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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With the holiday season just around the corner, deals on VR headsets are selling fast. The Meta Quest 3 continues to remain the gold standard in this arena. Right now, the more affordable but equally popular Meta Quest 3S (128GB with a Gorilla Tag bundle) is $249.99 (originally $299.99) on Amazon, marking a 17% discount and its lowest price ever, according to price-tracking tools.  

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PCMag gave this headset an Editor’s Choice Award and dubbed it the “Best Affordable VR Headset”; this detailed review praises its fast processor, color-pass-through camera, and versatility across many games and apps. The Meta Quest 3 can work standalone or tethered to a PC. 

It has a 1,832-by-1,920 per-eye resolution, which is slightly grainier than the pricier Quest 3 but still crisp, and supports up to 120Hz refresh rate. The processor is on par with the Quest 3, but this sale model only has 128GB of storage, compared to the Quest 3’s 512 GB. While the battery is smaller, it’s longer-lasting (2.5 hours vs. 2.2 hours) due to the lower-resolution display. 

The headset features intuitive Meta Quest Touch Controllers identical to the Quest 3’s, but they must be in view of the headset to track accurately. The Meta Quest Library has a huge selection of experiences; that said, it’s better for gaming and gamified education, art, and exercise apps than for a serious work tool. 

While the graphics aren’t as sharp as the Quest 3 and have a narrower field of view, it offers an equally compelling VR experience for a lower price tag ($250 less), making the Meta Quest 3S a fantastic budget VR headset. 

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The magistrate judge in the perjury case against FBI Director James Comey wrote a scathing order Monday about a litany of mistakes made by prosecutor Lindsey Halligan that may have put the case in jeopardy.

Halligan is a real estate attorney who was appointed by Trump after the top federal prosecutor in Virginia’s eastern district, Erik Siebert, resisted pressure to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.

A federal grand jury indicted Comey in September after President Trump encouraged Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue his enemies. Comey has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

In Monday’s order, magistrate judge William Fitzpatrick ordered prosecutors to immediately turn over records of secret grand jury proceedings to Comey’s defense.

“In so finding, the Court recognizes this is an extraordinary remedy, but given the factually based challenges the defense has raised to the government’s conduct and the prospect that government misconduct may have tainted the grand jury proceedings, disclosure of grand jury materials under these unique circumstances is necessary to fully protect the rights of the accused,” Fitzpatrick wrote in his 24-page opinion after he personally reviewed the grand jury transcripts.

Fitzpatrick wrote that the prosecution made two problematic statements to the grand jurors “that on their face seem to appear to be fundamental misstatements of the law that could compromise the integrity of the grand jury process.”

One particular statement “is a fundamental and highly prejudicial misstatement of the law that suggests to the grand jury that Mr. Comey does not have a Fifth Amendment right not to testify at trial,” Fitzpatrick wrote. “The prosecutor’s statement ignores the foundational rule of law that that if Mr. Comey exercised his right not to testify the jury could draw no negative inference from that decision.”

In addition, Fitzpatrick outlined other procedural mistakes Halligan made that could lead to dismissal before the case goes to trial.

The DOJ has until 5 p.m. Monday to turn over audio recordings of the grand jury proceedings to defense counsel, CBS News reported.

Read the magistrate judge’s opinion here.

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If you own a home or just like to maintain your stuff, you probably own a bunch of tools that help you do stuff that would be impossible otherwise. (Unless you've had more success than I have at hammering a nail into a block of wood with your fists). But tools themselves can often be augmented with accessories that make them a little easier to use, more effective, and safer—think of these accessories as tools for your tools.

Even the best-stocked tool chest can be improved with the addition of a few simple, low-cost accessories. Here are eight that every DIYer should pick up to make their next project a little easier.

