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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, June 21.
- Greta Thunberg calls on governments to treat climate change threat with same urgency as Covid-19 (Much more urgency, actually, and our response also needs to be a LOT more effective than it’s been to COVID-19!)
- Greta Thunberg has hope for climate: ‘There are signs of change, of awakening’ (“The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic may provide a necessary wake-up call, she suggests.”)
- We knew Trump didn’t care for human rights in China. But this is a new low.
- China’s Man in Washington, Named Trump (“Our president is bolstering a nation, but it’s not the United States.”)
- Reading attack: Stabbings declared ‘terrorist incident’
- Global report: Trump says he ordered coronavirus testing to ‘slow down’ (That alone should be impeachable.)
- Geoffrey Berman upheld the finest tradition of the SDNY office
- Why it will be a tough climb to confirm anyone new to Berman’s post before the November elections
- How can anyone trust Bill Barr’s Justice Department now? (The WaPo *just* figured this out?!?)
- Trump Fires Berman at S.D.N.Y. After Tensions Over Inquiries
- Berman Leaves SDNY in Trusted Hands After Bill Barr Fucks Up His Ouster
- Trump Tried To Quietly Replace A Prosecutor Taking Aim At His Allies. It’s Not The First Time That Backfired.
- Botched Friday Night Massacre: Barr Failed to Oust U.S. Attorney Who’s a Thorn in Trump’s Side (“The loyalist Attorney General tried to fire SDNY head Geoffrey Berman by press release, but Berman said not so fast, and Trump ultimately had to step in and fire himself. It could be a Comey-firing-level catastrophe.”)
- Trump fires the US attorney investigating his allies
- A Friday night massacre that backfired
- Fact check: Trump’s Tulsa rally littered with familiar false claims
- Trump’s rally looked like his vision of America. Limited and pitiless.
- A rambling Trump returns to campaign trail with routine speech to smaller-than-expected crowd (“Crowds of Trump supporters gathered inside Tulsa’s 19,000-seat Bank of Oklahoma Center, many of whom were not wearing masks, but many seats remained empty.”)
- 6 staffers setting up for Trump rally positive for COVID-19
- Trump gives grievance-filled speech to unfilled arena as protests stay mostly peaceful (What a pathetic joke.)
- Trump’s Tulsa Rally Fizzles as Seats Go Empty
- Trump Campaign Cancels Plans to Address ‘Overflow Crowd’ Because Not Enough People Showed Up
- Don’t call it a comeback: Trump’s Tulsa rally was just another sad farce
- Trump Reboots His Campaign With Some Racist Crap
- Inside Trump’s Tulsa rally, no distancing despite empty seats, few masks and plenty of doubt about coronavirus (“Before the event, local health officials announced the highest number of cases yet to be reported in a single day in the state.”)
- Trump rallies in red-state America — and faces a sea of empty blue seats
- Crowd Is Sparse as Trump Tries to Reignite Campaign
- Eric Trump Calls Black Lives Matter Protesters ‘Animals’ at Tulsa Rally
- Make Arenas Empty Again (“On Saturday afternoon there was a palpable sense of dread in the news, as President Trump was building up to a rally that was poised to be a campaign event that was unique in its depravity.”)
- Trump cranks up culture war rhetoric at Tulsa arena that was far from sold out
- Donald Trump sows division and promises ‘greatness’ at Tulsa rally flop (“US president’s much hyped return turned to humiliation when he failed to fill arena in Republican stronghold of Oklahoma”)
- Trump’s Big Campaign Revival Speech Turns Into a Story About a Ramp and His Fear of ‘Falling on My Ass’ (“For his first rally in three months, Trump did little more than play the usual hits.”)
- The ‘Silent Majority’ Didn’t Show Up For Trump (“The president planned an arena rally in Tulsa to show that life was ‘back to normal.’ Oklahomans failed to fill the venue.”)
- TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally
- Trump’s Tulsa Rally Adds to Week of Warning Signs for Campaign
- Sick staff and empty seats: How Trump’s triumphant return to the campaign trail went from bad to worse
- Bolton suggests possible ‘obstruction’ by Trump in SDNY Turkey investigation
- John Bolton: judge declines to block tell-all Trump book (“Former national security adviser’s memoir due out Tuesday”)
- Trump Is Losing His Grip on White America (“Polls taken since George Floyd’s death show a big shift to the left on race and policing.”)
