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'Disgusting': Trump sparks outrage over 'tone deaf' marble bathroom boast

Brutal reactions rolled in Friday as people slammed President Donald Trump's social post bragging about the White House bathroom redesign, calling his post "tone deaf" and "disgusting."

Nearly 42 million Americans were at risk of going hungry as the Trump administration tried to decline using emergency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, food benefits. As this was going on, Trump shared photos of the new renovations, including a marble floor and walls, and golden bathroom fixtures and trash can. The bathroom is part of the Lincoln Bedroom, the guest suite at the White House once used by former President Abraham Lincoln as an office.

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MAGA backfire has made 'cruel intentions' more obvious than intended: Nobel Prize winner

When Donald Trump was running against Democrats in the United States' 2024 presidential race he focused on the economy relentlessly, especially inflation, and promised to lower prices "on Day 1."

But Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, during that race, repeatedly warned that Trump was not sincere about helping the working class. Now, in a Friday column published on his Substack page, Krugman argued that the current partial shutdown of the United States' federal government is inspiring Republicans to show their "cruel intensions" much sooner than planned.

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Right-wing think tank staff revolt as boss defends interview with neo-Nazi

Several staff members of the Heritage Foundation took to X today to protest their own boss's defense of a recent softball interview by Tucker Carlson with avowed neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

Kevin Roberts, president of the foundation, has sparked widespread criticism for standing with Carlson while droves of conservatives attacked his controversial video.

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Trump hit with 2nd major ruling forcing him to use emergency money to fund SNAP

A second federal judge in Boston on Friday told the Trump administration they are required to use emergency funding to keep Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, food benefits going despite pushback from Trump.

The decisions were made just minutes apart after a federal judge in Rhode Island said in an emergency hearing that the Trump administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture must release close to $6 billion amid the ongoing government shutdown, according to CNN. The Rhode Island judge said the funding must be distributed "in a timely fashion," and the administration must deliver an update by noon on Monday.

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‘It's not great’: Republican congressman goes off message to criticize Trump's economy

In a rare break from President Donald Trump and Republican orthodoxy, one GOP congressman is acknowledging what many Americans already feel: times are tough.

“Our economy is not great,” U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), who served as Secretary of the Interior during the first Trump administration, told Fox Business on Friday.

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'Thoroughly unhelpful': Analyst in awe as Trump hurls a grenade at his own party

President Donald Trump threw a grenade at Republicans and "legitimizing blaming his own party" as the government shutdown drags on, according to an analysis on Friday.

Trump pushed GOP lawmakers late Thursday night to end the shutdown "by invoking the so-called 'nuclear option' — that is, getting rid of the filibuster and 60-vote threshold in the Senate. This would allow Republicans to pass things on party-line votes in the GOP-controlled Senate," CNN senior reporter Aaron Blake reports.

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Major ruling handed down as Trump fights to avoid using emergency money for food stamps

A federal judge on Friday said President Donald Trump is "required" to use emergency money to fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, food benefits during the shutdown.

The benefits begin running out Saturday as the government shutdown drags on and puts nearly 42 million Americans at risk, CNN reports.

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Report exposes ultra-rich inmates' new pathway to pardons

The super-rich have discovered that the new Donald Trump administration is happy to speak to lobbyists, including those fighting for pardons or clemency for those in prison.

NOTUS reported Friday that there are at least a dozen searching for freedom from the big house, using lobbyists to get to the president.

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'Highly polished!' Trump brags about refurbished luxury White House bathroom

President Donald Trump took to social media Friday to brag about the refurbished bathroom at the White House, sharing photos of the new renovations that include a marble floor and walls and golden bathroom fixtures and trash can.

“The Refurbished Lincoln Bathroom in the White House – Highly polished, Statuary marble!” Trump proudly boasted on his social media platform Truth Social.

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Trump has decided to attack Venezuela military under guise of drug strikes: report

President Donald Trump has reportedly decided to order attacks on Venezuela's military installations.

Sources told the Miami Herald that the strikes could come at any moment. The Trump administration has suggested that it is opposing the Sóles drug cartel.

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Kash Patel rankles top officials by announcing arrests 'before key details were clear'

Senior law enforcement officials are peeved at FBI Director Kash Patel for jumping the gun on announcing the arrests of several suspects in an alleged Michigan terrorism plot.

Patel announced the arrests Friday in a post on his X account but provided scant details about the case, saying "the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend," but sources told NBC News that others in the bureau and Department of Justice weren't happy with his statement.

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'Frightening': DHS says people can't refuse scanning by ICE's facial recognition app

Citizens and immigrants have no option if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents demand that they be scanned with a mobile phone-based facial recognition app, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

DHS documents obtained by 404 Media stated that images captured by the app will be stored by the department for 15 years — even if the person is a U.S. citizen.

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Trump official's ‘one statement’ causes ‘total backfire’ for GOP: analysis

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) scrambled to clarify a comment made by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Friday during a press conference, but in doing so, may lead to Rollins’ comments causing a “total backfire” against Republicans, political analyst and journalist Jason Easley wrote Friday.

Rollins, who was tapped by President Donald Trump to head the Department of Agriculture last November, declared during the presser, addressing the American people, that “your government is failing you right now,” and that “we have failed you.”

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