Bucket organizers

My DIY process used to involve several trips back and forth between the project site and my tool closet, because I can only carry so much stuff at one time. Stuffing tools and loose screws into your pockets might get the job done, but it isn’t pretty, especially when the clawtooth hammer gets stuck in your pocket and you rip your pants open while standing on your roof in full view of the neighborhood, which is definitely not something that has ever happened to me. That’s why a bucket organizer (like the Bucketeer) is a must-have. It’s so simple it’s ridiculous: These organizers slide into the bucket and act as a tool belt around the exterior. You can still use the bucket as a bucket, while also easily transporting your gear.

Depth stop collars

One lesson I’ve learned in my DIY journey is that I’m never as in control of my power tools as I think I am. The evidence for this is all the times I’ve drilled way too deep for what I need. Whether you need a series of holes drilled to a precise depth, or you want to avoid overdrilling through the back of something, you quickly learn that eyeballing stuff and drilling by “feel” is an easy way to screw everything up. Having a set of depth collars like these is the answer. They clamp onto your bit and prevent you from over- or under-drilling. Aside from the precision, they also allow you to put full force behind the drill, because you don’t have to worry about losing control at the critical moment and over-drilling.

Anti-vibration pads

DIY projects can be pretty noisy. An anti-vibration pad like this one is an essential tool accessory. It reduces the noise from vibration and helps to protect the surface under your tools or materials so you can work safely. You can buy these in pre-sized versions, but buying a roll allows you to cut it up to fit your needs, so you can create pads for use under appliances (like the washing machine) to reduce noise and vibration, to use under portable saws and other tools, and to slide under materials that you’re working on. It’s a simple fix that makes DIY projects a lot more pleasant.

Dust collectors

Dust is a byproduct of just about every project you’ll ever do around the house. You can try hanging plastic sheets or using tape and/or envelopes to catch dust, but in my experience, neither really works—dust still gets everywhere. That's why this dust collector from DeWalt is a genius tool accessory: It suctions to the wall and connects to your wet/dry shopvac, effortlessly capturing all that dust from drilling and sanding.

Anti-vibration gloves or wraps

If you’ve ever used a power tool for a long stretch of time, you know how tired your hands and arms can get. You can reduce that stress on your body by reducing the vibrations you absorb from your tools with either anti-vibration gloves or an anti-vibration wrap that you can apply to hand tools (like hammers). These accessories absorb those vibrations, not only making them more comfortable to use but also increasing your control, because the tool won’t vibrate right out of your hands.

Magnetic wristbands

If you’ve ever wasted an hour of your life trying to find a dropped screw because you had no spares (I can neither confirm nor deny I’ve done this), you need a simple magnetic wristband like this one. It gives you a hands-free way to hang onto screws, bolts, nails, drill bits, or anything else metallic that you’re working with.

Flexible drill bits

Inevitably you’ll find yourself pondering how you can drill or screw something around a corner, or in a very tight space where no power tool could possibly fit. The answer is this amazing tool accessory: A flexible bit holder. With one of these, you can drill around corners or inside tight spots where a traditional bit can’t go, thus removing one more obstacle to getting your project finished.

Laser saw guide

If you use a miter saw or any kind of circular saw, you know that even when you carefully measure and mark your materials, you can still mess up the cut. Undercut by the slightest margin and you’ll waste time sanding ends down or trying to make impossibly small extra cuts. Overcut, and you just wasted your time, effort, and materials.

Adding a laser guide to your blade eliminates this risk. It clearly and accurately shows you exactly where your blade is going to bite, so you’ll know immediately if you’re a fraction of a millimeter off. You’ll be able to adjust before you cut, preventing frustration and waste.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) delivered a stunning apology on CNN Sunday when confronted about toxic political rhetoric.

In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, anchor Dana Bash confronted Greene about President Donald Trump attacking her as a traitor — as Bash pointed out that Greene has not taken issue with the president using similar rhetoric against others in recent years.

“Obviously, any threats to your safety are completely unacceptable,” Bash said. “But we have seen these kinds of attacks or criticism from the President at other people. It’s not new. And, with respect, I haven’t heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.”

