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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, June 5.
The Washington Monument just now, y’all… pic.twitter.com/69axiSpeto
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 5, 2020
- As America Struggles To Return To Work, Staggering Unemployment Numbers Loom
- U.S. Unemployment Rate Likely Nears 20%
- US likely suffered ‘heartbreaking’ unemployment in May
- COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months
- Over 1,000 coronavirus deaths reported in the past 24 hours. Officials fear protests will drive up numbers
- Ex-Defense Secretary William Perry joins Mattis in condemning Trump
- How the United States might have condemned the Trump regime (“Treat this president as we would any repressive autocrat.”)
- Revolt of the generals (“The military is more faithful to the Constitution than the president.”)
- Why Mattis and Mullen toppled their bridge of silence
- Max Boot: The retired generals are defending America from our greatest threat: The president
- Mattis’s Trump broadside underscores military tensions
- Why Mattis and Mullen toppled their bridge of silence
- Esper risks being sidelined as White House floats replacements
- A Moment of National Shame and Peril—and Hope (Retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general John Allen: “We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of American democracy, but there is still a way to stop the descent.”)
- Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Condemns Trump’s Threat To Use Military At Protests
- Trump Agrees to Send Home Troops From Washington, Easing Tensions With the Pentagon
- As protests spread, tensions escalated over Trump’s reach for military in response
- Is John Kelly joining the generals’ mutiny?
- Trump has walled himself off from America’s conversation on racism
- The lawless law-and-order president
- With White House effectively a fortress, some see Trump’s strength — but others see weakness (Pathetic.)
- Trump shares letter that calls peaceful protesters ‘terrorists’ (Trump is UnAmerican.)
- Trump is uniting Americans — against him
- Violence Ebbs, But Buffalo Incident Sparks Ire: Protest Update
- George Floyd protests: Police suspended after pushing 75-year-old protester – live
- Rand Paul’s Gift for Being a Colossal Public Dick Is Otherworldly
- Emotional debate erupts over anti-lynching legislation as Cory Booker and Kamala Harris speak out against Rand Paul amendment (Rand Paul is horrible.)
- Donald Trump Is No Richard Nixon (“He — and his party — are much, much worse”)
- Why Trump Is So Obsessed With Antifa (You know someone is completely full of s*** if they are obsessed with this non-organization.)
- In a Tumultuous Moment, Barack Obama Chooses Reflection
- Lisa Murkowski Is ‘Struggling’ With Trump Vote? (It shouldn’t take two seconds of strugggle. Nobody should even consider voting for corrupt, incompetent, unAmerican, disastrous Donald Trump.)
- Tom Cotton Is Wrong About the Insurrection Act
- Tom Cotton’s Fascist Op-Ed
- New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards (Duh.)
- Newsroom Breaks Into Open Revolt After New York Times Publishes Call for Military Crackdown (This paper needs new editors and an ombudsman, ASAP.)
- After Tom Cotton’s “Send in the troops” op-ed, NYT staff stages a rebellion (“Times editors resort to straw-man defenses, then capitulate, after fascist-themed op-ed and internal pushback”)
- What Happens When It Is the Police Who Riot in the Streets? (“What we’ve seen from rioting police, in other words, is an assertion of power and impunity. In the face of mass anger over police brutality, they’ve effectively said So what?”)
- If Republicans Are Ever Going To Turn On Trump, This Might Be The Moment (Don’t hold your breath.)
- Mayor de Blasio, Open Your Eyes. The Police Are Out of Control. (“This is not what serving and protecting should look like.”)
- By deploying police without badges, Barr threatens force without accountability
- It Really Is Different This Time(“Despite the echoes, it’s also hard not to feel like we’re living through something disorienting and new. The protests and response have taken on complicated dimensions: the unprecedented backdrop of a global pandemic that has left people scared, pent-up and unemployed; the reported involvement of far left and far-right groups, or people posing as such to sow confusion; plus, the chaotic, confrontational politics of the Trump era and its blur of real and fake claims. Oh, and it’s a presidential election year.”)
- William Barr’s Vast, Nameless Army Is Being Brought To Bear On D.C. Protesters
- Black Lives Matter Is Suing Trump And The Federal Government Over Force Used Against Protesters Outside The White House
- We can make this the tipping point (“The stars are aligned. The country is pulling together.”)
