by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, September 16.
TRUMP: It is going away
STEPHANOPOULOS: Without a vaccine?
TRUMP: Sure. Over a period of time
S: And many deaths
TRUMP: It’s gonna be herd developed pic.twitter.com/dtJRE7XwFX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020
- A New Arctic Is Emerging, Thanks to Climate Change (“After years of warning, sea ice coverage and other indicators are beginning to push outside the bounds of the former ‘normal’ climate” – This is, obviously, a massive problem.)
- U.S. Image Plummets Internationally as Most Say Country Has Handled Coronavirus Badly (“Ratings for Trump remain poor”)
- World Economy to Beat Forecast, Shrink 4.5% This Year, OECD Says
- India Hits New Milestone, Surpasses 5 Million Coronavirus Cases (“The Health Ministry reported 90,123 new cases in the past 24 hours.”)
- UAE, Bahrain and Israel sign historic accords at White House event
- How BP Plans to Make Oil-Like Returns From Renewables(“The oil major wants to make returns of 8 to 10 percent from renewables projects as it chases a 50-gigawatt target for 2030.”)
- Firefighters make progress in west coast blazes as smoke spreads across US
- How the pandemic has boosted a green economy
- Some of the Planet’s Most Polluted Skies Are Now Over the West Coast
- Stop Expecting Life to Go Back to Normal Next Year
- ‘Nothing to Do With Climate Change’: Conservative Media and Trump Align on Fires (Truly evil.)
- Climate is not weather: Trump continues to get the two conflated (Trump is an imbecile.)
- All we have to fear is Trump himself (“Now is not the time for a climate change denier to be president.”)
- Congressional Inquiry Faults Boeing And FAA Failures For Deadly 737 Max Plane Crashes
- Steve Bannon Is Behind Bogus Study That China Created COVID
- The Media Learned Nothing From 2016 (“The press hasn’t broken its most destructive habits when it comes to covering Donald Trump.” Huge swaths of the political media are simply broken, incapable of learning or improving.)
- What’s at Stake for Clean Energy in the US Election?
- Bob Woodward’s Bad Characters
- Trump seems to believe in magic over science (Drop the “seems to” and replace it with “does”)
- Woodward says there was ‘denial across the board’ in White House about severity of coronavirus
- Trump, in town hall, says he wouldn’t have done anything differently on pandemic (“The president blamed cities and states run by Democrats for any problems with the response to coronavirus, as well as for any crime or violence in the country.” Pathetic.)
- ‘I up-played it’: In ABC town hall, Trump denies minimizing pandemic threat (This is classic gaslighting. In fact, Trump referred repeatedly to COVID-19 as a “Chinese hoax,” talked about how it would go away shortly, etc, etc., etc.)
- Covid-19 Live Updates: Trump Says He ‘Up-Played’ the Virus, Then Downplays It
- Trump fumbles during tough encounter with undecided voters (“The President faced life outside his own political bubble during a town hall, where his buck passing and audacious falsehoods failed to meet the moment”)
- Trump’s town hall didn’t go well
- Trump Blames Biden, Who Isn’t President, For Not Instituting Mask Mandate
- First Thing: Trump says Covid-19 could be stopped by ‘herd mentality’
- Pelosi faces growing Democratic unrest over Covid relief
- All The President’s Nuts — “Well, I don’t think the science knows actually.” — Donald J. Trump
- Prestigious US science journal breaks with tradition to back Biden
- Trump has no clue what suburbia is like
- Caputo apologizes to HHS staff, signals desire for medical leave
- Michael Caputo was brought in to streamline coronavirus messaging. He has fostered chaos instead.
- The Supreme Court must step in to stop Florida Republicans from disenfranchising voters
- Trump Has Lost His Edge In TV Advertising (“Biden and the Democrats are dominating in many swing states.”)
- The Gray Wall (“Old people elected Trump. Will they make him a one-term president?”)
- Trump should be held accountable for any reckless endangerment at his rallies
- Biden visits Florida as Democrats worry about his standing in the state
- Trump’s Doral Hotel to Host a Confab of Anti-Vaxxers and Leading QAnon Champions (“MAGA world meets science deniers with a large scoop of conspiracy theorists on top.”)
- I can’t believe you’re forcing me to vote for Trump, which I definitely didn’t already want to do (“Believe me when I tell you that the LAST THING I could POSSIBLY want would be to vote for Donald Trump. That’s why I am so stunned that you have taken it upon yourself to go to such lengths to FORCE me to vote for him!” LOL)
- I never considered voting for Trump in 2016. I may be scared into voting for him this year because of my exaggerated fears. (Good, snarky satire.)
- Lawyers allege abuse of migrant women by gynecologist for Georgia ICE detention center
- A slow-moving Hurricane Sally makes landfall in Alabama as a Category 2 storm
- Will America Accept Andrew Gillum? (“The former gubernatorial candidate’s coming out was strained, and his situation is unusual. Don’t write him off yet.”)
