by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, August 11.
- 2030 Is the New 2050: The Oil Industry Begins to Unwind (“BP’s plan to reduce oil production is seismic because of what it says about the decade past and the decade to come, the authors write.”)
- The $16 billion plan to beam Australia’s Outback sun onto Asia’s power grids (How about doing the same with North African and Europe?)
- Belarus Says Longtime Leader Is Re-elected in Vote Critics Call Rigged (It looks massively rigged.)
- Belarusian opposition leader arrives in Lithuania in wake of contested election
- China just arrested a top Hong Kong pro-democracy figure. Beijing isn’t playing around. (“Jimmy Lai, a media executive, was arrested along with others in a blow to Hong Kong’s freedoms.”)
- The world must not let China steamroll Hong Kong
- Exclusive: Lebanon’s leaders warned in July about explosives at port – documents
- Lebanon’s entire government has resigned after a weekend of violent protests
- How the UK’s Climate Science Deniers Turned Their Attention to COVID-19 (Heinous.)
- Sustainable investment funds just surpassed $1 trillion for the first time on record
- Trump says G7 summit will be delayed until after the election
- Putin Says Russia Has Registered World’s First Covid-19 Vaccine
- Vaccines and asymptomatic spreaders may hold keys to answering Covid-19 mysteries, experts say
- The Trump Pandemic (“A blow-by-blow account of how the president killed thousands of Americans.”)
- Trump Orders an Anti-Stimulus Plan for Struggling States
- ‘Economic tsunami’: US cities and states hit by Covid-19 face dire budget cuts
- Trump Sends In the Economic Quacks
- Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Could Temporarily Block Americans Who Might Be Infected From Returning to the U.S.
- George Conway: I believe the president, and in the president (Great job!)
- Five Ways Trump And GOP Officials Are Undermining The Election Process
- E.P.A. to Lift Obama-Era Controls on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas (That’s the exact wrong thing to do. In fact, we should be TIGHTENING those restrictions big time.)
- At Least 97,000 Children Tested Positive For Coronavirus In Last 2 Weeks Of July
- New Trump chief of staff drew hard line during relief talks, challenging Democrats’ approach
- House will not hold votes until Sept. 14 unless stimulus deal is reached
- Fact check: Interrupted by shooting, Trump continues to spin false narrative around mail-in voting and coronavirus
- Harris favored as Biden edges closer to VP pick
- Joe Biden just destroyed one of Trump’s biggest attack lines
- Biden’s V.P. Pick Is Said to Be Imminent
- McConnell Fight for Liability Shield a Key Hitch as Talks Stall
- Trump Says He’s ‘Seriously’ Considering Capital Gains Tax Cut (Terrible idea.)
- Trump’s inadvertent tax hike
- Dems say Trump’s payroll tax break weakens Social Security
- Lessons From 2009 for a Green Stimulus Today (“The wonks that designed 2009’s green stimulus say it worked and could be improved upon today.”)
- How not to assure the nation that you are a good attorney general (He’s horrendously bad.)
- U.S. considers barring entry of some citizens, legal residents over virus fears (That makes no sense whatsoever, given the fact that we have massive community spread WITHIN the United States.)
- DeVos publicly absent as critical decisions are made on school reopenings
- The ‘Blue Shift’ Will Decide the Election (“Something fundamental has changed about the ways Americans vote.”)
- Destroying the Postal Service Is the Most Republican Thing Trump Has Ever Done
- Employers Cast Wary Eye on Trump Payroll-Tax Deferral
- U.S. Sent Workers Nearly $250 Billion in $600-a-Week Jobless Aid
- Billionaires Have Made an Absolute Killing During the Pandemic. The Number Is Staggering.
- Trump claims he would have not called for Obama to resign over 160,000 virus deaths (Hahahahahaha. Suuuuure he wouldn’t have.)
- A Record 75% of Americans Can Vote by Mail in 2020
- Industrial Hog Farms Are Breeding the Next Pandemic (These things need to be shut down, for a whole host of reasons.)
- The party in power is resisting pre-election stimulus? Really? (“Republicans don’t even know how to maximize incumbency.”)
- Do we even need the Republican Party? (“What should a responsible second party do?”)
