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Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig - I, apparently a naive idiot, had assumed that this was what “we background check our drivers” always meant.
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Techmeme @Techmeme
Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 (@emilysteel / New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/business/uber-moves-to-enact-stricter-background-checks-for-drivers.html
https://www.techmeme.com/260219/p17#a260219p17
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https://x.com/QuinnyPig/status/2024661190237151300

Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org - “In the last 15 years, the number of European unicorns, that is to say, private tech companies worth more than $1 billion, has gone up from 10 to 200,” says @scmallaby in the latest episode of The Spillover podcast.
Watch or listen to this episode where he and co-host Rebecca Patterson are joined by CFR economic expert @edwardfishman: 
https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/spillover/the-european-onion-china-brazil-and-india-take-on-maga
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x_04w_rPBjM
https://x.com/CFR_org/status/2025338937221271719

Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org - With a large U.S. force gathering in the region, the Iranian regime appears as strong today—and just as defiant—as it was before recent nationwide protests, write Reuel Marc Gerecht and CFR expert Ray Takeyh in @nytopinion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/opinion/iran-us-attack-armada-talks.html
https://x.com/CFR_org/status/2025298210885923081

Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org - The March/April issue of @ForeignAffairs is out now.
The latest issue provides analysis on lessons from the war in Ukraine, how President Trump wields U.S. power, kleptocratic governance, and more.
Start reading:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/issues/2026/105/2
https://x.com/CFR_org/status/2025272562767298651

Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org - Video: “Nixon had a flair for the dramatic and he understood how dramatic it would be if he was the one who opened relations with China, rather than Lyndon Johnson or Hubert Humphrey or someone else,” says @JeremiSuri, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Suri joined @JamesMLindsay on The President’s Inbox podcast to discuss President Richard Nixon’s historic 1972 visit to China, which ushered in a new era of U.S.-Sino relations and altered the course of world politics.
Listen to this episode here 
https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/presidents-inbox/america-250-nixon-goes-to-china
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e2kCLKYfWTI
 or wherever you get your podcasts.
https://x.com/CFR_org/status/2025204280949408220

CSPAN @cspan - Q&A with former Washington Post correspondent Wil Haygood, author of "The War Within a War," on the experience of Black American soldiers in Vietnam and the struggle for racial equality, happening at the same time, back home in the United States - 8pm ET on C-SPAN
https://x.com/cspan/status/2025732840873181360

Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - President Trump did not call into C-SPAN on Friday, but President Reagan did 43 years ago this month. https://c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/reagan-call-to-close-up/4533152
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CSPAN @cspan
Because so many of you are talking about Friday’s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as “John Barron,” we want to put this to rest: it was not the president. The call came from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was in a widely covered, in-person White-House meeting with the governors. Tune into C-SPAN for the actual president at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2025729112128528396

Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - Schumer to Lee on partial DHS shutdown Day 9
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Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer
Yes. Cartel hitmen wear masks. That’s why ICE shouldn’t. 
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2025763357471412270
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