Friday News: “Twitter Warns that Trump Tweet Could Spur Violence”; “CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television”; “Black lives remain expendable”; “Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite and a Trumpist”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, May 29.

“Wherever you want us, we will go” @OmarJimenez told the state troopers. And then he was handcuffed. https://t.co/BKOJBXHFYy

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 29, 2020

• Climate concerns as Siberia experiences record-breaking heat (“Heat wave sparks concerns about devastating wildfire season and melting permafrost.”)
• EU won’t follow Trump into a trade war over Hong Kong
• Hong Kong warns removing U.S. special status is a ‘double-edged sword’
• ‘Make noise and don’t panic’: India tries to ward off locust invasion
• E.U.’s Coronavirus Recovery Plan Also Aims to Fight Climate Change (“The proposed package would boost clean energy and transport to help the continent become carbon neutral by 2050” This is what we should be doing. We’ll need Democrats in charge, though, because Republicans are utterly worthless on this.)
• The Trump administration is jettisoning arms control treaties that help keep us safe
• Renewable energy in the US surpassed coal for first time in more than a century (So how come we don’t hear Republicans howling about a supposed “war on coal,” this time by Trump? Wait, you mean that’s only the case when a Democrat’s in the White House? Ahhhh…)
• Nancy Pelosi has every reason to be exasperated (“What it boils down to is this: Republicans simply don’t care.”)
• Former Romney strategist Stuart Stevens joins Lincoln Project
• The Never Trumpers might finally be on to something (“Their latest effort, called Republican Voters Against Trump, is launching a $10 million advertising campaign with a somewhat different focus than those of the past. Rather than showing President Trump saying deranged things or listing his missteps, we hear from a Republican voter who has turned against him.”)
• Has the Pandemic Peaked? (“…it appears, at the moment, as though the answer may be yes”)
• Trump’s refusal to address racism threatens the identity of our country
• Trump Threatens to ‘Start Shooting’ as Police Station Burns (“President launches late night rant after protesters set Minneapolis police station ablaze while chanting ‘I can’t breathe.'”)
• States Are Reopening, But Many Americans Say They Aren’t Rushing Back To Normal Life
• Temperature Checks and Desk Shields: C.D.C. Suggests Big Changes to Offices
• The Most Mendacious President in U.S. History (Yet most of the media simply won’t say that, point blank.)
• As Protests Against Police Escalate Across U.S., Trump Issues Threat
• Trump’s slap at Twitter shows his use of power for personal whims
• Experts say Trump’s order aimed at Twitter, other tech giants could prove toothless, face legal challenge (Yes, but it’s still intimidation.)
• Trump’s Plan: Break the Internet to Suppress the Vote
• Twitter Warns that Trump Tweet Could Spur Violence (“The company prevented users from viewing Mr. Trump’s message without first reading a brief notice describing the rule violation. Twitter also blocked users from liking or replying to Mr. Trump’s post.”)
• Twitter Says Trump Minneapolis Post Broke Rules, Glorified Violence
• Trump’s Executive Order on Social Media Could Muzzle Him (“The order would strip some liability protections from companies like Twitter, meaning more policing of messages that press the boundaries — like the president’s.”)
• Trump is all about deregulation — except when it comes to his enemies
• The Karen in Chief (“Trump calls the cops on those who challenge him, even if there’s no actual violation, to make life miserable for them”)
• This Summer Will Scar Young Americans for Life (“With jobs and internships canceled, Generation Z is entering a summer of uncertainty—and the damage could last forever.”)
• Why Is Trump Leaving Us to Grieve on Our Own? (“The president’s indifference to collective mourning is of a piece with a political movement that denies our collective ties.”)
• US south-west in grip of historic ‘megadrought’, research finds (“Intensified by climate change, the current 20-year arid period is one of the worst on record, with wide-ranging effects”)
• A judge says the GOP can’t keep Florida felons from voting. But lawmakers will keep trying.
• Biden underscores the big lie Republicans tell themselves (“Not all politicians are rotten”)
• Sen. Cortez Masto withdraws name from Biden VP consideration
