by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, October 5.
- Three Scenarios for the Future of Climate Change
- Climate Scientists on Earth’s Two Futures (“The worst effects of climate change don’t have to happen, scientists say. But humans’ actions in the near future will determine if they do.”)
- Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Virus
- U.S. Public Facing Huge Bill to Clean Up After Oil and Gas Industry
- Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents (Exxon is evil.)
- National security experts describe a distracted and potentially vulnerable country
- U.S. coronavirus relief bill complicated by top Republicans testing positive
- The US has reported more than 97,000 new Covid-19 cases since the news of Trump’s positive test
- The American People Need the Truth (“The president is hospitalized. The public doesn’t need to know every detail, but they don’t deserve to be misled.”)
- Covid-19 Live Updates: Trump’s Treatment Suggests His Condition May Be Severe, Experts Say (“As the president begins his fourth day in the hospital with the coronavirus, the number of new cases reported daily across the United States is slowly rising.”)
- Donald Trump condemned for Covid stunt ‘insanity’ as US approaches 7.5m cases – US politics live
- Is Trump sicker than his doctors are saying? His treatment regimen raises questions.
- Trump Just Exposed Secret Service to COVID-19 to Do a Drive-By for MAGA Supporters
- If Trump has learned anything from getting Covid-19, he’s not showing it (“Trump’s drive-by motorcade photo-op is out of the same coronavirus playbook that got America into this mess.”)
- Secret Service agents, doctors aghast at Trump’s drive outside hospital
- COVID-Positive Trump Ignores CDC Advice to Take Joyride, With Grim Secret Service Agents in Tow
- Trump criticized by medical experts after leaving hospital to drive by supporters
- Infectious Trump briefly leaves hospital to greet fans as confusion continues over his health
- ‘This is insanity’: Walter Reed physician among critics of Donald Trump drive-by visit
- Prospect of Trump’s early hospital discharge mystifies doctors
- As Trump Seeks to Project Strength, Doctors Disclose Alarming Episodes
- Trump’s Treatment Suggests Severe Covid-19, Medical Experts Say
- Trump Didn’t Disclose First Positive Covid-19 Test While Awaiting a Second Test on Thursday
- At the White House, an Eerie Quiet and Frustration With the Chief of Staff
- White House physician Sean Conley draws scrutiny for rosy assessments of Trump’s health (Should this guy lose his medical license?
- President’s blood oxygen levels dropped twice in recent days, doctors say
- Trump is hospitalized with Covid, but he’s still not taking the pandemic seriously
- Trump Didn’t Even Try to Keep His Own People Safe (“The president apparently took no measures to protect his political advisers, aides, and donors, and largely left them in the dark once he had tested positive.”)
- Panic and confusion permeate White House after Trump’s Covid diagnosis
- Trump mocked for signing apparently blank paper in ‘staged’ photos at Walter Reed
- Trump campaign adviser says rally protocols won’t change after President’s coronavirus diagnosis (Appalling.)
- Mary Trump says president sees illness as sign of ‘unforgivable weakness’ (“Donald Trump’s niece tells NPR US is in a ‘horrible place’ because president and his father saw any malaise as unacceptable”)
- Trump’s illness halts campaign just when it needs an October boost
- The Latest: Campaign says Biden tests negative for virus
- With President in the Hospital, a V.P. Debate Takes On Outsize Import (“Vice-presidential debates can often be afterthoughts in a presidential race, but Mike Pence and Kamala Harris will now face an unusual amount of scrutiny, and a tricky balancing act in dealing with the virus.”)
- President Pelosi? Pence prepares to risk it all for Trump
- Trump Campaign Hobbled by Virus as Biden Starts to Pull Away
- Biden leads Trump by 14 points nationally a month from Election Day, NBC/WSJ poll finds
- Biden leads by 10 points as majority of Americans say Trump could have avoided coronavirus
- Juan Williams: Trump’s toxic race card
- GOP anxiety grows over Trump political roller coaster
- Republicans gripped by dread as multiple crises swirl (“The presidency, control of the Senate and even a quick confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett are all in doubt less than a month from the election.”)
