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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, November 8.
- The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer
- I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t (“Let’s begin with the fundamental problem: Bill Gates is a politics denier. Though he came to it late, he now accepts the realities of climate science. But he lives in flat, embarrassing denial about political realities.”)
- How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling (“Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action”)
- Respectfully, Bill Gates Needs to Shut Up (“The tech billionaire’s climate pivot is cowardly—and profoundly unhelpful.” Agreed – STFU Bill Gates.)
- Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work? (“Host uses Indigenous concepts and changes agenda to help delegates agree on ways to meet existing climate goals”)
- Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine (“Fishers from the Brittany coast are sending horse-hair nets to catch weapons and shield civilians and soldiers”)
- Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions
- The Guardian’s view on Gaza’s future: the ceasefire brought relief, but the world must not look away now
- Iran plotted to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, U.S. officials say
- Trump says US will boycott G20 summit in South Africa, citing treatment of white farmers (Nutjob. And racist.)
- Philippines warns of deadly storm surges as massive Typhoon Fung-wong nears super typhoon strength
- Carney survives two confidence votes on budget, quashing fears of winter election (“The Liberals managed to pass the second of three votes on the plan on Friday, paving the way for tens of billions in new spending.”)
- The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo
- ‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison (“We interviewed migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Analysts said their treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.”)
- Is there any way out of Sudan’s nightmare? (“The world is finally waking up to this brutal war. But that doesn’t mean an end to it is coming soon.”)
- Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm. (“Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said.”)
- Federal judge permanently blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland
- ‘Mega detention centers’: ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants
- Judge Blocks National Guard From Portland, Ore., Permanently
- ICE facing fierce backlash after video apparently shows unconscious man clutching child during arrest (“Footage shows commotion inside vehicle in Massachusetts as desperate woman in passenger seat tries to awaken man” WTF is wrong with these people???)
- A Border Patrol Agent Bragged About Shooting Someone, Texts Show (“Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao.”)
- Did Trump’s Supreme Court Tariffs Brief Include a Strategic Blunder?
- The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control.
- SNAP WTF? (“A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an ‘administrative stay’ in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what’s likely to happen next”)
- Supreme Court lets Trump pause full SNAP payments for now
- From the Sandwich Trial to Chicago, Some Courts Are Fed Up With Trump’s Baloney (“This week saw a few major wins in the long-running battle between Donald Trump and reality.”)
- US consumer sentiment drops to near record low as shutdown persists (“Economic concerns felt by Americans of different ages, incomes and political affiliations, survey finds”)
- Trump is threatening the basic needs of poor Americans. How low he has sunk
- Senate Democrats propose 1-year Obamacare subsidies punt in new shutdown offer (“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made the offer in a Friday floor speech.”)
- Democrats make a new offer to end the shutdown, but Republicans aren’t buying it
- ‘We are at risk’: Governors, local officials call for shutdown end
- The voices of SNAP (“Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.”)
- Flight Cancellations Could Rise to 20% if Government Shutdown Continues
- Travelers face mounting delays this weekend as airlines cut hundreds of flights due to the shutdown. Here’s what to know
- Trump says GOP would never lose an election again if filibuster is eliminated
- How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy (“The Treasury Department and the IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich.”)
- Education Department’s out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules (OUTRAGEOUSLY illegal!)
- Judge orders Education Department to halt ‘partisan’ employee email messages
- Todd Blanche on defending Trump policies before ‘rogue activist judges’: ‘It’s a war, man’ (Deranged.)
- Tulsi Gabbard’s Quest to Bring the ‘Deep State’ Under Her Control (Gabbard is insane and dangerous.)
- FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail (“Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.”)
- Democrats swept elections far beyond the big races in referendum on Trump (“Beyond the big governors and New York mayor contests, Democrats on Tuesday swept city councils, school boards and county commissions.”)
- Clean energy could become a huge political winner (“Rising power bills quietly shaped this year’s races — and gave Democrats a new attack line on climate.”)
- Trump’s Vision of a Mar-a-Lago on the Potomac Upends an American Ideal
- In Trump 2.0, MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream
- Conservative Media’s Big Advantage: Money, Money, Money
- How a backlash to Trump fueled Democratic gains with Latino voters
- Biden says Trump has ‘taken a wrecking ball’ to democracy in sharp criticism
- Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Daring the Trump Administration to Let Him Testify Under Oath
- A far-right provocateur is triggering a MAGA civil war (“Nick Fuentes’s return to X has fueled a resurgence that is driving a wedge through the right.”)
- Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison emails show she is ‘happier’ at minimum-security Texas facility
- Cornell to pay $60M to settle Trump administration probes
- What the Left Still Doesn’t Get About Winning (“Mamdani won by a modest margin in a deeply blue city not because of his radical commitments, but despite them.”)
- This North Carolina Democrat can’t win her district. So she’s running as a Republican. (“In her crusade against gerrymandering, Kate Barr is challenging her Republican congressman in the GOP primary to make a point.”)
- Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Huge Democratic Wins in VA, Across the Country Were “clearly a rejection of Donald Trump”; “the American public blames Republicans for this shutdown” (On another topic, Sen. Warner said “trust me, within the next year or so AI job dislocation is going to be one of the premier issues in our country.”)
- House Republicans say a Virginia college president lied to Congress over DEI
- Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08) Rips Trump for His Unhinged, Dishonest “I Don’t Want To Hear About The Affordability” Tirade (“In both actions and words Trump is proving that he only cares about himself and his rich friends.”)
- Youngkin, on his way out the door, reinstating Presidential Fitness Test
- Want a job with Abigail Spanberger? They’re taking applications
- Trump once predicted victory in Virginia. Instead, the voters rejected him twice. (Actually, Trump lost Virginia in 2016, 2020, 2024 and also, arguably, in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2025)
- Beyond Spanberger, women fuel a Democratic resurgence in Virginia (“In Tuesday’s election, women made history in the executive branch, set records in the House of Delegates — and evoked pride from female leaders of generations past.”)
- Spanberger flipped 15 cities and counties Youngkin carried
- ICYMI: “Democrats across the country can learn from what we accomplished in Virginia” – Speaker Don Scott and Delegate Dan Helmer (“We didn’t just run against Trump. We ran on our common values as Americans and a focus on the kitchen table concerns…”)
- Memo to Democrats: Don’t misread the mandate, again (This is CLASSIC Mark Rozell, lol!)
- Special election tees up Virginia GOP opportunity to derail redistricting (Kamala Harris won this district by 28 points, so it’s safe Democratic.)
- Concerns over data centers drive local election in Northern Virginia
- How a consultant, professor unseated an incumbent on the Loudoun Co. school board
- Razor-thin Roanoke County school board race turned on concerns over bullying, farm sale
- CWG Live updates: Warm this weekend, then a big chill early week
