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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, February 5.
This was January 6th.
This is not “legitimate political discourse.” pic.twitter.com/lKgbVyVcJr— Rep. Liz Cheney (@RepLizCheney) February 4, 2022
- Climate change will deplete ocean oxygen, kill fish, studies show
- The World Is Likely Sicker Than It Has Been in 100 Years (“The Omicron coronavirus variant appears to have made more people ill at the same time than in any period since the flu pandemic of 1917-1918, experts say”)
- Russian Troops in Final Stages of Readiness Add to Worries for Ukraine
- EXPLAINER: Ukraine not joining NATO so why does Putin worry?
- Editorial: The tainted Olympic Games
- China’s Opening Ceremony Taunted the World. What Is NBC Going to Do About It?
- Why the Olympics opening ceremony felt kinda weird (“Beijing’s opening ceremony featured Vladimir Putin, thousands of Chinese teenagers, and a lot of loaded politics.”)
- In Beijing, Olympic Spectacle and Global Power Games
- Uyghur athlete delivers Olympic flame in opening ceremony after global criticism of China
- China’s Provocation at the Opening Ceremonies (“At the Olympics, in Beijing, the inclusion of the cross-country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang, of Uyghur heritage, carried a double message.”)
- China Criticizes U.S. for Extending Tariffs on Imported Solar
- U.S. warns China risks embarrassment if it backs Russia on Ukraine
- Iran says U.S. should provide guarantees for revival of 2015 nuclear deal
- US grants sanctions relief to Iran as nuke talks in balance
- U.S. restores sanctions waiver to Iran with nuclear talks in final phase
- Police have photo of Boris Johnson with beer at lockdown party, say reports
- Kabul airport attack involved a single bomb with ‘disturbing lethality,’ Pentagon inquiry finds
- The Crypto Backlash Is Booming
- Leader’s Death Is Another Blow for ISIS, But Hardly the End
- A Disorienting Pandemic Moment: 900,000 Deaths, but Fading Virus Concerns
- Defying Omicron to Add Nearly Half a Million Jobs
- 900,000 Americans have died of COVID in just 2 years of global pandemic
- Five takeaways on a stunning jobs report
- Mike Pence Grows a Spine, Says Trump’s Election Ravings Are “Un-American” and “Wrong” (“The former V.P. should probably expect to wake up to a horse’s head in his bed.”)
- Pence says Trump is wrong to insist he could have overturned election results
- ‘Trump Is Wrong,’ Pence Says of False Claim About Overturning Election
- Pence breaks with Trump: ‘I had no right to overturn the election’
- Trump’s GOP: Party further tightens tie to former president
- In censure of Cheney and Kinzinger, RNC calls events of January 6 ‘legitimate political discourse’
- GOP Mocked For Calling Jan. 6 Capitol Riot ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
- The GOP’s vile new punishment of Liz Cheney shows Trump’s true impact (“The Republican National Committee is going full insurrectionist”)
- RNC officially labels Jan. 6 attack on Capitol “legitimate political discourse”
- RNC votes to censure Cheney, Kinzinger
- Liz Cheney’s censure underscores Republican loyalties to Trump
- The Republican Party formally declares that truth is fiction and patriots are traitors
- Barney Frank: How Liz Cheney could force voters to defend our foundational principles
- As GOP censures Cheney and Kinzinger, Pence says: ‘President Trump is wrong’
- What do Democrats need to win in November? One Big Thing. (“Voters have to understand the importance of these elections.”)
- GOP to Defenders of Democracy: Drop Dead
- G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
- Romney and other Republicans decry RNC censuring Liz Cheney and Kinzinger
- The Backlash Against C.R.T. Shows That Republicans Are Losing Ground
- Trump’s growing recklessness is a ticking time bomb
- The Text of the GOP’s Liz Cheney Censure Tells All
- McCarthy in bind as conservatives push GOP to oust Cheney in her primary
- Trump’s ‘circular firing squad’ threatens GOP midterm gains
- Newt Gingrich started us on the road to ruin. Now, he’s back to finish the job. (One of the worst people in American history.)
