by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 25.
- Saudis Begin Curbing Oil Output Ahead of OPEC+ Start Date
- Coronavirus live news: Greece prepares to end lockdown as Brazil’s health system nears collapse (“Bill Gates vows to fund vaccine production; Australia and New Zealand mark Anzac Day from driveways”)
- WHO Says Re-Infection Possible; Spain Stabilizes: Virus Update
- Sweden joins European trend and exits coal — two years earlier than planned (“The Nordic nation is now the third European country to wave goodbye to coal for power generation. Another 11 European states have made plans to follow suit over the next decade.”)
- Despotism and Democracy in the Age of the Virus
- Exclusive: China sent team including medical experts to advise on North Korea’s Kim, sources say
- One country, one system: The week that China shredded its promise on Hong Kong
- US stays away as world leaders agree action on Covid-19 vaccine
- Pompeo Seeks Exceptions to WHO Funding Halt for Seven Countries
- Why the World’s Highest Virus Death Rate Is in Europe’s Capital (“Figures linked to rigorously counting nursing-home deaths”)
- Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic (“Vocal influencers such as the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the Heartland Institute are hitting back at a time when people’s trust in science is rising”)
- Climate change, like the coronavirus, requires hard choices and leadership
- CBO’s Current Projections of Output, Employment, and Interest Rates and a Preliminary Look at Federal Deficits for 2020 and 2021
- Coronavirus Projected to Trigger Worst Downturn Since 1940s
- Fact check: Trump lies that he was being ‘sarcastic’ when he talked about injecting disinfectant (Wow! A media outlet, in this case CNN, actually called out Trump for “lies,” instead of using euphemisms like “unproven” or whatever. Congratulations on doing your job!)
- The Tax-Break Bonanza Inside the Economic Rescue Package
- How overly optimistic modeling distorted Trump team’s coronavirus response (“The U.S. is now expected to blow past the 60,000 mark around the beginning of May, earlier than the IHME model had projected and with less of the dramatic leveling-off that its forecast had initially baked in.”)
- Trump Holds Short Briefing After Disinfectant Claim, Takes No Questions
- Injections of Bleach? Beams of Light? Trump Is Self-Destructing Before Our Eyes (“The notion that he is bound for four more years is pure superstition.”)
- Navy Leaders Recommend Reinstating Roosevelt Captain Fired Over Virus Warning (Hell, promote this guy to Navy Secretary!)
- Reopening Has Begun. No One Is Sure What Happens Next. (“The heated debate over when to restart the U.S. economy has obscured an issue that could prove just as thorny: How to do it. The economy is a complex web of supply chains whose dynamics don’t necessarily align neatly with epidemiologists’ recommendations.”)
- This Is Precisely the Situation for Which the 25th Amendment Was Designed
- Stephen Miller has long-term vision for Trump’s ‘temporary’ immigration order, according to private call with supporters (Miller is a white nationalist, aka white supremacist, and should absolutely NOT be in government at any level, let alone making policy.)
- Supreme Court denies motion to block Trump ‘public charge’ rule during pandemic
- Trump’s remarks on disinfectants left even close aides shocked (They’re shocked that Trump, who’s been clearly bonkers the entire time he’s been president, is…nuts?)
- Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus ‘cure’ wrote to Trump this week
- Trump floats another bogus coronavirus cure — and his administration scrambles to stop people from injecting disinfectants
- A spike in New Yorkers ingesting household cleaners following Trump’s controversial coronavirus comments
- Trump: My Idea to Inject Disinfectant Was a Prank on Reporters ‘Just to See What Would Happen’ (Yep, he’s lying. But even if he weren’t lying, which of course he is, that is WILDLY irresponsible, dangerous and, needless to say, unpresidential.)
- Trump plans to cut daily coronavirus briefings (Because they’re hurting him politically, as well they should!)
- Now that Trump has suggested we shoot up Lysol, can cable news stop airing this crap? (“‘I’m like a person who has a good,’ said the president of the United States, pointing to his head. Fact check: No”)
- Is “Grim Reaper” Mitch McConnell finally facing his day of reckoning? (“McConnell wants to starve blue states, give billions to corporations and still win the election. Maybe not, Mitch”)
- The rise and fall of Trump’s obsession with hydroxychloroquine
- Nursing Homes Violated Basic Health Standards, Allowing the Coronavirus to Explode
- Donald Trump Is Living Groundhog Day in Reverse–and We’re All Stuck in His Nightmare (“It took a while, but Bill Murray’s Phil Connors finally learned how to be a humane person. Potus, if anything, is sprinting in the opposite direction.”)
