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As one right-wing news outlet reported that it had “unmasked” a protester who for months has been participating in nonviolent resistance against the Trump administration’s agenda in Portland, Oregon, while dressed in a frog costume, one journalist spoke directly to the demonstrator about their views and motivations.

“I come out here day in and day out since June because I am worried about my community, I am concerned with what is happening in my community,” said the protester, whom news outlets have recently identified as Seth Todd. “I don’t want to see anyone treated inhumanely.”

White House correspondent Andrew Egger tells The Bulwark that one of the most insidious things about Donald Trump’s decade-long turn atop our politics is the way “we seem to be losing some of our inability even to feel the shock.”

“You could see this in some of the early reactions last night to the news of Letitia James’s indictment on two counts of mortgage fraud,” said Egger. “The New York attorney general has been near the top of Trump’s enemies list for a while, and literally nobody … seems to be trying to argue that this indictment isn’t an act of naked political retribution.”

The stock markets fell on Friday after President Donald Trump "spooked markets" when he took to Truth Social to threaten more tariffs, according to a report.

The New York Times reported that the S&P 500 fell 2.7%, which is the worst in the past six months. The same thing happened with the Nasdaq Composite, which had the worst tumble since the announcement of the Trump tariffs in April.

President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Friday evening to vent fury over China's trade practices — and announce a retaliatory tariff that markets have feared.

This follows a previous rant earlier in the day on the same topic, as China condemns retaliatory port fees for U.S. ships.

New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli might occasionally mention President Donald Trump, but he certainly doesn't have the president doing one of his signature campaign rallies to aid in the campaign.

Ciattarelli might be having a MAGA rally, but the most significant MAGA influencer won't be there, Politico reported Friday.

Longtime GOP strategist Frank Luntz had a harsh warning for Capitol Hill on CNN Friday afternoon as the government shutdown drags on into its second week: don't let the two most electorally important groups become a casualty of the standoff, or they will blitz the ballot box with a vengeance.

There currently appears to be no end in sight to the impasse, with Democrats demanding an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies for millions of people whose premiums are set to go up, and Republicans refusing to discuss the matter until a clean bill is passed reopening federal agencies. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is seizing on the chaos to lay off thousands more federal workers.

After reports that the Trump administration has gutted its enforcement of the Fair Housing Act, civil rights and housing advocates are warning that the president’s newly confirmed appointee to lead the office responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws will seek to further erode civil rights protections.

On Tuesday, the US Senate confirmed Craig Trainor—as part of a group of 107 nominees to various executive posts—to be assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The office is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws, including laws that prohibit housing discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, and sex.

A WGN video producer was handcuffed and taken into custody by federal agents on Friday morning while documenting the arrest of a Latino man, and one legal analyst warned the move defied a court order.

Debbie Brockman was shown face down on the pavement with her pants pulled down. Chicago local Josh Thomas observed the situation and captured the incident on video. Brockman was seen repeating her name and indicating who she worked for, asking that the station be notified.

President Donald Trump's former national security advisor, John Bolton, appears to be next on the target list for the administration to charge, MSNBC investigative journalist Carol Leonnig reported Friday afternoon on air.

She explained that the Justice Department was seeking charges against him "as early as next week."

A firm that cut millions of dollars in donations to President Donald Trump's plan for a massive new ballroom wing of the White House has suddenly found one of its flagship energy projects canceled by the Bureau of Land Management with no explanation.

According to The New York Times, "The project, known as Esmeralda 7, would have comprised a sprawling network of solar panels and batteries across 118,000 acres of federally owned land in the Nevada desert northwest of Las Vegas. It was expected to produce up to 6.2 gigawatts of energy, enough to power nearly two million homes." It would have been one of the largest solar installations anywhere in the world.

Despite calls in 2024 for Senate Democrats to finally end the filibuster, it never happened. And now MAGA Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is floating the idea to do just that despite Republican cries of outrage when Democrats were considering it, reports MSNBC.

The Ohio senator suggested in an interview on Fox News that Republicans should get rid of the 60-vote threshold to end the shutdown, saying, “Let’s make this a Republican-only vote.”