- A devastating indictment of the Republican Party from a GOP insider
- If these leaders define the future of the Republican Party, it doesn’t deserve to have a future (Just a reminder that David Brooks is an idiot, by the way…)
- History shows why vice presidential picks matter
- Lincoln Project expands GOP target list, winning Trump ire
- Ballot Drop Boxes Become Latest Front In Voting Legal Fights
- Challenge To Minnesota Rep. Omar Tops 5 Races To Watch Tuesday
- This is how the media should confront Trump and his cronies (“Two reporters this weekend set examples for interviewers to follow.”)
- ABC News bungles coverage of Trump executive orders on Social Security funding and coronavirus relief (“From ‘both sides’ to transparently fake deficit concerns — they’ve got it all”)
- Bill O’Reilly is on the verge of landing a new show on radio station owned by a Trump ally
- Is Lindsey Graham Actually in Trouble in South Carolina? (“Anger at his support for Trump and a strong Democratic challenger have some wondering if the three-term Republican is in real jeopardy of losing in November.”)
- QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show (Yikes.)
- Facebook announced nearly 1 GW in new renewable contracts (“As the company races to meet its goal of becoming 100% renewably powered by the end of 2020, Facebook has made another massive investment in clean energy — signing contracts for 806 MW of solar and wind power from projects across Utah, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee and Ireland.”)
- FERC staff to Congress: HV transmission essential to reducing carbon, deploying renewables
- Reckoning in coal country: How lax fiscal policy has left states flat-footed as mining declines
- Cuccinelli Cool with Kids in Cages, but Messed-Up Birthday Popcorn Delivery? That Rates an “Ouch!” From “The Cooch”
- Sen. Warner Sends Letter to Postmaster General, Urges Him “in the strongest possible terms” to “reverse course,” “commit to strengthening and defending the Postal Service”
- AG Mark Herring Joins Coalition in Filing a Motion to Halt Trump’s Newest Ploy to Undermine the 2020 Census and Congressional Representation
- Requests for absentee ballots by mail on rise in Virginia amid COVID-19
- Monday (8/10) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +663 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 100,749), +22 Hospitalizations (to 8,391), +1 Deaths (to 2,327) From Yesterday
- Editorial: Enlist your smartphone in the COVID fight
- Police Reform and the State Budget During COVID: What You Need to Know About this Special Session
- Criminal Justice Reforms: Should Lawmakers Implement a Court Fee Moratorium?
- Will Virginia sign on to Trump’s plan to boost unemployment benefits by $400?
- Federal scientists begin addressing massive covid-19 outbreak at immigration detention center in Virginia
- Editorial: Chase is wrong about nice guys (“Recent Democratic gains in Virginia have been fueled by a surge of anti-Trump outrage. If Trump is no longer in office, it’s possible some of those voters might be more inclined to entertain the prospect of a Republican governor again — provided that Republican cuts a particular profile.” Yep, it’s possible.)
- EDITORIAL: Long Bridge is still a good investment
- Virginia Lottery releases additional regulation drafts as sports betting implementation process continues to progress
- Editorial: Do your part to keep Virginia’s great outdoors beautiful
- Virginia Tech’s Sands defends in-person teaching as start of classes nears
- Amanda Chase Attacking Harrisonburg Small Business Owners Over Mask Requirement Prompts Outpouring of Love, Support for Vito’s Italian Kitchen
- Video: VA GOP 2021 Gubernatorial Candidate Amanda Chase to Set Up 1-800 Number to Report Public Colleges, Universities for “Indoctrinating Our Kids,” “Social Engineering Bullcrap”
- Liberty University names acting president after Jerry Falwell Jr. placed on leave of absence
- Northern Virginia To Receive Nearly $3 Million From CARES Act For Affordable Housing
- Avowed KKK leader who drove through crowd at BLM protest in Henrico gets 6-year sentence; he still faces felony counts
- Robert E. Lee’s Name Is All Over Arlington County. Now There’s A Push To Replace It
- Newport News will hold a public hearing regarding fate of Confederate monument
- Radford COVID-19 cases double since the beginning of August
- Hot and humid, with increasing thunderstorm chances this week
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