by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, January 29.
The radical right are sick and depraved. @fred_guttenberg explains how the Republicans have become the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.
New episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast is out now! pic.twitter.com/EoAnJzpltS
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) January 29, 2021
- The pandemic will not end unless every country gets the vaccine
- “World first”: South Australia achieves 100pct solar, and lowest prices in Australia
- World’s Most Vaccinated Nation Struggles With Virus Variants
- ‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
- South Korea’s COVID Success Stems From an Earlier Infectious Disease Failure
- White House shifts from Middle East quagmires to a showdown with China
- Analysis: “Russian roulette” in Europe as needle shortages hamper COVID-19 shots
- Novavax’s Vaccine Works Well, Except on Variant Found in South Africa (“An analysis in Britain found that the vaccine had an efficacy rate of nearly 90 percent. In a South Africa trial, the rate dropped to under 50 percent.”)
- Thanks to Biden, the U.S. has gotten back into the fight against climate change
- Five Things in Biden’s Climate Day Orders That Flew Under the Radar (“Items include permitting for fossil fuel infrastructure and creating jobs to clean up pollution”)
- How delayed doses, unfulfilled requests and last-minute allocations slowed vaccine rollout
- The Biden Administration’s Landmark Day in the Climate Fight
- Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again? (“Reflections on a post-Trump week of refreshingly Presidential behavior and predictably partisan feuding.”)
- Biden Could Send Electric Vehicle Stocks Soaring
- G.M. Will Sell Only Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2035
- Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors
- How Will the GameStop Game Stop?
- Robinhood to ease trading restrictions. GameStop stock soars 100%
- How McConnell derailed Trump’s impeachment trial before it started (McConnell has done so much damage to our country, it’s mind boggling.)
- Mitch McConnell Should Leave the History Lessons to Others
- Democrats need to accept the implications of GOP radicalization
- Trump’s legacy of mistrust sends Congress into total war (“The January 6 mob attack on Capitol Hill has utterly fractured the basic level of trust needed to make a political system function
- Democrats prepare to go it alone on Covid relief if Republicans don’t cooperate
- Democrats Poised To Ditch Republicans To Pass Big COVID-19 Relief Bill
- Republican weakness enables domestic terrorism (“Republican attitudes about the attack on the Capitol are entirely at odds with the reality of the threat we face.”)
- The Republican Party is about doing nothing (“Grievance, not governance, is the party’s goal.”)
- GOP Strategist Predicts What Will Become Of The GOP If Donald Trump Isn’t Convicted (“It’s ‘not just dangerous for the Republican Party,’ she cautioned, but ‘an existential threat to the country to have one of the two major political parties controlled by people who are out there spreading conspiracy theories.'”)
- The Decision That Will Define Democrats for a Decade (“Will they get rid of the filibuster if it means passing their voting-rights and election-reform agenda?”)
- “People are not okay”: The mental health impact of the Trump era (“His presidency is over, but the trauma isn’t.”)
- The G.O.P. Is in a Doom Loop of Bizarro (“But will it doom the rest of us, too?”)
- U.S. Capitol police head calls for permanent fence, more security
- There Is No GOP Civil War. The Party Has Already Chosen Trumpism. (“The high-minded ‘autopsy’ report from 2013 shows how dramatically the party has surrendered.”)
- The Memo: Center-right Republicans fear party headed for disaster (Unfortunately, at this point, there are VERY few “center-right Republicans.”)
- Ending zero-sum green energy politics is key. And it’s local.
- Chief federal judge in DC scorches Capitol Hill riot suspects
- Trump may poison the party, but Republicans have decided they need him
- McCarthy Seeks Thaw With Trump as G.O.P. Rallies Behind Former President (We’d all better make sure this slimeball never becomes Speaker.)