- ‘A heart pumping blue blood:’ How fast-growing Orlando threatens Trump’s reelection
- Texas Supreme Court again blocks county from sending mail-in voting applications to 2 million potential voters
- CNN’s Brian Stelter: The Trump-Fox Codependency Is More Dangerous Than You Think
- Facebook says it’s cracking down on climate change misinformation. Scientists say it’s not doing enough.
- Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter
- A conspiracy theory about West Coast wildfires is flooding Facebook despite the site’s promises to remove misinformation (“QAnon groups — which Facebook has pledged to remove — are actively spreading the claims”)
- GOP Senator Who Walked Out To Stop Climate Vote Loses House To Wildfire
- It’s not just Kanye — the GOP is propping up the Green Party too (Of course.)
- New: Warner Spanish Language Radio Ad: “Conozco;” Spanish Language Campaign Website
- New Virginia Poll: Biden 53%-Trump 39% (+14 pts.); Warner 55%-Gade 38% (+17 pts.)
- As Hispanic Heritage Month Begins, Virginia Latino Leaders Praise Biden-Harris Ticket
- Mayors of Richmond, Newport News Join Letter Calling on Trump to Condemn Armed Intimidation, Vigilantism Among His Supporters
- Former VA House Democratic Leader David Toscano – Fasten Your Seatbelts: We’re in for a Bumpy Electoral Ride (“If Americans have not learned during the COVID pandemic that States matter, they are about to find out.”)
- Video: New Ad By United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters Hits Nick Freitas’ Vote to Allow Businesses to Fire Expecting Mothers
- State Lawmakers Working to Balance the Budget… Again
- Video: At Press Conference, VA Gov. Ralph Northam *Rips* Trump For Calling Veterans “Losers” and “Suckers”; Says “It Just Turns My Stomach” (Northam: “I have trouble respecting a leader that refers to my fellow veterans in that manner.”)
- Virginia will suspend utility shutoffs until October, SCC rules
- As schools weigh a return to in-person learning, health officials won’t release details on COVID-19 outbreaks
- Senate passes legislation giving subpoena power to law enforcement oversight panels
- Virginia jumps to head of the class on school solar installations, report shows
- Virginia regulators propose Dominion path toward 2.7 GW storage by 2035
- D.C. convention center reopens amid economic hit; Virginia backlog brings one-day spike in virus deaths
- Tuesday (9/15) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +943 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 135,514), +44 Hospitalizations (to 10,337), +96 Deaths (to 2,839) From Yesterday
- Medicaid Expansion Drops Uninsured Rate to 7.9% in Virginia in 2019
- Mark Zuckerberg Could Help Fund Virginia’s Elections
- SCC grants Northam’s request to extend moratorium on utility disconnections to Oct. 5
- Video: Jennifer Lewis and Angela Lynn on Why Everyone Should Vote NO on Amendment 1 (“It hurts me…after a lot of work to find that an amendment that was a good amendment got trashed and got tweaked to a point where it’s unrecognizable.”)
- Northam seeks to reassure Virginians on early voting
- Del. Mark Cole’s bill to require schools to provide in-person options falters in Richmond (Cole is an extremist and a completely ineffective legislator, should be replaced by voters of his district.)
- Betting on college, pro sports could soon be legal after Virginia Lottery signs off on final statewide wagering rules
- Electronic gaming machines proliferated in Virginia ahead of July placement deadline (Yuck.)
- Editorial: Poultry plant outbreaks show need for greater transparency
- Dorothy McAuliffe column: Virginia’s children and school nutrition heroes need our support
- Southwest region’s daily COVID-19 cases are higher than elsewhere in Virginia
- Two-year-long tree protest against Mountain Valley Pipeline to continue
- School divisions begin to report isolated COVID-19 cases with students, teachers returning to the classroom
- Richmond Mayor Announces New Office For Equitable Transit
- Richmond mayoral candidates support move to free public transit
- Fairfax Co. could change admission to elite Thomas Jefferson High School (“The proposal touted Tuesday by Superintendent Scott Brabrand would eliminate a high-stakes admissions test used to judge applicants for the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, as well as a $100 application fee. Instead, students who meet qualifications that include a 3.5 grade-point average and an algebra background would be admitted on a lottery basis from multiple geographic regions within the county.”)
- Arrest warrant issued for neo-Nazi podcaster in Charlottesville lawsuit
- Spotsylvania School Board sticks with plan to begin hybrid model in October
- Newport News School Board votes 5-1 to find new names for four schools with ties to Confederates or segregation (“The schools — Epes Elementary, Nelson Elementary, Lee Hall Elementary and Dozier Middle — will likely not have new names until next spring.”)
- Lovely today with a little haze; some showers late tomorrow into early Friday
********************************************************
Sign up for the Blue Virginia weekly newsletter
