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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, November 12.
- US allies welcome Biden presidency as major chance to tackle climate crisis (“Macron and Johnson put climate at top of issues to confront; Experts say window is still open to fulfil goals of Paris deal” Yes, but we just wasted four precious years…ugh.)
- Biden reassures U.S. allies in calls with leaders of Japan, South Korea, Australia
- Fortescue leads “stampede” into green energy with stunning plans for 235 gigawatts of wind and solar(Wow, that’s a lot!)
- All Businesses Everywhere, Get Ready to Disclose Your Climate Risk
- Here are 10 climate executive actions Biden says he will take on day one
- Europe Hot Spots Easing; Global Deaths Hit Record: Virus Update
- Biden speaks with more world leaders and agrees to meet South Korea’s president.
- Readout of the President-elect’s Foreign Leader Calls
- Scoop: Divisive Pentagon hire may rush troop withdrawals before Trump’s exit
- Trump’s new Pentagon sets up clash over Afghanistan pullout
- When Will Electricity Companies Finally Quit Natural Gas? (“Wind and solar are better bets for investors and the planet.”)
- US records more than 1m new Covid cases in past 10 days as infections surge
- U.S. records more than 145,000 new cases, the latest all-time high
- U.S. Virus Cases Hit Another Record, Straining Hospitals
- Biden prevented from accessing messages from world leaders (Just insane and without any precedent.)
- Republican senator says he will step in if Biden doesn’t have access to intelligence briefings by Friday
- When Trump Vandalizes Our Country
- Biden Covid advisor says U.S. lockdown of 4 to 6 weeks could control pandemic and revive economy (Agreed, we badly need that.)
- Trump’s Post-Election Tactics Put Him in Unsavory Company
- This Election Result Won’t Be Overturned (Karl Rove: “Recounts occasionally change margins in the hundreds, never in the tens of thousands.”)
- Trump’s Election Tantrum (“His latest fit reminds me of a toddler’s. Except 3-year-olds don’t hold the power of the presidency.”)
- Trump’s surreal failure of leadership (“Trump, his family and his advisers are desperately trying to save a job — the presidency — that he appears to have no intention of doing in any meaningful sense”)
- Trump Needs Three Consecutive Hail Mary Passes (“The president’s litigation strategy is unlikely to succeed, but it’s doing great harm in the meantime.”)
- Is Joe Biden Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight? (“The president-elect may soon confront the asymmetrical warfare of the GOP.”)
- Time is running out for Trump — and Republicans who coddle him (by Trump’s former National Security Adviser, John Bolton)
- What a Biden-Harris administration should prioritize on its first day (by Sen. Elizabeth Warren)
- Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff
- Biden’s choice of Ron Klain to run White House signals rejection of Trump-era chaos
- Trump insists he’ll win, but aides say he has no real plan to overturn results and talks of 2024 run
- How Long Can Trump Keep Contesting the Election? (“There are a series of deadlines that may force Republicans to close the issue.”)
- Can President-Elect Biden Redo The 2020 Census? It’s Complicated
- Trump’s election challenge looks like a scam to line his pockets
- Misinformation by a thousand cuts: Varied rigged election claims circulate
- Trump puts his bottom line before the country. And the GOP is helping him do it.
- As Republicans cower from the truth, Joe Biden displays decency
- The election can’t be ‘stolen.’ But something worse is happening. (“Republicans are discrediting the democratic system.” Truly horrifying.)
- The elites who think MAGA voters are rubes: Republicans
- Of course Republicans are doing this. It’s who they are. (“…in Pennsylvania, the state legislature, by passing its law, has already assigned the role of certifying the electors to the governor.”)
- Democrats Have a Much Bigger Problem Than the Senate or the Electoral College (“It’s the statehouses, stupid.”)
- No, the ‘Hail Mary’ plan for Trump isn’t going to work
- The Completely Insane Electoral College Strategy (Conservative Rich Lowry argues, “The Constitution theoretically gives state legislatures great power over elections, but that’s not a reason to precipitate a constitutional crisis.”)
- Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End?
