by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, November 25.
- Stocks hit record high as Biden transition, vaccines brighten outlook
- The US reported more than 2,100 deaths in a single day. Things are projected to get worse
- Thanksgiving could be the “mother of all super spreader events,” health expert warns
- First 6.4 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine could go out in mid-December
- Creating a Covid-19 vaccine is only the first step. Reaching the world is the next. (“‘It’s going to be an extraordinary logistic challenge,’ one former official said. ‘I just hope it works.'”)
- Here Comes the COVID-19 Baby Bust (“The U.S. could have hundreds of thousands of fewer births next year than it would have in the absence of a pandemic.”)
- U.S. Sets Record of Two Million New Virus Cases in Two Weeks
- Covid-19 Live Updates: As Cases Overwhelm the U.S., Health Officials Give Up on Contact Tracing
- Epidemiologist Says Restricting Small Gatherings Isn’t Enough To Stop The Surge
- Biden team inherits Trump’s ocean of troubles
- Biden’s foreign policy team lays out a national security vision that differs sharply from Trump’s (Thank goodness.)
- Biden’s National Security team reveals he has learned from the mistakes of past presidents
- Here’s a change: A national security team with integrity, experience and skill
- Joe Biden’s early appointments are showing a deft touch
- TSA records its busiest travel weekend since March (Crazy.)
- White House has signed off on Joe Biden getting the President’s Daily Brief
- Biden stakes out his anti-Trump presidency (“Biden has already kept his first promise — his approach to the presidency will be a top-to-bottom repudiation of the behavior, policies and obsessions of Trump”)
- ‘Fantasy world’: Pompeo knocks Biden administration picks as out of touch on foreign policy (Pompeo, of course, is quite possibly the worst Secretary of State this country’s ever had…wrong about everything, basically.)
- After Setbacks, Trump Looks Beyond Legal Fight
- Yellen Set to Restore Treasury-Fed Cooperation, With Eye on GOP
- Mnuchin Plans to Put $455 Billion Beyond Yellen’s Easy Reach
- Joe Biden’s cabinet picks: what we’ve learned from his choices so far (“The president-elect has gone for experience and diversity in his first slate of picks – but it also doesn’t hurt to have worked for Obama”)
- POLITICO Playbook PM: NEW: What Paul Ryan is saying about Biden and Trump (As usual, Ryan is a mix of one part sensible and several parts shit-for-brains.)
- Paul Ryan suddenly thinks divided government is great now that GOP isn’t in charge (Totally full of it, as usual with Paul Ryan.)
- McConnell still mum on Biden’s win as Trump administration begins transition
- Trump’s assault on the election could leave a lasting mark on American democracy
- Joe Biden says ‘this is not a third Obama term’ in first sit-down interview (“Joe Biden says ‘this is not a third Obama term’ in first sit-down interview; Although his list of cabinet nominees included many Obama-era alumni, Joe Biden said the challenges facing him were unique”)
- Trump Stress-Tested the Election System, and the Cracks Showed
- Biden’s team could give Americans a reason to believe in government again
- Republicans Won’t Have Trump, But Trumpism Is All They Have
- William Barr’s Lame-Duck Execution Spree Is Unprecedented
- Video, Text of President-Elect Biden’s National Security & Foreign Policy Nominees & Appointees Remarks
- Scoop: Trump tells confidants he plans to pardon Michael Flynn (Inexcusable.)
- Biden says Trump administration outreach has been ‘sincere’ as transition begins
- Trump will soon leave the White House. How long before he stops dominating the conversation?
- As Their D.C. Days Dwindle, Ivanka and Jared Look for a New Beginning (They should be treated as pariahs.)
- Trump’s dam finally breaks. But we cannot go through this again. (“We need to take discretion out of the hands of partisans.”)
- Roger Stone-linked group urges voters to write in Trump in Georgia runoffs as revenge against GOP (LOL)
- Computer repairman who claimed he gave Hunter Biden data to Giuliani closes shop as laptop saga gets stranger
- Feinstein departure from top post sets stage for Judiciary fight
- You don’t have a ‘right’ to a lawyer when you’re trying to steal an election
- Facebook Researchers Found Its ‘Political Whitelist’ Influenced Misinformation Spread (Facebook is a disaster.)
