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'Quit whining': Ex-Trump lawyer raked across the coals after reigniting war over perogi

Former Jeffrey Epstein lawyer and Donald Trump impeachment defender Alan Dershowitz escalated his war against perogi chef Krem Miskevich on Monday, alleging that his discrimination was about anti-semitism.

Last week, Dershowitz melted down after he was denied the dumplings at the farmer's market in Martha's Vineyard, where the lawyer summers. On Monday, he escalated it.

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'When did our ideas become so fragile?' Pentagon official slams boss' new policy

There is a war on ideas in the Pentagon, according to a new report from The Atlantic.

The news site noted on Monday that many top defense leaders and generals were headed to the Aspen Security Forum when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put a stop to it and blocked further participation in any event unless vetted by his own team.

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'Embattled' Pete Hegseth turns to unlikely source in Pentagon disloyalty purge: report

Far-right activist Laura Loomer has her sights trained on new targets she wants to root out of President Donald Trump's administration.

The MAGA influencer is a trusted adviser to the president, even if not all of his allies appreciate her input, but she has claimed credit for ousting some high-profile administration officials.

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Indiana GOP roiled as top officials accused of watching lewd AI video of lawmaker's wife

Indiana's Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) came to the defense of top staffers accused of watching a lewd deepfake video of a state lawmaker's wife while in his statehouse office.

24sightNews reported that Beckwith's deputy chief of staff Gregg Puls and statehouse attorney Devin Norrick allegedly watched the video that used artificial intelligence to alter the woman's appearance, causing her to appear topless, "according to multiple people familiar with the incident."

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'Smug, terrible, nasty': Ranting Charlie Kirk accuses Jasmine Crockett of racist plot

MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) of wanting to "eliminate the white population" — and said that men shouldn't date her.

During a discussion about Texas redistricting efforts on Monday, Kirk argued that Crockett was not wife material.

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Texas Republican slams his own party over gerrymandering fight: 'Failure'

Most of the Democrats in the Texas legislature have fled the state to prevent the Republican majority from imposing President Donald Trump's gerrymandering plan on the congressional map — but one GOP legislator isn't sure his party's gambit will succeed.

The state legislature will reconvene Monday afternoon despite likely being 57 Democrats short of a quorum, with most of the party's legislators having fled to take refuge in Illinois, Massachusetts and New York, thereby making a vote on the controversial move that would give Republicans an advantage in elections impossible.

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Kash Patel's latest action opened door to finally releasing Epstein files: analyst

FBI Director Kash Patel took a step that could pave the way to justifying the release of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, an analyst wrote Monday.

National security analyst Marcy Wheeler pointed out that last week Patel released documents that included information about uncharged third parties in former special counsel John Durham's investigation into Robert Mueller and his probe into Russia's interference in the 2020 election.

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Republican's bill would scupper Texas redistricting plot pushed by his own party

Texas Republicans are undertaking a mid-decade redistricting effort designed to gerrymander their state to boost Republican seats in Congress — but one Republican lawmaker is introducing a bill that could scupper the effort.

On Monday, California Capitol correspondent for KCRA News, Ashley Zavala, wrote on X that Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) sent out a release revealing he intends to introduce legislation that would “stop a damaging redistricting war from breaking out across the country.”

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'President doesn't care': Analyst sees massive Trump lie exposed by fight with Josh Hawley

President Donald Trump is passing on an easy chance to drain the metaphorical swamp he's promised to improve since arriving in Washington, D.C., nearly a decade ago.

The president pledged he would "absolutely" sign a bill banning members of Congress from trading stocks, which enjoys overwhelming public support, and he could easily throw his support behind one of several bills with bipartisan support, but he attacked Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) last week instead of backing his proposed ban, wrote MSNBC opinion editor James Downie.

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'Hot mess': Multiple senators quietly mull quitting over 'growing frustration' with Trump

Both Republican and Democratic senators are frustrated with the state of their chamber and the inability to make any progress in the face of President Donald Trump's encroachment on their authority, according to a new piece in The New York Times.

"Members current and former, Republican and Democratic, say the job comes with a sense of growing frustration and declining cachet," wrote opinion columnist Michelle Cottle. "The legislative process is a hot mess, and increasingly dominated by giant omnibus bills. Cross-aisle comity is passé. Independence and ideological heterodoxy are treated as heresy."

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'No Pocahontas!' Trump loses it as Elizabeth Warren destroys him on CNBC

President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as she slammed him in a CNBC interview for firing Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) administrator Erika McEntarfer over a poor jobs report.

"Well, look, you know, you get bad data, you kill the messenger, right?" Warren told CNBC on Monday. "And that's Donald Trump because he thinks he can bend reality. If he can just tell a different story, then everyone will have to believe his story."

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Trump swiftly deletes typo-laden post celebrating 'registered Republican' Sydney Sweeney

President Donald Trump posted about actress Sydney Sweeney's controversial jeans commercial Monday — before quickly deleting the message and reposting after fixing a misspelling of her name.

But the republish was too swift. The post disappeared again while more typos were corrected, before reappearing a third time.

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'Stupidity is terminal': Ridicule slams Nancy Mace minutes after governor run announcement

After months of speculation, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has finally made it official: she's running for Governor of South Carolina, entering a crowded field of candidates.

Mace, who in her early years of Congress broke with her party and President Donald Trump on a number of cultural issues and condemned Trump over January 6, has more recently cast herself as a "proud transphobe" and crusader for MAGA causes. She has been derided by former staffers as a toxic narcissist and been a perpetual annoyance to her Republican colleagues due to her wild stunt-seeking and unpredictability.

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