by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, June 5. Polls open in <72 hours.
- A missing contribution to global warming may have been right under our feet (“Long before the era of fossil fuels, humans may have triggered a massive but mysterious ‘carbon bomb’ lurking beneath the Earth’s surface, a new study suggests.”)
- G7 nations near historic deal on taxing multinationals
- Historic Global Tax Deal Nears as G-7 Seeks Agreement on Tech (“G-7 expected to issue statement Saturday after London meeting”)
- A force on the world stage, China suddenly has a new mission: Become a ‘lovable’ country
- Palestinian support for Hamas surges after its confrontation with Israel (UGH.)
- Italian climate activists sue government over inaction
- 100 richest UK families urged to commit £1bn to tackle climate crisis
- Jair Bolsonaro is facing a political reckoning in Brazil. How far will it go? (“Brazil saw big protests last week, and an inquiry is showing just how deeply Bolsonaro botched the pandemic response.”)
- Fed’s Powell Differs With European Peers on Climate Policy
- Harris heads to Guatemala, Mexico to address migration and manage expectations
- Thousands of Afghans risked their lives to help U.S. troops. The U.S. must help them now.
- U.K. Steps Up 2nd Shots, Makes Contingency Plans: Virus Update
- As Vaccines Turn the Tide, America and Europe Diverge on a Path Forward
- Biden administration moves to revive endangered species protections
- America still needs to learn from its biggest pandemic failure
- U.S. Life Becomes Quasi-Normal as Virus Fears Fade
- Biden Says Jobs Growth to Accelerate, Crediting His Plans
- Biden says it ‘makes sense’ for enhanced jobless aid to end in Sept.
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Talks Recall Heated Health Care Summer of 2009
- Biden Rejects Higher GOP Infrastructure Offer from Capito (It’s still pathetic.)
- Biden’s Extended Dance With Republicans May Be What the Public Wants
- The new jobs numbers raise a question: What kind of economy do we want?
- Why Biden benefits if Republicans say no (“An obstructionist GOP helps Biden.”)
- Congress Needs to Defend Vote Counting, Not Just Vote Casting
- Force the Republicans to filibuster democracy. Again and again.
- I Regret to Inform You… (“The right continues to lose its mind”)
- Is America heading to a place where it can no longer call itself a democracy? (“It is not just the fact that there is an orchestrated, concerted effort across our country to interfere with the most fundamental right of any democracy but that they’re doing it so blatantly, so out in the open and so unapologetically, and that there have been many attempts and there’s no easy way to stop it.”)
- The GOP should think twice before it tries to mess with elections
- Schumer Schedules a Showdown (“Will the Democratic agenda survive the month of June?” “Among the challenging items Schumer said they would consider were the Paycheck Fairness Act and LGBTQ equality legislation, potential gun safety legislation, and S. 1, the For the People Act, Democrats’ all-encompassing election and voting rights legislation.”)
- An ugly new GOP attack line is prompting a useful rethink among Democrats (“How a big special election victory for Democrats is revising their playbook for 2022.”)
- Don McGahn Is Finally Testifying About Trump’s Obstruction. In Other Words, the Cover-up Worked. (“The former White House counsel is two years too late.”)
- McGahn Breaks Little New Ground in Closed-Door Testimony
- Don McGahn tells House panel about Trump’s bid to undermine Mueller probe
- Democrats claim vindication, GOP cries witch hunt as McGahn finally testifies
- Mike Pence Wants the Votes of His Own Hangmen (Bonkers.)
- U.S. government raises alarm on rising threat of ransomware
- Microsoft’s Bing Temporarily Blocked Searches of Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man’ Image
- The hate crawling back out into the open
- Why the Pentagon isn’t heeding calls to prosecute Michael Flynn under military law
- Veterans group official resigns over censorship of Memorial Day speech that highlighted Black history
- Senior Trump Organization Official Is Called to Testify Before Grand Jury
- Manhattan DA brought Trump Organization controller to testify before special grand jury: Sources
- Major Kyrsten Sinema Supporter Says Abolish Filibuster Or Get Out Of The Senate (“Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods prominently backed Sinema, but he says she now needs to support getting rid of the filibuster.”)
- In Response to Oversight Board, Trump Suspended for Two Years; Will Only Be Reinstated if Conditions Permit
- Facebook kicked the Trump can down the road again. Enjoy the respite.
- What Facebook’s two-year Trump ban does and doesn’t do
- Facebook should permanently ban Trump (“Facebook suspended Donald Trump for two years but refuses to do the responsible thing — ban his account entirely”)
- Facebook’s two-year suspension of Trump proves the tech giant won’t take seriously its responsibility for January 6 (“Angelo Carusone on the cowardly and dangerous decision to allow Trump back onto Facebook ahead of the 2024 election”)
- Facebook wanted to escape the Trump trap. So much for that.
