Tuesday News: “Trump’s Republican Party displays its systemic racism”; As Americans Head Out, COVID-19 Cases Rise; “Democrats unveil ambitious plan for police reform”; “Richmond judge halts removal of Robert E. Lee statue for 10 days”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, June 9.

• Asymptomatic coronavirus patients aren’t spreading most new infections, WHO says (If that’s the case, it has major policy implications.)
• Virus Spreaders Who Never Show Symptoms ‘Very Rare,’ WHO Says
• These 7 countries have the most worrying Covid-19 outbreaks (“India, Brazil, and South Africa have some of the world’s most alarming Covid-19 trends.”)
• Michael R. Bloomberg: From Global Crisis to Climate Turning Point (“The choice facing the world isn’t between climate and growth.”)
• Trump chooses a senseless withdrawal from Germany. He threatens national security.
• Trump’s Mideast Plan Is Poised to Fall Apart (“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to take the parts of the plan he likes and leave the rest.”)
• As EPA Steps Back, States Face Wave Of Requests For Environmental Leniency (This is absolutely unacceptable.)
• As more Americans head out, 22 states are seeing jumps in new coronavirus cases
• 14 states and Puerto Rico hit highest seven-day average of new coronavirus infections
• Fact check: Trump spent the week lying about protesters, tear gas, and the economy
• What the George Floyd protests have achieved in just two weeks
• Protesters across US attacked by cars driven into crowds and men with guns (“Protesters confronted by armed men – including members of the so-called ‘boogaloo movement’ – in different parts of America”)
• Trump fenced in literally, politically after massive protests, stinging rebukes
• Barr contradicts Trump: ‘The Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker’ for safety
• If the Jobs Numbers Stay Like This, Trump Is Toast
• The Tom Cotton op-ed affair shows why the media must defend America’s values (“It cannot remain neutral when those values are under threat from racialized authoritarianism.”)
• “He’s Going to Broom Kushner and Parscale”: “Malignantly Crazy” About Bad Poll Numbers, Trump Is Thinking of Replacing His Son-In-Law
• For the First Time Trump Faces Crises Not of His Own Making
• Trump gets the 2016 band back together as he tumbles in polls
• Police unions dig in as calls for reform grow (Yeah, that’s unlikely to cut it at this point.)
• For the First Time Trump Faces Crises Not of His Own Making (Go Sen. Harris!)
• Democrats unveil ambitious plan for police reform: ‘This is a first step’ (“The legislation would ban chokeholds by police, set up a national database for tracking police misconduct and would bar types of ‘no-knock’ warrants”)
• House Democrats’ sprawling bill provides a good start toward police reform
• House Democrats Respond to Protests With Bill
• Democrats respond: These changes would make a difference
• Democrats kneel at Capitol before unveiling plan to overhaul police
• ‘White guilt’ shakes up the 2020 election (“The killing of George Floyd has prompted a reckoning with racism not only for Joe Biden, but for a wide swath of white America.”)
• Trump broke the economic winning streak
• Colin Powell gets it. Condi Rice doesn’t. (Condi Rice never seems to get it.)
• Joe Biden isn’t about to play Trump’s game on police funding (“Biden has an agenda. Trump has a word game.”)
• Democrats, stop worrying about losing. Focus on how you’re likely to win. (“Channel that protest passion into getting out the vote for Biden and defending the right to cast mail-in ballots.”)
• Trump’s Republican Party displays its systemic racism
• The politics of racial resentment come back to haunt the GOP
• The GOP has gone from tea party libertarianism to Trumpian authoritarianism
• Joe Biden has a really big lead in the polls (“A larger and more solid gap than Hillary Clinton ever enjoyed.”)
• Trump is facing ‘political death’ without enough time to turn the country around before the election: conservative
• Georgia Democrats vote on Senate challenger as five U.S. states hold primaries
• Hill Democrats quash liberal push to ‘defund the police’(“’I think it can be used as a distraction, and that’s my concern,’ said Rep. Karen Bass, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.”)
• Trump Camp Runs Ads on D.C. Cable to Ease the Boss’ Anxieties and Buck Up Congressional GOPers
• Guardsman Told Barr Protest Was Peaceful Before Violent Attack, Lawmaker Says (Wait, you mean a lying liar like Bill Barr was LYING?)
• Trump just revealed a huge weakness. It may prove fatal.
• Trump’s emerging turnaround strategy: Focus on voters’ fears about crime, immigration and China
• Trump to restart MAGA rallies this month despite coronavirus (Crazy and irresponsible, as usual.)