- The Inside Story of Michigan’s Fake Voter Fraud Scandal
- How Trump’s conspiracy theories have inspired some supporters to boycott the Georgia runoffs (“Lying to his supporters about elections being rigged is having an unintended consequence.”)
- Obama sold record-breaking 1.7 million copies of memoir in first week
- Fox paid seven figures to settle lawsuit over bogus Seth Rich conspiracy story
- YouTube temporarily suspends, demonetizes OANN (YouTube needs to crack down a LOT harder.)
- Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book
- Arkansas Supreme Court invalidates Democratic candidate, GOP declares victory (Utterly bizarre and f’ed up…”decades-old misdemeanor convictions?” Seriously?)
- Kemp decries ‘baseless attacks’ from Trump supporter
- Right-wing media’s unhinged response to Thanksgiving safety measures
- Rep. Denver Riggleman on Bigfoot, QAnon, and believers
- AG Mark Herring Joins Multistate Coalition Challenging Trump Administration’s Assault on Clean Water Act Protections
- Lazy NY Times Reporting on 2021 VA Gov Race Erases Women of Color, Democrats Outside of NoVA (“Writing to a pre-cooked identity-politics narrative”)
- Editorial: Keep reviews free from interference (“The Northam administration’s apparent meddling in the release of an auditor’s report demands action to insulate the state inspector general from interference.”)
- Kirk Cox’s First Challenge In His Campaign To Be Virginia’s Governor (“Once upon a time, Republicans were a party of ideas. They led with ideas, not grievances. And they did so with a degree of optimism that is now taken as a sign of weakness. If Cox wants to fight for something, he should fight the gloom that permeates GOP thinking.”)
- Ayala, Guzmán champion equality, representation in lieutenant governor bid
- Virginia’s contact tracing app could be a vital tool in fighting COVID-19 — if people would use it
- Tuesday (11/24): Virginia New COVID-19 Cases Hit Record 2-Day, 3-Day, 10-Day Highs (+2,544 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 223,582), +116 Hospitalizations (to 14,212), +37 Deaths (to 3,979))
- VCU Health workers describe ‘heartbreak’ in ICU as COVID-19 cases mount
- As Thanksgiving nears, Virginians rush to get COVID tested but face long lines, delays and limited appointments available
- Criticized By Virginia Republicans For Her “Blatant Racism,” Sen. Amanda Chase (R) Lashes Out: “Republicans eat their own”; “when our country is at war the civility stops” (Commenter responds: “ma’am with all due respect, what war? Fighting against who? Your fellow Americans?”)
- Williams: ‘They hate white people.’ State Sen. Amanda Chase takes white grievance to an extreme
- Virginia can’t have marijuana legalization without equity (By Del. Don Scott and former Gov. Terry McAuliffe)
- Study of “Teaching and Learning During the COVID 19 Pandemic” Finds “Widening Gap” in Performance; English-Language-Learners, Students with Disabilities Hit Hardest in Fairfax County
- Failing grades spike in Virginia’s largest school system as online learning gap emerges nationwide
- Struggling Fairfax Co. students fare worse with virtual learning
- State Corporation Commission Rejects Appalachian Power’s Request to Increase Customer Bills
- State Corporation Commission denies Appalachian Power rate increase request
- Task force releases final recommendations to ‘reimagine public safety’ in Richmond
- Bid to hold another massive pro-gun rally in Virginia thwarted when gun-control advocates got permits first
- Supporters of former ODU student granted conditional pardon by governor seek to get him released for the holidays (“The Free Matthew Rushin Coalition is asking people to purchase and sign a postcard online that calls for Rushin’s immediate release from prison. The group says Rushin has health problems that put him at increased risk for COVID-19.”)
- Richmond Police Say ‘No Gun’ Rule is Only a Rule Sometimes (“Sometimes?”)
- D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham Is Stepping Down To Head Prince William County’s Police Department
- Richmond Police Reform Task Force Issues Final Report
- In Prince William County, Jefferson Davis Highway Will Soon Be Renamed Richmond Highway
- Editorial: Remembering Tyler Whitley, dean of the Capitol press corps
- D.C.-area forecast: Early showers on Thanksgiving, then a mild and mostly dry afternoon
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