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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, June 29.
- ‘Climate is our biggest war’, warns CEO of Cop30 ahead of UN summit in Brazil (“Negotiators doubt countries’ financial and environmental commitment as military and trade wars divert attention” Humanity is MASSIVELY blowing it, both on the collective and individual level.)
- Exclusive | Trump Goes to Bat for Big Oil on Climate Rules in EU Trade Talks (Insanity – and massive corruption.)
- Russian and U.S. spy chiefs agree to call at any time, SVR director says (WTF?)
- Ukraine F-16 pilot killed in large-scale Russian attack (“Ukraine says recent Russian attacks highlight its need for further support from Washington for air defenses including more Patriot-missile batteries from the U.S.”)
- Top Ukrainian commander sees new assault on key eastern city
- After War With Israel and U.S., Iran Rests on a Knife Edge (It would be great to see this horrible regime fall.)
- Israel and U.S. Smashed Iran Nuclear Site That Grew After Trump Quit 2015 Accord (Exactly: Trump pulling the US out of the JCPOA led to Iran rapidly rebuilding/growing its nuclear weapons program.)
- Iran reportedly bans IAEA chief, surveillance cameras from nuclear plants
- Iran could start enriching uranium for bomb within months, UN nuclear chief says
- UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’
- Israel says it killed Hamas founder in strike (Burn in hell.)
- Trump calls for a deal on the Gaza war as signs of progress emerge (It’s long past time for this nightmare to end.)
- Israel orders evacuations in northern Gaza as Trump calls for war to end (Again, it’s long past time for this nightmare to end.)
- Food for starving children worldwide is still sitting in a Rhode Island warehouse. It’s a case study in DOGE aftermath. (F’ing evil.)
- Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban
- Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed. (“Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the case.”)
- Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles
- Protesters line highway in Florida Everglades to oppose ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ (This is a concentration camp, and it’s wildly unacceptable on every level!)
- The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
- Trump’s Immigration Arrests Are Seeing A Wave Of Resistance (“The mass deportation agenda relies upon some key choke points.”)
- After decades in the US, Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive (There is ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON FOR THIS.)
- Trump Admin Says ICE Agents are the Real Victims Amid Violent Immigration Raids
- What Does the Birthright Citizenship Ruling Portend?
- After criticism from MAGA world, Amy Coney Barrett delivers for Trump (Of course…)
- The Supreme Court’s Ban on Universal Injunctions Will Kneecap Americans Fighting for their Rights
- People whose lives were permanently altered by disease send a warning as vaccine opposition grows
- Fact check: Trump makes big false claims about his big domestic policy bill (Lie after lie after lie…)
- Senate Republicans prepare to take up Trump’s tax bill this afternoon (Absolute unmitigated DISASTER.)
- Senate Advances Trump’s Massive Tax Bill After Key Holdouts Flip To ‘Yes’ (They get threatened and always cave. Just pathetic.)
- Schumer to force reading of 1,000-page GOP mega bill, delaying it by half a day
- Trump megabill narrowly advances in Senate despite two GOP defections (Appalling.)
- Lee pulls federal land sales from megabill
- Thune, Vance cut deal with Senate conservatives to save GOP megabill
- ‘Insane and destructive’: Elon Musk resumes attacks on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
- Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of ‘devastation’ from megabill
- House could vote on megabill as soon as Tuesday
- Why a G.O.P. Medicaid Requirement Could Set States Up for Failure
- Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate
- Senate Republicans advance Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ but final vote hangs in balance
- Democrats wrestle with how to conduct oversight as Trump officials crack down
- US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers
- Joe Biden and Kamala Harris attend funeral of slain Minnesota lawmaker
- Democrats Are Failing to Adapt to Trump’s New World
- The Democratic Party is ripe for a takeover (“Is this the start of the Democrats’ Tea Party?”)
- VA11 Dems Firehouse Primary Results Thread; Votes Being Counted, but Stella Pekarsky Campaign Already Has Congratulated James Walkinshaw “for his victory tonight” (Turnout was close to 40k, a record for a VA Dem “firehouse primary”)
- Walkinshaw wins Virginia primary to replace Rep. Connolly, his former boss
- Walkinshaw wins Democratic nomination for Virginia’s Eleventh Congressional District
- Stewart Whitson and James Walkinshaw to face off in Virginia’s Sept. 9 special election (Whitson is a Trump FANATIC who literally believes that Trump is infallible. Beyond parody.)
- Video: At 2025 VA Women’s Summit, Abigail Spanberger Says Forced Resignation of UVA President Was “extortion” and “assault on academic freedom” by Trump Administration (Spanberger says Virginians have “an amazing opportunity and an amazing responsibility” this year to push back)
- Everything you need to know about new Virginia laws taking effect July 1
- Video: VA Senate Dems Agree That Ouster of UVA President Was “deliberately coordinated, specifically planned-out”; “the Youngkin administration coordinated this with the Trump administration” (Youngkin is “more loyal to the Trump administration than he is to the voters of Virginia, because he’s worried about his presidential ambitions and his political base.”)
- Senate Democratic leader warns University of Virginia not to pick a new president ‘anytime soon’
- Editorial: In Chesterfield, ICE does its job – stoking fear for political gain (Yep, appalling.)
- Williams: ‘A huge fan of Richmond:’ CAO Odie Donald II takes charge
- Editorial: Our community holds its breath as USS Ford Strike Group departs
- Warm and humid with a storm threat into Tuesday, then trending drier
