by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, June 16.
Police are using explosives and smoke on demonstrators. I have a lot of videos and it is very hectic here. pic.twitter.com/USVbojIqEC
— Andrew Ringle (@aeringle) June 16, 2020
- Global virus cases reach eight million
- North Korea Destroys South Korea Joint Office in Rebuke to Seoul
- India soldiers killed in clash with Chinese forces
- CDC: Patients with underlying conditions 12 times more likely to die from coronavirus
- FDA pulls authorization for Trump’s unproven ‘miracle’ drug
- SEIA calls on FERC to dismiss the petition to end net metering (“The Solar Energy Industries Association makes the case for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to dismiss the petition, solely on legal grounds. A filing by Solar United Neighbors, Vote Solar and other groups makes a legal case and also rebuts the petition’s claims about net metering.”)
- Market Madness in the Pandemic (“Why are investors rushing to buy junk?”)
- Black Americans Were Hit Hard By State Shutdowns, But Are Worried About Reopening Too
- Trump is in denial about his and others’ health
- Night of unrest at protests in 3 states leads to a shooting and arrests
- Trump Executive Order To Focus On Tracking Misconduct, Nonviolent Interactions
- The Supreme Court Just Tanked Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda
- Gorsuch, Conservative Favorite Appointed by Trump, Leads Way on Landmark Decision
- GOP backs Gorsuch’s LGBTQ decision after conservative blowback
- Gorsuch draws surprise, anger with LGBT decision
- Christian conservatives rattled after Supreme Court rules against LGBT discrimination
- The Supreme Court ruled that it is illegal to fire folks for being LGBTQ, and right-wing media are furious
- Gay Rights Are Civil Rights
- The Supreme Court’s ruling on LGBTQ rights is a sweeping victory for fairness
- The Supreme Court has given trans people reason to hope again (“The Court’s favorable ruling on LGBTQ rights came when the trans community was at rock bottom.”)
- Obama to hold first virtual fundraiser for Biden
- Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to throw out California immigration law
- Coronavirus recommendations ignored as case numbers rise
- Trump on coronavirus: ‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any’ (WTF?!? Absolute shit for brains.)
- Pence Misleadingly Blames Coronavirus Spikes on Rise in Testing (“On a private call with governors, the vice president played down new outbreaks, stressing that some states were seeing what he called ‘intermittent’ spikes. Experts have warned it’s not that simple.”)
- Coronavirus Live Updates: Pence Tells Governors to Repeat Misleading Claim on Outbreaks (Pence is horrible.)
- Pence Tells Governors To Share Misleading Facts About Coronavirus Infections: Reports (“Vice President Mike Pence urged the nation’s governors to share misleading facts about ongoing coronavirus outbreaks in some states during a private call on Monday, according to multiple reports.”)
- The Post’s View: The world is watching. Yet police keep killing black people.
- The deaths of 2 black men by hanging, and calls for investigation, explained (“Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch were found dead in Southern California within days of each other.”)
- Democrats on key Senate committee oppose top Pentagon pick as more inflammatory tweets emerge
- ‘It’s not about bad apples’: how US police reforms have failed to stop brutality and violence
- It’s not complicated: Rayshard Brooks should be alive
- Let’s stop pretending ‘Defund the police’ is a real thing (“Over-hyping a slogan is Republicans’ last refuge”)
- President Trump says his family is unified. A niece’s book could explode that image.
- GOP says people too easily ‘offended’ — while getting upset about ‘Paw Patrol’ jokes
- What’s antifa? Journalist Talia Lavin on the reality behind the media’s “pernicious lies” (“Confused about antifa? So is everyone. ‘Anti-fascists have a purpose,’ says Talia Lavin. ‘It’s in the f**king name'”)
- Democrats seize on protests, pandemic in push to flip state houses
- Voice of America top officials resign as Trump-appointed CEO takes over international network
- GOP purges right-wing members from Congress — to replace them with even more radical candidates (“Republicans like Steve King and Denver Riggleman are being driven from office — by even crazier Republicans”)
- Iowa Poll: Donald Trump leads Joe Biden by 1 point in tight contest for president
- NOAA leaders violated agency’s scientific integrity policy, Hurricane Dorian ‘Sharpiegate’ investigation finds
- Hillary Clinton Backs Eliot Engel, in Her First House Primary Endorsement of 2020
- GOP Rep. Tom Rice Fell Ill From Coronavirus
- Ilhan Omar’s father dies from Covid-19
- Barbra Streisand gives Disney stock to George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter
- Ted Cruz Needs a Hobby. A Fight Club Ain’t It.
