by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, March 1.
- Iran Rejects Offer of Direct U.S. Nuclear Talks, Ratcheting Up Tension With West (“Rejection unlikely to kill off diplomacy but time seen running short ahead of Persian New Year, Iranian election”)
- Big Oil’s Net-Zero Plans Show the Hard Limits of Carbon Offsets
- Covid-19 Vaccines Yield Breakthroughs in Long-Term Fight Against Infectious Disease
- At Least 18 Killed By Myanmar Security Forces In Deadliest Day Since Coup
- Myanmar court files two more charges against Suu Kyi; protesters march again
- Biden’s Middle East policy is one-and-a-half steps forward, but not enough
- ‘Run The Oil Industry In Reverse’: Fighting Climate Change By Farming Kelp
- Biden says Saudi announcement to come Monday; White House plays down new steps
- Three names mysteriously removed from Khashoggi intelligence report after initial publication
- Last Exit from Afghanistan (“Will peace talks with the Taliban and the prospect of an American withdrawal create a breakthrough or a collapse?”)
- J&J’s Covid Vaccine Could Protect Millions — If People Take It
- Republicans Are Trying to Kill What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act (“A Supreme Court case from Arizona could neuter the law.”)
- Democrats Shelve Minimum Wage Tax Plan to Speed Work on Stimulus (“Democrats face March 14 deadline, when some benefits run out”)
- Senior Democrats abandon backup plan on $15 per hour minimum wage hike
- COVID-19 Relief Package Heads To Senate As Debate Over Minimum Wage Continues
- Trump Was a Disaster for Wildlife. Here Are 5 Things Biden’s Interior Secretary Can Do to Help. (“If confirmed, Deb Haaland will have her work cut out for her.”)
- Biden Backs Amazon Warehouse Workers’ Union Drive
- Two of Biden’s top DOJ nominees are subjected to baseless smear campaigns
- Juan Williams: Hypocrisy runs riot in GOP
- Trump will never stop lying about the 2020 election. His CPAC speech proved it. (“Trump’s first post-presidential speech was just as bad as the speech he gave before the January 6 insurrection.”)
- Trump has captured the Republican party – and that’s great news for Biden (Maybe.)
- Trump grasps for relevance in first post-presidential speech at CPAC (“Twice-impeached ex-president used speech at rightwing event to propagate the lie of a ‘rigged’ 2020 election and hinted at 2024 run”)
- The specter of Trump’s comeback raises a practical question (“After all that, the fact that Trump is still seen as a credible leader by much of his party (even after losing the White House, the House and the Senate) tells you a lot about the soul of Republicanism and the state of American politics itself.”)
- Trump unleashes new threat to US democracy (“The ex-President’s CPAC comments suggest that his fight against American democratic institutions did not end when he left the White House”)
- Trump Freezes Republican 2024 Field With Hints of a 2016 Rerun
- How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot (“On Jan. 6, supporters of former President Trump tried to rewrite history in real time on social media, on cable networks and in the halls of Congress. In the first 12 hours after a baseless tweet, a disinformation machine seized on a lie that served its political interests and quickly spread it as truth.”)
- Democratic voting bill would make biggest changes in decades
- Voter Suppression Is Grand Larceny (“We are watching another theft of power.”)
- Trump wins CPAC straw poll with 55 percent (Not great, actually.)
- Trump Wins CPAC Straw Poll, but Only 68 Percent Want Him to Run Again
- Trump’s Republican Hit List at CPAC Is a Warning Shot to His Party
- Is Donald Trump a declining parody or a terrifying threat? Mastio & Lawrence on CPAC 2021
- Teleprompter Trump Is the Most Tired Act in America
- CPAC’s speakers exult in conservative victimhood (“CPAC has fallen a long way from the days when actual policy ideas were discussed there.”)
- Five takeaways from CPAC 2021
- The GOP is trapped in Trump’s rendezvous with yesterday
- Pro-Trump Republican secession rhetoric in Texas and elsewhere is more than a punchline
- A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved (“The fossil fuel industry is using the same playbook to fight city climate plans around the country”)
- MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Gets MUTED During Live Interview at CPAC as He Spews Vaccine Conspiracy Theories
- Goya Foods CEO falsely says election was illegitimate, Trump is ‘the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president’ (Look for alternatives to Goya products.)
- White women and the racist right: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not an aberration (Yes, white women can be just as bad as white men.)
- Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data
- Cuomo’s New Statement: His Comments Were Mistaken For ‘Unwanted Flirtation’ (“At work sometimes I think I am being playful … I mean no offense”)
- New York AG says Cuomo statement is not sufficient for independent investigation
- Kristi Noem tried to take a victory lap for her coronavirus response on CBS. It did not go well. (“South Dakota’s governor got a great reception at CPAC. Her interview on Face the Nation hours later was a different story.”)
- Texas Power Firm Files for Bankruptcy After Energy Crisis
- Warner defends Biden’s Syrian airstrike, but says Congress only got 15 minute ‘head’s up’
- Video: CNN Interviews With Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, “Trump in Heels” Amanda Chase Highlight the Stark Choice Facing Virginia Voters in 2021
- Virginia eases some coronavirus restrictions Monday
- Cox researched the organizers and skipped the forum; Youngkin accused Snyder of a misleading ad campaign (“The event was hosted by Nick Ignacio, the chairman of the Battlefield Chapter of Virginia Patriots. Ignacio is currently running to be a Spotsylvania County Supervisor and he unsuccessfully primaried Bobby Orrock for the 54th district House of Delegates seat in 2017. During that primary race, a video was discovered that showed Ignacio simulating sexual acts with a toy and making vulgar anti-gay remarks.”)
- Video: At “Patriots” Gubernatorial Forum, Glenn Youngkin Says “JV” Pete Snyder Should Be “Ashamed” For His “Lies”; Snyder Responds, “IF I ever hit you, you will know” (In other news, Snyder says he won’t stand for his daughter getting cut from her lacrosse team b/c of “someone who two weeks ago used to be a dude”)
- SCC Members Try Again to Resolve Nominating Method for State Convention
- House Democrats Use 2021 General Assembly Session to Build a Better Virginia
- Dynamic, Diverse, Determined Democrats Deliver: 2021 Virginia General Assembly Session Wrap-Up
- Sunday (2/28) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,736 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 576,050), +24 Hospitalizations (to 24,115), +170 Deaths (to 8,552) (Lowest # of hospitalizations since 11/15; 1,221 recorded COVID-related deaths in last week)
- What Will Worship Look Like Post-Pandemic? Virginia Churches Have Some Thoughts.
- As one Virginia school district prepares to reopen, educators and families balance Covid precautions and normal instruction
- In Richmond, VA, eviction burden weighs heavier on Black and Brown residents
- A Merited Legislative Death to Mourn: Electric School Bus Bill Dies in Virginia House
- VCU student from Loudoun Co. dead, fraternity suspended pending investigation
- D.C.-area forecast: Rain ends today but a mostly chilly first week of March
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