Tuesday News: “WHO Warns Of ‘Second Peak’”; “Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President”; “Trump wages Twitter wars as grim death toll looms”; “How Accurate Have State Polls Been?”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, May 26.

• Jair Bolsonaro’s populism is leading Brazil to disaster
• WHO halts hydroxychloroquine trial for coronavirus amid safety fears (“Malaria drug taken by Trump could raise risk of death and heart problems, study shows” Trump is wildly irresponsible and an idiot.)
• WHO Warns Of ‘Second Peak’ In Coronavirus Infections If Restrictions Lifted Too Soon (“We cannot make assumptions that just because the disease is on the way down now it is going to keep going down.”)
• UK minister resigns over Dominic Cummings’ lockdown trip (“Junior minister Douglas Ross said he could not tell constituents the adviser’s actions were justifiable.”)
• Optimism Over Reopening Pushes Global Stocks Higher (“Number of experimental vaccines under development also buoys sentiment in markets”)
• Global markets surge on recovery hopes.
• Most Americans aren’t willing to go to restaurants or gyms just yet
• Trump Sabotaged America’s Recovery Even Before COVID-19 Began
• It’s Depressing to Think About How Much Influence Jared Kushner Wields
• Can we stop pretending Trump is fit to be president?
• An indelible image of this pandemic: Trump, without a mask, on a golf course
• Fact check: Trump has spent far more time at golf clubs than Obama had at same point (There’s absolutely no comparison.)
• Trump wages Twitter wars as grim death toll looms
• Trump’s coronavirus failures have caused the ‘American carnage’ he promised to end (“More than a million Americans have gotten sick, a hundred thousand are dead and 39 million are unemployed because this president refused to lead.”)
• Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President
• The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip (After Doug Jones, the next eight are Republican-held seats. Let’s get ’em!)
• Top Republican yanks endorsement of House candidate who made offensive social media posts (“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is rescinding his endorsement of GOP congressional candidate Ted Howze after POLITICO uncovered dozens of derogatory social media posts from his accounts.”)
• Coronavirus Live Updates: As Meatpacking Plants Reopen, Data on Ill Workers Is Elusive
• It’s Official: Trump Is the Most Anti-Conservation President in History (“Analysis finds the administration has worked to weaken safeguards for nearly 35 million acres—nearly 1,000 times more than it’s protected.”)
• The vote-by-mail cases that could decide the 2020 election
• Changing Southwest may bring Democrats a milestone win (“Democrats today are strongly positioned to oust Republican Sens. Martha McSally in Arizona and Cory Gardner in Colorado and hold their own open seat in New Mexico. If the party wins those three races, as most analysts today agree they are favored but not assured to do, it will control all eight Senate seats from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada for the first time since 1941, according to Senate records.”)
• Pandemic Puts A Crimp On Voter Registration, Potentially Altering Electorate
• How Accurate Have State Polls Been? (“So as we enter the thick of the 2020 general election, we can be secure in the knowledge that polls of swing states are about as trustworthy as polls can get — though of course, polls aren’t perfect.”)
• Trump sees a ‘rigged election’ ahead. Democrats see a constitutional crisis in the making.
• Biden makes 1st in-person appearance in more than 2 months
• Joe Biden was right about black people and Trump — and the left needs to get past purity tests
• Why a Biden Victory Hinges on Picking the Right Running Mate (Rachel Bitecofer: “The Democratic nominee needs someone to energize the party’s coalition and balance the ticket.”)
• Video: On Memorial Day 2020, Joe Biden Shows Exactly How to Lead – with “dignity, honor, empathy, respect”(In stark contrast, Donald Trump shows exactly how NOT to lead…”What a Putts!”)
• Trump’s poor handling of the crisis may lose him the GOP’s most reliable voters
• Trump threatens to move Republican convention if North Carolina won’t allow packed arena (What a joke.)
• ‘I’m looking for the truth’: States face criticism for COVID-19 data cover-ups
• Is This the Blueprint for Sanders and AOC to Take Over the Democratic Party?
• FBI investigating Ahmaud Arbery shooting as possible hate crime, lawyer says
• In crucial Florida, some senior voters cast a skeptical eye toward Trump’s reelection
• A white woman has apologized after calling police on a black man and saying ‘there’s an African American man threatening my life’ (My god…)
• Shaun King Keeps Raising Money, and Questions About Where It Goes (Grifter.)
• ‘The big show’: US poised to return to human spaceflight with historic launch
• DPVA Chair Condemns Trump Administration as COVID-19 Deaths Top 100,000 in the United States
• Monday (5/25) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,483 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 37,727), +55 Hospitalizations (to 4,269), +37 Deaths (to 1,208) From Yesterday
• UVA COVID-19 Model’s Latest Weekly Update: Rebound *May* Be “Less Intense Than Feared”; It Depends on “‘The new normal’; Effectiveness of test/trace/isolate”
• NoVA Leaders’ Letter to Gov. Northam: “Each of our jurisdictions have been making preparations to support a transition into Phase 1 at midnight on May 28th”
• Northern Virginia Close to Reopening
• Northern Virginia could enter Phase 1 of reopening this week
• Nancy Toscano column: For Virginia’s foster care system, the pandemic’s true impact is not here yet
• Editorial: Who we should thank (yes, thank) for rural broadband
• Virginia’s air emissions are down significantly. What does that tell us?
• A good doctor might understand the disease, but it takes a good project manager to wrangle a pandemic
• EDITORIAL: Vetoes will slow Virginia’s recovery (Nope.)
• VCU Plans National Pharmaceutical Stockpile
• Gary Moody: Environmental measures may save threatened birds (“Virginia’s action to protect the environment could mean the survival of threatened bird species, writes guest columnist Gary Moody of the National Audubon Society.”)
• How a “Bunch of Badass Queer Anarchists” Are Teaming Up With Locals to Block a Pipeline Through Appalachia
• Failed partnership with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard illustrates Virginia’s early troubles in sourcing PPE
• Survey available for Richmond residents to requests open streets
• Arlington County holds free COVID-19 testing Tuesday
• Arlington ranks high for parks, but there’s room for improvement (*Lots* of room for improvement on real natural areas and on less paved-over area.)
• Memorial Day during a pandemic means fewer flags, ceremonies in Hampton Roads
• Charlottesville given high marks in efforts to open meetings to the public
• Warm conditions prevail for much of the week