by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, February 5.
- Power, Patriotism and 1.4 Billion People: How China Beat the Virus and Roared Back
- Biden announces end to US support for Saudi-led offensive in Yemen (It’s about time!)
- Pfizer, AstraZeneca Vaccines Safe, U.K. Monitoring Review Shows
- Navalny’s jailing was a Groundhog Day for Russian democracy
- Scoop: White House convening NSC to talk Iran
- China’s Renewable Push Should Benefit Solar And Wind Companies
- Israeli hospital claims may have found cure for COVID-19 (“Preliminary testing shows that 29 out of 30 virus patients in serious condition that were administered the drug, dubbed EXO-CD24, once a day made a full recovery within five days; similar treatment announced by Hadassah Medical Center”)
- Turkish minister says U.S. behind 2016 failed coup – Hurriyet
- Countdown to ‘catastrophe’: Inside Europe’s fight for COVID shots
- Israel’s Vaccination Results Point a Way Out of the Pandemic
- Exclusive: Ice cancels deportation flight to Africa after claims of brutality
- U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Down but Eclipse Spring and Summer Peaks
- Johnson & Johnson requests emergency authorization from FDA for Covid vaccine
- Dr. Fauci On Vaccinations And Biden’s ‘Refreshing’ Approach To COVID-19
- U.S. employment growth likely rebounded; more government money still needed
- Senate passes key procedural step to allow Democrats to pass Covid-19 relief without threat of GOP filibuster
- Senate Adopts Blueprint for Stimulus as Harris Breaks Tie
- White House signals willingness to consider executive action on student debt cancellation
- Sanders Defuses Fight Over Minimum Wage Hike: Stimulus Update
- January Jobs Report to Signal State of Economic Recovery
- S&P 500 on Track for Best Week Since Early November
- Elections matter, especially for foreign policy (“Jake Sullivan epitomizes a change in tone and substance.”)
- Major Conservative Groups Are Fueling A State-Level Push To Hamper COVID-19 Restrictions (Evil.)
- NASA Names Its First Climate Advisor (“Gavin Schmidt, an expert in climate modeling, will help ensure the Biden Administration has crucial data to inform its emissions reduction goals”)
- Democratic Lawmakers Give Emotional Testimony On Experiences Of Capitol Attack (“Democrats in Congress spoke passionately on the House floor, some in tears, about Jan. 6, the day of the armed insurrection by pro-Trump rioters.”)
- Experts warn of conspiracy convergence threat (“Vaccine skeptics and far-right political groups are blending theories about government mistrust at a critical moment in the pandemic fight”)
- Biden has the upper hand when he champions popular policies (“Republicans don’t get it: Americans want a big response.”)
- House Republicans are a lost cause. But what about their followers? (“We need a whole-of-society approach to deal with right-wing extremism.”)
- ‘We’ve learned to love the guy’: How Biden charmed the left
- Republicans refuse to purge their party of lies and hateful rhetoric
- In Voting to Back Marjorie Taylor Greene, the GOP Goes Full Q (“Today, House Republicans faced a choice. Most sided with hate and lies.”)
- How one billionaire family bankrolled election lies, white nationalism — and the Capitol riot (Along with the Murdochs, the Mercers are definitely in the running for one of the families that have damaged this country the most.)
- Can We Call the Proud Boys Terrorists? (Yes, seems obvious…also other groups involved in the Capitol insurrection.)
- Arrested in Capitol Riot: Organized Militants and a Horde of Radicals (Lock ’em all up and throw away the key?)
- Why Democrats called on Trump to testify at his trial
- What Do Americans Think Of Marjorie Taylor Greene? Liz Cheney? Josh Hawley? (The correct answer: not a single American *should* approve of Greene, Hawley, Cruz…)
- Republicans have been living the big lie for too long (Yep, that whole party is lie after lie after lie…)
- ‘You have done nothing for me’: Trump ditches SAG amid disciplinary moves (How can anyone support this pathetic loser?)
- Across The South, COVID-19 Vaccine Sites Missing From Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods
- The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
- Purging the Military of White Supremacists
- Bipartisan support emerges for domestic-terror bills as experts warn threat may last ‘10 to 20 years’
- How the GOP Surrendered to Extremism (“Sixty years ago, many GOP leaders resisted radicals in their ranks. Now they’re not even trying.”)
- Kevin McCarthy is now our most disgraceful political leader
- Adam Schiff says Republican Party has “become essentially a cult”
- ICE’s union can basically veto any Biden immigration plan — thanks to Ken Cuccinelli (That needs to be remedied, ASAP.)
