Friday News: “As Joe Biden Closes In On 2020 Election Victory, Trump Lashes Out With Flood Of Lies”; ” Losing an election, Trump chooses to slander American democracy”; “Trump Won’t Succeed in Stopping Votes From Being Counted”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, November 6.

• Arctic animals are migrating earlier in the year due to climate change
• Cutting Greenhouse Gases From Food Production Is Urgent, Scientists Say (Slash meat consumption, for starters.)
• Even if Trump leaves office, fighting the virus will be much harder this winter thanks to him
• The US Covid-19 epidemic hit a deadly new milestone, and help isn’t on the way
• Covid-19 cases break record for second day in a row, topping 120,000
• One Day in America: More Than 117,000 Virus Cases
• American Democracy Survives Its Brush with Death (If it does, it will be by a hair.)
• Trump Can Try, but the Courts Won’t Decide the Election
• This Is America (“The past four years have shattered my faith. But I’m ready to fight for our future. Are you?”)
• What Biden Can Really Do on Climate, Even Without the Senate
• USPS processed 150,000 ballots after Election Day, jeopardizing thousands of votes (Someone posted on Twitter that DeJoy should go to DeJail.)
• U.S. Postal Service says 1,700 ballots found in Pennsylvania facilities
• The Electoral College is close. The popular vote isn’t. (Right, so if the popular vote isn’t close, why shouldn’t that be the “ballgame?” Oh yes, the infallible “wisdom” of the Founding Fathers, many of whom were slave-owners who wanted to protect slave-owning states.)
• Trump Won’t Succeed in Stopping Votes From Being Counted (“But he could still delegitimize the democratic process.”)
• Trump Just Spoke. He Was Dishonest, Desperate, and Dangerous.
• Trump told one falsehood after another about the presidential race. Here are the facts. (“Ballots are not being found, as Trump claims. The regular process of counting mail-in votes in key states is ongoing.”)
• Trump’s attacks on vote counts seem to follow authoritarian playbook
• Donald Trump’s most historic and dishonest press conference
• Donald Trump’s election results speech: all the false claims
• Losing an election, Trump chooses to slander American democracy
• Biden Urges Patience; Trump Lies About Count (It took the NY Times four f’ing years of Trump lying, but they FINALLY managed to do it – state the fact that Trump is LYING, right on their front page. Now was that SO hard, guys???)
• Networks cut Trump speech as some Republicans chastise president over election lies (EVERY Republican should be speaking up right now. If they’re not, then they have failed to uphold their oaths to defend the constitution of the United States.)
• GOP splits over Trump’s false election claims, unfounded fraud allegations
• The Count Continues, Despite Trump’s False Claims
• As Joe Biden Closes In On 2020 Election Victory, Trump Lashes Out With Flood Of Lies
• Trump National Security Officials Horrified by His Election Lies
• Election Dispute Increases Risk Of Political Violence, Analysts Warn (Another really bad headline, this time by NPR. It’s not a generic/vague “dispute” that’s the problem, it’s Trump’s ASSAULT on our democracy! NPR is so lame.)
• Nobody Is Listening to Donald Trump (Nobody should obey his crazy and/or unlawful orders at this point, either.)
• The Disinformation Is Coming From Inside the White House
• A presidency fueled by lies finishes with the worst of them all
• What’s Trump’s Endgame if the Race Is Called for Biden?
• Democrats are projected to lose House seats but keep their majority (That really sucks.)
• Chris Christie tells Trump to stop inflaming and show the evidence —
• Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted Trump (Yep, that’s the mentality of many Trump supporters…)
• The President Will Bring the Whole Temple Down on His Head If He Gets the Chance
• Trump Moves Into the Burn-It-Down Phase (“The president’s White House press conference showed that he knows his reelection prospects are fading, and he’ll try anything to keep power.”)
• Whether he goes or stays, Trump has done damage that can’t be forgiven
• Trump turns angry and despondent as possible defeat looms (What an utterly pathetic LOSER.)
• This election was a reflection of who we are as a country (And it’s not a pretty picture at all.)
• Biden’s Hold on Race Tightens as Trump Hopes for Court Victory
• Why the Supreme Court is unlikely to steal the election for Donald Trump
• Trump prepares to launch a second term early, even without winning (Dictatorial much?)
• A quick guide to Trump’s legal efforts to throw out votes — and why they’ll fail
• Long at odds with Trump, Defense Secretary Esper has prepared a resignation letter, say officials
• How much damage can Trump do on his way out? Expect the worst.
• TV absolutely has to get rid of “election night”
• Once again, Democrats have misunderstood minorities
• Biden notches more gains as vote counting grinds on
• Trump’s Georgia Lead Evaporates as Biden Adds to Tally: Live Blog
• Georgia vote count: About 14,000 absentee ballots still being tallied
• Biden Takes Lead From Trump in Georgia for First Time
• Biden overtakes Trump in Georgia; race narrows in Pennsylvania
• Pa.’s elections chief says most votes to be counted by Friday
• ‘Home stretch’: Penn. secretary of state says majority of ballots to be counted by Friday
• Are we governable? (“Divided government has pluses and minuses.” Not if we’ve got one party hell bent on not letting the country be governed…)
• The 2020 Election Has Brought Progressives to the Brink of Catastrophe (“If America were the kind of republic where a party could govern by winning the most votes, Democrats would be in excellent shape: The party has won the popular vote in all but one election since 1992; no other party in U.S. has ever won popular backing for its standard-bearer as many times in a three decade period. But we are not that kind of polity. Instead, we operate under an archaic Constitutional framework that awards individual voters wildly different levels of political power, depending on where in the country they happen to live: A voter in Wyoming enjoys 70-times as much influence in the U.S. Senate as one in California…”)
• What to do about America’s great racial divide (“We cannot ignore the elephant in the room.”)