- Trump targets Cheney as he unites with McCarthy
- Mattis: Trump ‘fomented’ Jan. 6 Capitol assault
- ‘For Christ’s sake, watch yourself’: Biden warns family over business dealings
- Body Camera Footage Shows Capitol Rioters Trampling Over Woman
- ‘A Hostage Situation Every Day’: Strategists Blame Trump For Georgia Senate Losses
- The New York Times Ties Itself in Knots (That paper is just a mess.)
- New York Times’s star coronavirus reporter was disciplined for ‘repeating a racist slur’ to students
- Calls Mount For President Biden To Shake Up Postal Service’s Leadership
- Man who wore horns at riot willing to speak at Trump’s trial
- Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan won’t run for U.S. Senate next year
- What Comes Next For QAnon Followers
- Ignoring calls to pull back, Gaetz slams Cheney in her home state
- Matt Gaetz Is Turning Liz Cheney Into a Victim
- Ocasio-Cortez rejects support from Ted Cruz: ‘You almost had me murdered’ (“Congresswoman tells senator who rejected Biden’s victory: ‘If you want to help, you can resign’”)
- Scoop: GOP ignored its early fears about Marjorie Taylor Greene
- GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser
- Marjorie Taylor Greene removes social media posts amid scrutiny of past controversial comments
- Marjorie Taylor Greene penned conspiracy theory that a laser beam from space started deadly 2018 California wildfire
- Cicely Tyson, Pioneering Hollywood Icon, Dies at 96 (R.I.P.)
- Arizona GOP lawmaker introduces bill to give Legislature power to toss out election results (Completely unhinged and anti-democracy.)
- Rep. Elaine Luria pushes for expanding Tricare coverage
- Video: Former Rep. Riggleman (R-VA05) Says Trump “holds a LOT of power over the [GOP]”; Says He Is Really Having Trouble Breaking Through With “Facts and Truth” (Riggleman says he just got a message today from someone who thinks that “on March 4th President Trump would come back and be inaugurated”)
- Census delays likely to blow up the state’s redistricting timeline
- A Few Thoughts on Former Del. Chris Saxman (R)’s 2021 Virginia Statewide Candidate Rankings
- Is Racism Causing a Public Health Crisis in Virginia? The Assembly Will Decide.
- AG Mark Herring Fights in VA Supreme Court to Finally Remove Lee Statue
- Virginia Latino Caucus announces 2021 General Assembly Session Legislative Agenda
- House of Delegates Passes Speaker Filler-Corn’s “G3” and Virginia Agricultural Food Assistance Program Legislation
- Early data shows extent of learning loss among Virginia students
- Editorial: Amid a game of catch-up, Virginia must further localize its vaccine efforts
- Thursday (1/28) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +5,121 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 493,674), +127 Hospitalizations (to 21,113), +80 Deaths (to 6,308)
- Virginia to prioritize collecting race, ethnicity information from coronavirus vaccine recipients
- Independent ombudsman proposed for Virginia prisons
- Bill to Modernize and Repeal Discriminatory HIV Laws in Virginia Receives Senate Judiciary Committee Approval
- Fully Baked (“Alexandria senator leads effort to legalize marijuana in Virginia”)
- “The People We Serve Are Paying Too Much for Energy:” Virginia Lawmakers Are Targeting Dominion Energy (“In a bid to lower some of the highest electricity bills in the nation, Virginia lawmakers are pushing legislation that would strengthen oversight of the state’s largest utility, Dominion Energy, potentially setting up hundreds of millions of dollars in customer refunds.”)
- EDITORIAL: Virginia is still a migration loser
- Va. lawmakers consider making more red flag law data available for research purposes
- State Lawmakers Weigh the Very Nuanced Issue of Conviction Expungement
- “He saw us as insignificant”: Stoney Terminates Teacher Council in Education Pivot
- Virginia Tech nets record-shattering applications for incoming Class of 2025
- Loudoun Co. schools chief responds after frustrated parent’s comments go viral
- WATCH: Loudoun County parent has meltdown over coronavirus shut down at School Board meeting
- Fredericksburg council makes way for higher-density development downtown
- Today is the coldest of the season, then accumulating snow arrives Sunday
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