July 24, 2025 Business, News
CNBC reports: Uber announced a new feature Wednesday that pairs women drivers and riders, in its latest move to address safety on the ride-hailing platform. The new tool, which the platform will begin piloting next month in the U.S., allows women passengers to match with women drivers when booking or pre-booking rides, and create a preference in their app settings. …
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July 24, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
ABC News reports: Columbia University has agreed to pay $200 million over the next three years to resolve claims it discriminated against Jewish students — an agreement the university said will restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants the Trump administration had terminated or paused earlier this year. “While Columbia does not admit to wrongdoing with this resolution …
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July 24, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Politico reports: Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley will run for Senate in North Carolina and will have the blessing of President Donald Trump after his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, opted not to seek the seat, two people familiar with the decision told POLITICO. Whatley’s entry into the race sets up the prospect of a highly-competitive and well-funded election in a …
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July 23, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Variety reports: Sacha Baron Cohen is shocking fans with his Men’s Fitness U.K. cover story, which includes photos of the muscular body transformation he underwent before filming scenes as Mephisto in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The “Borat” creator debuted as the infamous comic book villain in the Disney+ series “Ironheart” earlier this summer. “Some celebs use Ozempic and some use …
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July 23, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Washington Post reports: Kari Lake, the Arizona Republican politician tasked with overseeing the Trump administration’s dismantling of Voice of America, has taken new steps to consolidate power at the agency. On Tuesday, Lake had Victor Morales — the acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, VOA’s parent agency — locked out of his email and electronic systems, …
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July 23, 2025 Infighting Is Funny, Republicans
Axios reports: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is standing in the way of Mike Waltz’s nomination as ambassador to the United Nations, dealing a serious setback to Trump’s former national security adviser, sources familiar with the matter tell Axios. Paul’s resistance to Waltz forced the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to delay an expected Wednesday vote on the nomination. The committee is …
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July 23, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
“The Wall Street Journal and the Murdochs, as I have warned for years, are true enemies of this movement, true enemies of MAGA, true enemies of the United States, and particularly, true enemies of President Trump. “The other day, the half-baked story where they dropped it because Tulsi was releasing the first information on Friday to bigfoot the story with …
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July 23, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Associated Press reports: Democrats on a subcommittee of the powerful House Committee on Oversight made a motion for the subpoena Wednesday afternoon, just hours before the House was scheduled to end its July work session and depart Washington for a monthlong break. Three Republicans on the panel voted with Democrats for the subpoena, sending it through on an 8-2 …
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July 23, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Times reports: When the State Department secured the release of 10 Americans and permanent legal residents from a Venezuela prison last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the action as part of an effort to safeguard the well-being of Americans unjustly held abroad. But one of the men released from the prison, an American-Venezuelan dual national …
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July 23, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
An inconvenient flashback from 2018… TULSI GABBARD: “When you’re talking about these Russian troll farms that you mentioned, what is missing from all of the news coverage around this and all of the outrage about how this foreign country is trying to influence our elections, which is wrong and which the American people need to be aware of, where this …
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