by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, December 12.
- Coal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe
- Omicron could become dominant variant by next week in some European countries, officials predict
- Pfizer Course Has 23% Efficacy Vs. Omicron in S. African Study (“A two-shot course of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine has just 22.5% efficacy against symptomatic infection with the omicron variant, but can thwart severe disease, according to laboratory experiments in South Africa.”)
- EXCLUSIVE G7 warns Russia of ‘massive consequences’ if Ukraine attacked
- G-7 to Issue Warning to Russia Over Troop Build Up Near Ukraine
- Six ways Russia views Ukraine — and why each should worry the West (“For the Kremlin, Ukraine represents the ultimate battle between Moscow and its Western rivals.”)
- Gulf Arab states that opposed the Iran nuclear deal are now courting Tehran
- Britain Tells Its Big Game Hunters to Piss Off (“Bringing banned animal trophies home could result in a five-year prison sentence.”)
- Boris Johnson Faces Another Damaging 2020 Christmas Revelation
- Iran Bases Next Year’s Budget on $60-a-Barrel Oil, Fars Says
- Omicron won’t keep us from ending the pandemic. We’re doing that ourselves. (“We already know what works, no matter how the virus mutates”)
- 18 steps to a democratic breakdown
- Jan. 6 crossed a line. We need to say so before it’s too late for democracy. (“History shows that Congress can’t afford to let the attack go unrebuked”)
- I Have a Handle on History. The Future Is a Different Story. (“I do not know how we get from the current morass to a healthy, robust democracy. But whatever force or event that brings us there, I do not think we’ll be able to see it in advance.”)
- I monitor Trump’s die-hard base. They’re still plotting out in the open. (“The same activists behind Jan. 6 are moving into local, grass-roots organizing now”)
- New Political Maps Will Kill Swing Districts From Coast to Coast
- Anti-Democracy PowerPoint Circulator Says He Met with Meadows, Briefed Lawmakers: Reports
- An Election Conspiracy Theorist Responsible for Circulating Batshit Coup PowerPoint Spoke Several Times with Meadows and the Trump White House: Report
- Election denier who circulated Jan. 6 PowerPoint says he met with Meadows at White House
- What Mark Meadows Is Learning the Hard Way (“Trump is still king.”)
- Biden says he will visit area impacted by storms: ‘We’re going to get through this together’
- Biden says his administration will do ‘whatever is needed’ to help states reeling from tornadoes
- President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Kentucky Emergency Declaration
- Live Updates: Tornadoes Leave Trail of Devastation Across Six States, With Scores Dead
- EXPLAINER: Was tornado outbreak related to climate change?
- Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro refuses to provide documents subpoenaed in House Covid-19 probe (“Failing to comply with a subpoena can put a potential witness in contempt of Congress, which can lead to escalating financial penalties and the possibility of jail time.”)
- Former Trump Trade Aide Navarro Gets Subpoena Warning From Panel
- Donald Trump Defies Belief With New Spin On ‘We Fight Like Hell’ Speech From Jan. 6 (“The transcript of the former president’s inflammatory address before the U.S. Capitol riot shows otherwise.”)
- Newsom to use Texas abortion law tactics to go after assault rifle, ghost gun makers
- The Supreme Court’s Texas abortion ruling reveals the conservative majority’s radicalism (“The worst part – truly, the most shocking part – is what these justices are doing to the court’s own authority.”)
- The nation needed a strong defense of constitutional rights. The Supreme Court did this instead.
- Hundreds of people are fired, online learning set to return amid vaccine resistance at nation’s second-largest school district
- CNN mess over Cuomo shows dangers of news-as-entertainment
- Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire, dies aged 80 (R.I.P.)
- Editorial: Grim future for climate action (“Gov. Ralph Northam outlined a plan to advance resilience in coastal communities. Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin would rather we retreat.”)
- Transforming State Democratic Parties Into Participatory Membership Organizations (“In the long run, for the Democrats to win — and better live up to our name — we must move from centralized management to broad-based membership”)
- Jenkins and Sponsler: Accelerate Virginia’s efforts on workforce development and equity
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “Trying to wrap our heads around Omicron,” Even as “Delta is still 99% of the sequenced positives” in the US (“The Coronavirus is not done with us yet”)
- Editorial: How to repair Virginia’s social services system
- A pipeline runs through it: Stream crossings by the Mountain Valley Pipeline
- Rev. William Barber joins activists in Richmond challenging Mountain Valley Pipeline (“Civil rights leader the Rev. William J. Barber II preached to a crowd of several hundred in Richmond on Saturday against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, calling projects like the proposed natural gas line ‘an abusive sin’ that would harm the poor.”)
- State acquires last bit of Army land on Fort Monroe — under The Chamberlin, owned by Roanoke firm
- Richmond to miss redistricting deadline with adoption of new local voting maps slated for next year
- Protesters transformed Richmond’s Robert E. Lee memorial. Now they mourn the loss of their most powerful icon of resistance.
- Strong winds leave thousands without power in DC region after record-breaking highs
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunnier and calmer today as December temperatures return
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