June 2021 News
Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative June, 2021 news and views
June 2
Top Headlines
Washington Post, Biden promises to combat GOP efforts to restrict voting rights- Washington Post, VMI has tolerated ‘racist and sexist culture’ and must change, investigation finds
- Washington Post, JBS, world’s biggest meat supplier, says its systems are coming back online after cyberattack
- Washington Post, A student was barred from graduation for wearing the wrong shoes. So a teacher gave him the shoes off his own feet
- Washington Post, Israel opposition says it’s ready to vote on ousting Netanyahu
Virus Victims, Responses
Washington Post, Analysis: The pandemic is getting worse, even when it seems like it’s getting better, Ishaan Tharoor- Washington Post, 168.5 million U.S. vaccinated
- Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 610,436
- Washington Post, Opinion: We need to investigate the lab-leak theory — without inflaming anti-Asian hate, Leana S. Wen
- Washington Post, Inside Fauci’s spring 2020 emails with a Chinese official, Pence’s chief of staff, regular citizens
New York Times, Opinion: The End of the C.D.C. Eviction Moratorium Means Trouble, Peter Hepburn
U.S. Crime, Courts, Race
New York Times, Trump Administration Secretly Seized Phone Records of Times Reporters, - Washington Post, Tampa man pleads guilty to felony in Jan. 6 Capitol riot; his sentencing could set bar for others
- Vice, QAnon Has a Disturbing Takeover Plot to ‘Eliminate’ Elected Officials, David Gilbert
- Washington Post, Supreme Court will not take up Johnson & Johnson challenge of $2.1 billion cancer case award
U.S. Politics, Governance
- Washington Post, Republicans aren’t ‘looking forward.’ They’re stepping into a Jim Crow past, Dana Milbank
- Anchorage Daily News, Biden administration suspends oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Washington Post, Administration suspends oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Palmer Report, Opinion: Last night’s House special election just revealed the trajectory the Democrats are on for the 2022 midterms, Bill Palmer- Washington Post, What lawmakers, White House officials have said about UFOs
- Washington Post, Analysis: At least 20 Republican senators didn’t meet with Brian Sicknick’s family, Jacqueline Alemany
- Washington Post, This Senate is the oldest in American history. Should we do anything about it
Trump News
Washington Post, Opinion: Trump’s blog just shut down. Without the mainstream media, he’s starving, Paul Waldman- Washington Post, Trump has grown increasingly consumed with ballot audits as he pushes falsehood that election was stolen
- Palmer Report, Opinion: So that explains why Donald Trump pulled that “reinstatement” stunt yesterday, Bill Palmer
- Washington Post, Trump’s company will try again to sell lease for its D.C.