- Trump claims that he had no choice but to risk his own health. Americans disagree.
- At Walter Reed, a loud vigil has the cultish fervor and masklessness of Trump’s rallies
- The ‘Fuck Your Feelings’ Crowd Wants a Pity Party for Trump (“President Superspreader and those closest to him are feeling the pain of his reckless, moronic decisions.”)
- ‘Trump was sent from God!’: MAGA country brings the rally to a stricken president (It’s like the Jonestown cult.)
- Reality smacks Trumpworld, but the bubble remains
- Positive tests for senators raise doubts about fast-track confirmation of Trump’s Supreme Court choice
- The Deranged, Dangerous Push to Still Seat Amy Coney Barrett (“For the GOP, entrenching minority rule is more important than human life.”)
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- Trump’s medical team made misleading statements. Major news outlets uncritically trumpeted their claims anyway.
- In Trump’s bizarro world of White resentment, calling out racism is itself racist (One of the favorite responses by right-wing trolls, etc. is that it’s “Democrats who are the real racists,” or some variant of that 100% false, laughable claim. It’s basically the equivalent of 3rd graders on the playground retorting, “I’m rubber, you’re glue…”)
- Sen. Pat Toomey won’t run for reelection or for Pennsylvania governor, sources say (Bye bye!)
- Gay men have taken over the Proud Boys Twitter hashtag
- Twitter users take over Proud Boys hashtag with photos of LGBTQ love
- What Mike Pence needs to tell us about coronavirus
- Del. Danica Roem: “[Walter Reed Hospital in] Bethesda wasn’t an option for most of those nearly 1,000 people hospitalized between the two localities I represent”
- Virginia Leaders On Trump’s Limo Ride From Hell: “Reckless,” “Heartless” Behavior By “Sick Narcissist”
- Editorial: Include Virginia in an offshore drilling ban
- Virginia leading nation in early voting …
- Virginia’s COVID-19 app slow to catch on (“As of Thursday, about 576,000 people had downloaded the state’s COVIDWISE app — about 7% of the state’s population”)
- Del. Mark Levine: Why Vote No on Amendment 1? We Need Your Help!
- Virginia Democrats face choice between idealism and revenge in vote on gerrymandering (Haha, omg, no that is NOT the choice! LOL)
- Hugo: Market forces better than ‘public option’ for health care (When was the last time Tim Hugo was right about something?)
- Concerns about costs derail jury sentencing reform bill – at least temporarily
- A Look at the Policing Reforms Moving Forward at the General Assembly (I don’t really understand the point of publishing such super-short articles, with almost no information or detail.)
- Sunday (10/4) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,067 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 151,870), +30 Hospitalizations (to 11,221), +3 Deaths (to 3,273) From Yesterday
- ‘Less-than-ideal bedfellows’: Mountain Valley Pipeline payout prompts criticism (“The Appalachian Trail Conservancy expected scrutiny for accepting a $19.5 million gift from the pipeline’s developer but believes time will show it was the right decision.”)
- The budget conference: the secretive, transactional process where a dozen people write Virginia law
- ‘All of us have a history’: Fighting stigma to find homes for Virginia’s elderly psychiatric patients
- In Virginia’s budget debate, an unexpected focus on the birds and the bees (Cringe-inducing behavior by Republicans.)
- Hampton Roads saw a slowdown in coronavirus last week
- Richmond Mayoral Poll: Stoney 37%-Gray 33%-Rodgers 13%-Griffin 11%-McLean 3%; Stoney Leads in 5 Majority African-American Council Districts
- Thomas Jefferson High alumni rally for change in student admissions process
- Election Campaign Signs of Arlington Democrats and Civil Rights Icon and Arlington Native Joan Mulholland Destroyed, Vandalized
- Forest Service plan raises concerns about Lynchburg water supply, environment
- Phenomenally good weather through Friday
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