by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 5.
- Stop making sense: why it’s time to get emotional about climate change
- Arctic Oil Infrastructure Faces Climate Karma
- China’s Era of Mega-Dams Is Ending as Solar and Wind Power Rise (These mega-dams are very destructive environmentally. Much better options: energy efficiency #1, followed by things like solar and wind power.)
- Coronavirus: Mexico’s death toll passes 30,000
- 239 Experts With 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne
- Goldman Cuts U.S. GDP Forecast, Now Sees Wider Contraction in 2020
- In Trump’s new version of American carnage, the threat isn’t immigrants or foreign nations. It’s other Americans.
- Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him (Stop enabling it, then.)
- Trump doubles down on divisive messaging in speech to honor Independence Day
- At Mt. Rushmore and the White House, Trump Updates ‘American Carnage’ Message for 2020
- Trump Blames China For COVID-19 Spread At Crowded Independence Day Celebration (Completely unhinged.)
- Trump claims 99% of US Covid-19 cases are ‘totally harmless’ as infections surge (“President’s White House speech capping 4 July celebrations says US coronavirus strategy is ‘moving along well’” It definitely isn’t.)
- If the United States were my patient: We aren’t ready to celebrate yet
- Donald Trump orders creation of ‘national heroes’ garden (Beyond parody.)
- ‘We’ve got to do something’: Republican rebels come together to take on Trump (“A slew of organized Republican groups have sprung up to do all they can to defeat Trump in November. Will their effort work?”)
- Social media backlash forces Trump to find new ways to spread his message (“Twitter, Reddit and other platforms are taking action against the president’s rhetoric. The alternatives have far less reach”)
- Kanye West again says he will run for president
- Biden vows to uproot systemic racism in July 4 remarks (Grammatical note: this should actually read, “In July 4 remarks, Biden vows…”)
- Warning signs flash for Trump in Wisconsin as pandemic response fuels disapproval
- The America of Hamilton, not Trump, is the one I chose to become a citizen of this year
- Clean energy programs can help address some racial disparities, advocates say
- The radicalism of the American Revolution — and its lessons for today
- The Supreme Court just handed down some truly awful news for voting rights
- The Boogaloo Tipping Point (“What happens when a meme becomes a terrorist movement?”)
- ‘How the hell are we going to do this?’ The panic over reopening schools
- What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common (“For decades, people have asked me why the oil companies don’t just become solar companies. They don’t for the same reason that Facebook doesn’t behave decently: an oil company’s core business is digging stuff up and burning it, just as Facebook’s is to keep people glued to their screens. Digging and burning is all that oil companies know how to do—and why the industry has spent the past thirty years building a disinformation machine to stall action on climate change…Effective progress on climate will require government and the finance industry to enforce the edicts of chemistry and physics: massive action undertaken inside a decade, not gradual, gentle course correction. And that will require the rest of us to press those institutions. Because our core business is survival.”)
- Predominantly Black Armed Protesters March Through Confederate Memorial Park in Georgia
- Christopher Columbus statue near Little Italy brought down, tossed into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
- Florida and Texas report record surge of new coronavirus cases over Fourth of July weekend (“Florida and Texas hit a record number of daily coronavirus cases on Saturday, respectively reporting 11,445 and 8,258 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to figures released by the states’ health departments.”)
- Joe Biden, Virginia Democrats on Celebrating Independence Day 2020: “Our nation was founded on a simple idea: We’re all created equal.”
- At Second Amendment rally outside Capitol, a wide variety of causes emerge (“State Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, held a black megaphone in one hand and balanced an assault-style rifle with the other. On Saturday afternoon, she spoke to a group of about 250 proponents of Second Amendment rights with her back to the Virginia Capitol. Those who attended were largely armed, some with handguns, others with assault-style rifles. And they represented numerous factions, including right-wing extremist groups, a gun club, Black Lives Matter supporters and white supremacists. Police monitored nearby, mostly from a distance.”)
- ‘The forgotten ones’: Virginia’s home health aides look for state relief in coronavirus crisis
- New Harvard COVID-19 “Alert Level” Rating Tool Drills Down to County Level, Including in Virginia (Lots of “yellow,” some “orange,” a bit of “green”)
- Independence Day (7/4) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +716 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 65,109), +23 Hospitalizations (to 6,405), +4 Deaths (to 1,849) From Yesterday
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Justice for Rojai Fentress
- EDITORIAL: Don’t blow Phase III
- Editorial: Colleges seek path to welcome students safely (“Virginia’s colleges and universities need a clear and effective plan for testing and tracing if they hope to welcome students back to campus this fall.”)
- Potter: Virginia leading the way on democracy reform in critical election year
- Editorial: Here’s what a real Green New Deal would look like
- Gasink and Epling: Children Should Follow CDC-Recommended Vaccine Schedule to Help Prevent Spread of Infectious Diseases in Virginia
- “Here we are today, still fighting:” what a Fourth of July in the middle of a racial reckoning looked like in Richmond
- Racial reckoning draws in namesakes of Virginia Tech’s past (“Since Virginia Tech announced in early June that it would once again reexamine the name of a dorm mired in Ku Klux Klan controversy, focus has turned to other campus facilities named for men with ties to the Confederacy and white supremacy.”)
- On Independence Day, more than 100 protest peacefully on Virginia Beach’s Boardwalk
- NoVA Residents Spend Independence Day In Caravan Against Hate (“A caravan of vehicles left Manassas Saturday on their way to Charlottesville, with the goal of building unity against hateful ideologies.”)
- Williamsburg doctor is recruiting locals with coronavirus to try experimental treatment
- From near panic to impatience, virus brings about mixed reactions in Fredericksburg area
- Roanoke County supervisors reject calls to shift funding from police department
- Mugginess builds tonight. Lower rain chance Sunday, but still hot.
