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Has Trump Changed Democracy Forever? We Asked 11 Historians.
Experts on U.S. history look to the past — and the future.
Politico
Pope Leo XIV celebrates immigrants in speech to Philadelphia crowd amid clash with Trump ahead of 250th anniversary
Pope Leo XIV, who has defended migrants and called for peace, accepted the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal in a speech livestreamed from the Vatican
The Philadelphia Inquirer
At Trump’s Direction, Federal Agencies Are Abandoning Discrimination Cases
President Trump has tried to scale back anti-discrimination regulations that date back decades. Federal agencies have heeded his call.
The New York Times
Planned Parenthood Can Access Medicaid Funds Again as Congress Lets Ban Expire
Reproductive healthcare advocates vowed to keep up the fight as conservative activists pressure Congress to make the funding ban permanent.
Common Dreams
The Onion’s new parody of Alex Jones’ Infowars starts with $100,000 to Sandy Hook families
More than a year after first trying to buy Infowars, The Onion on Thursday will debut a send-up under its own website with plans to give some of the revenue to families of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Chicago Tribune
EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Hundreds of Thousands of Miles
Industry experts think newfound knowledge of battery durability is a game-changer for consumer confidence in EVs
The Wall Street Journal
Utah’s largest solar + battery storage project is officially online
The scale is impressive: Green River Energy Center is built with 993,492 solar panels and 484 Tesla Megapacks, making it the largest solar-plus-storage facility in electric power company PacifiCorp’s six-state service territory.
Electrek
Wisconsin residents sue Microsoft over noise caused by new data center
Residents have also complained the area has become a ‘dust bowl’ due to construction
Independent
US Supreme Court Narrowly Upholds Constitution’s Promise of Birthright Citizenship
A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowly upheld the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
Mississippi Free Press
Celebrations for America’s 250th begin amid heat and political division
Despite sweltering heat, heavy security and brewing protests, thousands were expected to descend on the nation’s capital for the historic anniversary.
The Washington Post
Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment
Wherever data centers are being built, the thieves follow. We do live in a land of opportunity, after all, and what is a data center if not a giant opportunity to steal a lot of copper wiring to offset all the water the data center is going to be stealing from us?
Vice
Electric school buses tapped to shore up fragile US power grids during summer heat
From California to North Carolina, yellow electric school buses are sending power back to the grid, easing some strain when demand spikes during heat waves. Hundreds more are expected to come online.
Reuters
Trump Begins Another White House Renovation Project With No Notice
Donald Trump just can’t leave the White House grounds alone.
The New Republic
The Army Took Down Its Page Commemorating a Civil Rights Icon
A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to “align with current guidance.”
Mother Jones
What J. D. Vance Once Knew
Ten years ago, the vice president wrote that one day, voters would realize the truth about Donald Trump. That day has now arrived.
The Atlantic
The Pacific Ocean is running a fever. Why that’s an ominous sign.
A marine heat wave covering an area eight times the size of the United States could soon fuel serious storms and extreme heat.
The Washington Post
Unpacking the Famous Words in the Declaration of Independence
The United States was written into being. Now, 250 years after the Declaration of Independence, we look at six sentences that shaped the American story — taken from a founding document, an incendiary speech, a classic autobiography, an inaugural address, a protest song and a baseball cap.
The New York Times
Trump Is Acting Like Senator Joe McCarthy on Steroids
Trump is just following in McCarthy’s footsteps by launching his latest BIG LIE yet to firm up his shrinking base of Trumpy MAGA voters: that rising Democratic Socialists are the greatest threat to America.
Common Dreams
The 25 Elections to Watch This July
This month, it’s (almost) entirely about Arizona.
Bolts
Barney Frank & Nancy Pelosi: Congress’ liberal giants are gone. Who will lead the fight now?
Pelosi and Frank came of age when power flowed through committees and leadership offices. Today’s politicians are rewarded for visibility and engagement.
LGBTQ Nation
Miami artists use spotlight on FIFA World Cup to challenge immigration enforcement
Artists for Artists: MIA joined the national “No ICE in the Cup” campaign to call attention to the impact of immigration enforcement in World Cup host cities
Prism Reports
What to Eugene Debs Was the Fourth of July?
Few figures on the left have been as committed to realizing the democratic promise of American politics as Eugene Debs.
Dissent
Go Winning Sportsball Team
The Venezuelan diaspora demands its own voice: The path to representation in the National Assembly
More than eight million Venezuelans living abroad are calling for representation in the National Assembly, a goal that would require a constitutional amendment along with electoral and institutional reforms.
Latino America 21
England and the United States are two countries divided by a common law
Recent US Supreme Court judgments uphold executive power in a way English law does not
Prospect
Huge crowds turn out in Tehran for funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Inside Tehran’s Grand Mosalla, a sea of mourners dressed in black turned out for the start of the dayslong funeral, expected to draw millions from across Iran.
NBC News
Wildfires rage in Portugal, Greece and Spain while Greek authorities warn of toxic smoke
Hundreds of firefighters battled wildfires in Portugal, Greece and Spain on Sunday, with Spain and Italy sending reinforcements to Portugal to help with a massive blaze burning for more than three days.
PBS
From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up
Cooling down has become political amid record highs, as experts say row is distracting from work of protecting lives
The Guardian
Paramount’s Warner deal has a new $650 million problem
The U.K. government is reviewing whether it should intervene in Paramount’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, because of the public interest in relation to media plurality and competition. The Guardian newspaper reported that Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Lisa Nandy declared on June 30 that she was “minded to” issue a public-interest intervention notice in relation to the acquisition and ask the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate the proposed merger.
Miami Herald
The Pacific Ocean is running a fever. Why that’s an ominous sign.
A marine heat wave covering an area eight times the size of the United States could soon fuel serious storms and extreme heat.
The Washington Post
Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion
The EU went after Google for the practice of bundling its search engine and browser with Android.
Ars Technica
Microsoft’s new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens
Microsoft booked 40% of its profits in Ireland, where only 3% of its employees work
Techspot
Voters, voted and not elected in Brazil
Brazilian women are key to deciding the next government, but they continue to be excluded from the main spaces of political power.
Latino America 21
Hate on the ballot: Transphobia and elections
Elections amplify the key challenges that trans people face every day
Global Voices