- Trump’s 3-Point Plan to Win in 2020 (“He will attack the independence and integrity of the legal system, try to benefit from foreign help, and benefit from voting obstacles” Disgusting, disgusting and disgusting.)
- Biden outraises Trump with $80.8 million in May
- Obama Administration Braced for Riots on Election Day (“A new book by author David Shimer shows how the Obama administration feared Moscow would alter election databases, discredit a Clinton victory, and lead Trump to spark riots. “)
- Florida Governor Ripped For Trying To Pin COVID-19 Spike On Hispanic Workers (“Farmworker advocates called Ron DeSantis’ comments ‘shameful’ after he said ‘overwhelmingly Hispanic’ laborers were spreading the disease.”)
- WATCH NOW: Martinsville teen talks to Sen. Tim Kaine in virtual discussion on racism
- Democrats choosing nominee in suddenly competitive Virginia congressional district (“It’s unclear whether Republicans will coalesce around Good, who won 58 percent of the 2,500 votes in a drive-through convention, a tiny percentage of the number who will cast ballots in November. Good opposes abortion without exception, supports eliminating birthright citizenship and embraces a hard-line immigration policy that he says puts ‘Americans first.'”)
- 4 Democrats in primary for chance to flip congressional seat in central Virginia
- GOP picking Senate nominee, area Dems choosing congressional candidate in primary Tuesday (“In the Democratic primary, Stafford County human rights lawyer and author Qasim Rashid and King George County defense contractor Vangie Williams are vying to carry the party’s banner in the 1st District congressional race. Wittman does not face a Republican challenger for the seat he has held since 2007.”)
- Video, Transcript: In DPVA Convention Speech, Sen. Mark Warner Calls 2020 Election Most Important of His Lifetime
- Video: Corey “Trump Before Trump Was Trump” Stewart Claims Trump Didn’t “Actually” Endorse Scott Taylor (R) in VA02 (Stewart says Trump “really should pay more attention to this”)
- More convention results in the 10th district (Wow, total freak show: among others, Nutjob Eugene Delgaudio and Ginni Thomas – Clarence Thomas’ wife – elected as national GOP delegate.)
- Aliscia Andrews wins nomination for Congress! Results from the 10th district convention (Go Jennifer Wexton!)
- 11th District Convention Results (Manga Anatamula nominated for Congress by the VA11 GOP)
- Video: Panel of Conservative Virginians Do NOT Think Trump Will Win Reelection, Bemoan VA GOP “Held Hostage” by Amanda Chase, Corey Stewart, etc.
- Video: Saturday Session of the 2020 DPVA Virtual Convention Features Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Val Demings, Mark Warner, Eileen Filler-Corn, etc.
- Biden stresses Virginia’s importance during speech to state’s Democrats at virtual convention
- Budget Matters: A Brief Look at Spending Choices by Virginia on Policing
- Saturday (6/20) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +640 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 57,433), +10 Hospitalizations (to 5,807), +5 Deaths (to 1,607) From Yesterday
- EDITORIAL: Senator challenges Northam’s covid shutdown orders
- Yep, It’s Definitely Time for a New Mayor of Virginia Beach – Namely, Democrat Jody Wagner (Republican Mayor Bobby Dyer’s wife posts on FB that he’s having an affair with “a little twenty year old girl”)
- Reid: Post-COVID-19 economic recovery priorities
- Police Arrest and Charge Armed Man with Trespassing on Roof Near Lee Statue
- Levar Stoney column: Let’s reimagine public safety and renew Richmond
- “We can all find our peace. And create peace in our communities”: Hundreds walk for justice in Newport News
- Loudoun County announces fall plan that includes more remote learning, sparking parent anger
- Reclaiming spaces: Portraits of pain, love and liberation at the Lee monument
- Levar Stoney column: Let’s reimagine public safety and renew Richmond
- Protesters Call For Removal Of Confederate Monument In Fairfax
- Arlington residents rally to support girl whose protest messages were erased
- Editorial: An economic check-up for the Roanoke Valley
- Alexandria bans guns, ammunition in city buildings, parks and recreation centers (“It is the first city in Virginia to use the power granted this spring by the General Assembly.”)
- Charlottesville’s police oversight board scheduled for first meeting, but issues of scope linger
- Fewer storms today, but heating up through midweek, with more storms on the way