- RATINGS SHIFT: Bob Good’s Nomination Puts VA-05 Squarely in Play
- After Bob Good Ousts Denver Riggleman, the Word “Conservative” No Longer Describes a Republican Party That Has Gone Off the Deep End (More accurate terms: radical right, extremist, “R-Gilead.”)
- Democratic hopefuls for 5th District expound on views ahead of June 23 primary
- Editorial: 5th District Republicans repudiate Riggleman — and Reagan (“The same-sex marriage that Riggleman officiated may have crystallized opposition to him, but the bigger policy difference that Good ran on was immigration…Good’s views on immigration — and those who share them — do not spring from the nation’s founding principles, nor do they spring from the Republican Party…Good’s views on immigration are likewise completely foreign to the Republican Party that Ronald Reagan redefined in his image in the 1980s. Reagan was decidedly pro-immigration in ways that would be unfathomable for the party that nominated Good.”)
- Audio: Nick Freitas Tries – and Fails Miserably – to Explain How He Failed YET AGAIN to File Campaign Paperwork Freitas supporter: “I gotta think to myself, this is a clown show going on in there that they can’t file their paperwork…This is embarrassing for your backers”)
- Virginia AG Mark Herring on Supreme Court Decision to Uphold LGBT Protections Under Title VII: “Today, equality wins again.”
- Terry McAuliffe Sends Letter to Virginia’s Congressional Delegation Asking Them to Support the Justice in Policing Act
- Poll: Virginians Support “Black Lives Matter” by Greater Than a 2:1 Margin; Major Partisan, Age, Gender and Racial Differences
- By 7-2 Margin, Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Decision re: Dominion’s $8 Billion, Fracked-Gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline Traversing the Appalachian Trail
- U.S. Supreme Court overturns 4th Circuit ruling that would have blocked pipeline crossing
- As Supreme Court hands win to Atlantic Coast Pipeline, other hurdles remain for project
- Atlantic Coast Pipeline Problems Persist Despite Supreme Court Decision
- Monday (6/15) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +380 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 54,886), +52 Hospitalizations (to 5,588), +6 Deaths (to 1,552) From Yesterday
- Editorial: Voting fixes should make for a smoother fall election
- Map of 96 Confederate Monuments in Virginia
- Could a “Digital Tax” Be on the Way for Virginia?
- Gun groups sue to block Virginia’s new one-handgun-a-month law
- Virginia’s new one-gun-a-month limit faces lawsuit before it takes effect
- Explosives, chemical agents deployed on protesters at Richmond police headquarters for second consecutive night
- RPD chief says officers showed ‘restraint’ in clash with protesters; witness disputes the account (“The day after pepper spray was deployed on a large crowd of protesters outside Richmond police headquarters and a woman was arrested, Police Chief William Smith said his officers had shown ‘great restraint’ as protesters threw rocks and other objects at them.”)
- Police fire chemical irritant, rubber bullets at Richmond protesters outside police headquarters (“The incident marks the second straight day of angry demonstrations at the police building.”)
- Attorneys weigh in on legality of Richmond police officer driving through protesters
- Newport News shipyard steel supplier provided subpar metal for Navy submarine hulls, feds say
- Fearing ‘loss of favorable tax treatment,’ six Monument Ave. residents join legal effort to halt statue removal
- Virginia Beach to vote on new city manager after pandemic delayed the recruiting process
- Remainder of Norfolk’s 80-foot Confederate monument to come down, beginning Tuesday morning
- 65-Pound Alligator Snapping Turtle Named ‘Lord Fairfax’ Found Wandering In Alexandria
- Comfortable 70s continue with sunshine before showers increase tomorrow
