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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, July 14.
- Earth Could Hit Critical Climate Threshold in Next Five Years (“Report: 20 percent chance that one of the next five years will see annual global temperatures rise to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels”)
- Kim Jong-un’s Sister Just Put an End to Trump’s Nuclear Talks (“Even the smallest concessions are off the table now.”)
- South China Sea dispute: China’s pursuit of resources ‘unlawful’, says US
- Poland’s Slide Toward Homophobic Politics (“When Putin’s Rhetoric Meets Trump’s Populism”)
- In Some Countries, Normal Life Is Back. Not Here. (“Trump’s incompetence has wrecked us. Where are the calls for him to resign?”)
- Leaving The Pandemic Response To States Doomed The Country To Fail Together (“From Florida to Texas, coronavirus cases are climbing in nearly 40 states across the U.S.”)
- America shuts down again — choosing reality over Trump’s false claims (“While Trump obsesses about reelection, state and local leaders are reversing state reopenings he demanded”)
- America’s Jobless Are About to Lose Their $600-a-Week Lifeline (Huge mistake.)
- Why We’re Losing the Battle With Covid-19 (“The escalating crisis in Texas shows how the chronic underfunding of public health has put America on track for the worst coronavirus response in the developed world.”)
- U.S. budget deficit shattered one-month record in June as spending outpaced revenue by $864 billion (“A huge spending increase and sharp falloff in revenue led to the large gap. The deficit in the past nine months has breached $2.7 trillion.”)
- As COVID-19 Surge Builds, the Realization Hits: No One is Coming to Save Us (“That’ll be the way things will end. Not with a bang. But with a quiet, dry, hacking cough.”)
- Trump cites game show host on pandemic while undercutting doctors and questioning their expertise
- G.A.O.: Trump Boosts Deregulation by Undervaluing Cost of Climate Change (Absolutely insane.)
- Trump Pivots to Self-Pity With Polls Sinking, Pandemic Worsening (“His re-election bid has so far centered on the plight of just one person: himself.”)
- Mary Trump Free to Dish on Her Family and Tell-All Book, Judge Rules
- Mary Trump’s Book Shows How Donald Trump Gets Away With It (“The problem with a fraud as big as this president is that once you start collaborating with him, it’s impossible to get out.”)
- COVID-19 and Florida’s governor could tank Trump’s renomination festivities (“The same restrictions that drove the GOP convention out of North Carolina are in place for Jacksonville.”)
- In battle for Congress, Republicans struggle to navigate Trump’s sinking approval
- Betsy DeVos Has a Plan. It Just Has Nothing to Do With Health and Safety in Schools.
- Who thought putting Betsy DeVos on TV was a good idea? It wasn’t. (“The secretary of education doesn’t have much to say about education.”)
- Understanding the mysterious group of Never Trumpers (“The Republican Party is a lost cause.”)
- House to quickly revive legal effort to get Trump’s financial records
- Republicans are endangering their own supporters and destroying Trump’s electoral map
- ‘I Can’t Keep Doing This:’ Small-Business Owners Are Giving Up
- White House turns on Fauci as disaster grows out of aggressive state openings
- Top Trump Ally Preps a New Assault on Fauci (Disgusting and unacceptable.)
- Biden campaign slams Trump for ‘disgusting’ attempt to discredit Fauci
- Biden to Call for $2 Trillion in Spending on Clean Energy (“Plan would create 100% clean electricity standard by 2024 — Earlier proposal aimed for $1.7 trillion over 10 years” DO IT!)
- Joe Biden makes it clear that the country is ready for big change
- Biden makes sharp pivot toward Latino vote
- Biden seeks to take on Trump over economy
- U.S. Supreme Court allows federal executions to proceed
- White Democrats Are Wary Of Big Ideas To Address Racial Inequality
- The GOP’s future looks more like Tucker Carlson than Larry Hogan
- Trump Says He’ll Revoke Schools’ Tax Exemption for “Indoctrination.” He Can’t Do That, Can He? (“There’s no legal basis to the threat, but that doesn’t mean it’s harmless”)
- STUDY: Trump live-tweeted his television nearly 300 times in the first six months of 2020 (“Fox programming shaped his response to impeachment, coronavirus, protests, and more”)
- 6 key Senate and House races to watch on Tuesday (“Can Jeff Sessions survive his Alabama Senate runoff?”)
- 7 things to watch on Tuesday’s big primary day(“Democrats will lock down their roster of Senate candidates, while Jeff Sessions’ comeback bid faces a wall of Trump-fueled opposition in Alabama.”)
