by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, January 28.
- 4 reasons we’re suddenly seeing these worrying coronavirus variants (“Covid-19 is evolving. Why now?”)
- China sharpens language, warns Taiwan that independence ‘means war’
- Supplies of Covid-19 Vaccines Are Dwindling in the E.U.
- ‘It’s Still Getting Worse.’ Inside Britain’s Vicious Second Wave.
- What Are the Top Climate Threats in Your Country? (“Flooding, heat stress, fires? Tell us where you live and we’ll tell you the risks.”)
- 30 by 30: Biden’s push to protect 30 percent of US land and oceans by 2030 (Excellent!)
- Near-Total Abortion Ban Takes Effect in Poland, and Thousands Protest
- BREAKING Court frees men convicted of kidnapping and murdering Daniel Pearl (Disgusting.)
- U.S. stands with SE Asian countries against China pressure, Blinken says
- Blinken arrives at the State Department — and not a moment too soon
- 10,000 stores are expected to close in 2021, as pandemic continues to pummel retailers
- Why Vaccines Might Not Be Able to Eliminate Covid-19
- School Reopenings Are Biden’s First Big Test (“There’s little risk of coronavirus transmission in classrooms. There’s immense risk for students stuck at home.”)
- U.S. Economy Report Card for 2020 Should Be Better Than Predicted
- Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on young people’s lives. We owe it to them to see this through.
- 31 actions Biden took in his first week to reverse the damage Trump inflicted
- Coronavirus: most Americans must wait months for vaccine, taskforce warns (“Scientist-led briefing urges congressional funding and sets new tone of sober transparency in contrast to Trump era”)
- As Biden vows monumental action on climate change, a fight with the fossil fuel industry has only begun
- Wall Street Suffers Worst Daily Drop in Months
- Feds rushing to find leads on person who put bombs outside RNC and DNC buildings, and worry they’ll strike again
- Opinion: If Republicans don’t denounce Marjorie Taylor Greene’s extremism, they’ll own it
- GOP chooses Trump and QAnon conspiracy theorists (“Trump’s party is not ready to let him go. Extremists and Trumpists are on the rise, while lawmakers who condemned his conduct fight for their careers.”)
- Republicans Come Crawling Back to Trump Three Weeks After Capitol Riot
- McConnell Was Done With Trump. His Party Said Not So Fast. (“After four years, the minority leader had finally had enough. But with most Republicans rallying around Donald J. Trump, he sided with his colleagues trying to throw out the impeachment case.”)
- McConnell is not going to save the GOP from itself (“The Senate minority leader has marched his troops right back into the MAGA corner.”)
- Biden faces call to heal environmental and cultural scars of Trump border wall (“Border communities, Native Americans and experts want the president to reverse damage done by construction under Trump” Agreed 100%.)
- Biden To Revoke Trump Abortion Policy, Expand Obamacare With New Executive Orders
- First Thing: US domestic terror threat will be ongoing ‘for weeks’
- Biden Appoints New Cabinet Secretaries, Ousting Trump Loyalists
- Trump restricted Medicaid access amid the pandemic — handing Biden a political fight over health care
- Bernie Sanders’ mittens, memes help raise $1.8M for charity
- The greatest gift Biden ever received was Trump getting booted off Twitter (“Not having to deal with a deranged new tweet every hour? They feel blessed.”)
- Republicans Come Crawling Back to Trump Three Weeks After Capitol Riot
- McCarthy urges House Republicans to stop attacking each other publicly
- Energy Secretary Nominee Granholm Talks Clean Energy Jobs at Confirmation Hearing (“The Energy Secretary nominee who says she’s “obsessed with creating good jobs” pledged to support clean energy industries but shied away from condemning fossil fuels.”)
- Elizabeth Warren Smacks Wall Street ‘Casino’-Goers Amid GameStop Kerfuffle (“For years,” the senator said, Wall Street investors have “treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price.”)
- GameStop Mania Reveals Power Shift on Wall Street—and the Pros Are Reeling
- GameStop Is Proof That ‘The Market’ Is Just a Bookie Joint With Aspirations
- I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge and They Are Still In Charge and Still Fucking Up
- Virginia is on the verge of abolishing the death penalty. Other states should follow suit.
- Joe Biden and the struggle for American Catholicism
- The Racist Guy Behind One Of The Most Influential Pro-Trump Twitter Accounts Was Arrested For Election Interference
- GOP threatens filibuster for Mayorkas nomination to be DHS secretary
- Biden starts staffing a commission on Supreme Court reform
- Republicans now ‘shocked, shocked’ that there’s a deficit (Which they played a HUGE role in creating, and which they never care about when a Republican’s president. Ignore them.)
- Federal Judges Are Retiring Now That Joe Biden Will Pick Their Replacements
- How unpopular is Joe Biden? (Very popular right now. BTW, why the hell is 538 still including Rasmusssen right-wing propaganda in its averages?)
- 2nd Officer Who Responded To U.S. Capitol Insurrection Dies By Suicide, Chief Says (Ugh.)
- Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg is creating a new criminal justice reform group in an overhaul of his political operation
- Facebook to dial back political content on platform
- Photos put Tuberville in Trump’s hotel on Jan. 5 despite denying meeting
- Proud Boys Reel at Report Leader Was a Rat
- Roger Stone Did Something Wrong (“Roger Stone, the longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump and a recipient of a pardon last month, was a lead promoter of the election lies that led to the January 6 attack on Congress. Now the self-styled dirty trickster is covering his tracks.”)
- The Texas Republican Party has gone off the rails. Corporate America is along for the ride. (Totally unacceptable.)
- Congressman Jimmy Gomez to Introduce Resolution Expelling Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress
- Parkland Parents: Marjorie Taylor Greene Won’t Get Away With Lying About Our Son
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Is a 1-Stop Shop For Crazy
- Channel 3 crew threatened with arrest after asking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a question during town hall meeting
- Republicans demand audit of Kelli Ward’s narrow win for Arizona GOP chair (LOL)
- President Biden, Virginia Leaders Issue Statements on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021 (Sen. Kaine: “It is more important than ever to actively oppose bigotry and evil in all its forms and fight against the disease of bystanderism”)
- Senators Warner, Kaine reintroduce legislation to make Washington 51st state
- Bloomberg
Democratic Senator Says Censuring Trump May Be Better Than Trial - Kaine working on Trump censure resolution though other Democrats throw cold water on the idea
- Sen. Mark Warner in quarantine after COVID-19 exposure
- Rep. Spanberger introduces bill aimed at rebuilding trust in Congress
- Legislature Weighs Election Reforms
- ‘Anything goes’ in Virginia when it comes to campaign donations (Appalling.)
- Northam discusses vaccine in Va., extends COVID-19 restrictions through end of Feb.
- Northam: Help is on the way to get people registered for vaccinations
- Northam Accepts Criticism, Vows to Speed Vaccinations
- Virginia Enacts First-in-the-Nation Permanent COVID-19 Workplace Safety and Health Standards Amid Pandemic
- Virginia’s vaccination effort lacks clarity, Gov. Ralph Northam says. So state is trying to make registration easier.
- Wednesday (1/27) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +5,227 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 488,553), +126 Hospitalizations (to 20,986), +54 Deaths (to 6,228)
- Nearly all Va. residents at ‘extremely high risk’ of contracting COVID even as cases fall from record highs, NYT report says
- Out-of-Touch Glenn Youngkin Enters Crowded, Chaotic Virginia GOP Gubernatorial Field
- Audio: VA GOP Chair Says Party “Careening” Towards No Primary, No Convention and…Just 72 People on State Central Selecting Its 2021 Statewide Nominees!
- Schapiro: Virginia’s redistricting panel finding its way — kinda
- Video: Leading Up to Censure Vote, Sen. Amanda Chase’s Republican Colleagues Stand Up – One After Another – and Excoriate Her, Urge Her to Seek Help [UPDATED: Senate Votes 24-9 For Censure]
- Virginia senator who called U.S. Capitol rioters ‘patriots’ is censured
- ‘A badge of shame’: Virginia Senate votes to censure Amanda Chase
- Virginia Senate censures Amanda Chase for ‘conduct unbecoming’ of a senator
- Editorial: What Southwest Va. should demand in return for abolishing the coal tax credit
- Effort to scrap coal tax credits advancing in Virginia General Assembly
- Virginia utility aims to shave peaks, boost solar with time-of-use rate pilot
- Eleven Hampton Roads Officials Endorse Andria McClellan for Lt. Governor
- Another roaring 20s? Defense spending and vaccines will drive Hampton Roads’ economic recovery, say ODU economists
- Portsmouth’s top public defender named a judge, months after police charged her in Confederate monument case (“Charges against Brenda Spry and others were dismissed after prosecutors found insufficient evidence. She has has been a public defender in the city for three decades, leading the office for nearly 13 years.”)
- Editorial: Portsmouth poised for huge mistake with Meeks hire (“Portsmouth needs an experienced, capable city manager to address its many problems. That’s not former Councilman Danny Meeks.”)
- Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney tests positive for COVID-19
- Editorial: Time for passenger rail advocates to think big
- Stoney dismantled the Mayor’s Teacher Advisory Council and members say they do not know why
- Ex-Fairfax police chief Rohrer steps in to temporarily lead department
- Loudoun Co. school board considers plan to return some students to schools
- House votes to remove Harry F. Byrd Statue from Capitol Square
- Newport News City Council denies School Board’s request for ground-mounted solar panels (“In a 3-4 vote, the City Council denied the Newport News School Board’s request for conditional use permits to install ground-mounted solar arrays at Saunders Elementary School and Hines Middle School.”)
- Chesterfield Health District has given out nearly 24,000 COVID-19 shots; officials want more
- VCU reverses decision to delay thousands of second-dose vaccinations as Virginia unrolls new allocation strategy
- Wind-whipped cold through Friday as snow threatens on Sunday
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