“I think that’s fair criticism,” Greene said — in a shocking admission. “And I would like to say humbly I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics. It’s very bad for our country. It’s something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, is that we .. I’m only responsible for myself and my own words and actions. And I am going — I am committed — and I’ve been working on this a lot lately — to put down the knives in politics. I really just want to see people be kind to one another. And we need to figure out a new path forward that is focused on the American people, because, as Americans, no matter what side of the aisle we’re on, we have far more in common than we have differences.”

Bash followed up by citing several past examples of Greene’s attacks on others.

“So, just to put a button on this, you regret the things that you have said and posted in the past?” Bash said. “The Facebook post that was taken down of you in 2020 holding a gun alongside the Squad, encouraging people to go on the offense against the socialists, liking a tweet of somebody calling for the execution of Nancy Pelosi and former President Obama, just examples?

“Well, Dana, as you know and many people know, I addressed that back in 2021,” Greene said. “And, of course, I never want to cause any harm or anything bad for anyone. So that was addressed back then. And I very much stand by my words I said then.And I stand by my words today. I think America needs to come together and end all the toxic, dangerous rhetoric and divide. And I’m leading the way with my own example, and I hope that President Trump can do the same.

Later in the interview, Bash confronted Greene about the rhetoric of white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

“You’re talking about lowering the rhetoric, which is important for everybody to hear from you and all of our elected officials,” Bash said. “But there is some concern, a lot of concern, among Republicans about the rise of antisemitic hard right figures in your movement, especially after Tucker Carlson hosted white nationalist Nick Fuentes on his podcast, didn’t question Fuentes about his vile language or views.”

Bash then played a clip of Fuentes talking about Greene speaking at a conference hosted by Fuentes in 2022. Fuentes claimed Greene subsequently “lied” when she said she did not know who he was. Greene insisted she was telling the truth.

“I did speak at his conference back in 2022,” Greene said. “However, I don’t know Nick Fuentes. He’s someone I have never exchanged text messages with or phone calls, but I did speak at his conference. That was the first time I had met him that day, and that was it.”

She added, “But I did watch the interview. I watched the full interview with Tucker, and I admire him for interviewing many people, as well as exposing a lot of powerful information that he does on his show.

Bash followed up.

“I hear what you’re saying about free speech,” Bash said. “I mean, count me as guilty as a proponent of free speech. There’s free speech, and then there is hate speech. And this is a man invited on a really prominent conservative show who said even during that interview he had a problem with ‘organized Jewry,’ and he wasn’t challenged on it. In the past, he has denied the Holocaust, called Adolf Hitler ‘effing cool,’ talked about the fact that he thought Jim Crow was just fine and on and on. So, again, there is there’s free speech, and then there’s just hateful language and sentiments.”

“Well, Dana, again, I told you on this interview that I’m committed to ending the toxic politics,” Greene responded. “And I think I don’t want to have anything to do with it. You should have Nick Fuentes on your show. And you could ask him questions about that. I myself am not antisemitic. I have never criticized the Jewish people or said anything about them in particular. I am critical of the government of Israel. And I can criticize any government I want to in the entire world, as well as our own. And a lot of the times, I’m criticizing our own government for failing the American people. And I think that needs to be the focus.”

“Yes, and I hear you saying you’re not antisemitic, and you have said it before,” Bash said. “And some of the posts that you have put up which you have apologized for certainly have tropes in them that have been used historically against Jews.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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CNN GOP analyst Scott Jennings got into it with ex-Trump official Miles Taylor, who brought up a past criticism of President Donald Trump as he took the conversation to “F-word” territory.

On Friday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, things got a little heated as guest anchor Kate Bolduan led a discussion on Trump’s roiling feud with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) over the Epstein Files.

Taylor brought up Jennings’s past criticism of Trump as an “authoritarian,” then prompted Jennings to mutter  “He’s not a fascist” in the ensuing fracas:

BOLDUAN: Is there an example of anyone beating Donald Trump at this game?