- No, Trump is not attempting a ‘coup.’ Here’s why the distinction matters. (Yeah, I dunno…sure smells “coup”-attempt-like to me.)
- Trump aides privately plot a flurry of moves in their final 10 weeks (“The White House is eyeing executive orders and regulations on immigration, trade, health care, China and school choice.”)
- Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money
- No Self-Respecting Lawyer Should Touch Trump’s Election-Fraud Claims (“The president may not have to worry about keeping a job after January 20, 2021, but the attorneys doing his bidding at the moment certainly do.”)
- Detroit lawyers say fraud allegations based on ‘extraordinary failure to understand how elections function’
- In poll watcher affidavits, Trump campaign offers no evidence of fraud in Detroit ballot-counting
- AG Nessel: Trump’s baseless elections lawsuits essentially say ‘Black people are corrupt’ (Bingo!)
- No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.
- Two more people from Trump’s Election Night party at White House test positive for coronavirus
- Senate majority battle snags Biden Cabinet hopefuls
- A Looming Transmission Crunch for the US East Coast’s Offshore Wind Ambitions (“Planning and cost-sharing disconnects could stymie states’ plans for 29 GW of offshore wind. But there are solutions, experts say.”)
- Proud Boys Infighting Sees Leading Member Form Breakaway Group to Fight ‘White Genocide’
- Black Americans believe activism is uniting the country, but white Americans don’t agree
- Stacey Abrams puts muscle into Georgia runoffs
- The New Yorker to Jeffrey Toobin: Beat It! (LOL)
- Snell & Wilmer withdraws from election lawsuit as Trump contests Arizona results
- Where We Saw Red And Blue Mirages On Election Night (It was massive in Virginia, because so many Democrats voted early, and those votes were reported later than votes cast on Election Day.)
- The 3 Dumbest Lies About the Election, Ranked
- For Pence, the Future Is Tied to Trump as Much as the Present Is (“If President Trump announces he will run again in 2024, his vice president’s plans could be derailed.”)
- What we can expect on the environment from a Biden administration
- Spanberger sparked a debate about ‘defund the police’ attacks. Cameron Webb slogged through them. (“Webb said President Trump’s presence on the ballot, and his mobilizing effect in southern parts of the state, was ultimately the greatest factor in his loss. But both he and Spanberger say the GOP’s favored earworm attacks on Democrats managed to shift the conversation in the 5th District race, while Spanberger said she also heard constantly from constituents concerned about police being defunded.”)
- This Past Tuesday, 54% of Virginia Voters Chose Joe Biden; They Account For 78% of Virginia’s Economic Output
- No concession from Republican challengers in losses in two Virginia congressional districts (Rep. Donald McEachin’s win was a blowout, but Nick Freitas lost as well and should concede.)
- As some in GOP amplify election conspiracies, Riggleman says Republicans ‘have a duty to speak out’
- Work is Already Underway to Establish the New Redistricting Commission
- Mountain Valley Pipeline faces another legal roadblock. What does that mean for the long-embattled project?
- Video: Gov. Northam Comments on Rising COVID-19 Cases, General Assembly Session, 2020 Elections
- Wednesday (11/11) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,594 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 196,506), +90 Hospitalizations (to 13,273), +15 Deaths (to 3,741)
- Editorial: Virginia will decide how COVID crisis proceeds
- Editorial: Four ways a Biden administration could change Southwest Virginia
- Virginia governor conditionally pardons a young Black man with autism who was serving 10 years for a car crash
- Matthew Rushin case stirs conversation on policing and ‘silent disabilities’
- Schapiro: Richmond’s campaign within a campaign
- In Final Results, Richmond’s Local Incumbents Win Re-Election
- Ballad Health warns that beds for COVID patients are running short
- Fairfax County removes Confederate monuments that long stood outside its courthouse
- Nervous optimism as Albemarle schools begin in-person classes
- Newport News police officer charged with murder in suspect’s 2019 death
- Why this Virginia man spent days making an Alzheimer’s ‘busy box’ for a stranger
- Heavy rain tapers off this morning; skies brighten Friday through the weekend
