Sunday News: “French far right seeks vote win but deadlock looms”; “Trump Ripped for Denying Project 2025 Connections, Despite the Evidence”; “Mainstream media…sabotaging the only thing standing between us and this third coup”; “Is This Kamala Harris’s Moment?”

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 7.

• World’s biggest solar farm will power 6 million homes (“The 8 gigawatt facility in Inner Mongolia is more than half the entire installed solar capacity in the UK”)
• Plastics Makers Tout “a World Without Waste.” But what Does That Mean? (“While plastics manufacturers concede that pollution is a scourge, they don’t think the solution is to decrease the production and use of their products.”)
• The ‘fearless young activists’ thrown in jail for climate campaigns in Cambodia
• Air strike leaves 100,000 without power in Ukraine (“Russia continues to pummel energy sites across Ukraine, plunging the country into extended blackouts.”)
• The Strange Future After a Second Trump Term (“The dollar will decline, Europe will rise, and Asia will nuclearize.”)
• Hamas clears the way for a possible cease-fire in Gaza after dropping key demand, officials say (Will believe it if/when we see it.)
• Crushing Debts Await Europe’s New Leaders(“Planned largess by election winners in Britain and France is on a collision course with soaring debts and deficits”)
• Starmer Is Suddenly the West’s Last Man Standing Tall (“Only days after shaking hands with Elmo in a town hall, Keir Starmer is soon headed to a NATO summit as the strongest leader in the room.”)
• The French republic is under threat. We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent
• A far-right win or a hung parliament? Follow France election live updates (“Polls are open for the second round of the French elections, which may lead to France’s first far-right government since the World War II Nazi occupation.”)
• French Jewish people conflicted over voting choices amid antisemitism fears
• Polls open in one of most important French elections in living memory
• French far right seeks vote win but deadlock looms
• Turnout is High as France’s Snap Election Enters Its Final Hours
• Rafah is a dusty, rubble-strewn ghost town 2 months after Israel invaded to root out Hamas
• Israeli air strike on Gaza school kills at least 16
• In Rafah, We Saw Destruction and the Limits of Israel’s Gaza Strategy
• Temperature records are shattered as extreme heat grips the West and East coasts
• ‘Potentially historic’ heatwave threatens more than 130 million people across US
• Torrid Heat in Large Swaths of US Sets Records, Fans Wildfires
• Western US bakes in heatwave
• Beryl is expected to regain strength and slam into Texas as a hurricane, marking the first US landfall of the Atlantic season
• The Supreme Court folds
• Supreme Court ethics remain at center stage after hard-right rulings
• The Supreme Court upended gun laws nationwide. Mass confusion has followed.
• The Supreme Court is making big changes to how the government works (What a bizarre, anodyne headline.)
• Trump wins delay in classified documents case (Trump’s strategy of “delay, delay, delay” is working, unfortunately. Massive failure by our justice system, our political system, etc.)
• Former Trump Advisor Stephen Miller Denies Involvement With Project 2025, Ad Says Otherwise (Stephen Miller is a far-right extremist, viciously anti-immigrant, etc. He should be allowed NOWHERE NEAR POWER!)
• Trump World ‘panicking’ as Project 2025 gets on the radar of voters
• Biden assails Project 2025, a plan to transform government, and Trump’s claim to be unaware of it
• Statement from President Joe Biden on Donald Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda (“We can always rely on Donald Trump for one thing: to lie to the American people in pursuit of power.”)
• Trump Ripped for Denying Project 2025 Connections, Despite the Evidence
• Jill Biden’s Momentous Choice
• ‘We’re doomed’: Democratic lawmakers worry Biden’s interview won’t save his campaign (“Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., became the latest Democrat to call for Biden to ‘step aside for the next generation of leadership.'”)
• Biden’s TV interview fails to quell re-election concerns among lawmakers, donors and strategists
• To a defiant Biden, the 2024 race is up to the voters, not to Democrats on Capitol Hill
• Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? (“…they’re doing exactly what they did in the 2016 presidential race – providing wildly asymmetrical and inflammatory coverage of the one candidate running against Donald J Trump.” The “mainstream media… seems more concerned with sabotaging the only thing standing between us and this third coup.”)
• Did Joe Biden’s ABC Interview Stanch the Bleeding or Prolong It?
• Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Loss
• Hawaii governor says Biden could decide within days whether to remain in the presidential race
• At Essence, Black Democrats rally behind Biden and talk up Kamala Harris, but she avoids the drama
• What would a Harris candidacy mean for the elusive independent woman voter?
• Could Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump in November’s presidential race? (“She worries Republican donors, has name recognition, and Democratic Party heavyweights are beginning to line up behind her.”)
• Is This Kamala Harris’s Moment?
• Assured Kamala Harris cuts a transformed figure in New Orleans – and carefully avoids any mention of Biden’s fitness for office
• Angie Craig becomes first battleground Dem to call for Biden to withdraw
• Biden team says it’ll stop offering questions to interviewers after radio host says aides gave her questions
• America may soon be subjected to the country’s first DEI president: Kamala Harris (I’m including this article from the horrible Rupert Murdoch’s disgusting NY Post just to make a couple points: 1) when right wingers refer to Kamala Harris as “the country’s first DEI president,” they mean “the country’s first Black woman president” – and they despise that idea; 2) Murdoch is evil)
• Harris puts focus on beating Trump, not concerns over Biden, as she tries to appeal to Black voters
• It’s Time to Get Used to the Idea of President Kamala Harris (“If Kamala Harris runs, she has a very good chance of winning, given Donald Trump’s grotesque defects—and her strengths.”)
• All eyes on Jeffries as Democrats weigh Biden’s future
• Mike Lee spreads fake claim of Biden medical emergency on Air Force One (Mike Lee is evil.)
• Vying for West Virginia Governor, an ‘All of the Above’ Democrat Faces Long Odds Against a Republican Fossil Fuel Booster
• Team Biden-Harris and Virginia Democrats Energize Voters on July 4th Across the Commonwealth
• CASEY: What’s the best Virginia edifice to honor Donald J. Trump? (“It stands on the banks of the Roanoke River in the city’s southeast quadrant. And daily, 37 million gallons of feces, urine and other wastewater flow through that marvelous complex. Which makes it the perfect item to name for Trump. Just imagine ‘The Donald J. Trump Center for Solid & Liquid Human Waste.’ Or something metaphorically similar…you still can’t print the s-word and the p-word in a family newspaper.”)
• Norfolk’s first Black fire chief brings 40 years of experience — and department history
• Shootout leaves man, police officer injured in Norfolk, officials say
• Virginia School Board Member Sentenced In Jan. 6 Case Says He Won’t Resign
• D.C.-area forecast: Sizzling Sunday with lower humidity. Staying hot through midweek. (“The heat index should reach near or above 100 tomorrow through Wednesday. Shower and storm chances gradually rise tomorrow through Wednesday.”)