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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 14.
- Covid-19: U.K.-Based Variant Is Probably More Lethal, Scientists Say
- EU to fast track approval of vaccines targeting coronavirus mutations
- Russians set for candle-lit Valentine’s Day protests after Navalny jailing
- NASA rover faces ‘seven minutes of terror’ before landing on Mars
- Myanmar army suspends laws limiting forces, hunts protest backers
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates; The New Climate War by Michael E Mann – review
- Convicted or not, Trump is history – it’s Biden who’s changing America (“Republican infighting has created a political void into which Democrats are stepping with far-reaching reforms”)
- Trump acquittal: Biden urges vigilance to defend ‘fragile’ democracy after impeachment trial (“President says the substance of the charge against Donald Trump over the January attack on US Capitol is not in dispute”)
- Trump acquitted, but not embraced (“After the impeachment trial, McConnell laid out a clear message: The ex-President can’t be the future of the Republican Party”)
- Senate Vote Fails to Erase Capitol Riot From Trump’s Legacy
- Senate Republicans Acquit Trump…and Indict the GOP
- 57 senators got it right. But the Senate has more work to do.
- Blockbuster revelation: Just how low is Kevin McCarthy?
- Key takeaways: With acquittal, Trump wins battle for the Republican soul
- Pelosi Bashes ‘Pathetic’ McConnell For Creating His Own Trump Acquittal Excuse (“McConnell stalled the trial, then insisted it was too late to convict Trump, even though the senator declared him ‘responsible’ for the Capitol attack.” One thing everyone can agree on is that everyone hates Mitch McConnell, right?)
- Trump conviction vote exposes GOP divide
- A Broken Party Acquitted Donald Trump In His Second Impeachment (“The ex-president’s boast he could get away with murder proved true.”)
- Trump’s Lawyers Won’t Renounce the ‘Big Lie’—and Neither Will the GOP
- ‘This Acquittal Sends Three Dangerous Messages to Future Presidents’
- Trump left them to die. 43 Senate Republicans still licked his boots.
- The Senate got smoking-gun evidence of Trump’s guilt. 43 Republicans didn’t care.
- Poll: Most Americans think Trump at least partially responsible for Capitol attack
- ‘A moment of truth’? After years of Trump’s lies, amplified by MAGA media, that proved impossible for most Republicans
- McConnell says Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for riot after voting not guilty (And yet he voted to acquit. F’ed up as usual with McConnell, who has done TREMENDOUS damage to our country during his disgraceful career.)
- Statement by President Joe Biden on the Senate Vote in the Trial of Donald Trump
- It’ll Do (“Impeachment did not prevail, but Trump still lost”)
- Republican Acquittal of Trump Is a Pivotal Moment for the Party
- Trump has privately voiced concern about being charged related to January 6 riot
- Trump escapes conviction but even his allies say he’s damaged
- Pelosi rules out censure after Trump acquittal
- Republican Senators Are Asking the Courts to Take Care of Trump For Them
- GOP Finds It Hard to Quit Trump, Forcing a Post-Trial Reckoning
- Up in ’22, Murkowski readies to face impeachment vote fallout
- With impeachment over, 9/11 probe leaders lend weight to calls for an independent commission to investigate Capitol attack
- Fact check: Trump lawyer closes impeachment defense with a barrage of dishonesty
- Reporter: GOP sources telling me ‘this is not over’
- Ultimately, Donald Trump Beat the System. Again. (It’s truly astounding that Trump has managed to do this in his miserable, corrupt, crime-ridden life. HOW???)
- With Trump’s Acquittal, The Fragility Of America’s Democracy Is Even More Clear
- Republican rebels who voted to convict feel Trumpists’ fury (“Trumpists” is just another word for authoritarians and fascists.)
- ‘White supremacy won today’: critics condemn Trump acquittal as racist vote (“Analysts say ‘whiteness protects its own’ after only seven Republicans vote to convict Trump of inciting deadly Capitol riot”)
- Trump’s acquittal seals his grasp on the Republican party
- Inside the Democrats’ eleventh-hour back-and-forth over whether to call witnesses
- In rallying to Trump, Senate Republicans sacrificed Pence
- Trump’s Republicans, Brought to Their Knees (“They stand for nothing. The Senate trial proved that.”)
- Will Senate Republicans allow their louts to rule the party?
- History Will Find Trump Guilty (People who go on about what “history” will do are just ridiculous. First of all, we already know TODAY, with 100% certainty, that Trump is guilty. Second, we need to deal with this NOW, not comfort ourselves with whatever “history” might decide. Third, “history” as it’s taught is whitewashed and wrong in MANY ways, so why would we assume “history” will get it right in this case?)
- For Trump, an Escape, Not an Exoneration
- First They Guarded Roger Stone. Then They Joined the Capitol Attack. (Another one who should have been in prison a long time ago.)
- Deputy White House press secretary resigns amid fallout from contentious phone call with reporter
- In Georgia, a New District Attorney Starts Circling Trump and His Allies
- New York Prosecutors Investigating Trump’s Manhattan Properties
- FBI Informant Panic Is Ruining Friendships All Over the Far Right
- SNL Embarrasses Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz Over Trump’s Impeachment Trial
- Senators Kaine and Warner, Other Virginians React to 57-43 Senate Vote on Conviction of Trump (Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08): “Today Trump’s enablers again shielded him from consequences, in a despicable act of cynicism and cowardice.”)
- Saturday (2/13) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +3,215 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 547,424), +128 Hospitalizations (to 22,846), +30 Deaths (to 6,996)
- Some Virginia hospitals are nearing 100% ICU capacity and running out of beds, even as COVID hospitalizations decline
- Virginia colleges are loosening quarantine requirements, but they don’t agree on how long
- Video: Delegates Marcus Simon, Cia Price, Wendy Gooditis, Hala Ayala, Mike Mullin Rip Republicans’ “Unfounded and “Dangerous” Lies About the 2020 Election
- One-Stop Shopping, Courtesy of the VA Young Democrats, For Signing Democratic Statewide Candidates’ Petitions Electronically!
- Mt. Vernon Dems’ Straw Poll Won By Jennifer McClellan, Sam Rasoul, Mark Herring; Also, Video of the Speeches
- Video: VA Senators – With One Glaring Exception – Support Memorial for the Great Yvonne Miller, the First African-American Woman To Serve In Both Houses Of the Virginia General Assembly (One guess as to the Senator who objected…)
- Snyder: It’s simple: Five days a week, every week with teachers in the classroom (Obviously, if it WERE simple, every state and every locality would have already opened its schools 100% to in-person learning.)
- A criminal record can be a lifelong sentence. Lawmakers want to provide a clean slate.
- Education Department investigates Fairfax schools for services to disabled students during pandemic (“The department’s civil rights division cited ‘disturbing reports’ about educational opportunities for children with disabilities.”)
- Fairfax Co. top politician ‘frustrated’ by CVS’s independent vaccine process (“This announcement, with no coordination with Fairfax County and no coordination with our health department, has been very frustrating for us this week”)
- Mayor says her credit card use is under investigation (“Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker said on Facebook Live last weekend that she is under investigation by the city after she used her city-issued credit card to pay for gift cards to compensate people who spoke at City Council meetings.”)
- Ice storm leaves dark homes and dangerous roads in its wake across Virginia
- Power outages impact tens of thousands or residents and businesses across Virginia and North Carolina
- Icy roads and sidewalks this morning, thawing out this afternoon; another active week ahead
