by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, June 18.
- World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert (“International Energy Agency chief warns of need to prevent post-lockdown surge in emissions”)
- Pompeo And China’s Top Diplomat Meet In Hawaii As Relations Worsen
- U.S. weekly jobless claims remain high, second wave of layoffs blamed
- John Bolton: Putin thinks he can play Trump “like a fiddle”
- Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book
- John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy
- Trump was willing to halt criminal investigations as ‘favor’ to dictators, Bolton book says (“President urged Xi to build concentration camps for Muslims” That alone tells you how utterly depraved and sociopathic Trump is.)
- John Bolton Plumbs the Depth of Trump’s Depravity
- Bolton’s new book blows apart one of Trump’s biggest reelection arguments (Trump has no serious reelection argument.)
- Trump Thought Elton John Would Love His Rocket Man Gift to Kim
- John Bolton’s book is full of startling revelations he should have told us sooner
- Bolton Says Trump Impeachment Inquiry Missed Other Troubling Actions
- Free speech — not national security — is at stake in Trump’s absurd lawsuit against John Bolton’s book
- The 7 most disturbing allegations about Trump in John Bolton’s forthcoming book
- What we learned from John Bolton’s eye-popping tale of working with Trump
- Federal prosecutors are mulling criminal charges against John Bolton
- John Bolton’s Tone in ‘The Room Where It Happened’ Swings Between Tedious and Slightly Unhinged
- What we learned from John Bolton’s eye-popping tale of working with Trump (“Trump had no problem with China’s concentration camps…The Israeli prime minister didn’t understand why Kushner led on Middle East peace”
- John Bolton Shows That All the President’s Men Are Cowards (“I’m glad the book is out. We all should be. Pecuniary motive aside, it takes a little bit of kishkes for Bolton to say these things.”)
- The Memo: Bolton exposé makes Trump figure of mockery
- John Bolton Is a Sunshine Patriot, But What He’s Written Is Important Evidence
- Next testing debacle: The fall virus surge
- No, Trump can’t defy the laws of gravity
- Trump Says Police Killing Of Rayshard Brooks ‘Terrible,’ But ‘You Can’t Resist’ Officers (“’I hope he gets a fair shake because police have not been treated fairly in our country,’ the president said of the former officer charged with murder.” Yep, that’s Trump to a “t”)
- Atlanta police call out sick to protest murder charge against officer who shot Rayshard Brooks
- Republicans Will Fight to Stop Expanded Voting by Mail in November (This is obnoxious and unAmerican, but it might actually end up hurting Republicans more.)
- Mike Pence is a case study in irresponsibility (Pence is a disgrace.)
- Trump Wants to Find, Prosecute Person Who Leaked His Trip to the Bunker: NYT
- Does Trump Want to Fight for a Second Term? His Self-Sabotage Worries Aides
- Republicans are in retreat — and look wimpy (“Republicans have no clue what this moment means.”)
- Our New Polling Averages Show Biden Leads Trump By 9 Points Nationally
- Biden leads Trump in six 2020 swing states, CNBC/Change Research poll finds
- Cops and the Culture War (“Nobody put bleach into the milkshakes at Shake Shack. The cops who ordered them and got diarrhea had food poisoning, or lactose intolerance, or indigestion, aroused by the consumption of garbage. But for a while, police unions insisted that something more nefarious than gluttony had occurred.”)
- Months before election, Trump finds himself at odds with most Americans’ views (“Even traditionally Republican-leaning groups – men, white suburban women and those older than 55 – have recently flipped for Biden, the polling analysis shows. Trump led elderly voters until May.”)
- Republican operatives launch new group supporting Biden
- When Antifa Hysteria Sweeps America (“The panic is a measure of how deluded public discourse has become.” Completely unhinged.)
- ‘Wednesday night massacre’ as Trump appointee takes over at global media agency
- Republicans are more worried about Michael Flynn than police brutality
- Florida, Arizona and Texas set records for new COVID-19 cases (“Are the governors in the worst-hit states considering another shutdown? Not a chance, if you ask them.”)
