by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, July 23.
JFC. I know I’m saying this for roughly the 1256th time in 3+ yrs…but how is this real? And how does anyone w/ a 3-digit IQ watch this and say, “yeah, that guy…that’s the one I’m voting for to be Commander-in-Chief.” https://t.co/bcWQKZTlcs
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) July 23, 2020
- Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios (“An analysis finds the most likely range of warming from doubling carbon dioxide to be between 4.1 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit” Catastrophic.)
- Australian Government Sued Over Financial Risks of Climate Change (“A 23-year-old law student filed a class-action suit accusing Australia of failing to disclose financial risks from climate change. Experts say it is the first of its kind.”)
- Xi’s Own Campaign to Stay in Power Pits China Against the World
- Economic Toll Grows; Cases in Tokyo Reach Record: Virus Update
- What scientists are learning about how long Covid-19 immunity lasts
- U.S. Nears 4 Million Coronavirus Cases as Multiple States Set Records
- Face it. Most kids are not going to school next month
- Tracking the Real Coronavirus Death Toll in the United States
- The Rise in Testing Is Not Driving the Rise in U.S. Virus Cases (Of course it isn’t. Trump is insane.)
- As virus deaths rise, Trump paints a rosy picture of America’s present and future
- Trump Returns to covid-19 Briefings but Not to Reality
- Few Americans Back Full School Reopening, Poll Shows
- Trump announces ‘surge’ of federal officers to Chicago as he campaigns on ‘law and order’ mantle
- Philadelphia’s Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents
- Trump ‘Surges’ Feds to Chicago Like It’s a Warzone
- Trump undercuts new virus strategy by hiding experts and facts (“The President’s approach is more of a cosmetic political exercise than an effort to provide public health advice”)
- The pandemic will change the way millions cast ballots. Here’s the state of absentee voting in the U.S.
- House Democrats Considered 10 Impeachment Articles Before Narrowing Their Case Against Trump
- How we make Trump go away (“Trump’s claim to power must be negated.”)
- Democrats Go On Offense On Russian Election Interference As November Approaches
- GOP considers extending unemployment benefit at reduced level of $100 a week through December
- Republican feuding this week represents broader reckoning over party’s future as Trump sinks in the polls
- Tea Party rises up against McConnell’s $1 trillion relief plan
- Senate GOP, White House reach tentative $1 trillion pact to break coronavirus aid logjam
- Trump, GOP Look to McConnell to Reconcile Stimulus Differences
- The Lincoln Project understands that Trump’s enablers must pay a price
- ‘It’s a mess’: Congress prepares to lurch over unemployment aid cliff (Again it is NOT “Congress” generically, it is specifically Senate Republicans plus Trump.)
- Trump’s assault on election integrity forces question: What would happen if he refused to accept a loss? (The top-rated comment on the WaPo article: “Every day of this dreadful man’s presidency is a threat to our democracy, we will meet this threat as we have the rest, with determination to rid the nation and the world of this menace. “)
- Refusal to concede? Vote counting delays? Lefty groups brace for the worst. (“Lefty?”)
- Biden says Trump is America’s first ‘racist’ president (Sadly, that is not true, as we’ve had racist presidents previously.)
- Two Trump Judges Broke Ethics Rules to Stop Up to 1 Million Floridians From Voting in November (“Senate Democrats are demanding to know why.”)
- Mitt Romney questions Trump getting ‘cozy’ with dictators, direction of GOP
- First Thing: is Trump a ‘law and order’ president, or a lawless one?
- Cafeteria worker on White House grounds tests positive for Covid-19 as staffers urged not to panic
- 113 House Republicans vote to keep Confederate statues on display in Capitol
- Mainstream news outlets keep running stories about performative GOP opposition to Trump
- Trump wishes Ghislaine Maxwell well — and the media barely reacts (“Our political coverage is failing adequately to inform and educate the public.” Yep, it sucks big time.)
