by Lowell
- Fix the global vaccine rollout or face even worse COVID variants, experts warn
- Earth Is Getting a ‘Black Box’ to Hold Humans Accountable for Climate Change
- How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer (“In Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future, climate disasters kill tens of millions of people – and that’s a scenario he portrays as relatively optimistic”)
- 53 people die in Mexico after the packed truck they were riding in crashed
- Party furore deepens for Britain’s Johnson, spokesman was at lockdown gathering
- Assange’s U.S. Reckoning Nears as U.K. Judges Grant Extradition
- Putin barrels toward invading Ukraine, encouraged by Trump
- Supreme Court endgame looms over Trump’s January 6 tango with Congress (“Tango?” Bizarre headline by CNN, acting like this is some sort of game.)
- Appeals court rules against Trump in fight over Jan. 6 committee documents request
- Biden announces plan to get booster shots to 100m Americans amid Omicron arrival in US
- Senate Clears Last Major Hurdle to Raising Debt Ceiling
- How Is the U.S. Economy Doing? (“In short, the public’s highly negative assessment of the economy is at odds with every other indicator I can think of. Again, what’s going on?…it’s implausible to assert that the tone of media coverage is irrelevant. It’s not even necessarily a partisan thing. My world is full of economic commentators who have spent years eager to moralize about the evils of inflation and who were bitterly disappointed when their hoped-for disaster failed to materialize a decade ago. Now they have their chance, and they’re surely having some effect on public perceptions.”)
- Here’s the speech Biden should give in defense of democracy
- GOP senators and Manchin in talks to work around Cruz’s ambassador blockade
- American democracy is tottering. It’s not clear Americans care. (“Biden’s Summit for Democracy is supposed to highlight democracy’s global plight. But in America, not many people are paying attention.” That’s really disturbing.)
- Trump’s White House Passed Around a PowerPoint on How to End American Democracy
- No one in their right mind would design a government that works like ours
- Democrats don’t think Manchin wants Biden agenda vote by Christmas (“One senior Democratic senator said there’s “no question” the bill could pass the Senate by Christmas — Schumer’s goal — if Manchin cooperated.”)
- Here comes the next phony GOP attack on the Biden agenda
- Biden Orders Federal Vehicles and Buildings to Use Renewable Energy by 2050 (“Under an executive order, the federal government would phase out the purchase of gasoline-powered vehicles, and its buildings would be powered by wind, solar or other clean energy.”)
- Josh Duggar found guilty of child pornography (Beyond disgusting.)
- Congress must act to protect democracy from presidential abuse, just as it did after Nixon
- Greg Sargent: Mark Meadows’s new effort to cover up Trump’s coup is ludicrous — and dangerous
- The Post’s View: Justice must be swift and decisive for the Trump holdouts defying the Jan. 6 committee
- The Jan. 6 committee needs to get louder. Much louder.
- ‘Get them ready now’: Matt Gaetz and Steve Bannon discuss plan to take over government with ‘shock troops’ (How are these insurrectionists not in prison?)
- Is Tish James Aiming Higher Than Governor? Stay Tuned. (“Her inquiry into the Trump Organization could be a national launching pad.”)
- A Surge in Trading Preceded Trump’s SPAC Deal
- Investors brace for the highest inflation reading in nearly 40 years
- The Supreme Court isn’t well. The only hope for a cure is more justices.
- White House points finger at the press (Good.)
- Starbucks workers form their 1st union in the U.S. in a big win for labor
- Texas Judge Rules State Abortion Law Unconstitutional Over Its Enforcement
- Jussie Smollett’s conviction for orchestrating and reporting a phony hate crime punctuates actor’s sudden downfall
- Proposed U.S. House Maps for Virginia Don’t Help with Competitiveness, While Hurting Reps. Abigail Spanberger, Elaine Luria, Jennifer Wexton
- VPAP Analysis Finds Half of State Senate, VA House of Delegates Members/Members-Elect “Paired” or “Tripled” in New Districts
- Proposed redistricting map could scramble congressional races and hurt female incumbents
- New draft Virginia legislative maps released
- Supreme Court of Virginia redistricting proposals posted online
- Virginia redistricting proposals leave incumbents vulnerable, candidates scrambling to rethink campaigns
- The Princeton Gerrymandering Project reviewed Virginia’s new map proposals
- Proposed maps pair some incumbents (“New maps drawn by court experts would put incumbents in the same districts in at least three Senate districts, two House districts and one congressional district.”)
- Northam unveils parts of proposed state budget, including money for historically Black universities and teacher raises
- Gov. Ralph Northam wants to give Virginia’s public HBCUs $277 million more in state funding, $20 million to private ones
- Opinion From AG Mark Herring Establishes Environmental Justice Policy
- Hashmi and Herring say new opinion establishes Virginia’s environmental justice policy
- John Fredericks pushed Kiggans to answer if she would support Trump in 2024
- Virginia Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn Announces David Cary as New Chief of Staff
- How Virginia’s proposed congressional redistricting maps would affect Hampton Roads
- A closer look at the redistricting maps for Southwest and Southside
- Glenn Youngkin’s turn from Trump supporters may hamper his political ambitions outside of Virginia
- Redistricting plan proposes big changes to Fredericksburg-area congressional districts
- Virginia confirms first case of omicron variant
- First Confirmed Case of Omicron (B.1.1.529) COVID-19 Variant Identified in Virginia
- On the way out (“Gov. Ralph S. Northam orders removal of 40-foot granite pedestal that held Confederate Robert E. Lee’s statue on Monument Avenue, and for the land to be turned over to the city”)
- Gov. Northam conditionally pardons Colonial Heights woman in controversial 2013 murder case that involved 4 defendants
- Real estate tax relief for Henrico County residents in 2022 – plus a rebate check coming in the mail
- Manassas Park City Schools switch to asynchronous learning after shooting threat
- D.C.-area forecast: Mild today, record-warm 70s tomorrow. Storms, too?
********************************************************
Sign up for the Blue Virginia weekly newsletter
