by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 6.
- Europe’s summer is getting longer: Heat now lasts up to 5 months in cities like Athens and Tirana
- Trump on if he can end fighting in Ukraine: ‘I don’t know’ (“Throughout the campaign, Trump pledged to end the fighting between the two countries on day one of entering office.” Massive LIE by Trump, as this was never even remotely possible and he – or his people – must have known that.)
- Don’t believe the conventional wisdom. Ukraine can still lose.
- The Head of NATO Thinks President Trump ‘Deserves All the Praise’ (Obvious, cynical, calculated strategy, but it could be effective with the vain, narcissistic Trump?)
- US Trade Partners Race for Deals as Trump Readies Tariff Notices
- Trump Admin Insider Blows Lid Off Tariffs: ‘It’s All Fake’ (“A source deeply embedded in the Trump administration’s ongoing trade talks accused the Republican president of waging a tariff war for TV ratings.”)
- ‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France (“Almost 300 researchers have applied for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump unleashed his attack on academia”)
- Beijing wants America to depend on China. Here’s how to fight back.
- Trump Says He Will Start Talks With China on TikTok Deal
- China and Russia Keep Their Distance From Iran During Crisis
- Iran’s supreme leader makes first public appearance since Iran-Israel war started (HORRIBLE “leader”)
- Hezbollah leader refuses to disarm until Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon
- Israel to send negotiators to Gaza talks despite ‘unacceptable’ Hamas demands, PM says
- With One War Over, Netanyahu Heads to Washington Amid Calls to End Another
- Israel sends team to Qatar for hostage talks, but deems Hamas demands ‘unacceptable’ (“Hostage families demand comprehensive deal, likening partial deals that leave some behind to ‘selection’ at Nazi death camps; PM set to discuss Gaza at Monday meeting with Trump”)
- U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo (Craaazy.)
- 6-year-old Honduran boy with leukemia who had been seized by ICE is back in L.A.
- Heat, storms, mosquitoes the big threats at Everglades detention camp, experts say
- Joe Rogan Feels Trump Betrayed Him on Immigration (Rogan is just figuring this out now? LOL)
- Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US (This is on anti-vaxxer lunatics like RFK Jr.)
- Whose ‘utmost, sincere convictions’ matter to the Supreme Court?
- If the US president threatens to take away freedoms, are we no longer free? (“When the president of the United States makes clear that actually that is not the case, that if you say things he doesn’t like, you will be singled out, and the full force of the state could be brought down on your head, then you’re no longer free.”)
- Why Trump’s hold on the GOP Congress may threaten its hold on power
- Trump branded, browbeat and prevailed. But his big bill may come at a political cost
- The GOP’s Big Bill Is Massively Unpopular — If People Actually Know About It
- Jeff Flake: In Today’s G.O.P., Voting Your Conscience Is Disqualifying
- Trump Pollution Exemptions Would Shield Lawbreakers, Endanger Millions (“Analysis shows EPA rollbacks of the HON rule would put overburdened communities at risk and benefit chemical plants that frequently violate their permits.”)
- So big, so beautiful: Fox News ignores the critics and champions Trump’s bill (Fox “News” is anything but real news – it’s just propaganda for Trump, MAGA, etc. That’s it.)
- Guess Who’s Paying For Part Of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”? (“The president signed the GOP-led package of tax and spending cuts, which includes new fees on immigrants, both documented and not.”)
- Musk announces arrival of new ‘America Party’ after Trump split
- Elon Musk Says He Will Start a New Political Party
- Musk announces forming of ‘America Party’ in further break from Trump
- Rep. Mark Green resigns from Congress, leaving Speaker Johnson with an even narrower Republican majority in the House (Another 10 or so Republicans should do the same, flipping the House to Democratic control, immediately. But they won’t, of course, because that would require them to put country over career, principle over party…)
- Musk’s AI Robot Blames Trump and Its Own Creator for Texas Flooding Deaths
- Texas flooding latest: 43 dead, including 15 children, as search for some two dozen girls continues
- As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
- In Texas region prone to catastrophic floods, questions grow about lack of warning
- Texas Officials Slam Trump’s National Weather Service for Bad Forecast
- Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas
- The NWS apparently did its job
- Did the DOGE layoffs at the National Weather Service just kill a bunch of people?
- Tropical Storm Chantal strengthens slightly as it nears landfall in South Carolina
- North Carolina is in play in 2026. But look at what the GOP is up to.
- ‘Tears My Heart to Pieces’: North Carolina Braces for Medicaid Cuts
- GOP eyes redistricting in Ohio and Texas as it looks to bolster slim majority
- Kamala Harris Sparks MAGA Meltdown With Fourth of July Post
- What Impact Could Musk’s “America Party” Have in the the 2026 Midterms (and Maybe the 2028 Presidential Election), Including Here in Virginia? (Musk’s party wouldn’t need to get huge percentages to have a serious impact in the midterms, including in places like VA02, plus in the 2028 presidential election…)
- Virginia Has Become a Hotbed for Immigration Arrests (“Lawyers and advocates have theories as to why immigration arrests have accelerated in Virginia at a rate more than that of almost any other state.”)
- Monticello ceremony welcomes 74 new citizens on same day ICE is given unprecedented power
- Earle-Sears to Newsmax: Spanberger ‘Put Our Nation at Risk’ (I’m including this just to say that Earle-Sears is flailing; this charge, that Spanberger supposedly put our country at risk by supposedly covering up Joe Biden’s alleged cognitive decline is bizarre on multiple levels, and really says a million times more about Earle-Sears than about Spanberger.)
- Democrats and Republicans were out on the Virginia campaign trail. Here’s what they had to say.
- Williams: MAGA turns back the clock at UVa
- 50 people protest Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” in Richmond
- CWG Live updates: More humid today as storm chances gradually return early this week
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