by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, January 22.
- Over 450 Climate Scientists Say Advertising Industry Must End ‘Complicity’ in Climate Crisis
- Omicron has changed the shape of the pandemic. Will it end it for good? (“Experts don’t expect Covid to fully disappear in any of our lifetimes, but Omicron could be moving us closer to the endemic stage”)
- China Moves to Freeze Production of Climate Super-Pollutants But Lacks a System to Monitor Emissions (“The world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter announced the freeze in December after joining the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, a climate agreement that requires an immediate ban on HFC-23, a potent greenhouse gas.”)
- Exclusive: U.S. opposes plans to strengthen World Health Organization
- Europe Moves to Reopen; Russia Cases Hit Record: Virus Update
- Russia proposed interim nuclear deal to Iran, with U.S. knowledge, sources say
- US in talks with Qatar over gas supplies to Europe in event of Ukraine invasion
- As invasion looms, Ukrainians are calmly defiant (“If Putin believes Ukrainians share his conviction that Russia and Ukraine are a single nation, he is wildly mistaken.”)
- Germany Blocks NATO Ally From Transferring Weapons to Ukraine
- U.S., Russia Agree to Keep Negotiating Over Ukraine Crisis
- Putin has many Ukraine options short of a multi-front invasion
- Putin has overplayed his hand on Ukraine
- ‘Lethal’ U.S. Military Aid Begins Arriving in Ukraine
- Putin Would Burst Xi’s Olympic Dream With a War in Ukraine
- China’s Games: How Xi Jinping Is Staging the Olympics on His Terms
- Crypto Crash Erases More Than $1 Trillion in Market Value
- Bitcoin Has Lost Half Its Value Since Hitting Record High
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Master and Political Reformer, Dies at 95
- UN condemns deadly air strike on Yemen prison
- Stock market suffers its worst week since the pandemic started
- 2022 Outlook: US solar and wind boom continues despite supply chain woes, Build Back Better uncertainty
- Two years since Covid was first confirmed in U.S., the pandemic is worse than anyone imagined
- Texas judge blocks Biden’s federal worker vaccine mandate (A Trump-appointed judge and an extremist.)
- “March for Life” is a misnomer — GOP’s pro-COVID stance makes clear (“There’s nothing ‘pro-life’ about a Supreme Court or conservative groups that reject life-saving COVID-19 vaccines”)
- The handling of the Texas abortion case is an embarrassment for the federal judiciary
- Manchin says he’s ready to talk. Can Democrats sell him on a new ‘Build Back Better’?
- Democrats could still pass a big climate bill — if they’re willing to sacrifice (“Which proposals will have to give to bring Joe Manchin back to the table?”)
- Republicans Think There Is a ‘Takeover’ Happening. They Have Some Reading to Do.
- There can be no ‘both sides’ on voting rights
- Republican resistance to Trump rings hollow as ‘moderates’ say no on voting rights (Spoiler: they are NOT “moderates”)
- Joe Biden is not failing or flailing
- Critics say Biden has been too ambitious. There’s a big hole in their argument.
- Jan. 6 Investigators Zeroing In On Apparent Plot To Hijack Election With Fake Electors
- Thousands of Giuliani’s communications turned over to Manhattan U.S. attorney following privilege review
- How the new focus on Ivanka Trump and Jan. 6 will expose dark MAGA truths
- ‘House of Trump is crumbling’: why ex-president’s legal net is tightening
- Donald Trump Had a Truly Terrible Week
- Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump (That case alone should put Trump in prison for the rest of his pathetic, miserable life.)
- Draft Trump order told defense chief to seize swing-state voting machines
- Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines (Horrifying. Start arresting people, NOW.)
- Oh, Look, Trump Came Even Closer to Stealing a Second Term Than Previously Thought (So, those of us who were freaking out during the period between the 2020 election and January 20 were not overreacting after all. In short, NEVER listen to anyone telling you to “calm down” about the threat of Trump, Trumpism, etc.)
