by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, April 29.
- Solar and wind could provide half of 2040 power mix across 22 African nations
- Moderna Says It Will Make Up to 3 Billion Vaccine Doses in 2022
- U.S. Tells Citizens to Leave India as Covid Crisis Deepens
- EU Clinches Vaccine Deal With Pfizer as Doses Surge in the Bloc
- China has ‘no other choice’ but to rely on coal power for now, official says (Phase it out ASAP!)
- Wind energy can power 3.3 million new jobs worldwide over next five years
- China mandates energy storage as it sets 16.5% solar and wind target for 2025 (“The National Energy Administration has ordered grid companies to supply enough network connection points for all the solar and wind projects registered in 2019 and 2020, and said variable renewables should be supplying 11% of the nation’s electricity by the end of the year.”)
- Jobless Claims Expected to Reach Fresh Covid-19 Low
- U.S. Economy Looks to Be Lifting Off (“Gross domestic product likely grew robustly in the first quarter as the government distributed trillions of dollars in Covid-19 stimulus and consumers stepped up spending”)
- Stocks Off to Best Start to a Presidential Term Since Great Depression
- The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes (“The agency’s new guidelines are too timid and too complicated.”)
- Biden’s Earth Day breakthrough: The best week for climate policy in recent history (“Biden’s climate summit pointed toward real hope, with coal miners, corporate interests and major nations signing on”)
- Biden makes case for sweeping change
- The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden to country: ‘Turning peril into possibility’
- Biden’s speech to Congress is a once unthinkable call for transformation (“Sketch: The president went big in an address that offered post-Trump healing and an image of a new era”)
- ‘Crisis into opportunity’: Biden lays out vision for sweeping change in speech to Congress (“President pushes ambitious families and jobs plans, calling for a ‘blue-collar blueprint’ to rebuild America”)
- Biden Offers a Can-Do Unity Vision With Rich Paying ‘Fair Share’
- Harris and Pelosi make history at Biden’s first address to Congress
- Video, Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by President Biden — Address to a Joint Session of Congress
- In his first speech to Congress, Biden rejects autocracy — including from Trump
- Five takeaways from Biden’s address to Congress
- For Joe Biden, democracy is everything (“Biden sees his presidency as proving democracy — not authoritarianism — can deliver for people.”)
- 5 winners and 3 losers from President Biden’s first congressional address (“Winner: Obamacare. Loser: Wall Street.”)
- Joe Biden wants you to believe in American democracy (“In his speech to Congress, Biden echoed FDR with a call to do big things and restore faith in America.”)
- Biden offers sweeping agenda, touts democracy in speech to Congress
- ‘Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President’: Women Make History At Biden’s Joint Address
- Joe Biden Calls For U.S. To ‘Root Out Systemic Racism’ In Speech To Congress (“The president pushed for police reform through the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed by the Democratic-led House.”)
- Big Government Is Back And 3 Other Takeaways From Biden’s Address To Congress
- Five takeaways from Biden’s first big speech to Congress
- 5 Messages Joe Biden Sent In His Address to Congress (“If you reelect me, I’ll keep you bored and well-fed.”)
- Pelosi on Biden address: ‘We are so pleased with what has happened so far in the first 100 days’
- At 100 Days, Biden Is Transforming What It Means to Be a Democrat
- Biden Dares Democrats to Shift Tax Burden to Wealthy Americans
- Some Democrats Not Sold on Biden’s Proposed Capital-Gains Tax Boost
- Why Wall Street’s Favorite Tax Break Is Biden Target
- Live updates: Biden pushes ambitious agenda, calls for police reform in speech to Congress
- Joe Biden Wants to Renew the Democratic Party
- 4 takeaways from Biden’s first address to Congress
- Visualizing the unique, historic diversity of the dais at Biden’s speech
- Biden embraces his inner Robin Hood (Good!)
- Biden Just Gave the Most Ideologically Ambitious Speech of Any Democratic President in Generations (“With his vow to spend money on blue-collar jobs and tax the rich, Biden’s program aims to splinter the Trump Coalition.”)
- Biden Bets Nation Is Ready to Invest in Itself
- Biden’s speech was bipartisan and partisan at the same time
- Biden’s address to Congress proves we have an adult back in the presidency
- Joe Biden Tells America It’s Going to Kick the 21st Century’s Ass With Old-Fashioned Liberalism
- At 100 days, Biden seeks to leverage narrow majorities to reverse the Reagan era
- Joe Biden Lays Out Sweeping Vision To Transform The American Economy
- How Biden can win the midterm elections
- With Cameras Rolling, an Uneasy and Isolated Capitol Receives Biden (“Under the cloud of a pandemic and an insurrection, a locked-down Capitol provided an unusual backdrop for President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress.”)
- Deadly air pollutant ‘disproportionately and systematically’ harms Americans of color, study finds
- Right-wing elites are worse than their followers
- Why Republicans can’t convince America that Biden is a radical (“The truth is that he’s been far more liberal than Obama ever was. But that’s not how Americans see him.”)
- It Appears Rudy Giuliani Is Extremely Screwed
- Fox host: “Rudy Giuliani is a national treasure,” and “Democrat prosecutors are waging political warfare for the benefit of the Democratic Party” (Fox is far-right propaganda, period.)