- The Memo: Democrats grow more bullish on Texas
- Democrats have long had a pipe dream of turning Texas blue. Will it finally come true in 2020?
- Republican Spokesman, for Some Reason, Mocks Photo of Biden Holding Young Son (So, so, so stupid.)
- Ghislaine Maxwell Tried to Hide When F.B.I. Knocked, Prosecutors Say
- This Isn’t ‘Cancel Culture.’ The Goya CEO Is Just a Moron. (“Robert Unanue has every right to love Donald Trump if he wants to. But with rights come responsibilities, like owning up to the consequences.”)
- Kanye West and the Media Are Once Again Playing a Dangerous Game
- The Trump playbook no one will ever use again (“Actions that most offend most people aren’t a good strategy.”)
- Some Republicans Say Florida Convention Is ‘a Risk You Have to Take’
- California rolls back reopening plans as new outbreaks force major reversal
- 100,000 mail-in votes went uncounted in California’s primary
- Federal judge throws out Georgia’s anti-abortion law
- Tucker Carlson to Take Vacation Amid Staffer Controversy (It should be a permanent vacation for this scumbag.)
- Kaine predicts win in effort to rename bases that honor Confederates
- Dominion’s Natural Gas Dump Shows That A Renewable Future Is On The Horizon (“In 2018, Democrats took control of the Virginia government for the first time in decades. Quite suddenly, Dominion found that a regulatory environment it had readily dictated was suddenly out of their control. Within two years, the state of Virginia had passed regulations requiring Dominion to be 30% carbon-free by 2030 and 100% carbon-free by 2045. All coal plants are required to be shut down by 2024. Dominion, long accustomed to its fossil-fired fleet, with minimal renewables in its portfolio (about 5%) compared to its peers, has suddenly been forced to dramatically alter its generation business.”)
- Herring: We must protect access to affordable health care
- Va. directs $34M to clean energy projects (“Purchases include electric vehicles and replacing diesel cargo handling equipment at Port of Va.”)
- Monday (7/13) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +972 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 71,642), +21 Hospitalizations (to 6,765), +2 Deaths (to 1,968) From Yesterday
- Del. Hala Ayala (D-Prince William County) Announces Candidacy for Virginia Lieutenant Governor
- VIDEO: Del. Jay Jones Announces Historic Campaign for Virginia Attorney General
- AG Mark Herring Fights to Protect International Students Against DOE’s New Illegal Visa Rule
- State officials says special education is a ‘core priority.’ Parents and advocates beg to differ.
- Northam: Classrooms won’t reopen if Virginia can’t remain in phase 3
- Virginia Faces Hefty Price Tag to Send Kids Back to School
- Northern Virginia sees ebb in virus cases while numbers reach record highs elsewhere in state
- “Virginia Progressive Prosecutors for Justice” Write Letter to General Assembly re: Criminal Justice Reform Priorities
- “The only safe option [for school this fall] is 100% virtual, until our numbers improve”
- Union calls for Fairfax County police chief’s resignation
- Prosecutors drop stun gun charges, seek to indict Fairfax Co. officer
- Fairfax County officer failed to turn in body-worn camera footage of alleged Taser assault on black man, prosecutor says
- Virginia Tech blasts new international student policy; region’s congressman defends it.
- Loudoun teachers hold ‘solidarity for safety rally’ in response to reopening plan
- Loudoun Educators Campaign for Distance Learning Option
- George Floyd’s Cousin: Here’s What Virginia Needs to Do on Police and Criminal Justice Reform
- New Richmond police chief: ‘The question is not defund the police; it’s fund the change’
- Richmond’s New Police Chief Doesn’t Support Defunding Cops
- In one of Richmond’s highest crime neighborhoods, a plea for police accountability. ‘There’s no respect.’
- Hampton, Newport News set highs as Virginia reports 972 new coronavirus cases Monday
- Two D.C.-area restaurant employees were assaulted after enforcing mask rules. Others worry they will be next.
- Hampton University suspends fall sports, hopes to resume athletics in spring 2021
- Westmoreland virus cases jump almost 70% since July 1
- Editorial: School board member a font of falsehoods (“Chesapeake School Board member should be embarrassed to have shared falsehoods about the pandemic on social media, but it’s what Americans do every day.”)
- Washington’s NFL team is finally rid of its racist name — 50 years late
- For Dan Snyder, apparently ‘never’ means ‘immediately’ if enough money is at stake
- What Washington’s New NFL Logo Should Look Like, According To Graphic Designers
- Alexandria man holds trademarks for potential new names for DC’s NFL team
- Standard summer day before heat and humidity build later this week
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