by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, October 6.
- Nobel prize in physics awarded to trio for work on black hole formation (“Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez share 10m Swedish kronor award”)
- World’s biggest wind and solar producer now worth more than ExxonMobil
- Prince William Vows to Be “Ahead Of His Time” on Climate Change
- As U.S. job growth stalls, some workers face long-term unemployment
- White House Is Not Tracing Contacts for ‘Super-Spreader’ Rose Garden Event
- White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines (“The F.D.A. proposed stricter guidelines for emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but the White House chief of staff objected to provisions that would push approval past Election Day.” Blatantly political and irresponsible.)
- Determined to Get Vaccine Before Election, Trump Overrules FDA Guidelines
- Trump Minimizes Virus, Saying ‘Not to Let It Dominate Your Life’
- Trump’s reckless return met with a dramatically changed White House
- Donald Trump appears short of breath during maskless photo op at White House – video
- ‘Epidemiologists just wanna vomit’: Doctors disturbed after Trump removes his mask at the White House
- Covid-19 is a fearsome killer. Trump’s magical thinking will not change that.
- Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ Comments Outrage Public Health Experts (“President Trump urged people not to fear a virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans, infuriating doctors and scientists. They had hoped that Mr. Trump, chastened by his infection, would act to persuade supporters that mask-wearing and social distancing were essential. Instead, tweeting on Monday from the military hospital where he had been receiving state-of-the-art treatment, he yet again downplayed the threat.”)
- The Recklessness of Trump’s Return to the White House
- Trump Has No One But Himself to Blame for Catching COVID (“The president’s supporters are at once trying to spin his infection as an election boon and as no big deal.”)
- Let’s hope Trump recovers — and that the GOP gets what it deserves (“No one deserves a deadly disease, but Republicans have earned their defeat.”)
- No one deserves a deadly disease, but Republicans have earned their defeat.
- Trump returns to White House, downplaying virus that hospitalized him and turned West Wing into a ‘ghost town’
- White House aides anxious as coronavirus cases rise in Trump’s orbit: Sources
- Trump makes bizarre White House return despite warnings (“A medicated Trump bolted from his VIP hospital bubble and made a reckless pronouncement there is nothing to fear from a virus that’s killed 210,000 Americans”)
- Donald Trump rebuked for removing mask after leaving hospital – US politics live
- ‘Maybe I’m Immune’: Trump Returns To White House, Removes Mask Despite Infection (Stone-cold moron.)
- The Most Reckless Actions by Trump and His Allies During the White House Outbreak, So Far (“In a self-made crisis, flying in the face of basic public health guidelines is their only strategy.”)
- The Memo: Trump risks new backlash with COVID bravado
- Trump Is on Steroids. How Worried Should We Be?
- Not ‘Out Of The Woods Yet’: Trump’s Health Remains At Risk, Doctors Say
- Donald Trump’s desperation to leave hospital shows the dangers ahead (“The president’s carelessness about others’ safety shows he will do almost anything not to lose in November”)
- Trump Tells Nation Not To Fear Coronavirus He Let Kill 200,000 Americans
- Trump Actually Believes He Can Sell Himself to America as a COVID-Conquering Hero (“Merely a flesh wound” LOL)
- Now Comes the Reckoning (“The tragedy is that during his presidency, Trump has broken much of America.”)
- Trump Toadies Insist He’s Got the Virus Right Where He Wants It (Cringe-inducingly pathetic.)
- Eric Trump Finally Interviewed in N.Y. Fraud Inquiry
- E. Jean Carroll, Trump Accuser, Seeks to Bar Justice Dept. From Case
- What is the White House hiding? That’s where reporters need to push (“How recently did Trump actually test negative? And why isn’t the White House contact-tracing the Barrett event?”)
- A White House Infected With Propaganda
- Leader of non-profit labeled ‘hate group’ attended White House Amy Coney Barrett event (“Michael Farris leads Alliance Defending Freedom, designated an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center”)
- Kamala Harris’s Doubleheader: A Debate and Hearings With High Stakes
- The legal battles over voting that could swing the US election (“Rulings in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin have eased mail-in voting restrictions but higher courts could yet intervene”)
- Trump’s Campaign Saw an Opportunity. He Undermined It. (“The health crisis was a chance for a political reset, some advisers believed, to show a new, more empathetic stance toward the coronavirus. But the candidate did not stick to the narrative”)
- Democrats look past Election Day in Barrett fight
- Nearly 4 million Americans have already voted, suggesting record election turnout (“The early surge has led McDonald to predict a record turnout of about 150 million, representing 65% of eligible voters, the highest rate since 1908.”)