- Giuliani’s new legal travails remind us how badly Trump betrayed the country
- The Giuliani News Made Me Think of Those Damaged
- Rudy Giuliani’s home, office searched by federal agents as part of lobbying probe, sources tell ABC News
- Federal Investigators Execute Search Warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment
- Preet Bharara Thinks Rudy Giuliani Is in ‘Deep Trouble’
- Giuliani’s long quest to put himself in legal jeopardy appears to have paid off
- Senate votes to reinstate methane rules loosened by Trump (“House is expected to back resolution, which backers say would help save money and prevent rising temperatures”)
- GOP’s Tim Scott delivers a rebuttal to Biden’s speech with Trumpian talking points (“The sole Black Republican in the US Senate began by denying racial inequality then spoke of the discrimination he had faced”)
- Fact-checking GOP response to Biden’s joint address (Lots of dubious claims, at best…)
- ‘America is not a racist country’: Sen. Tim Scott delivers GOP response (Nope, but the right wing has a huge racism problem.)
- CNN stays silent on Rick Santorum’s comments about Native American culture (And with that, we can all write off CNN as a serious news organization?)
- Supreme Court debates student free speech rights on social media
- They Don’t Know What to Do With This Campus Speech
- Trump supporter found guilty of threatening to kill members of Congress after Jan. 6 insurrection
- Advantage, GOP (“Why Democrats have to win large majorities in order to govern while Republicans don’t need majorities at all”)
- They Went to D.C. on Jan. 6. Now They’re Running for Office. (“A slew of participants in the rally that preceded the riot at the Capitol—and some who appear to have gone further than that—are now campaigning for votes.”)
- Cheney: ‘Wishful thinking’ by Trump she won’t seek 4th term
- Capitol Officer Blasts Trump for Rewriting History (“Michael Fanone said he ‘experienced the most brutal, savage hand-to-hand combat of my entire life’ during the attack on the Capitol.”)
- Hidden Super Polluters Revealed in Wake of Texas Energy Crisis
- Death of California man who was pinned facedown by police draws comparisons to that of George Floyd
- A lawmaker wanted to ban ‘divisive’ teaching on race. Then he mentioned ‘the good’ of slavery.
- DOE offers over $8B in transmission loans for clean energy projects
- These Michigan companies that claim to oppose voter supression are funding Fox News
- Loeffler asks Georgia attorney general to investigate Raffensperger over 2020 election (WTF?)
- 3 Men Indicted On Federal Hate Crime Charges In Ahmaud Arbery Killing
- The Fascist Face Of Charlottesville Joined The Military. Then He Got Kicked Out. (“A rare example of the military taking proactive steps to keep an extremist — the man in a viral photo from the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally — out of its ranks.”)
- Scott Stringer’s Very Bad Day (“Sexual misconduct allegations landed just as he was gaining momentum”)
- Republicans In Disarray: GOP Candidate and Trump’s Virginia Campaign Chair Slam House Republican Leadership As “Do-Nothing Republicans”
- Editorial: Outrage over proposed math curriculum is misplaced (“A proposal to change mathematics instruction in Virginia generated plenty of online outrage. Not surprising, very little of it was based in fact.” And yet Republican statewide candidates grabbed on to the false bulls*** and spread it around. Wildly irresponsible as always…)
- Are Members of the “Free File Alliance” – Intuit, the IRS, etc. – Cool with Having Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBT, etc. Tim Hugo (VA GOP Candidate for LG) As Its Leader?
- Video: AFL-CIO Launches Virginia Ad Campaign Boosting the PRO Act
- Video: Gov. Northam Ceremonially Signs Early Childhood Care and Education Legislation (Speaker Filler-Corn: the bill “eases the burden on parents juggling childcare & working to put food on the table”)
- Ralph Northam auditions for the role of Virginia’s ‘Power Broker’ (Or, more likely, he’s just acting like any other governor would act?)
- Schapiro: For whom Virginia redistricting tolls
- Attacks on gay rights become issue in GOP campaign for lieutenant governor
- Terry McAuliffe Releases Plan to Advance LGBTQ+ Rights and Build a More Inclusive, Open, and Welcoming Virginia
- Video: Jennifer Carroll Foy Launches New TV Ad “Shoes,” Highlighting Shared Experiences and Fight to Ensure All Virginians Thrive
- Carroll Foy calls for DOJ investigation into Donovon Lynch’s death
- CASEY: When will Virginia straighten out unemployment-claim hitches?
- Wednesday (4/28) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Slowest 10-Day Increase In Cases Since 10/28/20
- Nearly 10 percent of Virginians haven’t returned for their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine
- More than 53,000 delegates register to vote in Virginia GOP convention (“But this year’s delegate count represents a fraction of the 378,000 voters who participated in the party’s 2017 primary, when Republicans selected Ed Gillespie as their gubernatorial candidate — a point many were quick to point out.”)
- 2020 was Virginia’s worst year ever for fatal drug overdoses, new data show
- Video: Head Shaking, Awkward Laughter at Alexandria City Council Meeting as Dick Saslaw Muses About Whether It’s “better for the kid to have a police record or the footprint of the vice principal’s shoe on his rear end”
- Next Stop For Passenger Rail: The New River Valley?
- A Virginia summer camp is where 8 teens were sexually assaulted, lawsuit says. It’s headquartered in Virginia Beach.
- Falls Church renames schools that honored Thomas Jefferson and George Mason
- Pipeline Run; MVP Opponents Continue the Protests
- ‘TREES!’: To facilitate in-person learning, Virginia schools turn to outdoor classrooms (“Fairfax County Public Schools has purchased 60 tents to use in outdoor classrooms.”)
- Police investigating death of inmate found unresponsive in Fairfax County jail
- D.C.-area forecast: Summer-like warmth gets blown away Friday but returns early next week
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