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'Deep irony': Expert says Supreme Court just rug-pulled core obsession of MAHA movement

President Donald Trump brought anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into his coalition in 2024, creating the so-called "Make America Healthy Again" movement by wooing a broad swathe of health activists and medicine deniers to join his cause. But the Supreme Court he helped appoint just dealt a massive blow to that movement, Dr. Vin Gupta noted to MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire on Thursday's edition of "Morning Joe."

Specifically, they blocked lawsuits from going forward against Bayer-Monsanto, over an herbicide at the heart of years of cancer litigation. While the actual scientific evidence that glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer is limited, the legal crusade against it, and in particular against Bayer-Monsanto's Roundup weed killer, has been a fixture in health circles.

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Hookup site leak spurs denial from 'family values' GOP candidate

A married Iowa Republican campaigning for state lieutenant governor on a “traditional family values” platform has denied setting up a 2016 account linked to his email address on Adult Friend Finder, a hookup service for people seeking casual relationships.

Derek Wulf was last month named running mate to Iowa GOP gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn. Both candidates have been vocal critics of non-traditional relationships.

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Trump voters pound president for making billions 'on the side' while they struggle

Blockbuster reports that Donald Trump is cashing in to the tune of billions during his second term have trickled down to some of his MAGA supporters, and they had a few unpleasant things to say about it to MS NOW’s Alex Tabet.

On “Morning Joe," co-hosts Jonathan Lemire and Willie Geist shared a clip of Tabet talking to Florida GOP voters, all of whom admitted they voted for the president, with Lemire first offering, “He's making money, his rich friends are making money, his family is making money, you know, but we saw it at the opening of the show. Who has a 401(k)?”

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Legendary GOP strategist blows apart JD Vance's vision for America as a 'grave mistake'

Longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove took square aim at Vice President JD Vance in a blistering op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, tearing apart his oft-stated idea that there is a distinct class of "heritage Americans" who are more American than other Americans.

"America wasn’t built by the rich and powerful but in large part by discards, rejects, losers and throwaways who made their way here," wrote Rove, who has been sounding the alarm about the vice president since before he even took office. He noted that his Norwegian father used to read him the Declaration of Independence, and that when he goes abroad, people in other countries tell him how much they want the American dream and what the idea of working hard and building a life means to them.

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Trump whisperer admits only massive turnout of 'lower information' voters can save GOP

Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist turned MAGA power broker, is delivering a stark warning to Republican leadership.

In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Bannon argued that recent democratic-socialist primary wins — including Melat Kiros's upset of a longtime Colorado incumbent, following Zohran Mamdani's momentum in New York — signal a national leftward shift in grassroots organizing that Republicans have not yet figured out how to counter.

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AI Dr. Trump tells America to pray and drink Diet Coke in 'bizarre' late-night post

What’s the best time for the leader of the free world to post an AI-generated video of himself as a fake doctor who cures real celebrities Robert DeNiro and Julia Roberts of a fake disease?

Just before midnight, apparently.

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Trump faces rural revolt over his top legislative priority

President Donald Trump's push for his top congressional priority is running into resistance not from Democrats, but from within his own party's rural wing.

The 80-year-old president wants an expanded SAVE America Act to include sweeping mail-voting restrictions alongside provisions targeting transgender athletes and gender-affirming care for minors, but that effort has stalled because House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) doesn't have the votes to pass Trump's preferred version, reported Politico.

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'Grim picture' for Bari Weiss as CBS News ratings continue to 'crumble': report

The numbers don't lie—and they're devastating for CBS News and embattled division head Bari Weiss.

According to a report from media watchdog Status, despite CBS News touting a modest 1 percent year-over-year gain for Tony Dokoupil's "CBS Evening News" in the second quarter, a closer examination reveals a "grim picture" under Weiss. The broadcast averaged just 3.9 million viewers in Q2, according to Nielsen—marking its second-worst second quarter on record and remaining stuck below the "critical" 4 million viewer threshold.

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'Visibly oozing': Viral video captures Trump's mockup arch falling to pieces

One of the centerpieces of President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" to kick off the 250th anniversary celebrations is a scale replica of his planned "victory arch" project — but almost immediately after it went up, people started to notice it was coming apart.

Now, a viral video making rounds on social media shows the damage is even more dramatic than ever.

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CNN anchor shuts down MAGA columnist's head-scratching warning about 'Chinese babies'

A fiery debate broke out between a CNN anchor and a MAGA-defending correspondent who warned about "Chinese babies."

CNN anchor Abby Phillip hosted a panel discussion about calls from MAGA to stop immigrants from having children in the United States. The MAGA line comes after the Supreme Court blocked Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship.

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DOJ whistleblower urges Senate to probe whether Todd Blanche dodged records laws

A Department of Justice whistleblower is pressing the Senate to investigate Trump's nominee for Attorney General.

In a Wednesday piece, fired DOJ attorney Liz Oyer shared a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee where she sounded the alarm about absent records related to her termination. She urged the Senate to probe Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is waiting for confirmation to take the role full-time.

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Jen Psaki blows lid off Trump's shady tariff stock manipulation: 'Tip of the iceberg'

President Donald Trump's stock trades have raised red flags with legal observers numerous times — but there's a new revelation from the president's more than 900-page financial disclosure this week that shows something especially alarming, MS NOW's Jen Psaki said on Wednesday evening.

Specifically, stock purchases timed to some of Trump's most controversial tariff policies, later struck down by the Supreme Court, recontextualize the whole reason he may have enacted and adjusted these tax policies when he did.

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'Real garbage move': Onlookers skewer Jared Polis for firing critics of MAGA clemency

News that Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) fired legal experts who opposed his freeing of an election denier has attracted online ire.

Polis' decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk jailed for tampering with voting machines, led to backlash last month, but a New York Times article on Wednesday revealed he also fired two members of Colorado's clemency board who publicly spoke out against the move.

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