Just as Sir Isaac Newton said for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, when it comes to the media, for every case of “Mar-a-Lago Face” there is a case of “MS NOW Face.”

If you spend more than 20 minutes a week watching the channel formerly known as MSNBC, you know what I’m talking about.

Thick-rimmed glasses, check. A haircut suitable for Wall Street or a D.C. think tank, check. A pensive glare that suggests “I know more about politics than you and President Donald Trump combined,” check.

Flip on MS NOW, and odds are, you’re going to see it staring right back at you.

Joe Scarborough in the morning, Chris Hayes in the evenings, and reporter Jacob Soboroff at any point that he pops up throughout the day. A few MS NOW women have the look too, like Rachel Maddow — although she prefers to wear contacts on TV — and Stephanie Ruhle, when she opts for her spectacles.

Joe Scarborough

Several other MS NOW’ers put there own twist on it, too.

Ali Velshi, Jonathan Capehart, and Michael Steele all sport the smart guy glasses, just without the hair up top. (No judgement there — I’m heading in the same direction myself.) The New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker, who also gets a paycheck as an MS NOW political commentator, has the look down; albeit with a thinner frame on his glasses.

Jacob Soboroff

Chris Hayes

Rachel Maddow

Political analyst Molly Jong-Fast, meanwhile, has the patented glasses, but her multi-color hair radiates proud Zohran Mamdani voter, rather than the default, which is looking like an HR manager at the new JPMorgan Chase building.

And he is not there anymore, but Keith “Sugar Daddy” Olbermann should get credit — or blame — for pioneering the look during his two stints at MSNBC. He left the channel in 2011, but his legacy lives on.

MS NOW, just like Mar-a-Lago Face, is not confined to a TV studio or single geographic region, either. Walk around the Upper West Side or Georgetown for 10 minutes, and you will overdose on Scarborough Doppelgängers.

The nice part about MS NOW Face, by the way: getting plastic surgery or oddball facial procedures is not necessary. Just buy the glasses, get the haircut, and drop $150,000 on a bogus Master’s degree from Colombia University, and you are golden.

Oh, and before you, the diehard MS NOW viewer gets too upset, it’s okay, you can rib me for my look as well. If you want to say I look like an anemic hipster doofus who needs SPF 80 in the winter and rips American Spirits between every set of squats, be my guest. But hey, a guy has to stand out from the MS NOW Faces in the media crowd.

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So far, macOS hasn't been as big on theming and customization as I'd like, but that's changing with its newest version. In macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple's shipped a bunch of ways to customize the look and feel of your Mac's desktop, app icons, and menu bar, among other things. And there's more to it than just tweaking how Liquid Glass looks. If you're the sort of person who enjoys theming and customization, try these tips.

Tweak app icons in the Dock

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Your Mac's Dock probably has a bunch of colorful icons. I've always enjoyed those diverse colors, but others might want something more uniform. If you feel like going with a particular tint, or if you just want your app icons to use dark mode, it's just a quick tweak away. Click the Apple logo in the top-left corner of your Mac's screen and go to System Settings > Appearance > Icon & widget style. Here, you can change the app icons to Dark, Clear, or Tinted. The Tinted option lets you select a single tint for all your app icons, so choose the color you like the most.

Customize the clock in your Mac's lock screen

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Once you upgrade to macOS Tahoe, you'll probably notice the new clock on your lock screen. You can tweak this to your liking, too. Just go to System Settings > Wallpaper > Clock Appearance. You can choose one of six clock styles. Don't forget to adjust the slider below the Weight option, which lets you change the font to make the clock look sleeker or more prominent.

Customize the Control Center

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With iOS 18's release in 2024, Apple started letting you customize your iPhone's Control Center. This year, that feature is finally on Mac, starting with macOS Tahoe. To use it, just click the Control Center button in the menu bar at the top of your Mac's screen, and select Edit Controls. There are plenty of controls to choose from, so take your time and add what you need. You can drag-and-drop any of the controls to move them around, or you can click the - (minus) button next to any control to remove it from the Control Center. Alternatively, you can tweak your control center under System Settings > Menu Bar > Menu Bar Controls.

