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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, February 11.
- Shell’s Falling Oil Output Ends Century-Long Business Model
- Possible Early Covid-19 Cases in China Emerge During WHO Mission
- Biden raises concerns with Chinese president in first official phone call (Good.)
- Biden announces sanctions on Myanmar’s military in response to the coup
- Covid-19: Kent virus variant ‘on course to sweep world’
- The Covid vaccine doesn’t mean we can unmask. In fact, we should be putting more on.
- CVS Looks to Simplify Vaccine Website
- Solar and Wind Are Reaching for the Last 90% of the U.S. Power Market
- Masks should fit better, or be doubled up to protect against coronavirus variants, CDC says
- Biden raises hopes for new course to jumpstart rapid COVID-19 tests
- Joe Biden Faces Pandemic Without Key Health Officials in Their Posts (The Senate, as an institution, is broken.)
- Biden’s Towering Conundrum: the Fate of Trump’s Border Wall (“Environmental and human rights activists would like to swap the barrier for a new vision.”)
- Trump impeachment: Senate trial to continue after harrowing video evidence – live updates
- The Mob Was a Hunting Party. They Came to the Capitol to Kill People. (“The evidence against Trump is now undeniable. For four years, this country was flirting with apocalypse.”)
- Trump trial shown disturbing footage of lawmakers ‘hunted’ by Capitol mob
- New details on Capitol’s day of terror are indictment of Trump
- McConnell not pressuring GOP to acquit Trump
- House Managers Will Finish Impeachment Case Today; Here’s What to Watch For
- Trump’s Lawyers Refuse to Seriously Engage with Impeachment
- Damned by his own words: Democrats follow Trump’s wide-open multimedia trail (“Sketch: House impeachment managers have no trouble painting a picture of Trump’s well-documented role in Capitol attack”)
- The horror show Republicans want to ignore (“The GOP abhors the truth.”)
- What Do ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’ Mean to the G.O.P.? (“These politicians are still bowing to their alpha — Trump.” Utterly pathetic.)
- “That awful day could have been so much worse”: New videos show how narrowly rioters missed lawmakers
- Trump’s trial has crystallized the horror of Jan. 6. The Senate must convict him.
- You can’t hear that officer’s scream and acquit the man who caused it
- The impeachment managers have sealed off Republicans’ escape hatches
- Hillary Clinton Says Donald Trump Will Only Be Acquitted For 1 Reason (“If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won’t be because the facts were with him or his lawyers mounted a competent defense. It will be because the jury includes his co-conspirators.”)
- Impeachment Video Reveals a True American Horror Story
- Trump advisers say he hasn’t shown remorse for the insurrection and relationship with Pence remains damaged
- Trump’s Tweet Attacking Pence Came Right After Learning His VP’s Life Was In Danger (Trump should be in prison for sure.)
- Trump conviction rests on Republicans’ instinct for self-preservation
- There Is No Defense—Only Complicity
- GOP senators call case against Trump ‘compelling’ after seeing new video of Capitol riot during trial
- House impeachment managers emphasize the danger to Pence and other top officials in harrowing retelling of Jan. 6 attack
- Democrats use compelling new video, audio to bolster their case for Trump’s conviction
- Sen. Rick Scott after viewing brutal new videos: ‘This is a complete waste of time’ (Scott is evil, scum, and every other epithet you can think of.)
- Impeachment managers unveil new video of officer pointing Romney to safety, Pence evacuating
- Trump impeachment: new footage shows Mike Pence and Mitt Romney fleeing Capitol attack – video
- What if Republicans actually listened? (“Most just put fingers in their ears and hum.”)
- State and local GOP committees attack any Republicans who dare turn on Trump
- A ‘Scary’ Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary
- Extremists and QAnon supporters are organizing on message boards to take over the Republican Party (“After Steve Bannon and his guest explain how to infiltrate the GOP, posters on message boards take notice”)
- Who Is Stacey Plaskett, the Breakout Star of the Senate Impeachment Trial?
- Stacey Plaskett, a House delegate who couldn’t vote to impeach Trump, is using her prosecutorial background to try to convict him
- Why Bill Cassidy Broke With Senate Republicans and Backed Trump’s Trial
- Sen. Cassidy’s impeachment trial vote shows he might want to be a bipartisan dealmaker
- Nearly half the Republicans who will judge Trump bolstered the falsehood that drove the Capitol riot (That should automatically disqualify someone from being a juror, or from holding public office for that matter.)
- Trump Team Hoping ‘Peacefully and Patriotically’ Will Be Shield (What a joke.)
- Watch heroic officer save Mitt Romney
- I’ve Studied Terrorism for Over 40 Years. Let’s Talk About What Comes Next.
- When You’re White and Republican, They Let You Do It (“Trump’s loyal Republicans care about nothing, and they will do anything to stay on the right side of their vicious, aggrieved base.”)
