daily links: july 2025

7.1.25
ABCnews.com—Senate narrowly passes its version of Trump's funding bill, a tiebreaker that required VP JD Vance to cast the deciding vote
NBC News—Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart dies at 90
CBS News—Beachgoer finds $500,000 in cocaine washed ashore
CNN.com—Eiffel Tower forced to close due to excessive heat in Paris
USA Today—Trump threatens to deport Elon Musk as their feud reignites
BBC News—British banknotes to get their first major redesign in 50 years


7.2.25
USA Today—Wisconsin supreme court invalidates the state's strict abortion law from 1849
ABCnews.com—Diddy acquitted of most serious charges, but still convicted on two counts of sex trafficking and will be held in custody until sentencing
BBC News—Microsoft laying off 9,000 workers
CBS News—Former criminal justice student pleads guilty to murdering four students in Idaho in 2022
NBC News—Chuck E. Cheese launching new arcade for adults
CNN.com—Del Monte files for bankruptcy


7.3.25
USA Today—Trash piling up in Philadelphia as city workers go on strike
CNN.com—New trial in the UK suggests that employers benefit from a 4 day workweek after previous experiments have shown that it benefits workers in multiple ways
CBS News—ICE arrests former world champion boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. over alleged ties to Mexican cartels
NBC News—Basketball fans can now rent out Michael Jordan's former Chicago mansion on Airbnb
ABCnews.com—As egg prices go down, Waffle House drops egg surcharge that it instituted five months ago
BBC News—Tesla sales fall for second straight quarter, and are down 14% year over year


7.8.25
CBS News—Supreme Court rolls over for their master again and clears the way for Trump's illegal mass firings of hundreds of federal workers
BBC News—Over 100 people dead after Texas floods, with over 100 more still missing
NBC News—Musk's AI chatbot Grok spews blatantly antisemitic posts after recent update telling it to be less PC
CNN.com—TSA will no longer require airline passengers to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints
ABCnews.com—Planned Parenthood sues Trump administration over targeted defunding in the recently passed megabill
USA Today—Pterosaur fossils found in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park


7.9.25
BBC News—Nvidia becomes world's first $4 trillion company
ABCnews.com—Measles cases hit their highest numbers in over three decades, thanks in no small part to the anti-vaccine, anti-science nonsense of Republicans
CNN.com—FEMA's ability to respond to the Texas floods hampered by Trump's budget and staff cuts
CBS News—Supreme Court puts temporary hold on a new Florida immigration law
NBC News—One year old child dies after being left in hot car by itself while her mom got lip filler injections
USA Today—Panera unveils mac and cheese flavored lip balm


7.10.25
ABCnews.com—Federal judge puts block on Trump's birthright citizenship executive order that is in compliance with recent Supreme Court ruling
CBS News—Whistleblowers texts reveal that one of Trump's judicial nominees urged a lawyer to ignore a court order
NBC News—Man who was detained by ICE (in what was eventually deemed to be unlawful) files $20 million lawsuit against the Trump administration for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution
BBC News—Union for video game actors ends strike after coming to new terms regarding the use of AI to create their voices and performances
CNN.com—Nutella parent company is buying cereal maker Kellogg in $3.1 billion deal
USA Today—Texas man dies while hiking the Grand Canyon in extreme heat


7.15.25
CNN.com—Bondi and Trump criticized by far right supporters for promising to release information about Epstein's clients and then refusing to do so, likely because Trump is all over them
ABCnews.com—Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with his plan to dismantle the Department of Education
USA Today—Pentagon pulls 2000 illegally deployed National Guardsmen from California
NBC News—Inflation rises in June as impact of tariffs starts to hit the economy
CBS News—Varsity Blues scandal mastermind opens new college coaching service
BBC News—Beyonce has unreleased music stolen from her car while on tour


7.16.25
CNN.com—Trump administration plans to destroy 500 tons of already-paid-for food instead of distributing it to people who need it—and it will cost another $100,000 to destroy it
BBC News—Largest Martian meteorite ever discovered on Earth sells at auction for over $4 million
CBS News—Trump fires Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI director James Comey (who essentially handed the 2016 election to Trump). She was the prosecuting attorney for the successful Diddy and Epstein cases.
USA Today—Trump calls the Epstein files a hoax after saying for years that he would release them if elected again, knowing full well that his name is all over them
ABCnews.com—Golfer dies after being struck by lightning while playing on a course in New Jersey
NBC News—Bitcoin hits new record high


7.17.25
BBC News—US passes its first legislation focused on regulating cryptocurrency
ABCnews.com—Stephen Colbert's Late Show canceled by CBS, who cited financial reasons despite the show regularly winning its time slot. Colbert recently criticized CBS as cowardly for paying a settlement to Trump in a spurious lawsuit, but I'm sure that's purely coincidental.
CNN.com—Trump diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency after weeks of significant swelling in his legs
NBC News—Caitlin Clark says she will not play in this year's WNBA All-Star game
USA Today—Texas grandfather arrested after newborn discovered in Walmart restroom trash bag
CBS News—About half of all private sector workers in America lack access to a retirement savings plan


7.22.25
ABCnews.com—Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76
USA Today—Army reveals that Trump's poorly attended birthday parade in DC (which was ostensibly a Flag Day parade) cost taxpayers $30 million
CBS News—Hershey will raise candy prices due to rising costs of cocoa
BBC News—Coca-Cola says it will revert to cane sugar recipe for Coke after nagging from Trump (who, last I checked, actually drinks Diet Coke). This will actually hurt corn farmers who likely voted for Trump.
CNN.com—House Republicans want to name the Kennedy Center opera house after Melania Trump
NBC News—Columbia University disciplines 70 students who participated in protests on campus, including some expulsions and degree revocations


7.23.25
ABCnews.com—Pam Bondi told Trump that his name appears multiple times in government files on Epstein, and that she would not release any additional documents from those files
CNN.com—Pentagon watchdog group says it has evidence that Trump's secretary of defense included classified information in Signal chats that included those without the proper clearances
NBC News—Former NC governor Roy Cooper will enter 2026 Senate race in an attempt to flip a GOP seat for the Dems
BBC News—DC beats out LA as the metro area with the worst traffic in the US
CBS News—Bryan Kohlberger receives 4 life sentences without parole for the murders of four Idaho college students. Despite pleading guilty, Kohlberger refused to offer an explantion for why he committed the crimes nor to share a statement of remorse for them.
USA Today—Crocs releasing Krispy Kreme-inspired clogs


7.24.25
CNN.com—France says it will officially recognize a Palestenian state
BBC News—FCC approves $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance
ABCnews.com—Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell meets with DOJ
USA Today—Musk tells many, many lies during earnings call in an attempt to salvage Tesla's tanking stock price
NBC News—Medical examiner's report reveals that celebrity chef Anne Burrell died by suicide
CBS News—Hulk Hogan dies at 71


7.29.25
BBC News—US and China end trade talks with no resolution and a temporary agreement expiring in a couple of weeks
CNN.com—Trump illegally freezes $108 million in funding for Duke that was legally allotted to them by Congress
ABCnews.com—Gunman opens fire at NYC office building, killing four before killing himself
CBS News—Ghislaine Maxwell says she will only testify before Congress if she is given immunity or a pardon. Don't fall for it—she's just going to lie to protect Trump anyway.
USA Today—Southwest Airlines will now sell assigned seats
NBC News—FDA wants to classify opioid-like substances like kratom as illicit substances

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