House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) made an extraordinary claim Saturday that the Democratic base in the Senate is made up of “extreme” anarchists, marxists, and socialists.

Emmer appeared on Fox News Saturday with Aishah Hasnie who asked about the status of the partial government shutdown due to squabbling over Department of Homeland Security funding.

The Senate passed its funding bill during a pro forma session around 7 a.m. on Thursday that would have provided money for DHS and paid TSA agents, while creating a separate budget bill for the sticking point — funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.

But the House didn’t take up the bill when they met the same day, leaving the issue unresolved until they meet again on Monday.

“Frankly, what is happening here is the Senate — it was a bad look,” Emmer said. “You don’t pass something at three in the morning with only six people on the floor and literally defund everything — fund everything but the Immigration, Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. It just doesn’t work that way.”

He continued, “The House, frankly, with our speaker, has negotiated that the Senate will move this as quick as they can when they get back to town after the Easter recess, and the White House has assured us that the relevant agencies have money they need to do the job that they’re required to do to over the period of time.”

“But don’t you want to get these people paid?” Hasnie asked of the TSA agents who have gone some 44 days without a paycheck. “Don’t you feel it’s necessary to to get this done as quickly as possible instead of waiting for the break to be over?”

“Aishah, the House has done this,” Emmer argued. “We’ve passed complete funding four times. By the way, a bill that was agreed to on a bicameral, bipartisan basis, Republicans and Democrats. It’s just because an extreme, anarchist, marxist-socialist base that Chuck Schumer has to deal with that he reneged on the deal, yes. Republicans have been trying to do this since the beginning of the year.”

Emmer added, “The problem we’ve got is the precedent that has been set is not going to to be good going forward, and that precedent is, if you’re going to be able to pull out whatever piece you don’t like in an appropriations bill, where does this end, Aishah?”

Watch above via Fox News.

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Joe Rogan hit back at critics and offered a correction after some on social media noticed he told a story about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk that never happened.

On The Joe Rogan Experience podcast this week, Rogan had a three hour-plus discussion with fellow comedian Theo Von and at one point claimed he heard about Kirk’s September assassination while he was elk hunting. Viewers and listeners were quick to point out that Rogan was actually on the air when he heard about the assassination.

Rogan chose to respond to one X user who put the clips from both episodes together and commented, “What a weird thing to lie about.”

Rogan explained that he simply remembered the story wrong, and he was actually elk hunting when his phone blew up about Jimmy Kimmel’s temporary suspension by ABC following a joke about MAGA after Kirk was assassinated.

“Honestly I just remembered it wrong. I was elk hunting when Jimmy Kimmel was getting people angry at him for joking about the assassination and blaming it on MAGA. I would never ‘lie’ about that. I just had a dumb memory moment,” Rogan wrote.

During an episode of his podcast in September, both Rogan and guest Charlie Sheen learned of Kirk’s death during the episode. Kirk was shot and killed during an event on a Utah college campus.

“So this just happened, we just found out that Charlie Kirk got shot,” Rogan told Sheen at the time.

Sheen called it “awful,” while Rogan said it didn’t feel “real.”

“You think when something happens in the current, like right now with this one with Charlie Kirk, it doesn’t seem real. It seems like it’s gonna take a long time before we reference this as something that happened,” he said.

On his episode with Von, Rogan misremembered the story and claimed he was in Utah at the time Kirk was killed.

“I started getting all of these text messages from people wanting me to comment on things,” he said. “I was like, what are you talking about?”

Watch above via The Joe Rogan Experience.

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MS NOW aired a photo of former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s portrait unceremoniously dumped in the trash on Friday, one day after her firing by President Donald Trump.

“If you want a sense of just how quickly things are moving at the DOJ, MS NOW has new reporting that Bondi’s portrait has already been taken down, and you see it there thrown in the garbage!” reported Chris Jansing on Friday.

Jansing tossed to reporter Ken Dilanian, asking, “This portrait, does it signal something wide about a feeling within DOJ right now?”

“I think it does, Chris. Look, there’s a lot of anger, especially among the career workforce, about Pam Bondi and what she did to change the Justice Department, more so than any attorney general in modern history,” Dilanian said.

