March 25, 2025 Journalism, Politics
The New York Times reports: One of President Trump’s former campaign managers, Chris LaCivita, on Monday filed a defamation lawsuit against The Daily Beast over its reporting on how much he was paid by the campaign. It centers on an article published Oct. 15, 2024, with the headline: “Trump In Cash Crisis-As Campaign Chief’s $22m Pay Revealed.” The Daily Beast …
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March 24, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Salon reports: Yes, after weeks of the most uncomfortable will-they-or-won’t-they vibes between walking red flag Saxon Ratliff (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and younger brother Lochlan (Sam Nivola), Sunday’s episode of The White Lotus left us with no doubt that they, indeed, would. In the new episode, “Denials,” as their memories slowly return to them the next day amid soul-crushing hangovers, each Ratliff …
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March 24, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
“You are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again. To include the, I don’t know, the hoax of Russia, Russia, Russia. The fine people on both sides hoax. The suckers and losers hoax. This is guy that peddles in garbage. This is what he does. I …
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March 24, 2025 New York City, Trump Administration
Gothamist reports: MTA data published Monday shows the agency collected nearly $52 million from drivers through its congestion pricing tolls in February, the same month President Donald Trump decreed the program should be scuttled while comparing himself to a king. The haul means the MTA raked in just over $100 million through congestion pricing between its launch on Jan. 5 …
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March 24, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
“The administration, as I understand, I just was with the president in the Oval Office, just now, the administration is addressing what happened. Apparently an inadvertent phone number made it onto that thread. They’re gonna track that down and make sure that doesn’t happen again. What you did see what top-level officials doing their job, doing it well, and executing …
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March 24, 2025 Education, Politics
The Idaho State Journal reports: West Ada School District has recently come under fire after a KTVB story highlighted Lewis and Clark Middle School teacher Sarah Inama, who was asked to remove signs and posters promoting inclusivity from her classroom. The signs share the message that all students are welcome and feature hands of different skin colors and a series …
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March 24, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
Mediaite reports: The challenge for politicians in our digital age is that it’s all too easy for digital sleuths to dig up video clips of their past selves and smack them with charges of hypocrisy. Such is the tale of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who accidentally added a reporter on a group chat discussing secret war plans but less …
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March 24, 2025 Fox News, State Television
“One, it is incredibly concerning that sensitive information would be sent with a journalist included in the thread. We can speculate and there is a reasonable, fair expectation that someone like Jeffery Goldberg was accidently included under his initials J.G. when who was meant to be included was a trade chief, Jamieson Greer. “But, if it was accidental, and we’ll …
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March 24, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
Time Magazine reports: Louis DeJoy has resigned from his role as Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal Service, according to a source familiar with the matter. On Monday, he told the USPS Board of Governors that it would be his last day on the job. He named Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino to take over until the Board names a …
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March 24, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
Forbes reports: A government contractor and lobbyist who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration bought Vice President JD Vance’s Virginia home in an above-market deal, a sale his spokesperson says was based on the market. A company registered in Nevada named 9 EDR LLC, with Christopher Garcia listed as its managing member, purchased Vance’s home in Alexandria, Virginia on …
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