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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 8.
- COP26 talks wade into climate finance as poor nations count cost
- Methane Is a Good Start. Now Let’s Go After Other Superpollutants.
- This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold (“Despite new pledges to cut emissions, the world is not on track to hit a key climate change target. Scientists warn a planet hotter than that will look very different.”)
- Obama in Glasgow as Dutch Join Fossil Fuel Pledge: COP26 Update
- Methane Agreements Improve American Ability to Lead on Climate
- First on CNN: Obama to take swipe at Trump for ‘four years of active hostility’ on climate in Glasgow speech
- Even at COP26, Democrats struggle to overcome Manchin’s stalling on climate
- Solar-Powered Electric Vehicles Are Almost Ready to Hit the Road (“Startups from the Netherlands to California are developing cars capable of harnessing energy from the sun”)
- Tuvalu minister stands knee-deep in the sea to film COP26 speech to show climate change
- Cheaper, cleaner, more reliable: The stunning success of South Australia’s renewable transition (“Wind and solar, the report confirms, has delivered a world leading share of 62 per cent of local generation in the past 12 months, wholesale sales were the lowest on the mainland at an average of $48/MWh, and grid emissions fell to a record low.”)
- Asia-Pacific is home to some of the world’s largest carbon-emitters — 2 charts show its reliance on coal (“Experts have said that much of global efforts to fight climate change is dependent on Asian countries cutting their reliance on coal.”)
- The Energy Crisis That Helped Revive Coal Is Easing, for Now
- Don’t Be So Quick to Doubt China’s Climate Change Dedication
- German coronavirus infection rate hits highest since pandemic began
- COP26: Fossil fuel industry has largest delegation at climate summit
- Countries’ climate pledges built on flawed data, Post investigation finds
- Daniel Ortega set to win Nicaraguan election denounced as sham (“Authoritarian leader who has been in power since 2007 on course to secure another five-year term”)
- Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on Nicaragua’s Sham Elections
- Is the President of Honduras a Narco-Trafficker? (“For decades, the U.S. has accommodated corruption in Central America. Now it is contending with the results.”)
- Drone attack by militants on Iraqi PM ‘marks escalation’ in power struggle (“Officials see strike on premier’s home as assassination attempt by Iran-backed groups trying to overturn election result”)
- Harris heads to Paris amid healing US-France rift
- Afghans facing ‘hell on earth’ as winter looms
- The Taliban is back — Afghan women are scared, but defiant.
- Xi Set to Unveil New Doctrine That Could Let Him Rule for Life
- Xi’s Expanding Power Is a Growing Risk for China’s Economy
- U.S. Lifts Pandemic Travel Ban On Mexico, Canada And Most Of Europe (“The new rules allow air travel from previously restricted countries as long as the traveler has proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test.”)
- Covid-19 Vaccines and Myocarditis Link Probed by Researchers
- Biden’s infrastructure win gives him some momentum. Here’s why he needs that
- Biden basks in a huge political victory (“The President got his biggest win on Capitol Hill yet Friday morning. Now the US prepares for his historic federal effort to kick into gear.”)
- Biden gets his ‘infrastructure week,’ crossing another goal off Trump’s to-do list
- Trump bashes Senate Republicans, McConnell over infrastructure bill
- Biden is on to something important (“Competence means governance and problem-solving. It means getting things done, so voters can see tangible results. The New Deal was successful not because it offered voters some grand ideological vision of society, but because President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the problems Americans faced by providing public jobs, electrifying rural areas, building roads and bridges and creating unemployment insurance and Social Security.”)
- How to fix Facebook (“Can Facebook be redeemed? Twelve leading experts share bold solutions to the company’s urgent problems…Antitrust enforcement…Hold Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives criminally liable.”)
- Democrats search for political identity amid dismal election results and legislative triumph
- Still hate Hillary? Get over it: She was right about Trump then — and she’s right now (“It’s time for a common front with political enemies — if they’re willing to stand up against fascism, that is”)
- Right-Wing Aristocrats Fund Critical Race Theory ‘Backlash’ (“Critical race theory has become a new wedge issue for the right. A number of right-wing groups, many funded by billionaires, are funding the backlash.”)
