by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 3.
- Global Infections Top 18 Million; H.K. Cases Drop: Virus Update
- Global report: July’s terrible toll revealed as coronavirus cases double every six weeks
- Rooftop solar’s stunning surge to new records, as Australia installs reach 2.5 million (We need this in the U.S.)
- 251GW new Chinese wind expected this decade (We need this as well.)
- More coal power generation closed than opened around the world this year, research finds
- ‘Clean Up This Mess’: The Chinese Thinkers Behind Xi’s Hard Line
- Dollar’s Slide Is a Warning That U.S. Has Lost Grip on Virus
- Floating Offshore Wind on Cusp of Unlocking Big Source of Finance, Experts Say
- U.S.-German ties are bad under Trump — if Biden wins he may struggle to repair them
- A coronavirus vaccine won’t change the world right away
- The Right Way to Get a Vaccine at ‘Warp Speed’ (“Scientists need to show us the data. And that’s exactly what they’re working on.”)
- Nancy Pelosi says she has no confidence in Deborah Birx over handling of pandemic
- Birx warns US is ‘in a new phase’ of coronavirus pandemic with more widespread cases
- Want Schools to Open? Get Serious About Outbreaks
- ‘This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail’ (“It is time to stop pretending. Our children are staying home.” Yep, Trump failed.)
- Deutsche Bank Opens Review Into Personal Banker to Trump and Kushner
- The GOP’s stimulus disaster starts with the president
- ‘Still A Long Ways To Go’ For A New Coronavirus Relief Package
- Trump Forecasts His Own Fraud (“In the president’s world, he is never to blame for failure.”)
- White House Not Optimistic On Near-Term Deal For Coronavirus Relief Bill
- Scientists Worry About Political Influence Over Coronavirus Vaccine Project
- Despite chilling warnings, Trump has no plan (“As officials repeatedly deliver information that directly contradict the President, the months ahead look like a steady crisis of Trump tweeting and golfing”)
- Trump’s push to spoil the census — and make Democrats disappear
- Let’s Scrap the Presidential Debates (“They’ve become unrevealing quip contests.”)
- The Republican Party Is Racist and Soulless. Just Ask This Veteran GOP Strategist. (“Stuart Stevens says he now realizes the hatred and bigotry of Trumpism was always at the heart of the GOP. Some of us figured out that years ago.)
- The Mask-Mocking Trumpists Live in a Sickening Bubble—and They’re Determined to Expose the Rest of Us (Here in Virginia, that would be people like Amanda Chase, Morgan Griffith, Bob Good, Nick Freitas, etc.)
- NASA astronauts cap historic ‘odyssey’ aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule
- Trump’s New Adviser Steve Cortes Thinks He Hasn’t Been ‘Fascist’ Enough (“The conservative pundit turned campaign operative believes BLM is a George Soros front and that Trump should have been tougher at Lafayette Square.”)
- While Trump stokes racial fear, Biden wants to make homeownership more accessible to all
- Trump and the GOP are making a New New Deal necessary
- Trump campaign nears point of no return (“Early voting begins in several key swing states next month, leaving a ‘dwindling window of time’ for the president to turn the race around.”)
- Republicans prep for leadership battle if Trump goes down
- Trump skirts Senate to install nominee under fire for Islamaphobic tweets in Pentagon post (Appalling.)
- Controversial Pentagon nominee placed into position after nomination failed
- A covid-19 outbreak among children at a Georgia summer camp is a warning
- Bernie Sanders: ‘The next three months are the most important in modern U.S. history’ (Actually, it’s the next six months.)
- Senate GOP divided over whether they’d fill Supreme Court vacancy
- Democrats warn GOP: Don’t fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 or we’ll retaliate
- Another fake Pelosi video goes viral on Facebook
- Let’s Hire Laid-Off Oil and Gas Workers to Fight Climate Change
- How the Media Could Get the Election Story Wrong (“We may not know the results for days, and maybe weeks. So it’s time to rethink ‘election night.'” “The usual razzmatazz of a panel sitting around discussing election results — that’s dead”)
- 2020 Electoral Map Ratings: Trump Slides, Biden Advantage Expands Over 270 Votes (This map is very conservative.)
