by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 28.
- Climatologist Michael E Mann: ‘Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes’
- Dozens of leading Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners charged with subversion
- Myanmar police crack down on protests for second day; several dead
- Biden tells the world ‘America is back.’ The world isn’t so sure.
- OPEC+ Faces Calls to Cool Oil Market Frenzy With Extra Barrels
- UAE Steps Back From Wars as Biden Reasserts Mideast Role
- Report On Khashoggi Killing Prompts Calls For Penalties Against Crown Prince
- Democrats call for Biden to punish Saudi crown prince for Khashoggi’s murder
- FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine, adding to the nation’s arsenal against the pandemic
- F.D.A. Clears Johnson & Johnson’s Shot, the Third Vaccine for U.S.
- ‘A big, big deal.’ Experts say the green light for Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine helps bring US a step closer to normalcy
- Senior Democrats explore tax largely hitting Fortune 1000 companies not paying $15 an hour
- Yellen, Biden Back Fast Senate Stimulus Action to Boost Economy
- Biden Will Need to Wait Longer for a U.S. Jobs Rebound
- Here’s Why Conservatives Are Always Saying The Name Of The Democratic Party Wrong (“‘The Democrat Party’ is a label that some say goes beyond mere incivility. ‘It’s used as almost like a curse word,’ said one GOP state judge.”)
- CPAC’s speakers exult in conservative victimhood
- The New Foreign Flavor of CPAC’s Red Meat (“…it marked the further transition of the American right away from its libertarian roots to a more European model of populist politics”)
- Four Decades After Reagan And Kemp, CPAC Finishes Its Transformation to Trump-PAC (“’Conservativism’ in the new Conservative Political Action Conference appears now to be defined as a personal loyalty to the most recent former president.”)
- CPAC Day Two Didn’t Feature Any Stars—Just One Big Idol (“Saturday was kinda ho-hum at CPAC, but one thing was clear: The man who wasn’t there was, in fact, everywhere.”)
- CPAC Stage Design Looks Similar to Nazi Symbol Used by SS Platoon
- Golden Trump statue turning heads at CPAC was made in … Mexico
- Kevin McCarthy’s CPAC panel shows how the GOP has devolved into a Trump personality cult
- Trump Will Return to Spotlight With Appearance at CPAC
- At conservative conference, Trump’s election falsehoods flourish
- ‘It’s Donald Trump’s party’: How the former president is building a political operation to cement his hold on the GOP
- Too many Republicans can’t be trusted to sit on a Jan. 6 commission
- Democrats don’t trust GOP on 1/6 commission: ‘These people are dangerous’
- Most House Republicans voted not to certify some election results. Democrats are still seething. (Weird headline, but yeah…why should Democrats – or anyone – ever trust those seditionists again?)
- Republicans continue to embrace Trump’s election lie at rightwing summit
- In Statehouses, Stolen-Election Myth Fuels a G.O.P. Drive to Rewrite Rules
- Republicans roll out “tidal wave of voter suppression”: 253 restrictive bills in 43 states (Democrats need to pass legislation at the federal level to stop this assault on our democracy, even if it means ditching the precccciousss filibuster.)
- New Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has advice for Texas — and for the oil industry
- A transphobic tirade against the Equality Act masquerading as feminism
- The making of Madison Cawthorn: How falsehoods helped propel the career of a new pro-Trump star of the far right
- Rep. Paul Gosar speaks at white nationalist event in Florida, skips in-person D.C. votes
- Rep. Gosar criticizes ‘white racism’ after speaking at event whose organizer called for white supremacy
- Cuomo Is Accused of Sexual Harassment by a 2nd Former Aide
- Obama and Springsteen Are Here to lull America (“In ‘Renegades,’ a new Spotify podcast, the rock superstar and the former President dub themselves rebellious outsiders while playing their familiar hits.”)
- On ‘S.N.L.,’ Dr. Fauci Hosts ‘So You Think You Can Get the Vaccine’
- Sen. Kaine calls $1.9T COVID bill ‘the right price tag’
- Virginia’s U.S. House Democrats Comment on Passage of Sweeping COVID Relief Package, the American Rescue Plan Act (No thanks to Republicans, of course.)
- Medical providers, first responders, get expanded access to COVID-19 workers’ compensation
- VDH: Virginia to offer new J&J single-dose COVID-19 vaccine next week following federal approval
- Assembly wrapping up with raises for teachers, state workers, transformation of criminal justice
- Virginia assembly passed dozens of bills addressing coronavirus
- Virginia Hospitals Applaud FDA Authorization of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine
- Saturday (2/27) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,675 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 574,314), +113 Hospitalizations (to 24,091), +185 Deaths (to 8,382)
- McClellan/Bourne Criminal Justice Reform Bill Passes General Assembly (“Bills Would Allow Courts to Consider Mental Illness, Autism or Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities in Criminal Proceedings”)
- Virginia NORML: Legislature Gives Final Approval to Adult-Use Legalization (“The advancement of this legislation is another historic step for cannabis justice in Virginia”)
- Video: Virginia General Assembly Passes Legislation to Legalize Marijuana (“@GovernorVA still has to sign it and can amend to make it better without the pressure of this 11th hour chaos.”)
- Virginia lawmakers reach deal on marijuana legalization as General Assembly winds down ambitious session
- Virginia Lawmakers Move to Legalize Marijuana….In 2024
- Virginia lawmakers pass bill legalizing marijuana, but not until 2024
- Virginia lawmakers vote to legalize marijuana in 2024
- Virginia General Assembly begins process to legalize marijuana in 2024
- General Assembly approves electric vehicle rebate program but leaves it unfunded
- Dominion plans to build nearly 200 giant wind turbines off Virginia. But getting that energy into the grid won’t be easy.
- ‘The communication… is broken’: Almost a year later, out-of-work Virginians are still struggling to get answers or money from unemployment
- General Assembly passes parole board legislation following additional allegations of wrongdoing
- Virginia General Assembly Passes Locke/McClellan Bill to Reform Discriminatory HIV Laws
- Opinion: Protecting the Chesapeake requires investment in wastewater treatment
- Editorial: Death penalty meets a welcome end in Virginia
- Flawed Electric School Bus (ESB) Program Barreling Down Old Dominion Highway
- Opinion: Virginia must bolster access to police investigations
- Northam responds to 2 police officers killed in Virginia
- Coronavirus death toll in Hampton Roads rises sharply after January peak in cases
- To eradicate gypsy moths in Southwest Virginia forests, effort focuses on mating season
- Arlington Co. wants new official logo, seeks public input
- D.C.-area forecast: Soggy at times today into early Monday; highs in the 40s and 50s through midweek
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