- In Trumpland parallel reality, election was stolen and racism was long ago
- Senate GOP worries Trump could derail bid for majority
- Joe Biden’s best hope of retaining power is Trump, the ogre under the bed
- Virginia victory gives some Republicans glimpse of future without Trump (“Liz Cheney and Chris Christie lead calls to move on from 2020”)
- Trump looks like he’ll run to reclaim the presidency in 2024 (“Analysis: The former president is making all of the moves of a candidate. The question isn’t so much when he’ll start campaigning but whether he will stop.”)
- Potential 2024 GOP candidates take Election Day victory lap, lean into support of Donald Trump at Jewish Coalition
- Big Bird’s vaccination announcement sparks backlash from conservatives, GOP (Cuckoo?)
- Ted Cruz leads right-wing attack on Big Bird for promoting ‘propaganda’ after the Sesame Street character got the COVID-19 vaccine
- Tesla Falls as Twitter Users Back Musk Selling $21 Billion Stake
- Steve Bannon’s popular podcast is a ‘dangerous’ fantasyland of election lies
- Sen. Josh Hawley defends speech on porn and video games (Hawley’s an insurrectionist and an all-around extremist.)
- Ted Cruz Talks About Joe Rogan Being ‘President’ Of Texas If State Secedes From U.S. (Cruz is a nutjob.)
- Aaron Rodgers Fooled Us (“His ravings offer another hard lesson about our distorted perception of athletes”)
- Why Aaron Rodgers Felt Free to Mislead People (“The Packers quarterback correctly assumed that a star like him could get away with bending the NFL’s COVID-19 rules.”)
- Democratic lawmakers blame infrastructure bill delay for loss in Virginia governor’s race
- Video: On “Face the Nation,” Sen. Tim Kaine Says “Congressional Democrats Blew the Timing” and Hurt Terry McAuliffe, While Glenn Youngkin Was Smart to Keep Trump “Locked on the Sidelines”
- Video: On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Mark Warner Says Terry McAuliffe “Absolutely” Could Have Won if Congress Had Passed the Infrastructure Bill Earlier (Warner says Youngkin “stirred up the cultural pot” on “critical race theory”)
- CNN Host Presses Sen. Mark Warner on Whether Democrats Have Become ‘Too Woke’ for Voters
- Maps of VA Elections From 2001 to 2021 Show Democratic Collapse in Rural Areas. The Question Is Why – and What Might Be Done About It? (For instance, in 2001, Mark Warner got 65.7% in Buchanan County in SWVA); in 2021, McAuliffe got just 15.1% (!), down from his 30.1% share in 2013!)
- Opinion | How Glenn Youngkin can govern Virginia as a unifier (Suuuure.)
- Imagine if the Virginia governor’s election had been held a week later
- Editorial: An election with confidence (“Virginians turned out in record numbers to cast their ballots in this year’s election, a credit to all involved in the process.”)
- Power shift clouds efforts to scrap gay-marriage ban, expand felon voting rights
- In Richmond, Youngkin to face ‘the Senate Democratic Alamo’
- Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn Thanks Democratic Delegates Who “unfortunately will not be returning in January” (Roslyn Tyler, Nancy Guy, Lashrecse Aird, Chris Hurst, Joshua Cole…)
- Redistricting Commission to Miss Last Deadline; Supreme Court to Choose Special Masters (“The Virginia Redistricting Commission will miss its last deadline Monday after not meeting to take up congressional maps, leaving the Supreme Court of Virginia to take over the last task that remained with the commission.”)
- The Legality of Next Year’s General Assembly Session Could Be Called Into Question
- Middle Peninsula property owners say Flood Fund disadvantages rural coastal dwellers (“Lawmakers likely to take up issue of state flood protection for private lands”)
- Crab from a lab? Right along Hampton’s waterfront, researchers are working on the future of lab-grown meat
- Sunday protest targets Virginia Tech response to sexual assaults
- Petersburg advertised the wrong residency requirement for city council-replacement applicants
- D.C.-area forecast: Top-notch November weather through Thursday before it turns rainy and then cooler