Add a background to the Mac menu bar

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One of the more controversial changes to macOS Tahoe is the swap to a transparent menu bar. The clear color sometimes makes it harder to read text, but if you don't like that, you can restore a background to your menu bar. This feature is under System Settings > Menu Bar > Show menu bar background.

Change folder icon colors on Mac

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If you're tired of the default blue color for folder icons, macOS Tahoe lets you tweak this to suit your style. Go to System Settings > Appearance > Folder color and use the drop-down menu to change the color of folder icons. I'd have never thought of myself as a person who uses orange folder icons, but I suppose we all go through a tangerine season at some point in our lives.

Switch Mac theme in Settings

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macOS Tahoe also gives you limited control over your Mac's theme. If you go to System Settings > Appearance > Theme and pick a color, you'll notice that this color also applies to the cursor in writing apps, and the color of selected items in menus, too. On the same menu page, you can also choose a different color for highlighted text, which is a nice additional level of customization. It ensures that if I pick a particularly bright color for my overall theme, I can still choose a milder color for text selection. That helps me stay focused while I'm working, which is something I value a lot.

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This morning ought to mark President Donald Trump’s last in the White House. It’s not so much an argument as it is regretfully axiomatic; just as it’s axiomatic that he will remain.

The president has achieved much that so many of his reflexive, liberal critics refuse to acknowledge — and so often conflate with his true failings. To name only a few, he’s slashed onerous taxes and burdensome regulations, struck blows against progressive absurdity on gender issues and DEI, crippled the Iranian nuclear program, and put three superb justices on the Supreme Court.

But before the clock had struck 10:30 a.m. on the east coast Thursday, the most powerful man on the planet suggested that six political opponents ought to face charges “punishable by DEATH!” That’s it, that’s the entirety of the case for his removal. And if our politics was not utterly crippled by low expectations, partisanship, and cowardice in the face of partisanship, that would be case enough.

On Tuesday, six Democrats — two serving in the Senate and four in the House of Representatives — published a video advising military and intelligence community members that they not only “can refuse illegal orders,” but they “must refuse illegal orders.”

“This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens,” asserted the group. “Right now, the threats to our constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders.”

On Thursday morning, Trump responded as only he would.

“It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET,” he raged before adding “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???”

Then, the president’s crash out reached a terrifying, spectacular crescendo. “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” he declared.

There’s a helpful explainer to be written about the legal argument being made by the Democratic lawmakers that induced the president to publicly fantasize about their execution. What do the Constitution and U.S. Code have to say abou-,

No, that’s not the point. The president publicly fantasized about the execution of federal lawmakers this morning. Donald Trump has bent our sense of perspective to his will so successfully, and our eyes have been glued to the looking-glass for so long that we no longer blink at what would have once caused us to gasp.

He instructs his Department of Justice to persecute and prosecute his enemies, and it complies. He launches destructive, illegal trade wars with no casus belli. He alternates between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the world stage. And if a female reporter displeases him, he derides her as “piggy.”

One of these things is not like the other, yes, but they’re all demonstrative of why it was so dangerous to elect him president in 2016, negligent not to impeach, convict, and bar him from office after the Capitol riot, a remarkable risk to put him back in charge last year, and why, if Congress wasn’t a veritable hive of mediocre cravens, he would be stripped of his title before the day was out.

Trump is almost singularly deficient of not only so many of the virtues one might expect of any leader — selflessness, self-control, honesty, integrity — but of capital-C Character. There is nothing to speak of there; no word, deed, or even thought resulting from anything but self-interest.

No electoral or policy victory — and the president has many to his name — is worth the risk of entrusting such a man with so much power.