- The Terrible Cost of Mark Zuckerberg’s Naïveté
- The Memo: Trump seizes spotlight to distract from defeat
- Trump Calls Facebook’s 2-Year Ban Of Him ‘Abuse’ (“Our country can’t take this abuse anymore!” the former president said in a statement.” When Trump refers to “our country can’t take this abuse anymore,” he really means “I, Donald Trump, can’t take this abuse anymore,” and of course it’s not really abuse.)
- Trump called Arizona Senate president to thank her ‘for pushing to prove any fraud’ in election, emails show (Trump relentlessly pushing the Big Lie.)
- Trump Allies Beg Him Not to Bring Up August ‘Reinstatement’ This Weekend, or Ever
- Justice Dept. Obtained Gag Order on Times Executives in Secret Fight Over Email Logs
- USA Today resists FBI subpoena seeking data of those who read story about agents’ killing
- Judge overturns California’s assault weapons ban (“The federal judge compared an AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife and said the law violates the second amendment” Swiss Army Knife? Uh, no.)
- Federal Judge Overturns California’s 3-Decade-Old Assault Weapons Ban (Appointed by George W. Bush…)
- The state of Alabama took his gun away. When authorities gave it back, he shot and killed his wife.
- Scott Stringer Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct by 2nd Woman
- Is There Time Left for Maya Wiley? (“The former City Hall lawyer considers herself the last progressive standing in the New York City mayoral race.”)
- Spanberger Calls For Oversight Of Pharmaceutical Middlemen
- Gov, LG, AG, Virginia House of Delegates Primary Predictions by Chaz Nuttycombe, Ben Tribbett, Matt Colt Hall, Former Del. Chris Saxman and Blue Virginia
- Top 22 Things to Watch This Coming Tuesday Night in Virginia’s Primary Elections (How high will turnout be? Who will win the Dem primaries for gov, LG and AG? How well will HoD incumbents do? How will the “proxy war” between Dominion and Clean Virginia play out?)
- Northam votes early in Democratic Primary
- Video: In Charlottesville, Democratic Leaders Highlight Glenn Youngkin’s Dangerous Agenda (“We have to be absolutely clear that if you don’t respect elections, you don’t deserve to serve.”)
- Virginians should prepare for hurricane season, Gov. Northam says
- New Virginia Poll: McAuliffe 49%-Carroll Foy 11%-McClellan 9% for Gov; Ayala 16%-Rasoul 11% for LG; Herring 50%-Jones 20% for AG
- Sleepy Democratic primary in Virginia winds to an end
- In Virginia’s Democratic Primary, Analysts Say It’s Terry McAuliffe Vs. The Field (Yep, it’s been that way from start to finish.)
- Jennifer McClellan is focused on a ground game in the final days of the primary
- Last-minute campaigning underway as Virginia Democrats prepare to pick statewide nominees Tuesday
- Roanoke College Poll finds big leads in Governor & AG, but undecided in Lt. Governor Dem primary races
- ‘A dinosaur’ – the pandemic exposed longstanding flaws in Virginia’s unemployment system
- Virginia’s vaccination rates hit a high in April. They’ve dropped by nearly 70% since then
- Friday (6/4) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Hospitalizations, 10-Day New COVID Cases Near Lowest Points Since Start of Pandemic
- Challenger Jones says Attorney General Herring is using organization to hide donors (“Jonathan Berkon, an attorney at the firm Perkins Coie and general counsel to DAGA, said that ‘the money is not earmarked for a particular race.’ Jones made a complaint this week to the Virginia elections commissioner about the situation, but Berkon said Jones misunderstands it and that DAGA has complied with the law.”)
- How President Biden’s proposed budget would impact Hampton Roads
- No decision made on Loudoun Co. teacher’s suspension over transgender comments
- No decision made on Loudoun Co. teacher’s suspension over transgender comments
- Washington and Lee to keep its name
- Washington & Lee won’t change its name. But its deliberations could be a model.
- Judge considering moving Unite the Right lawsuit trial outside of Charlottesville
- Jerry Falwell Jr.: Lawsuit filed by Liberty University is an excuse to shame him
- Richmond’s sheriff faces challenger in Democratic primary on Tuesday
- After months without an update, Richmond schools will resume discussion of police in schools
- ‘The Block’ in Virginia Beach has new police surveillance cameras
- Richmond Braces for an End to Eviction Moratorium
- Arlington announces new police chief, while Alexandria’s chief steps down
- Fairfax parks returning to nearly normal operations
- Confederate Name Replaced With NASA Pioneer’s At Fairfax School (“Fairfax City cut the ribbon Friday on the newly renamed Katherine Johnson Middle School, severing a link to the ‘poet of the Confederacy.'”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Heat cranks up today, with 90s a good bet into early week
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