- 2020 U.S. Election Tracker: Biden Leads by 9 Points Nationally; Democrats Up 6 on the Generic Ballot
- ‘Masks matter’: Joe Biden reminds Trump that face covering is there to protect others
- Joe Biden says Trump bears responsibility for Covid-19 infection (Yep, absolutely accurate.)
- Why Fox News Is Still in a Coronavirus Bubble (“Humans will do figure eights to make facts suit their fictions”)
- What we should learn from the White House’s coronavirus cluster (“We are in a perilous time.”)
- Trump’s latest madness may herald large-scale GOP collapse
- “Don Jr. Thinks Trump Is Acting Crazy”: The President’s COVID Joyride Has the Family Divided
- CNN Poll: Biden expands lead over Trump after contentious debate and President’s Covid diagnosis (“Among likely voters, 57% say they back Biden and 41% Trump in the poll that was conducted entirely after the first debate and mostly after the President’s coronavirus infection was made public.”)
- Trump off the air in Ohio and Iowa as polls show tight races in both states
- Trump’s debate conduct and virus fiasco inflict more damage (“Trump is in deep trouble, poll after poll shows.”)
- Plexiglass to separate Harris and Pence at VP debate (“Pence’s campaign opposed the move.” That says it all.)
- Trumpist media claim his COVID diagnosis validates their war on public health recommendations — and the president is listening
- U.S. Supreme Court allows South Carolina vote-by-mail restriction (There’s no good justification for this.)
- Poll: Biden bolsters lead over Trump in Michigan after first debate
- Biden Holds Steady Lead Over Trump in Arizona, Latest Poll Finds
- North Carolina Senate Race Unaffected By Recent Developments (“PPP’s new North Carolina poll finds Cal Cunningham leading Thom Tillis 48-42. That represents a slight improvement for Cunningham from PPP’s last public poll of the race in late July when Cunningham’s advantage was 48-44.”)
- A U.S. senator kept taking off his mask on a Delta flight, raising questions about safety oversight
- The myth of widespread voter fraud persists, despite a constant failure to prove claims (There continues to be essentially ZERO evidence of this, yet Republicans keep claiming it as part of their voter suppression efforts. Disgusting.)
- Video: New Warner Campaign Ad Emphasizes Work to End Tragedy of Veteran Suicides
- Rep. Abigail Spanberger Announces More Than $2.4 Million in Fundraising in 3Q20; More Than $7.3 Million Raised Cycle to Date
- Spanberger’s GOP challenger raises over $1.8 million in third quarter
- Bob Good Continues to Campaign Maskless
- 6th Congressional District Candidates Debate
- Del. Elizabeth Guzman Opens Campaign Committee to Run for Lieutenant Governor in 2021
- Crowded field in 2021 Va. lieutenant governor’s race (And it’s likely to get more crowded.)
- Yet Another Virginia Dem LG Candidate: Xavier Warren
- Video: Gov. Northam Says He Lost His Sense of Smell Over the Weekend, But Otherwise Is “Doing Well and Staying in Good Spirits”
- Virginia Senate panel kills bill to ease removal of Confederate monuments
- Virginia to get additional federal boost for Medicaid costs as state looks ahead to next budget
- Editorial: Four questions about Virginia politics (Including this just to say it’s another obnoxious Roanoke Times editorial, yet again spewing falsehoods about Amendment 1, and also engaging in absurd “both sides-ism,” false equivalence, anti-progressive “framing,” etc.)
- JLARC: Low-performing public schools need more help from VDOE
- Could coronavirus vaccine come as early as Trump suggested? Virginia gets ready for the possibility.
- Over two months, pro-gun rights localities accounted for roughly half of Virginia’s red flag orders
- Monday (10/5) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +687 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 152,557), +38 Hospitalizations (to 11,259), +3 Deaths (to 3,276) From Yesterday
- She helped Virginia Beach respond to the mass shooting. Now she will help the state manage emergencies.
- Former Navy “Fuel Farm” in York County could soon be site of 20-megawatt solar farm
- Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Issues Statement on Postal Box Break-ins: “Prosecute to the Fullest Extent of the Law”
- Six Richmond-area post offices report tampered mailboxes early Monday; could contain election ballots
- USPS Investigating Mail Theft at Six Virginia Post Offices
- After outcry, Fairfax superintendent revises proposal to reform admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School (“Over the weekend, he released a revised plan that calls for 400 of 500 seats in every class to be assigned by random lottery. The remaining 100 seats will go to the “highest-evaluated students” based on ‘a holistic review of their application,’ according to a presentation Fairfax officials posted online.”)
- Hundreds of comments about JMU’s reopening weren’t shared with Board of Visitors prior to announcement of plan to return to campus
- Roanoke City Council interviews 5 for vacant seat
- ‘Thank you, Ruth:’ Former and current VMI female athletes salute Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- UVA Lawn Sign Raises Alumni Ire
- Outstanding October weather continues through the week
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