- Republicans Relocate Convention, Seeking Freedom From Coronavirus Precautions
- As protests grip Washington, White House and D.C. mayor clash over control of streets
- The Swing States Where Trump Is in the Biggest Trouble (Arizona, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas)
- Trump’s Approval Slips Where He Can’t Afford to Lose It: Among Evangelicals
- Trump Favorability Slips Among White Catholic and Non-College Americans During National Unrest
- Twitter removes Trump campaign tribute to George Floyd claiming copyright complaint
- Graham postpones Russia probe subpoena vote as tensions boil over
- Ukrainian prosecutors find no evidence against Hunter Biden (Yep, the Trump people were – wait for it – LYING.)
- Biden lauds America as a decent nation, if one with a small portion of ‘just not very good people’
- Biden Says About ‘10 to 15 Percent’ of Americans Are ‘Not Very Good People’
- Why The Killing of George Floyd Sparked an American Uprising
- Witness Who Was in Floyd’s Car Says His Friend Did Not Resist Arrest
- 74% of Americans view George Floyd’s death as an underlying racial injustice problem: POLL
- Attorneys: 2 Ex-Cops Charged in Floyd’s Death Were Rookies
- George Floyd’s memorial filled with love, hope and calls for change
‘Get your knee off our necks’ Sharpton delivers moving eulogy at Floyd memorial- Senate Democrats, some kneeling, honor George Floyd with moment of silence at Capitol (Note: DEMOCRATS, not Republicans.)
- Why Georgia’s reopening hasn’t led to a surge in coronavirus cases (so far) (“Georgia’s experience could teach us a lot about Covid-19 and its spread.”)
- Pro-Trump Radio Host Booked Qatari Government Guests After Getting Doha’s Cash (“The Qatar-America Institute paid John Fredericks’ radio show $180k. He says it was for ads. Their own filing says it was for ‘discussions.'”)
- Ex-Charlottesville mayor: Trump saw Floyd death, rioting as ‘an opportunity’
- Police searching for cyclist who was filmed accosting people posting signs supporting Black Lives Matter (“Maryland-National Capital Park Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in connection with an assault that took place Monday afternoon on the Capital Crescent Trail in Montgomery County, a release from Park Police said.”)
- Fox News voices push idea that systemic racism doesn’t exist (Sadly, not surprising.)
- Warner calls for Barr to resign after protesters cleared from near White House
- Sen. Mark Warner: “One thing is clear: Barr is unfit for office.”
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says “the thing that is so unsettling…is this president’s constant disregard of the law, of the rules”
- Congresswoman supports civilian review of police force complaints in Loudoun County (“I’m not here for the kneeling of cops at protest, that’s not helping us. I want them to turn around, and I want them to start walking with us at the protest, protect us”)
- Video: When Is a Hawaiian Shirt Just a Hawaiian Shirt? Del. Nick Freitas (R) Edition.
- Video: 2021 VA GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Amanda Chase Rails Against “overt effort here to erase all white history”
- Virginia Legislative Black Caucus Statement on the Removal of the Robert E. Lee Statue
- Press Release: Governor Northam to Remove Robert E. Lee Statue in Richmond
- Live Video, Highlights: Gov. Ralph Northam Press Conference on Removing the Robert E. Lee Statue
- Northam says Virginia will remove Lee monument in Richmond
- AG Mark Herring Remarks on Removal of Lee Monument
- Removing monuments can open the dialogue, but coping with our painful history is necessary for reconciliation
- Herring sues to stop Trump administration’s Title IX changes
- Editorial: Monumental action
- In Virginia’s Confederate statue debate, change came slowly — then all at once
- Williams: ‘The Lost Cause is dead.’ Let’s dismantle its legacy beyond the symbols.
- Virginia Democrats praise removal of Confederate monuments in Richmond
- After Protests, and Decades of Activism, Northam Orders Removal of Iconic Lee Statue
- Mayor, Governor Announce Removal of Confederate Monuments
- In victory for civil rights activists, statue of Robert E. Lee will come down, Gov. Northam says
- COMMENTARY: Pipeline extension project is environmentally, financially risky
- The number of people on unemployment in Virginia begins slight decline
- Thursday (6/4) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +951 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 47,856), +73 Hospitalizations (to 4,957), +17 Deaths (to 1,445 From Yesterday)
- Majority of Richmond City Council affirms support for removing Confederate monuments
- Demonstrators maintained a peaceful protest in Hampton, but police say violence broke out, leading officers to break up the protest
- Sen. Dave Marsden: Good News From the Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center
- Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Announces New Criminal Justice Reform Initiatives
- About 50 gather in Spotsylvania for protest
- Protest of Floyd’s death draws hundreds in Orange
- Afternoon storms a risk yet again, and flirting with 90 through Saturday
