by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, July 17.
Welcome to Story Hour.
Where we read excerpts from our favorite book: Mary Trump’s ‘Too Much and Never Enough.”
See you tomorrow at 8p EST for episode 3. pic.twitter.com/yHL7DLfnmI
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 17, 2020
- India Coronavirus Cases Surge Past One Million
- The entire world’s carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real time
- Climate change: Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’
- Daily briefing: Arctic heat wave is ‘unequivocal’ evidence of climate change (“Record-breaking Arctic heat was made 600 times more likely by human-induced climate change.”)
- Siberia’s lengthy heatwave impossible without climate change, scientists say
- Solar Orbiter Probe Snaps Closest Photos Ever Taken Of The Sun, Revealing Tiny Flares
- Fresh Wave Prompts Curbs; India Has Million Cases: Virus Update
- Pompeo claims private property and religious freedom are ‘foremost’ human rights (“The state department presentation was quickly criticised by human rights activists for seeking to establish a hierarchy of human rights, in which some were more important than others, and for presenting human rights advocacy as distinctively American.”)
- A New State Department Report Cements Mike Pompeo’s Twisted View of Human Rights
- More than 940 deaths reported in one day as US coronavirus cases shatter another record
- More than 77,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the US on Thursday, the most ever
- After the Recent Surge in Coronavirus Cases, Deaths Are Now Rising Too
- Nancy Pelosi says coronavirus aid bill will cost at least $1.3 trillion, but ‘that’s not enough’
- Trump’s outrageous refusal to lead is making the pandemic worse
- Fauci Optimistic for New Covid Treatment to Be Available by Fall
- The Next Disaster Is Just a Few Days Away (“Millions of unemployed Americans face imminent catastrophe.”)
- The Economy Is Going to Hit an Iceberg in 10 Days
- Who would kick millions off health insurance in the middle of a pandemic? Yes, Trump.
- ‘Reckless, callous, cruel’: teachers’ chief denounces Trump plan to reopen schools
- Republicans fear campaign shake-up can’t counteract Trump’s self-sabotage
- The Plot Against America: The GOP’s Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election
- GOP to Trump: Change tune on mail-in voting or risk ugly November
- The entire foundation of Trump’s appeal in 2016 has been swept away
- For the next six months, we’re trapped on a leaking ship captained by a fool
- 2020 Election Updates: Who Is Bill Stepien, Trump’s New Campaign Manager?
- Biden cuts deep into Trump’s 2020 cash advantage
- Trump’s Losing, So When Are Republican Candidates Going to Abandon Him?
- Trump’s covid-19 denial blows up in his face (“Magical thinking has only made things worse.”)
- Here are the reasons Trump is losing so badly (“Republicans will sink with him.”)
- Trump dumps Brad Parscale — but the campaign’s failures are all about him (“Trump’s campaign is falling apart because of his massive failures — Parscale’s a sleaze, but he’s not to blame”)
- Mary Trump’s book breaks record with mammoth sales (“Mary Trump’s tell-all book had sold a staggering 950,000 copies by the end of its first day on sale, publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday.”)
- Mary Trump says she heard her uncle Donald use the ‘n-word’
- Just 4 states meet these basic criteria to reopen and stay safe (Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Jersey.)
- GOP attacks on Black Lives Matter are a ‘throwback’ to anti-civil rights playbook (“Republicans are calling protests against systemic racism ‘communism.'”)
- Chief Vaccine Scientist Will Not Be Forced to Disclose Pharmaceutical Stocks (“Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the chief adviser for the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine program, can remain a government contractor, thus shielding him from disclosure rules.” Why???)
- GOP forced to scale back convention after 6 weeks of insisting it wouldn’t
- Kayleigh McEnany tries to clean up Trump’s comment about police killing ‘more white people’
- Three more signs Republicans are in trouble (“They know they are going down but seem incapable of doing anything about it.”)
- The Supreme Court Just Stopped 1 Million Floridians From Voting in November (“The Supreme Court all but guaranteed that nearly one million Floridians will be unable to vote in the 2020 election because of unpaid court debts in a shattering order handed down on Thursday.” So much for all the moronic articles about how “moderate” John Roberts has been, etc. Why do people write shit like that?)
- Scaramucci Says He Wants to See Trump ‘Humiliated’
- FERC’s New PURPA Rule Undermines Clean Energy Projects, Advocates Say
- FERC Unanimously Dismisses Effort to Undermine Solar Net Metering
- Southern Poverty Law Center adds Stephen Miller to its extremist list
- Five decades later, Trump is still pushing segregationist policies (“Analysis: The president has been saying a fair housing rule backed by Joe Biden would ‘abolish the suburbs.’ He means Biden wants to stop segregation.”)
- Chuck Woolery says ‘everyone is lying’ about coronavirus, then reveals son’s COVID-19 diagnosis
- Trump Campaign Legal Adviser Appears on Kremlin-Backed TV
- Yes, Biden Has A Big Lead, But It’s Probably Not 15 Points
- Exclusive: White House document shows 18 states in coronavirus “red zone”
- Americans Increasingly Dislike How Republican Governors Are Handling The Coronavirus Outbreak
- Biden Shows He Gets It on Clean Energy (Michael Bloomberg: “After years of federal inaction, he’s right to accelerate the timetable.”)
