July 14, 2025 Ukraine, United States
USA Today reports: President Donald Trump said the United States will send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine that will be reimbursed for by the European Union, offering critical help to Kyiv as it battles an onslaught of Russian drone attacks. Trump did not specify how many weapons systems the United States would provide and told reporters it had not …
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July 14, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
Bloomberg Law reports: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, removing the Justice Department’s top official responsible for counseling the most senior political appointees, according to two people familiar with the move. Joseph Tirrell, a career attorney who’d spent nearly 20 years at the department, received a termination letter from Bondi July 11 that didn’t state a …
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July 14, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Guardian reports: Donald Trump was front and center for Chelsea’s trophy lift and was greeted by widespread boos at the FIFA Club World Cup final at a sold-out MetLife Stadium on Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Trump was booed while appearing on video boards during the playing of the national anthem before the match, and then later while …
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July 13, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Variety reports: Superman can lift up collapsing buildings, Godzilla-sized monsters and, now, the box office. “Superman,” the newly rebooted comic book adventure starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel, flew to $122 million in its first weekend of release. Those are strong ticket sales, enough to rank as the year’s third-largest debut after “A Minecraft Movie” ($162 million) and …
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July 13, 2025 Christianists, Extremists
“Speaking of the LGBT, it not just the ‘T’ that is fading from the public square. After decades of nonstop lavender propaganda, Pride parades are getting canceled for lack of attendance! (Crowd cheers loudly.) Lack of interest! (Cheering continues.) JoJo Sliwa is no longer a lesbian! (Crowd screams in joy.) Nature is healing. It’s great.” – Daily Wire podcaster Michael …
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July 13, 2025 Homocons, Trump Administration
The Hill reports: President Trump’s envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, is causing tensions within the State Department as critics say his “freelancing” is damaging U.S. diplomatic negotiations and threatening national security. The most recent controversy includes a botched effort to secure the release of Americans unjustly detained in Venezuela that fell apart because Grenell and Secretary of State Marco …
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July 13, 2025 Medicine, Science
Science reports: In response to White House concerns about allegedly risky research on viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun a crackdown on dozens of studies it was funding, ScienceInsider has learned. Citing Trump’s executive order promising greater oversight of “gain-of-function” (GOF) research that’s potentially dangerous, the agency has demanded the scientists leading those …
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July 13, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
“Come up here and hand me that picture. Bring it. They’ve got morons like this all over the country. This guy ain’t got the balls to be an ICE officer. He hasn’t got the balls to be a border patrol agent. This guy lives in his mother’s basement. The only thing that surprises me is that you don’t got purple …
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July 13, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump on Sunday will attend the FIFA Club World Cup final, a match that will offer Trump a preview of the globe’s premier soccer tournament that North America will host next year. Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel from their golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to East Rutherford 40 miles away …
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July 13, 2025 Christianists, Extremists
“We just need to hit the reset button and it starts with turning our own hearts back to God as parents, living these things out by teaching our children the right stuff, and then modeling it for them. So what we’re trying to do with See You at the Library is just right the ship. We don’t have to go …
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