- Republicans worry their big tent will mean big problems in 2022 elections
- House votes to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee assignments
- Marjorie Taylor Greene and her crock-of-bile tears
- The QAnon Rep Isn’t Owning the Libs. She’s Leading the GOP’s Space-Laser Suicide March.
- Marjorie Taylor Greene’s history of dangerous conspiracy theories and comments
- It’s Time to Talk About Violent Christian Extremism
- Why QAnon Survives After Trump
- Here are the 11 Republicans who voted to remove Greene from House committees
- No, Ocasio-Cortez Didn’t Make Up Her Capitol Riots Experience (Where do right wingnuts come up with the crap they spew out? Psychological projection in many cases, of course…)
- Solar Stocks Have Been Thriving—Here’s Why That Could Continue
- McKinsey’s Opioid Settlement Is a Warning to All Consultants
- Sen. Ben Sasse slams Nebraska GOP committee’s plans to censure him for criticizing Trump
- ‘There is real teeth to this’: Legal experts weigh in on Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News (Good – bankrupt Fox!)
- Election Tech Company Sues Fox News, Giuliani And Others For $2.7 Billion (Good, more of this!)
- Special Report: Stolen election? Republican lawmakers paralyzed by Trump’s false fraud claims (How about tell him to f*** off?)
- FBI Raids Home Of Rachel Powell, Mercer County Mother Of 8 Suspected In Capitol Attack
- David Hogg launching competitor to Mike Lindell’s MyPillow
- The 2024 Republican presidential primary has begun on Fox News (Pathetic joke. But a dangerous one.)
- Swamped with complaints about Postal Service, McEachin, Warner take aim at Trump postmaster general
- Video: Sen. Warner Says “DeJoy needs to go…it is a travesty what’s happened to the Postal Service”; Says He’s “extraordinarily optimistic about this Congress” (Warner: “There’s clearly a minority of Americans who still espouse these wacky theories like QAnon, but I think they are a distinct minority.”)
- Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01) Wildly Lies, Claims he Spent “Months…Calling for Unity”; Qasim Rashid Responds “Your hypocrisy is only surpassed by your ability to lie. Shameful.”
- If it had enough doses, Virginia could vaccinate 50,000 a day, state official says
- Thursday (2/4) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +3,059 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 516,398), +111 Hospitalizations (to 21,749), +75 Deaths (to 6,650) (Lowest 10-day total of new COVID cases since 12/30/20)
- Video: Gov. Northam Discusses Virginia’s Vaccine Rollout; Anticipates “Herd Immunity” by “Early- to Mid-Summer”
- Va. Gov. Northam announcement due Friday: ‘We want to extend our classrooms to this summer’
- Northam to Announce Plans for Extended School Year
- Many VA Students Struggling at School
- After dying in the House, advanced recycling bill hangs on in the Senate
- Virginia, Shifting Left Fast, Moves to Abolish Death Penalty (It’s not “left” when it’s the majority position, which it is for Democrats on almost all issues. Why does the media insist on this ridiculous, highly misleading framing?)
- Governor Northam Calls Special Session to Begin February 10
- Virginia General Assembly poised for historic votes to legalize marijuana and end death penalty (“Northam calls for special session to give lawmakers time to finish their ambitious work.”)
- Wilder: Virginia is headed back to re-segregation in schools
- Terry McAuliffe Announces Plan to Make Virginia the Best State in the Nation for STEM-H & Computer Science Education
- Some Virginia school systems say they’ll lose out under enrollment loss funding formula
- Mountain Valley Pipeline cited again for erosion and sedimentation violations
- New Poll of Virginia AG Democratic Primary: Mark Herring 46%-Jay Jones 6%
- Amanda Chase volunteer upset over not being notified that they were exposed to COVID-19 (The soap opera rolls on…)
- Sealing the Record
House and Senate Democrats disagree on how old convictions should be expunged. - Legislation Ending Session Immunity for State Lawmakers Dies in Senate Committee
- Virginia Democrats may be overlooking a valuable asset: Donald Trump
- General Assembly makes renewed attempt at restricting use of license plate reader data
- KKK member faces fewer convictions and a lighter sentence for driving through protest in Henrico (Ugh.)
- Where Are The Tapes? Protestors Demand Footage of Xzavier Hill’s Death
- Fairfax, Loudoun school districts plan to offer in-person learning to all students by March
- Albemarle, Charlottesville look to bring more students back in March
- Alexandria City Public Schools sets date for reopening; Arlington refuses to follow suit
- 3 ousted in Richmond Police shakeup
- Turning warmer and breezy today. Snow chances rise Saturday night into Sunday.
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