• Gen. Wesley Clark on Trump and the protests: “We are seeing the turning of the tide” (“Former NATO supreme commander on Trump’s threat to send in troops: ‘That is not the way to resolve our problems'”)
• GOP struggles with message amid national debate over police and racial justice
• ‘We ought to set aside this talk’: Pence’s take on systemic racism meets a new test
• Lobbying firm cuts ties to Trent Lott amid national anti-racism protests
• Bon Appétit, Refinery29 editors step down as calls for racial justice continue to reshape media landscape
• Officers slashed tires on vehicles parked amid Minneapolis protests, unrest (WTF?)
• George Floyd killing: judge sets $1.25m bail for ex-officer Derek Chauvin (“Court hearing comes as Floyd’s family prepares to bury him in Houston, where he spent most of his life”)
• Daniel Radcliffe Responds to J.K. Rowling’s Tweets on Gender Identity (Nice job, Daniel Radcliffe!)
• Tucker Carlson: This moment “is definitely not about Black lives. And remember that when they come for you”
• Tucker Carlson says Democrats are trying to replace Trump-supporting police with an anti-Trump, armed “woke militia” to patrol neighborhoods (Nutjob)
• These 17 businesses are bankrolling Sen. Tom Cotton (Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Liberty Mutual Insurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers, etc.)
• Early media coverage of Breonna Taylor’s killing branded her a “suspect” and sanitized police violence
• Let’s rename military bases honoring Confederate officers
• Army reverses course, will consider renaming bases named for Confederate leaders
• Washington Post’s Headline Wording (“Thousands throng D.C.”) Minimized Saturday’s Massive Black Lives Matter Protests
• Senate to Take Up Mark Warner’s “Great American Outdoors Act”
• Sens. Warner, Kaine Join Colleagues in Introducing Sweeping Police Reform Bill
• Video: Far-Right Virginia Del. Nick Freitas (R) “Interviewing” Rep. Devin Nunes Might Cause You to “Have a Cow”
• Evictions halted while Northam starts rent relief program
• At Northam’s request, Virginia Supreme Court grants state-wide eviction moratorium
• Breaking: Virginia Announces Temporary Moratorium on Evictions
• Down Ballot Races May Drive Turnout for Primary Elections This Month
• Bob McDonnell and Delores McQuinn column: Will the death of George Floyd be the birth of racial reconciliation?
• Virginia Can Choose Equity for Schools During Crisis
• AG Mark Herring Urges Congress to Give State Attorneys General Authority to Investigate Unconstitutional Policing
• Monday (6/8) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +570 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 51,251), +37 Hospitalizations (to 5,143), +5 Deaths (to 1,477 From Yesterday)
• Self-identified Ku Klux Klan leader arrested after driving through protesters in Richmond, prosecutors say
• Henrico prosecutor: Hanover man who drove into protest is admitted KKK leader
• Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney “investigating whether hate crimes charges are appropriate” After “KKK President” Drives Truck Into Group of Protesters
• Falwell’s Blackface Tweet Brings Racial Dissent to Liberty University
• Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr. apologizes after outcry over blackface tweet (He only apologized because there was a massive backlash. He’s still evil.)
• Richmond judge halts removal of Robert E. Lee statue for 10 days (“A legal challenge contends the state promised to ‘affectionately protect’ the monument when it accepted the land it stands on.”)
• Richmond judge bars removal of Lee statue on Monument Avenue for 10 days (“A Richmond judge has issued a temporary injunction barring the state from taking down the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue for 10 days.”)
• Richmond prosecutor: No jail time for protestors charged with violating curfew; Police chief conducting comprehensive review of tactics
• Residents call on Richmond City Council to ‘defund the police’ in wake of Black Lives Matter protests
• Catholic Diocese of Richmond reviewing abuse allegations against four retired or inactive priests
• Editorial: Protesters need to get COVID tests
• “This Has to End”: Fairfax County NAACP Demands Changes After Violent Arrest
• Richmond City Council Scraps Plan To Surplus All Of Navy Hill Land, Coliseum
• Enviro, Social Justice Coalition Opposes “Fracked-Gas ‘Header Injustice Project’”; Wild Virginia Urges Legal Action to Block Trump Admin From Weakening State’s Clean Water Authority
• After Lull, A Rise in Coronavirus Cases in Arlington
• Protesters call for defunding of Fredericksburg police
• Protesters march through the streets of Charlottesville
• Local protests against police brutality continue in Chesapeake and Hampton
• Heat and humidity return, with a chance of storms later tomorrow