- Biden’s delay in choosing a running mate intensifies jockeying between potential picks
- Biden is eating into Trump’s Rust Belt base
- Biden has edge in North Carolina and race is tight in Georgia – CBS News Battleground Tracker poll
- Many Americans Are Convinced Crime Is Rising In The U.S. They’re Wrong. (This is a direct result of irresponsible/sensationalistic local “news,” where “if it bleeds, it leads.”)
- With No Federal Agents on Streets, Portland Protests Turn Largely Peaceful
- Clyburn Says Trump “Is Mussolini”: “I Don’t Think He Plans to Leave the White House”
- Cuccinelli relaxed oversight of DHS intel office (One thing about Cooch is that he’s been consistently evil for his entire career, starting in Virginia politics, so nobody who was paying the least bit of attention can say they’re surprised.)
- Microsoft Says It’ll Continue Pursuit of TikTok
- Microsoft confirms talks to buy TikTok in U.S., aims to finish deal by Sept. 15
- Pol Who Opposed Michigan Gov. Whitmer’s Lockdown Has Coronavirus
- Nevada passes bill to mail all voters ballots amid pandemic
- Tim Kaine on VP vetting: ‘Everything you’ve ever said and done is under intense scrutiny’
- Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA09), Who Tested Positive for COVID-19 Two Weeks Earlier, Attends Packed GOP Dinner…Without Masks or Social Distancing (Masks and social distancing were “encouraged” at this event, which featured former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, but almost nobody appears to have complied.)
- RUSSELL: Our safety is in jeopardy with Spanberger in Congress (How does bats***-crazy sh** like this get printed in a “newspaper?” Using that in air quotes for the esteemed Culpeper Star-Exponent, lol.)
- Sunday (8/2) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +981 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 91,782), +45 Hospitalizations (to 7,955), +3 Deaths (to 2,218) From Yesterday
- Liberty University Poured Millions Into Sports. Now Its Black Athletes Are Leaving. (“Jerry Falwell Jr.’s dream of athletic domination is in peril.”)
- Could COVID-19 make a school nurse requirement in Virginia a reality?
- Want to Spread COVID-19 as Quickly as Possible All Over Virginia? State Sen. Amanda Chase (R) Provides Some Great Tips! (Or, “Amanda Chase Teaches You How to Be a Superspreader!”)
- Crystal Vanuch is Clueless About Status of Minority Relations in Stafford County. We Deserve Better!
- Bohmke’s Irrational War Against Stafford County Schools
- Exclusive Audio: Stafford Supervisors Denigrating School Staff and Claiming To Know More Than the School Board and Superintendent
- Stafford Schools Short Shrifted by Stafford Board of Supervisors of COVID-19-Related Funds
- Sun Gazette’s Attacks on Women of Color, Criminal Justice Reformers, Climate Activists, the LGBTQ Community, etc. Demonstrate That Arlington Deserves a Lot Better
- Without football season, what becomes of Virginia’s boys (and girls) of fall?
- Photos, Video: March for Black Lives in Arlington
- PPP gave Roanoke restaurants a ‘shot in the arm,’ but what happens now?
- Editorial: Northern Neck needs essential broadband
- Editorial: New book on women’s suffrage is must-read for Virginia history
- UVa COVID prevention tactics will rely on, test student self-governance
- Isaias prompts flash flood and tropical storm watches for metro Richmond on Tuesday
- Hampton Roads, eastern NC under tropical storm watch as Isaias moves north; Landfall predicted near Wilmington
- Heavy rain, flooding likely as fast-moving Isaias expected in DC area Tuesday
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