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'Talentless goon': MAGA lawmaker dunked in scorn by MSNBC panelist

MSNBC dragged Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Tuesday after crafting mock-ups of President Donald Trump's face to be added to Mount Rushmore.

Host Chris Jansing noted that Trump acolytes are putting his face on everything from coins to dollars. The Lincoln Project's co-founder, Reed Galen, noted reports that indicated if Trump's face was put on the mountain, it couldn't support the weight and may collapse. He called it the "perfect metaphor for his presidency, as you're going to find."

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‘Real scum!’ Trump declares MSNBC ‘worse than’ MS-13 gang

President Donald Trump took aim at MSNBC during a cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon at the White House, declaring the network “worse than” two of the world’s most notorious criminal organizations.

During the meeting, Trump took a moment to praise the National Guard troops currently patrolling the streets of the nation’s capital amid the federal government’s takeover of the city’s police department. He briefly tried to recall a video he’d seen of an encounter between troops and alleged gang members before segueing into his attack on MSNBC.

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Social Security's entire database dumped on a vulnerable cloud server: whistleblower

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is once again under the microscope after a whistleblower accused the ad hoc creation of Elon Musk of unloading the entire database of sensitive Social Security information to a vulnerable cloud server.

According to a report from the New York Times, Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, has filed a formal complaint about the negligent treatment of the data.

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Trump doubles down on fascist claim: Americans would 'rather have a dictator'

President Donald Trump doubled down a day after saying that "maybe" Americans would like a dictator.

During a Tuesday cabinet meeting, Trump slammed Democratic governors for criticizing his threat to send the military into cities.

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'It sickens me': Vanity Fair staffers threaten walk-out over possible Melania Trump cover

The new global editorial director of venerable publication Vanity Fair is confronting a firestorm of his own making by floating the prospect of putting Melania Trump on the cover of the magazine in the near future.

Since taking over, Mark Guiducci has been forcing out longtime writers and restaffing the Condé Nast publication in an effort to put his own stamp on Vanity Fair.

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'Irony is dead': Trump official buried for attack on Fed member

Echoing his boss, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick lashed out at Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who President Donald Trump is trying to fire for allegedly committing mortgage fraud.

During his appearance Tuesday morning on CNBC, the brash Lutnick declared without evidence, “We can't have mortgage fraud in America, and you surely can't have it for your leaders. I mean, imagine anyone in the Cabinet who did this, you guys would be calling for their head. This woman should go away if she's committed the mortgage fraud and those signatures sure as heck look like hers.”

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Felony charge for DC man accused of spitting while scooting past guard troops

A man is being charged with felony assault after spitting on National Guard troops from South Carolina who were standing outside of Washington, D.C.'s Union Station.

Reuters legal reporter Brad Heath spotted the Justice Department filing that outlines the allegations.

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'Go back to the old logo': Trump makes demands on Cracker Barrel as MAGA seethes

President Donald Trump weighed in on Cracker Barrel's decision to change its logo after some conservatives criticized it as "woke."

"Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response (the ultimate Poll), and manage the company better than ever before," the president wrote Tuesday on Truth Social. "They got a Billion Dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right. Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity."

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Trump-appointed judge issues rebuke and throws out DOJ suit in deportation case

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas T. Cullen has thrown out the case from the Justice Department after it demanded a higher court allow them to deport Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland father who has become emblematic of President Donald Trump's erratic mass deportations.

The Trump-appointed judge dismissed the lawsuit Tuesday morning against state judges who paused Ábrego García's deportation for 48 hours so that his case could be adjudicated, explained Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney.

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Reliably red state's voters oppose Trump's demands for GOP-dominated congressional map

President Donald Trump is pressuring red states to pursue redistricting where allowed by law. Indiana, a reliably Republican state, is one such target — though many Hoosiers object to the tactics being used, which mirror those in Texas.

According to a Politico report, a polling memo from the left-leaning firm Change Research found that a majority of Indiana voters oppose mid-decade redistricting currently being pushed by Trump and national Republicans.

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'Everybody's freaking gay': Bannon co-host says her MAGA girlfriends regret moving to DC

Natalie Winters, a host on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, complained that it was difficult to find a man to date in Washington, D.C., during President Donald Trump's second term because "everybody's freaking gay."

A New York Times report on Tuesday highlighted how the "A-Gays" had been welcomed into the Trump administration, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent holding the most powerful position.

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Lawmakers tipped off to 'unanswered questions' for Trump appointee who let Epstein walk

The former U.S. attorney who helped engineer what has been described as a “sweetheart deal” for Jeffrey Epstein in 2008, which allowed him to walk away from sex crime accusations with a slap on the wrist, has agreed to talk to Congress.

That led a former Florida prosecutor to point out to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that they have an obligation to question him on several major points that could clear up what legal maneuvering was agreed to that allowed Epstein to commit more crimes until his later arrest and eventual death in a prison cell

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Chicago mayor snaps back at MSNBC's Joe Scarborough in tense argument over more cops

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was not having it on MSNBC on Tuesday morning, when host Joe Scarborough insisted he agree with him that more police on the streets of his city would solve what Johnson maintained was a much more complex problem.

In an interview that grew increasingly combative, with the ”Morning Joe” host continually talking over his guest, Scarborough hectored Johnson to give him a simple yes or no answer if thousands more police would help — a prescription Scarborough believes would keep President Donald Trump from sending in troops like he has threatened.

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