“And, you know, those portraits are up all over the place. They’re in every major office. Her portrait would be hung next to that of the president and the vice president. And we had another picture that we weren’t able to publish based on the ground rules that showed her portrait taken down from the wall. And then this one shows it thrown in the trash,” Dilanian said, continuing.

And a lot of people that we talked to have not forgotten an episode that Pam Bondi celebrated at the beginning of her tenure, when she told the story in interviews about walking into the National Security division of the Justice Department and seeing the portraits of Attorney General Merrick Garland and President [Joe] Biden and Vice President [Kamala] Harris still on the wall there. And she was outraged by that. And she said that she took them down herself, and she sort of told that story as an example to offer, to suggest that the career workforce at DOJ is more sympathetic to Democrats than Republicans. The reality is those people worked in the first Trump administration loyally and ably and without incident. But Pam Bondi fired a lot of them and forced many others out. And in that case, she forced out and demoted the acting head of the National Security division over that portrait incident. This was a well respected nonpartisan figure.

Dilanian added, “So there’s a lot of anger about episodes like that amid all of the other things that Pam Bondi has done with the Justice Department.”

Watch the clip above via MS NOW.

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Reddit is what you make of it. The "front page of the internet" is really a collection of different subreddits, each with its own communities, rules, and cultures. The main idea is to subscribe to the subreddits that match your interests, so that your internet's "front page" is tailored to you, not other users.

Still, it can be fun to browse the posts from subreddits that are blowing up across Reddit, even when you don't personally subscribe to them. This is the purpose of r/popular and r/all: The former offers popular posts from a variety of subreddits, while the latter does the same, albeit with fewer filters. You might not want to browse r/all while you're at work, for example, though Reddit says it doesn't include sexually explicit content. Still, there may be other types of NSFW posts that appear here, that wouldn't otherwise appear in r/popular.

Now, that's changing. As reported by The Verge, Reddit is officially doing away with r/all. This decision didn't come out of the blue, though. The company had announced its plans to remove r/all in December, before doing so in January (though it called this an "experiment"). It also removed r/all from users accessing the site on desktop, though this, too, was part of the experiment. Then, in February, Reddit said the experiment was over, and that they had decided to get rid of r/all after all.

Reddit confirmed the news in its latest changelog, saying that, in order to "simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization, the final steps to deprecate r/all are being implemented." Going forward, links to r/all now go to your Home feed instead. If you want to check out trending posts, you'll need to visit r/popular instead. At least, that's the case for most users.

"Old" Reddit users can still see r/all

If you're a relatively new Reddit user, you might not even know about "old" Reddit, the version of the site that matches its original, basic theme. Reddit started rolling out its current theme back in 2018, but those of us that preferred a simple, text-based experience have always had the option to do so—either by accessing the site from old.reddit.com, or if you have the "Default to old Reddit" toggle enabled in the "Preferences" tab in Settings.

Users accessing old Reddit will still see r/all in the top menu bar, and will be able to access r/all directly as well. It's not clear why exactly Reddit is keeping this an option only for old users, but I'm not questioning it. The less attention old Reddit gets, the less likely Reddit will do away with it, too.

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This price cut on the Samsung S85F is one of the best deals on an OLED TV I've seen in 2026—and this entry-level model was already on the low end of the price spectrum before the discount.

Right now, you can get the 55-inch model for $897.99 (originally $1,397.99), which is a surprising price point for a Samsung OLED. It's also the lowest price this TV has ever hit, according to price tracking tools. The 65-inch and 77-inch sizes are also discounted, down to $1,197.99 and $1,499.99, respectively.

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Not everyone can afford OLED TVs, since they're the most expensive TV technology on the market—but they're worth the big jump in quality when it comes to picture quality and color accuracy. If you've been waiting for a good opportunity to get a decent-sized, well-reviewed OLED for a great price, consider the Samsung S85F.

As expected, Samsung had to make some cuts to sell an OLED for this price, and those cuts are in the audio department, screen brightness, and by cutting out Dolby Vision—but the picture quality, colors, and gaming features rival premium OLEDs. This OLED came out in Sept. 2025 and has drastically dropped in price since then.