- Biden is not the barrier to bipartisanship. Republicans are. (“It is time to stop the charade that Biden is the barrier to bipartisanship.”)
- Trump Justice Department Sought to Block Search of Giuliani Records
- A Million-Dollar Pardon Offer at the Trump Hotel (“Corey Lewandowski allegedly wanted a hefty fee in exchange for helping a government whistleblower win a pardon from the former president.”)
- Why Revoking Trump’s Executive Orders Isn’t Enough To Undo Their Effects
- Psaki reminds reporters Biden won’t ‘be a commentator’ like the last guy
- Exclusive: Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party
- Why A Trump-Led Third Party Is Unlikely
- Democrats Must Make Judgeships a Top Priority
- Tanden pays for belittling Bernie
- It Sure Looks Like Trump Will Face Criminal Charges for Election Fraud
- Judge orders Proud Boy charged in Capitol riot held without bond
- The right’s hatred of AOC isn’t just racism and sexism: It sums up the entire toxic Trump era (“All the right-wing paranoia that led to Trump and Jan. 6 is visible in the exaggerated hatred for one woman”)
- GOP senators vow to block interior secretary nominee because she’ll protect the interior
- Brad Parscale is back again in Trump’s orbit. The former 2020 campaign manager hated by the ex-president is building his post-White House digital operation.
- Powered by recent wins, Democrats intensify push for diversity ahead of 2022
- Twitter says Trump ban is permanent – even if he runs for office again (Just imagine if Twitter had done this five years ago?)
- The Killing of George Floyd Tore Minneapolis Apart. Now Comes the Trial.
- Sens. Mark Warner, Marco Rubio Want ‘Clear Leader’ to Manage Response to SolarWinds Cyber Breach
- Former Ohio treasurer Josh Mandel claims 2020 election was ‘stolen from President Trump’ (Extremist.)
- Lucasfilm, UTA Drop ‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Following Offensive Social Media Posts
- Larry Flynt, Who Built a Porn Empire With Hustler, Dies at 78
- The Last Act of Rupert Murdoch’s Dynasty May Be Its Ugliest (“He became the archetypal power-hungry media mogul by building a newspaper empire. Now all the papers are in free fall and his best last hope is Fox News.”)
- Leaders in Washington region ask FEMA for help in vaccinating federal workers
- Wednesday (2/10) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +3,003 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 537,319), +131 Hospitalizations (to 22,470), +34 Deaths (to 6,932)
- Full vaccination of staff should be a prerequisite for going back to schools
- Editorial: Firm guidance needed to reopen schools soon (“Gov. Northam directed school districts to reopen schools but March 15 but local officials need clear direction and resources to do so safely.”)
- General Assembly’s judicial interviews devolve into ‘s***show’
- VIDEO: Virginia Judicial Interviews Go “Off the Rails”; “Like a courtroom drama”; “This is a f**king shitshow”
- Would-be judges getting more public scrutiny from Virginia legislators
- Editorial: A full embrace of the G3 program
- The Virginia Senate Should Act to Remove the Exclusion of Farm Workers From Virginia’s Minimum Wage
- Audio: Amanda Chase’s Attorney Argues That She’s Suing the VA GOP to “Save Them From Themselves”
- Opinion: Amanda Chase is right to sue the Virginia GOP (Probably so.)
- Governor Northam Announces Second Report on Systemic Bias in Virginia Law
- Audio: Asked If He’s a Trump Republican, Glenn Youngkin Spews Out Right-Wind Word Salad, But…Doesn’t Answer the Question (Youngkin, who was CEO of the *gigantic* Carlyle Group, also says he believes that “small business wins the day every day of the week”)
- Former LG Bill Bolling (R): VA GOP “will do everything they can to assure that [Amanda Chase] is not the nominee”
- ‘We saw the writing on the wall’: Tech woes are a serious barrier in Virginia’s efforts to schedule vaccine appointments
- State Lawmakers Working on Virginia’s Budget
- Legislation Closing Campaign Finance Loophole Moving Forward in Richmond
- Hesitancy, heated disputes could hamper Virginia’s marijuana legalization plans
- I’m Not A Cat. If I Were, I’d Rather Have a Shelter Provide a Spay or Neuter and Rabies Vaccination, Rather Than Be Euthanized
- Faith leaders criticize Fairfax school board for delaying vote on adding four religious holidays to calendar (“The proposed new holidays are Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Diwali and Eid al-Fitr.”)
- Richmond, Henrico among first in Va. to release equity data for recent cases, vaccinations
- Hundreds of CNU students are sick or in quarantine as COVID-19 surges (“As of Wednesday, 129 students and six employees had active cases.” Um, 129 isn’t “hundreds”)
- Special prosecutor looking into Virginia Beach’s former lobbyist who lined up a job to work for city contractor
- Snow and wintry mix taper off this morning, while ice concerns mount for Saturday
