by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 2.
- With Time Ticking Down, Hope Is Waning for a Climate Deal
- Sky News Australia barred for week by YouTube over Covid misinformation
- US, UK blame Iran for deadly strike on ship with Israel ties, weigh response
- EXCLUSIVE Belarusian sprinter says she won’t return home
- Belarus Olympian seeking asylum in Poland after refusing ‘forced’ flight home
- The U.K.’s Delta Surge Is Collapsing. Will Ours? (“Why the variant’s spread may be less pervasive than we currently expect”)
- Where a Vast Global Vaccination Program Went Wrong (“After months of struggle, the U.N.-backed Covax alliance will soon have many more doses, promising relief for vaccine shortages in poorer countries. The vaccination program still faces a deepening crisis: difficulties getting shots into arms as the Delta variant spreads.”)
- Beyond Meat boss backs tax on meat consumption (Definitely, incorporate all the negative externalities in this industry, also in the fossil fuel industry, into the price.)
- As the Taliban closes in, Afghan forces scramble to defend prisons holding thousands of militants (“If just a fraction of the detainees escape, Afghan security officials warn, it would hand the Taliban a significant advantage on the battlefield, where it is already making steady gains.”)
- The U.S. Needs to Build More, Faster to Reach Net Zero
- Fauci Warns on Covid-19 That ‘Things Are Going to Get Worse’
- How Local Media Spreads Misinformation From Vaccine Skeptics (“Without the resources to publish original, independent journalism, they may also rely on whatever can be freely repurposed from online material, he said.”)
- GOP lawmaker who once spurned masks urges people to take covid-19 seriously after eight-month illness
- Florida breaks record for COVID-19 hospitalizations
- The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable
- Biden cannot sit back and let our democracy sink. He’s now showing us he gets that.
- Democrats still have some options to push through a voting rights bill
- It’s In — And Big: Senators Produce $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill (“The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act clocked in at some 2,700 pages, and senators could begin amending it soon.”)
- Senate finishes text of bipartisan infrastructure bill after rare weekend session
- Senate Poised to Deliver Infrastructure Win for Biden’s Agenda
- Senate finishing crafting $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure proposal, setting delicate debate in motion
- The quiet Biden-GOP talks behind the infrastructure deal
- A tsunami of deferred debt is about to hit homeowners no longer protected by a foreclosure moratorium
- House Speaker Pelosi And Democratic Leaders Call On Biden To Extend Eviction Ban
- The G.O.P. Menace to Society
- The Response To The Jan. 6 Select Committee Paints A Worrying Picture Of Our Democracy
- Terrorism expert Sara Kamali on Jan. 6, white nationalism and the rise of “Vanilla ISIS” (“The author of ‘Homegrown Hate’ on the nightmarish fantasies shared by white nationalists and Islamic extremists”)
- Susan Collins says Trump shouldn’t testify to Jan. 6 panel, criticizes it as ‘partisan’ (As usual, Susan Collins is an idiot.)
- Kinzinger supports issuing subpoenas for members of Congress, including McCarthy
- McCarthy jokes ‘it will be hard not to hit’ Pelosi with gavel if he becomes House speaker (“Jokes?” CNN actually reported it that way?!?)
- Don’t Let Anyone Normalize January 6 (“If you can shrug it off as just another incident of Trump talking too much, then you have already signed up for the next incident—and the one after that.”)
- Trump’s $100 million threat to democracy (“The ex-President’s huge war chest was built on calls for cash from supporters who bought into his delusional lie that the election was stolen”)
- Trump commands historic attention for an ex-president. That may hurt the GOP.
- ‘A one-man scam Pac’: Trump’s money hustling tricks prompt fresh scrutiny (“The ex-president has built an arsenal of groups staffed with ex-officials and loyalists seemingly aimed at sustaining his political hopes for a comeback”)
- The Big Money Behind the Big Lie (“Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs.”)
- A Brain Drain Among Government Scientists Bogs Down Biden’s Climate Ambitions (“Hundreds of scientists and policy experts left the government during the Trump administration. The jobs remain unfilled nearly six months into President Biden’s term, slowing his climate agenda.”)
- Juan Williams: Social media giants are failing us all on COVID
- Threats of violence spark fear of election worker exodus
- Alexander Vindman: What I Heard in the White House Basement
- His campaign is over. But Trump’s political groups are still spending donor money at his properties.
- Our brother Paul Gosar backed Trump’s lie and betrayed America. Has he no shame?
- Simone Biles Will Make Dramatic Return to Tokyo Olympics on Balance Beam
- Simone Biles plans to compete in Olympics balance beam final
- Sharks fleeing toxic red tide take refuge in Florida canal (“Lemon, blacktip, bonnethead and nurse sharks retreat from sea as state struggles to contain pollution problem” Ugh.)
- Miami Beach Mayor Rips Ron DeSantis As ‘Pied Piper’ Of COVID-19, Leading State ‘Off A Cliff’ (“Mayor Dan Gelber went after the GOP governor as his state tallies the highest daily number of cases of the entire pandemic.”)
- Virginia legislators are divvying up $4.3B in federal aid. Here’s what’s in the plan. (“The chance to change the course of the commonwealth”)
- The General Assembly convenes for a special session Monday. Here’s what to expect.
- Va. General Assembly convening at Capitol for first time since pandemic started
- Nonprofit says federal program could be hurting endangered Atlantic sturgeon in James River (“Center for Biological Diversity asks for environmental review”)
- Virginia Democrats don’t look serious about campaign finance reform
- EW Jackson, Dick Black, etc. Can Call It Marxist, Call It Communist, Call It Kakistocratic, But “CRT” *STILL* Isn’t In Virginia School Curriculum (Republican VA02 candidate Jen Kiggans was in attendance in VA Beach Thursday, as right wingers spewed out fear mongering lies)
- Chase leads the movement for election audit protest at the General Assembly (Completely bonkers.)
- As overdose deaths reach record levels in Virginia, meth is as a growing threat
- Virginia’s funding to victim services dwindling as domestic abuse rates rise
- Mental health issue are rising on college campuses, but Virginia has a shortage of child psychiatrists
- Delta variant causing COVID-19 cases to surge again in Virginia
- As evictions resume, indebted renters in Roanoke region urged to apply for relief
- Richmond Public Schools wants to use $65 million in federal recovery money to fix reading crisis
- Loudoun Co. Sheriff’s Office will not pursue criminal charges against private social media group
- Battling police shortages, Hampton Roads cities consider bonuses to lure officers to come — or stay
- D.C.-area forecast: Beautiful start to week with increasing rain chances by Thursday
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