- Videos show ‘Stop the Steal’ rally organizer saying he would work with extremist groups
- Leaked Oath Keepers list names 20 current military members
- MitchPlease, Black Americans are Americans
- No. 2 Climate Diplomat to Leave Post (“Jonathan Pershing, a veteran diplomat, worked to reassert the U.S. role in global negotiations. He said he was optimistic that the world will avert climate catastrophe.”)
- Justice Thomas ignores basic ethics where wife’s activism, lobbying conflict with cases
- Sinema faces Democratic Party backlash after blocking voting rights legislation (She’s toast in the Democratic Party.)
- Republicans can’t stop making offensive comments about Jewish people
- Organized on Facebook, a ‘who’s who’ of anti-vaccine activists head to D.C. (Facebook is a disaster.)
- Anti-vaccine activists, reveling in their pandemic successes, will rally in D.C. against mandates
- What the Joe Rogan podcast controversy says about the online misinformation ecosystem
- Sean Hannity publicly defended the January 6 attacks while advising the White House on optics (Did Hannity commit any crimes? If so, he should be charged to the full extent of the law.)
- OAN airs testimonial from its owner confirming it was dropped by AT&T and begging viewers to reach out to other cable providers
- Feds issue subpoenas seeking records related to Rep. Cuellar and his wife, associates
- Wisconsin GOP lawmaker calls for election cheating in video (” A Republican Wisconsin state lawmaker was recorded on video saying that Republicans need to ‘cheat like the Democrats’ to win elections and that he’d like to punch Democratic Gov. Tony Evers over pandemic restrictions.” Did he commit a crime?)
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says “I hope there is not an effort to promote the Trump big lie about elections in Virginia” (Also: “if you look from any historic perspective,” President Biden had “a pretty darn good year for a first year of a presidency”)
- Gov. Youngkin’s Disastrous First Week in Office (“Youngkin showed Virginians he isn’t some mild-mannered, vest-wearing moderate from northern Virginia”)
- EPA Employees Are Livid Over Youngkin’s Pick for Virginia’s Top Climate Post
- Gov. Youngkin Announces Legislative Priorities, Budget Amendments…Many of Which Should be Rejected by the Dem-Controlled Virginia State Senate
- Analysis: Here Are the Likely “Majority Makers” for Virginia Democrats to Hold the State Senate, Win Back the House of Delegates in 2023
- VA Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw Accuses Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Having “started a war on our children”
- Amanda Chase denies knowing indicted Oath Keeper who appeared in her Jan. 5 video (“Chase streamed the video on her official – and now suspended – Facebook page on Jan. 5, 2021. It featured Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keeper group, alongside three other supporters of former President Donald Trump. In the video, Rhodes urged Trump to call on veterans to support his effort to overturn the election’s results.”)
- Republican introduces bill to ban abortions at 20 weeks; Miyares says Va. now views Constitution as silent on abortion
- Youngkin tells Virginia parents they should ‘listen to their principal’ on school masks
- Virginia COVID-19 Cases Up 156,293 Over the Past 10 Days; Hospitalizations (3,836) Near Highest Level Since Pandemic Began
- Youngkin naming Carrie Roth, longtime Republican official, to lead troubled VEC
- Youngkin announces more school safety guidance Friday as 3 Richmond-area school districts are among those defying his mask order
- Everytown, Virginia Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond, After Virginia Woman at School Board Meeting Threatens to Bring “Every Single Gun Loaded”
- Mom charged for saying she’ll ‘bring every single gun loaded’ over school’s mask rule
- Polarized debate over masking In Northern Virginia schools
- Two bills to lure the Washington Football Team to Virginia filed in Richmond (Don’t spend a penny of taxpayer money on this.)
- Snowy weather in Hampton Roads will ‘taper off around sunrise’
- Hampton Roads facing 3-6 inches of snow Friday night; Richmond expected to see a dusting to a coating
- D.C.-area forecast: Most stay below freezing today, and some afternoon snow showers possible Sunday
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