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'Amazing': Pam Bondi under fire after 'bragging' about social media takedown orders

Attorney General Pam Bondi is under fire for telling Facebook parent company Meta to remove content on the social media site.

Bondi claimed that a Facebook group posts public photos of federal agents, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, that identify them.

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'Collective heart attack': Legal experts sound alarm over Supreme Court's 'green light'

Legal experts are having a "collective heart attack" — and no one is more responsible for enabling a radicalized second term for President Donald Trump and "legal emergency" than the U.S. Supreme Court, an analyst said on Tuesday.

Some people have suggested we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis, Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton wrote.

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Trump boasts 6 dead in another drug boat strike

President Donald Trump Tuesday boasted that another six people are dead after an alleged drug boat strike in the Caribbean Sea.

Trump announced the news on his Truth Social platform:

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'Literally every claim was false': DHS official busted for lying about teen's ICE arrest

A Department of Homeland Security official was busted for lying about a teenage girl's violent arrest by federal agents.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed video of the arrest Friday actually showed Chicago police detaining a burglar last year, but a Daily Beast analysis confirmed the teen – a U.S. citizen – was violently thrown to the ground and taken into custody by officers from a department outside the city with help from DHS Enforcement and Removals Operations (ERO).

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'Vile' attacks signal massive No King protests have 'Trump really, really worried': report

The impending No Kings protests scheduled for this weekend have President Donald Trump “really, really worried,” argued journalist Greg Sargent on Tuesday, adding that Trump’s panic was made evident by what he described as a “coordinated” effort from Republicans to dismiss the demonstrators as “terrorists.”

The No Kings protests are scheduled for this Saturday, Oct. 18, and are a follow up to the previous No Kings protests that took place last summer, attended by an estimated four-to-six million people.

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Leaked DHS classified memo reveals new target for Trump surveillance

A leaked joint memo from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security reveals that the Trump administration may place peaceful protests under heightened surveillance, citing concerns over such protests harboring “domestic violent extremists."

Obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein, the leaked memo was disseminated Oct. 1 to law enforcement agencies across the country and is classified as a “law enforcement sensitive” document.

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'Melting brain or melted soul?' Eyebrows raised over 'objectively insane' Trump post

One of President Donald Trump's latest social media posts alarmed a veteran journalist, who described the outburst as possible signs of mental infirmity.

The president bizarrely claimed over the weekend that Joe Biden might have been involved in placing 274 FBI agents into the crowd at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which he called a "scam" that required action – "do something!" he implored in all-caps – and The Bulwark's White House correspondent Andrew Egger examined his statements.

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'Applauded for simply showing up': Ivanka buried over treaty signing star turn

The decision by Ivanka Trump to dip her toe back into politics by appearing at the Gaza ceasefire treaty signing on Monday — which she had nothing to do with — left one observer cold.

The so-called “first daughter” has been out of the political spotlight despite her father having won a second presidential term on a third try, retiring to her $24 million mansion on Miami's Indian Creek Island where she frequently posts exercise, surfing and fitness videos on Instagram.

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Fireworks as The View bombards RFK Jr's wife: 'Your husband is the least qualified'

Cheryl Hines, the wife of Robert Kennedy Jr., has a new book out, but in her discussion with "The View" it was clear that her husband overshadowed the conversation Tuesday.

Co-host Sunny Hostin, whose own husband is an orthopedist who graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, forced Hines, a star on the comedy hit "Curb Your Enthusiasm," to answer questions she had about some of Kennedy's comments and conspiracy theories.

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Mike Huckabee jams on stage to controversial version of 'Sweet Home Alabama'

Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, made a surprise appearance Monday night in Jerusalem – bass guitar in hand – to perform a rendition of “Sweet Home Alabama,” only with the "lyrics changed to push for Greater Israel,” reported writer Chris Menahan.

Huckabee was a surprise guest at the United Hatzalah Concert, a musical event celebrating the release of the remaining Israeli hostages earlier on Monday. Among the songs performed was a rendition of “Sweet Home Alabama,” a song famously written and performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd in protest to criticisms of the American south for its history of slavery.

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Eric Trump insists 'heaven-bound' dad's mission is 'saving God'

Eric Trump insisted that his father is "saving God" in the days before he goes to heaven.

During a Tuesday interview with MAGA influencer Benny Johnson, Eric Trump said that the "siege" against his father was worth it because he was now "heaven-bound."

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'Doesn't sound like winning': Ex-Trump aide taunts Congress

President Donald Trump's former communications director warned that the ongoing battle between the White House and Congress "doesn't sound like winning."

In Tuesday's episode of "The View," the co-hosts addressed Speaker Mike Johnson's speech demanding Democrats stop their efforts to have healthcare subsidies attached to the government funding bill. He characterized it as "partisan demands" that are holding the government "hostage." Those subsidies are set to sunset at the end of the year, increasing the cost of health insurance for many Americans.

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Mike Johnson decries 'naked bicyclers' in Portland as 'most threatening thing I've seen'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted that federal agents' abuse of force had not risen to the level of congressional investigations after a judge barred the Department of Homeland Security from using specific tactics against faith leaders and journalists.

During a press conference on Tuesday, one reporter told Johnson that federal agents had been seen shooting pepper balls at the targets.

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