Tariffs at Rally Marking 100 Days
- Trump’s 100-day Michigan rally ‘pathetic’, Democrats say (“US president’s speech included an attack on ‘communist radical left judges’ and a claim that ‘nothing will stop me’” Sick dude.)
- Analysis: Trump’s first 100 days are ‘worst case scenario’ for US wind
- Trump boots climate scientists from climate science report (“The attack on climate science continues.”)
- In His First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment
- Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines (Seriously, FU RFK Jr.)
- How Trump chipped away at abortion access in his first 100 days
- A $6 Billion Shortfall Has US Mass Transit Facing a Death Spiral
- Here’s What Is Driving the Rapid Reversal of the Historic Market Selloff (“Stocks have made a remarkable comeback, while other assets are still hurting”)
- It was supposed to be a tax and border bill. It could also hand Trump vast new executive powers. (“Legislation written by the House Judiciary Committee would allow Trump to delete reams of regulations from the federal rulebook.” ABSOLUTELY NOT.)
- Republicans Say Medicaid ‘Work Requirements’ Don’t Count As Cuts (That’s a flat-out lie.)
- House Republican says no way to party’s proposal to overhaul federal worker pension (“In a statement Tuesday, Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio said he would vote against his committee’s contribution to the party-line package to enact President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, noting his opposition to provisions that would slash employee benefits as a way of offsetting the cost of the larger legislation.”)
- Trump’s late push for huge new corporate tax cuts
- After 100 days, Trump has destroyed Trumpism (“The president’s approach: tackle problems that don’t exist via policies that won’t work”)
- Naming the Biggest Winners From Trump’s Disastrous First 100 Days (“With all this winning going on, it is only natural to ask ourselves who is winning the most?”)
- Trump: ‘I’d like to be pope’ — He was joking (we think) — but said the conclave should take a look at a cardinal from New York.
- FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump’s exclusive 100 days broadcast interview with ABC News (Filled with lies, b.s., lunacy, etc.)
- Trump Melts Down at Being Fact-Checked Right to His Face (“The president lashed out when challenged on his claims about the tattoos on deported dad‘s left hand.”)
- Elizabeth Warren Marks 100 Days Of Trump By Reading Aloud 100 Reports Of His Corruption
- DNC War Room – “100 Days of Trump: Crashing Economy, Crashing Approvals” (Also: VA Senate Dems Hand Trump a Failing Grade for the First 100 Days of His Disastrous Second Term)
- Trump Touts Tariffs in Michigan Rally as Voters’ Economic Concerns Mount
- Give ‘Sleepy Joe’ a rest. Trump has nobody to blame but himself. (“With little to celebrate about his first 100 days in office, Trump in Michigan dwelled on the past.”)
- Border crossings, egg prices and jobs – Trump’s 100 days speech fact-checked
- Trump’s sagging poll numbers become a concern for GOP
- New Polling Shows How Many People Hate Trump’s First 100 Days. What About the Next Thousand? (“The president’s chaos “is bringing a whole host of folks who weren’t necessarily with us three months ago into this chorus of resistance,” the DNC chair tells VF. The question for Democrats now is how to keep the chorus singing.”)
- Five ways MAGA media are spinning Trump’s poll collapse
- The New Deal Is a Stinging Rebuke to Trump and Trumpism
- Trump greets Whitmer with a hug and gives her a win — new jets for Michigan airbase
- “Still no Epstein files”: After Virginia Giuffre dies, MAGA conspiracists struggle to keep the faith (“A decade in, it’s getting harder to believe Trump will expose the secret Satanic Democratic cabal ruling the world”)
- Hegseth boasted about ending a ‘woke’ program on women and security. Trump signed it into law in 2017
- Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements (That, of course, is VIRULENT anti-Semitism.)
- Amazon Was Going to List the Cost of Tariffs On Products, Until Trump Called Bezos
- Trump praises Bezos after Amazon denies plan to show tariffs’ costs
- A ‘p*ssed’ Trump called Jeff Bezos after learning Amazon considered breaking out a tariff charge (Side note, but CNN can’t write the word “pissed” on its website? LOL)
- MAGA media followed Trump administration in attacking Amazon for report it would display tariff costs
- Trump’s Attack on ActBlue’s “Dark Money” Was Backed by Dark Money (“Elon Musk helped fund an effort to gin up fraud claims against the donation platform.”)
- Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
- Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit (If they do that, it will destroy CBS News’ credibility forever.)
- Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum (“‘Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized,’ Mr. Emhoff said in reaction to the removal of him and senior Biden White House officials from the board that oversees the museum.”)
- Native American woman gets a chance to topple Hogg at DNC
- Judge says she’s ‘shocked’ Florida attorney general defied her order on immigration arrests
- Florida is poised to become 2nd state to ban fluoride from public water systems (Completely insane. And remember, Glenn Youngkin said Ron DeSantis is a role model for him.)
- Across 500 Pages, Harvard Task Force Reports Detail Hostility on Campus and Urge Broad Policy Changes
- Ranking Members Gerry Connolly, Jamie Raskin, and Bennie Thompson Demand Trump Administration Provide the Contract They Crafted With El Salvador to House Hundreds of Migrants in Brutal Mega-Prison
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says “100 Days In [of Trump Administration Part 2], Costs Chaos and Corruption Are All Rising”; Vows, “I’ve got a hell of a lot of fight left in me” (Warner vows to “make sure your rights are protected and restore America’s standing in the world”)
- Schapiro: Youngkin blows up the Republican Party he built (“…how does Youngkin, who’s coming across as a priggish bully, reconcile his apparent distaste for Reid’s private life with his acceptance of Trump’s smarmy conduct? This includes Trump’s caught-on-video remark about grabbing women by their genitals, his sexual abuse of a New York writer in a posh department store dressing room and his payment of hush money to a porn star with whom he romped…In trashing Reid, he, in effect, heaps more garbage on the entire ticket. Earle-Sears, Reid and Jason Miyares, seeking a second term as attorney general, have enough to answer for with Trump’s attack on federal cash and jobs that keep Virginia’s economy strong. Should the Republican trio get wiped out, Youngkin can’t lay the blame with Trump — without accepting blame, himself.”)
- Days After Glenn Youngkin Calls for Presumptive VA GOP Lt. Gov. Nominee John Reid to Step Aside, Reid Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter, Makes Comparison to Justin Fairfax Situation, Says He “will NOT be abused or blackmailed!! By ANYONE.” (“If they’d do it to a rising black man within the Democrat [sic] party…I should’ve known that they’d do the same thing to me to try to keep a gay man from winning.”)
- In Virginia, a gay GOP candidate is proving difficult for MAGA to accept (“John Reid, set to be the GOP’s candidate for lieutenant governor, has been spurned by members of his own party.”)
- Youngkin defends bid to oust Va. candidate over claims of racy photos (“Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said “the decision is…up to John,” a day after Reid’s lawyer sent a cease-and-desist notice to Youngkin’s top political adviser over the political spectacle.”)
- UPDATE: Youngkin, Earle-Sears say decision is up to Reid
- This John Reid-Glenn Youngkin fight over gay porn is worth keeping an eye on (“So, yes, now Republicans have an immigrant Black woman, a gay man and a Latino as the state ticket for their dwindling red-meat MAGA base to ignore for the next six months. I don’t get what John Reid thinks he’s getting out of having to go down in resounding defeat, except that, yeah, of course, Reid is a talk-radio host, so what he’s really looking for out of this is fodder for years of being able to play the victim for his listeners. Cue the sad violin.”)
- Youngkin’s political adviser under fire as extortion allegations rock Virginia GOP (“John Reid fights to stay in lieutenant governor race as demands grow to oust Matt Moran over alleged smear tactics.” Of course, ultimately, it’s YOUNGKIN’s fault – so oust HIM!)
- Youngkin hails 44% drop in Virginia’s fentanyl-related deaths (In fact, this had NOTHING TO DO with Youngkin! Here are the actual reasons: “Multiple factors contribute to the drop in overdose deaths, including widespread, data-driven distribution of naloxone, which is a life-saving medication that can reverse an overdose; better access to evidence-based treatment for substance use disorders; shifts in the illegal drug supply; a resumption of prevention and response after pandemic-related disruptions; and continued investments in prevention and response programs like CDC’s flagship Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program.”)
- How two Virginia candidates’ scandals reflect changing attitudes
- Update: VCU student arrested at pro-Palestine protest
- CWG Live updates: Warmth peaks on Friday; rain chances late Thursday into the weekend
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