For reasons we all already understand, but should not accept, it will be a miracle if more than a handful of Republicans in Washington so much as rebuke Trump, much less move to give him the boot after this morning’s events.

Still, better to state the truth out loud — even if it’s never to be acted on — than to let it go unsaid. This morning ought to mark President Donald Trump’s last in the White House, and that it won’t be is an indictment of all of us.

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Not all Black Friday deals are open to just anybody. Since 2023, some of the best offers in Amazon's biggest sales are invite-only—meaning you have to sign up for them in advance of the sale going live, and hope you get chosen to receive the discount. These deals have become a common fixture for Amazon's major sales, including this summer's Prime Day.

With the Black Friday sale kicking off on Nov. 20, you can expect to see more invite-only deals popping up around the site. Here's how to find and sign up for them, so you have a fighting chance at scoring some great offers.

Who is eligible for Black Friday invite-only deals?

Only a select number of products will be available via invite-only deals. You'll be able to spot them by the "invite-only" banner visible on the product page. As Amazon explains, you must be a Prime Member to sign up for the invite-only deals, and when you sign up, you're essentially requesting an invitation to purchase the deal, which will come by email—but only if you're chosen to receive it.

Here are the steps to sign up:

1. Find an "Invite-Only Prime Deal" that you want to purchase. You can find these deals listed on the Deals page once Black Friday begins.

2. Navigate to the product detail page.

3. Select "Request Invite." If you are not a Prime member, sign up for Prime to be able to request an invite.

4. You will receive an email notification confirming that you requested an invite. The confirmation will be sent to the email that is on your Amazon account. If you don't have an email on your account, add one by navigating to Your Account > Login > Security.

How to know if you were approved for an invite-only deal

Keep in mind that just because you requested an invitation doesn't mean you'll receive one. If you are selected, you'll receive both a push notification in the Amazon app and email notifying you during the sale. If you're not selected, Amazon will also let you know you didn't get one. You can only buy one of the products that you were invited for, but you can request as many different product invitations as you want. The invitation will last as long as the sale lasts, or as long as there is stick remaining.

Invite-only deals are usually some of the sale's most impressive offerings. Last year, for example, Amazon sold a 43-inch 4K Smart Fire TV for just $99, and you'll likely see similar deals this year.

Charlamagne tha God on Wednesday called out the lone Republican congressman who voted against releasing the Department of Justice files related to deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

The day before, the House voted on a bill to order the Department of Justice to release the files. The final count was almost unanimous, with 427 House members voting in favor of the bill. Just one member voted against it — Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA).

In the days leading up to the vote, President Donald Trump continued to insist the Epstein situation was a “hoax” orchestrated by the Democratic Party. Then, he suddenly claimed in a Truth Social post that he was in favor of the release of the files. That led to the near-unanimous vote.

Charlamagne wondered why Higgins wouldn’t switch sides as his Republican colleagues did.

“That’s big glazing!” Charlamagne said. “Why he ain’t get the memo? Like, why didn’t he get the memo? Why’s he the only person that didn’t get the memo?”

Following the vote, Higgins took to X/Twitter to claim that he had “been a principled ‘NO’ on this bill from the beginning.”

“If enacted in its current form,” Higgins said, “this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote.”

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As someone who's still rocking an M1 MacBook Air, an iPhone 12 Pro Max, the Apple Watch SE (Gen 1), and the AirPods Pro (Gen 1), I can proudly say that using older devices is a great lifestyle decision. It saves me a lot of money and I still get access to premium products with almost all of the features I need. And now that the AirPods Pro 3 are out, it's a great time to start looking for deals on the older AirPods Pro 2 before stocks are cleared. This Walmart deal brings the AirPods Pro 2 to an all-time low price of $139 (which is $100 off the list price), and they're an absolutely fantastic piece technology for that price.