- Jan. 6 panel hesitates in asking Pence to testify
- Exclusive: Newly obtained records show Trump and Jim Jordan spoke at length on morning of January 6 (“Gym” Jordan is evil.)
- Jan. 6 Defendant Seeks to Subpoena Trump as Witness at Trial
- Let’s Talk About How Truly Bizarre Our Supreme Court Is
- How the NFL fumbled the battle for equal opportunity in coaching
- North Carolina Court Says G.O.P. Political Maps Are Unconstitutional
- Multiple Fox Corporation executives have maxed out support to a Big Lie candidate in Nevada
- Arizona’s Right Wing Sought Power to Overturn Votes. Rusty Bowers Said No.
- Minneapolis police release body-cam footage in the deadly shooting of Amir Locke (Appalling and unacceptable.)
- Sen. Kaine Donates Blood In Fairfax To Address Regional Shortage
- JEC Chairman Beyer on January Jobs Day Data: “Today’s data blew expectations out of the water”
- BREAKING: Judge Temporarily Blocks Youngkin’s Masks-Optional-in-Schools Executive Order. Sen. Lucas Taunts, “Try watching Schoolhouse Rock one more time until you get it!” LOL
- Judge temporarily halts Youngkin order making masks optional in Va. schools after lawsuit from school boards
- Arlington judge blocks Youngkin’s order to make masks optional in schools
- Judge rules for 7 Va. school boards, temporarily halts Youngkin mask mandate ban
- Arlington County judge blocks Governor Youngkin’s school masks executive order
- VIDEO: Gov. Glenn Youngkin on “divisive concepts” in schools, tax reform, VEC (The real “divisive concept” is Glenn Youngkin.)
- Video: “Governor, where is your mask?…look around you governor, you’re in Alexandria. Read the room buddy!” (“Alexandria continues to urge people to wear masks “in public indoor spaces” like supermarkets.”)
- Schapiro: Va. political history repeating itself — as farce (“But for Republicans, emboldened by recent gains, it’s 1885 again.”)
- Virginia elections commissioner, who Youngkin is replacing, announces departure
- VA Senate Majority Leader Says “one must question Miyares’s motives” in Heaphy Firing, Appointment of “Koch brothers’ major fundraiser”; Rips “Dynamic Duo” of Glenn Youngkin and Jim Justice
- Youngkin’s Antisemitism Commission and the Definition of Chutzpah
- Loudoun County, northern Virginia leaders stage walk out following ‘inappropriate’ remarks by AG deputy (“After the event, Chairwoman Phyllis Randall (D-At Large) tweeted that the attacks … are ‘unacceptable and dangerous.’ ‘There’s not a person who isn’t concerned about the young ladies,’ Randall said Friday. ‘To politicize this doesn’t help [the victims] and [the A.G.’s office] are not doing it for them.’ ‘They are doing it for political reasons and I find that disturbing,’ she said.”)
- Editorial: To re-engage workers in Virginia, build on G3 and FastForward successes
- Video: In Powerful Speech, Del. Jackie Hope Glass Urges That We “honor the enslaved mothers, the wet nurses, my ancestors, whose liquid gold coursed through the bloodlines of many in this nation”
- Va. General Assembly wrestles with race, ideology after Republican is rejected from Black Caucus
- Youngkin appoints Richmond health director Danny Avula to lead Social Services
- COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations Continue on Downward Trajectory; Deaths Still Not Coming Down, Though
- COVID deaths aren’t falling yet in Virginia, though cases and hospitalizations are
- Bill aims to stop medical debt collectors from hounding victims of violent crime
- 1 killed, 4 others injured in shooting at a hookah lounge near Virginia Tech’s main campus, police say
- D.C.-area forecast: Chilly and windy today, with cold easing slightly Sunday
