by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 30.
“It’s… a travesty what’s happening right now with all these death threats to election officials, to secretaries of state,” says Chris Krebs, former director of CISA. “They’re defending democracy.” https://t.co/WDfqy84gi1 pic.twitter.com/i32z6fmYG1
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 30, 2020
- International lawyers draft plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction (“Plan to draw up legal definition of ‘ecocide’ attracts support from European countries and small island nations”)
- European states ordered to respond to youth activists’ climate lawsuit (“European court of human rights case could result in countries being bound to take greater action” Nice.)
- Climate change is often hidden in the way we are shown temperature data (“Shifting climate baselines conceal warming that occurred in the past; our new ‘normals’ differ strongly from normals decades ago”)
- At least 110 dead in Nigeria after suspected Boko Haram attack (Pure evil.)
- EU pitches new post-Trump alliance with US in face of China challenge
- Kushner to visit Saudi Arabia and Qatar seeking deal to end crisis
- How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster (“Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.”)
- US surpassed 100,000 new daily cases for 27th consecutive day
- US hits four million monthly Covid-19 cases as Fauci warns of holiday surge
- State, Local Governments Slashed Spending After Covid. Next Year Could Be Worse.
- The US was already setting Covid-19 records. Experts say Thanksgiving could have made things worse. (“‘A surge super-imposed on that surge’: Fauci warns that the coronavirus pandemic may still get worse.”)
- Congress Confronts Deadlines on Spending, Stimulus and Shelton
- The Supreme Court Must Choose Between Trump and the Constitution in the Census Case
- Can Trump Change A Key Census Count? Supreme Court Hears His Claim (“… no census has ever been conducted that did not aim to count everyone on U.S. soil, regardless of immigration status. Until now.”)
- Fired Official Chris Krebs: Americans Should Have ‘100% Confidence’ In Election Results
- Fired director of U.S. cyber agency Chris Krebs explains why President Trump’s claims of election interference are false
- Trump Casually Suggests FBI, DOJ Could Be Involved in Imaginary Plot to Steal Election (Trump is completely out of his mind.)
- Trump Spent His Holiday Weekend Bolstering His Loser Routine
- Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo gave Trump his first TV interview since the election. It was filled with lies (And Bartiromo did nothing to correct those lies. Definitely NOT journalism.)
- Trump’s first interview since losing reelection was a smorgasbord of disinformation (“The president spread conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines, mail-in voting, and more.”)
- Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo abets Trump’s lies to undermine democracy
- Fox News Host Pulls Apart Election Lies Trump Spouted On Network Hours Earlier (“Eric Shawn debunked claims that his colleague Maria Bartiromo allowed the president to amplify on her show.”)
- ‘My mind will not change in six months’: In first post-election TV interview, Trump renews baseless claims of voter fraud
- How Trump is trying to confuse the public about the election outcome
- Trump says his election challenges probably won’t make it to the Supreme Court (Nor should they, as they have zero basis in fact, law, or anything else…and have been struck down brutally by courts all over the country, including many with Republican and even Trump-appointed judges.)
- Trump sulks after his election defeat and leaves US in limbo (“America is leaderless as it deals with Covid-19 spikes and deepening economic pain with no direction from an apathetic White House and a deadlocked Congress”)
- Biden transition kicks into gear, as Trump acknowledges dwindling legal options
- CNN Panel Blasts Fox’s Bartiromo Over ‘Delusional’ Trump Interview: ‘Not Much Daylight Between Maria and Alex Jones’
- Deese to be Biden’s top White House economic adviser
- Joe Biden Fills Out His Economic Team
- Biden moves quickly to build a diverse administration
- President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Announce Members of White House Senior Communications Staff (Definitely some Virginia connections in here…)
- Biden hires all-female senior communications team, names Neera Tanden director of OMB
- Biden to Name Tanden as Budget Chief, Likely Riling GOP
- Biden unveils diverse economic team as challenges to economy grow
- Tom Donilon no longer in the running to be Biden’s CIA director
- 1918 Germany Has a Warning for America (“Donald Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.”)
- The GOP: A party that cannot change (“The Republican Party of 2020 may look different from its earlier incarnations, but the fundamentals remain the same: The party is fearful of change, partial to fearmongering, hostile to free elections and running short on competence.”)
- Biden bids to placate the left as he builds centrist transition team
- For Trump, Past Is Prologue (“He has always tried to weave a reality different from what is actually true.”)
- Five factors that helped US democracy resist Trump’s election onslaught (“Trump’s trashing of norms has been harmful but decentralization, turnout, transparency, the courts and the media played a key role”)
- We Won’t Forget and We Won’t Forgive What Trumpists Did to America
- Biden’s doctor says he has hairline fractures in his foot after slipping while playing with his dog
- A Cat Is Said to Be Joining the Bidens in the White House
- Wisconsin recount confirms Biden’s win over Trump, cementing the president’s failure to change the election results
- Rahm Emanuel floated for Transportation secretary
- The King of Trump TV Thinks You’re Dumb Enough to Buy It
- Trump pushes an unprecedented and unjust wave of executions
- What Makes A One-Term President?
- What Biden needs to do to regulate the Internet both at home and worldwide (“What obligations must platforms meet when it comes to protecting against illegal content — and what role, if any, should government take in regulating online speech? “)
- Is American Healing Even Possible? (“In an extended interview, the Reverend William J. Barber II explains why healing the soul of the nation will take more than returning to ‘normal.'”)
- Marco Rubio is already suiting up for the politics of destruction (Rubio is so, so bad.)
- Trump underperformed in most counties with large rallies
- Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount (“The president’s son stars in a new ad campaign as Republicans worry Trump’s voter fraud accusations will depress GOP turnout in the Senate runoffs.”)
- Jon Ossoff lost the first high-profile race of the Trump era. Can he win the last one?
- Source: Pa. lawmaker gets a positive test at Trump meeting
- Pa. counties reported no major issues with Dominion voting machines, a target of Trump and his campaign (“It is notable that Dominion machines weren’t used in the counties that Trump has falsely claimed rigged the election: Allegheny and Philadelphia, where voters cast ballots in large numbers for Joe Biden.”)
- The 2021 governor’s race presents an opportunity for Virginia to join the Good Ol’ Girls Club (“Should Comstock run, her candidacy would contrast sharply with that of another Republican woman and the first candidate to declare for the 2021 GOP nomination – Sen. Amanda Chase, a populist apostle of President Donald Trump apostle whose conduct and rhetoric has earned her rebukes from within her party.”)
- Audio: Gov. Northam Says “Hopefully by early to mid-summer we’ll have everybody in Virginia vaccinated”; “My family and I plan on being there to take this vaccination as well”
- Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Discusses His State’s Plan For A COVID-19 Vaccine
- Sunday (11/29) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +2,325 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 235,942), +56 Hospitalizations (to 14,572), +4 Deaths (to 4,058)
- Map-maker, Map-maker, Make Me a Map! Now Seeking Candidates for Virginia Redistricting Commission
- Northam administration work group outlines path toward marijuana legalization
- Virginia falls short in compensating the wrongfully imprisoned, study finds
- Local courts faced with new problems as jury trials resume
- Report: More than half of Southwest Virginians struggle to pay basic expenses
- D.C.-area forecast: Stormy, warm and windy today, before chillier weather settles in (“Cooler high temperatures in the 40s and 50s after today’s storm system clears.”)