SCHNEIDER: Never. This is his game and he’s great at it, and she is barking up a tree that she says is going to fall on her really hard.

JENNINGS: You know, it’s interesting, he has some people who profess to be strong supporters who do oppose him more often than the people that you might not think are his strongest supporters. She’s one of them. Thomas Massie in Kentucky is another one. Rand Paul, my home state senator, he takes on Trump, although they professed to be Trump’s supporters in this case. I think he had the order out of order.

I trace all this back to his decision, the righteous decision to strike Iran. She was against it. So were some of the people who occupy that wing of the party. He defied them. And since that time, they all seem to be stridently picking at him on this issue or that. And then of course, everybody knows in Washington, Miles, you know, the fastest way to get in front of a television camera for a Republican is to come out and crap on Donald Trump.

And so that is what she is doing. That is what she is doing because she —

TAYLOR: I trace back further than that, Scott.

JENNINGS: — is mad over these issues and that’s what happened.

TAYLOR: Scott, I trace it further back than that. I trace it back to ten years ago when you said Donald Trump was an authoritarian. And you know what, Scott, I’ve got to hand it to you, that was a remarkable forecast. Because ten years later, I think you called it. Here’s Donald Trump today, the man with the heart and soul of a fascist showing us, he now has the bona fides–

JENNINGS: He’s not a fascist.

TAYLOR: –by tonight ordering investigations into American citizens (INAUDIBLE) members of his party.

(CROSSTALKS)

JENNINGS: Why are you so upset he is running the executive branch?

TAYLOR: For the same reasons you predicted he shouldn’t, for the same reasons, Scott, you said he violated his oath and he should never be back in that office.

JENNINGS: I happily voted for him.

TAYLOR: That’s why I’m upset for the man being in the Oval Office.

JENNINGS: I happily voted for him three times.

TAYLOR: I know that.

JENNINGS: The alternative was terrible.

TAYLOR: And a lot of your friends were shocked.

JENNINGS: Yes. Well, a lot of my friends would’ve been shocked at you trying to subvert the elected president of the United States, which you did.

TAYLOR: Well, and I proudly did. I proudly said —

(CROSSTALKS)

TAYLOR: Well, Scott, I would’ve loved to have seen you stand up.

JENNINGS: Good luck.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.

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Police clashed with protesters outside of a Chicago ICE facility on Friday with numerous people being arrested and riot police being called in.

Fox News correspondent Garrett Tenney reported live from the scene of the protest outside the Broadview ICE facility. The demonstration brought out a couple hundred people and Tenney said approximately half a dozen were arrested before noon. The protesters clashed with police after some moved into the street and began blocking access to the facility. Police and protesters can be seen shoving back and forth as the demonstrators locked arms to block street access.

Fox News’ Harris Faulkner cut to the “wild scene” on Friday where Tenney reported tensions were running high and increasing.

“You know on Fridays this gets hot,” Faulkner commented.

Tenney reported:

We probably have at least a half dozen or so people that were arrested just in the last few minutes. And this is the regular Friday protest that we have here outside the Broadview ICE processing facility. A couple hundred people are here and what happened in the last 10 or 15 minutes, this roadway right here that leads to the ICE facility, it is blocked off. They are not supposed to be standing there, but over 10 minutes or so ago, this crowd started to move into the street to try to block it off from any access going in or out. And that’s when these clashes with law enforcement started, when they refused to get out to the sides of the street, these designated protest zones, and some shoving that was involved with the county sheriffs as well as state police that are out here, as well Broadview police. You can see down here now, riot police coming down the road. And this is after a couple of weeks of mostly calm out here on Fridays.

Tenney noted the protesters likely feel more “empowered” after a ruling by a judge ordering the facility to improve its conditions. Detainees alleged they were not given access to phones, showers, not supplied adequate water and food, and forced to sleep on concrete.

Last week, a federal judge said the facility must improve conditions as detainees “have suffered, and are likely to suffer, irreparable harm.”

Watch above via Fox News.

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