by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 22.
- It’s time for Trump’s ‘favorite dictator’ to hear a different message
- Here’s How a Biden Administration Could Push Companies Further on Climate
- As World Leaders Meet to Talk Pandemic, Trump Checks Out and Hits the Links (So embarrassing to have a “president” like this. Ugh…)
- US coronavirus cases near 200,000 a day as catastrophic crisis hits new heights
- Trump skips G20 pandemic event to visit golf club as virus ravages US
- Trump tells G20 leaders he wants to work with them ‘for a long time’
- Trump Stays Mum on Sharing Vaccines as Leaders Pledge to Do So
- Biden’s COVID-19 Mission (“As Donald Trump continues to find new ways to make things worse, Joe Biden is preparing to take immediate action on an escalating crisis.”)
- GOP lawmaker patience runs thin with Trump tactics
- F.D.A. Grants Emergency Authorization of Antibody Treatment Given to Trump
- Misinformation targeted Latino voters in the 2020 election
- The 3 Norms Trump Could Still Break (“He can’t and won’t overturn the election result, but he can cause plenty more havoc on his way out.”)
- Trump’s attempts to overturn his loss are unraveling (“The President and his opportunistic enablers are injecting doubt — and anxiety — wherever they can. The returns, though, seem to be diminishing.”)
- After Horror Show Hearing, Judge Throws Out Giuliani and Trump’s Bid to ‘Disenfranchise Almost Seven Million’ Pa. Voters
- In scathing opinion, federal judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania
- Release: Toomey Statement on PA Federal Court Decision, Congratulates President-elect Biden
- GOP’s Toomey Says Trump Should Concede and Start Transition
- Judge dismisses Trump’s last Pennsylvania lawsuit capable of significantly disrupting election results
- Liz Cheney: Trump should respect ‘the sanctity of our electoral process’
- Federal judge rejects Trump campaign’s Pa. lawsuit with prejudice, saying it lacks factual proof
- Trump’s last-ditch efforts to overturn results fail to make dent in Biden victory (“President’s desperate efforts include pleas to Republican state lawmakers as states certify election results”)
- Trump’s Futile Fight To Overturn Election Loss Breeds Turmoil, Risk
- The Danger (and Ineptitude) of Trump’s Failed Coup
- State and Local Republicans Standing Up to Trump Are Putting National G.O.P. Leaders to Shame
- Trump Using Last Days to Lock In Policies and Make Biden’s Task More Difficult
- Trump privately plots his next act — including a potential 2024 run (But first, he’s not done trying to steal THIS election.)
- Trump’s 2024 plans have frozen the field for other likely Republican candidates. Breaking away from him could risk an early campaign-sinking rage tweet, GOP insiders say.
- Culture wars fuel Trump’s blue-collar Latino gains
- How Hispanic Voters Swung Miami Right
- The Pa. county that explains how Biden won big while other Democrats struggled
- A Push Emerges for the First Native American Interior Secretary
- Hey Democrats: Court Packing Isn’t The Answer. This Is. (“If Dems win the presidency and the Senate, they should set 18-year limits for Supreme Court justices—effective immediately and applying to sitting justices.”)
- Trump’s tweets appear to contradict Michigan legislators’ statements on voter fraud
- Wisconsin officials: Trump observers obstructing recount (They pay for a recount and then obstruct it? Is there anything more we need to know about how the Trump campaign is NOT acting in good faith?)
- Georgia’s election results are sound
- Trump team requests recount of Georgia presidential vote
- Trump tweets undermine Michigan leaders; images show Chatfield drinking at Trump hotel (Disgraceful.)
- Republican leaders ask Michigan election board to delay certification of results, in latest GOP effort to cast doubt on the vote (Biden, of course, won Michigan by more than 150,000 votes.)
- Black Detroit voters sue Trump campaign over effort to invalidate election results
- Who Will We Be Without Donald Trump? (“He lost. We’ll have to stop obsessing about him.”)
- The disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him. Here’s what reality-based journalists must do about it. (“First, be bolder and more direct than ever in telling it like it is. No more pussy-foooting or punch-pulling. No more of what’s been called ‘false equivalence’ — giving equal weight to truth and lies in the name of fairness… the reality-based press has to unapologetically stand for something. Otherwise, it’s just a pallid alternative to the excitement of burgeoning lies.” Yep, some of us – ahem! – have been calling this shit out for YEARS now.)
- Americans’ Contempt for One Another Has Become a Bonfire
- Pompeo Trolls Critics in Long Goodbye as He Looks to His Future
- How Trump Hopes to Use Party Machinery to Retain Control of G.O.P. (“Ronna McDaniel, a close ally of President Trump, wants to remain head of the Republican National Committee, worrying party members who believe the president will try to use the group to keep control of the G.O.P.” She’s an utter disgrace.)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama’s Greatest Weakness
- Biden’s inauguration, like his campaign, will likely look like no other in recent history
- Breaking: Loeffler self-isolating after positive, then inconclusive, coronavirus tests
- Stanford Faculty Condemns ‘Objectionable’ Colleague Scott Atlas (“His behavior is ‘anathema to our values and belief that we should use knowledge for good,’ according to a new faculty senate resolution.”)
- In Arizona, Democrats See Blue Trend, While Republicans See Blip
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner on “the aftermath of this crazy election”; Chris Krebs “did his job, told the truth” and “for doing that, he got fired by Donald Trump”
- 75+ of the Best New Bills – and Bills “Carried Over” from 2020 – for the 2021 Virginia General Assembly Session
- Report: 40% of Virginia Hospitals Expected to See Staff Shortages Next Week
- Video, Highlights: Moody’s Analytics Briefs Virginia Appropriators on Revenues, Costs, COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout, “Nailing Jello to the Wall,” etc.
- Saturday (11/21) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +2,348 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 215,679), +103 Hospitalizations (to 14,017), +26 Deaths (to 3,938)
- Bring the red wolves back to Virginia
- VA Sen. Amanda Chase Falsely Claims Virginia Dem Party “racist to its core,” “they want the Richmond registrar to resign because she’s white” (This is insane.)
- Chase says Virginia Democrats ‘hate white people’ and want Richmond registrar out because she’s white
- Rozell: Once A Powerhouse, Rural Virginia Continues Watching Its Political Clout Decline
- Opinion: Proposed VMI investigation both unserious and dangerous (This op-ed is so lame.)
- Virginia Military Institute can and should be improved
- For the first time, Virginia is setting aside capital funds to restore its oyster population
- Opinion/Editorial: Budgeting now seems unending (The reason is that we’re in the midst of a pandemic.)
- Coronavirus Surging In NoVA As Fairfax County Sees 324 New Cases
- Portsmouth’s 2020 was filled with racial discord. But the year is ending with a new chapter.
- A young Black man with autism received a pardon but remains behind bars. It’s time to ‘Free Matthew Rushin.’ (“Nearly two years ago, Rushin walked out of his family’s Virginia Beach home to pick up pastries at a nearby Panera and never made it back.”)
- While hiring plummets at Virginia Tech, board members question employee spending
- D.C.-area forecast: Cloudy and cooler today with showers likely tonight; brighter with a gusty breeze tomorrow
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