by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 7.
- The WHO needs to start over in investigating the origins of the coronavirus
- In First Test Drive On Mars, Perseverance Rover Makes A Short But Significant Trip (“The drive, which lasted about 33 minutes, served as an important test of the rover’s mobility system.”)
- Myanmar: Tens of thousands turn out for Sunday protests despite overnight raids (“Demonstrations held in more than half a dozen cities after soldiers and police moved in on several districts in Yangon”)
- Top China Diplomat Warns Biden to Tread Carefully on Taiwan
- China’s Exports Surge From 2020 Lockdown as Demand Booms
- Amid Mosul’s Ruins, Pope Denounces Religious Fanaticism: Live Updates (“On his third day in Iraq, Pope Francis visited a city reduced to rubble in the fight with the Islamic State, which had tortured followers of other faiths while it held control. Joyous crowds later welcomed him to Iraq’s Christian heartland.”)
- Global Hack Breaches Thousands of Microsoft Business Accounts
- Shake off your ill will, Britain tells EU over post-Brexit trade
- U.S. Government Scientists Skeptical of One-Shot Regimen for Pfizer, Moderna Covid Vaccines (“Some members of Congress have urged to allow for just one dose to speed up vaccinations”)
- US could reach herd immunity by summer through vaccinations alone, CNN analysis finds
- What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for the Pandemic’s End (“The virus is mutating—but we can still beat it, one vaccination at a time.”)
- When to expect your stimulus check, and other questions, answered
- The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Can Help Biden Transform Politics (“The possibility of Democrats reversing their long downward trajectory of support from white working-class voters is reinforced by Biden’s peculiar strengths” Mayyyybe.)
- With Covid relief and stimulus checks in sight, Biden asks for faith in US democracy
- Biden says people will start getting stimulus checks this month as soon as House passes Covid relief bill
- Biden’s Style Belies Ambitions Beyond Undoing Trump Legacy
- Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty in defining move of presidency
- Senate passes $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, including $1,400 stimulus checks, with no Republican support
- Schumer leads Dems to messy but major win on Covid aid
- 6 takeaways from the Senate’s approval of Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill
- Progressives Should Be Celebrating The Senate’s COVID-19 Relief Bill
- Chuck Schumer Holds The Line
- How Democrats miscalculated Manchin and later won him back
- To Juice the Economy, Biden Bets on the Poor
- Joe Biden Is Already Starting His Victory Lap (“The president is trumpeting the Senate’s passage of a COVID relief bill like his career depends on it. Because it sort of does.”)
- The GOP is having a change of heart on economics. It could have implications for policymaking. (“The Republican Party is showing signs of softening its trademark fiscal conservative brand in favor of a new populist approach, a potentially seminal shift as the party becomes more reliant on blue-collar white voters after Donald Trump’s presidency.” Except they all just voted against that “new populist approach.” So…what on earth is this article talking about?)
- F.B.I. Finds Contact Between Proud Boys Member and Trump Associate Before Riot
- Biden to sign executive order expanding voting access
- Biden Order Attempts to Blunt GOP Efforts to Restrict Voting
- The fake anger of Neander-gate shows how desperate Republicans are to keep the base riled up (And Dr. Seuss, which by the way Democrats had *nothing to do with* and also which only kinda/sorta “canceled” a few of his almost completely unknown books.)
- How Never Trumpers Are Becoming Pro-Democracy Republicans
- Harris caught between a restless base and a traditionalist Biden
- Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman Says Security Guard Confronted Her for Being “Suspicious” (This crap is just unacceptable.)
- Conservative Donors Have Their Own Cancel Culture
- Electric Vehicles Are the U.S. Auto Industry’s Future—If Dealers Can Figure Out How to Sell Them
- Exclusive: Georgia prosecutor probing Trump taps leading racketeering attorney
- Trump returning to New York for first time since leaving White House
- Trump sends cease-and-desist letter to GOP organizations to stop fundraising off his name (Hahahahaha.)
- POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Trump sends legal notice to GOP to stop using his name
- Trump vows to campaign against ‘disloyal’ Murkowski
- Greene sounds off on GOP after Hill story (“GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) on Saturday fired back at her Republican colleagues who told The Hill that they were growing increasingly frustrated with her efforts to delay congressional business by forcing procedural votes to adjourn the House each day.”)
- Sinema pushes back on criticism of her vote against $15 minimum wage
- The Court’s New Conservative Bloc Uses COVID to Go Full Christian Nationalist (“Four ‘religious freedom’ cases from the past year show exactly what’s been lost in the move from Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Amy Coney Barrett.”)
- ‘Here fire, you hungry?’ Idaho Covid protesters burn masks in front of capitol (These are perfect examples of people who should not be parents.)
- Third Former Andrew Cuomo Aide Describes Inappropriate Workplace Treatment (“Ana Liss says the New York governor asked if she had a boyfriend, called her sweetheart and kissed her hand”)
- Cuomo’s behavior created ‘hostile, toxic’ workplace culture for decades, former aides say
- NYT Columnist David Brooks Resigns From Nonprofit After More Evidence Of Conflicts Emerges
- Tim Kaine, Mark Warner Applaud Senate Passage of American Rescue Plan: “This legislation will help our country defeat COVID-19 and get back to normal.”
- Rep. Zoe Lofgren Releases “Massive Social Media Report on GOP Colleagues Who Voted to Overturn the Election”; Here’s the Virginia Part (Rob Wittman, Bob Good, Ben Cline and Morgan Griffith are Virginia’s four seditionist Congressmen)
- Virginia elected officials respond to Senate’s passage of American Rescue Plan $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill
- Biden rescue plan could give Virginia big boost in broadband ‘long after COVID is gone’
- Saturday (3/6) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,477 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 584,537), +123 Hospitalizations (to 24,637), +91 Deaths (to 9,519) (Lowest 10-day new COVID cases since 11/15; lowest hospitalizations since 11/9)
- One year ago today, the 1st case of COVID-19 was reported in Virginia
- Will Virginians become less cautious about coronavirus with warmer temps?
- RPV’s State Central to Meet March 12 (LOL, good luck!)
- Virginia is using dogs to ‘terrify and attack’ prisoners, say lawsuits that describe one man as mauled in his cell (Ee gads.)
- Video: Del. Patrick Hope Explains Why It’s Taking Three Years to Legalize Marijuana in Virginia (“We wanted to give it some time so that we can have those that have been really the subject of overpolicing of marijuana…have the opportunity to own a little bit of of the process”)
- Editorial: On marijuana, a long road remains to legalization
- REUTHER: Culpeper GOP tries to Trumpify local politics
- State Senator Dave Marsden: Virginia Leads The Way In Protecting Consumer Data
- EDITORIAL: New data privacy law is just a start
- A Native American tribe wants Va. recognition. The state dropped the ball, and other tribes are opposed.
- It’s been one year since the the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Virginia. Richmond area families reflect on what’s changed for them
- Fewer jobs but better pay in proposed Richmond budget
- 3,300 vaccines administered to seniors at Richmond Raceway
- Virginia Beach ramps up summer school programs after year disrupted by pandemic
- D.C.-area forecast: Chill continues today, with springlike warmth by midweek