- Trump Is Building a Dystopia in Real Time (“Every day, the president’s coronavirus briefings broadcast an alarming argument: that public health is best understood as a matter of PR.”)
- Trump’s emoluments: Just a fancy name for corruption
- Coronavirus Is Not Just a Health Crisis—It’s an Environmental Justice Crisis
- Trump’s idiotic remarks should be condemned by anyone who cares about the nation’s health
- Stacey Abrams’s Remarkable Campaign for Vice President
- Trump has proven it. We’re on our own, America. (“Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake. Donald Trump: Let them inject Lysol.”)
- Some right-wing outlets lash out at the media after Trump suggests disinfectant injections to fight coronavirus (“While some right-wing outlets confirm that the president said what he said, others try to assign scientific meaning to his meandering ignorance — which he later claimed was sarcasm”)
- Republicans fight government and science (“You do wonder — aside from the attention, self-importance and status — why Republicans bother to run for government or want to hold office.”)
- ‘Stable genius’ or dangerous ignoramus? (“His inanities aren’t just funny — they’re a menace.”)
- U.S. coronavirus deaths top 51,000, with fatalities expected to climb
- Healthy people in their 30s and 40s barely sick with covid-19 are dying of strokes (“Doctors are sounding the alarm about young and middle-aged patients left debilitated or dead by strokes. Some didn’t know they were infected.”)
- Andrew Cuomo decimates Republican hypocrisy and vile partisanship
- The South’s Handling Of Coronavirus Could Be ‘A Macabre Game Of Whack-A-Mole’
- Joe Biden campaign returns donation from Louis C.K.
- Congresswoman Elaine Luria urges Trump administration to support local media
- Video: Right-Wingnut VA07 Congressional Candidate John McGuire and His Unmasked Nostrils, er, “Sniff Out” Anti-“Lockdown” Protest (McGuire calls protest “cool,” declares that “we want to make sure that cure is not worse than the disease”)
- Rashid for Congress Announces Launch of Compassion Through Action Initiative
- Live Video, Highlights: Gov. Ralph Northam’s Friday (4/24) Virginia COVID-19 Briefing
- Governor Northam Unveils Blueprint for Easing Public Health Restrictions (“‘Forward Virginia’ blueprint informed by diverse health and business stakeholders, includes testing, tracing, and PPE priorities”)
- When will Virginia reopen? Northam outlines the steps the state must take first.
- Va. and Md. governors offer ‘blueprint’ for emerging from shutdown
- UPDATE: Northam outlines phase one of Virginia’s plan for emerging from COVID-19 pandemic
- Northam outlines plans to reopen Virginia, warns residents will continue to see some restrictions
- Coronavirus in Virginia: 5 takeaways from this week
- Va. sees flattening of curve, but it’s too soon to loosen restrictions, health official says
- Governor Northam Postpones Upcoming May Elections in Response to COVID-19 (“Virginians encouraged to vote absentee by mail”)
- Northam postpones municipal elections to May 19
- Virginia Groups Highlight Insufficiency of VCEA, Call for Stronger Climate Legislation Next Session
- Matthew Strickler column: Making society more resilient to environmental threats
- State Corporation Commission should pause process on natural gas project
- Clean air and clean water are more important now than ever
- Regulator recommends approval of Dominion’s renewable rate scheme, with conditions
- Details on state contract for PPE released; health care providers split on continuing elective procedure ban
- Mountain Valley says pipeline still on track despite issues with permit program
- Arlington Special County Board Election Set for July 7; Dem Nominee to Be Decided by May 8, Only 14 Days from Today (Arlington Dems “asking Governor Northam and the General Assembly to move the special election date so that political parties have the ability to hold an open nomination process”)
- Coronavirus breaks out in Norfolk jail; testing to be expanded to all 670 inmates (“Thirty-two inmates and staff members have tested positive for the coronavirus, a number that is almost certain to shoot up as more of the roughly 670 offenders and 380 deputies are tested.”)
- More rain tonight into Sunday as temperatures remain cool
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