Gamers can use the four HDMI 2.1 ports with support for 4K 120Hz, AMD FreeSync Premium, Nvidia G-Sync, ALLM, and HDR10+ gaming. The lag time is a mere 9.4ms, so you'll get fast, responsive performance. Of course, you also get Samsung’s Gaming Hub with access to cloud gaming apps.

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When it comes to gaming monitors, having an ultra-wide screen takes the experience to the next level, with a more immersive experience than a regular monitor. Unfortunately, that improved experience tends to come at a much higher price. But right now, Amazon is selling the 34-inch Samsung Odyssey G5 for $279.99 (originally $399.99), which is the second-lowest price this monitor has ever been, according to price-tracking tools.

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The Samsung Odyssey G5 is a great ultra-wide monitor for those who haven't used one before, with all the important specs you'd want while keeping the price relatively low. Other high-end ultra-wide monitors go for $700 and higher, like the Odyssey OLED G9. Those are much bigger and offer OLED quality visuals, though.

The Odyssey G5 comes with a 1000R curve, which Samsung claims is optimal to avoid eye strain. Your media will be displayed on a 21:9 aspect ratio and 3440x1440 resolution, which means if you watch videos that are not compatible with that ratio, it'll have some black space on the sides to prevent it from looking stretched. You also get a 165Hz refresh rate and native FreeSync variable refresh rate (VRR) support, helping fast games look smoother. The input lag is 1ms, which is very fast for a budget gaming monitor. It's also compatible with HDR10, so movies or shows will look good, but mostly in dark rooms since the HDR peak brightness isn't very high.

The viewing angle is poor, but curved monitors are not really designed for sharing the screen anyway. You can tilt the screen, but that's as much as you'll be able to adjust. If you want to see what the hype of ultrawide curved screens is about without committing to the high-end options, this is a great option to get your feet wet in the technology.

Tucker Carlson accused President Donald Trump of getting pushed around by Fox News host Mark Levin, with Carlson arguing Levin pulled a “dominance move” when he put the president in a “headlock” at a “Jewish-themed White House event.”

Carlson was referring to when Levin put his arm around Trump and proclaimed he was the “first Jewish president” at a Hanukkah celebration at the White House in December. On the Wednesday episode of The Tucker Carlson Show, the former Fox News star said the whole thing was revolting — and implied there was something more sinister going on.

“Levin comes over and puts his arm around the president’s neck and pulls him in. Now, I know Trump well, I mean I wouldn’t like that, and I’m not even the president or a germaphobe,” Carlson said. “What is that?”

He continued, “And under normal circumstances, Trump would never put up with that. You’re doing the dominance move over the president of the United States, are you kidding?”

Mark Levin listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

His guest, comic-turned-political pundit Dave Smith, was just as shocked.

“Over Donald Trump! Not just the president, Donald Trump. The most dominant alpha male guy who does that to other people,” Smith said.

Smith said a moment later, “To do that to Donald Trump — I’m not trying to make too much of a little thing — and then proclaims him the first Jewish president, [it was] very strange.”

Carlson assured him it was not a “little thing.”

“You gotta think that — Trump never said this to me, but just knowing him, you’ve got to think he’s filled with rage with someone doing that to him,” Carlson said. “But he puts up with it anyway.”

He continued:

If you want to exert power over someone whose powerful, there’s a way to do it. But the last way to do it is be like ‘I’m in charge here, just so you know, I’m more powerful than the president of the United States. That’s what Levin is saying and Trump is putting up with it.

This is either a form of  sadomasochism, but it also reveals like the true architecture of power.

Carlson’s comments come after he has criticized the war against Iran. He called the joint U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “absolutely disgusting and evil” and argued the war was being “waged” strictly on behalf of Israel — a country that Carlson has been fixated on lately.

Trump responded by booting Carlson from his Make America Great Again movement.  The president has also scoffed at critics who have said Israel forced him to attack Iran.

“If anything, I might’ve forced Israel’s hand,” Trump said last month.

And while his relationship with Carlson has soured, Trump and Levin seem to be getting along better than ever. Trump defended Levin in his feud with Megyn Kelly recently, and last weekend he told his followers to watch Levin’s Fox News show, where Levin made the case for sending troops into Iran.

Watch above via YouTube.

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