• Trump Whines: Why Isn’t Barr Coming to Save Me?
• Why Stacey Abrams deserves credit for Biden’s performance in Georgia (Stacey Abrams is amazing!)
• Dem leaders warn liberal rhetoric could blow Georgia races
• Secret Service plans to ramp up protection of Biden in anticipation of his possible win
• Philly police investigating alleged plot to attack Pennsylvania Convention Center (Hard-core Trumpsters are a menace.)
• Local GOP Pushes Trump Voters to Cast Ballots After Election (Now THAT would be illegal!)
• Fight for Senate majority boils down to Georgia (Georgia’s gonna be on all of our minds the next couple months…)
• ‘Guesses upon guesses’: Polls fall short again in 2020, raising red flags for future contests
• The polling industry blows it again
• Centrist House Democrats lash out at liberal colleagues, blame far-left views for costing the party seats (This is SUCH a bad headline by the WaPo, it’s hard to even know where to start, but why keep using vague/misleading words and phrases like “centrist” and “far-left” in this context?)
• Democrats fail to make gains in state legislative races in advance of 2021 redistricting (Horrible.)
• A Big Win for Democrats in California Came With a Gut Check for Liberals
• Steve Bannon and his co-host discuss beheading Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray
• Twitter bans Steve Bannon after call for beheadings; YouTube removes video
• CNN lets Donald Trump lie about the election results on national television (CNN sucks so bad.)
• Sean Hannity: “The remedy” if Trump loses the election is state electors going against the popular vote in their state (Hannity is a fascist, plain and simple.)
• Pro-Trump media pivot to faithless electors, urging GOP legislatures to assert control
• Facebook Has A Metric For “Violence And Incitement Trends.” It’s Rising.
• Facebook, Alarmed by Discord Over Vote Count, Is Said to Be Taking Action (Actually, what Facebook is alarmed about is the government taking action against their sorry asses.)
• Facebook bans ‘STOP THE STEAL’ group Trump allies were using to organize protests against counting
• Judges in two states reject Trump campaign lawsuits as the president continues to press unsubstantiated claims of fraud
• ‘Come on Now’: Michigan Judge Scoffs at and Tosses Trump Campaign Lawsuit Backed by ‘Hearsay’ Evidence
• Georgia Judge Throws Out Trump Campaign Lawsuit That Produced Exactly Zero Evidence of Fraud
• Wexton says she’ll continue to focus on pandemic aid, gun violence prevention
• Where Did Trump and Biden Do Best/Worst in Virginia? What Jumps Out in Congressional Races? Amendment 1?
• Editorial: Five takeaways from the election in Virginia (“Republicans are stuck in the low 40% range in Virginia.”)
• Election 2020: Winners and losers from Virginia, Maryland and D.C.
• Governor Northam Takes Action on Revised State Budget, Final Special Session Bills (“Newly-signed laws advance sentencing reform, establish statewide ‘Marcus’ alert system”)
• Northam signs several bills, sends Va. budget back to legislators with redistricting amendment
• Thursday (11/5) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,366 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 187,202), +68 Hospitalizations (to 12,865), +11 Deaths (to 3,688)
• Northam adds $1 million to budget for VMI probe, signs Marcus Alert legislation
• Virginia elections officials say social media posts led to unfounded fears, confusion about ballot counting (Social media is a pox.)
• Virginia election officials assure that all in-person ballots were counted, after concerns circulate on social media
• BREAKING: Dominion Rewards Shareholders with $2.8 Billion in 2020, Largest Payout in Company’s History
• Chesterfield businesswoman who ran against former Va. House speaker enters plea in alleged ‘revenge porn’ case (“Sheila Bynum-Coleman, 47, a Democrat who founded J.C. Bynum Construction LLC., pleaded not guilty Thursday in Henrico Circuit Court to a charge of disseminating photos of another with the intent to coerce, harass or intimidate someone in a state of undress. But she stipulated to the facts of the case as presented by special prosecutor Robert Cerullo.”)
• Photos: “Hold the Line” Rally Wednesday Evening in Arlington Demands That No Vote Be Left Uncounted
• After Running a Strong, Progressive Campaign and Finishing Second, Alexsis Rodgers Ends Her Campaign for Richmond Mayor
• Fairfax County police chief to step down in February
• Police group says members have ‘weight off their shoulders’ on news of Fairfax County chief’s retirement
• Fairfax families sue over changes to Thomas Jefferson High’s admissions
• Seagrass Meadows Restored Off Eastern Shore
• William & Mary reinstates all eliminated sports following two-month saga
• No, ballots weren’t burned in Virginia Beach, officials say again after Eric Trump circulates misleading video (So which Trump son is more evil, Eric or Don Jr?)
• An overdue shake-up could bring needed diversity to Thomas Jefferson High School
• Arlington Co. police investigate razor blades on political sign
• D.C.-area forecast: Comfortable warmth continues for days under generally sunny skies