- Save lives — or obsess about Trump’s tone? Political reporters just can’t get it right
- Political reporters can’t handle the truth: Trump is never going to “pivot” (“Smell the covfefe: Trump’s brief, sulky briefing was no momentous ‘shift’ — he’ll be ranting on Twitter soon enough”)
- ‘Person, woman, man, camera, TV’: Trump insists cognitive test was difficult (“US president’s pride in his own mental agility on display during interview in which he lists five things repeatedly” LOL)
- Trump keeps boasting about passing a cognitive test — but it doesn’t mean what he thinks it does
- Twitter just cracked down on QAnon for causing harm. Facebook has been making money off the conspiracy theory in ads. (“Facebook has run at least 144 ads promoting QAnon since 2019”)
- Ohio’s awful energy law passed based on bribery and corruption (“But electric utilities’ corruption problem is much bigger than FirstEnergy’s alleged bribery of Larry Householder.” Yep, check out Dominion Energy and Virginia.)
- Before the Media Treated Him as a Threat, They Treated Him as a Joke (“Roy Den Hollander, now suspected of murder, was once a mini-celebrity—a figure whose misogyny was dismissed as entertainment.”)
- News media hail Trump for “changing his tone” on coronavirus — again (“This just keeps on happening”)
- House passes sweeping conservation legislation pushed by Sen. Mark Warner
- 100+ House Dems, Including Several From Virginia, Send Letter to William Barr, Chad Wolf Condemning Unlawful Actions of the Trump Administration in Portland, OR
- Portland mayor hit with tear gas by federal agents
- Senators Warner, Kaine Introduce “Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2020”
- After Passing Sweeping Gun Law Reform, Virginia Senators Look Toward National Change (“Although the bill is unlikely to pass the Republican-dominated Senate, the Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2020 shows the state has become a national test case for Democrats running on gun control — and winning.”)
- Video: Senator Mark Warner Discusses New Legislation to Stop DeVos and Trump from Forcing Schools to Open Unsafely
- You Gotta Hear It To Believe It: Nick Freitas Believes ‘COVID is Under Control’
- Nick Freitas should leave his MAGA ways behind (Yeah, good luck with that.)
- Johns Hopkins University Analysis: Virginia One of Just 17 States Addressing All 12 Components of School Reopening
- Norfolk City Councilmember Andria McClellan (D) Exploring Run for Lt. Governor
- Munley: Virginia doesn’t need McAuliffe, the pipeline cheerleader
- Wednesday (7/22) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,022 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 80,393), +84 Hospitalizations (to 7,351), +3 Deaths (to 2,051) From Yesterday
- CASEY: Thousands of Virginia workers stymied with unemployment claims
- As the Pandemic Continues, Should Next Month’s Special Session Go Virtual?
- Video: Day #1 of Virginia House of Delegates Public Hearings on Police and Criminal Justice Reform (“Make no mistake, at the conclusion of this process, we will take action; the sense of urgency is growing, and we cannot ignore these issues any longer”)
- New Polling Confirms That Virginia Republicans Are Wildly Out of Step with Public Opinion on Reopening Schools, Wearing Masks, etc.
- Virginia police chiefs want to make it easier to banish bad cops from profession
- Study: More Virginians Unable to Meet Costs of Living
- Virginia’s largest school insurer says worker’s compensation is unlikely for teachers who catch COVID-19
- Editorial: One name for U.S. Route 1, and it’s not Jeff Davis
- Monument Avenue residents refile lawsuit challenging removal of Lee statue
- A politician’s return of a $10,000 donation was never cashed. The transit union says it lost the check.
- Less momentum for Confederate statue removal in rural areas
- Gov. Northam talks with News 3 about COVID-19 in Hampton Roads and across Virginia
- Arlington/Falls Church Commonwealth’s Attorney Announces Move to “Vertical Prosecution Model”
- County delays vote on mask requirement, restaurant capacity limits till Aug. 5 (“The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors last week expressed interest in moving back to the state’s Phase Two reopening guidelines amid a worsening COVID-19 pandemic. “)
- Wyatt Gordon column: Richmond’s racist street names must go
- Loudoun County weighs switching from a sheriff to a police department
- “Always the positive” — Chronicling Roanoke’s African American Community
- Richmond-area activist groups call for unity, amnesty for all protesters
- Dozens of Hanover teachers, parents hold car rally against five-day school reopening plan
- Stafford teachers urge School Board to delay in-school classes
- In Mathews, a heated debate over Lee-Jackson Elementary resurfaces
- Petersburg, Hopewell school boards approve virtual start for school year
- Heat and humidity to set off more storms today and tomorrow
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