• Joe Biden has a chance to make history on climate change (“All he has to do is embrace the consensus that’s waiting for him.”)
• The Vetting Is Happening! Who Will Be Biden’s VP? (Elizabeth Warren moves up to #1, Kamala Harris stays at #2, Stacey Abrams drops to #3, Amy Klobuchar drops to #4…and really, should be off the list at this point.)
• Joe Biden Eyes Gradual Return to the Campaign Trail
• Fight Over G.O.P. Convention Escalates in North Carolina
• Republicans pressure North Carolina officials to confirm August convention by Wednesday
• Are Democrats Finally Getting It on the Courts? (A couple decades late?)
• Trump says right-wing voices are being censored. The data says something else
• Republicans Who Played the ‘Media Bias’ Card Own This
• Fox doesn’t want its viewers to know that more than 100,000 Americans have died from coronavirus
• The Death of George Floyd, in Context
• Protests Erupt Nationwide Over Death Of George Floyd In Minneapolis
• Amy Klobuchar didn’t prosecute officer at center of George Floyd’s death after previous conduct complaints
• Minneapolis police precinct on fire as protest rage on after death of George Floyd
• Minneapolis Man: Cop Who Kneeled on George Floyd ‘Tried to Kill Me’ in 2008
• Prosecutors do not announce charges in George Floyd’s death but say ‘justice will be served’
• National Guard Called as Minneapolis Erupts in Solidarity for George Floyd
• CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television (WTF?)
• Activists call for murder charges in George Floyd’s death. But they’re rare against police. (“The Minneapolis area has been rocked by fatal police shootings in recent years. Floyd’s death ‘has mushroomed into this crisis,’ one activist said.”)
• Black lives remain expendable (“Unwarranted killings of black men keep happening. They also keep going unpunished.”)
• Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite and a Trumpist (“The Facebook CEO knew what he was doing wading into the president’s latest tantrum” It’s really time to take on Facebook – force it to act responsibly, or break it up/shut it down.)
• New Trump public land rules will let Alaska hunters kill bear cubs in dens (“The ‘amazingly cruel’ move by the National Park Service reverses Obama-era regulations which also affect wolves and coyotes” Beyond disgusting. Pure evil.)
• Gardens Have Pulled America Out of Some of Its Darkest Times. We Need Another Revival. (Agreed. Ditch the lawn, plant a garden instead!)
• Sen. Tim Kaine, Wife Anne Holton, Recently Tested Positive for Antibodies to COVID-19
• Qasim Rashid: “When President Trump shares a tweet declaring ‘the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat, he’s radicalizing people”
• Virginia could peak at more than 5,000 new COVID-19 cases a day this summer, UVA model projects
• Northam: At least a week until Phase II for Va.; new testing sites announced
• Live Video, Highlights: Gov. Ralph Northam’s Thursday (5/28) Virginia COVID-19 Briefing
• Thursday (5/28) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,152 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 41,401), +57 Hospitalizations (to 4,442), +57 Deaths (to 1,338 From Yesterday)
• Will Del. Jay Jones Carry on Family’s Civil Rights Legacy as 2021 Candidate for Attorney General?
• Governor and First Lady Northam to Host “Virginia Graduates Together” Honoring Class of 2020
• Beaches can reopen Friday as Virginia remains in Phase 1 for at least one more week
• Virginia hasn’t started making payments for extended unemployment benefits
• Virginia Department of Health won’t be conducting inspections to enforce new mask order
• The Heavy Toll of COVID-19 on Virginia’s Latinx Community
• Editorial: Do we need to build a wall in Wythe County?
• Breaking News: Appeals Court Deals Another Crushing Blow to the Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
• Virginia ABC planning to roll out home liquor delivery
• VA Sen. Joe Morrissey on His Lawsuit Against Former Rep. Barbara Comstock for Claiming He Was a Sexual “Predator”: “I’m like the Jews; you hit them with a stick, they retaliate with a 2×4”
• It’s becoming easier to get a coronavirus test in the DMV. Here are some options.
• Despite The Pandemic, Virginia Beach Remembers A Mass Shooting
• Loudoun’s restaurants gear up to partially reopen on Friday
• UVa hopes to return to in-person classes in August
• In Fairfax, a Greatest Generation neighborhood battles against the teardown tide (Featuring State Sen. Scott Surovell)
• Arlington Hits a Few Bumps in Park Reopening Process
• Steamy today, with some showers and a few strong storms around