- 18 kinds of lawsuits Trump loves — and 8 he hates
- Aunt Jemima brand to change name, remove image that Quaker says is ‘based on a racial stereotype’
- Uncle Ben’s rice to change brand as part of parent company’s stance against racism
- Half of Black Americans in Poll Feared For Life Because of Race
- The U.S. Park Police’s reputation is in tatters
- ‘Boogaloo’ Sounds a Lot Like Helter Skelter
- Revealed: officer who killed Rayshard Brooks accused of covering up 2015 shooting
- Officer charged with murder for shooting Rayshard Brooks
- Fox’s obsessive fearmongering over Seattle autonomous zone is a stark contrast to its praise for Cliven Bundy’s armed standoff (Great job by MediaMatters on making this important point!)
- Coronavirus cases are spiking across the country and experts say Florida has the makings of the next epicenter
- U.S. Senate Passes “Great American Outdoors Act,” Which Sen. Mark Warner “Helped Usher…to Passage”
- National Capital Region Delegation Urges House Leaders To Issue Mask Directive To Members Of Congress
- Virginia Gov. Northam: ‘There’s been an awakening’ on Black ‘oppression’ (“In an interview with NBC News, the Virginia governor says reforms are a positive step but calls for more changes for police.”)
- Editorial: Virginia leaders need to show some urgency on COVID-19 contact tracing
- Schedule of Virginia Democrats’ Virtual State Convention This Weekend Includes Speech by 2020 Presidential Nominee Joe Biden; Also Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, etc.
- New Housing and Hunger Assistance Measures Begin Soon in Virginia…Thanks to Democrats
- Trump’s Virginia Golf Trips Cost Taxpayers Millions
- State health officials are still deciding how to safely reopen nursing homes. Providers say patients are suffering.
- After a less rainy spring, the Chesapeake Bay may see smaller dead zone than normal
- VCU research shows masks can dramatically decrease COVID-19 deaths
- Audio: Dominion Spokesperson Goes on Trumpster Radio, Spews Out Falsehoods About Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Natural Gas
- Wednesday (6/17) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +444 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 55,775), +49 Hospitalizations (to 5,692), +13 Deaths (to 1,583) From Yesterday
- VA Dems’ Resolution Rejects Fatally Flawed Redistricting Amendment, “Urges All Virginians to Oppose” It This November
- Lee Statue Plaintiff’s Attorney Sends Proposal to AG Mark Herring: Hold Statewide Referendum on Whether Monument Should Be Removed
- Ramin Fatehi Hopes to Continue Norfolk’s Criminal Justice Transformation
- People are still fighting to keep Confederate statues standing. The question they are raising is a distraction from the one we should be asking. (“The toppling of statues in Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, are long overdue.”)
- Arlington likely to supply police, deputies, fire marshals with body cameras
- Video: Fairfax NAACP Townhall on Proposals for Police Reform
- Audio: Trump/Pence 2020 Advisory Board Member, 2016 Trump Virginia Chair, Calls Richmond Mayoral Candidate Kim Gray “Transformational”
- UVA outlines plan for reopening this fall, including assigned sinks, stalls and showers
- Prince William County ends controversial immigration enforcement agreement
- Prince William County won’t seek extension on agreement with ICE set to expire June 30
- Coast Guard captain takes over command of Portsmouth-based Virginia sector
- In Arlington juvenile court, a coronavirus outbreak closes the clerk’s office
- UPDATE: Loudoun County treasurer posts, quickly deletes ‘Aunt Jemima’ Facebook post
- Loudoun Dems Condemn County Treasurer’s “Racially Discriminatory Comments on Facebook”
- At Newport News march, people rally for police reform and talk with the city’s top cop
- Norfolk School Board chairwoman suggests changing Confederate-named schools
- Maury High and two other Norfolk schools named for Confederates could be renamed
- Protests embark on 19th night in Richmond; say firing of police chief is only first step
- Arthur Ashe statue vandalized with ‘White Lives Matter’ graffiti
- ‘White lives matter’ painted on Arthur Ashe monument in Richmond
- Heavy rains bring flooding across Roanoke region
- Occasional shower chances through the weekend accompany slow warming trend
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