| Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... |
by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise (e.g., COVID-19), for Monday, March 30.
- Oil Plummets to 17-Year Low as Broken Market Drowns in Crude
- Italy Home Quarantine Repeats Mistake Made in China, Doctors Say
- Global stocks and oil fall as investors brace for another wild week in markets
- The coronavirus gives Russia and China another opportunity to spread their disinformation
- As Moscow begins lockdown, Russian prime minister calls for measures to be extended across the country
- Number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Spain exceeds China’s reported figures
- 4 lessons the US should learn from Italy’s coronavirus mistakes (“Italy’s coronavirus response was horrible. The US needs to learn from it to avoid a repeat.”)
- Pompeo’s pandemic performance ensures his place among the worst secretaries of state ever
- Trump Is Hurting His Own Re-election Chances (“Don’t be fooled by snapshot polls.”)
- How America Can Reopen (“If summer is to bring any sense of normalcy, the country’s leaders must act quickly.”)
- The Coronavirus Relief Package Should Work — for Now (“The unemployment expansion and loans to businesses will help keep Americans afloat, but state governments are going to need more money down the line.”)
- More Than 2,000 Americans Have Died of the Coronavirus. Trump Is Tweeting About His TV Ratings. (“Can he get any more out of touch with reality?”)
- Fauci predicts over 100,000 Covid-19 deaths in the United States (“We’re going to have millions of cases.”)
- Trump: I’m Doing a Great Job Fighting the Coronavirus, and 100,000 of You Will Die (“Seriously, literally, things that Trump touches are dying, and he’s still just making sh*t up to get him through each day, and then making up different sh*t the next day.”)
- Trump says keeping US Covid-19 deaths to 100,000 would be a ‘very good job’ (“President extends social distancing rules to 30 April, saying open for Easter plans were only ‘aspirational’”)
- Trump beats a retreat on opening the country as coronavirus data, images show dark reality
- Fact check: A breakdown of false and misleading statements at Trump’s Rose Garden briefing
- FACT CHECK: U.S. Lags On Testing, Despite Trump’s Claims
- The EPA appears to be using coronavirus to make huge concessions to polluters (“Experts say Trump is exploiting the coronavirus crisis to roll back enforcement of important environmental regulations.” Totally unacceptable.)
- How 15 Days Became 45: Trump Extends Guidelines To Slow Coronavirus
- Trump Blames Hospitals for Coronavirus Mask Shortages
- Trump touts press briefing “ratings” as U.S. coronavirus case surge (He’s a ghoul.)
- FDA issues emergency authorization of anti-malaria drug for coronavirus care
- The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration
- U.S. poised for hellish month as coronavirus surges
- Exclusive: Justice Department reviews stock trades by lawmakers after coronavirus briefings
- Enough With the Baby Steps on Coronavirus (“It’s not too late to start protecting jobs or to make medical care for Covid-19 free.”)
- Inside GM’s Four-Week Sprint to Build Emergency Ventilators
- Trump’s Coronavirus Response Is a Failure by His Own Standards (“He says Cuomo ignored warnings and Obama was slow to address swine flu. On both counts, Trump is worse.” MUCH worse!)
- Trump says governors ‘have to treat us well’ as they struggle to save their citizens (F*** YOU!)
- How Donald Trump Could Steal the Election (“The president can’t simply cancel the fall balloting, but his state-level allies could still deliver him a second term.”)
- Pelosi bashes Trump on coronavirus: ‘As the president fiddles, people are dying’ (“‘This is such a very, very sad time for us,’ she said.”)
- Trump’s quarantine con should be the breaking point
- Coronavirus Slowdown in Seattle Suggests Restrictions Are Working
- The media could learn from governors how to handle Trump
- How this moment could change us for the better
- AOC breaks with Bernie on leadership of the left (Good.)
- Trump wants his signature to appear on coronavirus stimulus checks (WTF?)
- New Polls And New Candidates Are Giving Democrats Some Hope Of Flipping The Senate
- States of Emergency: Governors and the Public Wage War on COVID-19
- Biden Goes After ‘Reckless’ Trump Claim That Hospitals Are Using Too Many Face Masks (“‘This is ridiculous and completely false,’ the former veep said of the president’s claims that medical workers were misusing protective supplies.”)
- Joe Biden’s message on coronavirus: It’s time to tell the unvarnished truth (“We should be telling the American people the truth. They’re strong. They’ll get through it.”)
- Joe Biden has character. Donald Trump does not. This crisis makes it obvious.
- Trump’s a Disaster. Here’s Why Americans Are Rallying Around His Coronavirus Response. (“Biden’s main job is to show that he is and that we can be a lot better than this; to convince people that the coronavirus has been a disaster that Trump has made far, far worse.”)
- CBS journalist Maria Mercader dies at 54 of coronavirus
- Sunday (3/29) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +151 Cases (to 890), +13 Hospitalizations (to 112), +5 Deaths (to 22) From Yesterday
- Virginia now has nearly 900 confirmed coronavirus cases and 23 deaths
- Jill Hanken column: Congress should follow Virginia’s lead and protect patients from surprise billing without delay
- With classes done until at least September, kids in abusive households lose a safety net
- The IRS and dozens of states have extended tax deadlines to July 15. Virginia hasn’t followed suit.
- At least 46,000 people just lost their jobs in Virginia. Now rent is due.
- “Trump Uber-fan” Liberty U. President Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s Wildly Reckless Behavior Unsurprisingly Has VERY BAD Consequences [UPDATED]
- Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell Jr. Gets Holy Hell As Students Fall Sick
- Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus Fears, Too —
- Jerry Falwell, Jr.: More Like the Power-Seeking Romans than the Christians
- Spread of virus has slowed at Canterbury, but Va. sees highest number of confirmed cases reported in a single day
- Virginia hopes to release some inmates at risk of complications from COVID-19; more might have been eligible had bills been passed
- NY Times Op-Ed on Virginia Redistricting Amendment Filled with Falsehoods, Distortions, Errors
- Del. Mark Levine (D-Alexandria/Arlington) Sends Request for Correction of Factual Inaccuracy to Author of NY Times Op-Ed on Virginia’s Redistricting Amendment
- ‘Like someone turned off the faucet’: Survey of business executives in central Virginia shows massive drop in sales and hiring expectations
- Aiming to prevent jailhouse coronavirus outbreak, Norfolk frees hundreds of inmates
- It’s too early to tell if the coronavirus has impacted Richmond’s real estate market, but virtual tours, safety measures keep it going now
- Virginia rejects Dominion’s $752M smart meter plan, other grid mod proposals (I missed this the other day.)
- Roanoke animal shelters maintain adoption, vet services amid health crisis
- Arlington County Announces First Coronavirus Deaths
- Virginia advocates plan to jumpstart electric school bus debate next year
- Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Continue to Climb in Fairfax County
- Arlington judges second-guess their elected prosecutor for daring to challenge the status quo
- A nice week ahead with lots of sunny weather, but not super warm (“A little rain is possible late Tuesday into Wednesday and possibly Sunday.”)
