Climate and Energy News Roundup: November 2025
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The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley is organizing a Climate Action Celebration and Call to Action at the Massanutten Regional Library on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
Search Results for civil rights
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The Vampire State: Government is feeding on our fear, freedom and finances
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Monsters don’t always come wrapped in the trappings of horror or myth. Most often, monsters in the real world look like ordinary people. They walk among us. They smile for the cameras.
Tennessee man in jail with $2M bond because he posted a Trump meme on Facebook
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A Tennessee man has been in jail for a month, and will be there into December, at least, because a county sheriff 45 minutes away didn’t like a meme he posted on Facebook about Donald Trump.
Why do we give rich people millions of dollars to preserve history?
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Virginia is committing another $6.1 million this year to protect Civil War battlefields, which is good from a historical-preservation perspective – but maybe not so much when you consider, aren’t we just giving wealthy landowners money to do what should be the right thing?
Alon Ben-Meir | The inescapable political reality the Israelis must face
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached a new breaking point, more precipitous now than any time before.
And the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize goes to | Someone other than Donald Trump
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Big surprise – the Nobel Peace Prize didn’t go this year to that Donald Trump guy who is out there bombing fishing boats in international waters and has his goons disappearing law-abiding people off the streets in his own country.
John Whitehead | Battlefield America: Trump’s war on the enemy within
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The American police state under Donald Trump has mastered the art of delivering endless diversions, constant uproar, and wall-to-wall chaos designed to prevent us from focusing on any single issue for long.
Shutdown | Congressional Republicans ‘had every tool at their disposal to avoid’
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Yes, they did it again. A failure to reach an agreement on funding the federal government has led to another government shutdown as of today.
The Ben Cline ‘town hall’ | Turns out, plenty of good seats were still available
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Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline held his “town hall” in Lexington on Thursday, in front of 33 apparently very lucky folks, in a room that one attendee said could have easily accommodated 100, and another estimated, 120.
ICE shooting | MAGA doesn’t really want to tone down the ‘rhetoric’
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Here we go, unfortunately, again, with the political back-and-forth following a shooting, this one in Dallas, at an ICE processing center, with two immigration detainees killed by a sniper who we’re being told is actually anti-ICE, just with really bad aim.