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Although the AirPods Pro 2 launched a few years ago, they've received enough software updates to make them far more capable than they were at launch. Now, the AirPods Pro 2 are also approved for use as a hearing aid in the US, and still offer excellent noise isolation with great sound quality. I live in a really noisy city and I cannot roam around without wearing my AirPods for fear of triggering my migraines. My AirPods Pro (Gen 1) do a good job at cutting out the noise, but the AirPods Pro 2 take the cancellation to another level. I've used and compared all three generations of AirPods, and the noise cancellation on the Pro 2 is solid. It's not as good as that on the Pro 3, but it's better than on the Pro 1, and the difference isn't big enough to spend nearly twice the price for the latest product.

The AirPods Pro 2 are everything I need to keep migraines away. They block out the worst of the loud noises around me while being light and comfortable enough to wear all day. My city has extremely humid weather, which makes it near impossible to wear over-ear headphones outdoors. However, I feel quite comfortable with my AirPods, and I've been waiting for nearly four years to upgrade mine. While I was saving up for the AirPods Pro 3, this deal is too good to resist, and I may just get the Pro 2 instead and save the rest of my cash to upgrade my Apple Watch.

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When the F-35s tore across the sky above the White House on Tuesday—low, loud, and flying in a perfect V—it looked less like a foreign visit and more like a demonstration. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wasn’t just being welcomed back to Washington. He was being showcased, affirmed, and rehabilitated—not despite what happened seven years ago, but because the price had been paid.

Not long ago, this kind of welcome would have been unthinkable. In 2018, the CIA—under Trump’s own leadership—concluded that Mohammed bin Salman ordered the kidnapping, murder, and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. For a brief moment, the world understandably treated MBS as a pariah: a ruler so threatened by criticism that he had a journalist butchered for writing what he didn’t want to read. His reputation wasn’t just damaged; it was radioactive.

That reputation began to shift in the precise window after former Trump senior aide — and son-in-law — Jared Kushner left the White House and before President Donald Trump’s return looked plausible—but not impossible. In that stretch of time, the Saudis moved nearly $2 billion into Kushner’s private equity fund. They didn’t disguise it. They didn’t need to. It was the cleanest way to acquire something more durable than favor: a stake.

Yes, former officials have always cashed in. But this is different—in its scale, in its timing, and in the fact that a foreign sovereign wealth fund was essentially taking a position in a political future that might boomerang back into power. This wasn’t the familiar Washington hustle around access and favors. It was a foreign government taking a stake in a political comeback.

And once you see the deal that way, the mechanics become obvious. A financial relationship embeds mutual interest, ties a political family’s long-term wealth to foreign goodwill, and aligns preferences without a word needing to be spoken. This is how capital shapes behavior everywhere else in American life. Politics is simply catching up.

That alignment explains Tuesday’s bizarre and over-the-top ceremony. The horses, the Marine band, the jets—they weren’t concealing the relationship; they were expressing it—a shareholder display dressed up as statecraft.

And crucially, the Saudis never have to call in the investment. The leverage works because it never has to be used. When you’ve seeded billions into a former adviser’s fund, your preferences travel through the same channels as his incentives.

The familiar defense—“everyone does it”—falls apart on inspection. Not everyone gets nearly $2 billion from a foreign monarchy between administrations. Not everyone runs a fund whose success now depends on that monarchy’s goodwill. And not everyone returns to power with that structure still intact.

And when that happens, something subtle but profoundly dangerous occurs. Policy doesn’t get bought. It drifts.

The crown prince who ordered a journalist murdered and dismembered now receives an F-35 salute from an American president—not because the crime was forgiven, but because $2 billion invested in Jared Kushner’s fund made it irrelevant. In that calculus, Khashoggi’s life became a rounding error.

This is the new geopolitical model, and MBS understands it better than anyone. Don’t influence America from the outside. Buy into the families who can return to power. Buy into the ones who can reopen the doors, restore the access, and erase the memory of what happened with a bone saw in a consulate basement.

What happened on Tuesday looked like ceremony, but it read more like a public accounting of who now holds influence.

America is becoming an asset class.

And the bidding has already begun.

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