- If Democrats Can Win the Senate, They Can Hold It For a While
- Right-Wingers Moaning About the Left’s Echo Chamber Are a Joke (“The three most prominent conservative opinion pages have a grand total of one liberal columnist.”)
- Twitter’s security holes are now the nation’s problem
- Is the Anti-Racism Training Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy? (“Daniel Bergner has a long profile of DiAngelo and her fellow anti-racism trainers in the New York Times. The story is far more devastating than it might appear at a casual glance. It reveals a business model spreading kooky, harmful, and outright racist ideas.”)
- USA Today, After Fracas, Says Op-Ed Attacking Fauci Fell Short of Standards (Duh, ya think?)
- BREAKING: Kemp’s office seeks to block Atlanta mask mandate in court (Kemp is truly heinous.)
- Coronavirus cases shut down Florida’s emergency operations center
- Virginia Leaders Praise Joe Biden’s Environmental Justice Plan
- Biden’s “Build Back Better” Plan: Roundtable with Senator Mark Warner, Congressman Donald McEachin, and Delegate Kathy Tran
- Senators Warner, Kaine Keep Pressure on ICE to Stop Transferring Detainees Amid Steep Surge of COVID-19 Cases in Immigration Detention Centers
- Senator Warner Wants to Protect Workers of Big Businesses
- Kaine says Obama White House didn’t do enough to punish Russia over 2016 election meddling (100% accurate.)
- WRVA Candidate’s Forum: July 16, 2020 (“The WRVA Candidate’s Forum on Richmond’s Morning News is back as Tina Ramirez (0:00), Delegate Nick Freitas (8:40) and Andrew Knaggs (16:23) as they campaign for the GOP Nomination for the 7th Congressional District.” They’re all far-right, extreme, etc.)
- Republicans Vie For Chance to Unseat Spanberger (“Six Republicans will compete in a convention on Saturday to take on Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-7th), a top target for national Republicans.”)
- New Workplace Requirements, Reopening Schools, and the State Republican Primary: Political Analysis for Friday, July 17, 2020
- Thursday (7/16) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +904 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 74,431), +115 Hospitalizations (to 7,020), +15 Deaths (to 2,007) From Yesterday
- Virginia’s coast saw two to five times more nuisance floods in 2019 than the national average (“Nuisance?” LOL)
- Nearly 40 percent of Virginia’s child care centers closed during the pandemic. It’s a problem for parents going back to work.
- Virginia’s ban on evictions expired. Northam could try to extend it, but has resisted.
- Hard-Right Virginia Delegate Claims Hanover County, Which He Represents, “Caved to the Pressure of Anarchists” in Voting to Rename Confederate Schools; His Republican Predecessor Rips Him
- Virginia House Republicans Getting Their Butts Kicked by House Dems in $$$, Opening Up Potential Opportunities for 2021
- Unpublicized White House Document Finds Virginia in “Yellow Zone” for Cases, Test Positivity; “At Risk for a Resurgence in Cases” (Localities currently in the “red zone” include VA Beach, Norfolk, Albemarle, Manassas City, Martinsville, etc.)
- Virginia Reaches Grim Milestone: One Million Unemployment Claims in 2020
- Treat the cause, not the symptoms (“Renaming schools and removing monuments is only the beginning; real change can come only by dismantling Virginia’s systems of racial inequity”)
- Flooded by calls, legislators press employment commission to ‘do more to help Virginians navigate these uncertain times’
- Bearing Drift Exclusive: Delegate Glenn Davis (R-Virginia Beach) Exploring Run For Lieutenant Governor in 2021
- IBEW Local 26 Business Manager on Why His Union Supports Jennifer Carroll Foy for Governor
- Dominion to spend $35 million to help black universities and students of color
- Editorial: The many obstacles to opening schools
- Virginia co-op board challengers aim to nudge utilities forward on clean energy
- Controversial Richmond judge no longer presiding over Lee statue case (The classic newspaper copout word, “controversial,” instead of words like “racist,” “bigoted,” etc.)
- What went wrong at the Virginia nursing home with the most coronavirus cases
- Virginia Beach teachers group says it ‘cannot support’ in-person instruction this fall
- Portsmouth sailor charged with giving classified information to a Russian
- U.Va. to require negative COVID-19 test for returning students
- Albemarle supervisors want to revert county to Phase Two of reopening guidelines
- Stafford and Spotsylvania County schools prepare for August reopenings
- Editorial: Should Lynchburg be renamed?
- Targeted reductions in police budget recommended by Richmond City Council committee
- 15 women accuse then-Redskins employees of sexual harassment (The NFL is fundamentally flawed, let’s face it.)
- Feeling near 100 today, and actual temperatures rising closer to that the next few days
********************************************************
Sign up for the Blue Virginia weekly newsletter
